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Why do you think this is not relevant? Everything that came out of 4chan is not a surprise, it was accepted there from the very beginning. It just took proporti
by coliveira 6y ago
Why do you think this is not relevant? Everything that came out of 4chan is not a surprise, it was accepted there from the very beginning. It just took proportions that nobody would expect.
- nemothekid 6y agoThe reason I think it isn't relevant is I think 4chan would be different if moot stuck around. moot had a sort of dictatorship power that allowed him to kill trends - for example GamerGate "died" on 4chan (leading to 8chan and friends) because moot decided one day that GamerGate was done on 4chan. I can't say for sure what 4chan would look like but I felt moot had a more tasteful and less ideological driven approach to running 4chan. There was an article in Motherboard[1] how /pol/ is being idealogically driven due to moderation choices. I don't believe moot would have allowed such an ideologically driven moderation changes to continue for so long. (IIRC, moot had deleted /pol/ twice, once as /n/ which he removed for being too much like stormfront). [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7aap8/the-man-who-helped-turn-4chan-into-the-internets-racist-engine https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7aap8/the-man-who-helped-tu...
- devenblake 6y agoI meant the Anonymous group/movement/"which group?"/whatever debate is a bag of beans to be spilled another time.