And despite having this legendary status, the average person knows fuckall about 4chan. Even people who spend an exorbitant amount of time on the internet only have the vaguest understanding of the site. Because of this, people get away with saying a lot of dumb shit and making a lot of assumptions about 4chan.
So here’s what you need to know:
The 4chan you think you know is nearly a decade out of date
The “fresh and modern” 4chan you’re dealing with today is as vile and misogynistic as it ever has been. The worrying thing that people have to realise are that children are being indoctrinated and encouraged to be absolute racist shitheads by older absolute racist shitheads.
Their behavior can no longer be considered “just a joke”
You act as if 4chan’s main goal is to oppress women and be racist… But I’m also still pretty sure you’re a joke blog, meant to parody hyperbolic, misinformed SJW bullshit.
At any rate, 4chan isn’t indoctrinating children (who aren’t meant to go to 4chan anyways) because 4chan doesn’t have an ideology to spread. It only exists for the purpose of having a place for 18+ people to go and discuss anime, video games, porn, older video games, cartoons and comics, porn, food, guns, business, porn, board and card games, porn, monster girls, waifus, spooky skeleton stories, dickgirl porn, lgbt issues, and other topics.
There’s no agenda. There’s no grand scheme for the millions of multicultural, multiracial, male and female posters to take part in. 4chan exists for the sake of 4chan.
Besides, if you want to talk about hateful content contained within a website, tumblr has tons of blogs run by and for neo-nazis, white supremacists, radical feminists (the kind that think terrorism is good), as well as blogs for your garden variety racists, sexists, and psychopaths.
Guess you should work on invading and shutting down tumblr next. I eagerly await your results.
You act as if the patriarchy constantly requires people to consciously enable and support it. Here’s news for you, it doesn’t. It gets perpetuated by people staying quiet and ignorant with no interest in checking their privilege because they don’t want to be upsetting the status-quo. Everything that 4chan & Anonymous says and does suits the patriarchy perfectly. Encouraging misogyny and racism, even as a joke, will breed more misogyny and racism.
The site may say “18+” but come on, it’s a fact that a large percentage of the users are underage. Even 4chan’s owner, “moot”, was underage when he started the site. Children are impressionable and 4chan are bigoted role models. These children are being praised for hating colored people and vulernable minorities. They’re getting praised for reading nazi material and are practically being shuffled into being the new generation of digital Hitler Youth