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This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing. And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most p
by SOLAR_FIELDS 10y ago
This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing.
And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture.
To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on these boards.
- Trombone12 10y agoLets be honest: memes aren't high quality content when compared to the types of free content available on the net. 4chan has spawned a lot of memes because it was one of the earliest places people appreciated that sort of low-effort anyone-could-do-it content, but to say it drives high quality content is to decry any competently drawn stick figure as bourgeois.
- ivarious 10y agoConsidering that one of internet's strength is the democratization of content creation, low-effort anyone-could-do-it contents are inherently high quality.
- bhaumik 10y agoBesides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoAdeptus Evangelion, Chapter Master, and Ruby Quest all came from 4chan's /tg/.
- Paul_S 10y agoI Ii II I_
- Kristine1975 10y agoThe visual novel (think "Choose your own adventure with graphics") Katawa Shoujo, while not made by anons, has its origins on 4chan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katawa_Shoujo#Creation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katawa_Shoujo#Creation
- NotaSockPuppet8 10y ago/g/ makes useful software on occasion for example. after 4chan pioneered webm as looping gif replacement (long before imgur doing the gifv thing) they made webmcam and webm4retards for example. The latter by its mere existence also highlighted github's overzealous application of community policies. A bunch of indie games started their life there too. And then there are derivative and mashup works like fanart, translations. I only visit a few boards, so i'm probably missing a lot.
- pierrebai 10y agoBut we could apply the reverse Sturgeon's law: in any sufficiently large community, 1% of content will not be crap. 4chan is not special, it's just large.
- Vaskivo 10y agoBut it's size together with the temporary aspect of it's content greatly accelerates the iteration process, culling bad content and refining the good one.
- nickthemagicman 10y agoFacebook is my counter example. Its the biggest social media site on the internet. Produces nothing that gets reified in the form of internet culture.
- internaut 10y agomagicman, academia should study why Facebook is a sterile wasteland 4chan, Reddit and HN are Internet natives. Facebook and Twitter are fucking tourists.
- nickthemagicman 10y agoFacebook is what mainstream compares 4chan to. A nice safe sterile place. Good for family values and advertising.
- Paul_S 10y agoThere's the vidya gaem awards, an alternative to the mainstream awards ceremony.
- cache-monet 10y agoMost people don't know, but Tox (just posted here a few days ago [1]) started on /g/. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12657891