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growing up on the internet you learn to filter that
Bizarre how this works, because looking back a lot of the shit coming out of that site was pretty heinous. (Trigger warning)
From memory:
- They discovered a lonely lady’s website where she had concocted a fantasy world for herself over several years (no one else joined her site) and flooded it with very illegal porn.
- Multiple cases of bullying ended in suicide, and several were even live streamed with idiots egging the person on.
- Dossing and mob harassment were a regular occurrence, which often went beyond the web and messed up people’s real lives.
- Certain parts were infamous for the amount of illegal shit that transpired there.
I’m sure a large website would have some good and some bad parts, but the chans were/are? like Reddit but with bad mental health issues.
- They discovered a lonely lady’s website where she had concocted a fantasy world for herself over several years (no one else joined her site) and flooded it with very illegal porn.
Leshaches
Before about 2008 the right wing stuff was mostly kept on a couple of sub forums,
/b/ (random) was the pinacle of shit posting and some of the more specific forums were actually useful. I bet if you went on the weight lifting one now you'd find a helpful guide stickied at the top about weekly routines, nutrition etc. Over time it got taken over by bots. But also I was a teenager in it's peak, it was a lively place where memes were created and funny things happened. Sure there was some racism, gore, etc but growing up on the internet you learn to filter that.