How culturally significant is 4chan? How culturally significant is internet culture in general?

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Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:44:39 2015 No.7168016 [Reply] [Original]

How culturally significant is 4chan? How culturally significant is internet culture in general?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:45:19 2015 No.7168020 4chan creates the memes

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:46:49 2015 No.7168024 >>7168020 He who creates the memes rules the world

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:46:52 2015 No.7168025 File: 20 KB, 246x158, 1441639283648.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7168020 yes but how do these memes affect society at large?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:47:18 2015 No.7168026 >>7168016 >How culturally significant is internet culture in general? the most, and getting moster >How culturally significant is 4chan? fairly

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:49:04 2015 No.7168039 Most modern 4chan memes are just stolen from Twitter, this place doesn't create culture anymore. I think internet culture in general is becoming more significant though.

Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:52:25 2015 No.7168054

Reddit is the popular website with teens and twentysomethings in terms of community, news, and entertainment.

And considering a good deal of their memes originate from here, 4chan could be seen as the underground, with some content bubbling up to mass memery.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:57:18 2015 No.7168081 >>7168039 4chan never created culture. All of its memes were stolen from Something Awful

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 20:59:51 2015 No.7168096 >>7168081 You mean reddit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:00:55 2015 No.7168100 >>7168054 I think you're right. I saw a webm of a pug peeing like a year ago on 4chan and saw it again today on Facebook.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:02:47 2015 No.7168111 >>7168054 >And considering a good deal of their memes originate from here not anymore tbh. where do you think tbh came from fam? we tumblr now tbqf

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:37:07 2015 No.7168231 >>7168111 tbh has been used for like 15 years by now at least. it might even be older tahn the internet. "fam" is just something black people say

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:38:48 2015 No.7168234 just taking an extremely common word from some place and using it as a joke does not qualify as creating a meme

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:42:15 2015 No.7168241 >>7168234 Got Milk?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:52:01 2015 No.7168283 File: 16 KB, 849x306, theydidthegraph.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7168231 but tbh has taken on excessive usage lately.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 21:58:04 2015 No.7168303 4chan is important to me, at least

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:31:46 2015 No.7168395 >>7168081 No, not really. There was a mass exodus of somethingawful members like 10 years ago. They brought their culture along with them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:37:46 2015 No.7168423 >>7168283 the sale of 4chan was reported by a number of mainstream media outlets, that has probably something to do with it

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 22:51:43 2015 No.7168447 4chan is literally cancer

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 23:00:37 2015 No.7168476 Well, all the memes are like turds that come out of mr 4chan's asshole and keep decanting into the huge sewage that social networks are into the form of out-of-context litte pieces of shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 03:30:06 2015 No.7169233 >>7168395 4chan still steals memes from SA tho. Why do you think we're always talking about fedoras and cucking?

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 04:10:23 2015 No.7169294

>>7169233
maybe plebs talk about tipping fedoras and cucking. Anything that actually does something and isn't just regurgitating memes has original content though.

Tons of the /vg/ generals, tons of /tg/ threads, threads about airing shows on /a/, the 4cc, and plenty of other things have original memes often that never really breach outside the site.

Try getting involved in anything at all and you will find OC.

The secret between fags from reddit and the oldfags from SA is that one is generally willing to invest in their community and create content while the other is literally just a cancerous consumer.

I kind of fucking hate SA though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 04:20:33 2015 No.7169316 >>7169233 Fedora meme comes from Reddit.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 04:34:22 2015 No.7169341

>>7169294
There are a few 4chan original memes I enjoy, but most of them are total shit.

>>7169316
SA has been making fun of nerds who wear fedoras (and other unfashionable clothing nerds think makes them look classy) for over ten years now, but only in the past few years has 4chan started doing it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 04:37:08 2015 No.7169345 >>7168111 tbh became popular on 4chan because of /brit/

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 05:18:03 2015 No.7169441

>>7168111
its a parody... a lot like how "lel" was used to make fun of reddit and then it became part of 4chan culture as "kek" and "top kek". "lel" and its variants all have ironic undertones here that don't exist elsewhere, unless it's been reexported to reddit by now

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 05:28:23 2015 No.7169459 >>7169441 People who say kek have always beenf uckin retards. Just say lol like a normal human being

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 06:01:49 2015 No.7169536 Good to remember that 4chan's Alexa rank is 794. Tumblr's is 43. Reddit's is 32.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 06:04:10 2015 No.7169540 >>7169459 i agree, but it's still popular on some boards like /tv/ and on /pol/ it's "top cuck" nowadays

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 06:08:49 2015 No.7169550 It was almost singlehandedly responsible for the most successful computer game of all time. Minecraft.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 06:12:19 2015 No.7169557 >trying to get the paternity of memes Seriously?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:40:42 2015 No.7169705 how culturally significant is this thread?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:42:02 2015 No.7169709 >>7169536 but 4chan lends itself more to content creation than either of those

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:45:49 2015 No.7169718 4chan has the cultural significance of the graffiti on a bathroom stall wall.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:47:22 2015 No.7169719 >>7169718 Yeah, Reddit and Tumblr are consumer base not the creator of contents. 4chan has always praised OC to a really high degree. Reddit does not.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:48:37 2015 No.7169721

>>7168025
They don't.

The internet is a very self-contained space, it never really bleeds out. For something that everyone uses, it's incredibly marginalised in real life.

I hope it stays that way.

>>7168054
This. I'll see gifs and reaction pictures years after on my facebook feed. The river of shit always seems to be sourced through us.

I do think studies will be done on sites like this in the future, but more in the way a cult might be examined.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:52:16 2015 No.7169726 >>7168111 just cause we steal memes don't mean we don't make em fam

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 07:54:05 2015 No.7169728 >>7169536 trickledown tbh >>7169550 huh

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 08:49:20 2015 No.7169791 File: 24 KB, 600x600, 3d0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7168016 it is the bane of my life

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 09:07:59 2015 No.7169820

4chan's become too isolated to immediately affect popular culture anymore. Back when /b/ was the most influential board on 4chan its memes were exported far and wide precisely because they were very accessible. Now that /b/s gone to the dogs most of 4chans homegrown memes are too specific to their context to be appreciated by your cousin on Facebook. She probably only knows Nabokov by name, but she has absolutely no idea why we call him Corn Father and what the hell 'mediocre prose' means.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 09:08:48 2015 No.7169825 >>7169728 /v/ pretty much funded all of the early development of minecraft, notch later dumped the /v/ community for reddit .

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 09:13:48 2015 No.7169836 >>7169459 top juj

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 09:37:18 2015 No.7169884 >>7169836 top kak

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 09:40:18 2015 No.7169888 check em

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 09:49:59 2015 No.7169902

>>7168016

The term "culturally significant" makes me cringe a little because culture itself is no longer significant. Culture was only ever significant because it influenced behavior of the masses, and now that we're all following the script written by our hyper-intelligent overlords, all that's left for culture to do is serve as amusement. Hardly seems significant at all.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 10:49:20 2015 No.7170023 >>7169935 >>7169943 Listen faggot, he's not called trips guy...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:22:54 2015 No.7170120 >>7169820 >tfw 4chan has become a provincial backwater like Rome in the middle ages and like Rome, power has devolved away from one larger board to several smaller boards that will never match the meme-making days of yore ;_;

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:30:01 2015 No.7170142

There are a few academic studies on the influence of anonymous chan culture. I'd say it's still as influential as it was 10 years ago. People just tend to concentrate on negative phenomons like the revived antisemitism. The A. Wyatt Mann comics would be nowhere near as publicised and popularly known without their deseminiation on the chan

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:25:01 2015 No.7170293

the only reason 4chan has any relevance is its rejection of typical relevance and exclusionary practices. memes are literally an inside-joke-speak that you must lurk for a while to understand or get disgusted by and leave, thus the prevention of newfag posters. other sites have inclusionary practices that make them way more boring to comment in. Even now and in spite of the ads, in spite of moot leaving and the large userbase, 4chan still exists in a 'for the users, by the users' space on the internet and there's something to be said for that. However i think 90% of the non userbase who even know of this site only know that it's a weird place with scary porn and its only cultural relevance is frog memes

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:45:16 2015 No.7170355

>>7170120
Well our shitty memes still travel far wide within the parts of the internet with similar interest (look at /r/badphilosophy).
Considering the userbase isn't imploding and the quality of the site overall hasn't markedly decreased I'd say 4chans loss of exposure isn't that disastrous

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:47:07 2015 No.7170360

>>7170142
>The A. Wyatt Mann comics
Their representation of Jew, that famous happy merchant one, is an absolute masterpiece. Even if it doesn't represent your regular, day to day Jew, it well does to represent what /pol/ sees as a Jew and I admit, there is something powerful, something singular about that image that makes it stand out above the rest of the Jewish caricatures.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:48:18 2015 No.7170363 >>7169884 highest huehe

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:54:43 2015 No.7170383 4chan will be banned in Germany soon enough

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:57:30 2015 No.7170391

>>7170360

The A Wyatt Mann comics are legitimately great works of art whether you take them at face value or as satire (Nick Bougas is only sorta kinda white supremacist and rest of his work is more le edgy coutnercultural zine shit) because they transcend irony and speak right to the heart of the problem of race in this country where the problem is unspeakable taboo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:59:40 2015 No.7170399 >>7170383 Why?

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:03:27 2015 No.7170415

>>7170399
Merkel is going full Nazi on anti-refugee sentiment
she asked Mark Zuckerberg to delete anti-refugee posts on Facebook
though there is no official consensus, 4chan is one of the biggest right wing websites at the moment and can disseminate ideology much easier than say Stormfront

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:10:20 2015 No.7170448 >>7170415 Funny to see how both pro and anti-refugee groups in the end are the same kind of abstract thinking and ideological vanity, in that both have to manipulate and deny reality so that it fits their purposes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:11:53 2015 No.7170453 >>7170448 Meanwhile the Goths continue to cross the Danube.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:17:05 2015 No.7170464

>>7170142
>>7170415
I would say 4chan is very reactionary. I remember when I first arrived here in the the summers of 2007-2008, the overwhelming feeling was very liberal, this also happened to be at the end of the Bush years, though it's likely my memory is highly selective. Perhaps political attitudes on 4chan are just indicative of what the general young white populace thinks at any time, not to say there are no black people on 4chan, I just suspect that like myself lots of people on 4chan are white.

Like others mentioned in the thread, I have seen memes come out on my facebook feed months after they become popular on 4chan (Pepe comes to mind as a particularly good example), and most recently cuckservative has gained some traction. The bleed between cyberspace and the physical world we live in is becoming a bit more serious, to the point where I think my children will be living in some weird world where there is no separation between cyberspace and my living room.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:17:55 2015 No.7170466 >>7170391 It's great, because he prove anarchists and fachos feed at the same trough. Rothbard was right about having captured a term from the left, but he forgot that it was a term the left had gave him.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:22:25 2015 No.7170474

>>7170464
>when I first arrived here in the the summers of 2007-2008, the overwhelming feeling was very liberal, this also happened to be at the end of the Bush years
This is how I remember it too. I was a Bush-hating edgelord and it wasn't considered unusual at the time. Though the current wave of extreme-right ideas flowing in seems to have been a more recent phenomenon(starting around 2012?) - I blame /pol/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:23:29 2015 No.7170479 >>7170474 More recent than the Obama election, I mean.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:24:51 2015 No.7170483 >>7170464 >>7170474 political opinions change with the times the world is a very different place to the Bush years boiling it down to a contrarian/reactionary thing is lazy and disingenuous

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:25:31 2015 No.7170487

>>7170415
>4chan is one of the biggest right wing websites at the moment and can disseminate ideology
this posits cultural significance but leaves it wondering why it lacks cultural relevance. a sad state of affairs, blame the porn boards and the fact 1/100 /pol/ users follow the rules stickied on their board

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:26:24 2015 No.7170489 >>7169888 Noice

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:26:40 2015 No.7170492 >>7170464 Its important to note that the average age of users has probably gone up 7-8 years since 2007-8. There are a lot less teens and a lot more twentysomething year olds here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:27:57 2015 No.7170498 >>7170483 also 4chan has never had a strong anti-racist sentiment /n/ and /new/ were arguably worse than /pol/

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:30:34 2015 No.7170506

>>7170464

>Perhaps political attitudes on 4chan are just indicative of what the general young white populace thinks at any time, not to say there are no black people on 4chan, I just suspect that like myself lots of people on 4chan are white.

4chan is just id-based and necessarily reactionary, not merely in a political sense but in that it serves as a place for people to reject their broader identity and social context and say what they think on the most basic level. Majority (or maybe plurality?) of users are Americans and majority are male, so the content of the website reflects in large part their privately held opinions. When the republicans were in power they didn't like the republicans. Now the democrats are in power and they don't like the democrats. If you want to see more leftist posts on 4chan, vote Trump. but don't expect to see an end to racist posts on 4chan anyway, "nigger stole my bike" is one of the oldest catchphrases i remember from here

>>7170474

/pol/ was a symptom not a cause, just like /new/ before it. /new/ only got added in 2010 because there was too much right-wing stuff getting posted on /b/. the cause was the election of Obama and the corresponding perceived shift to the left of political discourse in America.

>>7170492

I really really doubt this, not that there's any way to test it. I'm sure there's still hard core of users who have been on the side for upwards of five years and on a tiny niche board like /lit/ these probably make up the majority of regular posters but there are a LOT of kids on this site who just got pointed here from reddit or yt comments or wherever the fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:30:57 2015 No.7170507 >>7170492 I don't know, /b/ is exactly as juvenile as it was 5 years ago. Maybe your perception of the site has changed because you migrated to the 'older' boards.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:31:01 2015 No.7170509 >>7170492 I actually never thought about that, because I have been on 4chan for years, and I looked at it as something that people probably grow out of. You may be right that it will be something where a minority of us will grow out of.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:31:09 2015 No.7170512

>>7170474
>Though the current wave of extreme-right ideas flowing in seems to have been a more recent phenomenon(starting around 2012?) - I blame /pol/.
blame liberalism for failing itself so hard we had no choice but to turn against it and laugh in its face. Obama, sjws, feminism, general leftist retardation, etc

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:32:11 2015 No.7170515 >>7170448 >in that both have to manipulate and deny reality so that it fits their purposes. hence the term "progressive"

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:36:35 2015 No.7170524

>>7170509
>something that people probably grow out of
I think people eventually get tired of it, but 4chan has enough boards that cater to an older audience. A couple of months ago there was a cool thread on /diy/ by a 78 year old guy who had been on 4chan for a couple of years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:36:38 2015 No.7170525 >>7168016 Chan transcends the arrogance of authorship. I am Anon; I am the inferno of the collective mind; I am the melting of the snowflake; I am the end of dignity; I am the futility of hope; I am culture; I am.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 13:37:11 2015 No.7170526

>>7170506
I feel /b/ has remained young while all the other boards have definitely gotten older
the neckbeard stereotype is also pretty outdated (except on the anime boards), if you look at almost any board face threads (they all have them), you will see plenty of normal and even handsome young men that wear nice clothes
though they are still dejected and bitter

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:13:20 2015 No.7170635 >>7170526 >the geek stereotype is also pretty outdated (except for the geeks I don't like) I'm getting mixed messages here, which one is it outdated or not?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:24:19 2015 No.7170680 >>7168026 internet culure is not relevant

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 14:52:45 2015 No.7170789

>>7170635
Regardless of the bias that anon has against weaboo culture, I've seen sitewide polls that place /a/ as having a higher average weight than most other boards. Other weeb boards like /jp/ do not share this trait.

What I found interested from that survey is that it reinforced my self-bias regarding average height on 4chan (below average for every board).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:02:45 2015 No.7170820 >>7170635 it is outdated anime is becoming less and less part of the 4chan identity

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 15:33:05 2015 No.7170926

>>7170464
>not to say there are no black people on 4chan

Nice american-centrism anon. Remember that us euros are coming in droves. That should explain the recent reactionary bent. Or are you one of those deluded fools who think Europe is some happy-happy place.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:39:52 2015 No.7171139 >>7170820 have you been living under a rock?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:42:32 2015 No.7171152 >>7171139 >he thinks his chinese cartoons are still relevant

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:51:26 2015 No.7171196 >>7169557 >you can have him on weekends but i want the week >come now pepe >no dad stays here

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:00:12 2015 No.7171251 >>7170363 kljasdf

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:16:39 2015 No.7171300
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>>7169902
>hyper-intelligent overlords
like who? we're all still animals. they eat poop sleep and reproduce just like us. i bet some of these hyper-intelligent overlords you speak of even have some gnarly rare pepe collections.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:17:25 2015 No.7171305 >>7171152 >chinese cartoons Isn't Anime more a Japanese thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:19:47 2015 No.7171314 >>7171305 >chinese cartoon more of a mongoiloid thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:30:52 2015 No.7172173 File: 69 KB, 464x654, DFW.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7170525 I agree with you that 4chan is some sort of collective consciousness, but damn, tone down the edge please.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:32:02 2015 No.7172176 >>7170820 Anime is becoming less of the 4chan identity, but this is nothing new. What is new is how anime is becoming indicative of internet culture as a whole.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 21:40:56 2015 No.7172200 >>7171305 Hello newfriend.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 22:04:49 2015 No.7172276 >>7171305 How can you navigate to one of the big boy boards without being aware of such a prevalent joke?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 23:49:31 2015 No.7172541 >>7171139 have you? /a/ isn't even in the top 3 boards anymore

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 00:36:03 2015 No.7172684 It's 99% degenerate culture.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 01:03:11 2015 No.7172782 pretty big, i mean we're still producing the biggest memes that get seen on reddit except for black twitter culture (which is probably bigger than reddit and 4chan memes)

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 01:04:53 2015 No.7172789 >>7170415 we're LITERALLY (literally) only right-wing because the rest of the world is left-wing. back in the 00s we were left-wing because everyone else was right-wing we are just contrarians

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 02:14:54 2015 No.7172936 >>7172541 Had it's spot taken by a board that hosts hentai game and vn generals

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 02:35:20 2015 No.7172972 >>7172789 read >>7170483 >>7170498

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 02:38:32 2015 No.7172980

>>7169721
*Almost never

Every once and a while things like the Scientology crusade or Gamergate gain the attention of the larger world and impact the international discussion of these issues. In the case of scientology it was a good thing, in Gamergate it was incontestably a bad thing, ultimately.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 05:06:47 2015 No.7173295 File: 104 KB, 427x640, 1431446699112.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /tv/ is the best board for memes. You can see their full development. When picrelated is mixed with full metal jacket I literally lol every time

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:06:35 2015 No.7173428 >>7173295 /tv/ for the guilty pleasure 'cancer' memes, and /lit/ for the (pseudo)intelligent memes. You don't need anything more in your meme life.

Fun Things Are Fun !!rzVtvILehVu Tue Sep 29 06:17:09 2015 No.7173437
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>>7168016
4chan peaked between 2004-2008 when it came to internet relevance. Back then, everyone knew about 4chan, and everyone went to 4chan. Schoolkids around the world used 4chan as their first major community/comedy site. It was literally the front page of the internet.

Now, in 2015? 4chan is about as culturally relevant as SA is. It's glory days have long since passed. Kids start with Reddit and Tumblr now, not with /b/ and /v/.

Which is honestly a good thing. I hope this trend continues and 4chan goes back to being a weeb site.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:25:08 2015 No.7173446 >>7169441 I always thought kek came about because that's what "lol" translates to in wow orcish language fuck

Fun Things Are Fun !!rzVtvILehVu Tue Sep 29 06:38:24 2015 No.7173473
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>>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.

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:42:10 2015 No.7173478
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>>7173437
4chan was never and has never been the front page of the internet you mong. Also pic related if you think 4chan's relevance peaked between 2004 and 2008.

Fun Things Are Fun !!rzVtvILehVu Tue Sep 29 06:47:15 2015 No.7173483

>>7173478
>4chan was never and has never been the front page of the internet you mong.
No, you just weren't around back then because you're too young to remember it.
I started going to high school in 2004.
I came to 4chan in 2005 because half the shitters in my class and half the people on my WoW server talked about this hacker on steroids site called /b/. Everyone on the internet knew about 4chan back then, it was "the" site to be on. All the kids talked about it and all the kids wanted to go there, it was the coolest site on the internet.

And I'm from a freaking post-communist European country, so it was that popular over here, I can only imagine how it was in Western Europe or native English speaking countries.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:48:39 2015 No.7173486 >>7170142 Didn't a fucking actual jew from /pol/ get outsted for editing all the anti-semite comics of Ben "Cyclone-B" Garrison?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:52:24 2015 No.7173492 >>7170509 I think people only drop this shit when they get kids and a family. I mean, since browsing, my life has changed hugely and become much busier, but I always make time for an hour or so at least.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:53:41 2015 No.7173493 >>7170526 >plenty of normal and even handsome young men that wear nice clothes though they are still dejected and bitter Seems to me like most of /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 06:59:34 2015 No.7173501 >>7173483 >post-communist European country that's fucking why, you're all edge lords. I'm from the UK and trust me back in 06/07 everyone in my class in secondary school (high-school) stuck to Youtube, or Myspace or something along those lines.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:02:35 2015 No.7173510 >>7169791 Mirrored CIA looks like Martin Luther.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:07:40 2015 No.7173520 File: 1.05 MB, 1556x1180, Screen Shot 2015-09-29 at 12.03.13.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is on the frontpage of imgur atm

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:09:17 2015 No.7173522 >>7173520 http://imgur.com/gallery/U4OHY these comments are amazing

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:14:17 2015 No.7173530 >>7173520 Do they not realize that "tryhard" doesn't mean the books are bad?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:16:51 2015 No.7173533 >>7173530 actually none of them do, its pretty amazing

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:21:31 2015 No.7173542 >>7173520 >http://imgur.com/gallery/U4OHY >EXCUSE ME!!! WHERE THE FUCK IS JOHN DIES AT THE END, THE CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON FROM CRACKED.COM WRITER DAVID WONG?!?! ADD THAT RIGHT NOW!

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:33:27 2015 No.7173556

>>7173437
>>7173483
>>7173473
>>7172789

Both of you are projecting your personal experience unto the general population.

You even literally claim to know what "all the kids" did or wanted. Trust me, your classroom is not a good representative of the rest of the world.

And the other guy. In 2008 there was always at least one thread on the front page hating on niggers. How you could argue that is left wing, is beyond me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:43:28 2015 No.7173565 File: 139 KB, 917x871, sad_pepe__feels_bad_man__vector_by_hirussai-d8uq43y.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7173520 if /lit/ is internet relevant why we are always alone? I get the feeling that the daily posters are always the same

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:47:02 2015 No.7173570 >>7173520 >even lotr can be tough what I read it when I was 14 in english and it's not my native language I'd kill myself if I were that pleb

Fun Things Are Fun !!rzVtvILehVu Tue Sep 29 07:49:49 2015 No.7173576
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>>7173556
>And the other guy. In 2008 there was always at least one thread on the front page hating on niggers. How you could argue that is left wing, is beyond me.
Perceptions of what is left wing and what is right wing change with time.
During the Bush era, if someone was an obnoxious internet atheist (New Atheist, anti-theist, however the fuck you want to call it), a proponent of free speech, and a person who criticized the government, he would be considered a leftist loony. Today, that exact same person, with those exact same opinions (atheism too due to libertarianism), would be treated as a rightist loony.

SJWs on the internet practically did not exist outside of a couple of lolcows like BitingBeaver. It was a completely different political climate. People would call themselves leftist and make nigger jokes, and then justify it by saying they're not racist since there's a difference between niggers ("thugs") and black people.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:50:33 2015 No.7173577 File: 58 KB, 675x265, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7173520 Oh god...

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 07:51:38 2015 No.7173580

>>7169721
>I hope it stays that way.

it wont

first you get a combo of internet satellites and stuff like google glass where you're connected everywhere

eventually everything will feature internet connection in some form. your car, the walls of your house, everythin

>>	Fun Things Are Fun !!rzVtvILehVu Tue Sep 29 07:59:46 2015 No.7173588 File: 53 KB, 176x217, 1442265569605.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7173520 >>7173577 >The /lit/ Guide to the Literature: Chart Edition >by PaganWolf73 · 16 hours ago

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:22:41 2015 No.7173885

>>7173580
Yeh this, in the not too distant future the majority of items we use in day to day life will be connected to the internet. The amount of data corporations/governments/etc will be able to collect from people is a scary thought. Soon enough they'll know how often and in what volume you piss for example

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:26:29 2015 No.7173897 >>7173520 look on the bright side, atleast someone visited the wiki

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:28:44 2015 No.7173900

4chan typically creates fascist non culture, in order for there to be a civilised society we need a rigid form of society where everyone chips in and does their bit.
Basically nazi germany is the right way to go without the holocaust, pretty much so much information comes into this site we all share it together and understand
more about the world.

>>	Dog !!FLaY5RPKo0+ Tue Sep 29 10:30:59 2015 No.7173912 >>7173520 I've never read any of those books. I don't read though.

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:31:08 2015 No.7173913

>>7173565
Everyone is scared about all the books we claim to read and the slight amount of thought that goes into discussion.

We're an elitist board with a niche interest as well. Most people here also have busy social lives and go to university, so you don't see many NEETS either. Not to mention that a lot of us are/should be reading.

I think /lit/ has the perfect post rate at the moment, enough to question a few anons and then see some thoughtout replies in an hour or so.

I've always wondered if someone could tell who I was by my syntax, I use commas and anon a lot.

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:32:15 2015 No.7173915

>>7173885
kind of true, but you're protected by the sheer amount of people connected and data collected. simply, no one will the time to go through all that shit. there will probably be some advanced bots going thru the data searching for terrorist red lights and whatnot but even if the data is collected, like 99.999% of it will never be seen or used by anyone

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 10:33:16 2015 No.7173917 >>7173913 >Most people here also have busy social lives rofl

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:32:02 2015 No.7174451

>>7173915
>ignoring the fact that google already tailors ads to practically everyone based on their individual search patterns
it'll get much worse once more things are connected to the internet, data on consumers/potential consumers is incredibly valuable to companies

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:48:58 2015 No.7174512

>>7173580
that doesn't mean internet culture is how people will deal with each other face to face.

I think a lot of the issues kids face today is realizing this fact. they probably get depressed when their identities or environment don't match the excitability of online.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:56:50 2015 No.7174550 File: 571 KB, 1139x877, Le NT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7173428 >You don't need anything more in your meme life. >not having spiritual memes

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 13:59:57 2015 No.7174564 >>7174512 >they probably get depressed when their identities or environment don't match the excitability of online from anecdotal observations of mine, most don't notice it

Anonymous Tue Sep 29 14:24:26 2015 No.7174657

>>7173428
tru/jp/ memes are pretty great as well. Unfortunately they're hard to come by nowadays as the community is split between 4 major off-chans and various IRC cliques. It's something one had to experience first hand before moderation started destroying the board.

>>7174564
I don't find the majority of my classmates and peers interesting as I grew up with 4chan. I had assumed it would get better at university, but as I'm not ivy league material its just the same cookie cutter personalities everywhere I look.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 14:58:24 2015 No.7174820 >>7173520 >>7173542 Now realize that /lit/ will never be this terrible

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 29 15:06:59 2015 No.7174860 >>7173577 /lit/ gets dipshits like this every once in a while, but imagine if the board were overrun with them.

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