The Last Emperor
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What exactly happened to /pol/ anyway and why did it become /b/ 2.0
Moot kind of got tired of letting a white supremacist hate board fester on his site without repercussions. So he got rid of all the rules that kept /pol/ topical, and allowed it to be flooded by trolls.
Also Ben Garrison had enough. /pol/ was defacing his cartoons with anti Semitic themes. He called out Moot as being a "master troll" who won't do anything to stop it on his blog after which Moot fucked up /pol/.
Huh. I had no idea that Ben Garrison wasn't actually a Neo-Nazi. His comics were posted her years ago, so I assumed.
i posted there once and some dude named Heaven almost doxxed me.
never again
They kept calling moot a cuck, especially as a result of the gamergate crackdown on /v/, so he decided to nuke the board. Most of them migrated to 8chan similar to a sect of /v/.
/pol/s glory days were the zimmerman stuff. Everything after was just a second rate regurgitation (chimpout alert! like every night despite nothing truly big ever actually happening) and reddit tier bs (redpill me). I think the only oc I saw was the different types of pills (iron pill) and the dindu nuffin meme. Cant forget the jew stuff either.
I know there was a text news board before but I never went so cant compare. There was a variety of posters on pol but it was turning into stormfront lite. Even v has better political discussion. Politics is not videogames afterall.
Moot kind of got tired of letting a white supremacist hate board fester on his site without repercussions. So he got rid of all the rules that kept /pol/ topical, and allowed it to be flooded by trolls.
Wow, never visited that place so I didn't know the shit happening there.
Also back then why did /a/ had Asuka with Evangelion kazoo music
You can use themes and custom CSS, and you can pay Moot 20 bucks a year to not enjoy Google's Capcha botnet.
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Not gonna lie, where else are you gonna find shit like this?
Also Ben Garrison had enough. /pol/ was defacing his cartoons with anti Semitic themes. He called out Moot as being a "master troll" who won't do anything to stop it on his blog after which Moot fucked up /pol/.
This enhances the 4chan experience so much.
Damn you. I've been staring at this for the past half hour trying to decide. -_-
装甲悪鬼村正;143374783 said:It's awful but still the best place on the english speaking internet for discussion, especially when it comes to niche interests.
With normal forums like Neogaf it's completely impossible to seperate the content of the post from the poster. The same message can be of very different value depending on who it is that posts it. There are always hierarchies and egos at play with usernames and personalities attached.
At 4chan your post has to stand on its own, and I think that's just an inherently superior form of communication on the internet.
It ain't hard to see the anti-semitic images in his works:
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So yeah, he is full of shit
Quick Google search shows that those are by a person writing under "A. Wyatt Mann". The logo was photoshopped on, and Ben Garrison's art is stylistically a little different.
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Compare the shading styles and facial designs.