> Stop taking 4chan seriously. If you let yourself be enraged by their words, that's exactly what they want

4chan is not some amorphous entity with no influence on the real world. Just like "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you" can be true, so is the case with 4chan.

For a more direct example of what could happen, check out the origins of the phrase "We did it, Reddit!"

4chan isn't interested in you unless you feed the trolls

That, or you somehow unwittingly trigger the attention of the hive-mind. It doesn't take all that much. And if it happens to you, then they can successfully doxx you based on something as innocuous as a reflection on a photo [0].

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234

What ever happened to personal responsibility? I think it died with "don't post your personal information on the internet", considering the way which young people use social media these days.

Edit: the article you linked has nothing to do with the website being discussed here at all, or any website really. It's about a japanese man stalking some sort of celebrity by himself.

I looked it up on KYM, and the Sunil Tripathi incident a pretty good reason to ignore Reddit, too.

So for you it's only "lighthearted trolling" without any influence in meatspace whatsoever? What has to happen to convince you otherwise?

> without any influence in meatspace whatsoever

Why do you think meatspace is any better to begin with? Is it just you?

4chan is an online reflection of what always has been there.

What thing similar to /pol/ was always been there, can you name an example please?

Working-class people / blue-collars.

Did they have communities like that?

They are like that at work. No special "communities" or circles necessary.

I as not asking about individuals. Do you have examples like qanon conspiracy or capitol insurrection that were organized by blue collars at work?

> Do you have examples like qanon conspiracy or capitol insurrection that were organized by blue collars at work?

The JFK assassination conspiracy was a popular long before the internet existed and before qanon created a resurgence in that thinking. Most of the conspiracy stuff qanon spreads is lifted from mein kamf.

The world existed before the internet and people are dumb as ever.

And Mein Kampf was banned in some countries, and spreading passages from it is still problematic today.

Whats your implication there? Do you believe that the qanon conspiracy or capitol insurrection were organized by 4chan?

organized on 4chan, not by

The US has a decently long history of conspiracy theorists (and conspiracies to give them credit.)