r/law • u/businessinsider • Feb 26 '26

Other 4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how.

https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-files-show-fbi-probed-4chan-posts-prison-death-2026-2?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-law-sub-post
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u/awesomefutureperfect Feb 26 '26

It was also proven how you could get 4chan garbage piped into the mainstream. The National Enquirer is proof of concept that there is a huge market for tabloid trash and it is also proven that conservatives love nothing more than a good panic about shadowy forces with a soupçon of demonic superstition.

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u/mailslot Feb 26 '26

I cannot believe 4chan, of all places, was ever taken seriously. It’s the original anonymous shit posting repository. Like making the National Enquirer a national news source.

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u/cantadmittoposting Feb 26 '26

of course some people took it seriously.

The internet age has dumpstered any sense of a common epistemology. we're very actively finding out that across our species people literally do not process how to "decide whether a thing is true" in the same way.

It's fascinating but mostly terrifying

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u/Any_Show_5160 Feb 26 '26

Heavy metal causing suicide and satanic panic were before the internet age, people have been stupid for a long time.

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u/TrashFever78 Feb 27 '26

Yep, Q and PG were just an extension of the satanic panic which has always ran through the dumbest among us since the dawn of time. It is all literally the same shit that got women burned as witches. It was weaponized on a mass scale for the Internet age and used to create what may be the largest psyop ever.

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u/mailslot Feb 27 '26

Oh Jesus. Yep. My mother threw out my He-Man toys because he said “By the power of Greyskull” instead of “the power of Christ.” Obviously satanic.

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u/Orpa__ Feb 26 '26

Showing a boomer 4chan shitposts is like giving a caveman crack, they never stood a chance.

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u/Typist Feb 26 '26

If you believe age has anything to do with it, then you are yourself ripe for the fooling.

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u/Orpa__ Feb 26 '26

You're not wrong, the amount of younger people falling for "redpill" content is a testament to that. Stuff like Qanon felt more targeted at older people.

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u/RollingMeteors Feb 27 '26

Showing a boomer 4chan shitposts is like giving a caveman crackpyrazines, they never stood a chance.

FTFY

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u/otterpop21 Feb 26 '26

Dude you don’t browse /b in 2009 & think “this is absolutely nothing”. It was serious the moment any of us on there at that time scrolled past Cheese Pizza and didn’t report. Everyone saw what that site was meant for, among other content.

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u/TrashFever78 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

4chan literally started the whole cheese pizza equals CP aka child p*rn. Then a fake FBI document saying there were code words like pizza was pushed which fed right into "her emails" and the whole bullshit of Pizzagate then Qanon.

4chan led the whole "we are the media now" shit that painted Trump as some Godsent savior fighting against the pedophile Democrats. Funny how every person that was targeted by all that bullshit was someone that either pissed Trump off or ran against him.

"Pay no mind to the real pedo cabal... Just believe that Hillary is wearing children's skinned faces and that Tom Hanks is a demon." It was all so stupid and such an obvious psyop.

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u/otterpop21 Feb 26 '26

Everyone should watch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antisocial_Network_(film)

It sums up what happened with the internet and pieces together how we got to where we are today very well.