Yea 4chan got people fucked up because anonymous people were calling each other f*ggot unlike the wholesome parts of the internet where everyone is constantly policing themselves and others and immediately doxing and trying to get people fucked up irl for saying something wrong https://twitter.com/glowybones/status/1253082285185748992

Gonna take years to deprogram myself from attaching the -fag suffix to things but one day I will get better and join the decentralized Stasi network of tyrannical knitting moms and upper class diaspora grifters in their never-ending desperate, cannibalistic struggle for status

Funny thing is that the whole by now cliche disavowal of 4chan thing is itself an expression of that self-policing

Most people who do it had a blast on 4chan (hence why they stuck around for years) but if they told their new "friends" that they'd be torn to shreds in an instant