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> Stop taking 4chan seriously. If you let yourself be enraged by their words, that's exactly what they want 4chan is not some amorphous entity with no influenc
by selfhoster11 4y ago
> Stop taking 4chan seriously. If you let yourself be enraged by their words, that's exactly what they want
4chan is not some amorphous entity with no influence on the real world. Just like "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" can be true, so is the case with 4chan.
For a more direct example of what could happen, check out the origins of the phrase "We did it, Reddit!"
- blueflow 4y agoI looked it up on KYM, and the Sunil Tripathi incident a pretty good reason to ignore Reddit, too.
- cowtools 4y ago4chan isn't interested in you unless you feed the trolls
- selfhoster11 4y agoThat, or you somehow unwittingly trigger the attention of the hive-mind. It doesn't take all that much. And if it happens to you, then they can successfully doxx you based on something as innocuous as a reflection on a photo [0]. [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234
- cowtools 4y agoWhat ever happened to personal responsibility? I think it died with "don't post your personal information on the internet", considering the way which young people use social media these days. Edit: the article you linked has nothing to do with the website being discussed here at all, or any website really. It's about a japanese man stalking some sort of celebrity by himself.