• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Not a chan expert but my impression is the awfulness used to be more unfocused and blasted out in a bunch of horrible misanthropic directions, and they didn't have a clear program for it

      As time went that stream was eventually focused into a Nazi laser

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I remember reading about Stormfront specifically targeting the chans, sensing that their alienated, socially maladjusted audience could be receptive to their message

            • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Was that the anti-Scientology thing? I kinda thought that just took off because it was easy feel good activism that made edgy nerds feel important

              IIRC many 4channers thought that and the other """"good""""" Anonymous stunts were deeply cringe and damaged their reputation as tough guys that call each other slurs while bullying kids into suicide and watching snuff videos on their cartoon image board

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          It was weev and his whole crew, wasn't it? I distinctly remember a turning point on the chans where they hated everyone in a south park misanthrope kind of way to praising weev and hating everyone in a klan sort of way.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I feel like it depends on the board. I used to browse /mu/ in 2010 and by 2017 the board went from being relatively chill to being filled with screeching fascists.

      I remember /k/ and obviously /pol/ (or /new/ ) always being Naziified.....that stuff was always there, it just wasn't as focused or complete in it's domination. I mean people would unironically post the Communist Manifesto on /fa/

      Now you can't escape it anywhere on the site, and pretty much everyone who still uses the site at this point is some flavor of right wing