4chan has gone to war with Tumblr.
Tumblr has tried to respond...with hilarious consequences.
Shots fired (http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-tumblr-independence-day/). 4chan spams feminist tags to celebrate independence day.
(http://i.imgur.com/0cPIati.jpg)
The counter-offensive begins (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/shut-down-4chan/W4fTPV6Q). Tumblr petitions Whitehouse.org to shut down 4chan, currently at 1,450
QuoteThere's a faction inside the 4chan community that is in favour of pornography (child, gore, non consensual), abuse, bullying, and other crimes against human and animal rights. If there are not enough reasons to put these people in jail, at least we could prevent them from spreading hate and cyber-bullying. I say that site should be shut down.
The counter-counter offensive (https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/tumblr-that-all-users-of-tumblr-be-labelled-as-mentally-handicapped-landwhales). 4chan petitions the White House as well.
QuoteThe people of tumblr should be labelled as mentally handicapped landwhales.
To protect the children of the internet. To learn more on protecting children visit 4chan.org
Currently at 9000 signatures.
I'm sure you meant to say "Over 9000".
Give it a day or two, this feels like it's got legs.
:drama1:
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 08, 2014, 11:14:39 AM
I'm sure you meant to say "Over 9000".
Give it a day or two, this feels like it's got legs.
Indeed. My bad. Though it is literally at 9000 when I last checked.
Are we taking bets on when other sites end up involved? Because it's practically inevitable.
This is amazing.
I don't even know what to think about this, because it seems to have its origins around this:
http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-fourth-wave-feminism/ (http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-fourth-wave-feminism/)
I know from second-hand that Tumblr is just a bunch of fart huffing about "triggers" and new useless retarded nomenclature, but this seems to go beyond that and its a bit atrocious.
>Everyone ITT
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii209/Michelle_Kayla/Pokemon/slowpoke.gif)
>2002+12
>posting slowpoke
>not even a combo
Imagine the inescapable future where rival internet assholes fued until servers and the buildings around them are dust.
This is the beginning of a glorious age.
Quote from: Raz Tech on July 08, 2014, 11:06:14 PM
>2002+12
>posting slowpoke
>not even a combo
>implying combos work on pig disgusting simple machines forums
Either way...my point stands. This is ancient news by 4chan's reckoning of time.
Tumblr issued it's declaration of war a good 4-5 days ago or so, and provided causus belli within 2-3 hours of 4chan becoming aware of it all.
Tumblr's "attack" consisted of putting "lol we're raiding u" threads up (maybe one or two on the more popular boards) and it fizzled out into obscurity over the course of 12 hours.
Nobody on 4chan even really cares about this anymore...not even the neo nazi imbeciles on /pol/. It's over...and all it amounts to is the occasional thread where some tumblrfag/tumblrfag imitator comes on and rants about how fucked up 4chan is, drops the word "trigger" 9001 times, and then has their thread drop off the board from lack of interest.
As for that whole thing about bikini bridge...I'm suprised someone outside of 4chan even knows about that. I'll admit I had a sensible chuckle at the whole idea when it was still going on, but to think it got far enough for anyone to blog about it...simply amazing.
I'm always surprised /b/ is able to maintain its virility. I kind of assumed it was doomed after the FBI takeover and the random influx of people with morals that happens every time 4chan goes viral for whatever reason. It's a long way from where it was a few years ago, and it seems like it sucks a little more each time i go on there. Probably just one of those things that'll never die.
Quote from: Raz Tech on July 09, 2014, 12:17:25 AM
I'm always surprised /b/ is able to maintain its virility. I kind of assumed it was doomed after the FBI takeover and the random influx of people with morals that happens every time 4chan goes viral for whatever reason. It's a long way from where it was a few years ago, and it seems like it sucks a little more each time i go on there. Probably just one of those things that'll never die.
>/b/
>virility
the only thing the great "tutorial board" has maintained is it's stupidity.
>It's a long way from where it was a few years ago
yeah, I miss the far more frequent CP threads too. it's so boring now that /b/ is nothing but faproulette, furfags and loli.
/b/ is and always was shit...it's the place where new users can post like retards without degrading the quality of the topic-centric boards. this is literally its purpose -- a combination lint filter and "how to use futaba style forums" tutorial.
>random influx of people with morals that happens every time 4chan goes viral for whatever reason.
moralfaggotry per se isn't the problem 4chan gets when it "goes viral". It's climbing population in general combined with an administrative staff that can't take cues from their japanese forebears.
as you increase the population size, you increase the amount of noise:signal, especially considering that the physical size of the boards doesn't scale with the population size (i.e. /b/ is still 15 pages long, even though it's population size has changed over the years).
ni channeru solves this issue by having board duplicates. I.e. on ni channeru, there's like 5 "random" boards. This is unlike 4chan, where they have /v/ (video games), /vr/ (retro games), and /vg/ (videogames general), but more like if they were to just have /v/, /v2/, /v3/...etc.
Because ni channeru has multiple boards, it scales to population size. 10,000 people can use /b1/, 10,000 on /b2/, 10,000 on /b3/ etc -- and the conversations can still be manageable in comparison to simply having 30,000 people on one board.
THIS is the issue with 4chan "going viral" -- not moralfags, but simple population size and administration's lack of effectively scaling to support growth.
Oh good, it's an idiot-fight!
QuoteTumblr issued it's declaration of war a good 4-5 days ago or so, and provided causus belli within 2-3 hours of 4chan becoming aware of it all.
Tumblr's "attack" consisted of putting "lol we're raiding u" threads up (maybe one or two on the more popular boards) and it fizzled out into obscurity over the course of 12 hours.
Nobody on 4chan even really cares about this anymore...not even the neo nazi imbeciles on /pol/. It's over...and all it amounts to is the occasional thread where some tumblrfag/tumblrfag imitator comes on and rants about how fucked up 4chan is, drops the word "trigger" 9001 times, and then has their thread drop off the board from lack of interest.
Well, I'm so dreadfully sorry that some of us, y'know, work weekends and so have no time to surf the internet for the latest outrages as and when they happen.
As you may have guessed, that's Sarcasmese for "fuck off you pretentious twit."
ytmnd > /b/
YTMND is still a piece of internet artistry.
Quote from: The Johnny on July 08, 2014, 09:11:36 PM
I know from second-hand that Tumblr is just a bunch of fart huffing about "triggers" and new useless retarded nomenclature, but this seems to go beyond that and its a bit atrocious.
The word "trigger" is very unfortunate in it that it is so cumbersome and backfires. While phrases like graphic, vulgar, upsetting, horrific, traumatic content clearly convey the meaning, posts about triggering tumblrs multitude of mentally scarred ptsd sufferers comes off as ridiculous and is only going to be fuel on the fire. 4chan will be lapping that up.
"Trigger warning" has to be the prime example of well meaning internet phrase development implemented in the most self defeating fashion.
Quote from: Cain on July 09, 2014, 04:47:34 PM
QuoteTumblr issued it's declaration of war a good 4-5 days ago or so, and provided causus belli within 2-3 hours of 4chan becoming aware of it all.
Tumblr's "attack" consisted of putting "lol we're raiding u" threads up (maybe one or two on the more popular boards) and it fizzled out into obscurity over the course of 12 hours.
Nobody on 4chan even really cares about this anymore...not even the neo nazi imbeciles on /pol/. It's over...and all it amounts to is the occasional thread where some tumblrfag/tumblrfag imitator comes on and rants about how fucked up 4chan is, drops the word "trigger" 9001 times, and then has their thread drop off the board from lack of interest.
Well, I'm so dreadfully sorry that some of us, y'know, work weekends and so have no time to surf the internet for the latest outrages as and when they happen.
As you may have guessed, that's Sarcasmese for "fuck off you pretentious twit."
Yeah this ^^^^
Faust,
Out of the loop.
Quote from: Faust on July 09, 2014, 10:47:11 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 08, 2014, 09:11:36 PM
I know from second-hand that Tumblr is just a bunch of fart huffing about "triggers" and new useless retarded nomenclature, but this seems to go beyond that and its a bit atrocious.
The word "trigger" is very unfortunate in it that it is so cumbersome and backfires. While phrases like graphic, vulgar, upsetting, horrific, traumatic content clearly convey the meaning, posts about triggering tumblrs multitude of mentally scarred ptsd sufferers comes off as ridiculous and is only going to be fuel on the fire. 4chan will be lapping that up.
"Trigger warning" has to be the prime example of well meaning internet phrase development implemented in the most self defeating fashion.
I SUPPOSE there's legitimate uses of the word, but its overuse has converted it into "i disagree with this, so im going to blow it out of proportion to guilt-shame the poster of this thing i disagree with and make him/her look like a monster".
Also, a "trigger" is also a very subjective matter and it has an aspiration to make it an objective interpretation... i.e. "OMFG that picture of a puppy triggered me because X and you are such an insensitive asshole for posting it"... its extending the responsability of oneselves feelings/reactions on the hands of another person.
My trigger word is TUMBLR.
Quote from: Cain on July 09, 2014, 04:47:34 PM
QuoteTumblr issued it's declaration of war a good 4-5 days ago or so, and provided causus belli within 2-3 hours of 4chan becoming aware of it all.
Tumblr's "attack" consisted of putting "lol we're raiding u" threads up (maybe one or two on the more popular boards) and it fizzled out into obscurity over the course of 12 hours.
Nobody on 4chan even really cares about this anymore...not even the neo nazi imbeciles on /pol/. It's over...and all it amounts to is the occasional thread where some tumblrfag/tumblrfag imitator comes on and rants about how fucked up 4chan is, drops the word "trigger" 9001 times, and then has their thread drop off the board from lack of interest.
Well, I'm so dreadfully sorry that some of us, y'know, work weekends and so have no time to surf the internet for the latest outrages as and when they happen.
As you may have guessed, that's Sarcasmese for "fuck off you pretentious twit."
Well in that case, im dreadfully sorry to have caused you such anguish. You really seem upset...
Dude, when i grow up i want to be cool like Von, up to date by the hour to all the cool gossip on the internets, then someone will appreciate me.
Until that day comes ill have to suffer an existance of *gasp* being employable! Oh the dread! But one day...
I'm the lucky one, because I have nerdy teenage children who are out of school and thus were able to inform me about these important goings-on several days ago.
Being an uncool middle-aged mom has its perks.
I'm going to assume that von is either an uncool middle-aged mom, a nerdy teenage child, or one of those weird virginal 20-something shut-ins who do the same things nerdy teenage children do.
Quote from: The Johnny on July 09, 2014, 11:35:46 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 09, 2014, 10:47:11 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 08, 2014, 09:11:36 PM
I know from second-hand that Tumblr is just a bunch of fart huffing about "triggers" and new useless retarded nomenclature, but this seems to go beyond that and its a bit atrocious.
The word "trigger" is very unfortunate in it that it is so cumbersome and backfires. While phrases like graphic, vulgar, upsetting, horrific, traumatic content clearly convey the meaning, posts about triggering tumblrs multitude of mentally scarred ptsd sufferers comes off as ridiculous and is only going to be fuel on the fire. 4chan will be lapping that up.
"Trigger warning" has to be the prime example of well meaning internet phrase development implemented in the most self defeating fashion.
I SUPPOSE there's legitimate uses of the word, but its overuse has converted it into "i disagree with this, so im going to blow it out of proportion to guilt-shame the poster of this thing i disagree with and make him/her look like a monster".
Also, a "trigger" is also a very subjective matter and it has an aspiration to make it an objective interpretation... i.e. "OMFG that picture of a puppy triggered me because X and you are such an insensitive asshole for posting it"... its extending the responsability of oneselves feelings/reactions on the hands of another person.
There is of course a legitimate use, its just unfortunate phrasing, because the actual sound of the phrase is stupid. No one bats an eyelid if someone posts Warning - Graphic or upsetting content, this was common and used widely.
But if someone posts that ridiculous phrase "Trigger warning - x" is easy for the average person to dismiss it, or react badly to it, or worse directly target it like 4chan did because of the humorous nature of the phrase.
Quote from: Faust on July 10, 2014, 06:29:48 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 09, 2014, 11:35:46 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 09, 2014, 10:47:11 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 08, 2014, 09:11:36 PM
I know from second-hand that Tumblr is just a bunch of fart huffing about "triggers" and new useless retarded nomenclature, but this seems to go beyond that and its a bit atrocious.
The word "trigger" is very unfortunate in it that it is so cumbersome and backfires. While phrases like graphic, vulgar, upsetting, horrific, traumatic content clearly convey the meaning, posts about triggering tumblrs multitude of mentally scarred ptsd sufferers comes off as ridiculous and is only going to be fuel on the fire. 4chan will be lapping that up.
"Trigger warning" has to be the prime example of well meaning internet phrase development implemented in the most self defeating fashion.
I SUPPOSE there's legitimate uses of the word, but its overuse has converted it into "i disagree with this, so im going to blow it out of proportion to guilt-shame the poster of this thing i disagree with and make him/her look like a monster".
Also, a "trigger" is also a very subjective matter and it has an aspiration to make it an objective interpretation... i.e. "OMFG that picture of a puppy triggered me because X and you are such an insensitive asshole for posting it"... its extending the responsability of oneselves feelings/reactions on the hands of another person.
There is of course a legitimate use, its just unfortunate phrasing, because the actual sound of the phrase is stupid. No one bats an eyelid if someone posts Warning - Graphic or upsetting content, this was common and used widely.
But if someone posts that ridiculous phrase "Trigger warning - x" is easy for the average person to dismiss it, or react badly to it, or worse directly target it like 4chan did because of the humorous nature of the phrase.
Yeah, it's one of those terms in psychology -- the concept that certain content can trigger a PTSD episode -- that entered popular lingo and immediately lost its original meaning.
We can contrast this to NSFW and Epilepsy warnings, which actually convey a type of accurate description.
Quote from: von on July 08, 2014, 10:42:59 PM
>Everyone ITT
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii209/Michelle_Kayla/Pokemon/slowpoke.gif)
:lulz:
Relevant. Tumblr's "Dashcon" turned out to be a megashitshow.
http://jezebel.com/the-tumblr-user-convention-dashcon-was-a-beautiful-hil-1604571770
BALL PIT.
EXTRA HOUR IN THE BALL PIT.
Quote from: The Suu on July 15, 2014, 10:07:36 PM
Relevant. Tumblr's "Dashcon" turned out to be a megashitshow.
http://jezebel.com/the-tumblr-user-convention-dashcon-was-a-beautiful-hil-1604571770
BALL PIT.
EXTRA HOUR IN THE BALL PIT.
Mother of god. How can it go so wrong? SA 4chan and reddit have been pulling them off for years with a lot less planning and smaller budgets.
Quote from: Faust on July 15, 2014, 10:23:16 PM
Quote from: The Suu on July 15, 2014, 10:07:36 PM
Relevant. Tumblr's "Dashcon" turned out to be a megashitshow.
http://jezebel.com/the-tumblr-user-convention-dashcon-was-a-beautiful-hil-1604571770
BALL PIT.
EXTRA HOUR IN THE BALL PIT.
Mother of god. How can it go so wrong? SA 4chan and reddit have been pulling them off for years with a lot less planning and smaller budgets.
I don't know how SA or Reddit do things, but IIRC, 4chan's most successful large events haven't been dedicated "4chanCon" type events, but rather just a couple panels at existing anime cons, etc. Basically, they succeed by piggy-backing off of otherwise extant events that have non-4chan related draws to them.
Perhaps Tumblr failed by trying to hold a con exclusively for itself...I mean, even 4chan's events are lacklustre when they're dedicated to 4chan itself: something to the beat of "4 guys from /k/ went to the gun range, but no one brought anything to shoot" or "3 people from /x/ went to three seperate graveyards hoping to meet up to hunt ghosts, but failed to agree on which graveyard" or even "two guys from /b/, each pretending to be a girl met up for sex, only to be sadly dissapointed".
Where were the gay porn panels and workshops?
Tumblr is for gay porn, isn't it?
Although that does make the "ball pit" more interesting.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 16, 2014, 03:24:45 AM
Where were the gay porn panels and workshops?
Tumblr is for gay porn, isn't it?
Although that does make the "ball pit" more interesting.
Alpearently, someone pissed in the ballpit at some point, so id hazard that it appeals more to urolagnia enthusiasts than those with an explicit penchant for homoerotica.