• Widdershins@lemmy.world
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    They go on and on and on about the British Broadcasting Corporation and I mean multiple threads per hour but the threads instantly get spammed with pictures of dudes with their weiners out.

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    a place with a ton of freedom to say what you liked would have more creative people?

    Grave mistake, especially when you’re dealing with anons. You don’t even need 4chan anons, any place with complete anonymity and zero moderation will devolve into a horror show of the worst humankind can offer

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    The alt right was born on 4 chan from what I hear, as was q, where some hedge fund prick is thought to have started it to project the ruling class’ own child fucking captured on video by Israel through epstein onto the opponents of the ruling class.

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      Q is from 8chan. One could argue that 8chan came from 4chan but they were two distinct beasts at the time. 8chan is (was?) where the people too extreme for 4chan went.

      Not defending 4chan, just correcting the misinformation.

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        The Q posts did originally start on 4 chan.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

        Though QAnon has its origins in older conspiracy theories, it was set in motion in October 2017 when Q first posted on the website 4chan. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, with access to classified information about the Trump administration and its opponents.[17] Q soon moved to 8chan, making it QAnon’s online home.[18] Q’s often cryptic posts, which became known as “drops”, were collected by aggregator apps and websites and relayed by influencers.

        I saw some of them there.

        And, given what the Epstein files have revealed… at this point, I think the original Q was just literally Steve Bannon.

        Then it got handed off to the weirdo father/son pair that run (ran?) 8chan.

        That’s basically my hunch, can’t definitively prove it.

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        Oh right, is that the one created by that developmentally disabled kid that advocated for killing such people as himself and other nazi shit, then repented and tried to shut it down later? I think I heard something about him. Nevertheless, the shit birthed on 8 chan migrates to 4 chan to get reared as I understand it, so calling it “misinformation” is kind of a dickish way to correct someone.

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          Yes, that’s the guy!

          It was misinformation, though. Q and the most extreme bigots are from 8chan1. I don’t think you did it deliberately which is why I didn’t call it disinformation, it’s just not accurate

          1 Of the chans. There’s plenty of forums that make 8chan look tame.

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            Hey uh unrelated question

            Yes, that’s the guy!

            It was misinformation, though. Q and the most extreme bigots are from 8chan1. I don’t think you did it deliberately which is why I didn’t call it disinformation, it’s just not accurate

            1 Of the chans. There’s plenty of forums that make 8chan look tame.

            Are you intentionally putting ^1^ into your comments, or… is this some weird result of maybe my mobile client spazzing out?

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      the alt right existed before 4chan. it just didn’t become popular until the mid 2010s after social media allowed it to rapidly reach a mass audience, and people started making money from alt right talking points. Stormfront started in 1996, and hate.com was a docufilm from 2000 that reported on internet extremists

      it was all over the internet in the 2000s if you knew where to look, but there were no big mass market social networks back then. FB only became open to anyone in 2008 and it took 5+ years for it to really take off.

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        I remember my first reddit experience, in 2016, I didn’t make an account, and was incensed I had to make an account as such to make a comment, and it was all alt right douchbags so I never joined at that point. I was there to research new and exciting drug plants anyway and it was an intellectual wasteland as I saw, at that time, although now that is not the case if you can find the right places, and don’t mind your queries being logged by corporations and governments, but I digress.

        They were still on the harambe thing, mocking the murdered gorilla, pissed me off.

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    That’s why you get your greentexts on Lemmy. All the funny posts with none of the posts that are just slurs over and over again in all caps.

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    It’s a big pile of shit with a couple of golden needles in it. Props to the people who are willing to wade through it to liberate the quality posts.

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    “You can say whatever you want here!”

    “Cool, what do most people talk about?”

    “Well, you can say most stuff anywhere. So we tend to just talk about the stuff that gets us banned: CSAM and telling one another to kill ourselves”