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Re:4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins em... by esseph on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:15PM (#43694977)
It's so funny to read this.

I've been involved in "internet culture" since the early to mid 90s.

The only thing that I heard about that ever came out of 4chan was toxicity.

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Re:4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins em... by dmonitor on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @01:40PM (#43696087)
That's crazy. The whole "dank memes" thing and terms like based, boomer, wojak, and soy are all from channer culture. 4chan managed to brand gen Z as the "zoomer" generation. Its cultural pervasiveness is impossibly deep.
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Re:4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins em... by esseph on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @01:54PM (#43708411)
Yes, very right wing culture.

The internet is BIG and atomized.

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Re:4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins em... by idiotsecant on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:12AM (#43713049)
When 4chan was young it was only right wing in the sense that people would pretend to be right wing because it was so stupid. Over time the ratio of people pretending to people being serious started to shift...
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Re:4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins em... by esseph on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:30PM (#43721880)
The jokes became reality. They paved the way.
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Re:4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins em... by esseph on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:29PM (#43721873)
This title says it all: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/4chan_breached/
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