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/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 webm
by 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.
- DarkLinkXXXX 10y agoActually, 8chan had webm embeds before 4chan (and with a higher size limit). They were first AFAIK, but maybe some smaller chan did it sooner.