Man, i remember being like, 16, it's 2005 and /b/ is raiding an early right wing streamer or stormfront, and we're starting to do "activism" on the internet and it's pretty robustly left wing even if not like, really grounded in theory and prone to liberal derailment.
But like, all those harassment targets followed us back because it turns out "don't talk about 4chan" said tongue in cheek isn't real opsec.
It was still a shithole full of things I can't excuse and won't defend full stop - I still remember when the vibe could've gone a very different way, and I die a little inside remembering the agonizing witnessing of the fascist slide, because it did happen god damn it, i remember.
I checked in recently and the porn was all race shit and cuckold stuff, the incel vibes were off the charts worse than they'd ever been when i was younger, the earnest posts were fucking deranged. It's really sad. It's a shame they should all probably be consigned to the wall because a psudo-anonymous org is probably a useful idea for activism
My first exposure to 4chan is reading about them going after Scientology. I never went on it because it seemed bad then, but it clearly has changed since I would say about 2015ish.
oh, it was changing before i even left highschool. I saw the writing on the wall because the 2008 election is about when the stormfront shit really amped up in response to obama's candidacy and subsequent presidency.
I stuck around, partly because i didn't want these shitheads displacing me on a place i considered a primary community for me, but also I felt like there was a rhetorical battle to be fought. When you're anonymous, the winning pov is usually the one that can sustain itself the loudest and longest. I guess back then I really didn't appreciate that the right wing enjoys more robust support from groups very willing to astroturf spaces like that, it felt like a worthy fight.
But by the time I began transitioning and reckoning with my queerness, the final straw was how deeply sick and unwell the lgbt community is there. I realized that maybe this place was super toxic and that it was time to go.
I'm mostly embarassed, but I still get wistful about what might've been
4chan was bad before 2008 I think we we're just too young to realise how bad it was. I do reminisce, but I think I'm even banned from greentext subs because I always tell people theyre posting bigoted garbage, so I get accused of rage bait and trolling.
Man, i remember being like, 16, it's 2005 and /b/ is raiding an early right wing streamer or stormfront, and we're starting to do "activism" on the internet and it's pretty robustly left wing even if not like, really grounded in theory and prone to liberal derailment.
But like, all those harassment targets followed us back because it turns out "don't talk about 4chan" said tongue in cheek isn't real opsec.
It was still a shithole full of things I can't excuse and won't defend full stop - I still remember when the vibe could've gone a very different way, and I die a little inside remembering the agonizing witnessing of the fascist slide, because it did happen god damn it, i remember.
I checked in recently and the porn was all race shit and cuckold stuff, the incel vibes were off the charts worse than they'd ever been when i was younger, the earnest posts were fucking deranged. It's really sad. It's a shame they should all probably be consigned to the wall because a psudo-anonymous org is probably a useful idea for activism
My first exposure to 4chan is reading about them going after Scientology. I never went on it because it seemed bad then, but it clearly has changed since I would say about 2015ish.
oh, it was changing before i even left highschool. I saw the writing on the wall because the 2008 election is about when the stormfront shit really amped up in response to obama's candidacy and subsequent presidency.
I stuck around, partly because i didn't want these shitheads displacing me on a place i considered a primary community for me, but also I felt like there was a rhetorical battle to be fought. When you're anonymous, the winning pov is usually the one that can sustain itself the loudest and longest. I guess back then I really didn't appreciate that the right wing enjoys more robust support from groups very willing to astroturf spaces like that, it felt like a worthy fight.
But by the time I began transitioning and reckoning with my queerness, the final straw was how deeply sick and unwell the lgbt community is there. I realized that maybe this place was super toxic and that it was time to go.
I'm mostly embarassed, but I still get wistful about what might've been
4chan was bad before 2008 I think we we're just too young to realise how bad it was. I do reminisce, but I think I'm even banned from greentext subs because I always tell people theyre posting bigoted garbage, so I get accused of rage bait and trolling.
a post from 2008, cw food, sfw