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Fox News Special Report - "Hacker Gangs"

submitted by Cronyx
1 decade 6 years 9 months ago

4CHAN PARTY VAN STRIKES AGAIN! I NEED /B/LACKUP!
This is Serious Business! Some true lulz to be sure, Fox News does a piece on, get this... 4chan. I've been a /b/tard for years and this has got to be the most delicious cake you must eat ever, ~desu.

Do a barrel roll.

For anyone that doesn't know, 4chan is the epicenter of internet culture. It is where every meme you've ever encountered comes from. Those captioned cat pictures your mom found out about last month and forwarded you in an email? 4chan. Parody motivational posters? 4chan. And really, that's just our table scraps.

4chan is an image board started by former Something Awful forum goon by the name of m00t. An "Image Board" is kind of like a traditional web forum, except the purpose is just to share pictures about any given genre. It differs in functionality from a forum in that you are required to post a picture in order to start a thread. 4chan's /b/ section which is titled "random" has forced anonymity, and there are almost literally no rules -- it is completely unmoderated. This has contributed to exponential growth, which has in turn encouraged a paradigm of user created content that is truly unique on the internet, and from a point of view of "digital anthropology", quite beautiful, despite the content.

These "raids" the news piece speaks of really are just done for laughs -- there's nothing personal about it. Many a /b/tard (the self adopted name of participants) have even fallen prey to it themselves. The point is, as the piece said, to invoke lulz, but also drama. "The Internet is Serious Business" for example, is a common meme. The meme pokes fun at those who take things that happen on the internet way too seriously, and really are ultimately the ones to initiate the drama. A 4chan raid is really meant to be a bit of performance art in which the target is an unknowing writer, director, and lead actor in their own play about internet drama, which in actuality it is their own actions that are exacerbating more drama. The irony is delicious to true /b/tards.

tl;dr version:

Don't take things too seriously and things won't take you too seriously..