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How does it take eight people to write this paper?
Well, somehow that tax payer money has to be put to use. I love the rare Pepe collection at the end of this paper.
Can someone explain to me why they keep focussing on 4chan and not 'chans' in general? AFAIK 8chan's /pol/ has had a bigger impact this time around because they censor less. (Not censoring doxx information and such)
All the chans have pretty different culture. For example, 8chan seems to have a higher rate of reddit cross-posting. Lainchan, as another example, is meant to be closer to older 4chan culture and has very few users who are "new" to chans.
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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…
Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?
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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…
Besides memes and internet jokes, what are examples of high quality content created (or originating) from the "chan" culture?
A bunch of indie games started their life there too.
And then there are derivative and mashup works like fanart, translations.
I only visit a few boards, so i'm probably missing a lot.
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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...
Was it not the Mayans who predicted some kind of cataclysm? But yeah, I agree it's ridiculous how the Clinton campaign took the bait and now apparently a cartoon frog is a "hate symbol".
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…
Every board in 4chan has it's amount of shitposting. One thing you start developing, as a user, is an semiconscious filter and ways to process the information. A *chan site has many layers a user must go through to finally fing a decent discussion (or the epic lulz). You have an outdated confusing UI, the sheer amount of useless content, the lingo and the highly offensive content. After you learn to process and filte…
Hate words by country is the most interesting part for me. I really want to see a deeper study done on that.
For example the "-fag" suffix is applied to everything and practically synonymous with "-person". A namefag is someone who uses a username instead of remaining anonymous. A drawfag is someone who creates original art, it has a positive connotation.
Even when discussing unfair monetary things the term kikes (jews) might be thrown around, just due to the historic association of jews with banking. Even users who present left-leaning positions (e.g. on renewable energy, healthcare or defense spending) use those terms because the associated concepts are ingrained in the conversation structure.
I don't know about /pol/, but other boards use "my nigger" or humorous variations thereof as an expression of endorsement
Use of the words might correlate with the sentiment of the user, but the correlation may be weaker than expected.
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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.
It's almost as bad as HackerNews comments