Comment by faeriechangling
3 years ago
Thus proving the only actually anonymous community in practice is 4chan, and that’s why it’s so toxic.
3 years ago
Thus proving the only actually anonymous community in practice is 4chan, and that’s why it’s so toxic.
If you define “toxic” as “people disagreeing with you”, sure. That was what the entire internet was like until maybe 2005.
I'm old enough to remember when 4chan was self identifying as the Internet's hate machine, before xkcd referenced it as such: https://xkcd.com/591/
Sometimes people insist that's all role-play and irony; others insist that if it ever was, it certainly isn't now.
But regardless, I remember pre-2005, and it wasn't all like what I saw the two times I looked at 4chan. Bits were. Bits were much worse. But mostly, mostly, people were kinder… at least, unless political tribalism came up.
“People disagreeing with you” describes almost none of the conversation on 4chan