Basically, some people who liked posting edgy stuff for lulz, some people had the root racist or misogynist views or gained them during impressionable years of

Basically, some people who liked posting edgy stuff for lulz, some people had the root racist or misogynist views or gained them during impressionable years of their early lives due to that. This was a small portion, but once you have that small portion the less crazy people leave the site or the crazier users get banned and start their own site, as is what happened from 4chan -> 8chan. It's been pushed into progressively smaller niches that have accelerated their views into more and more insane stuff. Ridiculous conspiracies like QAnon are still something readily being discussed on 8chan. I'm ashamed to admit but I'd actually hit 8chan up for that edgy ridiculous humor when awful shit happened sometimes, but it's clearer than ever that a significant chunk of the community now actually believes it, a feeling I never quite got from 4chan and I suspect it's the nature of being pushed into a smaller niche. A tiny echo chamber of crazy views quickly propagates more crazy views.