CosmicScientist wrote:
Can we have a little history on 4chan's political web? That sounds fun.
Politically, the big boards(/b/ mainly, but later on /new/, /v/ and /pol/) were mainly left and it has been called a 'far left extremist website' before during the anonymous phase and after as government(Bush at the time) was trying to push all sorts of shit in the name of 'fighting terrorists'. However, as the left became crazier and got power 4chan ended up going libertarian individualists and had the belief that everything works fine as long as people stop being dicks and interfering with eachother, as the far-left was identified as being a threat to them.
After that, it went mainly right wing nationalist, because it turns out if you're a well-meaning libertarian who just wants to be left alone, you're going to just get rolled over by other groups unless you organize in like-minded groups to fight it off.
I 100% believe that if the extreme left died off and all the attempts to force things onto people would stop, 4chan will go back to being libertarians, and then back to being leftists. Think of it like "I just want to play fucking video games and watch anime, stop trying to fuck with my hobbies and life", then just follow that through to the logical conclusion
"I just want to watch anime without government deciding they can cut my internet and throw me in Guantanamo for watching something they dont like" - Bush era
"I just want these people to leave me alone, I'm not hurting them. Just let me watch my anime and play video games" - Early Obama
"What the shit, they're actively trying to fight us and turn our video games into shit, we just want to do our own shit!" - Gamergate
"Fuck it, we're organising in turn, gas them all! Lets help the one person they hate the most get elected and do what we can to fuck their shit up!"- Trump gets elected
And we're still riding that last bit because the far-left continues to push the same shit, thus 4chan goes to the right. And as the EU and other globalist forces try to take freedoms, 4chan naturally becomes nationalistic in response
Stop fucking shit up and these people will all return to being friendly centrists with a slightly left lean.
Unless shit gets fucked up so hard that they refuse to go back, in which case that's going to take a whole lot of time to normalize