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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A true 4channer compliment would have also included her race

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

Honestly, it seems to me he realizes he fucked it up, and the fact he blames 4chan suggests some level of self-awareness. I really hope he logged off that wretched site and apologized to the woman.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I'd say it's 50/50 the share of the blame. Half on 4chan being what it is, half on anon for being stupid enough to browse it frequently

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes belittling women is a trend on 4chan

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well then, they don't sound very nice over there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're not really all misogynist and racist right? It's just a joke? Right?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Honestly, once upon a time 4chan was pretty liberal and anarchist. They protested Scientology even. That is definitely no longer the case.

Once the fucking Nazi types figured out extremely bare minimum lax moderation meant they could use slurs with abandon and still be okay, the use of slurs quickly turned from a "we hate everyone" in-joke to a "no, we legitimately hate you inferior races" bent extremely quickly.

There are still boards that aren't total garbage, but the site overall is kind of a shadow of itself in its heyday and now users spend as much time posting Qanon garbage and legit Anti-Semitic hate threads on every board as it used to spend being funny. Honestly really sad.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

4chan is comprised of different boards. When you hear about 4chan, it is most likely from the /b Board which is the "anything goes" board with pretty much zero moderation. Other boards are better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Sadly it leeches out into other boards as well. /fit/ is borderline unusable nowadays

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Definitely not zero moderation. That wouldn't last long these days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

They remove actual CP and basically nothing else

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The legal minimum of moderation, or close enough to it to get by.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've been on 4chan and go through different boards like the outdoor ones and technology. Those seem pretty cool. I was trying to find a general one where anything goes, didn't know /b was the one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It started as a joke but the joke attracted people who actually think like that and took it at face value.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Sexism? Absolutely. Self-awareness? Not so much.

4chan is where incels were born.