Destroyer of worlds: the 8chan story

Tortoise ^ | June 29, 2019 | Nicky Woolf

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

On 27 April, before he burst into a San Diego synagogue and opened fire, killing one worshipper and injuring three more, the gunman said goodbye to the community that radicalised him. “It’s been real dudes,” he posted on the far-right politics board, /pol/, on the image-posting site 8chan. “I’ve only been lurking for a year and a half, yet what I’ve learned here is priceless.”

The story was familiar. Six weeks earlier, a 28-year-old had killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Before starting his attack, he, too, had posted on 8chan’s /pol/ board. “It’s been a long ride,” he had written. He signed off his post: “Meme magic is real.” The first response from an anonymous 8chan user urged him to “get the high score”.

From its effect on the world, 8chan could be ranked as one of the internet’s most dangerous sites. Some have even compared it to terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda or ISIS. The pattern is similar: men – and it is always men – find their way there, and get radicalised into an extreme ideology which drives some of them to violence.

But there is no fundamentalist preacher for the ideology of chan sites. It’s mostly lonely people who find themselves in a febrile information ecosystem without precedent in human history. Chan sites like 8chan are something entirely new: organic communities of anonymous participants that have started to behave almost like a new consciousness, separate and more powerful and dangerous than the sum of its parts.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Clowns to the left of me
Fibbers to the right
Here I am.

[Red Badger]

I am surrounded by paranoids....................

[bagster]

This thread has potential.

😃

[bankwalker]

is this your blog?

[blu]

I’ve heard you get cooties if you go to 8 Chan.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Could turn into a real FRestival!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Was that your bowlwinder, earlier?

BWAHAHAHAHA!
#goodunFRen

[Enigo54]

Well done my FRiend!

[PGR88]

Kicked off 4chan for doxing, then kicked off 7chan, 4chon, and several other alt-chans,

will the real chan please stand up?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk

[BenLurkin]

[bagster]

I’ve heard you get cooties if you go to 8 Chan.

I heard if you read 8chan your eyes will melt and run down your face.

[dfwgator]

I heard if you read 8chan your eyes will melt and run down your face.

[bagster]

Ya got to give it to these propagandists, though.

I like how they interspersed pictures of sad people crying at shooting scenes in between their "8chan is the devil" BS.

Well, played, Derp State.

[bagster]

Haha. I almost used that one.

[Responsibility2nd]

This thread has potential.

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Possibly. Especially when one considers the same 8chan people who inspired the killer at the synagogue also inspire those who chit chat about Qanon.

[justa-hairyape]

A lurker is someone who never posts. They really dont engage the community. So they are not really a part of the community yet.

[bagster]

Especially when one considers the same 8chan people who inspired the killer at the synagogue also inspire those who chit chat about Qanon.

Attaboy.

I was wondering when...

...would show up.

Where's the rest of your crew?

#EntertainMe

[Revel]

What a bunch of propaganda trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Facebook, Twitter and the like- get posts from shooters all the time. Whats more it has been proven that the FBI was involved in Setting 8chan up for this one. The FBI was too dumb to remove the fact that the screenshots they took proved that they were the ones who made many of the posts.

If you the are the source of this article then you should be so ashamed. But even posting this shows who you really are. Maybe you are part of the con.