From a paranormal, supernatural perspective, do you consider 4chan to be a force for good in the world?

I honestly do, and I think people who regard us as evil or deranged just misunderstand the site. As somebody who's come here for almost 20 years I think we've done a lot of good in the world with our meme magic and our various investigations into the otherworldly.

Compare us to some places that seem genuinely evil, like SomethingAwful or Tumblr, and I think we've done more good than bad in our time online.

too many racists misogynists homophobes and nazis to be a force for good these days

>>40556615 (OP)
It's the same as any other social media website where you have to actively trick yourself into enjoying it. Only on here it's not mandatory. I think it's a useful time waster

Yes, entirely for its rapid fire conversations that aren't overly policed by moderators.
It's great for the same reason that npc group thinkers hate it, and there will probably not be another site like it on a similar scale after it ends. Tranny mods are already doing their best to kill it with word filters and such.

>>40556615 (OP)
>do you consider 4chan to be a force for good in the world
No. And dont post any more stupid lolipedo anime shit images here. They are trash and cause brainrot. Watch more mature shows for adults and if you want comedy read something like Golden Kamuy.

>>40556663
Meds

>>40556615 (OP)
Who the fuck cares if there is good in the world? Goodness is NPC and reddit. Chaos does not choose a side.

>>40556660
Tourist

>>40556688
Tranny

>>40556615 (OP)
>do you consider 4chan to be a force for good in the world
i wouldn’t be here otherwise

1/3
For:
Raw Chaotic Energy as Potential: From an occult perspective, 4chan represents an immense reservoir of raw, unfiltered human energy – creativity, obsession, skepticism, humor, anger, curiosity. This energy, in itself, is a potent force. Like chaotic magic, it's neutral but can be directed.
Meme Magic as Manifestation: The phenomenon of "meme magic" – where intense collective belief and focus on 4chan seemed to influence real-world events (e.g., Kek, Pepe symbolism co-opted into political movements) – is a compelling case for its supernatural potency. It demonstrates the site's ability to focus collective willpower, a core principle of chaos magic and manifestation. If intentions are positive, the results could be seen as good.
Unearthing the Hidden: 4chan's relentless, anonymous digging into mysteries (paranormal, conspiracies, historical oddities) functions like a vast, decentralized scrying pool. Its ability to crowdsource investigations and bypass conventional gatekeepers has undeniably brought obscure information to light, sometimes revealing truths mainstream sources ignored. This aligns with a supernatural view of seeking hidden knowledge.
A Crucible for Folklore: 4chan acts as a powerful modern myth-making engine. Creepypastas, urban legends, and entire modern folklore cycles (Slender Man, SCP Foundation origins) often emerge or gain massive traction there. This generative power contributes to the cultural and potentially even psychic landscape.
Counter-Balance: Your comparison to platforms like SomethingAwful (historically more moderated, clique-ish) or Tumblr (known for specific ideological bubbles and call-out culture) highlights a key point: 4chan's lack of enforced orthodoxy. From a supernatural perspective, its chaotic neutrality could be seen as a necessary counter-force to more curated or ideologically rigid online spaces, preventing any single worldview from dominating the "psychic internet."

2/3
Against:
Amplifier of Negativity: The same anonymity and lack of moderation that fuels creativity also massively amplifies hate, despair, paranoia, and destructive impulses. This negativity isn't just "edgy"; it manifests as targeted harassment, doxxing, the spread of violent ideologies, and real-world harm. Supernaturally, this floods the collective consciousness with potent negative energy.
Feeding Parasitic Entities: An occult perspective might suggest that the intense, sustained negativity (racism, misogyny, nihilism) prevalent on parts of 4chan doesn't just reflect darkness but actively feeds it. It could be seen as nourishing egregore (thought-form entities) or attracting lower astral entities that thrive on chaos and suffering.
Corruption of "Magic": While "meme magic" demonstrates power, the intent behind much of it is often trolling, schadenfreude, or promoting harmful ideologies (e.g., aspects of the Q phenomenon). This risks corrupting the magical principle – using potent collective will for destructive or manipulative ends.
Distortion of Truth: While investigations uncover things, the same environment breeds rampant disinformation, conspiracy theories detached from reality, and a deep cynicism that can make genuine truth-seeking harder. Supernaturally, this creates a "miasma" of confusion and illusion that obscures genuine insight.
The Ethics Void: Many supernatural traditions emphasize the importance of ethics and responsibility when wielding power (e.g., karma, the Wiccan Rede). 4chan's core ethos often explicitly rejects this, embracing amorality and consequence-free action. This disregard can lead to unintended harmful consequences on subtle levels, even if the initial intent (like an investigation) seemed neutral.

>>40556624
All those things are good tho

>>40556922
No they aren't

3/3
Conclusion: A Chaotic Conduit, Not Inherently Aligned

From a paranormal/supernatural perspective, it's hard to definitively label 4chan as a net "force for good." It's more accurate to see it as a powerful, chaotic conduit for raw human psychic energy.

It amplifies and manifests: Whatever energy – creative, curious, hateful, destructive – is poured into it with enough intensity and focus can be amplified and potentially manifest in unexpected ways ("meme magic," viral campaigns, real-world harassment, conspiracy spread).
It's a tool: Like any powerful magical tool (a wand, a cauldron, a sigil), its "goodness" depends entirely on the intent and wisdom of those wielding the energy flowing through it. The tool itself is neutral, but the energies it channels and magnifies are not.
It generates folklore: Its role as a modern myth-making engine is undeniable and contributes to the cultural/spiritual landscape, for better or worse.
It lacks inherent ethics: Its core structure rejects the ethical frameworks many traditions associate with beneficial magic, making it prone to attracting and amplifying darker impulses.
Your experience over 20 years is valid. You've witnessed and participated in its creative bursts, its investigative successes, and the strange power of its collective will. However, critics pointing to its undeniable role in spreading hate, enabling harassment, and distorting reality are also observing real phenomena amplified by the same chaotic engine.

Ultimately, 4chan is less a singular "force" with an alignment and more like a wild, untamed ley line nexus: immense power flows through it, capable of fueling creation or destruction, revelation or obfuscation, depending on what currents are tapped into and directed at any given moment. Its "goodness" is fleeting and contextual, not inherent. It reflects the best and worst of the anonymous human id projected onto the digital and, arguably, the psychic plane.

I think it's generally not a very good place to have conversations, as the format makes them they feel very flat and unengaging.
However, the chaotic, free for all nature is pretty interesting.

>>40556927
Why are you here then? Leddit is on your other tab.

>>40556943
Its foolish to think that those are the conditions by which one must abide to use 4chan

>>40556971
It's still a force of good because you can communicate with those people and come to an understanding
Of course some people are just trolls and they're a waste of time. But those are everywhere.

>>40556971
You shouldn't be posting yet. Newfags have to lurk two years before posting.

>>40556986
Free speech is definitely a good thing and this place supports that heavily. But putting beliefs like Nazism into action is obviously bad

>>40556993
I've been here for 6 years.

>>40556996
If you don't like Nazism, you're going to need to contend with them ideologically. Pushing them out of discourse only causes them to move underground where they can continue to grow in secret.
If you don't care that much and simply want it out of sight and mind then you probably just shouldn't use this site, because the controversial, provocative discourse is what makes this site what it is

>>40557003
Fair enough, in my mind knowing the horrors of the holocaust is enough to dissuade one from that path, I don't know if im smart enough to really convince people otherwise, but I can at least say I know its wrong

>>40557008
>the lolocaust was a bad thing
They were asking for it. Look at what jews do to society.

>>40557008
Convincing people isn't really about being smart, it's about coming to a mutual understanding. Perhaps you have as much to learn from them as vice versa

>>40557017
Could you give me some examples of what you think Jews do to society? Because to me they're just regular people
>>40557023
Maybe

>>40557037
Jews only know how to subvert their host nation. Woke culture was hard pushed by jews in the media.

>>40557037
Jews own large portions of the pharmaceutical companies, the entertainment industry, the banks and news networks. A large portion of American politicians are controlled by the Jewish lobby.
Keep in mind I'm not saying "all Jews are bad" but rather "most bad people in power are disproportionately Jews." Im also not a Nazi btw, I'm a race that would have been persecuted by Nazis too

>>40556615 (OP)
I genuinely think this site is designed to drain your energy and make people suffer by losing time. The only way to take something good out of it is voicing out loud new interesting ideas you have, and test with others if they are actually as solid as they look and if they resonate with people.

I think 4chan is probably good for the world overall but absolutely horrible for its users, this is a place of pretty bad energetic pollution IMO.
I had an extreme experience recently that cleansed my energy system, and I could feel it blocking up again the more I browsed this place.

>>40557061
>>40557115
Everything bad in excess

>>40557049
>Jews
>posts a hwite man
every time

>>40556615 (OP)
I think this place can be used for good, and can contain the bad, it's open for everyone no matter who they are to tell their opinions anonymously, or someone high profile to gather opinions from them if they seek it, unfiltered, and able to determine who knows what in their lives, and figure out what's an actual opinion about them, and something to reflect with and possibly revise their ways and reform for the better,
You have alot of content farmers and social engineers attempting to farm anything about 4chan due to its controversial history and outlook on it, but that could be accelerated by bad faith actors trying to smear 4chan and the shitty schemers attempting to demoralize others or try to take shitposts/ventposts way too seriously or believe whoever is watching behind the anonymous screen will find something to work with to use against the user, there is an evil aspect around 4chan, but that is on them for using it for impure reasons and hoping to breach someones mentality to rile them up for whatever petty entertainment they desire, it's scummy, but it can humble the scummy users who are saying genuine hate, i just think there are people who enable that behavior a bit too much, and escalates things that innocents get involved and harmed in one way or another

>>40556615 (OP)
>Compare us to some places that seem genuinely evil, like SomethingAwful or Tumblr, and I think we've done more good than bad in our time online.
OH my fgucking piss baby. Adolf Hitler is Andreas Hauser is Andrew Hussie. Yiddish and Deutsch are both schizophrenic, while Israel and Islam are fighting about who gets to fuck their sister - who is actually just a goat - first. Do try to keep up, VVVVVVriska did nothing VVrong etc pp lick the frog do it do it do it Khorne Flakes crack an egg head for group therapy theory because the ovid void self-hug is zero steps for the null result, HoTT HoTT HODL HODOR, you kn owo owo wat's dis shoelaces? I liked them before the president got elongated because the narwhal badger badger badger badger's the mushroom until snake! SNAKE! WAKE UP, it's nano machines baby!

>>40556922
They're not

>>40556615 (OP)
Gives me what I need to run cartoon physics.

>>40556615 (OP)
It's a cesspool oftentimes, but sometimes it's not. What's important is that it's anonymous, so people can speak their minds more or less as long as they're not doing anything completely out of line. There is a benefit and power to that anonymity, and it has the potential to be used for good or for bad

But most of the times this place is a cesspool if I'm being honest... but where else am I supposed to learn how to weave Mongolian-styled baskets and consume my Chinese cartoon images from? There's no other place like here that's for sure. God I hate this place

>>40556669
>>40556689
>>40556783
Retard

>>40557778
unf yes faster daddy~

>>40557061
>>40557124
I recently abandoned my twitter account and the energy sucking is much much worse over there. It's insane. I feel like a whole different person since I stopped posting there. You can use this site to slowly get off worse soul stealers like mainstream social media sites. I should have never made an account there, it's just bad for you, period

>>40558996
yeah man i totally get it, it's rough when you already made her pass out twice by folding her in half before pummeling her g spot but then she started putting it in her mouth and just won't stop sucking all your energy out of your dick.

>>40556615 (OP)
>From a paranormal, supernatural perspective, do you consider 4chan to be a force for good in the world?
https://youtu.be/CsHiG-43Fzg?feature=shared&t=168

>>40556615 (OP)
>do you consider 4chan to be a force for good in the world?
Wholly neutral. But it is objectively deranged.

it's just a website and often full of retarded faggotry. You guys are romanticizing it too much with the duality shit. It's funny you guys mentioned SA because all the same parallels are here too just inverted.

view it from the outside or in retrospect and it's just as dumb as those sites you see it as a antinomian counter to.

the map is not the territory and all that and the zeitgeist/weltgeist has long since left this shithole because you all got old, world weary and even more retarded

>>40557008
>in my mind knowing the horrors of the holocaust is enough to dissuade one from that path
Oh sweet summer childe.

>>40556615 (OP)
>Mongoloid post nothing related to paranormal with the structure "from a paranormal perspective" X being /pol/ brainrot.

>>40557812
You dirty fucking attention whoring slut, you're really asking for it now with that submissive bitch attitude of yours. Here's you're (you), you whore, it's on the fucking ground

>>40556624
That's the point.

>>40556615 (OP)
Blessed be the autistics

>>40558996
I think other social media is potentially worse because people attach an identity to it. They don't want their identity to look bad or wrong whereas here it's anonymous and nobody has anything to lose. I know it sounds silly but people really think the internet is a real place.

It used to be a fun place for nerds to talk about geeky stuff, and now, due to the nature of the site, it collects the unwanted people from everywhere else. People who get driven out of every other part of the internet come here to post shizo shit, racist shit, etc. There are some extremely anti-social ideas and beliefs that get fostered on this site, and it's progressively gotten worse over time. We don't even put out the same level of cultural creation that we used to. That basically died with Wojak. This site is truly a rotten husk of what it once was, but so is a lot of the internet I suppose.

>>40556615 (OP)
In terms of the quality of information posted here, it's mostly garbage from demented people and very much inconsequential in real life, but I'm very grateful to the owners and moderators for granting this stranger a window of opportunity to share the word of God with you all.

>>40562766
> opportunity to share the word of God with you all
Fuck off npc nigger. Share your de-evolution guide somewhere else.

>>40559219
What else could be good?