> I don't want or need to be associated with/exposed to that crowd. Remember Anonymous? That was all derivative of various chan boards and Something Awful. You

> I don't want or need to be associated with/exposed to that crowd. Remember Anonymous? That was all derivative of various chan boards and Something Awful. You probably overlap with those users more than you'd like to admit. A thing I realized was that there's a lot of people who lurk the chans and end up promoting the more mainstream-ready content to their other communities. The chans are essentially the boiler room in terms of their role in the ecosystem of the internet.