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What's up with 4chan portrayal
| It's just current year "nerd" stereotype.
| Yes
| I was thinking earlier about writing something vaguely inflammatory because I felt like doing anything else would be showing that I was encouraging people who use 4chan to continue using this website. And also that a certain user of 4chan both made this thread and some others that made me angry and unhappy. But, on further thought, I realized doing that would make that person angry and unhappy, and make the situation worse. So, uh, sorry, for something I didn't end up doing...
| why did I write that?
| I think that more than just being the nerd stereotype it's also because there's a specific stereotype or image related to 4chan users specifically. And I think that's partially because a lot of the rest of the internet feels like they're on bad terms with 4chan for various reasons and wants to be malicious like I did earlier. But also, the "neckbeard nest" is something that's becoming more commonly displayed with regards to depression and such so it's also an image that's changing.
| I'm kind of an "in-your-face" faggot. But when I read these kinds of attitude it's placating and calms me down.
| I learned a lot of stuff in 4chan and really don't get the hate against it. Of course I had to filter the fuck out of ~le kek buzzwords~ and general attacks against posters for no reason, but really, I learned a shit ton of things about other things there.
| >>739492 I'm glad to hear that. I don't think that I would say I'm a better g/u/rl than anyone here though because the things that make a g/u/rl good are different for everybody. I really think you could also accurately say I'm a bit annoying and longwinded...
But anyways, if you think that it's better to say something like what I did, I encourage you to try.
>>739497 TBH I've never even really tried using 4chan and I don't think most people who dislike 4chan have either.
| I'd say the malice probably has to come from interactions with 4chan users on non-4chan websites. Which, I guess I understand, because I have been pretty upset that someone who I assumed was a 4chan user has been trashing /u/ and /d/ for the past couple weeks. That image probably been built up due to a lot of small incidents like that over a long period of time. I guess 4chan being comparatively old also contributes to that, since they've got the longest history to stereotype on.
| because the average 4chan users are loud and make it very clear who they are-pseudo nihilistic neckbeards that live in squalor and watch MLP and loli anime.
If you're a 4chan user and that is absolutely not a description of you thats fine but idk why that would surprise you. Itd be like a Parler user asking why the caricature of an average Parler user was decked out in undersized boog gear with a confederate flag. You know why 4chan has its reputation, dont play the fool.
| >>739473
"Current year" nerds are portrayed as clean cut, well groomed, and well adhusted to a life of digitization, internet, and endless Marvel movies.
4chan users are not blasted as "nerds" but as maladapted trolls okay with everything save CP and cat gore.
| >>740099 And that there is where much of the animosity resides. Not just in the fact that a loud looking minority of users such as that exist, but also because the majority let them run amok by cultivating a culture which feeds into unhealthy states of minds and let them fester. Personally, I consider a sort of online gauntlet: people either leave 4chan with tougher skin and a stronger stomach, or they become a husk as their energy is sapped into the mindless, empty void.
| >>740260
Fuck haha thats a fair take
I'm glad I ended up more on /x/ and /a/ then any other board but eventually I got tired of the same meta injokes and constant flux of bad trolls from /pol/
| >>740260 damn I wish danger/u/ was cool enough to suck people into a mindless empty void. right now we've only made it up to suck people
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| When anyone documents a "channer" they show a dirty weeb basement room with filthy body pillow and a pile of empty pizza boxes and doritos jeez louise talk about defamation