![]() ![]() ![]() co/ would be the place the issue was felt the most, with both groups clashing and completely derailing threads. However the repercussions of having both groups chimping out on each other like Hatfields and McCoys would be felt site-wide, with various boards having a team of /pol/lacks appearing whenever race or politics were mentioned, and many threads being constantly derailed by complaining feminists and liberals. ![]() All this managed was to increase the popularity of the JIDF meme. Since /pol/ is constantly being showered with spam the residents, most of them trolls, didn’t particularly care, after all to them it was just more entertainment. This board came to be notorious in various Internet communities prompting various sites with a tendency towards Social Justice to go on a crusade against the board’s white supremacism. In due aspect most users of the site regarded /pol/ as a shithole filled of racists. The general perception of /pol/ was as a quarantine board disguised as a politics board. Given the cultural changes of the Internet and the rise of Reddit’s “fempire”, nobody expected what would happen next. They were originally from /new/ - News, a board meant for the discussion of world news and inevitably political events, /new/’s culture however degraded into right-minded politics (as their predecessor, /n/, did before failing its probation period). pol/ was created to re-contain a small band of white supremacists and trolls taking residence on boards like /int/ and /k/. The advent of 2013 also saw a sharp rise with issues regarding the board /pol/ - Politically Incorrect. ![]() While quality wise its nothing new, as even during the days of the dark age with /b/ at its worst there was at least some degree of activity in any form – Be it raids, OC, discussion or even cancer – /b/ shifted towards a culture of passive encouragement: It will take any opportunities that present themselves, and play along with anything it considered humouristic, but it will not go out to generate any new content (or problems) like it used to do, merely limiting itself to laugh at stuff and make porn threads. While it could not be described as an identity crisis, as /b/ already saw itself as a shithole for a while now, it did rob them of the last expectation they had of themselves.īy late 2012 /b/ accepted it’s more idle culture, the influx of what could be deemed as “Facebook users”, bored teenagers with a knack for dark comedy and an age median of 16 to 24, put the board in a routine of passive activities. Since one of the tenets of /b/ was that their aggressiveness would often create content or at least humorous threads, the amount of normal users conflicted with /b/’s notion of themselves as a factory of OC, as they were more or less an anonymous Facebook divided between porn threads and “X decides what I do”. The end of the year saw a rise on the numbers of “casual” users on the board, to the point that posting old memes and catchphrases would shock /b/ as if it was the first time they were ever posted. However by 2012, /b/’s (perceived) position as the Internet’s prime content creator was swept away by Reddit, Imgur and 9gag. Up to 2011, most of the site still thought of /b/ as an OC factory gone awry, and most 4channers still expected them to put themselves together and go back to that routine. With the issue of bronies quelled, and new coder desuwa working constantly on the inline extension, among other ideas such as an inline catalog, the last part of 2012 proved to be one of change for /b/. ![]()
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