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At one point, 4chan was the source of a lot of internet culture and memes, but that ship has firmly sailed. Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, and even Facebook are now
by dymk 8y ago
At one point, 4chan was the source of a lot of internet culture and memes, but that ship has firmly sailed.
Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, and even Facebook are now massive generators of original content and memes.
The alt-lite type folk were always on 4chan. Just only "recently" has the political atmosphere shifted in such a way that we have a word to describe that sort of ideology and behavior.
- cududa 8y agoThat is absolutely false. Shit tons of political memes and conspiracy theories picked up by the likes of Breitbart, Alex Jones, etc still originate there
- dymk 8y agoI didn't say their meme output dropped to zero. I said that other websites are the dominant force for generating the memes we see today.
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- typon 8y agoI agree with you that 4chan isn't the meme generator place it used to be. But I would say that the memes produced on reddit, Twitter or Facebook are different qualitatively. They have much broader appeal usually (normie) than 4chan. But yea..4chan is not the cool subversive place it used to be any more. People make a huge difference... Platforms are not enough on their own. And the people have moved on
- madeofpalk 8y agoBut you can look at the memes that we have today, 'image macros' and their origins from things that started in places like 4chan.