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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by lm28469 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:40PM (#46623974)
I'd argue even the darkest corners of 4chans aren't as bad as the average daily dose of brain rot delivered to hundreds of millions of people through infinite scroll algorithms on TikTok &co. And once you remove the sickening parts of 4chan I'd say it's overall a much more pleasant place than most other social medias, it's one of the last mainstream website that still somewhat feels like the golden age of internet
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by dyauspitr on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:09PM (#46624412)
4chan is categorically bad. The combination of humor + racism/misogyny is like crack at brainwashing kids.
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by asdff on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:05PM (#46625262)
It isn't so black and white as people paint it to be. /g/ is probably the best place on the internet today to discuss technology even with occasional dumb jokes. The crassness of the site and reflexive reaction from you and others has turned out to be a great wall to prevent the corporate enshittification that affected the rest of the internet.
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by dyauspitr on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:08PM (#46625285)
I’ll take harmless enshitification over genocidal racism
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by asdff on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:10PM (#46625316)
Harmless? The internet is dead. Genocidal racism? Not what I see on /g/.
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by dyauspitr on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:37PM (#46626248)
The undertones are all over
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Re:Why Every Country Should Set 16 as the Minimum Age for So... by WheatMillington on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:20PM (#46625447)
>I'd argue even the darkest corners of 4chans aren't as bad as the average daily dose of brain rot delivered to hundreds of millions of people through infinite scroll algorithms on TikTok

Then I'd argue you haven't actually been to the darkest corners of 4chan.

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