Back in highschool and immediately after, I was on 4chan. Def Nazis everywhere then too... But I didn't turn out like that, I also don't think I ever looked at /pol/ 🤷 I was only there for jokes and shock content, being shortly after oggrish and whatnot.
But that was all when I was so angsty and misanthropic, and for some reason felt like I hated myself. I got older, and eventually discovered I didn't hate myself that much... And I didn't know how I could care about myself without truly internalizing the horrors of the world that I was aware of and caring about the rest of the world, the vast majority of the horrors being from class struggles or collateral damage of them.
So yeah, my self growth had a lot to do with my radicalization. As did my heart.
I was on earlier 4chan, but even outside of /pol/ and /b/ after GamerGate, the whole site got corrupted. It went from a misanthropic but fun website to just angry and pathetic.
Also their obsession with jewish people is totally unhinged, plenty of people use them as scapegoats, but /pol/ dials that shit up to 11.
Dont blame yourself comrade, most of us where on 4chan; its because it used to be what reddit also used to be; A hub of the internet for counter-culture.
Now its just a place for shithead fash to yell at each other, and it was pretty much always this, but being a dumbass teenager can excuse a lot of things.
But it did have a cultural moment of being more relevant a decade ago, not so much anymore.
Back in highschool and immediately after, I was on 4chan. Def Nazis everywhere then too... But I didn't turn out like that, I also don't think I ever looked at /pol/ 🤷 I was only there for jokes and shock content, being shortly after oggrish and whatnot.
But that was all when I was so angsty and misanthropic, and for some reason felt like I hated myself. I got older, and eventually discovered I didn't hate myself that much... And I didn't know how I could care about myself without truly internalizing the horrors of the world that I was aware of and caring about the rest of the world, the vast majority of the horrors being from class struggles or collateral damage of them.
So yeah, my self growth had a lot to do with my radicalization. As did my heart.
I was on earlier 4chan, but even outside of /pol/ and /b/ after GamerGate, the whole site got corrupted. It went from a misanthropic but fun website to just angry and pathetic.
Also their obsession with jewish people is totally unhinged, plenty of people use them as scapegoats, but /pol/ dials that shit up to 11.
same with trans people
Dont blame yourself comrade, most of us where on 4chan; its because it used to be what reddit also used to be; A hub of the internet for counter-culture.
Now its just a place for shithead fash to yell at each other, and it was pretty much always this, but being a dumbass teenager can excuse a lot of things.
But it did have a cultural moment of being more relevant a decade ago, not so much anymore.