You aren’t missing anything. It’s a cesspool
Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
EABOD25@lemm.ee 3 months agoThat’s an understandable explanation. I’ve never been to 4chan because a person who attended it told me he would kick my 2 year old niece in the face and told me that’s a common belief there. Not flaunting, but I told him that no one would ever find his body if he did that.
So I avoided 4chan because my crazy would probably cause conflict with their crazy
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Delphia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I remember 4chan when it was “good”
Back then 4Chan was all about how funny your content was. Nationality, sexuality, gender, economic status… none of it mattered a bit.
Its a cesspit now, but it was responsible for some truly epic shit.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ve never really been on 4chan for any length, but I remember some of their greatest hits- managing to almost win a contest to name the next mtn dew flavor ‘hitler did nothing wrong’, or that one time they got Taylor Swift to do a show at a school for the deaf.
Kinda edgy, extremely amusing.
Delphia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The “you can microwave your IPhone to recharge it” and “Iphones are waterproof” were amazing.
The Burger King lettuce boxing was pretty funny too.
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
the WHAT? lmfao what was that?
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 months ago
When it was good?
I was on 4 Chan 20 years ago and even back then it was full of gore, snuff type photos and CP. It was and always will be a cesspool.
Delphia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah about 20 years ago.
The vibe was different, it was racist, sexist, bigoted and homophobic jokes. Now it feels like a bunch of racists sexists bigots and homophobes telling jokes. Nobody cared about who anyone really was, it was a shittalking shitposting competition. At some point it stopped feeling like bantz, it just started to feel ugly.
Maybe I just grew up a bit, but I at least remember it being that way.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I feel like the world grew up and accepted that these jokes aren’t funny, but the small subset of people who are actually bigoted ignored the memo. But there is definitely a growing up element to it as well