See also: local news here freaking the hell out about Slenderman. Because some girl stabbed people acting out something from one of the web series or something (haven't kept up with the story as too much of the reporting makes me headdesk to eternity), which makes it some strange evil thing from THE INTERNET as opposed to um...no different than any other popular horror character? But THE INTERNET OH NOES BLAAARGH BAN IT ALL
And yeah, 4chan has a lot of nasty trolls, but that's less a feature of 4chan as it is something you get on any site/group of sites with its more anonymous format. Which also has benefits the other way, as you said, anonymity is...weird and interesting that way. It's like people that act like Tumblr invented (insert thing associated with teenagers here along with fifty tons of derision) because Tumblr is the current popular site for younger people--they've got it assbackwards and want an easy something to blame or ridicule rather than actually looking at society or people.
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And yeah, 4chan has a lot of nasty trolls, but that's less a feature of 4chan as it is something you get on any site/group of sites with its more anonymous format. Which also has benefits the other way, as you said, anonymity is...weird and interesting that way. It's like people that act like Tumblr invented (insert thing associated with teenagers here along with fifty tons of derision) because Tumblr is the current popular site for younger people--they've got it assbackwards and want an easy something to blame or ridicule rather than actually looking at society or people.
(edit because typo argh)
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