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Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoFrankly all of 4chan should.
But then our supply chain of clinically insane greentexts would fail.
Through this sieve would come the ascended madmen. Those who escaped the cave and rejected the reality without, retreating to their chamber of hate and stagnation. The truly unhinged. No more naive, parroted bastardizations of the Socratic method. Merely the irreparables.
This select choir of lunatics voluntarily ablating their sanity will be decadence enough, I think
Yeah, we’re way better over here on lemmy. (The lack of racism really does make us better tho)
Uhh counterpoint. i think we need more racism. I dont have a reason yet but ill try to think of one so we can engage in a pointless online yelling match.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 1 month ago
I heard a story about a whole world that was perfect because they locked a kid up in a room and threw all the bad stuff in there with the kid. The poor kid suffered all of the world’s miseries so that others could enjoy life. That kid’s name? 4chan.
4chan is 99% deplorable garbage. I won’t even go into /b/. Helllll no. But oddly enough, some of the internet’s best memes come out of there.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Assuming only a place of pure misery could produce those memes
kernelle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
4chan is what the internet would look like if everything had the bare minimum of moderation. Actually a very interesting case study about the human psyche, and I’ve had many a interesting conversation on there, especially early internet days.
Is it a shithole? Overall, yes. But the right board at the right time is truly early internet ethos.
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
If the entire internet was as unmoderated as 4chan, it would be a lot less extreme than 4chan is.
But since there are only very few places like that, all the weirdos and nazis congregate there, cause that’s where they don’t get banned for using the n-word.
kernelle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t really think so, every online fora I’ve been a part of starts unmoderated, and it works, for years sometimes. But every single time without fail when a platform reaches a critical mass, moderation becomes necessary.
I think putting a digital mask on shows the true nature of people, and moderation is the only way of keeping conversion civil on the internet.
renzev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m often hearing that 4chan is “unmoderated” or has “the bare minimum of moderation”, which just doesn’t line up with reality. Many boards have strict and specific rules about what content is allowed, what is banned, and how said content should be presented. Just listing some rules off the top of my head: you must have a minimum number of pictures to start a thread of /s/. Normal hentai porn goes into /h/, weird fetish stuff goes into /d/. No western art allowed on either. Content that breaks the rules gets removed within hours, sometimes minutes.
If you see something that you find disagreeable on a 4chan board, it’s likely there because it’s allowed to be there. They aren’t struggling with moderation. The fact that it’s still online in the clearnet after so much media attention proves that they have enough jannies to take care of the illegal stuff at least.
kernelle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Content and formatting rules are just to keep things on topic. When people mention the bare minimum of moderation, that is literally the bare minimum, and I never said they are struggling with it. They just choose to not remove any inflammatory or borderline content because they want to be that place.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s the primordial soup of internet content.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 month ago
Isn’t the concept of a meme itself a leak from 4chan?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The original idea of a meme came from Dawkins in the 70’s, and “Internet Meme” from Godwin in the early 90’s, talking about message boards, usenet, listservs, etc.
4chan did not start the concept, no. Lolcats came from 4chan, iirc. But internet memes predate the existence of 4chan.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 month ago
Well the word “meme” comes from Dawkins, but his usage was not to label the isea we talk about when we talk about memes.
I know for a fact where I’m from memes were something you’d only ever see on 4chan and people on Facebook and any other “normal” social media (or people) had no idea of what the fuck even was a meme.
I rememeber because I was like “this people are degenerates but it’s fashinating the whole layers upon layers of instane meaning that they managed to cram into single pictures, I wonder if people outside this bubble would ever understand those”.
And to be fair memes nowdays are rarely as “obscure” as those old ones.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The Mysterious Hacker 4chan