/lit/ - Literature

>>7173446
That's the origin of the "kek" meme. But the thing is, that meme was originally popular among WoW players back in like 2004-2006 when the entire internet used terms like "lol" unironically. Back at this time, when 4chan still had some taste in video games, WoW was widely shunned as a bad game so wowfags didn't have too much of a presence on this site.

Lel, top lel and all those other lol corruptions were created on 4chan and mostly posted on boards like /v/. It was only many years later, after [s4s] was created, that 4chan started using kek, a term that was popularized by that board. So yes, it does have origins from WoW, which is where the [s4s] people took it from, but it's origins on 4chan comes from that board, not from WoW, and most people who use it probably have no idea it came from WoW.

Don't listen to this Reddit-obsessed retard ( >>7169441 ), terms like lel were used on this site before most of us even knew Reddit existed. Reddit only really became huge on the internet in like 2010-2011, no one knew about it before that. And I remember shitters using lel in like 2008.

>>7089068
Anime has nothing to do with it.

I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to claim that in 2007, at least two thirds of this site would consider themselves atheists and leftists, and most of the last third apolitical. The cultural and political climate was completely different back then. The enemies of free speech and the establishment were the conservatives, Bush and friends. If you took the average 2007-era poster and brought him to this site today, people would call him a cringy fedora and tell him to fuck off back to Reddit.

The site changed over the years, starting with Obama and /new/, which became the breeding ground for political discussion on this site, replacing the old, tamer /r9k/, which back then wasn't a board for failed normalfags but a "general" board, where you went to talk about anything - /adv/, /lit/, /new/, /soc/, etc. didn't exist yet.

The biggest change was the rise of Reddit, 4chan trying to develop a culture contrarian to Reddit and the internet culture becoming more "politically correct". Ten years ago, if you complained about censorship and advocated free speech, you were considered a leftist. Now, a rightist. Reddit's atheism board made people aware of how cringeworthy they can be, and influenced 4chan in looking down on "internet atheism". Reddit being sexually progressive made 4chan call fags degenerate, despite the fact that 4chan literally created the term "trap" and that gay porn has been posted on this site from the start.

This is all related to /b/, the original board of 4chan, which started the internet activism on this site - which was, ironically, leftist. People today seem to know that old 4chan would spam "NIGGER" and think this must mean that 4chan was racist, but you have to remember that internet was much different back then and leftists were the "defenders of free speech". This was just teenagers being edgy. Real racists were considered the enemy - look up Hal Turner, a radio host, racist and Holocaust denier, who Anonymous raided.

There are two main subcultures on 4chan. Weebs and normalfags. Weebs came to 4chan because of anime and other weeb shit. Normalfags came because they heard of /b/, discovered the joys of what is today called "shitposting", being able to post whatever they want on a site with no usernames and seemingly no moderation, and eventually went on to discover and post on boards like /r9k/, /v/, /pol/, etc. /a/ isn't responsible for /pol/, /b/ & /v/ are. Those boards are generally out of touch with 4chan's weeb heritage and look down on anime as something for pedos and degenerates. Different boards, different cultures. They developed separately.

If you post a thread on /v/, linking an article by an SJW talking about how MGSV is sexist, you're going to get a 500+ posts thread. If you try to post a thread on /a/, linking an article by an SJW talking about how Cross Ange is sexist, you're going to get 30 posts telling you to fuck off and have your thread deleted.