> Good-Boy points
In case you picked it up somewhere else, I thought you might want to know that this meme is a 4chan thing.
In case you picked it up somewhere else, I thought you might want to know that this meme is a 4chan thing.
There is definitely something with being racist and generally unpleasant, which is only a tiny portion of 4chan, just like it is a tiny portion of twitter, or reddit. You are using a part to make a judgement on the whole, which anyone can do for any website. Is reddit a "bad" website because there are anti climate change subreddits?
Can't believe we're already re-writing the history of early 4chan. I was there, I saw it, as I'm sure plenty of others on this site have.
Racism "only a tiny portion of 4chan"? Pshh.
Literally the 4th post on /g/ right now is about American tech companies and complaining that they make you support black people (well, except they used the n-word for black people).
Brownie points: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/brownie_point#English
Good boy points: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tendies-stories
But for what it's worth, I think it's an absurd idea to try and cleanse oneself of 4chan memes, since they form such a significant strata of internet culture. The attitude that some people have towards 4chan is embarrassing. It's just a website. Yes, it harbours fascists, but so does every other website. Moreover it's one of the few places left on the internet where people say what they think rather than what they want other people to think they think...
As an engineer, I believe in tradeoffs and pragmatism, not dogmatism. Thus, I have no issue with GP's objection and have made the suggested edit.