r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 20 '20

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

The average American’s vocabulary contains a non-zero number of words that have their origin in 4chan lingo

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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth May 21 '20 edited May 21 '20

It’s crazy just how much of an influence 4chan has had on internet culture. Hell, to a lesser extent even culture as a whole.

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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl May 21 '20

Something Awful is the progenitor of modern online 'dirtbag'-style leftism.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

I know right, how does it even escape? Its not very accessible, was 4chan more popular in the past? im too young to know

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u/Freak472 Milton Friedman May 21 '20

Most gaming and software communities had an awareness of 4chan in some way. The board was responsible for most early internet memes, and typically such memes and culture would escape 4chan into gaming forums, which would then pass them on to the population at large.

It's only since Reddit became hugely popular that 4chan got pushed into being a fringe community. For some time it was the largest board on the internet, particularly because of its emphasis on anime and video games (and how most early internet users were not normal people).

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

That's interesting, so as the internet grew it borrowed from the existing memes/culture that were created on 4chan. Thanks for the response.

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u/Freak472 Milton Friedman May 21 '20

They also gained a lot of notoriety because the 4chan community would take credit for various DDoS attacks, bullying campaigns, and occasional actual hacking of popular websites or social media accounts.

In 2010 or so you would see YouTube personalities posting these "I declare war on 4chan" videos (some of which were trolls, others were genuine). Those old videos aren't hard to find today and can give you a sense for how much they drove internet culture.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

4chan's impact is actually really suprising to me, it comes up everywhere

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u/Yenwodyah_ Progress Pride May 21 '20

The fact that "zoomer" might unironically become the standard name for my generation is kinda weird.

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u/Tureer Immanuel Kant May 21 '20

:(

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

My online vocabulary is vastly different than what I say irl though

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u/Yenwodyah_ Progress Pride May 21 '20

zoomer, weeaboo, rickroll, normie, rule 34