Somedays I wonder if that was driven by actual rightwing sentiment, or by a desire to just destroy and hack everything. Go back to the days of gaming American Idol to push Sanjaya, or the gags of gaming other polls to like, send Bieber to North Korea or Pitbull to Alaska etc.

Like, they realized they could do a lot, and just keep finding ways to go even further.

I look at what TFG is doing nowadays and honestly if it wasn’t a system I depend on to live, it would be easy to mistake him for some kind of grey hat hacker exploiting every single hole he can find in said system in the worst possible way in order to compel people to close them.

I will say this, too… 4chan’s opintel is completely amazing. The way they were able to track Shia Lebouf’s HWNDU by doing things like… correlating airplane noises with flight patterns is like… beyond next level.

SSO?

Easier xposting

I’m still trying to find a link to the sauce

Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what’s good in internet culture as it was for much of what’s the worst in internet culture.

Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, “TLDR”, Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, … they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft’s Tay chatbot… quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, “god tier”, lulz, moar, sauce…

The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.

Subs be deleting shit left and right lately, it’s becoming unusable

Lot of it is bots, but lot of it is also shit mods. And lazy mods letting the bot do shit without any review.

Oh, also, chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland in the 1970s

And most of it wholly invented in the US, too. Hardly any Chinese takeout is legitimate food that is eaten in China, but an Americanized facsimile. Iirc almost all US Chinese restaurants are legit sourced from the same company in terms of most of their recipes and even their decorations and stuff like the “chinese zodiac” placemats

No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It’s not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it’s something made for black american pride and reflection.

I think it was handshakes, back pats, and ass pats

if traditional art is transphobic how are drag queens a thing

(i know drag !== trans but still)

I’ve been meaning to look into PinePhone myself.

Fun fact: They did. Rush Limbaugh had a proud “keep spraying” campaign.

Oh god yes. They all literally invented a fake illness called “seat belt burn.” I kid you not. And this was the 80s before commercial Internet, so it spread organically.

I don’t generally mind the smoking bans, but I wish there existed some indoor spaces where it could be done. They are very limited and mostly exclusive.

Trumpers would start eating asbestos for breakfast just to pwn the libz

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I hear there’s nuttin in space anyway