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I haven’t heard anything about them in quite a while. It’s like they were a hot-button topic of conversation, and then everyone just stopped talking about them. If they’re still around, what would be the reason they seemingly disappeared from the news?

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[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 57 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wow… I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so…. Profound- on 4chan.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is actually 8kun, a website for those who thought 4chan was too mild.

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 29 points 10 months ago

Good god. What have we done!

[–] shani66@ani.social 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It'd be genuinely moving, if it was about anything else. The last hold outs of a wilder Internet? I'd cry. A bunch of dipshits clinging desperately to a storm of nonsense? Only tears that'd come from that is if i laughed too hard.

[–] HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

I can still feel it when I think the vast majority of these people are vulnerable individuals who have been led to be believe they're being victimized. Things like QAnon provide a the right-wing equivalent of a safe space and community for them.

It's got to be tough seeing it slowly tumble away.

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago
[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The last hold outs of a wilder Internet?

In a way they are. They just also serve as a reminder of why not too many people want that wild internet anymore.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There was a time when all the best stuff, the most enlightened, the most accurate, the best analysis of society as a whole, the memes all came from 4chan.

The problem was that it was full of pure shit too.

I'll live and die by the need for freedom of speech and anonymity in discourse at least in a lot of places. Because its far to valuable without it. But now people are too weak to even handle someone telling then to go kill themselves so they can't hand all the other shit.

The prime of the Internet is gone forever. We rapidly moving into corporate 1984.