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Actually, the goons at somethingawful.com were doing that long before 4chan, and 4chan itself is a copycat of the japanese 2ch forums. They certainly did lead t
by philipov 8y ago
Actually, the goons at somethingawful.com were doing that long before 4chan, and 4chan itself is a copycat of the japanese 2ch forums. They certainly did lead the way with all that stuff later on, but I'm sure there was a lot of cross-pollination by that point, and I doubt somethingawful can take credit as being the first, either.
- rjbwork 8y agoI didn't mean they originated the type of environment, but that they are the most influential at creating a real widespread culture and propagating that culture to the wider internet. Goons tended to just be total assholes to specific targets, or organizing things within some videogames (Eve Online, etc.)