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>Extremely doubtful. 4Chan would be considered a "Chaotic Neutral" character. They do terrible stuff and great stuff, but no group can harness it for their own purposes. "Not your personal Army" is a common theme - which the study didn't even pay attention to. If the group smells blood they will attack, no matter who it is or what cause, "4 teh lulz." I mean that's where "Anonymous" basically originated.

I think this sums up 2012 4chan perfectly. However things have changed drastically. There is an extremely rigid, narrowly defined viewpoint of alt-right Trumpism there now. If you do not fall in line with it, you will be ostracized and targeted for attack. Before it was all about the 'lulz' and attacking people for no good reason. It is now an organized right wing hate machine with a very specific ideology.

I was a light browser of /b/ and /pol/ in the early run up of the election and watched how they basically took the joke idea of Trump and ran with it because so many people were incredulous.

When Trump started gaining some steam it leaped over to reddit and took on it's own life, but from what I saw on /b/ it was just about "rustling jimmies" of anyone who would respond and ramping that up because of the chaos it would cause.

I suppose that it's possible that some kind of right wing hate machine took over, but more than likely it's just an amplification of the past. Those clowns posted and discussed nazi/gore/anti-feminist/boxxy crap since literally forever.

>I think this sums up 2012 4chan perfectly. However things have changed drastically. There is an extremely rigid, narrowly defined viewpoint of alt-right Trumpism there now. If you do not fall in line with it, you will be ostracized and targeted for attack. Before it was all about the 'lulz' and attacking people for no good reason. It is now an organized right wing hate machine with a very specific ideology.

/pol/ is almost entirely satire. The fact that so many people are falling for said satire makes it even funnier.

There are plenty of people that do not see large parts of /pol/ as satire. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the posters on /pol/ largely agree with the general culture.

It's interesting to me that you assume that it's entirely satire because that's not at all the view I have, nor the view of my friends who regularly post there.

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