[arkh]

> They are full of toxic waste.

4chan is considered toxic waste. Old Youtube was full of toxic. Old Tumblr was toxic waste.

Those are / were home to the most creative communities.

Now? New centralized media is starting to look a lot like old media: standardized, no spice, boring. Perfect for a protestant society.

[api]

Old 4chan, YouTube, and Tumblr were not full of neo-Nazi propaganda unless you count ironic jokes that were obviously jokes, so no. Then the great Basement Blitzkreig of the 20-teens happened.

[shadowgovt]

Were they obviously jokes? Because in hindsight, a lot of that behavior looks like it was really clandestine signaling allowing neo-Nazis to find each other

[krapp]

>in hindsight, a lot of that behavior looks like it was really clandestine signaling allowing neo-Nazis to find each other.

Of course it was. The premise that racists wouldn't take advantage of communities which let them communicate openly and gave them the plausible deniability of "irony" while doing so is absurd. Why wouldn't they, when the community "mocks" them by acting just like them, reinforcing their beliefs, spreading their gospel and making them feel as at home as possible?

I mean, it's not exactly a scathing rebuke, is it?