>>719726110
Early 4chan wasn't that incongruous with the rest of the contemporary weird internet despite its notoriety. The problem became when the internet became algorithm and social media-driven. At the end of the 00s/early 2010s you start seeing this place become weirdly paranoid of other websites. Not just in the "go back to gaia" sense or whatever but actively deranged about tumblr, or reddit, and later twitter. People were insane about the fact that somebody would screencap their posts and then post it on other websites.
>put me in the screencap
In the early-mid 2010s this place then became ground zero for a lot of internet flashpoints, e.g. gamergate. By 2015 we've reached 4chan and in light of the decline of most other boards particularly, /v/'s modern stage. It's reddit and twitter but you can say nigger and complain about trannies and people will happily post about what reddit, twitter, tiktok, etc. are doing. You can't have culture when the actively posting population is rage-addicted and culture war-obsessed. The only winning move is to not feed them, a lesson the internet long forgot in the name of engagement, but the conflagration will happily consume itself for the sake of keeping the fire burning.
Right now I have three different video game threads open on three wildly different games and all of them are complaining about trannies apropos of nothing. There's no actual social media posts that would prove that, even some random nobody with like 20 likes on the post, mind you, but there are trannies somewhere on the internet and they have thoughts about things. Probably.
There's no weird internet anymore on 4chan, it's all performative shibboleths.
