• _number8_@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      i spent too much time on 4chan growing up; it’s the most in depth and fascinating and insane glimpse into the human psyche we have available. you see someone post the worst evils imaginable then people replying to that post with better and more cutting humor than anything aired on TV

      • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Yeah I was on there a lot in the mid 00s and stopped going on it after the scientology protests. The site basically created internet humor as we know it and I was enough of a loser at the time to be highly online. There was something very accepting about the site in a weird way, and I’m not the sort of person you’d expect would have been a b-slur.

        Met a friend’s partner recently and she said something funny in this oddly familiar way… the type of person I’d least suspect, but yup, a fellow mid 00s b-slur.

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Just be grateful you weren’t there in the early days like I was.

        Scrolling /b/ was a Russian roulette of shock porn, gore, snuff and CP. How I managed to see what I did back in the day and turn out as “normal” as I have, I have no idea.

        On the plus side, I remember being around for that guy fucking the human skull he smuggled from the catacombs 🤷🏼‍♂️

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          10 months ago

          Yeah. I was on around that time too. I have no idea why I spent so much time there but I’m honestly surprised I turned out okay. Not even a little desensitized… I don’t think.

        • JokeDeity
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          10 months ago

          I was on there a lot as a teen around 2008-9 and I’m grateful I never had to see CP, but I did see a ton of horrific gore that I would love to unsee.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      10 months ago

      I accidentally clicked on a monkey rekt thread and it was just monkeys getting tortured. There was a funny gif of a monkey getting hit in the balls though.

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        10 months ago

        monkey rekt thread

        monkey getting tortured

        I mean yeah, it sorta says it on the tin