As much hate as I give to 4chan, that was honestly impressive. It's sad though that they waste their skills on bullshit like that and ignore other important things. They refused to troll reddit "hurr reddit is for fags" until long after it was no longer important.
I’m on the fence. I don’t know if I want those folks wandering around the internet. It’s kind of like BLM. The Dems created a monster they can’t contain. I don’t want to even think about what would happen if we had to try and “contain” them.
You don't contain chaos; you can't contain chaos; you just try to live with chaos. I'm too old for 4chan and old enough to realize not to dabble in it.
I'm on 4chan frequently - I say it's like working at a pig farm. At first glance it's mind boggling that such a place of filth and shit could exist. Not to mention the slaughtering messes and insanely putrid stench.
After a while at your pig farm job, you don't really see any of the mess anymore. All you see is delicious ham and bacon that is produced. No more mess, no more smell, just daily work to produce the goodies.
4chans strength is that normies and newbies can't see past the mud and the shit. They can't get over the rancid smell. Anyone who attempts to visit is quickly driven away and calls it for what it is on the surface - a pig farm.
But for those who work on the farm, we don't see any of that stuff anymore. We see the end product - ham and bacon.
As someone who has worked at a real pig farm...nah, you never get over the stench, filth, and just plain nastiness of the job. You just become immune to it while you're there because you have to.
And I could tell you some tales about what is going on within the pork industry by the big commercial farms! (hint: might want to buy your pork locally and if you can't -- make sure you cook that shit really well, just sayin').
I suppose one could go with the analogy, but I'll go with "Chaotic Neutral", even though I've never had an interest in D&D. 4chan appears to be many things all at once and not really definable. I go my way; it goes its way; sometimes (like now) we cross paths.
The people of 4chan is a weird hivemind. You can't expect it to do anything. It will do what it wants. If it wants to troll a B-list celeb in a game of "capture the flag", then it will do that. If it wants to raid some popular website and mess with unimportant contests just for the lulz, it might do that too.
But what 4chan will never do, is act as your personal army.
Yes they do. Just pretend to be someone you dislike and have them post on 4chan asking them to do something. Then they will attack the person you are pretending to be.
The Elves and the Shoemaker from Grimm's Fairy Tales:
A poor hardworking shoemaker had so little leather that he could only make a single pair of shoes. One evening, leaving the pair with the work unfinished, he went to bed and commended himself to God. After waking up the next morning and saying his prayers, he found the shoes completely finished and perfectly well-made in his workbench. A customer soon entered the store and offered more than the usual price, for he was fond of the pair. One evening, shortly before Christmas, the shoemaker said to his wife, "Why don't we stay up tonight and see who is giving us this helping hand," and his wife agreed. Hiding in a corner of the room, they saw two little men working quickly and nimbly on the shoes, then running away after they work was completely finished.[1]
The next morning, his wife said, "The little men have made us wealthy. We must show them our thanks. They are running around with nothing on, freezing." She proposed to make clothes, and the shoemaker agreed to make a pair of shoes for each of them. They did not stop until they had finished the work, and they hid themselves again. The couple saw at that night the little men delighted as they tried the beautiful little clothes and shoes; then they danced out of house and never returned, but the shoemaker prospered in his business.
As much hate as I give to 4chan, that was honestly impressive. It's sad though that they waste their skills on bullshit like that and ignore other important things. They refused to troll reddit "hurr reddit is for fags" until long after it was no longer important.
So much misapplied talent.
I’m on the fence. I don’t know if I want those folks wandering around the internet. It’s kind of like BLM. The Dems created a monster they can’t contain. I don’t want to even think about what would happen if we had to try and “contain” them.
You don't contain chaos; you can't contain chaos; you just try to live with chaos. I'm too old for 4chan and old enough to realize not to dabble in it.
I'm on 4chan frequently - I say it's like working at a pig farm. At first glance it's mind boggling that such a place of filth and shit could exist. Not to mention the slaughtering messes and insanely putrid stench.
After a while at your pig farm job, you don't really see any of the mess anymore. All you see is delicious ham and bacon that is produced. No more mess, no more smell, just daily work to produce the goodies.
4chans strength is that normies and newbies can't see past the mud and the shit. They can't get over the rancid smell. Anyone who attempts to visit is quickly driven away and calls it for what it is on the surface - a pig farm.
But for those who work on the farm, we don't see any of that stuff anymore. We see the end product - ham and bacon.
As someone who has worked at a real pig farm...nah, you never get over the stench, filth, and just plain nastiness of the job. You just become immune to it while you're there because you have to.
And I could tell you some tales about what is going on within the pork industry by the big commercial farms! (hint: might want to buy your pork locally and if you can't -- make sure you cook that shit really well, just sayin').
I suppose one could go with the analogy, but I'll go with "Chaotic Neutral", even though I've never had an interest in D&D. 4chan appears to be many things all at once and not really definable. I go my way; it goes its way; sometimes (like now) we cross paths.
Lol this is a truly amazing description
Pig farms are pretty clean actually. At least the industrial ones.
The people of 4chan is a weird hivemind. You can't expect it to do anything. It will do what it wants. If it wants to troll a B-list celeb in a game of "capture the flag", then it will do that. If it wants to raid some popular website and mess with unimportant contests just for the lulz, it might do that too.
But what 4chan will never do, is act as your personal army.
Yes they do. Just pretend to be someone you dislike and have them post on 4chan asking them to do something. Then they will attack the person you are pretending to be.
The Elves and the Shoemaker from Grimm's Fairy Tales:
A poor hardworking shoemaker had so little leather that he could only make a single pair of shoes. One evening, leaving the pair with the work unfinished, he went to bed and commended himself to God. After waking up the next morning and saying his prayers, he found the shoes completely finished and perfectly well-made in his workbench. A customer soon entered the store and offered more than the usual price, for he was fond of the pair. One evening, shortly before Christmas, the shoemaker said to his wife, "Why don't we stay up tonight and see who is giving us this helping hand," and his wife agreed. Hiding in a corner of the room, they saw two little men working quickly and nimbly on the shoes, then running away after they work was completely finished.[1]
The next morning, his wife said, "The little men have made us wealthy. We must show them our thanks. They are running around with nothing on, freezing." She proposed to make clothes, and the shoemaker agreed to make a pair of shoes for each of them. They did not stop until they had finished the work, and they hid themselves again. The couple saw at that night the little men delighted as they tried the beautiful little clothes and shoes; then they danced out of house and never returned, but the shoemaker prospered in his business.