It's a defining feature of chan culture that anything sourced from a chan is poisoned by nature of it coming from a chan, as chans can willingly change the cont

It's a defining feature of chan culture that anything sourced from a chan is poisoned by nature of it coming from a chan, as chans can willingly change the context surrounding some content. It used to be the other way around -- content originating on chans would be repeated and posted elsewhere on the internet, and the content itself usually had nothing to do specifically with chan culture. As media began progressively segregating chan culture from the rest of the internet, content from chans signified that the poster was also a user of chans. As the image of chans have evolved from being a place where you can post whatever you want (within legal limits) to being somehow a bastion of a minority political ideology, so too has the content shifted from being relatable by most everyone who uses the internet to being reviled because of it's ties to the sites. I would not be surprised if a news article came out postulating that Richard Stallman had now become a symbol of the "alt-right"