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Definitely. Be sure to check out /d/!
by moot 13y ago
Definitely. Be sure to check out /d/!
- michaelwww 13y agoI wish I hadn't
- moot 13y agoYeesh, sorry. It shouldn't come as a surprise that when I'm introduced to someone and they say they know of 4chan, my immediate response is "I'm sorry."
- michaelwww 13y agoNo problem. I'm in my 50's. I didn't see my first porno until I was 19 at a drive-in. I didn't see my first super-gore picture until I was in my 30's. It seems very weird to me that kids see all this at a very young age. Now Hentai is another weird thing to me. I do know humans are adaptable, but don't know in what way kids have adapted to it. My poor father, he heard Jimmy Fallon mention 2 girls 1 cup so he looked it up. He was visibly shaken when he told me about it. I have managed to avoid that one.
- hyperbovine 13y agoIf nothing else, I suspect children of the Internet generation have learned not to blindly Google things they heard about from their friends. So perhaps a bit of wisdom is trickling down :-)
- michaelwww 13y agoThat's true. The last time I made that mistake was many years ago with goatse. I also laerned to check links that might be cleverly disguised. Would that they were all as innocent as rick rolls. If I really want to be safe, I open a link up and only look at it with my peripheral vision. It works surprisingly well to classify something as bad without actually taking it all in.
- adamnemecek 13y agoThere is this pretty cool research project at Stanford (it's headed by Andrew Ng of the Coursera fame) that uses NLP and machine learning to detect content that the user might prefer not to see. It's still pretty rough around the edges but this demo is pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- michaelwww 13y agoI actually really like that song, maybe because I came of age in the 80's. The funniest thing about it is that Rick Astley seems pissed. He should lighten up because nobody remembered anything about him before rick roll and now he's a household name.
- asdasf 13y ago>The funniest thing about it is that Rick Astley seems pissed. Where'd you get that impression? He's been pretty cool about the whole thing last I heard.
- michaelwww 13y agoThis was from an interview a few years back. It could have been because he wasn't making any money from it. I haven't kept up, but glad he's embraced it.
- T-hawk 13y agoAstley participated in a rickrolling himself, at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade a few years ago. He popped out of a float in the middle of another musical performance and started singing Never Gonna Give You Up. It was a staged stunt, with a canned background track ready to go, and the TV announcers obviously feigning surprise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-hNMJvcyI
- krapp 13y ago
- fudged71 13y agoAs part of the internet generation, I believe the opposite to be true. Hence the widespread popularity of 2g1c
- dreamfactory 13y agoHave a strong suspicion that adults are more sensitive and find this stuff more disturbing than kids.
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- scythe 13y ago/d/ can be a pretty nice community considering the focus. I don't know if I can put into words the effect it had on me, but in retrospect it seems to have been mostly positive. Thanks for running the site for so long, moot. It's great fun.
- makomk 13y ago/u/'s always been a pretty nice community too, and is unlikely to offend anyone except social conservatives. (/y/, on the other hand, has always been fairly hostile. Don't ask me why.)