Now there’s 8chan, but what about future ones? Does it grow linearly (12chan, 16chan) or geometrically (32chan, 64chan)?
420chan was fun.
Will it overflow? Will we have a -32768chan?
Who says it’s a 16 bit integer?
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!
Oh yeah? Well, uh… SHUT UP!
But probably yes, it was fucked up in a different way.
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
No LiveLeak? SomethingAwful? PORK CHOP SANDWICHES?
Hey kid, I’m a computer, stop all the downloadin’!
LUE? stileproject? Fads? This image macro is entirely unaware
No OP being a bundle of sticks?
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.
trilby hat version was a major early brand.
Generational categories aren’t real. They’re arbitrary lines made up for listicals and inflammatory content. There is every type of person in every generation, and most trends are more due to the natural progression of age than generation drift.
Comparing generations is only useful when evaluating the context in which they live(d).
The terms are used to convey a group that would buy shit. They are not anthropology terms. They are marketing terminology used to sell you shit. I’m sure today’s students like to use them in their anthropology papers though
the anthropology term is Age Cohort.
This guy ethnographys.
😅
It covers shared experiences decently well. Like obviously there is overlap but in the U.S. as a whole most millennials were kids who have a memory of a pre 9/11 world. Most zoomers grew up with WiFi being common in their houses. Most Gen Xers have memories of being a child near the end of the Cold War and were in the work force before Internet was common. Most boomers either served in the Vietnam war or have a memory of someone close to them going off to fight in an unpopular war.
A lot of those experiences have lasting effects in how those generations behave. It doesn’t mean everyone is the same but instead that you can follow trends that are more true for each generation
Then there is also the advantage of tracking a groups shared experiences like for example many millennials were relatively unaffected by the dotcom bubble but for the 2008 recession they were hit much harder
Right. So, my last sentence then.
See the 4chan irony to fascism took work, and i think the algorithm.
I don’t think millennials are responsible for 4chan. That shit was a cesspool while most of them were in elementary school.
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.
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.
And to say millenials invented online bullying …
Yeah probably some people at bell labs bullied some people in Stanford over ARPANET in the 1970s
And knowing nothing else about the situation; i can tell you the ‘people’ at stanford deserved it.
“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.
Definitely perfected it.
That didn’t sound right, so I looked it up: Moot is a millennial. 4Chan’s got nothing to do with GenX.
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.
Interesting, i assumed he was older than me but hes actually younger. Appreciate the knowledge.
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Definitely not, check your timeframes. I’m a millennial and was in elementary in the 90s. Didn’t really discover 4chan until college years.
Pizza bombing
All successful by 2010.
Do people actually say the first panel?
Lawl absolutely not, good question
Kids probably got annoyed hearing how they do fucked up shit online and are trying to fire back
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.
Technically Patrick is still correct. There are way more younger generations doing more fucked up shit than us. Yeah, we had fucked up shit, but there was fewer of us so the volume of fucked up shit is significantly lower 😤
He didn’t say we didn’t have any just that we had less.
