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Re:Killing Community by csin on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:55AM (#36305551)
"In 4chan a literal nazi, a drag queen, a bona-fide pedophile and a luddite can exchange opinions..."

This is overly romantic. I just visited /g/. Less than 1 min in, I see "nigger" and "faggot".

I'm sure there are blacks, gays and drag queens that see value in 4chan and are desensitized to those words. But, I'd estimate 99% of the population is white men/boys with antisocial tendencies.

Which is fine. There's nothing wrong with like minded people building a village. But let's not pretend the culture of the site, doesn't instantly weed out a huge chunk of multiple demographics.

Re:Killing Community by bobsmooth on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:42AM (#36306900)
>But, I'd estimate 99% of the population is white men/boys with antisocial tendencies.

You'd be wrong https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1220127-pol

Re:Killing Community by hhmc on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:55AM (#36307019)
one photo isn't data
Re:Killing Community by bobsmooth on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:50AM (#36307456)
It directly refutes OP's "estimation".
Re:Killing Community by RavingGoat on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:32PM (#36314693)
Not really
Re:Killing Community by hhmc on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:06PM (#36316192)
How? If I said that I think >99% of people have 2 arms, a photo of a one armed man doesn't refute it.
Re:Killing Community by account42 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:46AM (#36326817)
Do you have competing evidence besides your prejudices?
Re:Killing Community by hhmc on Thursday June 15, 2023 @05:26AM (#36338124)
What prejudices would these be?
Re:Killing Community by ulucs on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:07AM (#36307112)
A nice exercise in you thinking the whole world is only what you see for yourself. Here are the actual demographics:

Demographic

    Age: 18-34
    Gender: ~70% male, ~30% female
    Location: United States (47%), United Kingdom (7%), Canada (6%), Australia (4%), Germany (4%)
    Interests: Japanese culture, anime, manga, video games, comics, technology, music, movies
    Education: Majority attended or currently enrolled in college
Re:Killing Community by poorlyknit on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:17AM (#36309138)
How did they measure this? Except for Location (and maybe Interests) it seems like an anonymous image board would not have this information.
Re:Killing Community by csin on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:35AM (#36337488)
I mean it's pretty telling of which demographics gets weeded out... when rebuttal stats, casually leave out race and sexuality %'s.
Re:Killing Community by mdp2021 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:25AM (#36307244)
> desensitized to those words

"Desensitized to words" is normal mental development; infants may be excited by sheer words - not beyond.

Beyond infancy you (should) have gained filtering and control;

before that and after social experience, you should be able to understand actions as part of "playing" ("non-seriousness", transversality of intention).

Re:Killing Community by AlecSchueler on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:26AM (#36309240)
This will only happen if you aren't directly exposed to trauma associated with homophobic or racist aggression etc.
Re:Killing Community by buggyipadmettoo on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:10PM (#36334711)
No. Even those formerly traumatized can later become resilient to words.
Re:Killing Community by jamilton on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:10PM (#36319973)
This seems exceedingly generous to 4chan. Where else is this standard applied?
Re:Killing Community by account42 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:46AM (#36326802)
Unfortunately in less and less places due to outrage culture becoming commonplace.
Re:Killing Community by jamilton on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:15AM (#36337022)
I disagree, people care less about vulgar words than they used to.