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They say the children are our future. But if 4chan is any indication of what they have in store for us, we are in for a very rough time indeed.
For the blissfully innocent, 4chan is an image board — a format copied from popular Japanese sites, it allows users to post text and images anonymously. The anonymous nature of the board, of course, allows users the courage to post everything from the most extreme pornography to death threats to the coordination of raids on public institutions. The site was started in 2003 by a kid named “moot” (then fifteen) who set up the site with his mom’s credit card, and who has managed to keep it going with sporadic ad revenue from only the dodgiest, least scrupulous advertisers. (Improbably, moot was a top 100 finalist for Time magazine’s “most influential person of the year” award for 2009.)
4chan and its sister sites, the other “Chans”—7chan, 420chan, 711chan, etc. al.—are the black hole of the Internet. They collect the worst that the Internet has to offer, a morass compounded from the ids of the world’s adolescent shut-ins. All extremities, all filth, all illegal activities — such complete chaos that even Lovecraft’s monsters would be forced to make a sanity check, and all updated at a speed far beyond what even an NSA data miner could process. Yet somehow, out of this singularity of abject wrongness, the Chans spew out the Internet humor that preoccupies middle America — LOLCats and the “Chocolate Rain” video, for instance. The Chans are like a particularly huge toxin processor for human consciousness. They are also, I suspect, our best preview of where human consciousness is going.
Mainstream media coverage of 4chan and its sister sites has been extensive, especially after the much-noted raids on the Church of Scientology, coordinated on the Chans and conducted on the web and in real life by Anonymous users wearing V for Vendetta masks to conceal their identities from the infamously vindictive organization. The general attitude of the mainstream media towards the Chans has been one of rubbernecking disgust. (In typical overstated form, Fox News called it an “’Internet hate machine’ filled with calls for domestic terrorists to bomb stadiums.”)
Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we’re headed. The Chans aren’t the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack, leading us. At this point there should be little doubt that the Internet is mutating the human species into something completely different. Therefore it’s instructive to look at the most extreme, freebased forms of the Internet to see where we’re going — and 4chan is that freebased version of mankind’s new drug of choice.
Permanently glued to their computers, the Anonymous users of 4chan exist in a kind of suspended animation, where no attention span is too short. The Chans show us the chaos at the edge of human perception, where the mind has consumed so much information through artificially enhanced sensory inputs that it begins to break down and cannibalize itself. The brave pioneers of 4chan are the Magellans of media desensitization, who abandon the grim reality of their parents’ basements to wallow in infinite, recursively self-referential filth.
In the last decade, we’ve seen the increasing acceleration of information (a la Terence McKenna and Moore’s law) heralded as the key to new business development, though it has, in fact, so ruined our attention spans that it is almost impossible for modern man to get any kind of productive work done. We’re too lost in the datastream, too focused on taking in new information to complete a task that takes more than a few minutes, at best. I think a direct correlation can be made, for instance, between the rise of social media and the fall of the economy. The kaleidoscope of the Internet is more endless, more distracting and more mutating than even the most potent psychedelic drugs could have ever prepared us for. And 4chan is the ultimate, final trip.
It is the car crash that cannot be looked away from. Ever.
If the mainstream Internet-using world has driven itself to distraction and insanity with social networking, the denizens of the Chans have upped the ante past all conceivable boundaries, like switching from a light alcohol problem to crushing and injecting Oxycontin. This is the place where all senses are deadened, where the mind cannot function because it is trapped in its own overstimulation. This, I am sure, is where media theorists from Marshall McLuhan to Neil Postman to Douglas Rushkoff assured us that the inherently liberating force of information technology was leading us. And though I am sure they knew that the filth and fury would follow, I’m not sure they ever expected it to look quite like… this.
My own 4chan addiction crept up slowly. Once a casual user of gateway drugs like icanhascheezburger.com, ytmnd.com and Encyclopedia Dramatica, I followed a link to the black hole itself one day and — sucked past its event horizon — have since been unable to escape. Stuck there now, I am clicking back and forth from this article to peruse the halls of 4chan’s /x/ forum, afraid that I might have missed the latest spew from the Internet’s collective maw. It is the car crash that cannot be looked away from. Ever.
What is happening here? The escape from the constraints of the flesh? The escape from the constraints of being human? The inevitable purge following the collective unconscious’ information binge? With the Internet we can now erase space and time, erase the restraints placed on the mind by matter. But what for? Once mankind set sail to explore the limits of the human world and to discover the frontiers of the planet. And once mankind plunged into himself to discover the limits, or lack thereof, of his own nature, through inner experience. But this is a new world, one bereft of the luxury of such meaningful activities. And in this new climate, the collective entity known as Anonymous has found a new frontier, and set out to discover the limits of boredom itself, mining the darkness for glittering jewels to bring back to the rest of us.
4chan is, I contend, the most interesting angle we have on the evolution of human consciousness. It is a shamanic experience, a bardo of becoming, where the soul is detached from the body, set free to wander in the wilderness of banality until it encounters the epic lulz of meeting itself… and finding that it, itself, is the most disturbing thing on 4chan.
Jason Louv is the author and editor of the books Generation Hex, Ultraculture and Thee Psychick Bible, and a blogger at the popular culture journal Dangerous Minds (www.dangerousminds.net). www.jasonlouv.com
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Blogger self-promotes using famous internet Kleenex, the chan groups. Finds heart, soul, boogers. News at 11.
“The Chans aren’t the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet.”
wrong, they are the heart and soul of the current evolutionary stage of the human being, the lemming consumer.
I kinda doubt that. 4chan is the anti-consumer. We are at the forefront of not buying, not paying, not even waiting for instant gratification.
I think the words of a famous “anonymous” would perfectly describe this article:
“OP is a faggot”
I place my bet of over 9000 internetz that he’s also a macfag.
Cleverly written, but your article is essentially language games and projection.
“Permanently glued to their computers, the Anonymous users of 4chan exist in a kind of suspended animation … The brave pioneers of 4chan are the Magellans of media desensitization, who abandon the grim reality of their parents’ basements to wallow in infinite, recursively self-referential filth.”
You seem to be misinformed. 4chan is a diversion, a momentary amusement to distract the well-adjusted twenty something betwixt lectures on computational modeling and reading the Theban plays. It is also a place for friendless fourteen-year-olds to congregate and commiserate, to view pornography and rage against the small fragment of society they occupy.
In other words, 4chan is everyone. There is no typical 4chan user. Some of us are utterly, ridiculously uninformed and unintelligent; others of us are lawyers and astronomers.
4chan is not the future of human consciousness, 4chan merely the publication of a long-hidden segment of our minds. We have always been filthy-minded people, and the things spoken of and shown on 4chan would certainly not make the Marquis de Sade blink. It all just seems new and extreme because it wasn’t publicized before, when it was locked away in our minds on dark and lonesome nights before the advent of conscious-numbing television. Now our dark ideas have become known to all, and they are not unfamiliar, you just refuse to admit it.
That is not to say that 4chan is dark. 4chan can be cuter than the wildest parody of a Japanese middle-schooler’s daydream. Your own screenshot shows a hilariously lovable cactus from Final Fantasy. We also invented LOLCATS for god’s sake; there is nothing forty-year-old women love more.
The point is…
We are all things and we are all people; this has been said, but it has not been understood. Good day sir.
Bravo.
More like 4chan is the result of that television programming and a continuation of it into the realms they couldn’t broadcast.
Rules 1 & 2
I totall fapped to this article!
I CAME!
Blaming 4chan for embodying societies collective underlying hatred is like blaming an MRI machine for telling you that you have cancer. Just be happy that their hatred manifests as internet cruelty and hijinks and not as bullets fired at classmates as it often did nearly a decade ago.
If you cut out all the word-games that article would have been about three sentences long. Unless the word-games were the point? Did you think the readers wouldn’t quite understand how overwhelmed by epiphany you were?
4chan isn’t scary and it isn’t our future, at least not in the way you seem to think. First, it’s not scary because anyone who visits it can simply close the window and stop participating. Not everyone is as fascinated by the avalanche of BS spewing out of 4chan. Second, it is merely an example of one thing that will continue to happen in the future, not The Future itself.
When two people think the same way they can communicate much more quickly because they don’t need to provide any context for what they say. That is the “click” people describe when someone “just gets them.” As we become increasingly interconnected people will find it easier to gravitate towards others who think like they do. These pockets of like-minded-minds will naturally seem strange to outsiders who don’t think like any of the participants. But, because people have to gravitate towards those who think like them, it makes it inherently difficult (impossible?) for the different groups to communicate with each other.
Even if 4chan was broadcast on a cable channel most of the people who saw it simply wouldn’t engage with it. The number of these “channels” will increase, and they will each become larger, and their methods of interacting will improve. . .but they won’t take over. By their very nature they are insular things. They are not self-reproducing, they are not infectious, they are not magnetic; at least to the the majority.
A better prediction of the future, based on 4chan, is a consciousness with multiple personalities. The ID will be there, as it always is, but it will be marginalized by more productive personalities.
4chan is the future of human consciousness?
Oh please.
tl;dr
also, /x/ is for faggots
You sir, are an idiot
4-chan is a temporary aberration that will change the internet but unfortunately they are going to destroy the freedom on the internet more then any one group could possibly hope for.
Eventually they (a very small percent of 4-chan) will piss off enough political leaders that they will slowly start to grind out control type legislation that step by step will shut it down.
Kids grow up and become interested in other things, these kids will grow up, most of them will become interested in other things and then remember how psycho they acted on 4-chan and want to have their kids protected from it. So when the politicians start enacting laws they will see it as a good thing. These future parents will not want an avenue for child pornography to exist as they now have children or for other teens to try and torture mentally another over the net as they wont want it to happen to thier child.
No if we want the internet to stay unregulated then 4-chan needs to go away. My bet most of the adults on 4-chan already know this and are lying thorough their teeth about their power. And will enjoy the luz when it all comes crashing down or as it slowly gets whittled away.
4-chan is a temporary outlet for the usual amount of crazys that exist in our world at any given time and a place for teens to entertain themselves and feel empowered. The crazy’s are not new, communication is not new, bored teens is not new, all that is new is the speed in which they can pass wierd information and usless lies. These adults prey on the gullible teens. None of this is new or a evolution, all that is evolving is the anger in which the powers that be will flash back at these guys penalizing the rest of us.
For all the good that the internet does to allow people to access a broad range of information instantaneously, be in contact with his fellows and get work done, 4-chan is busily working to weaken that value with cornball pranks with vile intent. When you are unsure of the value of the content that you are reading the content has no value.
tl;dr
But I did spot one thing you said, and I agree. The users of 4chan do grow up. I myself no longer frequent it despite having been a long time visiter. The shits gotten stale. Nothing new comes out of it. It’s the same things on an endless loop. Anyone new visiting the site won’t find anything amusing enough to make them stay, and those that currently use it and remember the glory days will find themselves at a point where they get fed up with it.
4chan’s dying. It’s not the future of anything. It was just a brief blip on the internet radar.
The Internet doesn’t shape consciousness or behavior; it removes barriers to its expression.
No, it most certainly does shape consciousness and behavior. Anything that you expose yourself to can shape your consciousness.
The irony of this article’s comment section is that it is filled with anonymous comments.
It seems that this type of subjects are not for public debate. None of you got to a relevant or demonstrated point. Possibly because not many cared before about such, in such a manner to start a large enough debate (and in flesh and bone, to eliminate anonymity as a factor). (when I say large enough debate, I mean one the size of a convention. Because you have too many variables to determine in an article comment section)
Oh, and [Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 07:02.], what is the relevance of homosexuality in the paranormal image board? (“/x/ is for faggots” to cite you)
[Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 04:17.], use arguments (“4chan is the future of human consciousness? Oh please.” cited), not just a “no”.
If I can’t have your name to call you after, I will label you. By month/date/year-hour:minute of post, if needed.
and whats so funny about this is that you think anyone anywhere cares what you think because you’re a namefag.
lurkmoar
Now that’s smart of you to invent another “fag” tag.
I didn’t say that someone cares about what I say. Related to the fact that I use my name or not. And I didn’t say I want someone to. I have my adepts and my minions, don’t you worry.
Who cares about what I say cares. It does not need explanation.
And define “lurkmoar”.
>define “lurkmoar”
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lurkmoar
Thank you for directing me to the definition (though the idea of “define” was to hear your definition of it, because some may have different definitions of the same word)
Kudos to the person who pointed out that Jason could use a little “maturation”.
But in actuality, he is far too “important” to respond to the criticism in any other way than looking down his nose at the text and snorting.
Don’t believe me? He was evicerated in the comments here: http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/thee_psychick_bible_now_out/
…which, I might add, is another glom-on to meta-memes, including his claim to be part of a
“group responsible for popularizing body piercing and tattooing, acid house music, and magick”
I am not making this up.
In short, I think this quaint little group of Jason’s is some kind of weird textual circle-jerk, with Jason as the pivot man.
Seacrest, over.
Sincerely, I don’t get what link does your comment reply have to do to my comment.
And I haven’t heard of any Jason and the “bible” thing in the link is a first time see for me. Sincerely, I don’t think humanity requires a bible (any at all). From what I read, it looks like a fanclub for a band or something. (seriously, 999 copies? why not a round 1000?) And, really, what’s with the “thee”, “magick” and “psychick” (unless it meant psy-chick).
As well, why didn’t they reprint the “My little red book” (or whatever was that pseudo-communist propaganda book some guys released in England)? I mean, if we are going to throw crap (excuse me) at the masses, why not throw it all? We can also shove it down the throat of the masses, to make it even better.
Now, really, is there any point in a religion, especially when it presents such lies and aberations? What is the point in “magick”?
The chans don’t signify some dark, evolutionary cusp of degenerate consciousness – they simply allow the free expression of what people really think (and have always really thought) but don’t say in any other social situation. The chans are the eye of God, what we really are, rather than what we pretend to be. It is the expression of forbidden thought. It’s fascinating, ugly, tiresome, hilarious, weird, and real.
The internet is the great leveler, the great anonymizer. Today people mostly stick with an identity when they are online, lately they have been encouraged (myspace, linkedin, facebook) to even use their real identity. But, the internet is highly anonymous in nature. On 4chan and other anonymous posting boards we see what the internet will be like when society has adapted to it and lost its reflexive desire to present a unified identity. As the internet becomes more central to everything we do, and as it develops the ability to securely allow more and more actions to be anonymous, you will see a slow spread of 4chan-like behavior.
What you are seeing on 4chan is what the world will be like in the future when the world is the internet and anonymity is the norm. In this sense it is a glimpse up the evolutionary chain of society.
I am reminded of a four panel cartoon I’ve seen posted to /b/ which describes the evolution of a /b/tard, from “this is sick” through “fapfapfap.” Do you know it? I think society today is mostly in the first panel and 4chan today is mostly in the fourth. In 15-25 years I think society will mostly be in the third panel, which is likely where it will stop (as long as meatspace remains significant).
1: tl;dr
b: Kids-in-sandbox.com
Γ: Op is a giant faggot
TITS OR GTFO
Is that pic from 40 years ago? I saw it and thought it couldn’t be a pic of the author, he’s gotta be at least 65.
Protip: facebook is what you want to write about. facebook is the end of everything.
Hmm…So, you’re retarded then?
Facebook is evil! It will be the downfall of us all!
This article gives 4chan quite the benefit of the doubt.
Honestly, I can sympathize with the author’s spiral into 4chan descent,
Encyclopedia dramatica was my initial gateway, and I haven’t been able to pry myself away from /b/.
Granted, that 4chan is at the forefront of internet memes, the memes themselves are from the
Arbitrary corners of the internet. What’s new on 4chan are misinterpretations of embarrassing
Moments from youtube, flicker, or what have you. And that’s 1% of 4chan. The rest is from the
Everpresent ‘newfag’ recycling old content.
one thing that bugs me aboutt 4chan though is the persistence of the ‘candlejack’ meme. Surely, there is nothing more childi
What meme? Never heard of any candlej
You fool! You must say Candlejack’s whole name, then you get kidnapp
YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
i think you adults should really stop theorizing about how bad our generation’s going to be, and start fixing the mess you’re going to be leaving us.
“You adults” being whom? “the mess” must be fixed by everyone and needs a concrete fix or solution. If there was a “mess” or problem in the first place. Besides, you are talking about “theorizing” as if there was a solution or something. That, and it isn’t necessarily your “generation” that is to be. It’s about humanity in general.
I will enforce my idea of waiting, observing and taking notes. Now is not the time to take action.
“waiting, observing and taking notes.” does not get shit done. Learn for your mistakes and others. And take action
The internet is not mutating the human species, it is changing human culture. There is a big difference between species mutation/evolution and change in cultural habits, let’s not get hyperbolic here.
Changing, mutating, the choice of terms is relative when we do not know over what period of time will happen or what will be the final result exactly. Actually, there are so many variables that we can only make suppositions.
Cyberspace does give a new set of rules (to which humans seem to have gotten used to, almost like to a drug, any or every drug), like the existence of copy, but absence of move (the “move” function of cyberspace is copy and delete)(also, copy, meaning creating an identical copy, with no use of mechanical work… excepting, of course, the electrical energy stream used), the existence of almost perfect anonymity (as long as the user under anonymity uses a labelled physical workstation, he can be tracked) and the new space itself created with the internet, a land separated from the physical Earth (as separate as it can get, because it is hosted on the many workstations and servers that form it… Net3.0 intends to get it more ethereal).
As for the implications of the cyberspace over the mind of the untrained or unprepared, that resumes in many things. Including education, but that’s a very broad term.
What can we do? Sit, watch, take notes, get ready to nuke. It might sound harsh to use our siblings as guinea pigs, but humans have done that for centuries. The whole internet story was just us pressing the brakes and stopping just at the edge of the gorge, as the others fell. We watch, we learn.
^^^ It’s not hyperbole. Humans are defined as a “biocultural” species. Meaning, our culture evolves so we don’t have to.
Actually, I don’t think 4chan is the heart and soul of the internet, so much as the ID.
I will however agree that it is a vanguard, way ahead leading bleeding edge.
I have often said that the true internet age hasn’t arrived yet. But it’s about to. With the XBOX 360′s upcoming Project Natal, the final element for basic A/V VR immersion is a reality.
You heard me. True basic audio/video VR is going to exist within a year. The Project Natal controller combined with the Emotiv Epoc EEG controller, and a set of decent video lenses, and everything needed for VR can be bought for under 1500.
4chan is the leader, hunting down and finding the absolute depths of combined human psyche, charting the edges of cultural boundaries and then going far beyond them to increase the totality of freedom of human expression. It seeks the outermost fringes to make the center expand. It hunts down the taboo’s to make them less powerful for those who do not travel to the wilds of the internet jungles. It is the Divinely Demonic vortex of light and darkness that guides our footsteps along this razorblade between armegeddon and paradise.
VR is going to do much the same thing, but in a far more direct, and disruptive manner.
Sexting? don’t make me laugh. There’s already a company in SL which makes and sells Avatar Porn. Add VR into the mix, where the people can control their Avatars directly? Yeah… I think you know where I’m going.
The freedom of anonymity? How about the freedom to BE anything? Male, female, Elf, Klingon, Arnie or Pamela… hell, you can even be a non E-mouse, regardless of age, appearance, or anything else remotely tied to RL. Seriously, do you REALLY expect people to remain looking vanilla human? ALL the time?
And once portable always on VR devices come out? (Come on, you already know they make video glasses for iPhones.) Once VR is THE way to connect to everything? When those AR apps in your iPhone are being shown directly on your vision via iGlasses? When it will be possible for applications to replace the person you are looking at with their chosen Avatar?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwke0LNardc
Thats the Coca Cola ad from the superbowl this year. Watch it a few times. Watch it until you get used to it. Watch it until it seems perfectly natural. Then take out all the computers and replace them with iPhones and iGlasses so these people are interacting with the world around them as well as with their computers.
Welcome to the year 2015.
And thank 4Chan for blazing the trail.
Expect us.
we are here…. man i feel sorry for this site when there done with it
WE ARE ANONYMOUS
WE ARE LEGION.
ugh of all the board he could’ve liked, it had to be /x/….voodoo priest douche bags.
You miss the important point of 4chan and human consciousness: that a complex concept, emotion, or joke can be easily summed up in a meme or other posted image within the right context of the thread of discussion. That’s where it’s all heading, boy.
That you find yourself addicted to 4chan is more a testament to your own psyche than a bellwether of dominant culture. You sir, are in need of some maturation. I predict that, although you may find occasional perusal of 4chan to be an interesting diversion, in a short time you will not be addicted or even fascinated by it. The same can be said for the average denizen of 4chan and the average viewer of MTV.
What is truly unique about 4chan is that it may represent the last vestige of the sort of freewheeling behavior that can arise when people have the illusion of anonymity. As we become ever more interconnected, we will see the erosion of privacy, anonymity and our illusion of individuality. 4chan may be the last expression of unfettered adolescent silliness. We may come to miss it.
Did you just have two different conversations at the same time and then try and tie them both together at the end?
You FAIL sir!
Even if I do half heartedly agree with SOME of your ideas, I will surly not admit to it now.
Whatever.
If you failed to get the point, let me dumb it down for you.
4chan is pushing the envelop of acceptable.
By doing so, they widen the boundaries of acceptable.
By doing so, they make more things acceptable to the center, conservative majority.
By doing so, they gradually change the definition of conservative.
By doing so they increase the freedom of everyone to explore alternatives to “conservative.”
VR will in a similar way explore the fringes.
By doing so it will also widen the boundaries of acceptable.
By doing so it will also change the definition of conservative.
By doing so it will increase the freedom of everyone to explore alternatives to “conservative”
Therefore 4chan now is what VR will be in the next decade.
Any questions? I could do an illustrated primer if the words are too hard.
oh please, /x/philes are some of the more interesting users of 4chan. At least they aren’t nihilistic idiots that hate everything, like most /b/tards. When /x/ isn’t being invaded by /b/ it’s generally an ok board. A lot of mystical wankery, but it’s generally interesting.
You won’t know what hit you. We are legion.
“location, location, location” is out
“context, context, context” is in
XFD
Rules 1 & 2, motherfucker.
I think you misunderstand the nature of the human mind. You see, humans like to pretend that they live in the real world. But really, they live in a world full of cherry-picked pleasantness ignoring the massive suffering going on worldwide. 4chan isn’t “transforming” anything, it’s just a place where people admit the shithole that the real world is. The pornography, the violence, the hate, none of it is new. The only change is that on 4chan people can say what they really think without consequence. These things aren’t on the fringe, they aren’t your subconscious, it’s everything you wish you could say without admitting the monster that you truly are.
“I found 4chan and all I could write was another stereotypical and useless pseudo-intellectual article claiming it’s something amazing when all I really did was go to the shittiest fucking board on the entire site and was amazed by what 15 year old idiots can do when they are set free without moderation.”
COOL ARTICLE, BRO
Imagine a giant penis flying towards your mouth, and there’s nothing you can do about it. And you’re like “Oh man, I’m gonna have to suck this thing”, and you brace yourself to suck this giant penis. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself “Well, at least I got that out of the way”, but then the giant penis rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant penis is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That’s when the giant penis slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant penis finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4, maybe 5 hours. That’s what reading this article was like.
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newfags cant triforce
A pretty… metaphoric opinion. Some may view it as torture, some may not. Imagine reading an article about yourself on EncyclopediaDramatica or Uncyclopedia. That may be a better comparison, though I don’t think it’s THAT satiric. Actually, it isn’t satiric at all. (from my point of view)
ROFLMAO I fell of my chair..
Nice post. Thanks for even MORE newfags.
Thank you for assuming /b/ represents the site as a whole.
“Once a casual user of gateway drugs like icanhascheezburger.com, ytmnd.com and Encyclopedia Dramatica”
Oh sweet christ, *there’s* your problem.
THE GAME
-You assume that /b/ (the ‘Random’ section of 4chan) represents the site as a whole. This is grossly incorrect.
-You show very little knowledge of how 4chan and /b/ work in general. This leads me to believe that you’ve never been on the site, and have only heard about it through word-of-mouth.
-You are the cancer that is killing /b/
I´m 12 and what is this ?
herp
4chan isn’t super important in and of itself.
What I’d call the “hardcore internet community”, which includes 4chan, among other things, produces much of this stuff. Some leaves it and becomes mainstream, even a meme. Other things never leave and never will.
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Great article! If more bloggers offered the same content as you, the internet would be a much better place. Keep it up!
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