Sorry, been drinking and smoking. It was a really different time. The way people communicate on the internet is so fucked now and this place kind of reminds me of the way things used to be. . . if not for all the fucking twitter screenshots.
fuck twitter screenshots.
I used to hang around 7chan and, later, 420chan. 7chan was much smaller and very weird. I stopped going after seeing some particularly awful shit. 420chan was fun, I think. Being mostly about drugs and attracting a wider variety of miscreants and degenerate hedonists kept it from getting as grossly reactionary as other places, though racism and sexism were "ironically" and sincerely present, especially by the time I left.
Just checked in on 420chan's philosophy and social sciences board and the second thread is "How to abolish the police: lessons from Rojava," so maybe they're doing all right after all.
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The worst parts of image board culture are interesting to me. It was bad, irony doesn't automatically make it cool, but if anyone actually said they were a white nationalist people would have probably torn them apart for actually believing in something.
that's how they get ya. I'm pretty sure there's an alt-right playbook episode on the irony infiltration specifically.
I'm not sure the people who turned into alt-right weirdos weren't the same people doing shitty ironic racism years before that. They're by large far too young for that. There's another factor there. Not sure what it is, though I have some ideas on how the culture started to shift.
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This was made when 7chan was created (racism/homophobia warning):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq64zpcdInM
People really thought 4chan was dying at the time and 7chan would win out. lol.