With tons of people contributing, nothing lasts very long *on 4chan* itself, the impact of content on 4chan is felt *outside* 4chan
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The closest analogy I have to this is Twitter vis-a-vis breaking news: news breaks here first, plays itself out in the real world...
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...while back on Twitter, things are already moving along, new news being broken.
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BTW--in case you can't guess, Twitter is the social media site closest in format and tempo to 4chan
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the main issue I have with journalism about 4chan is this strange reverse synecdoche where what they call "4chan" is b, r9k, pol, v.
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oh and the author quite clearly having not spent much time on-site, & as such blind to the history, politics, lack thereof
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and constantly trying to pull away the veil of Anon, to reveal neets, incels, fashy larpers, or whatever they can make up
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it's something I'm not sure even can be written about with any accuracy by anyone. It's nr impossible to encapsulate the many eras
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what would be good would be a history of 4chan, cataloging memes, scandals, boards, anons, name/trips and the zeitgeist.
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It would take a Federal Writers Project to map such a thing. "The Oral Histories of Anonymous: Vol 1 of 9001".
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