You’re forgetting a lot of the original imageboards (eg. Blueboard) and calling them “hate and revenge porn subreddits” is a gross oversimplification… eg. r/jailbait is NOT a simple revenge porn subreddit! It was a straight up you know what subreddit! It’s a shame to see Redditors defend Michael Brutsch (u/violentacrez A.K.A VA A.K.A “Pimp of Reddit”) as a “troll” even till this day! Apart from this, there were also a lot of disturbing subreddits during the mid '10s like r/beatingtrannies, r/beatingcripples, r/strugglefuck, r/askarapist to name the few.
Don’t forget r/picsofdeadkids and r/beautifulcorpses
R/rape was a place for rape porn for the longest time. Posting to Reddit for advice coping with sexual assault is 100% a bad idea, as you will mostly get DM’s and chat requests from people who want to get off to your trauma. I believe the moderators of those “support” communities also get off on it too.
There are still currently beastiality subreddits and r/guro. The beastiality subreddits post simulated images/hentai, but the discussions include advice on how to participate.
People tried to defend r/jailbait by saying it was girls close to 18. (Uh akshually it’s ephebophilia 🤡) It was not. It was mostly 13-14 year olds or younger. Actual pornographic images weren’t posted there, but it was clear that the admin team and others were running trading rings.
Didn’t Reddit even ban Gawker links for a while for doxxing Micheal Brutsch? Redditors always fell over themselves to defend all of this shit as “free speech.” R/ShitRedditSays was considered worse than any of these subreddits.
Yikes, what a terrible day to know how to read
Now there’s 8chan, but what about future ones? Does it grow linearly (12chan, 16chan) or geometrically (32chan, 64chan)?
Will it overflow? Will we have a -32768chan?
Who says it’s a 16 bit integer?
420chan was fun.
No LiveLeak? SomethingAwful? PORK CHOP SANDWICHES?
LUE? stileproject? Fads? This image macro is entirely unaware
I managed to dodge a lot of bullets growing up as a ‘gamer girl’. I played EQ instead of WoW and later on instead of CoD lobbies I played MAG. Still have really fond memories of this group of older guys that took me in as their medic. Never anything creepy, they just knew I was happy to play that role and got pretty good at it.
We die all the fucked up things in the early internet. Things that are now forgotten. Theres not much that kids these can do on the internet that we didn’t. The main difference now is the nazi pipeline. We didn’t have that.
We saw Nazis as bad and shunned them.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha created Incels.
idk, incels are very much millennial’s problem too.
To be fair styles project and rotten.com were there well before millennials.
Na, but Millenials used it in their (pre-)teens seeing some fucked-up shit (and strangely most of us are still fine)
I don’t think millennials are responsible for 4chan. That shit was a cesspool while most of them were in elementary school.
What? No.
4 chan started in highschool or middle school if you’re a bit younger. Millennials used 4chan while genx invented and ran it.
That didn’t sound right, so I looked it up: Moot is a millennial. 4Chan’s got nothing to do with GenX.
Interesting, i assumed he was older than me but hes actually younger. Appreciate the knowledge.
Being started by a millennial means nothing to the discussion. Were millennials the users who popularized it?
Being started by a millennial means nothing to the discussion.
Don’t blame me; I’m not the one who brought it up.
Were millennials the users who popularized it?
Yes.
Source on the last part, please.
And to say millenials invented online bullying …
Yeah probably some people at bell labs bullied some people in Stanford over ARPANET in the 1970s
“Hey nerds come get your mom she won’t leave us alone.”
“Fuck you Bellsy!”
“Fuck you Stanford, yer mum’s complaining about me dropping packets but it’s hard to keep things flowing when UCLA’s mum keeps using up all my bandwidth”
Got a laugh out of me mate.
And knowing nothing else about the situation; i can tell you the ‘people’ at stanford deserved it.
Definitely perfected it.
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Also pretty sure the 4chan to Nazi speedrun was a state run psyop. 4chan is by far the easiest social media to manipulate. You don’t have to pretend to have a user history.
Definitely not, check your timeframes. I’m a millennial and was in elementary in the 90s. Didn’t really discover 4chan until college years.
Liveleak
Calling out Millennials for Fascism when Gen Z helped elect Trump 2.0 is just fucking rich.
???
Every fucking generation helped elect Trump
They meant that young men breaking away from the rest of their cohort in a much more significant manner than the last couple generations helped tip things in his favor.
It was a departure from the norm
The trend was that every younger generation was more progressive than the last. Gen Z polling breaks the trend. Gen Z voted for Trump at a higher rate.
I miss the era of SA/4chan/YTMND being the meme factories of the internet.
It was chaotic, yes, but goddamn were there fewer problems
Honestly. Many things were so much better before.
If you didn’t like it on the internet, you could just not use it. Nowadays everyone with a pulse is forced to be on the internet, even if they shouldn’t.
People used to understand that things existing digitally, meant that they would spread on the internet. Including and especially incriminating stuff. Trolling people who where clueless used to be fun too. The iOS7 update campaign where people were stupid enough to microwave their phones to charge them was incredibly funny.
There wasn’t karmawhoring or attention seeking, in fact you would be chastised for acting like you wanted attention.
The dominance of social media and total financial exploitation ruined the internet and now is damaging society at large. It‘s now a machine that amplifies anxiety, hate, and addiction.
I’m so glad I didn’t participate in any of these trends when I was that age. So many regrets avoided.
Yes, by simply not having friends.
Don’t say that part out loud!
It is my greatest strength. You cannot match my power!
It goes way further back than that: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/controlling-the-virtual-world/history/rape.html
I used to frequent LambdaMOO. Things weren’t all that different back then than they are now.
See the 4chan irony to fascism took work, and i think the algorithm.
