"The church [of Scientology] is incapable of following one simple bit of Internet wisdom: Don't Feed the Trolls. By taking Anonymous as seriously as it has, Scientology has nurtured the one thing Chanology depends on above all: the lulz."

Ayup. Om, nom nom nom.

l don't really give a shit, to be honest.

>>5822768

It kinda irks me to see the public face of 4chan be chanology, but I guess it's the only thing that's newsworthy in the slightest.

If asked if in the street if I knew of 4chan and its ways, I would feign ignorance.

as long as they stay the fuck on /b/ i don't care

>>5822641

Meh we've been in wired before and a good third of the interweb 'media' love to suck anon cawk.

I don't know why to be honest all the scifags getting ripped off by the scifag church deserve it for being so fucking stupid.

>>5822826

Oh totally. The first rule of 4chan is you don't talk about 4chan.

I can't stand those retards who wear anonymous masks and make herp derp jokes in real life.

Interest in 4chan publicity is about 6 moth past its expiration date. Everyone knows that 4chan is no longer the place nobody knows about but the place people pretend to not know about (of just don't care about).

i that article is pure /b/

It's kinda sad that the rest of the internet thinks /b/ is all that 4chan is. The other boards are pretty decent too.

>mostly twentysomething users

lol, yeah okay.

>>5822904

Oh, the EXTREME IRONY!!!

That article is actually really well written. It's a shame that's wasted on the complete and utter failfaggotry that is chanology.

This is why I never mention 4chan. I hang out on /v/. Despite all the trolls, tripfriend drama and consoles wars, it can be a fine place to discuss video games. It is, however, a part of 4chan, automatically connecting it to /b/ and all things /b/-related.

>>5823091

I find the greasemonkey filter works wonders for tripfaggotry. I regard it as sort of a necessity for browsing /a/ without blowing a gasket.

>>5823070
Not to mention that it really only encompasses stuff that happened years ago. I saw the article and thought "Oh god this is gonna be a fun read," but it was basically the same shit that I'd read before in either Time or Newsweek, don't remember which.
Wired, I am disappoint.

>>5822875

>>implying /r9k/ isn't /b/

Ohohoh aren't you missing something?

/b/ should really be put on a different site from 4chan if only so /b/'s bullshit wouldn't be attributed to the entirety of 4chan who really don't give a shit about protests or lulz or anything like that.

>>5825018

There just need to be more mods.

More mods would clean /v/ right up for example.

>>5825018

There needs to be a place for /b/tards buddy

Where do you think they'd go if there wasn't a /b/ on 4chan?

Couldn't give less of a shit about the Scientology thing, but this is a very well-written article. Wired is the only media outlet that actually does their research regarding 4chan. They've covered this place tons in the past.

>>5822939
It actually is mostly twentysomething users -- early 20s. Just a lot of manchildren.

>>5825089
/b/ on a different site owned by moot with a different name with no links between the two sites, save for the initial announcement and a little while after.

>>5825127
4chan came out of /b/, and every anon that deserves the name used to be a /b/tard at least for a short while. 4chan is about image macros, incest pasta and catchphrases, not about high school seniors discussing life, love and politics. You can do that in a pub, but you can't recreate the experience of /b/ as it once was, and not so long ago that most 4channers wouldn't remember.

>>5825127

They've got 7chan and 99chan and 800chan and 12chan and 500chan

The reason they stay here is because of familiarity. Even if they take away /b/ they'll still browse other boards. Anyways, even if you take away /b/ it won't make you a better person for being on 4chan.

>>"We are Legion," the robot voice intoned
>>the robot
>>robot
>>the great robot overlord being associated with ed shit and the fucking /b/tard idiots

BLASPHEMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

>>5825018
It is on a different site. /b/ is on 4chan and all the good boards are on plus4chan/420chan.

>>5825127
So it's like a maximum security mental institution where the /b/tards will occasionally escape for some fresh exercise by 'raiding'.

Sounds good to me.

>>5825191
>implying /sucks/ is any better than /b/

ohyou.jpg

>defining troll

Aaaahhhh! Why does everyone think trolling originated here at 4chan? I used to visit AOL chat rooms back when AOL 3.0 existed and the term TROLL was used back then. Why does it need defined like it's some brilliant new term?

>>5825180
>>5825180
>>catchphrases

fuck, sadly this is true. I remember when I found this site in high school back in 2004, I wasn't much different from the fucktards who scream LOL ANON IS LEGION nowadays, the only difference being that I kept 4chan to myself (since no one besides me at my school even knew what 4chan was... and i went to a large school.)

There really isn't a big difference between /b/ humor of the past and the present. It's the same shit, only people cry it out in public. I'd say that /r9k/ has its occasional /b/ moments and /co/ is full of them. /co/ reminds me a lot of /b/ in the past- not a different humor, just a different approach and attitude.

4chan's idiotic attacks on scientology are no different than the Alex Jones protests from retarded college students. Hell, I'd say they're probably the same crowd.

>>5822641
They still overwhelmingly focused on /b/ instead of the rest of the 4chan website. There are other image boards besides /b/, and still the mainstream media still focuses on /b/.

Why?

Obviously, the author's only been in /b/.
>In short, while there are many online places where you can educate yourself, seek the truth, and contemplate the world's injustices and strive to right them, 4chan is not one of them.

>>5825308

It's because you're whining and nobody likes a whiner

>>5825308

Because /b/ is the board that made the news.

And really, most of our other boards are just anonymous versions of things that exist plenty of other places. /b/ is unique, however retarded it may be.

>>5825409
So even though this site is centered around Japanese anime, manga and culture, and has boards dedicated to video games, mecha, music, photography, and even cars, /b/ gets all the attention because they're the ones making news?

>>5825703

Well, yeah, that's how news works. I guess Wired could take a pass at other areas, but what in the world for? No one would care.

>>5825337
>Implying that you can do *any* of those things on 4chan

>>5825241
I remember a time back when there was no such thing as trolling. it was all spam, everything was.

>>5825855
That was the intermediate phase. Before that, there were goons everywhere trying to outdo themselves with OC, or, failing that, combos.