#1 2008-08-01 03:57:49
The phenomenon should be plenty familiar to the HS Irregulars...4chan finally hits the NYT:
Malwebolence
/b/ is the designated “random” board of 4chan.org, a group of message boards that draws more than 200 million page views a month. A post consists of an image and a few lines of text. Almost everyone posts as “anonymous.” In effect, this makes /b/ a panopticon in reverse — nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center. The anonymous denizens of 4chan’s other boards — devoted to travel, fitness and several genres of pornography — refer to the /b/-dwellers as “/b/tards.”
Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand... (read more)
And this is the image they've chose to represent "trolls." What would you say...about 25, 26, living in parents' basement, and took off his glasses because the flash would have focussed through the coke bottle lenses and seared his retinas? Note all items in the background.
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#2 2008-08-01 05:29:45
How do I shot whoever the fuck this guy is?
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#3 2008-08-01 06:59:20
So Moot has hit the WSJ, Time, and now the NYT. The chans must be buzzing.
My boys go to /b/. Probably the result of my pulling them over to read CSOTD entries when they were younger.
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#4 2008-08-01 08:26:37
I used to check in on /b/chan every so often, but the tone reminded me too much of junior high health class when we had a substitute teacher. Then I hit a spate of honest-to-god KP, which is way beyond the pale. (not our Pale, but the ethereal pale which is not to be crossed)
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#5 2008-08-01 09:30:49
What little I've seen of /b/chan was too puerile and inarticulate (if the word can be applied to text) for me to bear--just like 99.8% of all the fora I've ever seen. It's been years since I bothered with it.
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#6 2008-08-01 09:37:34
George Orr wrote:
What little I've seen of /b/chan was too puerile and inarticulate (if the word can be applied to text) for me to bear--just like 99.8% of all the fora I've ever seen. It's been years since I bothered with it.
That's why we're here--come for the filth, stay for the erudition.
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#7 2008-08-01 10:16:04
I'll be happy to read the news when this guy dies a slow ugly death . . .
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#8 2008-08-01 11:23:00
b/ What should i do, me and 2 of my friends broke into some model homes, fucked around, kicked in dry wall and other various acts of tomfoolery. one of thier parents found out, now we are going to the sheriffs in an hour. parents know, we have to confess. what the fuck do i do?
inb4 underagefag
TwinkThieves?
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#9 2008-08-01 16:55:09
Dmtdust wrote:
TwinkThieves?
Well, you've got your twink goths. Why not your twink vandals? Personally, I'm more into twink huns. They're usually on the lacrosse team and they don't get into trouble so much.
I wonder what I would have advised such a kid to do. I guess, when you're being brought to the "sheriff" (and can spell "tomfoolery") then you don't know what it's like to have sheriff come and take you away. Be grateful...and very apologetic. Tears still help if you're under 16. (on goths and emos, it just lends their eyeliner a chic streaky look)
As for the "troll" in the aforementioned article, I think it's the teeth, nose, and Under-the-Bridge hairdo that set most people off. The "I just fucked with half a dozen strangers" grin doesn't help, either.
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#10 2008-08-01 17:44:01
Ak ack ak-ak...akk achk ACK-ACK! Ack ack gack grack ack ack ack ack! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack...ack, ack, ack, ack!, ack!, Ack! Ack! Ack! ....ACK ACK ACK ACK... ak gack ACK! ACK! ACK!
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#11 2008-08-01 18:11:13
I loved the baseball bat/helmet analogy - I'd like to live it out on his head. This dipshit believes that by being on the internets you are inviting strife, just like not building a moat around your house is inviting thieves.
On a positive note when they finally have enough and start the crack down they'll come for him first...
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#12 2008-08-01 21:05:36
orangeplus wrote:
You should have put an apostrophe after "ack". It completely changes the meaning and I really can't believe you meant to say that.
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#13 2008-08-01 22:21:31
Taint wrote:
You should have put an apostrophe after "ack". It completely changes the meaning and I really can't believe you meant to say that.
Grammar kween.
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#14 2008-08-01 22:43:06
That's H*rse, ca. 1998.
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#17 2008-08-06 04:05:06
karenw wrote:
Another follow-up, in which Fortuny gets sued.
Interesting. Makes one wonder how many people fail at finding 'dates' and then say they were just "doing an experiment." Personally, I never enjoyed being anyone's experiment, either, though there is probably an astounding horde of ex-fratboys out there who would claim otherwise.
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