Does it offend you, yeah?

[lemex]

Aug 28, 2012 12:21:17 GMT 2 The Curmudgeon said:

My main problem with 4chan, and I have been on there a few times, is I find it so fucking hard to follow. Like, that entire dog conversation I was reading I was like "so.. wait, who's talking now? Who did what?" I know, I know. I'm such a noob.

I have to admit, I find myself thinking the same things on the rare occasion I hope over to 4chan myself. I guess the site just isn't for me.

[trashcanman]

One of the many banners that show up on the site is this picture with caption:


"4chan: Every day until you like it."

That pretty much says it all. You have to stick around to understand what the hell goes on there. The posters speak a language pretty much exclusive to the site and aggressively prey on noobs as a competitive sport. This is part of the fabled "Rules of the Internet" which include not talking about the "random" board as rules one and two (to keep the non riff-raff out) and "lurk moar" which basically says "if you don't know what's going on, stick around and shut up until it makes sense to you". This is very wise advice, since the results of taking advice from internet strangers can be very, very bad.



One kid on a thread like that was on his dad's computer and they managed to trick him into first deleting system 32, and then when he asked them how to fix it, they instructed him to remove the hard drive and run a large magnet over it. Then when the kid told them his dad was going o beat the shit out of him, they asked him to post pictures of the bruises. Lulz commenced, although there is alwyys the possibility was the kid was reverse trolling them and stringing them along the whole time.
They also occasionally advise people looking for the hottest porn ever to type "lolita" into a porn search engine, which apparently results in the FBI tracking your IP. People who peruse the site normally and are healthily skeptical have nothing to fear other than the general perversity of their fellow internet dwellers, but the unwary should probably steer clear altogether. And god fucking help you if you decide to play internet tough guy and challenge them because they will find you and fuck you up one way or another. But as far as I can tell, everyone they've gone after has asked for it.

[The Curmudgeon]

I'd heard that "Lolita" rumour before, but I can't believe that's true (at least.. I hope it's not, ahem). I mean, what if you're looking for the book? Or the Kubrick movie?

Yeah, I wouldn't fuck with any of those guys, and I hate giving them that kind of power. You ever see that obnoxious "we are Anonymous. Expect us" clip on Youtube about some free music site or some shit? Man, that bugged me.

What was the first "casualty" you mentioned, Trash? I'd heard of Jessi Slaughter but what was the other one?

[trashcanman]

There was a girl who went by "Boxxy" -who is now known ironically as the "Queen of /b/"- who released comical videos of herself acting like a spazz. This caught their attention and caused yet another civil war on the site that got so heated and ubiquitous that the girl had to duck off of the internet altogether to escape the wrath of the haters calling for her head and hacking her shit after she started posting vids responding to them. Actually, she's probably one person who didn't really deserve the attacks from what I've seen (I think she's pretty funny and adorable), but I wasn't around that site at the time so I really don't know what went down.

As for the lolita thing, it's on a specific porn site (Imagefap, I think) so you wouldn't be there looking for Kubrick or Nabakov. Seeing that "lolita" literally means underaged girls, searching for it on a porn site could qualify as trying to access kiddie porn, which could lead the FBI to (allegedly) keep an eye on you. I'm not really tempted to try and authenticate this so I'll just assume it's legit. It wouldn't be a very funny troll if it wasn't.