Well, that was the event that finally forced Twitter to kick Trump of, so they apparently though they had some effect.

Which is why Saudi Arabia gave Elon Musk $22B to buy it without any expectation of a return on their investment. To them, the destruction of twitter was the goal.

Yeah... Now who is going to take care of the German sheep??

/s abusing animals is cruel and horrible

Yeah I was on there a lot in the mid 00s and stopped going on it after the scientology protests. The site basically created internet humor as we know it and I was enough of a loser at the time to be highly online. There was something very accepting about the site in a weird way, and I'm not the sort of person you'd expect would have been a b-slur.

Met a friend's partner recently and she said something funny in this oddly familiar way... the type of person I'd least suspect, but yup, a fellow mid 00s b-slur.

May 3rd, 2023. She's giving money to a eugenics supporter.

Also, twitter was always awful. Musk just took the mask off.

Yep, 4chan is the Nazi bar of the Internet, and cherry picking an example of innocent shitposting means nothing.

It had its moments, twenty years ago, but all the worthwhile anons left ages ago.

There's even a fairly famous quote from a 4channer about it.

"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe they're in good company." -Descartes né Anon

Of course, Anon still missed the real lesson.

There are always far, far, fewer people "just joking around" than the good people in the room want to assume.

And pedos, don't forget about the pedos.

Oof I used to be a regular on r9k and now I cringe so hard about it. Thank God it was anonymous.

I was going through a tough time and the people there accepted me and engaged with my posts. In hindsight I think people just connected with my anger, but the venting was helpful.

At some point a friend saw my laptop and said "holy shit you're asking 4chan for advice, hahaha what the fuck is wrong with you" and she laughed until she was wheezing, and I never went back on again.

The /tg/ board was the source of some of the greatest tabletop RPG content I ever saw in the 2010s, really great discussions and whole homebrew systems born out of threads that just pitch cool ideas. Of course it came with the same veneer of snark and shock comments as the rest of 4chan but that was on every site in the 2010s. I haven't been back there in a long while so I can't speak to it these days.

...for the snake of being silly, you mean.

80% of 4chan is shitposts with no hidden meaning.
The remaining 10% is people dog-whistling to each other through shit-posts, hoping one will slide into the 80% undetected.
And 10% horrible things that the janitors have to clean up.

Nope. I must believe all of X is bad. Since I am in the not-X group, I am therefore a good person. Please approve of me.

Saying hateful, dumbass shit doesn't violate anyone's freedom. Denying them their right to congregate, get equal service in business, have bodily autonomy, etc. does. However, speech alone is not enough to equate to action, in most cases.