Yeah I agree with all of that.

Good job being introspective.

I was never into incels but /r9k/ did have some insane posts here and there that were interesting. The rest of what you said I'd agree with.

Very little. I was always content to wait for the actually funny greentexts to break containment and land somewhere else. I went to /b/ in like 2010 after hearing it was funny but it was pretty much just racist. Other boards seemed fine just sort of boring.

Similar experience with Tumblr, I like the funny stuff other people find for me and bring to reddit (and now Lemmy) but the site itself tended to be a little dull day to day.

Lurked a fair amount in college (2006-2010ish) on /b/, /x/, /lit/ for the memes and spoof creepypasta. Don’t miss it in the least.

Im old now 😭 lol

Same

How's your back feeling? 😅

0, because it's an armpit.

Zero.

People assume propaganda is obvious, its actually very subtle when used effectively, breaking from a hive mind is difficult as, as humans we want accepted. I think a lot of radicalization is the exploitation of loneliness

Well I'm 6'5 260lbs so age is only part of my back problems lol

Propaganda is not a term I'd personally use. Makes it sound more systematic than I believe it is. I'm sure that on every social media platform there are also the state-level actors wanting to put their thumb on the scale but how I see it is that there's simply this Overton window of acceptable speech and views on each platform and it's mostly set up by the loud minority of "activists" on that platform. People grow accustomed to encountering their views there and it becomes normalized and creates the illusion that this is a commonly held view among the userbase there independent of whether it really is. People quickly learn that expressing certain sentiment reliably gets them praise and approval whereas others result in them being attacked and ostracized. This then leads to an echo chamber where that small minority with the most extreme views basically holds the rest of the platform as hostage. If one tries to bring in nuance it tends to get viewed as opposition and that person gets labeled as the other. This leads them to then just self-censoring, remaining silent or simply parroting the same cliches even if they don't agree on the details. It is in a way exploitation of loneliness because group membership is what it ultimately boils down to: if you want to be accepted to the group then here's the stack of views you're to agree with - please sign below or get the fuck out.

Lmao valid

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

Better question is "What year did you visit 4chan" because some people will say /b/, some will say "when /b/ was good" and others with say "/b/ was never good".

I remember coming back some years later and everyone was talking about /r9k/ and /b/ was old news.

Look, all I'm saying is just triforce. That'll say how long they were on there for.

nice try FBI guy!

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HOW THE HELL DO YOU TRIFORCE?

Lmao

I like ttrpgs so that board was fun

I also like arguing with people so /b/ was fun for me, but yeah "asshole of the internet" is polite term for the place.

I lurked on /a/, /an/, /b/, /f/, /g/, /t/, /wg/, /gif/ previously and now /wsg/.

I spent quite some time on /b/, when it was good. Because of the anonymity you'd focus more on the content and engage more based on the ideas themselves and not who said it.

I used to consider the deranged content as trolls but nowadays I'm not quite so sure... Many have been brainwashed into becoming extreme. Overall the board became a trash bin with 98% sexual content so I've lost all interest.

Editing because I just realized you were the person I responded to:

Hey I have a question. How were you criticizing me? Because that sounds like you're accusing me of being a Nazi when the only actual evidence you have of that is me not liking when people throw Nazi concepts out online. Because unless you were criticizing me specifically that logical fallacy doesn't apply.

One cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into.