Hey, you know what's great? Originality, creativity, empathy and not regurgitating the same Goddamn thing over and over again. You'll find none of those over at 4Chan, capital of internet "culture". The interesting thing about it is how almost every meme seems to originate from here. Lolcats? Check. ORLY owl? Check. Rick Roll and Chocolate Rain? 4Chan again. So, it has a tendency to make certain retarded things very popular. So, like how everyone emulates the cool kids when they smoke or huff paint or whatever it is people with actual social lives do, everyone less popular follows. The point in which a meme "dies" is when it is featured on Fox News. So, what makes this bad? Well, it's not necessarily bad just for that, it's just that image macros and pictures of cats are about as funny as a brick wall with Carlos Mencia in front of it. Plus, after a million times of seeing the same cat, your lungs start to fail as a reflex, to spare you the pain of seeing it again.
So, that explains why the site is bad, but cancerous? Well, as far as internet users go, 4Channers are a vocal minority. They do retarded things, like trolling, hacking into accounts, and overall being dicks to people, which gives the internet a bad name. Since the net is a new thing, we'd need to get a lot of people on board, but these guys are making the environment hostile. Plus, they call Fox News "Faux" News, proving they do not know how to pronounce the words they use, just in case you weren't sure they weren't idiots already. Oh, and the spelling and grammar. Oh God the spelling and grammar. MOAR, FAIL, LULZ and EPIC are all used there, much to the chagrin of the pedant in me.
If you want to know why these people are one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, read Encyclopedia Dramatica, their version of Wikipedia. Check out any page, preferably with someone who committed suicide or is gay or black, and you'll see a rather sound argument why eugenics might be a good idea after all.
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