4chan is a fantastic way to see where opinion will go in the future in my opinion. 4chan is very contrarian, usually against the leading opinion. The narrative

4chan is a fantastic way to see where opinion will go in the future in my opinion. 4chan is very contrarian, usually against the leading opinion. The narratives discussed in its boards usually slowly starts to influence more mainstream targets, starting with reddit, 9gag equivalents, meme, eventually Facebook until it becomes mainstream enough, leading 4chan to abandon it and switch sides. 4chan used to be quite liberal, a long time ago, then the "mainstream" opinion went to liberal. In the last few years 4chan became very conservative (/pol/ especially) and convervative & reactionary movements are now what they are, growing in Europe, trump got elected, etc. Now, slighly, you can see 4chan moving away from strong conservative & reactionist views to a more low-key liberal view, again. /pol/ opinions start to get rejected or mocked by other boards, people are bored with the constant alt-right spam and I believe this will leak into mainstream media in few years, that will be the next turn in mainstream opinion.