When do you consider it died? 2015 when Poole sold it?
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 13:57
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2016 when MAGApedes inavded the site.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 15:35
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Not invaded. The existing 4chan user-base inspired, and was targeted with, fascist propaganda starting with gamergate!
It was literally ground zero for fascist PsyOps. Steve Bannon even considered it an inspiration, and a pivotal moment, in the creation of his fascist propaganda machine.
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 21:54
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Debatable, there was a influx of new users around that time with reprehensible views. I used 4Chan as it was happening.
Poole knew he had a contentious base of users. I remember in 2013 or 2014, 4chan users posted photographic evidence his gf was cheating on him, and I think it broke him. I dont blame him for selling the site, but 18 months later… I wonder if Moot knew he was holding back the end of the world.
I wonder if Poole has done any interesting interviews on the intersection of 4chan and the modern fascist propaganda machine it bred.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 18:35
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When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold. Long before MAGA or the politics board were even a concept. It didn’t die immediately from them, but it was the start of a measurable drop in discussion quality that never stopped.
The “protests” devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the “eternal september” problem the site always had exponentially.
Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about “hiding your power level”, which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full “I’m a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?”.
A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit’s “When does the narwhal bacon?” forced meme attempt at the world’s most embarassing “secret pass phrase” bullshit. The scientology “protests” were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.
4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of “quality”. I’d argue that’s needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.
“Lurk moar, faggot” was the phrase of the time. Stop posting until you figure out how things work around here.
But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.
/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.
Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they’ve downloaded off the ladies’ social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.
Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.
/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I’m not trying to deny that. There’s screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn’t breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn’t been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.
The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board’s pretty shit now too.
I used to frequent the /tg/ board, it had people making homebrew conceptual RPGs - the kind of stuff that the indie RPG scene pretends to have invented. Sorry to see the site go, but it was inevitable.
Around then for me. Hiroyuki allowed /pol/ to happen when moot tried it and ditched it quickly. Too many people started thinking their farts didn’t stink. I went there for anime discussions when every other popular site was a hugbox.
The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or “the sharty”. They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I’ve heard and seen from the website.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 12:57
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That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture
real_squids@sopuli.xyz
on 15 Apr 13:28
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more like very sad
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
on 15 Apr 13:49
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Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.
HATEFISH@midwest.social
on 15 Apr 13:56
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Maybe they didn’t care to the same degree but unfortunately incel culture was fostered in several areas, and a lot of them are younger than mid 30s.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
on 15 Apr 15:30
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Oh incels are a massive problem. But younger millenials and genz and the like got radicalized by reddit and twitter and the like, not 4chan. And then they just went straight to 8chan if they left their festering grounds at all.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 14:48
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I think my only contact with 4chan was to get JAV content and also my first contact with torrenting.
thatchemguy@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 16:25
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I open it periodically just to see what’s up. I regret it every time :3
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 16:56
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the definition of Morbid curiosity is essentially what my experience w/ 4chan is
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca
on 15 Apr 15:27
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By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they were going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a major corporation or government.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 17:59
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i’m fairly certain there are more than likely a LOT of politicians on there with very questionable posting records who would probably be on a sex offender registry if it got out.
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 18:46
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If they’re Republican it won’t matter.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Apr 01:02
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Badge of Honor for them, probably.
General_Effort@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 18:08
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I thought it would be a legitimate niche forum for sharing information. And reddit leaned further into trolling and bad behaviour.
A systems purpose is what it does and this platform has not shown much outside of being a place for fights and self held superiority stroking.
TL; DR I am mostly here for news links and B-Movie-Bananza cause it has some good recommendations. Not to interact or pretend this is more than the sum of its parts.
Also the top communities are memes mostly so, yes? Is not jokes a minor form of trolling?
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 15:06
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We have a different definition of troll I think. To me trolls are bad faith actors hiding racism and other disinclusive speech behind humor.
Ah. It used to be just someone that would say something so inflammatory or provoking that it would force interaction or responses from the people witnessing it.
Like an obvious joke or quote of an earworm that it creates replies. Or sometimes something rude or just wrong on purpose. Modern bad actors adopting trolling tactics is not necessarily the same thing.
You could say trolls are like onions, they have multiple coatings.
peculiar_goat@lemm.ee
on 15 Apr 15:24
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A definition I saw many years ago was something like a troll tricks you into feeling a certain way or doing a specific thing. Could be positive, mostly done for humour, but the ones we hear most about in the media or whatever are the upsetting ones.
Yeah the best ones are just taking advantage of our empathetic neurons to initiate a conversation. The terrifying ones then use that opening to inject their own thoughts on others.
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Apr 16:03
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I’ve been online since usenet. I try to use the current meaning of words. I fully understand that trolling has been coopted by bad faith actors.
Originally it was a fun little bit of sarcasm or an inside joke that became a proto meme or some copypasta to share around.
Now it’s a path to the US presidency.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Apr 00:18
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I guess it’s like “hacking.” In the good old days, a “hacker” was a particularly clever software developer, now it’s someone who breaks into computers.
Can we please stop ruining the good words?
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works
on 16 Apr 04:23
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Hacking is using something in a manner in which it was unintended by hacking parts of it, as with an axe.
Good discussion of it here with etymological references.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml
on 15 Apr 15:16
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Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/
As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he’s behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it’s far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world
You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It’s fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don’t doubt for a second that Elon didn’t try to co-opt it at some point.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 18:04
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He would certainly take credit for it.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 21:27
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What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 21:36
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furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability
(e: also it’s a static image; no need to indicate whether it’s interlaced or *p**rogressive, because again, it’s a static image. And before you get pendantic: yes I’m aware that PNGs can be interlaced or progressive—but this is a JPEG—and those terms mean something completely different when referring to static images, compared to video.)
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone
on 16 Apr 05:33
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It’s also not a progressive JPEG either.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml
on 15 Apr 17:12
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I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.
It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 16 Apr 04:18
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check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.
elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world
on 15 Apr 20:12
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I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web… or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way… and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 16 Apr 04:17
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security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 04:43
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Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip
on 15 Apr 21:21
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I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.
I wish people would stop censuring themselves on lemmy like they do for the other social medias.
You can say shit, and a lot worse now that you aren’t asking a corpo for permission to speak.
My nightmare source was only a few lines less, and it actually was commented. But in French. Label names were also dereived from French. The original author was dead, and Google translate was not yet a thing.
Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they’re the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.
Turns out the hacker known as 4chan barely knows how his own code.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Apr 21:35
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Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Apr 22:33
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qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Apr 00:07
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its a website referred to as the party, but im not saying the actual name due to the fact that it regularly gets spammed with csam and other violent things of the nature, its really a lawless land and its hosted in russia. its not hard to find if you look on twitter or something. even as someone who went on qa before, i have never wanted to step foot there, its not the same.
ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 16 Apr 01:08
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I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.
Naevermix@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 06:52
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There just has to be a copy of the database somewhere out there…
dontbelasagne@lemmy.world
on 16 Apr 09:05
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Is this the end of 4 Chan?
If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.
4chan died a long time ago.
When do you consider it died? 2015 when Poole sold it?
2016 when MAGApedes inavded the site.
Not invaded. The existing 4chan user-base inspired, and was targeted with, fascist propaganda starting with gamergate!
It was literally ground zero for fascist PsyOps. Steve Bannon even considered it an inspiration, and a pivotal moment, in the creation of his fascist propaganda machine.
Debatable, there was a influx of new users around that time with reprehensible views. I used 4Chan as it was happening.
Yeah, I deleted a paragraph re chicken & egg scenario whether or not it started on 4chan.
It could have very well been a targeted PsyOp by Russia/fascists from the get-go, potentially starting years before gamergate.
But 4chan banned Gamergate posts. That’s one of the reasons why 8chan was made.
The same year Twitter died then.
I wonder about this sometimes.
Poole knew he had a contentious base of users. I remember in 2013 or 2014, 4chan users posted photographic evidence his gf was cheating on him, and I think it broke him. I dont blame him for selling the site, but 18 months later… I wonder if Moot knew he was holding back the end of the world.
I wonder if Poole has done any interesting interviews on the intersection of 4chan and the modern fascist propaganda machine it bred.
When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold. Long before MAGA or the politics board were even a concept. It didn’t die immediately from them, but it was the start of a measurable drop in discussion quality that never stopped.
The “protests” devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the “eternal september” problem the site always had exponentially.
Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about “hiding your power level”, which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full “I’m a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?”.
A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit’s “When does the narwhal bacon?” forced meme attempt at the world’s most embarassing “secret pass phrase” bullshit. The scientology “protests” were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.
4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of “quality”. I’d argue that’s needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.
“Lurk moar, faggot” was the phrase of the time. Stop posting until you figure out how things work around here.
But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.
/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.
Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they’ve downloaded off the ladies’ social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.
Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.
/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I’m not trying to deny that. There’s screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn’t breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn’t been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.
The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board’s pretty shit now too.
I used to frequent the /tg/ board, it had people making homebrew conceptual RPGs - the kind of stuff that the indie RPG scene pretends to have invented. Sorry to see the site go, but it was inevitable.
How could anything be better than Doomworld for new wads? That’s wild.
Around then for me. Hiroyuki allowed /pol/ to happen when moot tried it and ditched it quickly. Too many people started thinking their farts didn’t stink. I went there for anime discussions when every other popular site was a hugbox.
yet the rotting carcass is still around stinking
Sort of like US Democracy.
Who is this 4chan guy?
youtu.be/kRcdmbC0HHs
No, the people who come there are retarded. They will still be retarded in a week or a month from now.
They were hacked by Soyjak www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html#10615802 / archive.ph/fxB6N
Is it me or does Soyjak use Windows?
Is that a person?
the mysterious hacker known as
4chansoyjack.Damn, I rarely looked at these types of website, but wtf is that. I feel like every post is dumb and worthless. Just spam.
Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.
The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or “the sharty”. They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I’ve heard and seen from the website.
Yeah - the real freaks left because moot dated like Brianna Wu or something stupid and weird like that. 8chan was the place for a bit.
4chan is owned by an anime figma company at the moment - i think Nendroid?
Ah, the mysterious hacker known as 4chan.
It hit itself in confusion!
That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture
more like very sad
Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.
Maybe they didn’t care to the same degree but unfortunately incel culture was fostered in several areas, and a lot of them are younger than mid 30s.
Oh incels are a massive problem. But younger millenials and genz and the like got radicalized by reddit and twitter and the like, not 4chan. And then they just went straight to 8chan if they left their festering grounds at all.
I think my only contact with 4chan was to get JAV content and also my first contact with torrenting.
I open it periodically just to see what’s up. I regret it every time :3
the definition of Morbid curiosity is essentially what my experience w/ 4chan is
/tg/ was usually decent. Often a good source for pdfs
<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9a95175a-16ea-4e31-b6a1-e7058b4f5511.jpeg">
Lemmy and 4chan do have one thing in common
Hating reddit.
Of course, they hate Reddit because they can’t use hate speech there
Reddit allows racism or sexism just fine without slurs or with slurs depending on the subreddit.
You see it mostly on the more political and gamer/incel type communities there.
there are literally subreddits with slurs in the name
Ah yes “hydrohomies” had to change after they got too popular.
Also a shady image to the point some people who have only heard of it think it‘s some deep web voodoo. They have that in common somehow.
We have voodoo? Since when
We take turns taking care of it. You’ll get your turn eventually.
You do
Do what? Remind me of the babe
That is all 4chan lingo. As a general rule of thumb, if it sounds like something Elon would say, it’s from 4chan.
its like… getting a whiff of something I haven’t felt in a long time.
And nothing of value was lost
What’s the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.
A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.
This was the end result
Ah yes, there’s no honor amongst thieves.
By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they were going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a major corporation or government.
i’m fairly certain there are more than likely a LOT of politicians on there with very questionable posting records who would probably be on a sex offender registry if it got out.
If they’re Republican it won’t matter.
Badge of Honor for them, probably.
For the lulz!
For revenge
For the LULZ obviously.
The Elon thing is possible, and there’s a screenshot in the Reddit thread that’s kinda convincing, but I’m still not bought in.
Tinfoil hat brain is wondering if there’s something in there someone’s supposed to find but 😂 🤷🏻
lol
They need to hack Reddit.
In away they did.
Yeah reddit and Lemmy are just auxiliary troll communities to the OG forums like 4chan.
Same people. Same shitty behaviour just slightly different topics and levels of trolling.
Then why are you here? Are you also a troll?
I thought it would be a legitimate niche forum for sharing information. And reddit leaned further into trolling and bad behaviour.
A systems purpose is what it does and this platform has not shown much outside of being a place for fights and self held superiority stroking.
TL; DR I am mostly here for news links and B-Movie-Bananza cause it has some good recommendations. Not to interact or pretend this is more than the sum of its parts.
Also the top communities are memes mostly so, yes? Is not jokes a minor form of trolling?
We have a different definition of troll I think. To me trolls are bad faith actors hiding racism and other disinclusive speech behind humor.
Ah. It used to be just someone that would say something so inflammatory or provoking that it would force interaction or responses from the people witnessing it.
Like an obvious joke or quote of an earworm that it creates replies. Or sometimes something rude or just wrong on purpose. Modern bad actors adopting trolling tactics is not necessarily the same thing.
You could say trolls are like onions, they have multiple coatings.
A definition I saw many years ago was something like a troll tricks you into feeling a certain way or doing a specific thing. Could be positive, mostly done for humour, but the ones we hear most about in the media or whatever are the upsetting ones.
Yeah the best ones are just taking advantage of our empathetic neurons to initiate a conversation. The terrifying ones then use that opening to inject their own thoughts on others.
I’ve been online since usenet. I try to use the current meaning of words. I fully understand that trolling has been coopted by bad faith actors.
Originally it was a fun little bit of sarcasm or an inside joke that became a proto meme or some copypasta to share around.
Now it’s a path to the US presidency.
I guess it’s like “hacking.” In the good old days, a “hacker” was a particularly clever software developer, now it’s someone who breaks into computers.
Can we please stop ruining the good words?
Hacking is using something in a manner in which it was unintended by hacking parts of it, as with an axe.
Good discussion of it here with etymological references.
…stackexchange.com/…/what-does-the-word-hacking-o…
No no, ogres are like onions.
Weren’t ogres more like cake though? Everybody loves cake.
Or parfaits!
People know what 4chan is. There’s no illusions about it. reddit and its derivatives are were the real trolling goes down.
Trolling is a lot harder when you’re not anonymous to other users.
Kinda inevitable after moot sold it.
Pools closed
Ok now I’m curious about the alien photo they’re talking about in the comments.
I was wiondering what was up Last night
Not 4chan!
Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/
reddit.com/…/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_… (archive) summarizes these posts
As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he’s behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it’s far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world
If you look trough the posts, people were slowly claiming it to be musk and he was slowly confirming it.
That could ofcourse be a troll too.
Guess the posts times could be crosschecked with times when Musk was in public events or so, not to confirm it is him, but to see if it not
Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I’m just asking questions.
That would be interesting. I wonder if anyone’s done stylometry on those posts
You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It’s fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don’t doubt for a second that Elon didn’t try to co-opt it at some point.
He would certainly take credit for it.
What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares
furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability
ContraPoints did an excellent video on conspiracy theories recently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI
<img alt="Good Luck, Im Behind 7 Boxxies" src="https://literature.cafe/pictrs/image/145827de-d562-4529-9c8d-ab6bb5ce0b45.jpeg">
Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Boxxy must be what…40 now?
I remember when she was popular learning that that she was like 10 years younger than me, so 35-ish.
34 or 35, I think. I remember learning that she was around my age.
oh hey you were 13 on 4chan as well?
I still would
Queen
She turns 33 in few days.
damn it’s even in the original 140p
.
120x160, actually, but effectively close enough.
(e: also it’s a static image; no need to indicate whether it’s interlaced or *p**rogressive, because again, it’s a static image. And before you get pendantic: yes I’m aware that PNGs can be interlaced or progressive—but this is a JPEG—and those terms mean something completely different when referring to static images, compared to video.)
It’s also not a progressive JPEG either.
I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.
It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.
Where? I’d be interested in looking through it too
litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.
I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web… or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way… and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD
security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting
I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.
Kill WordPress now.
Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s…
Stilton Cheese?
Satin undies?
Shit?
Ssssssandwiches
Close. Soiled undies.
Shaaaaaving cream! Be nice and clean! Shave every day and you’ll always look keen!
I wish people would stop censuring themselves on lemmy like they do for the other social medias. You can say shit, and a lot worse now that you aren’t asking a corpo for permission to speak.
Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?
10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable as someone who took a job and had to wade through code like that
Go on…
My nightmare source was only a few lines less, and it actually was commented. But in French. Label names were also dereived from French. The original author was dead, and Google translate was not yet a thing.
Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.
backups were always against the spirit of 4chan
No. For the same reason that they didn’t demolish Auschwitz. We must learn from our follies, lest we repeat them.
I doubt there’s any such thing as backups, nothing on there is permanent that’s why so many archive sites exist.
Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.
It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.
I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.
archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/
Allegedly Elon’s account.
Did 4chan had usernames and so? Wasn’t it’s deal that ir was anonymous?
Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they’re the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.
The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮
Who is this anonymous and why does he keep talking to himself?
Come over to Marblecake and I’ll explain.
Turns out the hacker known as 4chan barely knows how his own code.
Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?
qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.
Which site did qa migrate to?
its a website referred to as the party, but im not saying the actual name due to the fact that it regularly gets spammed with csam and other violent things of the nature, its really a lawless land and its hosted in russia. its not hard to find if you look on twitter or something. even as someone who went on qa before, i have never wanted to step foot there, its not the same.
it’s soyjak.party
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someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds
This amuses me. Fuck that refuse scow
I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.
There just has to be a copy of the database somewhere out there…
Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?