[frookenhauer]

I've just learned a bit about 4CHAN today and it seems to be a festering cesspool of hate/love/fear/anger etc, but it seems to be one of the few places on the net where there is the complete freedom to, do whatever. I've never been on there, but I've seen some of its product and its funny in a bad way:

See LINKY

If we can keep this clean, this should make a good discussion...

So...4CHAN! Whats it all about really?

[Obdigore]

Whatever you want. Except CP.

With pictures. That is the point of 4chan. It isn't 'about' anything.

[frookenhauer]

Whats CP?

Edit: Don't worry I figured it...

Talkin of the chan: That Micheal J fox sketch put the hundred treadmills to shame. The kicker was the sauce one...

This post has been edited by Frookenhauer : 01 March 2009 - 01:14 AM

[Lisheo]

Internet anonymity, that's what its all about.
Simply put, its a hive for people to live out the things they can't do in real life.
Project Chanology, while it hasn't done whta it could have done, has been awesome, in a melodramatic sense.
But in the same way, /b/ and by extent 4chan are, well... interesting.
You go there, and you see melodrama, offensiveness, and it's all branded "human nature".
Personally, while I find some of it amusing, a small percent, the rest is... sad, really. Tragic; in the way that society, normal people, with the mask of anonymity, can act.

[RodeoRanch]

Anonymous idiocy.

[Slum]

I'm just going to sit back and wait for the pics of jailbait to start appearing...

[Lisheo]

Sorry, mod in house, 'fraid I'm gonna have to say thst if you have even the slightest doubt about anything, do not post it, and as this is the DB, I'd like people to only post pictures that are 100% relevant to the situation.

The internets, serious business.

[HoosierDaddy]

RodeoRanch, on Mar 1 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

Anonymous idiocy.

Well put. As far as I could tell it was a big group of sophomoric geeks trying to out immature one another. Some funny threads, but I don't think I could stand being there for more than 30 minutes at a time before my brain started melting itself.

[Illuyankas]

It started off as an anime discussion site based on the Japanese image board 2chan (the chan part is short for channel, and while I'm at it the post disapproval word sage is pronounced sah-gay, just as age is ah-gay) and frankly, you guys are experiencing it long after it lost what made it actually entertaining. I used to be a /b/tard a long time ago (as in, 5milget ago) and the more famous it got, the more people missed that it was all about intelligent people behaving like idiots, until the critical mass was reached and it turned into the morass of ass you know it as today. That mass was reached around 2006, so it has had a while for the suck to really set in.



This quote illustrates how it used to be:

"Sometimes 4chan confuses me. Generally, Anonymous is pretty retarded. He does nothing but spam "DESU" and look at furry hentai.

But then Anonymous starts a thread about quantum metastability disasters and Anonymous dives in cock first, ruthlessly debating subjects that only the most intelligent minds of our day could possibly wrap their foreskin around. Anonymous expertly parries every retort, wielding simultaneously the butterfly knife of Idiocy and the gleaming claymore of Wit. There is no subject too abstract for Anonymous to understand, no picture too divine for him to photoshop lotus seeds onto.

What the fuck guys? Is /b/ just where stupephiliac professors hang out after work? What is the average IQ of 4chan? I was under the impression that the internet was controlled by underage WoW enthusiasts. Dare you prove me wrong?"



4chan gave me a peerless resistance to the worst images on the internet, an endless tolerance for horrible videos, a sense of humour that has got me beaten repeatedly and laid almost as much (sometimes both at once) and a fervent hatred of an immense segment of the internet population, including everyone who drew, fapped to, and made me look at all those furry porn images. Scoundrels. But, in 4chan's favour, some of the other more topical boards can be very entertaining (when they aren't full of relationship bawwww threads, endless porn dumps on worksafe boards and trolling) and there's much, MUCH less CP posted.

And as much as I would prefer there to be no mention of 4chan on my favourite forum in the whole internet, it's now too famous for it to be ignored. New 4chan: Excrement. Old 4chan: Excrement but with far more actual humour. I'd say you were unlucky to miss out on the best comedic stuff, but really you were lucky to not go anywhere near the site in the first place.

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 01 March 2009 - 10:19 PM

[Mentalist]

I can honestly say i've never heard of 4chan untill I started hanging out in the Inn here.

never been tempted to actually wander over there. dunno why.

[Obdigore]

Warning, somewhat offensive, but it shows what 4chan is.

http://www.penny-arc...mic/2004/03/19/

[Mentalist]

hmm
i've dealt with a "no-limit" message boards before.
During Orange revolution there was a a news site/forum that emerged in uanet, which prided itself on having no limits, and no restrictions on language or content.
I used to hang around there for about a year and a half, but like in Illy's story of 4chan, a general dumbing down occured. trolling became more frequent, and more of the interesting, intellectual people left.
it wasn't completely anonymous--in the sense that both anonymous and registered users could post.
but it was similar to what 4chan seems to be, only whiel the original 4chan topic was anime, the original topic on that forum was politics.

[Macros]

4chan is primarily (imo) now a venue for people to post things they would never post under a username, because they fear other people lowering their opinion of them. Be it racial biggotry, dodgy humour or down right ill humour (although as apt has pointed out, alot of the trolling is blatantly obvious and set up for troll rebutals)
Whilst I'm not a /b/tard and missed the glory days of yore, from what I've gathered the majourity of its illness and bigotry is way OTT on purpose, so ridiculous it can't be taken seriously. unfortunately, some people are idiot biggots and think the racism is real. This is where it seems to have gone down the shitpan.
Most of the really sick stuff you laugh at because you know you shouldn't be laughing at it, but now it seems to have been legitamised in the eyes of some as acceptable humour. (if you get what I mean)
Its like T-shirt hell, I find their shirts hilarious because they're so ridiculous (there's one which is a picture of the great pyramids, with the slogan "slavery, it gets shit done") now obviously people will take offense to this, because they'll think its a serious statement. According to them the worst e-mails they get aren't the hatemail telling them they're going to hell, its the guys that think the "arrest black babies before they steal a car" etc are serious t-shirts, and love them for it.
lets see, where was I? oh yes, /b/, its main problem, I think, isn't the perversion and sick humour, its the people that take the bullshit seriously and actually agree with it, when its all majourity OTT for the sake of ridiculousness and trollery

[Dr Trouble]

There were NO glory days of 4chan. for the 5 years I've been going to the site, it's been the arse hole of the internet. Sure it was a lot funnier years ago, but that's only because it was new. I remember when if you told someone you visited, it was something to be ashamed of. at least in the abandonware scene.

Now I only ever go the /v/. It's troll filled, but I laugh the loudest when people RAGE over video games.

This post has been edited by Trouble: 02 March 2009 - 12:40 PM

[Dr Trouble]

Trouble, on Mar 2 2009, 09:39 PM, said:

I remember when if you told someone you visited, it was something to be ashamed of.

By the by, I think it should still be this way. I like having a laugh, but everybody continually referencing 4chan and talking about it grows real old real bloody fast.

[Obdigore]

Trouble, on Mar 2 2009, 06:54 AM, said:

Trouble, on Mar 2 2009, 09:39 PM, said:

I remember when if you told someone you visited, it was something to be ashamed of.

By the by, I think it should still be this way. I like having a laugh, but everybody continually referencing 4chan and talking about it grows real old real bloody fast.

I saw someone with a "Boxxy = Queen" bumpersticker the other day.

He was like 40 years old, huge, with a neckbeard and bald.

I figured it was appropriate.

[frookenhauer]

There are also benefits to it being the a-hole of the Interweb...There's less idiots wandering around elsewhere . I heard about 4chan from Apt and bubba and people from here, I had a wander over there briefly before I 'knew' what it was about...Mostly unimpressed, but I was on there too briefly. I might get a marigold bodysuit in yellow and wade in there one day.

[Sinisdar Toste]

i usually just lurk 4chan. reading threads that catch my interest and marvelling at the amount trolling that goes on. i sometimes wonder if anybody on /b/ is actually stating their opinion or what they believe or if every post is just bullshit for the sake of lulz. though i must admit the lulz generated do sometimes cause me to actually laugh.

occasionally threads of the standard that illy describes do pop up, but they are few and far between as the 14 year olds and the 14 years olds in full grown bodies have basically taken over. the number of times that the same lame old copypasta is posted are honestly mind-boggling.

This post has been edited by Sinisdar Toste: 03 March 2009 - 03:05 AM

[Dr Trouble]

5 minutes after posting my message last night, I went onto /v/ and a faggot child porned a thread I was browsing.

That says all you need to know about 4cahn. I'm done with it.

[Illuyankas]

If it helps, you would have had to download the pic for it to be possible to prosecute you - merely seeing the pictures in your browser is perfectly legal (if highly unpleasant) otherwise no-one would be able to report sites for CP without being arrested themselves.

Yeah, having to find that out was a perfectly stress-free time for me the first time that happened, some years ago. Still, it's not like it's the russian /b/ or anything.