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Claiming 4chan is a uniform community is like saying Reddit users form a coherent community.
by formerly_proven 6y ago
Claiming 4chan is a uniform community is like saying Reddit users form a coherent community.
- krapp 6y ago>like saying Reddit users form a coherent community Which, let's be fair, people do all the time, especially here. Also, plenty of people who frequent 4chan and defend it against criticism often speak of its culture and how outsiders don't understand its quirks, so clearly it does have something of a coherent community.
- SyzygistSix 6y agoTo the extent that the medium is the message, forums do encourage certain types and qualities of interaction. In that way, many, many subreddits are alike and there is a single culture to it. Also the larger a community gets, the more mediocre and average it becomes and the more the culture that is reinforced by the medium comes to the fore.
- Oddskar 6y agoCouldn't the same thing largely be said about any major social network? Facebook isn't really a uniform community I would argue, nor is Whatsapp. Sure they have certain demographics that are larger than others and so on, but so does 4chan and reddit.