Having seen it around, I absolutely hate this screenshot. The implicit message is that 4chan was/is actually good and cool, while that hasn’t been the case for a while (if it ever was). Like yeah, it’s somewhat stupid that she thought 4chan has accounts, but the point that the site is utter trash is true.
/mu/ used to be good tho
Depends on the board. It’s just a virtual meet up of all the village idiots.
/b/ was never good
But gosh damn did I love it from 2003 to 2009. If not for /b/, I would absolutely not be married to the most wonderful person. Long story.
I owe it mostly to W.T. Snacks. BRING BACK SNACKS.
I ALSO hope I can see him play someday!
Peak 4chan time frame. I actually showed the site to a friend back then and she met someone there too.
I haven’t heard the name W.T Snacks in a long time.
Snacks is still doing music! A couple episodes of Midnight Snacks were life-changing for teenage me.
Heavily agree with peak 4chan time. People were crass and mean and the racist language was there still, but it was all performative; a way to be edgy somewhere as a person who isn’t a piece of shit in real life. I met some awesome people from there who are genuinely good people.
Now it’s filled with… well, y’know. Nü-4channers.
The greatest thing to come from 4chan is an AI generated green text about a bottomless pit, having been trained on real 4chan green texts.
A machine learning algorithm was capable of better humor than the real people that post to that cesspool. Just remember that.
I have been a long observer of 4Chan, though I’ve long been banned for the silliest of reasons.
I have a hypothesis that increased 4Chan traffic, especially on /b and /pol indicates popularity of the alt-right movement and its many subsets, but also there is an ongoing war between troll-fueled triggered outrage and efforts to address topics with reason. Arguing on 4Chan is like arguing with Evangelical or Catholic apologists, but the fight goes on, regardless.
Also rare images pop up in /hr and /wp which is like caramel popcorn to me.
Does she think 4chan is the darkweb?
deep web*
That’s the same thing.
wrong,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web
The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search-engine programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web
The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets: overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access.
Dark web is a subset of the deep web.
Think of dark web as the high-security installations where the best Pokémon are found. And the deep web as all the hard-to-access parts of the world (like the Himalayas) that have been less exploited by Pokémon hunters so there’s a better chance of getting rare-but-popular ones.
There is a distinction. Dark web is usually associated with the Tor network. Deep web is stuff you can’t access normally, like your email or someones Onlyfans.
I think she actually meant dark web tho.
