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7/4/2025, 3:51:42 PM
>>96012333
I mean, yeah? I think I may have even just told a more interesting one, because the story behind Bearington is actually considerably more interesting than the actual Bearington story.
On one hand, Bear Chickenboo. It is what it is.
On the other hand, we've got a tale of a story with essentially the internet version of "stolen valor." A mediocre story that didn't really make much of a splash on 4chan, but pretended to have achieved huge popularity here in order to gain popularity on Reddit. Surely, a story that survived the battlefields of 4chan and achieved universal praise from the monsters that dwell there must certainly be the greatest story ever told, right?
The Bearington story is the grandfather who told his grandkids he fought through a nazi castle and punched Hitler in the face, when he actually spent the war peeling potatoes in the boot camp kitchens. No one here really ever paid it that much attention, and in fact the only art ever made of the character came years later and from a /co/ artist fairly detached from this board and by that time clearly influenced by the Reddit perception of this place. Meanwhile on Reddit, there's thousands of posts regarding the story, even some within the last few months.
It's a bizarre thing where the general 4chan stance of refusing to visit Reddit lead to people creating their own version of what 4chan was, allowing it to fester on Reddit, and then that unchecked version actually started to influence 4chan.
I mean, yeah? I think I may have even just told a more interesting one, because the story behind Bearington is actually considerably more interesting than the actual Bearington story.
On one hand, Bear Chickenboo. It is what it is.
On the other hand, we've got a tale of a story with essentially the internet version of "stolen valor." A mediocre story that didn't really make much of a splash on 4chan, but pretended to have achieved huge popularity here in order to gain popularity on Reddit. Surely, a story that survived the battlefields of 4chan and achieved universal praise from the monsters that dwell there must certainly be the greatest story ever told, right?
The Bearington story is the grandfather who told his grandkids he fought through a nazi castle and punched Hitler in the face, when he actually spent the war peeling potatoes in the boot camp kitchens. No one here really ever paid it that much attention, and in fact the only art ever made of the character came years later and from a /co/ artist fairly detached from this board and by that time clearly influenced by the Reddit perception of this place. Meanwhile on Reddit, there's thousands of posts regarding the story, even some within the last few months.
It's a bizarre thing where the general 4chan stance of refusing to visit Reddit lead to people creating their own version of what 4chan was, allowing it to fester on Reddit, and then that unchecked version actually started to influence 4chan.
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