4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google • Hacker News Board

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by pcbro141 » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:03 PM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #176

pcbro141 wrote: post #157

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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

Subcultures have shibboleths. In the same way WallStreetBets wasn't making fun of the mentally handicapped, it would be dangerous to take any chan at face value. Shibboleths exist to exclude people outside the subculture stereotype - and a good way of doing that is to be offensive. Some subcultures desire to remain as subcultures. Part of why shibboleths work is because we as a species tend to stop engaging rationall…

> The 4chan shibboleth attacks everyone

I see plenty of posts attacking and calling for the killing and complete extermination of non-Whites, Jews, homosexuals, and women all over the place but 0 posts attacking straight white males for being straight white males.

Gee, I wonder why that is? I really wonder who is posting all these white nationalist talking points, it's truly a mystery. Could be anyone.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by cl0ne » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:05 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #146

_etyf wrote: post #65

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It's worth noting that the Pepe meme has continued to evolve, and is no longer associated solely or primarily with 4chan. The streamer community in particular has adopted, rehabiliated, and popularized Pepe as a mascot and chat emote. For example, here's Pepe and the "poggers" meme in a recent stream from Pokimane, a streamer with over 7 million followers who made Forbes' 2021 30 under 30 list: https://www.youtube.co…

The original author of Pepe put some work into deassociating it from Pepe The Meme. He hated the while thing.

Yeah, I talked with Matt about it at a party around the time he was going into lawsuits with Alex Jones and some alt-right people. He's a really nice dude. He hadn't been very familiar with 4chan before Pepe became a meme and was bummed that Pepe was being branded a hate symbol since he's writing children's books now. #savepepe

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by jrsj » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

the_benno wrote: post #169

andyxor wrote: post #159

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/pol is awesome what are you talking about it has nothing to do with race, calling George Floyd an overdosed junkie is just stating the facts.

Cops aren't allowed to murder people on sight -- "junkie" or otherwise. Never understood why people seem to think this is a compelling argument.

There is an argument being made by many on the right that the overdose was his actual cause of death because he spoke of not being able to breath etc before he was restrained & had a large amount of fentanyl in his system.

That being said, the initial autopsy said this was only one factor and most people with this view are misreading that autopsy, which still stated the primary cause of death was compression of the neck.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by factsaresacred » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:07 PM UTC

iitqkzbjak wrote: post #170

pcbro141 wrote: post #157

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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

Racism, gore, pedos, endless endless pornography... Yet when people mention that they visit 4chan, they talk about the 'very clever people posting there'. It's like mentioning that you regularly go paddling in your local river in order to collect tiny nuggets of gold, without mentioning that your local river is a flow of excrement, nuclear waste, and malignant psychopaths.

You could be describing Twitter.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by solosoyokaze » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:07 PM UTC

bumblelad wrote: post #116

okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

>I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. Always fascinating how they refer to themselves. You have n-words. Then potato n-words for the irish (and lithuatians) Pasta n-words for italians Bongs for the british Leafs for canadians Burgers and Amerimutts Toothpaste for the netherlands Gypsy for hungarians and romanians (who are at a perpetual shitposting war against each other) Hohols…

> You have n-words

That you have to blank that out and none of the others, should tell you everything you need to know about how equal or "endearing" this is.

Bongs, Leafs, Burgers... This is all white supremacy no matter how someone tries to reframe it.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by tudelo » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

the_lonely_road wrote: post #130

superflit wrote: post #97

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The 'inaccessible cult.' is about the structure of the board. First time you go there is a Chaotic mess that feels you went back to 90's. Then in shock you start to see the subs like /pol/ then you click and bam More chaos. Threads and threads you are more lost. Then you click catalog and set order Reply-by-count. Then it does start to make sense. You read people talking in two ways. On the text and on the image atta…

I made it to the site finally and but I got wrecked by step 2. Where is /pol? There is no politics section listed under Boards except "Politically Incorrect" which can't be what you mean as I was immediately hit with the full n-word and wish I had used an incognito browser... Do many HN users actually frequent this website or should I be reinstalling my OS right about now??

It's exactly the reason people complain about anonymous image boards. But that's what it is. Even the "SFW" boards are filled with stuff that you might find distasteful or downright wrong.

You are safe... don't worry. Unless you started downloading stuff from random users on 4chan. But if you did that i'm not sure we can help you!

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by cl0ne » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

batch12 wrote: post #106

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #79

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I'd even take an imageboard with reddit or HN moderation over the reddit-style of social media sites we have today. I'd even allow mandatory registration if the posts themselves are still anonymous to other users Anonymous posting prevents weird popularity cliches from taking over, and post linking via ID allows multiple conversations to flow much smoother than reddit's tree-structured comments. I'd also say that seq…

yeah that's what I was aiming for, but without the images and karma-- that's why the users were temporary. No need to whore for internet approval because it really doesn't matter.

https://ratwires.space

Anonymous textboard written in Crystal.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by kyawzazaw » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:09 PM UTC

m_a_g wrote: post #180

causality0 wrote: post #167

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The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.

Wow, I am surprised. Any ideas why so short?

Job hopping pays more? And also at Google, it is know to be promoted only with new launches.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by ggvvfdde » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:09 PM UTC

iitqkzbjak wrote: post #170

pcbro141 wrote: post #157

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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

Racism, gore, pedos, endless endless pornography... Yet when people mention that they visit 4chan, they talk about the 'very clever people posting there'. It's like mentioning that you regularly go paddling in your local river in order to collect tiny nuggets of gold, without mentioning that your local river is a flow of excrement, nuclear waste, and malignant psychopaths.

It's funny. I've been browsing 4chan all month and I havent seen any gore or pedos. Maybe a few leud pictures (less than 10). Maybe you should actually visit the site instead of just spreading misinformation.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by robot9000 » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 8:10 PM UTC

pcbro141 wrote: post #157

okareaman wrote: post #77

I've spent a fair amount of time on 4chan/pol/ for over a decade and my opinion is moot is a decent guy who sold it after he tried to reign in GamerGate and was loudly criticized on the site for it. I don't think Google would have hired him if it weren't for that redeeming quality. I'm fascinated by 4chan because it is a kind of underground United Nations. It's anonymous so people around the world can express themsel…

In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

Maybe it's not diverse because people like you who hold opposing viewpoints are not interested in changing their opinion despite the fact that you can post just as much as they can without being judged for who you are.

Is this something you have considered?