I think there's a bit of a timeless, easy-to-convey meaning behind the image, which is what makes them memes. People like to treat 4chan like it's this obscure

I think there's a bit of a timeless, easy-to-convey meaning behind the image, which is what makes them memes. People like to treat 4chan like it's this obscure, underground, edgy hacker place. but it's really just a website like any other filled with people who have too much time on their hands. It has the same amount of gore, porn, and bullshit that goes on in Reddit, (less, if you account for the fact that posts get deleted eventually and there's a limitation on how many threads are open, unlike reddit). Your neighbours kids probably goes on 4chan, I know neighbour's does. And I'm a lot less worried about "avid 4chan users" than "avid reddit users"