There is absolutely nothing wrong with using 4chan, or many memes that come out of 4chan. Most early memes have originated from 4chan anyways.

There is definitely something with being racist and generally unpleasant, which is only a tiny portion of 4chan, just like it is a tiny portion of twitter, or reddit. You are using a part to make a judgement on the whole, which anyone can do for any website. Is reddit a "bad" website because there are anti climate change subreddits?

> There is definitely something with being racist and generally unpleasant, which is only a tiny portion of 4chan, just like it is a tiny portion of twitter, or reddit

Can't believe we're already re-writing the history of early 4chan. I was there, I saw it, as I'm sure plenty of others on this site have.

Racism "only a tiny portion of 4chan"? Pshh.

I guess it really depends on what boards you go on. I may be seeing an incomplete picture because I browse /g/, /sci/ & sometimes /ic/. However if you go to /pol/ & /b/ (containment zone for the fringes & board for naked bums) you may see a very different picture

I also spent time on /g/ and /sci/, they are also quite racist, but not the burning shitfire that /b/ is.

Literally the 4th post on /g/ right now is about American tech companies and complaining that they make you support black people (well, except they used the n-word for black people).

god damn it the /g/ jannies are absolutely useless

English is not my mother tongue, what is the equivalent idiomatic non-controversial English phrase?

Not a problem at all, you probably want "brownie points".

Brownie points: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/brownie_point#English

Good boy points: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tendies-stories

Brownie points? In this particular context? Seems a much poorer choice of words.

Thanks.

Brownie Points.

But for what it's worth, I think it's an absurd idea to try and cleanse oneself of 4chan memes, since they form such a significant strata of internet culture. The attitude that some people have towards 4chan is embarrassing. It's just a website. Yes, it harbours fascists, but so does every other website. Moreover it's one of the few places left on the internet where people say what they think rather than what they want other people to think they think...

> Moreover it's one of the few places left on the internet where people say what they think rather than what they want other people to think they think...

As an engineer, I believe in tradeoffs and pragmatism, not dogmatism. Thus, I have no issue with GP's objection and have made the suggested edit.

Breathing air is also a 4chan thing