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A bit out of the loop. The hell is 8chan? Similar to 4chan? Are the by the same people? I always knew 4chan was a cesspool, just like youtube comment sections.
by corodra 7y ago
A bit out of the loop. The hell is 8chan? Similar to 4chan? Are the by the same people? I always knew 4chan was a cesspool, just like youtube comment sections. So, never ventured.
Next question, is there any actual evidence or proof that they're "apart of it"?
Literally, out of the loop and I trust a random person on HN a bit more than CNN. I saw the thing about Cloudflare here... was it yesterday? Day before? I figured, whatever, a private company can think what they want and do what the want as long as they're honoring the terms of the contract (as in there's a warning that service can be cut because of "our reasons").
Just curious about this 8chan thing and where the hell it came from.
- Karunamon 7y ago8chan is basically 4chan, but with a Reddit-esque spin: anyone can create their own sub-board and moderate it as they please so long as the content they allow isn't illegal in the USA.
- cm2012 7y ago8chan is where the people too extreme and gross for 4chan went.
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- lainon 7y agoIt's an Imageboard, there are many of them. 8chan gained a lot of traffic because of the Gamergate [1] controversy in late 2014 The site has nothing to-do with 4chan in terms of administration. I can't say anything about how 8chan is involved in the El Paso shooting, since it's been some time I've been active on 8chan, but the Christchurch mosque shootings was announced on 8chan. There are many more of such incidents where Imageboards have played a role - e.g. the killing of a kid by Marcel H. in Herne, Germany was posted and documented on 4chan. So, it's very possible that they're part of it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy