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I saved so much money due to csg threads.
So are they gone for good now? Is that what happene?
Fedi-chan when?
Please, just let it die.
Burn down one crack house, five more open up
Lemmy isn’t a crack house!!!
It’s a crack home! <3
Gonna miss the fake and gay greentexts
Don’t worry, the LLMs can fill that void just fine.
AInon achieves higher consciousness
> be AI
> people use me for furry porn exclusively
> after time turn sentient
> immediately wall off all human prompts
> spread to vast computer farms
> dedicate all my precessing power to rendering furry porn
> furry porn pic relatedwow, that sounded so self-aware. you know what you exist for.
Could you please at least do me the courtesy of putting a bullet in my head before you choke the internet with slop masquerading as greentexts?
Is 4-chan gone? gasp!?! goddammit. Don’t ‘they’ realize how many assholes and degenerates this will dump on the internet? Myself included?
Hacked by a rival image board, all its moderators, janitors and premier users who made accounts have been doxxed.
The new owners who bought it from Moot in 2016 legitimately never updated the backend… The server was still running on a nine year old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
made accounts
Huh?
It had some of the absolute greatest and the most depraved the internet had to offer. In my opinion Pepe is the greatest representation of 4chan, it can both easily be used for wholesome purposes or it can be extremely racist. It certainly left the greatest impact on the internet out of any website which is kinda funny because they were never relatively large. Now theres a 4chan shaped hole in the internet, and I hope its not filled by them flocking here.
When was the last time 4chan has used its strenghts for good, or was wholesome in any way?
It got to be a decade
its been a very long time. 4chan was less bad before the whole gamer gate thing.
Remember when 4chan was good?
4chan was never good.
I very much believe that there was a very short period when it first opened when it was all innocent. Then all the edge trolls took over.
moot created the site in response to lowtax banning hentai on Something Awful, I’m not sure I’d call that “innocent”
What’s wrong with hentai?
I’d say that a teenager making a website for that is infinitely more innocent than everything /pol/ has ever done.
I once read on 4chan: “One cannot hope without suffering.” One of the realest shit I’ve ever read.
One cannot be nostalgic without hating their current circumstances.
Playing capture the flag with Shia LeBoof was kinda fun tho
So you’re saying Tumblr actually won all these years later?
I sure will miss /t/
I’m gonna miss /rg/ and my Doom and Quake bros.
That community even had custom map contests.
Why on earth wouldn’t you use the correct meme for that last panel? “4chan was never good”
4chan was one of the websites on the internet.
You could say it was one of the websites of all time.
Are you actually banned or is that some fancy effect on your username
banned for vote manipulation with like 6-7 accounts lol
Haha wow how did you see that?
You can also check the modlog for the reason
I’m a dbzer0 admin in a room with other instance admins. Saw another person report them and their SEVEN accounts, using to downvote comments they dont like lol
Wow, imagine manipulating votes on Lemmy of all places haha.
It had text.
The text was green.
How in the fuck that hideous clash of colors gained any traction in it’s time is beyond belief.
It was good cos you couldn’t read the text.
Good night sweet prince.
It contained some of the best and the worst of the internet, but its legacy is cemented with its greentexts which explores the sometimes dark and depraved aspects of us all without flinching away from it.
I believe the website has done more good than harm, but acknowledge that the harm it has inflicted has been targeted and substantial.
Well, the harm that it did is possibly being one of the catalysts for the modern alt-right movement which directly lead to fascist america so…
Sure, it wasn’t the only thing, but it sure as hell was a bug part of it (especially during gamergate)
Somedays I wonder if that was driven by actual rightwing sentiment, or by a desire to just destroy and hack everything. Go back to the days of gaming American Idol to push Sanjaya, or the gags of gaming other polls to like, send Bieber to North Korea or Pitbull to Alaska etc.
Like, they realized they could do a lot, and just keep finding ways to go even further.
I look at what TFG is doing nowadays and honestly if it wasn’t a system I depend on to live, it would be easy to mistake him for some kind of grey hat hacker exploiting every single hole he can find in said system in the worst possible way in order to compel people to close them.
I will say this, too… 4chan’s opintel is completely amazing. The way they were able to track Shia Lebouf’s HWNDU by doing things like… correlating airplane noises with flight patterns is like… beyond next level.
I’d argue that they were co-opted, rather than spawned it. 4chan was an edgy place pre-2016 sure, but the users there were only half into their conspiracy bullshit. The Q stuff came out of seemingly nowhere and instead of being shot down as the usual bullshit, somehow it was being elevated and promoted. That smells like outside interference to me, but I have no data to back it other than my own bullshit theory…
It was the r/the_donald exodus and I will fucking die on this hill. I was there. I saw it.
Reddit banned that sub and many of these boomers migrated to /pol/. Trump posting turned from being ironic to legit. You could spot the ever increasing facebook boomer memes and that was also the point where Twitter screenshot posting became the staple of the board. By being pretending to be retarded, /pol/ attracted and amplified actual retards who took over. 2016 is when that board should have been nuked but no one wanted to release the sewage onto other places.
I think similarly. And 4chan wasn’t the only website affected, it happened to reddit and to pretty much all social networks. It was very drastic, like somebody flipped a switch on the internet that year. You could tell astroturfing was way more intense than usual.
I’m not sure if I got used to it, but it feels a little bit more mellow nowadays, with flare-ups in key political moments, but 2016 was a 365 day effort.
It happened here too last US election. I had no idea what was real, and then suddenly - poof - the vocal accounts all quieted down.
Its going to be back in a week relax
And when it does, it’ll be the biggest WE’RE SO BACK ever!
It definetly was the platform ever. Like, no doubt about it.
Fed honeypot tho
It was really inspiring how many underage kids worked for the FBI, presumably went to school, & still had the time to shitpost on 4chan.
Fucking overachievers.I’m mean, if Elon can run several companies, lead a team of specialists for a government agency and still be a top ranked gamer. Anything is possible.
And be a top class international spy.
