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/pol/ is basically an agitprop prototyping board. Or at least it was circa 2016. Imo, the racism is incidental to a broad array of antisocial behaviors that ar
by 73628bshs 6y ago
/pol/ is basically an agitprop prototyping board. Or at least it was circa 2016. Imo, the racism is incidental to a broad array of antisocial behaviors that are rewarded and reinforced by the culture of the board.
Spending too much time on there is not healthy. One of my buddies got sucked into it and started acting out in ways that had negatively impact on his life. Social contagion is real.
- troughway 6y ago>negatively impact on his life. Social contagion is real. Wait til you hear about what happened on the rest of the internet.
- TheOperator 6y agoI had a colleague spend too much time there and start using degrading insults that were targeted against me in my presence around the height of /pol/s popularity in 2016. I caused a scene. I still think about it because of the way they embraced an exaggerated stereotype that didn't actually in any way reflect the people they actually knew with that identity for years. The stereotype was so different from the reality that I think at some point they stopped making the connection between the two. I never heard anybody in my group of friends make a 4chan reference again, I can't help but think that incident served as an alarm bell that people were getting out of touch with reality, and people seemed to either stop using the site or started visiting it less. Human's historically have not existed in social environments like 4chan and I think the site, especially when indulged in frequently, can lead to a sort of psychosis.