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> The internet was just this place where nerdy people could go to post silly shit. What the hell happnened? Right. The whole internet and the culture around it
by qtoMPkuZe46ny 1y ago
> The internet was just this place where nerdy people could go to post silly shit. What the hell happnened?
Right. The whole internet and the culture around it changed.
Early 4chan really was just stupid silly garbage. Did you know there's an archive of old 4chan posts from around 2006-2008?
https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/85525276 https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/85525276 (sarah palin email "hack")
https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/9691632/ https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/9691632/ (just a random thread.)
https://old.sage.moe/_/articles/glossary/ https://old.sage.moe/_/articles/glossary/
Just ridiculously stupid, juvenile stuff. Being "edgy" on 4chan was often just copy-pasting the n-word or "JEWS" a thousand times. That feels really so tame to what goes on there now. Looking through this archive, it all feels so... disconnected from reality. It was all so fake and stupid.
These elite "hackers" were often just pwning people who reused passwords, and then posting gay porn on their MySpace. When Fox News did a report saying that "4chan are hackers on steroids. They can turn your computer into a bomb!", they all laughed because they knew they're not capable of that. And then Anonymous? I mean the V for Vendetta masks? So stupid lol.
It all changed as time went on. I remember seeing a tweet around 2015 that said something like "it's crazy how I can type something in this box that would destroy my life", except it wasn't a joke.
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- ViktorRay 1y agoReading through the links you posted from the 2000's it's interesting how...innocent some of those users seem. The word "innocent" may seem absurd to describe 4chan users...but those comments really do come off as being posted by kids in suburban middle class families who seem gleeful they can anonymously say things on a computer that they cannot say in real life at school or at home because their teachers or their parents would put them into time out or something... I don't think anyone would ever use the word "innocent" to describe 4chan of the 2010's or nowadays though
- HaZeust 1y agoThere are high-stakes now, there are more volumes of people on these digital public squares, that are letting the jokes and the absurdism they encounter seep through their individual reality as beliefs and behaviors. At scale, this makes online trends and mannerism seep into our collective reality. If only those who otherwise fell trap into these absurdist talking points had some perspective, something to lose, some dream to be held hostage - you could actually prevent this. I wish there was a refund on wasted time on propaganda.
- neom 1y agoI never got into 4chan because I used irc, looking at those threads, reads like irc logs.
- soulofmischief 1y agoWhat exactly is stupid about Anonymous?
- numpad0 1y agoyeah, anons and most user groups of toxic anonymous BBS are only stupid as in tasteless; not stupid as in having low INT and/or education. Too many people conflate those two.
- thenthenthen 1y agoFlorian Cramer is a scholar who puts things into a wider art/historical context: https://www.diaphanes.com/artikel/anonymous-imageboards-memes-early-21st-century-epunk-4364 https://www.diaphanes.com/artikel/anonymous-imageboards-meme...