I am not familiar with these memes. Can someone point me to them please?
I'm using memes in the original meaning of "viral ideas" here, not image macros.
Chan culture popularizes excessive rudeness, spawning the idea that moderating your language is unnecessary and undesirable. It assumes that trying to be notable is a bad thing; anonymity being king, attempts to stand out should be met with instant hostility; Related to that, if you are notable and get targeted by the chan hivemind, it's your fault. The old idea that in order to get rid of the troll, one must ignore it, even though that tactic doesn't really work and doesn't fix the trolling problem, basically.
Chan culture, at its best, can create incredible works. At its worst, and more often than not, it's the bad sides that spill outside of it, it creates incredibly toxic environments and hostility.
This thing about 4chan being anonymous keeps soming up. Is it somehow more anonymous than Hard Light, or is it the same, because we're anonymous here with just our handles to identify us by.
More anonymous. At HLP, we are using pseudonyms (unless you're Luis Dias), chans generally do not have usernames; The idea being that everyone is the same as everyone else.
