Thread 33911953

I am in this media class, and I chose my topic on 4chan. I was wondering if I could talk to someone about why they post on 4chan.

The lack of any visible post counts or post histories allows people to speak more freely here.
This of course means that trolling and flaming is rampant here, but it also allows people to articulate their most honest thoughts to each other here.

I find thoughtfully written discussions had here in good faith to be much more rewarding than those on most other English-language forums and social media platforms because there is no extrinsic motivation to be on one’s best behavior here.
The site makes it easy to be dishonest, so finding honesty and sincerity here despite that makes reading it a very rewarding experience at times.

>>33911953 (OP)
4chan, launched in 2003 as an anonymous imageboard, embodies the internet's untamed underbelly—a ephemeral realm of fleeting threads and untraceable posts that birthes memes, scandals, and subcultures from the void. Its magnetic pull lies in radical anonymity: no accounts, no legacies, just raw expression in a performative digital age, luring the disillusioned with a "for the lulz" ethos of ironic chaos. Posters describe it as a cathartic scream into an echoing abyss, where /b/'s random rants or /r9k/'s lonely confessions strip away societal filters, allowing taboo thoughts to spill unchecked. As media scholar Whitney Phillips observes in *This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things*, this veil democratizes disruption, fostering unbridled creativity amid the vitriol, but it also incubates echo chambers where edginess masquerades as enlightenment.

Yet for all its generative frenzy—collaborative ASCII art on /ic/, contrarian whispers on /pol/ rippling into real-world ripples—4chan's lawless core exacts a psychic toll, blending innovation with infestation. Toxicity festers in doxxing dens and radicalization pits, earning it the moniker "misery pit for edgelords" from jaded alumni, a high-stakes gamble where provocation thrills but peril stalks. Still, this duality cements its cultural heft: a flawed oracle of online discontent, where anonymity's double blade carves both viral folklore and societal scars. In a sanitized web, 4chan endures as rebellious therapy, a reminder that the net's darkest voids often amplify our most primal, unresolved howls.

>>33911953 (OP)
>All anonymous
>no up cummies
>people are allowed to be as unhinged as possible
>agressive site culture where user are all mean to eachother so no tiptoeing around people's feelings
What more could you ask?

>>33911953 (OP)
1. It's anonymous so I and everyone else can just say whatever we think without judgement. Plus this eliminates a lot of retarded drama which happens in other internet communities.
2.Each post is "equal" essentially. Partly because it's anonymous as mentioned before (so people don't jerk off to le popular person's opinion o algo) but mainly because there's no voting system. When you see a post you just see the post and judge it for yourself without a bunch of votes being displayed next to it to try to influence your opinion.
3. Less censorship than the large majority of the internet. Too many people are really sensitive to just seeing words they don't like, which is retarded. I'm not racist but seeing someone say nigger doesn't faze me cause it's just a word.

Jews.

>>33911953 (OP)
*pulls out cock and starts cumming in your thread*

ooooogh oooooh fuck sorry op haha

Honestly, because this is one of the few places on the internet where you can be hostile to people without some butthurt voters or tranny mods jumping in and deciding the argument not based on the content but the alignment to the group you are currently talking to and which words you chose.

When you are on this website, it is important to stay on top of its negativity, while being vigilant to the possibility that anon may be right.

>>33911953 (OP)
What started out as a fun jest about calling people faggots has turned into an 18 year long journey for this to be the only place I can call people faggots. I have the 4chan disease, I get banned everywhere else.

rape nigger kike

The active hobby boards (/lit/, /tv/, and /mu/) are some of the most engaging places for forum-style discussion on the internet. I can also vaguepost here and have gotten some surprisingly well-tempered advice.

>>33911953 (OP)
drop out if this is your topic

Could someone tell me more about the relationship of incels and 4chan

>>33912416
No, sorry.

I have been posting on the internet for nearly 3 decades. This is the last place that feels even close to how good things were in the early 2000s. Forum culture is increasingly hard to find, although it's still out there. I love this website, people show something like their real face here.

>>33911953 (OP)
>I am in this media class, and I chose my topic on 4chan
Rules 1 and 2 faggot

>>33912416
Woman bad.
Anon tell me woman is reason me no have sex.
Me no try because me convince self that woman to blame.
Me not born Chad.
Me have no chance.

>>33912416
within cells interlinked

>>33911953 (OP)
I like to post on here because it's "anonymous" (to a certain degree), there's no shitty account systems, I can go away for weeks/months at a time come back and it feels familiar, people speak freely and say whatever random shit they want and it's just a different vibe compared to everywhere else on the web.

Sadly nowadays there's shit loads of bots and AI threads, but that's the internet in general. Every website is dying, 4chan included, and we're probably in the final stretch where there's still some semblance of human touch to the internet. I honestly think a couple of years from now the internet will be virtually unusable by anyone that isn't a gen alpha/late zoomer mongoloid.

Enjoy this while it lasts.

The site sucks now so I mostly keep to very small communities like a couple generals on /vg/
It's mostly the complete anonymity, nobody can look up my post history or know which other posts in a thread are mine. Gives you a certain freedom to express opinions, ask stupid questions etc etc
Of course the downside of every conversation being self contained like that is that if you do have a nice exchange with someone, you will functionally never see them again

>>33912167
Some people treat replies to their thread like a kind of compliment in the same vein as a vote. But all threads are deleted eventually so it prevents exploits of any possible voting system or systems resembling it.

The anonymity also prevents the stealing of other people’s content to claim as your own. Sites like YTMND became victims of this behavior after they became popular. Supposedly this also happens a lot on Reddit.

I first wandered here in 2013 as a kid. /b/ was funny and I liked churning out longform posts of made-up bullshit for (You)s. Man I remember before (You)s were even a thing lol.
Later it became basically a gambling-type thing: scroll long enough and maybe I'll find another great post on /fit/ that tells all the secrets of getting jacked, if I keep browsing /biz/ I'll find the next 1000x shitcoin (this derailed my life for years lol). Nowadays its just a bad habit.

>>33911953 (OP)
It's because I hate being alive hope this helps

>>33911953 (OP)
Why the fuck would you pick 4chan as a subject and not be a 4channer yourself?

Why post here? Because you don't need registration bullshit duh.

>>33912300
LMAO good one

>>33911953 (OP)
>/x/'s spooky (and mostly fake) stories and schizophrenia
>/v/'s unbiased(?) insight on game updates
>/adv/'s sage advice (once in a blue moon)
>every now and then, posts that make me laugh more than anything else in the last decade

That, and >>33912386.

>>33912698
Within FEELS interlinked.

>>33911953 (OP)
Unfortunately, for most people, anonymity is a prerequisite to truth in these trying times. Any reasonable, thinking person knows that men can't be women, that women aren't equal to men, that blacks are more violent and less intelligent than whites, that Jews have captured western institutions and business and use them to suppress anyone who brings it up, that COVID was a hoax, etc. etc., but these simple, objective truths are all treated as high thoughtcrimes, and unless you have "fuck you money", your life can be ruined for speaking them in private or public or virtually any place on the internet. The slope just keeps getting steeper and more slippery and we keep sliding and sliding down it. You can't talk about how illegal immigrants negatively impact society, you can't say that homosexuals are viscerally disgusting, you can't say morbidly obese people aren't beautiful, you can't say that someone was raped or killed or died, etc. etc.. You can't say anything that might "trigger" someone or potentially hurt anyone's feelings ever, whether it's to them or about them, whether it might be to their benefit to hear, or your life and livelihood might be destroyed on the whim of people invested in any of these lies for the protection of their own fragile egos. They will go so far as to be offended on behalf of people they've never met or groups they have no interaction with, because they know that if a single one of these lies is brought down, it might prove to be or eventually lead to the cornerstone that brings down the wall of lies that protects them from their own negative feelings about themselves.

This site isn't really anonymous. Your messages are linked to your computer in logs that 4chan admins have and can send that info to feds (which has happened). And this site does have moderation, it's just not as strict as other websites. I would say I post here more so because of the low barrier to entry. Literally all you have to do is solve the captcha and wait 300s to post here.

>>33911953 (OP)
there are no leftist spaces that haven't been hijacked by virtue signalling liberals, so leftists will start coming here too if we aren't already

>>33911953 (OP)
did you know that in germany, if you want a phone sim, you have to provide legal photo ID such as a passport, and verify it to a human, with HD phone or laptop camera or in person? Did you also know that germany imprisons thousands of people for stuff they post on the internet, and also being a "holocaust deniar" will land you in prison. I mean who's to say if the comment was about denying the holocaust or just criticizing a certain nation or whatever.

Shame that the police don't hold other people accountable to this degree...

this place sucks and any justification for posting here is wrong
suck my balls