What does 4chan think of reddit

No, but I'm not against it either. While I don't think 4chan is a model for a healthy internet community, I believe the internet is healthier if 4chan exists than if it did not. Some say it is the last bastion of free speech on the internet and I would agree. I can't name any other place I would go to see what I see on the chan.

The whole site reminds me of teenagers who are trying too hard to act rebellious. The problem is that it apparently has a large enough audience that some adults find that kind of behavior acceptable. Incredibly influential in internet history? We were doing all those things before reddit and 4chan. Memes in the form they took on on 4chan definitely weren't a thing before.

The word meme itself was a sterile almost scientific term. I'm not sure how old are you, but if you were around at the time this happened early to mid 00s and active on imageboards you would surely have noticed just how different the experience was. Surely the memes of 4chan fame came directly from SA and related forums?

I think you're just noticing the more egregious examples which garner a lot of attention. Quite a lot of original content that didn't have any other common place used to originate on 4chan. Eventually a lot of it shifted to Reddit as Reddit came into being and gained in popularity, but there's a reason that some content such as very short science fiction stories, or humorous explanations of DND sessions in "greentext" is archived in the form of screen capture images, and that's because one of the few places you could find this with a wide audience was on 4chan.

I've only ever been on 4chan a handful of times, and yes, the boards that people expect to be a clusterfuck are indeed a clusterfuck, but if you pay attention it's hard to discount the influence 4chan had on internet culture in benign ways as well. Every post is given equal representation. It's designed to be ephemeral and there's tends to be a lot less community politics. I won't argue that the format lends itself to a bastion of quality - it's a lot of wading through waste to find something good.

It's the double edge sword of not having a "karma" system. I think the problem with 4chan has had recently was moderation. What that meant was only moot could really ban a discussion topic without it being overreach by mods. Mods could ban you whenever they wanted for mostly whatever they wanted and bans tended to be more public. This mod power had a special hidden power - it was harder to take over the community around some singular meme.

Currently I think a lot of threads get derailed because bait-politics gets injected into almost everything. And I also just wish he'd pop by and tell us how he's doing. I hope he's happy now. Outsiders to 4chan would probably also be surprised at the site-wide outpouring of genuine sadness, nostalgia and gratitude when moot announced that he was stepping down.

It was an incubator for internet culture before other websites took that mantle and ran with it Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and even Facebook now fill a similar role. Sargos on Feb 9, prev next [—]. I feel like you just haven't spent much time there. Lots of interesting discussions are to be had on a vast number of topics. Much of Internet culture originated there as well. I feel like 4chan has shown just how needed an anonymous forum is to experimentation and community.

It shows people want the worst kind of discourse. You might not like it but if such a sizable community does its a shame it can't live on its own. Not everyone gets online to peruse HN or even learn anything at all and there isn't anything wrong with that. Some people praised the bots for keeping out the riffraff those unwilling or unable to ignore things they dislike , but otherwise, they were far more an idea people had about 4chan and its users than the userbase actually did or supported.

I find it weird how many people are ok with 4chan but freak out about Gab. Not enough porn. But like with startup investing, banging enough turds together eventually produces a few diamonds. Most memes on Reddit originated on 4chan. I disagree. Anonymous environments bring out the best kind of discourse with the occasional annoyances. There is a reason why most people agree that reddit's golden age was around the is period.

Before all the censorship and propaganda. In my opinion, censored environments bring out the worst kind of discourse. Look at social media of today. So if I wanted to see this on 4chan, which board would you recommend I visit?

Just a reminder that during reddit's so-called "golden age", it was the largest hub for underage pornography on the internet. That depends or your definition of pornography. Different people know it when they see different things. Not too long ago showing ankles was considered basically porn. Eremotherium on Feb 10, root parent prev next [—].

That saying goes back to supreme court justice Potter Stewart and it's something a lot of people would disagree with as it posits a fake universal standard for things like offensiveness and obscenity. Underage "softcore" pornography. It's still reprehensible and indefensible, and it was one of the largest nsfw subs at the time. So would that title now go to Instagram or which site currently has the largest collection of underage girls in bikinis?

How about TikTok or Youtube? I honestly cannot continue a conversation where I have to defend the position that a subreddit devoted to sharing sexualized pictures of children is fucked up. This should be obvious and beyond debate. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe. Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music. Filed under: Tech. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. I just got removed from WSB Next Up In Tech.

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