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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The alt right was born on 4 chan from what I hear, as was q, where some hedge fund prick is thought to have started it to project the ruling class' own child fucking captured on video by Israel through epstein onto the opponents of the ruling class.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Q is from 8chan. One could argue that 8chan came from 4chan but they were two distinct beasts at the time. 8chan is (was?) where the people too extreme for 4chan went.

Not defending 4chan, just correcting the misinformation.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 hours ago

The Q posts did originally start on 4 chan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Though QAnon has its origins in older conspiracy theories, it was set in motion in October 2017 when Q first posted on the website 4chan. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, with access to classified information about the Trump administration and its opponents.[17] Q soon moved to 8chan, making it QAnon's online home.[18] Q's often cryptic posts, which became known as "drops", were collected by aggregator apps and websites and relayed by influencers.

I saw some of them there.

And, given what the Epstein files have revealed... at this point, I think the original Q was just literally Steve Bannon.

Then it got handed off to the weirdo father/son pair that run (ran?) 8chan.

That's basically my hunch, can't definitively prove it.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Oh right, is that the one created by that developmentally disabled kid that advocated for killing such people as himself and other nazi shit, then repented and tried to shut it down later? I think I heard something about him. Nevertheless, the shit birthed on 8 chan migrates to 4 chan to get reared as I understand it, so calling it "misinformation" is kind of a dickish way to correct someone.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, that's the guy!

It was misinformation, though. Q and the most extreme bigots are from 8chan^1^. I don't think you did it deliberately which is why I didn't call it disinformation, it's just not accurate

^1^ Of the chans. There's plenty of forums that make 8chan look tame.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Hey uh unrelated question

Yes, that's the guy!

It was misinformation, though. Q and the most extreme bigots are from 8chan^1^. I don't think you did it deliberately which is why I didn't call it disinformation, it's just not accurate

^1^ Of the chans. There's plenty of forums that make 8chan look tame.

Are you intentionally putting ^1^ into your comments, or... is this some weird result of maybe my mobile client spazzing out?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yes it's Lemmy markdown for superscript. Or at least that's what my client tells me

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's a note reference like in a book.

...main subject.^1^

^1^ Further notes/explanation

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

the alt right existed before 4chan. it just didn't become popular until the mid 2010s after social media allowed it to rapidly reach a mass audience, and people started making money from alt right talking points. Stormfront started in 1996, and hate.com was a docufilm from 2000 that reported on internet extremists

it was all over the internet in the 2000s if you knew where to look, but there were no big mass market social networks back then. FB only became open to anyone in 2008 and it took 5+ years for it to really take off.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

I remember my first reddit experience, in 2016, I didn't make an account, and was incensed I had to make an account as such to make a comment, and it was all alt right douchbags so I never joined at that point. I was there to research new and exciting drug plants anyway and it was an intellectual wasteland as I saw, at that time, although now that is not the case if you can find the right places, and don't mind your queries being logged by corporations and governments, but I digress.

They were still on the harambe thing, mocking the murdered gorilla, pissed me off.