A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]
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#2Website is unusable on iOS (can't scroll in the frame). Direct link to a PDF of the article: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Stringhini/papers/4chan-ICW...
Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]
#3Previously on HN (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705851
Original version of the paper with "rare pepes": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03452.pdf
Re: A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web [pdf]
#4I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan.
I spent a lot of time between 2006-2014 on various boards like /a/, /mu/, /g/, and /int/ until suddenly everyone was an "SJW cuck" and everything was politicized/full of angry wannabe-right wingers. Made me quit the site (well, that and other things).
Sometimes you just want to meme about the latest bad anime episode, not have a poorly researched debate about race and politics.
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#5I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan. I spent a lot of time between 2006-2014 on various boards like /a/, /mu/, /g/, and /int/ until suddenly everyone was an "SJW cuck" and everything was politicized/full of angry wannabe-right wingers. Made me quit the site (well, that and other things). Sometimes you just…
Nevertheless, /pol/ and r/the_donald were one of main factors why Donald Trump got elected. This crowdsurfing phenomenon holds tremendous amount of power.
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#6I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan. I spent a lot of time between 2006-2014 on various boards like /a/, /mu/, /g/, and /int/ until suddenly everyone was an "SJW cuck" and everything was politicized/full of angry wannabe-right wingers. Made me quit the site (well, that and other things). Sometimes you just…
Nevertheless, /pol/ and r/the_donald were one of main factors why Donald Trump got elected. This crowdsurfing phenomenon holds tremendous amount of power.
What's crazy is that in the Bush/early Obama years 4chan was fairly liberal in terms of politics.
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#7I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan. I spent a lot of time between 2006-2014 on various boards like /a/, /mu/, /g/, and /int/ until suddenly everyone was an "SJW cuck" and everything was politicized/full of angry wannabe-right wingers. Made me quit the site (well, that and other things). Sometimes you just…
Racist language and some forms of culture war, e.g. against censorship of extreme porn, has always been present.
> Sometimes you just want to meme about the latest bad anime episode
That's what happens 99% of the time. If you get baited by the 1% of the time that pol leaks then maybe you need a thicker skin. And people DO respond with "go back to /pol/" half the time anyway. At the same time /a/ has threads about traps (crossdressing), yuri and other things that would ostensibly be considered degeneracy by /pol/.
While some things may have changed it's not that they are omnipresent.
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#8I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan. I spent a lot of time between 2006-2014 on various boards like /a/, /mu/, /g/, and /int/ until suddenly everyone was an "SJW cuck" and everything was politicized/full of angry wannabe-right wingers. Made me quit the site (well, that and other things). Sometimes you just…
>I'm definitely falling into the "X.com used to be so much better back then!!" trope but I really hate how much /pol/ culture spread throughout 4chan.
I think most of us who grew up on 4chan since '04 feel the same. The cancer of /pol/ and the rise of the 'alt-right' completely took over the culture of the site. It's sad, but I can't bring myself to visit even the SFW boards anymore.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nevertheless, /pol/ and r/the_donald were one of main factors why Donald Trump got elected. This crowdsurfing phenomenon holds tremendous amount of power.
What's crazy is that in the Bush/early Obama years 4chan was fairly liberal in terms of politics.
I think one important question to ask here is: what caused the huge shift? Because it's something I noticed as well.
Something happened that has pushed much of the general internet and large swathes of the "geekier" parts of the net to the right, and it doesn't seem to be letting up. The media ran with the "Russian shills" thing for a while, but it seems to be running out of steam and people I've known for years who used to lean firmly left are now either fairly far right, or left leaning but absolutely hate the left establishment and support the right purely out of spite.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's crazy is that in the Bush/early Obama years 4chan was fairly liberal in terms of politics.
I think one important question to ask here is: what caused the huge shift? Because it's something I noticed as well. Something happened that has pushed much of the general internet and large swathes of the "geekier" parts of the net to the right, and it doesn't seem to be letting up. The media ran with the "Russian shills" thing for a while, but it seems to be running out of steam and people I've known for years who…
>I think one important question to ask here is: what caused the huge shift? Because it's something I noticed as well.
It was 8 years of a Democratic, fairly liberal president. People like to rebel against whatever is in fashion. The right wing is now "edgy" because it rails against the prevailing political power
The generation of kids who are now posting on 4chan grew up in a world defined by the Fox News anti-Obama 'liberalism is a disease!' rhetoric which has taken over our media in the past decade. Be prepared for a radical push back from Trumpism by the subsequent generations that grow up under the current political climate. I imagine the pendulum will swing back with a vengeance after this one.