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> It's a bunch of anonymous people posting crap, often for shock value. Sure, there's incitement on there, but nobody takes anybody serious. No. It used to be
by tuxxy 8y ago
> It's a bunch of anonymous people posting crap, often for shock value. Sure, there's incitement on there, but nobody takes anybody serious.
No. It used to be like this. Maybe in the mid-2000s when 4chan was first getting popular, it could have been seen as this. It might have been seen like this during the early 2010s, does anyone remember Anonymous and how it started basically from /b/?
It used to be a troll site -- it's not anymore. It's literally a cesspool of white supremacy. Seriously, go read what's on /pol/ right now. It's not shock value, it's sympathy.
- def_true_false 8y ago4chan is not just /pol/.
- Konnstann 8y ago/pol/ is literally the containment board for serious fascism/racist/etc. 99% of the rest of the boards is porn, legitimate conversation (for the sfw boards) or shitposting from both sides of the political spectrum
- krapp 8y agoThere's no such thing as a "containment board." Nothing and no one is actually being contained, and the culture from popular boards (which /pol/ is) bleeds out to the others all the time.
- snvzz 8y ago>fascism/racist/etc. Do get argued against in /pol/ all the time. It literally acts as a safeguard against these twisted beliefs. If it doesn't happen in 4chan, then I'm worried. Because these fascists/racists/etc. might end up in a members-only, non-public-viewable fascist/racist/etc echo chamber, with not a trace of voices of reason.