An angry childhood led 8chan founder to create a dark corner of the internet

  • 8chan is just 4chan's 4chan, but for every 99 people just shitposting for lulz there's one who actually believes what they're reading/posting.

  • Don't worry about the million killed in Iraq by God-fearing people after the Saudi terror attack on 9/11. Let's focus on a bunch of Internet shitposters that might have attracted one or two mentally ill users with easy access to firearms.

    Oh, and don't forget the terrorist frog with a Spanish name or the terrorist "made you look" game. The public needs to know where the real threats are.

  • > Destroyer of worlds

    Is this kind of aggrandizing language really necessary? They're a bunch of dangerous punks, not gods of destruction. The article doesn't mention the role that delusions of grandeur play in getting people caught up in imageboard cults, but it should have. Comparing them to Shiva only feeds into it.

  • "darned channers" is starting to be the "get off my lawn" of the new millennium.

    Hilarious to see somebody armchair psychoanalyzing and casting aspersions with the favourite word of lefty boomers: "dark".