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4Chan, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (to borrow from Obi-Wan)

by tvon 17y ago

scythe 17y ago
12chan?
- barrkel 17y ago
  As far as I am aware, 12chan just trades dodgy photos. 4chan seems more "hands-on".
ltbarcly3 17y ago
Yes, mocking people on the internet and making dirty jokes is certainly the pinnacle of human depravity. The KKK? Neo Nazi's? No, the most wretched people are giggling undergrads, sitting in dorms, trying to gross each other out. And quoting Star Wars? - Go outside. - Walk to the library. - Read a book. Repeat until you stop day dreaming about owning a light saber or riding shotgun with Han Solo.
- gloob 17y ago
  I might be off base here, but I suspect the poster you replied to was attempting to be humorous, rather than expressing a philosophical truth about how 4chan users are actually the most evil thing in human history. Provided I'm correct, your response strikes me as a little like walking up to a six year old playing with a Rubik's cube and telling him how it was produced by slave labour in China. You might well be correct, but the context switch is rather jarring. (edit: typo)
- tvon 17y ago
  As gloob figured out, it was primarily a joke, though I find your vehement disgust with my use of a Star Wars quote to be a bit disturbing. Besides, sci-fi nerds generally read a lot so the library bit doesn't even make sense... and who wouldn't want to own a light saber (though I can't say it's something I actively daydream about)? However, in defense of my statement, 4chan is the only place I've ever seen photos of a nude, decapitated woman posed in sexually suggestive positions, and it would probably take you 5 minutes of browsing /b/ to find drawings of girls under the age of 10 having sex. (edit: typo)
  - justin_vanw 17y ago
    But they didn't take those pictures, or kill the woman. They didn't even know them, or much about them probably. They found a picture on the internet, and they posted that same picture to another part of the internet. Truly moral outrage should ensue. Since you are a sci-fi fan, here is a sci-fi reference. Neo takes the blue pill. He finds out what the 'real' reality is, behind the bullshit fabricated reality. The stuff about the dead lady? That actually happened. Stuff far worse happens every day. If that makes you uncomfortable, or outraged, or whatever negative emotion you are expressing, you are just angry at reality. Don't blame 4chan.
    - gloob 17y ago
      I'm reasonably sure you are the person closest to being outraged about anything in this discussion, heh. He was being funny, not raving about how 4chan is the root cause of all evil. And in any case, the fact that actively evil people exist independent of 4chan is orthogonal to whether the site is legitimately "a hive of scum and villainy."

4Chan, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (to borrow from Obi-Wan)

by tvon 17y ago

4Chan, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (to borrow from Obi-Wan)

scythe 17y ago

12chan?

barrkel 17y ago
As far as I am aware, 12chan just trades dodgy photos. 4chan seems more "hands-on".

ltbarcly3 17y ago

Yes, mocking people on the internet and making dirty jokes is certainly the pinnacle of human depravity. The KKK? Neo Nazi's? No, the most wretched people are giggling undergrads, sitting in dorms, trying to gross each other out. And quoting Star Wars? - Go outside. - Walk to the library. - Read a book. Repeat until you stop day dreaming about owning a light saber or riding shotgun with Han Solo.

gloob 17y ago
I might be off base here, but I suspect the poster you replied to was attempting to be humorous, rather than expressing a philosophical truth about how 4chan users are actually the most evil thing in human history. Provided I'm correct, your response strikes me as a little like walking up to a six year old playing with a Rubik's cube and telling him how it was produced by slave labour in China. You might well be correct, but the context switch is rather jarring. (edit: typo)
tvon 17y ago
As gloob figured out, it was primarily a joke, though I find your vehement disgust with my use of a Star Wars quote to be a bit disturbing. Besides, sci-fi nerds generally read a lot so the library bit doesn't even make sense... and who wouldn't want to own a light saber (though I can't say it's something I actively daydream about)? However, in defense of my statement, 4chan is the only place I've ever seen photos of a nude, decapitated woman posed in sexually suggestive positions, and it would probably take you 5 minutes of browsing /b/ to find drawings of girls under the age of 10 having sex. (edit: typo)
- justin_vanw 17y ago
  But they didn't take those pictures, or kill the woman. They didn't even know them, or much about them probably. They found a picture on the internet, and they posted that same picture to another part of the internet. Truly moral outrage should ensue. Since you are a sci-fi fan, here is a sci-fi reference. Neo takes the blue pill. He finds out what the 'real' reality is, behind the bullshit fabricated reality. The stuff about the dead lady? That actually happened. Stuff far worse happens every day. If that makes you uncomfortable, or outraged, or whatever negative emotion you are expressing, you are just angry at reality. Don't blame 4chan.
  - gloob 17y ago
    I'm reasonably sure you are the person closest to being outraged about anything in this discussion, heh. He was being funny, not raving about how 4chan is the root cause of all evil. And in any case, the fact that actively evil people exist independent of 4chan is orthogonal to whether the site is legitimately "a hive of scum and villainy."