• Throwaway
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    1072 years ago

    4chan uses fun new tech to draw swastikas, more at 11.

    • @[email protected]
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      472 years ago

      Very business as usual for them, guess the crayon box got emptied out and they got hungry

  • Heresy_generator
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    2 years ago

    “We’re making propaganda for fun. Join us, it’s comfy,” the 4chan thread instructs. “MAKE, EDIT, SHARE.”

    It’s just some random fun, guys; it’s not at all a coordinated campaign by white supremacist fascists to inundate people with racist and fascist propaganda.

    • Sabata11792
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      222 years ago

      No, it’s the next insidious plot of the notorious hacker known as 4chan.

    • kitonthenet
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      92 years ago

      We’re making propaganda… Join us… the 4chan thread instructs

      So the campaign is coordinated

      4chan

      The visual guide instructs potential posters to create images that are “Funny, provocative. Redpilling message (Jews involved in 9/11). Easy to Understand.” Under an image that shows a crying Pepe the frog with a needle next to its arm and a gun pointed to his head, the guide says “vaccines enforced by violence.” Under an AI-generated image of two Black men with gold chains chasing a white woman, the guide said “redpilling message (migrant crime in scandinavia).”

      So they’re white supremacist fascists

      MAKE, EDIT, SHARE

      So they are inundating people with it

      whether you think it’s random fun or not is subjective, but the way they’ve described it is accurate.

      • ram
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        92 years ago

        I’m fairly sure they were being sarcastic ^^

  • @[email protected]
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    412 years ago

    Sounds like some people still need to learn about the goat fucker corollary: if you fuck a goat as a joke, you’re a goat fucker. There’s no “irony” or “just trolling” exception.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      Even during those times and before they were doing butt sharpies and pools closed. 4chan had always been for the mindless cheap lulz

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    I miss the times when they sent Pitbull to Alaska or Taylor Swift to a deaf school. Hell, I even miss Boaty McBoat face.

    At least those were fun and interesting.

  • HarkMahlberg
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    252 years ago

    Oh look it’s exactly what I predicted with generative AI. We’ve wound the clocks back to 2014, when Russia used 4chan and reddit to fuel organized campaigns of hatred that paved the way for the alt right, Trump, and his ilk.

  • @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    “Flood the internet” apparently means making shit for other trolls and posting it on an image board for trolls.

  • Yeather
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    212 years ago

    I’m glad the internet still has this side to it, makes me laugh lol.

      • @[email protected]
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        202 years ago

        Have you seen the actual images that are posted on 4chan, rather than the curated content posted to news sites? The shit they’re making is hilarious.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        In this one instance yes? It’s actually good it happened this early in the techs life and in such a obvious way.

        It means it can be addressed and is a focus problem to be solved.

        It’s a lot better then subtle racism that has a agenda attached to it.

        This is just blanket internet fuckery with little to no reason behind it beyond haha we make racism cause is funny. Better this then the alternative.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          There are far-right Discord servers where they praise mass shooters that target minorities.

          The most popular topic of discussion is “how to make more people more racist” and the most common suggestion is “memes”, since they appeal to kids and are what started most of them down their path of dogshit.

          It’s not a joke.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            This very much is a joke compared to that. This is a mass flooding and is actually more helpful to preventing further abuse. Unlike a controlled and curated slow release of tailor made messages.

            Don’t let your out rage boner ruin your ability to actually see the world around you. You do your own cause no favors if you are nothing but a zelot.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Or I can tell the difference between “making jokes” and “pushing far-right propaganda using jokes”.

      • Mubelotix
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        42 years ago

        It’s sarcasm, most people fake racism for fun on 4chan

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Anyone who enjoys pretending to be racist is just a closeted racist.

            Like those guys that’re always “pretending” to be gay for laughs. “Watch me grab this guy’s butt, it’ll be so funny!” No, you just want an excuse to grab another guy’s butt. At least own it; you’re gay.

      • Yeather
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        22 years ago

        I’m glad the internet hasn’t fallen so far that I can’t laugh at a company getting trolled.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    What this group of people do not realize is that they are truly not as anonymous as they think especially as AI gets more and more powerful. I look forward to the day they are all exposed along with others who think it is “fun” to be an asshole online.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Really? We’re doing this again?

    Haven’t we all learned by now that there will always be a part of 4chan that will do something bad purely because they think it’s funny? Just ignore these people. If we don’t give them attention and doom about them, the five people on the site being little contrarians will get bored in a week, and they’ll stop doing their stupid racism garbage.

    Simple as.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    I guess you’d call this growing pains, and it’s good this happens this early and is being done in such a manner. There’s just no way to reason with corporate, you have to point a gun at its head to make it move.

    • HarkMahlberg
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      62 years ago

      There was a way to exploit the flaws in generative AI without actually contributing to propaganda and disinformation machines. Believe it or not, the “Mickey Mouse holding a Garand” in Facebook’s AI stickers would be preferable to show corporations how AI can harm their business interests in the hopes they drop it or reform it.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    4channer post method of tricking 4chaners into doing things that might get them fired, for the lols