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Are you saying that 4chan was much more influential than reddit? Because I'm not sure that I'd buy that without some serious data. 4chan isn't small potatoes.
by Pfhreak 8y ago
Are you saying that 4chan was much more influential than reddit? Because I'm not sure that I'd buy that without some serious data.
4chan isn't small potatoes. It's reasonably big potatoes. But intuitively it isn't reddit scale potatoes.
- malvosenior 8y agoI think most memes originated on 4chan and spread to Reddit. That's probably what's meant by influential.
- kbenson 8y ago4chan is to Reddit as Xerox PARC was to Apple. It's the baked potato to Reddit's buttery mashed potatoes. It takes a little more work to get what you want out of it, but sometimes that's part of the draw.
- ryukoposting 8y agoDoes that make geocities Bell Labs?
- sotojuan 8y agoWith regards to internet culture, 4chan and SomethingAwful are definitely way more influential than reddit.
- komali2 8y agoMaybe were, but not are.
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- egkp2frc 8y agoCan't think of any memes originated in reddit that weren't absolute crap.
- dcbadacd 8y agoI have the feeling reddit is more like reconstructive surgery than actually something totally new being born.
- sotojuan 8y agoSA is definitely past its influential period, but to this day stuff that starts in 4chan ends up in national news.
- pessimizer 8y agoYou don't say that a scientist lacks influence based on his/her current papers, or even based on whether they're currently alive. What we do now is based on SA, 4chan then. Reddit is the influence of those sites, it didn't eclipse them, it amplified them. The part of reddit that isn't SA and 4chan is pretty much Digg, which is why censorship of even the most horrific speech represents an existential threat to the company.
- Pfhreak 8y agoI was on SomethingAwful for years (2004? 2003? regdate). There was a period of time when that was true, but I'd definitely say it's no longer the case.
- sotojuan 8y agoYeah SA is definitely past its meme-making prime, but it was the beginning of so much that it holds a special place.