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Reading 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

Reading 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 ago
There 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.