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Can't wait until reddit decides to ban porn as advertiser-unfriendly, à la tumblr. They're heading steadfast in the direction of sanitizing the site until it's

Can't wait until reddit decides to ban porn as advertiser-unfriendly, à la tumblr. They're heading steadfast in the direction of sanitizing the site until it's nothing but gifs of puppies yawning.

Bayart 8y ago
There's something heartwarming about 4chan remaining committed to being absolute cancer.
- devmop 8y ago
  Even they've gone down that route. 4chan's been split into two domains with the NSFW boards on the original and the SFW boards (or as safe as 4chan ever gets) on the other.
- wsgeorge 8y ago
  4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom in (at least) some quarters of the Internet as is possible. Such freedom seems so essential to Internet culture that, in my opinion, it must be protected.
  - panarky 8y ago
    > 4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom ... Can you provide an example of something valuable you found on 4chan/8chan that could not be found on a site with less "vileness"?
    - fxbl0i 8y ago
      Political arguments that differ from the mainstream and that could only happen on a platform which is both anonymous and has a hands off approach to moderation and monetisation.
      - notthemessiah 8y ago
        > Political arguments that differ from the mainstream That is a polite way of describing anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon.
        nyolfen 8y ago
        yes, and twitter is nothing except a polite way to say cyberbullying
      - panarky 8y ago
        Still looking for an example of something valuable you found on 4chan/8chan that could not be found on a site with less "vileness".
    - stronglikedan 8y ago
      Some people find vileness valuable, and since it's completely subjective, they should have a place to participate in it unfettered and undeterred.
    - MrEldritch 8y ago
      The thing about 4chan is that it's got a shitton of boards, and those boards are like kind of like, say, subreddits - they're pretty self-contained and have distinct communities. So, say, you have places like /pol/, but you also have places like /tg/, the "traditional games" forum (i.e. Magic enthusiasts and RPG players) which turned into a bubbling hub of creativity and collaborative storytelling. (and shitposting.) 4chan was abrasive everywhere, but it's hardly vile everywhere. The experience I found on 4chan is pretty unique, and I don't know how well I can describe it, but I'm really glad that there was somewhere like it. That said, 4chan's culture definitely started to decline around 2014~2015ish, around the time of Gamergate and the Trump campaign. Whenever 4chan's "hub of vileness" reputation starts getting really public in the news, the result is that a bunch of new people who think "hey, that sounds like exactly my jam!" start flooding in. And those two events both drew a huge amount of attention to 4chan, and not the kind of attention that brings good people. (It didn't help that a huge chunk of the old userbase fled around the time of Gamergate due to controversies about it on the site itself.) /pol/ was always a little leaky, but it started to get a lot worse around that time. Not to mention that /tg/ itself was already on the decline because of the positive reputation it had gained elsewhere on the Internet as various stories originally found on it were posted elsewhere, and so it increasingly became full of people who wanted to hear those kinds of stories but weren't actually RPG players themselves. There's a lot less positive to recommend the site these days, and a lot more negative.
    - aasasd 8y ago
      Loli Ripe's j-breakcore. Also greentexts. I get both from elsewhere, but they originate on 4chan.
    - Mirioron 8y ago
      Freedom of expression.
    - odorousrex 8y ago
      Minecraft. Ok admittedly, this was 10 years ago and 4chan was a much different place (as was the internet at large). I was younger and spent a lot of (read: too much) time on 4chan back then. At the very beginning of Minecraft, before it was even a thing, Notch would post on /v/ about it almost daily - incorporating changes/suggestions/criticisms people would fling at him anonymously and randomly. No one thought it would be huge - it was just fun. And Notch was so receptive. I can't help but think his current Alt-Right views may have been influenced by his exposure to 4chan, but in those days it wasn't as crazy as it is now. I have a 4 year old daughter now who LOVES Minecraft. And personally, it's been valuable to me, and I am utterly convinced that had Minecraft not been developed in its earliest days on 4chan, it might not have gotten to where it is today. *Small shoutout also to Katawa Shojo - also made with lots of input from 4chan, which turned out to be quite a compleling VN game. What has 4chan done lately that is valuable? That I couldn't tell you.
      - panarky 8y ago
        Is Minecraft something that could not be developed on a site with less "vileness"? For example, couldn't Notch post on Reddit every day, incorporating changes/suggestions/criticisms people would fling at him anonymously and randomly? Is there something about 4chan/8chan that is intrinsically better for building Minecraft that isn't available anywhere else?
        odorousrex 8y ago
        It could have, and in fact Notch moved to reddit shortly after Minecraft's "birth" which helped expand it's popularity exponentially. (He went from posting on /v/ 100% to 100% on /r/minecraft over the course of a couple months - memory is hazy) I'm convinced the initial randomness/anonymous feedback/chaos of that initial period helped grow the spark from the ember that split off of Infiniminer. There is something creative in the chaos of 4chan - just look a greentexts. 99% of them are absolutely terrible. But the occasional gem catches on and made viral on the larger, less vile sites. Also, I can't believe I forgot about Caturday. That started on 4chan as well. (also 10+ years ago).
- bliblah 8y ago
  Unfortunately the design is very much dated and some of the boards are too (Why does /vp/ need to exist when users can easily migrate to /vg/)

Can't wait until reddit decides to ban porn as advertiser-unfriendly, à la tumblr. They're heading steadfast in the direction of sanitizing the site until it's nothing but gifs of puppies yawning.

Bayart 8y ago

There's something heartwarming about 4chan remaining committed to being absolute cancer.

devmop 8y ago
Even they've gone down that route. 4chan's been split into two domains with the NSFW boards on the original and the SFW boards (or as safe as 4chan ever gets) on the other.
wsgeorge 8y ago
4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom in (at least) some quarters of the Internet as is possible. Such freedom seems so essential to Internet culture that, in my opinion, it must be protected.
- panarky 8y ago
  > 4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom ... Can you provide an example of something valuable you found on 4chan/8chan that could not be found on a site with less "vileness"?
  - fxbl0i 8y ago
    Political arguments that differ from the mainstream and that could only happen on a platform which is both anonymous and has a hands off approach to moderation and monetisation.
    - notthemessiah 8y ago
      > Political arguments that differ from the mainstream That is a polite way of describing anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon.
      - nyolfen 8y ago
        yes, and twitter is nothing except a polite way to say cyberbullying
    - panarky 8y ago
      Still looking for an example of something valuable you found on 4chan/8chan that could not be found on a site with less "vileness".
  - stronglikedan 8y ago
    Some people find vileness valuable, and since it's completely subjective, they should have a place to participate in it unfettered and undeterred.
  - MrEldritch 8y ago
    The thing about 4chan is that it's got a shitton of boards, and those boards are like kind of like, say, subreddits - they're pretty self-contained and have distinct communities. So, say, you have places like /pol/, but you also have places like /tg/, the "traditional games" forum (i.e. Magic enthusiasts and RPG players) which turned into a bubbling hub of creativity and collaborative storytelling. (and shitposting.) 4chan was abrasive everywhere, but it's hardly vile everywhere. The experience I found on 4chan is pretty unique, and I don't know how well I can describe it, but I'm really glad that there was somewhere like it. That said, 4chan's culture definitely started to decline around 2014~2015ish, around the time of Gamergate and the Trump campaign. Whenever 4chan's "hub of vileness" reputation starts getting really public in the news, the result is that a bunch of new people who think "hey, that sounds like exactly my jam!" start flooding in. And those two events both drew a huge amount of attention to 4chan, and not the kind of attention that brings good people. (It didn't help that a huge chunk of the old userbase fled around the time of Gamergate due to controversies about it on the site itself.) /pol/ was always a little leaky, but it started to get a lot worse around that time. Not to mention that /tg/ itself was already on the decline because of the positive reputation it had gained elsewhere on the Internet as various stories originally found on it were posted elsewhere, and so it increasingly became full of people who wanted to hear those kinds of stories but weren't actually RPG players themselves. There's a lot less positive to recommend the site these days, and a lot more negative.
  - aasasd 8y ago
    Loli Ripe's j-breakcore. Also greentexts. I get both from elsewhere, but they originate on 4chan.
  - Mirioron 8y ago
    Freedom of expression.
  - odorousrex 8y ago
    Minecraft. Ok admittedly, this was 10 years ago and 4chan was a much different place (as was the internet at large). I was younger and spent a lot of (read: too much) time on 4chan back then. At the very beginning of Minecraft, before it was even a thing, Notch would post on /v/ about it almost daily - incorporating changes/suggestions/criticisms people would fling at him anonymously and randomly. No one thought it would be huge - it was just fun. And Notch was so receptive. I can't help but think his current Alt-Right views may have been influenced by his exposure to 4chan, but in those days it wasn't as crazy as it is now. I have a 4 year old daughter now who LOVES Minecraft. And personally, it's been valuable to me, and I am utterly convinced that had Minecraft not been developed in its earliest days on 4chan, it might not have gotten to where it is today. *Small shoutout also to Katawa Shojo - also made with lots of input from 4chan, which turned out to be quite a compleling VN game. What has 4chan done lately that is valuable? That I couldn't tell you.
    - panarky 8y ago
      Is Minecraft something that could not be developed on a site with less "vileness"? For example, couldn't Notch post on Reddit every day, incorporating changes/suggestions/criticisms people would fling at him anonymously and randomly? Is there something about 4chan/8chan that is intrinsically better for building Minecraft that isn't available anywhere else?
      - odorousrex 8y ago
        It could have, and in fact Notch moved to reddit shortly after Minecraft's "birth" which helped expand it's popularity exponentially. (He went from posting on /v/ 100% to 100% on /r/minecraft over the course of a couple months - memory is hazy) I'm convinced the initial randomness/anonymous feedback/chaos of that initial period helped grow the spark from the ember that split off of Infiniminer. There is something creative in the chaos of 4chan - just look a greentexts. 99% of them are absolutely terrible. But the occasional gem catches on and made viral on the larger, less vile sites. Also, I can't believe I forgot about Caturday. That started on 4chan as well. (also 10+ years ago).
bliblah 8y ago
Unfortunately the design is very much dated and some of the boards are too (Why does /vp/ need to exist when users can easily migrate to /vg/)