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Well past. The sociopath takeover is complete there, the community is entirely unrecognizable from when it began.

And yet started it 2008, and its heyday in the years after, which postdates the 2000 cutoff date in the article.

I think 4chan and its descendants (which include[s|d] SCP) may be the exceptions that prove the rule, as they bought in to the "be slightly evil" advice pretty hard.

Literally every who has been a regular on 4chan thinks the site got ruined at some point. 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, pick your year.

You don't think that sociopaths have been using the 4chan subculture to their own ends? Have you noticed the things that 4chan is known for these days? It was even a significant actor in the last Presidential campaign!

To be more accurate, those in the internet said that the internet forum 4chan was a significant factor.

I think history will prove it was not in the real scheme of things.

However it is still full of sociopaths working on their own nefarious deeds!

That isn't all of 4chan though, there are still some communities left there that aren't too far gone. And most of what you've "noticed" coming from 4chan is actually coming from 8chan, which is the distilled form of /pol/ sociopathy.

Additionally: 4chan isn't a subculture, it is/was a subculture incubator.

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