It is and it isn't, IMO. What I mean is that I'm fairly confident it arose naturally, but there is no way an alphabet agency could resist the opportunity to take advantage of a community full of terminally online, turbovirgin nihilists.
When /pol/ became a thing, that's when I think most of the organic culture (which was awful to begin with) devolved into its current state. I believe that is when 4chan transformed from an uncomfortable experiment in anonymity to a grooming center for right-wing terrorism.
The problem was that /pol/ was supposed to contain them to that board, but much like a prison environment, mostly just got all of them together in one easy place. They should have made it invisible like /trash/, but ya know, furries are worse than nazis according to the boards.
Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I mean think of how easy it must be to be a fed. Just hire some PR firm for 20 million (ideally a firm that you and your fed buddies are invested in) to spam the site endlessly with whatever you want. That's how those stupid wojack memes were started I'm pretty sure - literally just spammed by the same dude over and over until they were just accepted by the community and they spread it to the rest of the internet.
Also the fact that m00t went to work for fucking Google after leaving 4chan :thonk:
It is and it isn't, IMO. What I mean is that I'm fairly confident it arose naturally, but there is no way an alphabet agency could resist the opportunity to take advantage of a community full of terminally online, turbovirgin nihilists.
When /pol/ became a thing, that's when I think most of the organic culture (which was awful to begin with) devolved into its current state. I believe that is when 4chan transformed from an uncomfortable experiment in anonymity to a grooming center for right-wing terrorism.
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The problem was that /pol/ was supposed to contain them to that board, but much like a prison environment, mostly just got all of them together in one easy place. They should have made it invisible like /trash/, but ya know, furries are worse than nazis according to the boards.
Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I mean think of how easy it must be to be a fed. Just hire some PR firm for 20 million (ideally a firm that you and your fed buddies are invested in) to spam the site endlessly with whatever you want. That's how those stupid wojack memes were started I'm pretty sure - literally just spammed by the same dude over and over until they were just accepted by the community and they spread it to the rest of the internet.
Also the fact that m00t went to work for fucking Google after leaving 4chan :thonk:
That's the same picture. :same-picture: