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Here and again, less as a place to interact and more how one might look at a perti dish on a lab. A lot of Internet culture has been born there in a virtually unrestrained chaos, no accounts, no names, no reputations, just doing whatever comes to mind and seeing what sticks.
That lack of any real reputation or responsibility lends itself to people letting out their worst parts that they wouldn't publically sometimes, but can also let people explore other ideas they might not elsewhere too. Just so long as one doesn't take it too seriously and has a stomach for some nasty shit it can be interesting.
Same. Like tourism into an exclusion zone to see the mutated local biota. Then promptly getting tfo and taking a mental silkwood shower lmao
Yeah that's been how I've viewed it since 2009ish. Only ever lurked there. I used to like spooking myself on /x/ when I was a young teen. The sfw boards always had pretty reasonable content. /b/ had its place for memes and general wild shit. Lots of good video game, meme and general pop culture stuff. It always had a spectrum of normal people, edgy users and literal proud Nazis/extremists. Its always been a place to go to see the most recent horrible thing thats happend. I'm pretty unaffected by seeing horrible shit so I've always been able to wade through that to find interesting posts. That said, almost all of the worst things I've ever seen have been on 4chan. Nowadays its really shitty with nearly zero redeeming qualities. Only time I visit it now I go to the catalog on /b/ and search for ylyl threads. I find 1-5 good memes per 150 image thread, the rest is typically deplorable. Plenty of memes I've harvested there have gotten hundreds to 1000+ upvotes here.