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What exactly makes 8chan the preferred platform for this kind of stuff, and not other websites? Genuinely curious, is it just because it’s unmoderated?
by pram 7y ago
What exactly makes 8chan the preferred platform for this kind of stuff, and not other websites? Genuinely curious, is it just because it’s unmoderated?
- Waterluvian 7y agoIt's always possible that many sites were candidates given their traits. And one in a semi random manner became it.
- kennywinker 7y agoIsn’t the story that all this crap was on 4chan, and then 8chan was created because 4chan started cracking down on this kinda stuff. It may be argued that 4chan’s existence gave a home to this crap, or that it created it. Hard to know one way or another.
- NikkiA 7y ago4chan didn't create it, 4chan was created for speech that wasn't allowed on somethingawful, and before that there was ogrish and before that rotten.com & stileproject, before that? Probably alt.tasteless.
- dinofacedude 7y agoJeez, internet history is a rabbit hole.
- 80386 7y ago> 4chan didn't create it, 4chan was created for speech that wasn't allowed on somethingawful 4chan was created by somethingawful users as an imitation of Japanese imageboards. It was used for speech that wasn't allowed on SA because it was right next door. Then SA decided it didn't like 4chan. Then SA's culture spread to magazines like Gawker and Buzzfeed, which is part of the reason 4chan is so unpopular now. If Gawker and Buzzfeed had hired from one side of the Harry Potter fandom, and if a handful of high-profile people like Zoe Quinn had come from it, we'd probably be hearing about how all of America's problems are caused by people who like Snape or whatever.
- NikkiA 7y agoYeah no, drawing this as a online pissing match between two groups in some 'culture war' doesn't hold water when one side is fucking murdering people in a walmart, sorry.
- kennywinker 7y agoI hear what you’re saying. 4chan wasn’t the start of this. But did each step of the chain transform the idea, or was each step merely an incrementally better home for already existing ideas?
- astura 7y agoI think this is the reason (from TFA): >The site remained on the fringes until 2014, when some supporters of GamerGate — a loose reactionary collection of anti-feminist video gamers — flocked to 8chan after being kicked off 4chan. Since GamerGate, 8chan has become a catchall website for internet-based communities whose behavior gets them evicted from more mainstream sites.
- dinofacedude 7y agoThat and Voat. Voat is almost as bad in a lot of ways