numpad0 2 days ago

Always has been. A lot of prominent Twitter accounts in my primary language, especially the old ones, has telltales of having been on 2chan. net. There must be something to that format that installs a basic social media amplification skill in your brain that do not develop otherwise.

There are places more toxic than 4chan but skill levels don't compare, and 4chan and 2chan also share nothing culture wise, so it must be in the architecture.

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  • ACCount37 2 days ago

    My guess would be that to be on 2chan/4chan "back in the day", you need to be terminally online. And being terminally online is a soft prerequisite to being really good at posting interesting things online. Excellence isn't an act - it's a habit.

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    • numpad0 2 days ago

      There was also 2ch. net that was a lot bigger, but 2ch "alumni" aren't as good. It's not just cohort, it has/had better action-reward loop than other systems.

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  • PicassoCTs a day ago

    Its the fleetingness as a filter. If you are not catchy and repeated by others- its gone. instantly. No coming back.

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dmonitor 2 days ago

That's understating it. They're practically the same at this point, 4chan just has fewer bots.

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  • hellojesus 2 days ago

    4chan doesn't manipulate the feed, so far as I know. Nor does it require a phone number to use.

    It blocks mainstream vpns, but that's about it. Behind the scenes, who knows, but it's not as obviously full of low effort bait as Twitter, and no account is necessary.

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