17 april 2025

4chan is gehackt en komt misschien niet meer terug. Op de nieuwsblog Garbage Day staat een mooi stukkie over de ondergang van het beruchte forum. En dat op de dag dat OpenAI bekendmaakte aan een eigen sociaal medium te werken. Uit Garbage Day:

"The demise of the text-based, anonymous website that overran the rest of the internet happening the same week we discover the company that continues to promise a new internet may be actually trying to build one. A new internet not just full of autoplaying videos and verified user names, but one where a machine would sort through the human chaos we upload every second of the day. Chaos that, thanks to 4chan, we have to begrudgingly accept is somehow innate to what people will just do when they are safely anonymous behind a computer.

And so, yes, we did lose something this week. And it is almost certainly a better world without it. But it's also possible we look back one day and wish the internet still felt as messy and, more importantly, human as it did when 4chan ruled the world."