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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by woodruffw on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:07PM (#34618615)
This is confusing cause and effect: 4chan was a countercultural force, in the same way that SA was. Countercultural forces always end the same way: they're either co-opted for a purpose, or they fade into irrelevancy (as counterculture becomes culture).

4chan is a case of being co-opted: there hasn't been meaningful countercultural activity on 4chan in over a decade, but there is ample reactionary activity masquerading as counterculture. Muddying the distinction between the two is the reactionary's objective.

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by Minor49er on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:23PM (#34620241)
I think this is an important point. 4chan today is largely populated by bot posters, especially on the bigger boards like /b/. Regular users will suffer through captchas mysteriously not working, getting (range) banned for proxy use when the poster is not using a proxy, or even just shadowbanned
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