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Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by unhappyhippie »

samstave wrote: post #84
Swizec wrote: post #23

While I no longer visit 4chan regularly, I love its extensive influence on human society. * lolcats * rage comics * anonymous * a lot of the 1% movement * getting random people in jail because they think animal cruelty is funny * making Moot TIME's person of the year and getting him a TED talk -> http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for... While most of what goes on there hinges somewhere between…

I agree with some of what you said, but rage comics are a cancer on the internet and I wish I had a universal rage blocker. I HATE them.

I share your sentiment, although I did not dislike them originally. In their native version they were simple four paneled MS paint comics. Since you had three panes to preamble the rage they called in for a lot of innovation and unexpected humor. Today, they have become pagelong mundane personal stories -uninteresting incidents and people being stupid/perverted- told entirely with stock images.

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by skyhook_mockups »

RollAHardSix wrote: post #35
Swizec wrote: post #23

While I no longer visit 4chan regularly, I love its extensive influence on human society. * lolcats * rage comics * anonymous * a lot of the 1% movement * getting random people in jail because they think animal cruelty is funny * making Moot TIME's person of the year and getting him a TED talk -> http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for... While most of what goes on there hinges somewhere between…

Influence on Western Culture? Why don't you go read the news, the Patterson break-up has had more of an effect on Western culture then 4Chan could ever hope to succeed. Some people spend way too much time on the internet; I can guarantee you that 99% of America, has no clue what 4Chan, Rage Comics, lolcats is. Anonymous and the 1% movement (but you may have to say Occupy Wall Street to the 3 million remaining people)…

I can guarantee you that 99% of America, has no clue what 4Chan, Rage Comics, lolcats is

I'm a high school teacher. I can guarantee you that 99% of kids 13-18 know what Rage Comics & lolcats are. The youth of today are the first Internet generation. They have spent their entire lives immersed in Internet culture. The true impact of this generation will start to be felt in 10-15 years.

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by ghiculescu »

Wow, nice.

Many years ago I rewrote the 4chan wikipedia article, and got it to featured level. It appeared on the Main Page a few years later, but by then I had lost interest. It's nice to see it's still in good shape, though not as popular as the site itself - http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/4chan

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by iSnow »

JonnieCache wrote: post #91
RollAHardSix wrote: post #35

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Influence on Western Culture? Why don't you go read the news, the Patterson break-up has had more of an effect on Western culture then 4Chan could ever hope to succeed. Some people spend way too much time on the internet; I can guarantee you that 99% of America, has no clue what 4Chan, Rage Comics, lolcats is. Anonymous and the 1% movement (but you may have to say Occupy Wall Street to the 3 million remaining people)…

The thing is though, basically everyone worldwide who has been to university in the last few years has seen them and knows about them, and has laughed at them. When those people grow up, and achieve control over the popular media, suddenly we'll start seeing references to this period of culture in the new media of the day. It'll be seen as much more important than it is now as well, as the educated middle classes exe…

>suddenly we'll start seeing references to this period of culture in the new media of the day It is already starting, just look at this job offer (it's German, but you'll understand the reference to rage comics at once):

http://www.sixt.de/php-entwickler

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by theorique »

joshu wrote: post #117
gwern wrote: post #108

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For some reason, your nickname strikes me as hilarious. I hereby present: "joshu investigates" --- A surfing editor named Anderson asked the moot the URL to his imageboard, a place popularly supposed to give insight into humanity's character. The old moot said, "Go straight to /b/." After he typed several characters, the moot said to himself, 'He also is a common b-tard.' This incident was told to joshu who said, 'Wa…

You are literally the first person to get my username. The underlying joke is that those who have met me realize that I am in no way a zen monk. I am more of an anti-Buddhist, seeking to achieve a state of complete Worry.

Always been meaning to ask you, does a dog have Buddha-nature?

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by papsosouid »

StavrosK wrote: post #113
papsosouid wrote: post #52

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They were made infamous by reddit, due to them starting to beat that dead horse a year after 4chan got bored of it.

When was that? I created f7u12 three years ago.

You can't do the math yourself? Rage comics were a thing in 2008. It was dead and buried by the time redditards decided to fornicate with its corpse in 2009.

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by StavrosK »

papsosouid wrote: post #127
StavrosK wrote: post #113

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When was that? I created f7u12 three years ago.

You can't do the math yourself? Rage comics were a thing in 2008. It was dead and buried by the time redditards decided to fornicate with its corpse in 2009.

How do you figure that?

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by snowwrestler »

cochese wrote: post #120
snowwrestler wrote: post #116

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"Had," unfortunately--it got DMCA'd a while ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Hmm, it's still working here. Not only that, but it appears that Apple is RickRolling developers: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-ri... A 4chan meme making its way into Apple goes to show how influential that site can be.

Ok, sorry, I have to admit I knew it was still up. Claiming it was taken down is a classic tactic for getting people to click through. You've been RickRoll'd. (I'm not proud of it.)

Speaking of influential, check out the extensive Wikipedia page on the meme. The RickRoll has showed up in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade (with Rick Astley in person), a video from Nancy Pelosi, and a tweet from the White House Twitter feed. It is fully part of the pop culture.

Re: 4chan: Beyond one billion

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Post by ktizo »

RobAtticus wrote: post #115
ktizo wrote: post #92

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You forget, more people have lived since the end of the second world war, than lived between then and Shakespeare's time. If you also take into account the rise in global literacy, far more people will have read celebrity news than Shakespeare.

My guess is that anyone who is literate has read Shakespeare at least once. I have to imagine my public schooling is not that different from the norm, and I read at least 3 works as required (Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juliet) and some other others as my choice for assignments. At least, in the western world. I don't know how popular Shakespeare is outside of that. On the other hand, I don't know how popular celebr…

My guess is that anyone who is literate has read Shakespeare at least once.

That is one hell of an assumption. For one thing, most people who are literate, are not literate in English.

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