the alt right existed before 4chan. it just didn’t become popular until the mid 2010s after social media allowed it to rapidly reach a mass audience.
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teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
The alt right was born on 4 chan from what I hear, as was q, where some hedge fund prick is thought to have started it to project the ruling class’ own child fucking captured on video by Israel through epstein onto the opponents of the ruling class.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I remember my first reddit experience, in 2016, I didn’t make an account, and was incensed I had to make an account as such to make a comment, and it was all alt right douchbags so I never joined at that point. I was there to research new and exciting drug plants anyway and it was an intellectual wasteland as I saw, at that time, although now that is not the case if you can find the right places, and don’t mind your queries being logged by corporations and governments, but I digress.
They were still on the harambe thing, mocking the murdered gorilla, pissed me off.
glimse@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Q is from 8chan. One could argue that 8chan came from 4chan but they were two distinct beasts at the time. 8chan is (was?) where the people too extreme for 4chan went.
Not defending 4chan, just correcting the misinformation.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Oh right, is that the one created by that developmentally disabled kid that advocated for killing such people as himself and other nazi shit, then repented and tried to shut it down later? I think I heard something about him. Nevertheless, the shit birthed on 8 chan migrates to 4 chan to get reared as I understand it, so calling it “misinformation” is kind of a dickish way to correct someone.
glimse@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes, that’s the guy!
It was misinformation, though. Q and the most extreme bigots are from 8chan*. I don’t think you did it deliberately which is why I didn’t call it disinformation, it’s just not accurate