It might finally be over
oh no not the nazi site
where else will I be able to read race trutherism, slurs, and dehumanizing speech aimed at minority groups
I’ll have to go all the way to
for that now
theyd have to refactor their entire codebase to update several php versions over to not immediately get hacked again.
considering 4chan’s simplicity, its probably easier to start from scratch. which means they are probably gone. at least for a good while.
well not gone gone. their shitty users will just go to the other nazi sites. plenty of options now.
If this happened in like 2016 or earlier I’d be celebrating. At this point it’s bled into the real world so much does this really mean anything. My Instagram explore page might as well be /pol/
Yeah, they probably cut the funding because it has already served its purpose. More mainstream sites like Reddit and Twitter are basically just 4chan anyway.
I will always believe 4chan was a USAID operation.
it may have been, but even if it was it didn’t need to be
Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don’t really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can’t really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there’s some forum that’s been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.
If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what’s the point?
Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed
And so was /g/, nothing new just the same shit over and over and over again
So was /lit, etc.
I liked the image board format. 4chan’s design with Hexbear moderation would be my ideal social media site.
is that not what leftypol is? idk I can’t stand the format
Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It’s not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven’t used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can’t stand leftypol either.
I wonder to what extent the format itself informs how the culture develops.
Superstructure: website culture
Base: website format