>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
one photo isn't data
It directly refutes OP's "estimation".
Re:Killing Community
by RavingGoat on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:32PM
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Not really
How? If I said that I think >99% of people have 2 arms, a photo of a one armed man doesn't refute it.
Do you have competing evidence besides your prejudices?
What prejudices would these be?
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
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How did they measure this? Except for Location (and maybe Interests) it seems like an anonymous image board would not have this information.
I mean it's pretty telling of which demographics gets weeded out... when rebuttal stats, casually leave out race and sexuality %'s.
> 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
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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
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No. Even those formerly traumatized can later become resilient to words.
This seems exceedingly generous to 4chan. Where else is this standard applied?
Unfortunately in less and less places due to outrage culture becoming commonplace.
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.