I've been scrolling /pol/ and noticed how the smarter fash will pretend to be democrats, BLM, Antifa, communist, just to bait and rile up the dumber fash. But the bait is so obvious to anyone who isn't a channer and it works so easily and well to radicalize channers.
I feel like you're overestimating the average /pol/ user, baiting people is as old as the site and common to all boards but Trump tourists lack the braincells to put together a decent one
Trolling's a core feature of the culture. The only reason it took me a while to realize how serious some of them were about the stupid shit they said was because I got used to assuming anyone acting like a stupid asshole was just doing it to get a funny reaction.
Yeah exactly, whether you like it or not, there is an art to trolling and that is attractive to people. Even if it's stupid. My personal realization to it was that there's no point to doing it overall and it's generally a net negative. Also, people tend to not like you when you're a troll and I do want to be liked.
I shared some of the dispositions 4channers had when I was younger but was turned off by the Nazi shit. Like clearly, Nazi's are the bad guys.
I wonder if Zoomer's are still getting that message clear.
Much farther to the right, the posts are usually like:
OP: HEY DRUMPF SUPPORTERS READY FOR BBC AND THE EXECUTION OF THE WHITE RACE points at democrat badge on post ID
Replies: WE WILL KILL YOU... etc . etc. etc.
Sometimes they're on the nose like this, sometimes they're a little more sneaky. Real lefty posters usually just get buried by the fact that /pol/ moves fast, especially right now.
I've been scrolling /pol/ and noticed how the smarter fash will pretend to be democrats, BLM, Antifa, communist, just to bait and rile up the dumber fash. But the bait is so obvious to anyone who isn't a channer and it works so easily and well to radicalize channers.
I feel like you're overestimating the average /pol/ user, baiting people is as old as the site and common to all boards but Trump tourists lack the braincells to put together a decent one
i mean i been on 4chan when i was a teenager, it just seems very different to what i saw when i was a kid. or maybe its just me
Trolling's a core feature of the culture. The only reason it took me a while to realize how serious some of them were about the stupid shit they said was because I got used to assuming anyone acting like a stupid asshole was just doing it to get a funny reaction.
Yeah exactly, whether you like it or not, there is an art to trolling and that is attractive to people. Even if it's stupid. My personal realization to it was that there's no point to doing it overall and it's generally a net negative. Also, people tend to not like you when you're a troll and I do want to be liked.
I shared some of the dispositions 4channers had when I was younger but was turned off by the Nazi shit. Like clearly, Nazi's are the bad guys.
I wonder if Zoomer's are still getting that message clear.
Radicalize them to the left or farther right?
Much farther to the right, the posts are usually like:
OP: HEY DRUMPF SUPPORTERS READY FOR BBC AND THE EXECUTION OF THE WHITE RACE points at democrat badge on post ID
Replies: WE WILL KILL YOU... etc . etc. etc.
Sometimes they're on the nose like this, sometimes they're a little more sneaky. Real lefty posters usually just get buried by the fact that /pol/ moves fast, especially right now.
Eh I think they may just be playing along with the bit
Sure, but even if they are playing along they are still demonstrating rhetoric to passerbyers
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