[michaelt]

  That's not how most reasonable people would summarize it.

Only because a reasonable person would choose a more subjective statement, to convey the full breadth of depravity a visitor could expect to find on 4chan.

I mean, you've also got the gore pics, the incitements to racial and political violence, the fucked-up hentai, the homophobia, the raids on children's games, and the incessant insistence that everyone kill themselves.

[ericd]

Or they might not take it so seriously, and describe it mostly as a bunch of bored immature people trying to blow off steam and entertain themselves and each other. And they take it too far somewhat frequently.

But maybe people at your middle school were more mature than at mine, and never tried to gross each other out by tricking them into checking out this really cool site called goatse.