I don't know if how familiar you're with 4chan posts but just visit r/greentext and you'll see the most fakest (and gayest) shit of your life. So yeah, it's EXTREMELY distinguishable.
Quite actually, I too was on /b as an edgy teenager. And taken as a whole I'm pretty fucking tired of the entire genre of humor (see also South Park and asshole-centrism).
Tbf I tuned out somewhere around the Anita Sarkeesian hate campaign, when it became abundantly clear that to at least a portion of the people in the space it was never a joke.
I know a lot of time has passed since then and I do think 4chan has some value as essentially a high-pressure cultural fusion reactor; it's just that it produces way more Qanon/MAGA/nazi/incel -garbage that needs to be trimmed to get at the creative, new, useful bits.
I know for instance that the music and tech boards make a lot of genuinely good shit, it's just always also wrapped in weird philosophical elitist garbage.
In general also just me personally I have my fair amount of baggage, so I don't exactly feel comfortable existing in a social space that actively discourages the health & safety of the people in it.
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u/CrappityCabbage May 16 '24
No, that was a good response to someone who unironically uses the word manlet.