TinyChan

Cancer comes in many forms. It's a group of biological diseases, an astrological sign and a lot more. Hitler referred to the Jews as cancer. Generally, it is used to describe something unwanted/negative which is spreading on its own and which is difficult to stop. Like a virus, except it's growing inside something that was once healthy, slowly destroying it. The Internet is the "host" in this context.

Although the Internet itself is technically and politically flawed in many ways, that's nothing compared to a disturbingly large percentage of its home users, which seems to increase all the time. I'm well aware of its history and things such as AOL and the "Eternal September", which came long before what I'm discussing here, but nothing has caused such a fundamental change for the worse as this phenomenon.

It cannot be stressed enough that I'm not saying that this is the sole, isolated cause of all the problems online. That would be retarded. However, it is definitely serious enough to write an article about since everyone else seems indifferent or blind to it. (Which, unfortunately, way too often is the case.)


Around 2004 or 2003, a mid-teen American anime freak whose name is unimportant saw the popular Japanese Web site "2channel", which was/is a crappy BBS where anyone could/can post anonymously as long as they spoke Japanese and had an IP address from Japan. I'm not 100% on the details here, but I believe it was using some kind of open source board, or maybe it just released its source. In either case, I know for sure that this kid took it, possibly translated it (although it was likely already translated by somebody with actual skills), and turned it into an English clone of 2channel, imaginatively called "4chan". (From this point on, I will refer to it as "Chancer".)

Overnight, he had "created" (well, copied and pasted) the worst English-language forum on the planet; a paradise of illegally distributed copyrighted drawn pictures of girls with cat ears and huge dicks, cyber terrorism and unfunny "memes". The many extreme usability and logic issues with this software pretty much guaranteed that the only ones who used it would be complete and utter morons of the worst kind. For instance, it required (and probably still does today) that you entered a secret code word into the "e-mail" field for it to actually take you back to the thread if you submitted a reply (or created a new thread). If you didn't, it would instead take you back to the index page where the threads with the most recent replies resided in a big ugly inline mess, meaning that if you replied and forgot to type in the magic code word, the thread was forever lost unless you had some extreme luck and was able to dig it up before it was gone forever, if posting happened to be "slow" at the time. Sounds insane? It is. And it's just one of many examples of what an absurd system this lucky idiot adopted.

Some people have told me that it "used to" be decent in the beginning, and that they themselves also refer to a "cancer" that came and ruined everything at some point. I don't buy this, based on the software itself and the personality of the person who ran it. And even if it were true, it is obvious that nothing was done about the problem once it became apparent.

My point couldn't be made any clearer: it was an incredibly crappy place, and its popularity can be attributed solely, or at least primarily, to one thing: it was (probably) the only English-language version of 2channel in existence, and since you didn't have to register/log in, the barriers for flooding it with junk posts were non-existent. And believe me: every thread I ever saw when I got linked to it was full of pure garbage. Trying to have any sensible discussion over there is just futile.


As mentioned, the inane design and non-existent moderation made it a very attractive "second home" for the absolutely lowest forms of life who spoke English and had access to the Internet. The board was actually divided into various sections, such as "animu & mango" (I guess spelling isn't his strong side either) or "random". The latter was by far the most active and was (and probably remains) the epicentre of the cancer of the Internet.

Over the years, this dangerously mentally ill liar and thief has consistently allowed his users to do whatever the hell they want to anyone, and very actively participated himself. Let me just make it perfectly clear (if it isn't already) that I truly have absolutely no respect whatsoever for this smug asshole; he personifies everything that I despise about a human being and an administrator: he didn't create anything himself (just copied it), what he stole wasn't even good (except when hosted an illegal clone of my software under a subdomain and sent me mocking, psychotic e-mails whose replies he edited and published for his low-IQ minions to swallow as the truth), takes no responsibility whatsoever (which is a characteristic he shares with many others, unfortunately), abuses his power to harass and attack people who actually try to make the world better, yet gets constant "brownie points" among the brainwashed sheep who see him as some kind of God, and receives inexplicable media praise from moronic journalists while the obvious public reaction would be to literally hang him high for his own crimes as well as the many crimes he has actively chosen to allow/aid.

I'm not going into details here, but just for the record, here's a few random things which Chancer repeatedly and completely openly discussed/planned/executed, bafflingly without any kind of repercussions: DDoS attacks on numerous targets, including details, links to software to use to participate; hosting and sharing child pornography (actually the same thing they kept lying about my site doing); spam/harass attacks against numerous forums and communities; random attacks toward countless individuals both online and in real life (many of who've committed suicide), as well as companies of all sizes, sometimes masked as "sticking it to the man" in order to gain mainstream acceptance from the other kind of sheeple.

By the way, isn't it peculiar that the very same company which hosts their domain, Network Solutions, has consistently refused to do anything about their domain while immediately suspending my domain which had zero illegal material hosted on it? The only thing that matter is the number of people reporting something --- nothing else matters in the least. This is cyber terrorism, plain and simple.


If you ignore the many "satellite sites" which revolve around Chancer and usually look identical except for different colors, and various "supporting" sites also made by the same kind of "people" (which is a very flattering term), perhaps the most serious issue is the fact that their obnoxious "memes" and unfunny in-"jokes" have spread so far outside of their own sphere of stupidity.

You can't just say to "not visit them", because naturally, I (or any sensible human being) would not do so, but we don't have to in order to be constantly reminded of their existence. They won't shut the fuck up or go away; they insist on dumbing down the entire Internet, as if it wouldn't be bad enough even without them. Everywhere you go, you see the endlessly repeated and endlessly moronic "memes" and stupid pictures being passed around. Even in many otherwise clean, nice and intelligent chat rooms, you often notice this nonsense daily. It's truly sad. It's a disease. It's cancer.

However it may seem, this isn't a rant against a specific person or site. I only focus on Chancer because it has been what has primarily enabled all of this crap to flourish and go on for so long, and it's grown exponentially. There are sites with much more concentrated cancer, but they are also much smaller.

I also consider Facebook and Google to be part of the cancer (or perhaps, more accurately, another kind) that is killing the Internet, in some ways even worse, but that would have to be explained in detail as it may not be as obvious, and will have to be saved for another article. (Roughly, they also have absolutely no control, allow both illegal and generally fucktardy things to go on and get away with it, and have no means of contacting them and are big enough to do so. They also violate your privacy by default and by their very nature.)

I ought to point out that I definitely don't label anyone who disagrees with me "cancer" or even "idiots" (although there are a lot of those). It would be very disturbing and a nightmarish dystopia to have everyone be exactly like yourself in every regard, even (or especially) if you were "perfect". Nothing would surprise you and you'd have constant competition for your special interests, which would of course no longer be special. That's not what I mean! What I refer to when I use the terms "fucktard" and "cancer" is a certain kind of person who, completely regardless of their interests, nationality, skin color, age, background/education level and current life situation, is just utterly obnoxious, unfunny and unusually malicious in a hard-to-define, unlikeable manner, with extremely confused ideas about what's funny/right.


Let's just build some concentration camps and... well, that's not feasible. Nor is it really desirable. Nobody should be forced to behave in a certain way; they should be convinced to do so out of their own free will. But maybe it's a pipe dream. I know of some people who, IMO, have given up their human rights through their actions.

It can definitely be questioned whether there is any point in writing any of these articles, but when I so strongly feel that something needs to be done/said, or at least attempted, I have to give it a shot. Unlike the cancer, I do things because I really believe in them and want to improve the world --- not just to ruin others' original work and keep everything shitty. Without having any scientific papers to back this up, I'm personally convinced that hanging in such communities regularly or too long actually causes brain damage.

I can only hope that a few eyes might get opened by this article. Most likely, however, everyone will keep them firmly shut and allow the madness to go on while they continue to fumble around in the dark, but at least I'm doing my part. Now it's up to the rest of you who haven't already been infected.

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Aint gonna read bud

(Edited 13 seconds later.)

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dont care

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@247,113 (On !Uvm54ORbmo)
psychotic sheep

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u wanna me to find grakmattical erors?


Good luck with that

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@previous (Syntax )
at least youre being honest

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@247,113 (On !Uvm54ORbmo)

> Aint gonna read bud

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@OP

> Cancer comes in many forms. It's a group of biological diseases, an astrological sign and a lot more.
Missing the Oxford comma. Shitlisted.
> I'm not 100% on the details here, but I believe it was using some kind of open source board, or maybe it just released its source.
Not 100% WHAT? Shitlisted
> If you didn't, it would instead take you back to the index page where the threads with the most recent replies resided in a big ugly inline mess, meaning that if you replied and forgot to type in the magic code word, the thread was forever lost unless you had some extreme luck and was able to dig it up before it was gone forever, if posting happened to be "slow" at the time. Sounds insane? It is. And it's just one of many examples of what an absurd system this lucky idiot adopted.
Big ugly? You mean a big, ugly mess. Shitlisted.

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Syntax


Checked Wike re Oxford comma

"In punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and, or, or nor) in a series of three or more terms. For example, a list of three countries might be punctuated either as "Portugal, Spain, and France" (with the serial comma), or as "Portugal, Spain and France" (without the serial comma)"


This SHIT Will go the way of buggy whips. Cell phone text I pad text Notebook text and the future of direct to brain connect. No brain is going to use the Oxford Comma

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