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Parts of the anonymous trend started on 4chan. However not everyone involved with anonymous is/was involved with 4chan, and it was also at a time when 4chan was

Parts of the anonymous trend started on 4chan. However not everyone involved with anonymous is/was involved with 4chan, and it was also at a time when 4chan was more of an anonymous meme board and less of a pedo/nazi aggregator. Anonymous doesn't only attack megacorps. First because anonymous is not a group so there's no central leadership to decide who to attack. Second because they're overall involved with fighting injustices of all kinds. It's not the first nazi-friendly site to get hacked by anonymous, but to my knowledge the first nazi-friendly webhost. Also, depending on your understanding of what a megacorp is, Epik may very well qualify.

h_anna_h 5y ago
> and it was also at a time when 4chan was more of an anonymous meme board and less of a pedo/nazi aggregator. I will have to disagree here. The amount of illegal pedo content has dramatically decreased over the years. You would see people spamming it all the time around ~2008-2013 in /b/, while nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook. As for nazi content, there are a lot more things that are considered nazi these days that were common back (such as calling people slurs as a generic insult), although since around the time of gamergate the amount of unironic actual nazis skyrocketed (as part of a wider social radicalization) and they stopped being shamed as much when posting in unrelated boards. > Also, depending on your understanding of what a megacorp is, Epik may very well qualify. I think that this is stretching the definition. I believe that most people would consider something of the size and reach of cokecola and mcdonalds as megacorps.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago
  > nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook. That sounds... unlikely? Unless you have a very specific set of friends?
  - h_anna_h 5y ago
    I don't have a facebook account so no.
    - spywaregorilla 5y ago
      then why did you say > while nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook.
      - h_anna_h 5y ago
        Because it's true. You can browse facebook without an account.

h_anna_h 5y ago

> and it was also at a time when 4chan was more of an anonymous meme board and less of a pedo/nazi aggregator. I will have to disagree here. The amount of illegal pedo content has dramatically decreased over the years. You would see people spamming it all the time around ~2008-2013 in /b/, while nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook. As for nazi content, there are a lot more things that are considered nazi these days that were common back (such as calling people slurs as a generic insult), although since around the time of gamergate the amount of unironic actual nazis skyrocketed (as part of a wider social radicalization) and they stopped being shamed as much when posting in unrelated boards. > Also, depending on your understanding of what a megacorp is, Epik may very well qualify. I think that this is stretching the definition. I believe that most people would consider something of the size and reach of cokecola and mcdonalds as megacorps.

spywaregorilla 5y ago
> nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook. That sounds... unlikely? Unless you have a very specific set of friends?
- h_anna_h 5y ago
  I don't have a facebook account so no.
  - spywaregorilla 5y ago
    then why did you say > while nowadays it is much more likely that you will see such content while browsing facebook.
    - h_anna_h 5y ago
      Because it's true. You can browse facebook without an account.