I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.
Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.
1/lifetime
Never.
At this point I see pepe as a hate symbol.
I don’t follow 4chan politics, but isn’t Pepe a /pol/ thing or something like that? I mean, 4chan’s got a number of different forums. That seems like saying that Reddit is X because of a particular subreddit, or the Fediverse is X because of a particular community/magazine.
I see your point: pepe can be used for anything.
But it’s so strongly associated with hate in my experience that I cannot see its use in an unbiased way.
I like pepe though there is one pic of him for most situation or you can make one easily and he is kinda funny ngl
I’ve never visited 4chan. Everything I’ve read about it makes me think it’s not the webforum for me.
Who is moot you all are talking about ?
Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it’s actually decent-ish to talk about games.
I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:
Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don’t… really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)
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Never
Why would I want to lower my faith in humanity more?
rock bottom should be the default
4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.
I think this is it more or less.
It felt like fun freedom to have a communicative realm with no rules, guidelines, morals at all. But in hindsight I guess it was fine for me because I had a moral compass and intellect so mad-max-land allowed me to re-explore my limits and opinions on my own, like from point zero, without preexisting structure (wich is always present if there is any decency).
For some, apparently, that was not fine. Like they didn’t catch themselves in the freefall of morals and epistemology that comes with the 4chan credo of “everything here fake and foolish…”. Or maybe it’s that some don’t have a corrective social realm outside 4chan, able to get them back to the ground. And those ones overtook. (Maybe cause the other ones are done playing edge walk after a while).
Tl;dr: had fun, learned some, feel a bit bad now
Litterally me
None. I will never touch anything *chan
2chan, 4chan, 5chan, and the other number I won’t even mention cuz I actually saw something very traumatizing there.
as in?
A picture of a married heterosexual couple having sex in the missionary position
Late reply but not even close
It’s genuinely morbid
Not much anymore. /diy/ is still good for some of my weirder technical questions, but the rest of the boards are in the gutter. /b/, which used to be good for a Friday-night laugh, is nothing but transphobic-trans worship posts or loli threads.
/b/ was never good.
Eh, in retrospect I agree but as a socially awkward annoyingly atheistic teenager in the late oughts/ early 2010s there was some times that were fun in the moment. Definitely didn’t do anything good for my development though
Like once a year or something.
Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.
Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn’t expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.
5 years ago? Some people have something funny to say but it’s not worth groveling through the hundreds of bot comments to find it.
Bot comments?
Here’s a fun video https://youtu.be/efPrtcLdcdM?si=LWaMckxSwL2_lmKZ
That was a year ago. I doubt anyone’s still running that outdated 23gb model still on torrents.
Many of the comments on 4chan are not very insightful and mostly repeat the same classic mantra’s. Now I’m not shy for dark humor but I do like it original.
I haven’t been on 4chan in over 20 years since I saw a gif of a German shepherd being hit in the face with a shovel.
That place is a cesspool.
Literally never in my life
