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I'm always entertained by the idea that 4chan did something to people as opposed to it revealing what was always there. We're social animals, we're more defin

I'm always entertained by the idea that 4chan did something to people as opposed to it revealing what was always there. We're social animals, we're more defined by our environment than we'd like to believe; but similarly, we have the capability to generate and manipulate that environment ourselves. I would suggest that the basic human feedback loop just got more tightly coupled and that mass personal communication was always going to lead to this.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago
It gave them a positive feedback loop and gave them a safe space to become more extreme and weaponize their own stupidity. You can easily see this to a lesser extend by going to any sports team subreddit and then going to the subreddit of the league that team plays in. The voices will be much more uniform and arguments more minor in the team subreddit for the most part... and views that are freely expressed and thought to be factual in the team subreddit may not be at all popular in the league subreddit.