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I used to go on 4chan as a teenager. It was always "edgy" but only recently (since roughly around gamergate and Elliot Rodger, which is also when 8chan started)
by opportune 7y ago
I used to go on 4chan as a teenager. It was always "edgy" but only recently (since roughly around gamergate and Elliot Rodger, which is also when 8chan started) has it begun to seriously drift to the far-right. White nationalists saw that as an opportunity to radicalize teenagers to their cause and it's still ongoing.
There is a whole cottage industry of people attempting to radicalize jaded white teens and "skeptics" to turn them from ideological libertarians or politically unaffiliated into hateful, "alt-right" fascists. One of them was Steve Bannon [0].
[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness-troll-army-world-warcraft/489713001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/s...
- DonHopkins 7y agoNot just a cottage industry -- they actually have a big building and huge quantities of money and workers: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-... >55 Savushkina Street, St Petersburg, said to be the headquarters of Russia’s ‘troll army’.
- opportune 7y agoIt would be naive to assume that the only people who want to push America to fascism are from other countries. There are a lot of people in the US that support that too.
- DonHopkins 7y agoThere's a good reason they call him Moscow Mitch.
- imtringued 7y agoI'm wondering since other commenters wrote that even twitter is filled with white nationalists. I don't think you can blame some random internet platform for the world's problems. It's just that they make the problems far more visible because they are echo chambers that focus around one particular ideology. So what exactly causes white nationalism to be rising everywhere, not just on 8chan?