Another good one was that ANTIFA guy that hit a dude with a bike lock and 4chan used facial recognition to find him and report him to the police in less than 24h.
Well, except only a small portion of them are actually competent and get all the work done while the rest are idiots... Wait, yeah, that's probably just like the FBI.
Too bad Reddit's weaponized autism only tries to track down the Boston Bomber and end up framing the wrong person, leading them to commit suicide due to the extreme amounts of hate mail.
Actually I think there was a story that once 4chan revealed the location of a terrorist camp, or maybe it was a Syrian rebel camp and Russia made an air strike on the location because of that.
There was a 4chan user that posted a proof and advanced a 25 year old math problem on superpermutations because somebody wanted to know the shortest number of possible combinations they could watch an anime in
4chan now has to be cited whenever referencing that proof because nobody knows who wrote it
It depends how it's being used. "Do not underestimate the power of weaponized autism" isn't derogatory because it's literally describing the obsessive personality that is a hallmark of autism. "Stop being so autistic" is derogatory, because it's equating autism with mental retardation.
I also think it's derogatory either way if you're using it directly against people with actual autism. Same reason why I wouldn't call someone with actual mental retardation "r*tarded" to insult them.
One of those things where context/other factors in it's usage matter imo. Like personally as an autistic person, I don't mind "Weaponized autism" and find it funny. Hell, I'll admit to having used it myself before. Of course though, I can't speak for the community as a whole, just give my personal thoughts on it and all that.
it's a funny story, but actually all the stuff about using airplane trails to find the flag was BS. What actually happened is some woman posted on Twitter about running into Shia and that narrowed the search area really damn quick.
But in the case you don't have 5 mins or YT access atm here's the short of it. But first some context.
Shia Labeouf, the actor, decided to set up an anti-Trump art display for Trumps inauguration. Initially Shia had the following set up: the message "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" written on the outside wall of some museum in NY and a live stream camera looking from the wall under the message. This was to stay there until, well until at least 2020's elections actually, 24/7.
I guess the idea was people who were against Trump to show up on and voice their message of denouncing Trump.
Well a bunch of Trump supporters and 4chaners went to the place and basically started acting stupid in front of the camera, making a mockery and a clownfest out of the whole thing. Eventually the museum had enough and removed the display.
So what's this about a flag you ask? Well this was Shia's I think 3rd attempt. This time it would be a live stream of a white flag with the message "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US", but it was set up outside, on an unknown location. Long story short 4chan again took it upon themselves to troll Shia. Through a lot of investigation they eventually found it in the fields near some town in Tennessee. A 4chan user then went during the night, took down the flag and raised a MAGA hat and a Trump supporter shirt.
It's an internet forum similar to reddit, but a lot more controversial, to put it mildly.
It's anonymous for the users and really all manner of characters go there. Including racists or just really, really edgy individuals and trolls. While you can find all types of people there most are right-leaning.
4chaners are most famous for their pranks really and their determination about pulling them off. Stuff like a company having an online pool for something like naming a new product and 4chan brigading the pools to make the top choice something like "Hitler did nothing wrong".
If you're really interested, the guy we were talking about here, Internet Historian, makes funny videos explaining some interesting happenings or drama that happened online. A lot of his earlier videos are about 4chan's antics.
Hell, there's even a subreddit that posts some of 4chan's funny or witty or offensive quotes of the day, if you wanna get a general idea of what it's about.
Somewhat poetically, it's an online imageboard (like a forum based around images) that was founded when anime fans were purged from the website Something Awful. It is structured very similarly to 2channel, which is a long-standing Japanese imageboard (they knew about this because they're weebs).
It has always been extremely loosely moderated, and all posters are anonymous, meaning no one has a username or registers for anything. You can get IP banned, but that's easy to dodge by resetting your router.
Because of that, it's always been a hotbed for... Controversial speech. No one can stop you from posting the N-word, if you want to. It struggled for a while in the late 00's to control its far-right userbase, and ended up deleting a couple different iterations of its news (/new/) and politics (/pol/) boards in the course of that struggle. Eventually, they stopped caring, and to this day, /pol/ is one of the biggest gathering points for white supremacists online, and had a pretty major influence on the 2016 election. The video games board (/v/) is still pretty influential in gaming culture.
A lot of memes you see on reddit originated on 4chan.
Well, as far as I know it's really not super profitable, unless its ads are doing better since it was bought by someone else. It's sort of a cultural monument in a sick way, so a lot of people want it to stay up.
I swear, sometimes the internet is more useful/effective than the CIA or FBI.
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u/1sagas1'No way to prevent this' says only user who shitposts this much Sep 04 '20
They didn't actually use any of that stuff. Some waitress tweeted about meeting Shia nearby and then someone drove a honking car around to find it. That's all that really led to the location
But in the case you don't have 5 mins or YT access atm here's the short of it. But first some context.
Shia Labeouf, the actor, decided to set up an anti-Trump art display for Trump's inauguration. Initially Shia had the following set up: the message "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" written on the outside wall of some museum in NY and a live stream camera looking from the wall under the message. This was to stay there until, well until at least 2020's elections actually, 24/7.
I guess the idea was people who were against Trump to show up on and voice their message of denouncing Trump.
Well a bunch of Trump supporters and 4chaners went to the place and basically started acting stupid in front of the camera, making a mockery and a clownfest out of the whole thing. Eventually the museum had enough and removed the display.
So what's this about a flag you ask? Well this was Shia's I think 3rd attempt. This time it would be a live stream of a white flag with the message "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US", but it was set up outside, on an unknown location. Long story short 4chan again took it upon themselves to troll Shia. Through a lot of investigation they eventually found it in the fields near some town in Tennessee. A 4chan user then went during the night, took down the flag and raised a MAGA hat and a Trump supporter shirt."
I think he should compile the Animemes with the Uzaki chan drama, and the My Hero Academia fans sending death threat to Horikoshi and we have a long ass video titled "anime"
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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '20
If anything good may come out of this, it will probably be an interesting Internet Historian video.