> 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!"
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].
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.
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!"