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Claire wrote:
i really shouldn't even entertain this with a response and i can tell you never actually hung out on there before like 2010. like back in 2004 if you wanted to talk about anime online it was /a/ or gaiaonline lmao that was your choices.

but /toy/ /cgl/ and /a/ are still some of the best places online to discuss the niche hobbies im into. everyone on /a/ likes the same manga i do. i hadn't been on 4chan in literallly over six years i think? idk it had been a really long time up until quarantine i've been back on my bullshit. i really  been looking to be anonymous lately im sick of people being able to dig into my post history.

i like imageboard culture more and more these days because im sick of the hatemail i get on reddit.com. it really is nice to be anonymous sometimes and not have people stalk your account. like i quit being a mod on reddit in may and i still get death threats every now and then that are super specific and based on my post history. like sometimes i just wanna be nobody. 

of course /b/  was never good. i'm like actually afraid to click on /b/ again nowadays. i did check out /pol/ after the election to see them COPE but it was mostly being brigaded and they were getting clowned on hardcore it was kind of a riot.

4chan is no worse than reddit.com and doesn't pretend to be woke when it aint like redditors do pisses me off all the high horse attitudes when theyre literally exactly as shit as the rest of the internet.

and theres my sincere answer to your insincere question lmao

Claire wrote:
2ch doesnt have nationalist origins- nationalists ended up gathering there. you've got it backwards. first comes the anonymous space- then come the nationalists same as how happened on 4chan.

Anachronism wrote:
I think that's why I dont like anonymous imageboard culture in general. Obviously toxic circles exist on all facets of the internet... never denied reddit is problematic.... just seems like the trolling and bigoted shit is even worse on those sites cuz ppl feel more safe and anonymous, so it's in even fuller force or at least more blatant I guess 

But what you said about it being one of the only places to watch anime and read manga at the time makes sense, I was spoiled and had crunchy roll when I was 13 

Persona wrote:
it's almost odd to me that more people use the internet than ever (pretty much every one is 'very online' these days), and yet the internet feels deader than it has ever done

also I think 'bullying culture' on the internet is in many ways a lot worse. people were targeted, and it's never a great thing, but it didn't feel as personal and vindictive as it does now. people will go after others with almost a completely righteous anger like they're on some kind of crusade 

then again i could be wrong, i'm slightly on the young side to remember the early internet days 

Persona wrote:
it's almost odd to me that more people use the internet than ever (pretty much every one is 'very online' these days), and yet the internet feels deader than it has ever done

also I think 'bullying culture' on the internet is in many ways a lot worse. people were targeted, and it's never a great thing, but it didn't feel as personal and vindictive as it does now. people will go after others with almost a completely righteous anger like they're on some kind of crusade 

then again i could be wrong, i'm slightly on the young side to remember the early internet days 

Claire wrote:
back in the day when we bullied people online we did it because bullying is fun and now we do it because we think we have the moral high ground. 

Claire wrote:
and like to me its more offensive the way twitter bullies. like at least nobody was pretending to be a good person while they bullied chris chan they knew damn well what they were doing. now you can bully an actress off the internet in the name social justice.

Claire wrote:
and like to me its more offensive the way twitter bullies. like at least nobody was pretending to be a good person while they bullied chris chan they knew damn well what they were doing. now you can bully an actress off the internet in the name social justice.

Persona wrote:
idk if you saw this, but a student from a uni in the US emailed her professor that she believed the syllabus of the module he was teaching (and that she was due to take) didn't have enough authors of colour. He emailed her back that there were several authors of colour on the syllabus, defended his syllabus and said he'd take her criticisms into consideration for the next year he taught it. He was a little patronising in his reply, but not rude. 

This wasn't good enough for the student, so she posted his reply on twitter, doxxed him (revealed his full name, uni and the subject he taught) and encouraged people on Twitter to email the dean and complain about this professor's behaviour. This thread got THOUSANDS of RTs. Tons of people replied saying they emailed on her behalf. She basically tried to hold some kind of morality crusade in order to get this guy fired for basically nothing. It was like a week before the academic year was about to start - was she expecting him to change his entire syllabus for one student??

idk how people can think doing something like this is okay