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Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

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Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

#11

Post by izzydata »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8
4ad wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you be more specific? What are you talking about?

A lot of 4chan users got upset when moot banned gamergate, the thinly-disguised harassment campaign. Since gamergate characterises any opposition to it whatsoever as being from 'SJWs', 4chan mods are thus 'SJWs'.

A lot of 4chan users will be upset if you do anything. That is too much of a generalization and isn't possible to determine for the community as a whole. Keep in mind the vast majority of 4chan users don't even post.

Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

#12

Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

izzydata wrote: post #11
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of 4chan users got upset when moot banned gamergate, the thinly-disguised harassment campaign. Since gamergate characterises any opposition to it whatsoever as being from 'SJWs', 4chan mods are thus 'SJWs'.

A lot of 4chan users will be upset if you do anything. That is too much of a generalization and isn't possible to determine for the community as a whole. Keep in mind the vast majority of 4chan users don't even post.

I'm not saying all of 4chan was upset (I'd imagine many might be quite happy, but kept quiet). Perhaps not even most of 4chan. I just think that's probably the main reason why anyone would call the mods 'SJWs'.

(Though maybe 'SJW mods' is just the new 'fascist mods')

Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

#14

Post by chisleu »

eloisant wrote: post #5
chisleu wrote: post #2

I wonder what how long the SJW mods are going to be running the ship?

I don't think there is any SJW on 2chan. It's pretty much as trash as 4chan.

That was my point. 4Chan has pretty heavy SJW influence right now.

Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

#16

Post by chisleu »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #12
izzydata wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of 4chan users will be upset if you do anything. That is too much of a generalization and isn't possible to determine for the community as a whole. Keep in mind the vast majority of 4chan users don't even post.

I'm not saying all of 4chan was upset (I'd imagine many might be quite happy, but kept quiet). Perhaps not even most of 4chan. I just think that's probably the main reason why anyone would call the mods 'SJWs'. (Though maybe 'SJW mods' is just the new 'fascist mods')

I don't think this is the case at all. Gamergate was noisy and annoying at it's best on 4chan. However, there have been many bans for posts wildly outside of gamergate, that were on SJW talking points.

The reason gamergate was banned from 4chan is they kept posting pics of zoe and moot hanging out at conferences and bars and such.

Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

#18

Post by Cakez0r »

austenallred wrote: post #17

I feel bad for moot. He'll probably be known for the rest of his life for creating a cesspool he never made much money from.

4chan has shaped internet culture for better and for worse. I think that to have created something so influential is an achievement to be proud of.

Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

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Post by mushtifaha »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #8
4ad wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you be more specific? What are you talking about?

A lot of 4chan users got upset when moot banned gamergate, the thinly-disguised harassment campaign. Since gamergate characterises any opposition to it whatsoever as being from 'SJWs', 4chan mods are thus 'SJWs'.

> the thinly-disguised harassment campaign

I am not convinced that repeating a lie a thousand times will make this claim the truth. The propaganda may have worked well back when gamergate was completely unknown to the general public, but we are past that, I think.

Re: Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

#20

Post by Lawtonfogle »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #12
izzydata wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of 4chan users will be upset if you do anything. That is too much of a generalization and isn't possible to determine for the community as a whole. Keep in mind the vast majority of 4chan users don't even post.

I'm not saying all of 4chan was upset (I'd imagine many might be quite happy, but kept quiet). Perhaps not even most of 4chan. I just think that's probably the main reason why anyone would call the mods 'SJWs'. (Though maybe 'SJW mods' is just the new 'fascist mods')

I'm not sure about the larger picture of the whole internet, but after seeing the fempire spread on reddit and reading some of the ways they did so, I can see why some people jump to it as the default argument.
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