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4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how.
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Elon and his cohorts have been involved in 4chan since it was a cultural phenomenon back in the day. Not because he had some skin in the game, but because it probably felt good to know and disseminate information before the rest of the 4channers knew it. That boy is all about clout before anything else.
Isn’t 4chan’s main claim to fame that everybody is anonymous?
Elon def has namefag energy
i don't use 4chan, what's a namefag
Basically, on an online forum like 4chan, using a username or real name instead of just going with the flow like almost everyone else.
As for why they attach f*g to literally any and every designation besides anon, it's 4chan. Actually, many dots were connected for me as far as the disgusting nature of 4chan when I realized Epstein was very active on /pol/. He was also very active on /u/ (Yuri) but most people aren't ready for that conversation, people really don't like it when you imply porn is bad here.
Tell me more about his /u/ connection
(Also porn is good btw)
tw: slurs I guess but from context I think that should be expected
I'm pretty sure it started with "newfags" and self-declared "oldfags" and grew from there to be a general suffix. (e.g. "consolefag here. Should I finally try PC?")
so rather than get a new number every post, logging in and getting a username sort of thing?
Uh, no, more like making a post and then signing your message with a username/real name.
Edit: truth be told though, I don't know if there was a way to actually have a 'username' on 4chan — someone else will have to answer that. Didn't spend a large amount of time on the platform.
Pretty sure it's just a text field but yeah I was saying Elon is an egomaniac so he would sign his posts on a board that's known for anonymity
It is! Until you tell everyone that you hang out on /b/. Much like a number of people in his DOGE cabinet that were salivating at the chance to undermine the government without understanding how it functioned. Telling people that you browse /b/ is virtue signaling that you're mentally deficient.
I don't think virtue signaling is accurate here.
I think it is directly signaling that you are mentally deficient, and this has been true the entire time /b/ has existed.
True. /b/ was never good.