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You're saying that the demographics of 4chan is roughly similar to most any site on the internet?

• ogurechny 2y ago
  Well, everyone who wanted to join was able to do it. Constant media attention informed everyone and the dog about it.
  • fwip 2y ago
    Sure, everyone who wanted to join, could. That doesn't mean that the same kind of people want to join orstick around. Even sites like Twitter and Facebook have pretty different userbases, despite being pretty similar.
    • ogurechny 2y ago
      I guess I should set the reference point. I remember the time when normal internet users who visited imageboards simply couldn't figure out what was happening, and went back to normal sites (sometimes in disgust). There were no tourist guides written by journalists for the general public. Big forums had informational topics teaching users who “internet trolls” are (starting a short period when any argument which someone didn't understand, or pretended to, was automatically called “trolling”). Someone who used imageboard slang on a regular site was seen as an underage idiot (and certainly looked like one to outsiders), and could find that his accounts with “original” passwords no longer belonged to him (because internet was serious business). Oh, and if someone wrote a post praising some politician, no one needed an explanation that it was a satire that made fun of people believing in “supporting our candidate”. Compared to that, and after 15+ years, 4chan public is pretty normal, even if it is not exactly the same as on some other site.
      • fwip 2y ago
        I understand now, thank you for the explanation. :)