Waaaagh!

i'm going to tell a 4chan story...

if that prospect offends you then run

no really....

i mean it...

i'm gonna make the text white - so scroll over it to read it... but you've been warned...

humor on 4chan is quick and malevolent and wrong and there's nothing subtle about it
lots of it isnt funny... the racism and homophobia is rather overdone (there arent many situations where any of that is a good thing)...
but it's self policing... for example...
fridays are considered 'furry fridays' by the creepy 'furfags' who come in posting odd pictures of animophic animals 'yiffing' etc... the /b/ community at large finds this unacceptably screwed up even for them, and thus someone created 'SaviorChan' - a bot - which dumps pictures of tom delay into the thread ad nauseum until the image limit is reached. That it has the added benefit of associating tom delay with furrydom is a bonus. But this isnt the story i wanted to tell... the other day someone was complaining that all the good sites with all the good bestiality video were offline - and he wanted links to sites where he could see bestiality... then he amended his request... as he didnt want sites with 2 girls kissing and a donkey in the background - he wanted sites with "i want to see a man, fucking an animal, with his cock"...
within 3 posts a picture of eraserhead was shown - with the words "i want to see a man, fucking an animal, with his cock" as the caption.... then 3 posts later, carrottop... and then the deluge began. Dick Cheney... W... the old dancing guy from the six flags commercials... Suiseiseki (with desu added to the end of course)... hundreds and hundreds of pictures - most (like desu-chan) references to past memes compounding the joke... Within 30 minutes, the thread was finished, it dropped down past page 10 and out into the wastebin... and a meme had drifted into obscurity. But for 30 minutes i laughed till i cried.

4chan isnt for most (and i'm surely not the target audience)... hell - we'd probably all be better off if it didnt exist... but it pushes the envelope of sophomoric humor and disturbed adolescence to heights i never could have aspired back in the days of rec.pets.cats... someone will shut it down some day - but there will always be something else, something worse, something that crosses beyond vile... if you let them police themselves - they'll hold the line somewhere (it just may not be where you might want it held)