A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web

Post by Joeboy » Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 12:32 PM UTC

Senji wrote: post #31

EJTH wrote: post #26

To be fair, /pol/ is one of the best places to get happening news (Information about terror attacks that would otherwise be censored by mass media, information from the Syria conflict etc) There is a lot of shilling and a lot of trolling... It seems to me that /pol/ posts has become >50% shitposting from trolls and shills and less political discussion. The real influx of users into pol started with the european refug…

There was that one time when posters from the Syria general thread helped by looking up images on google earth and had an artillery strike directed.

Post by Pigo » Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 12:35 PM UTC

the8472 wrote: post #37

ivarious wrote: post #29

It's rather disappointing that the authors didn't talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years. The reply indicator. For people who don't go to 4chan, you can read it on http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-here-s-your-you . Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote. Moreover, the po…

I speculate that the ban on raids had a much bigger impact. Before that they were used for all kinds of things, mostly to cause mischief, occasionally even for a good purpose, e.g. op chanology. So this might have tied up and channeled a lot of the mischievous energy of the more active users. Now that it's banned we get more informal, less organized hit-and-run harassment.

Post by ivarious » Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 12:41 PM UTC

Trombone12 wrote: post #38

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing. And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture. To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on…

Lets be honest: memes aren't high quality content when compared to the types of free content available on the net. 4chan has spawned a lot of memes because it was one of the earliest places people appreciated that sort of low-effort anyone-could-do-it content, but to say it drives high quality content is to decry any competently drawn stick figure as bourgeois.

Post by hyperdunc » Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 12:41 PM UTC

douche wrote: post #39

dogma1138 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rare Pepe is the "name" of the meme as far as the subject specific custom pepe images/shops go. But I still can't believe that there is a research paper out there where there is a section which describes the researcher's "collection" of rare pepe memes with visual aide samples.

I can't believe that a presidential candidate prominently featured a page on their website attacking a stupid internet meme. I think the Aztecs fudged their calculations somehow, and it was really supposed to be 2016...

Post by dylanfw » Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 12:44 PM UTC

hacker42 wrote: post #23

dogma1138 wrote: post #14

"9. RARE PEPES In this Section we display some of our rare Pepe collection." Things that you have never thought would appear on a bonafide research paper for 800$. EDIT: 4Chan thread regarding this paper, this is worth the read on it's own. http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/92612923/a-longitudinal-m...

Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag who knows a little English and LaTeX can publish on arXiv. It will likely not make it into a journal.