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Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 19:51 - Jan 21 by Ewan_Oozami
Didn't 4chan start out as an alt-right "gamergate" thing?
Oh no, it's been around for much, much longer than that.
Most of the "early" memes people might recognise were created there. For example the internet cat obsession started there. I don't know if you remember a story about a woman putting a cat in a bin but they were the ones who tracked her down as "cats" were in joke at that time. Chuck Norris jokes got popularised off there (although they'd been around longer than that), rage comics, the idea of "captioning" images started off there from what I can recall. There's honestly loads, but most of them started life on /b/.
For the most part it harmless but then it goes into downright weird.
It's always been a fairly chaotic and "edgy" place but the /pol/ board was where things really got more sinister.
Think I've talked about how weirdly strong of an influence they have on the internet on here for a good decade now.
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 19:56 - Jan 21 by DanTheMan
Oh no, it's been around for much, much longer than that.
Most of the "early" memes people might recognise were created there. For example the internet cat obsession started there. I don't know if you remember a story about a woman putting a cat in a bin but they were the ones who tracked her down as "cats" were in joke at that time. Chuck Norris jokes got popularised off there (although they'd been around longer than that), rage comics, the idea of "captioning" images started off there from what I can recall. There's honestly loads, but most of them started life on /b/.
For the most part it harmless but then it goes into downright weird.
It's always been a fairly chaotic and "edgy" place but the /pol/ board was where things really got more sinister.
Think I've talked about how weirdly strong of an influence they have on the internet on here for a good decade now.
[Post edited 21 Jan 2021 19:58]
I am aware that Anonymous started out on 4chan too. I think the 420chan ties back to one of the original Anonymous’ whatever that means, Anonymous really isn’t the thing many assume it is.
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 19:59 - Jan 21 by monytowbray
I am aware that Anonymous started out on 4chan too. I think the 420chan ties back to one of the original Anonymous’ whatever that means, Anonymous really isn’t the thing many assume it is.
Well, the whole "anonymous" as an actual group was never really a thing.
The reason for "anons" or "anonymous" is just that everyone on 4chan is called anonymous unless you go out of your way to make a username (like original Q).
They'd do little campaigns like raiding games (Habbo Hotel springs to mind) or they'd protest outside Scientology places. Or they'd hack into things but never anything too big.
So things like this became instant memes on the boards:
Interestingly (well not really) the guy in that was what they call a "LOLcow", who was quite infamous.
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 20:03 - Jan 21 by DanTheMan
Well, the whole "anonymous" as an actual group was never really a thing.
The reason for "anons" or "anonymous" is just that everyone on 4chan is called anonymous unless you go out of your way to make a username (like original Q).
They'd do little campaigns like raiding games (Habbo Hotel springs to mind) or they'd protest outside Scientology places. Or they'd hack into things but never anything too big.
So things like this became instant memes on the boards:
Interestingly (well not really) the guy in that was what they call a "LOLcow", who was quite infamous.
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 20:03 - Jan 21 by DanTheMan
Well, the whole "anonymous" as an actual group was never really a thing.
The reason for "anons" or "anonymous" is just that everyone on 4chan is called anonymous unless you go out of your way to make a username (like original Q).
They'd do little campaigns like raiding games (Habbo Hotel springs to mind) or they'd protest outside Scientology places. Or they'd hack into things but never anything too big.
So things like this became instant memes on the boards:
Interestingly (well not really) the guy in that was what they call a "LOLcow", who was quite infamous.
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 20:24 - Jan 21 by Ewan_Oozami
Ah yes, that's it, the gamergate people moved to 8chan after 4chan kicked them off?
Nah, it's the usual things we've these places.
Things like 4chan start as "absolute free speech!".
Then things like child porn gets posted and they say "OK not that".
Then something else bad happens that causes more moderation, until eventually it reaches a breaking point then someone creates an alternative. The really extreme people move to the alternative until the same thing happens and the cycle continues.
And that's how 8chan started, someone got annoyed about "censorship" on 4chan.
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 19:56 - Jan 21 by DanTheMan
Oh no, it's been around for much, much longer than that.
Most of the "early" memes people might recognise were created there. For example the internet cat obsession started there. I don't know if you remember a story about a woman putting a cat in a bin but they were the ones who tracked her down as "cats" were in joke at that time. Chuck Norris jokes got popularised off there (although they'd been around longer than that), rage comics, the idea of "captioning" images started off there from what I can recall. There's honestly loads, but most of them started life on /b/.
For the most part it harmless but then it goes into downright weird.
It's always been a fairly chaotic and "edgy" place but the /pol/ board was where things really got more sinister.
Think I've talked about how weirdly strong of an influence they have on the internet on here for a good decade now.
[Post edited 21 Jan 2021 19:58]
And, indeed, there was a whole mass of older message groups which later evolved - as the technology did - into what became things like 4chan. Conspiracy stuff used to float around on there, too (along with genealogy and porn, the cornerstones of the early internet).
Really interesting background on Qanon origins... on 20:33 - Jan 21 by Guthrum
And, indeed, there was a whole mass of older message groups which later evolved - as the technology did - into what became things like 4chan. Conspiracy stuff used to float around on there, too (along with genealogy and porn, the cornerstones of the early internet).
Oh yeah, there were some more tailored boards that were nowhere near as "extreme" as things like /b/.
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