https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/01/how-4chan-became-the-home-of-the-elite-reader
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How 4chan became the home of the elite reader - New Statesman
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talk about books or smth idk
/h/lit SETTINGS /h/lit MODS /h/lit LOG /h/lit EXILEES /h/lit FOLLOWERS /h/lit BLOCKERS
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I'm not a true /lit/izen but when I occasionally browse I don't get the sense that it's some /pol/fugee center. Of course anything not
explicitly left wing is probably reich wing to these journos 
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4chan jannies are generally pretty neurodivergent about banning politics from not /pol/, to the point you are more likely to randomly get banned for getting close than having to see pol rants on many boards
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If u cede an inch of politics to these people, they will drown the site in political spergery.
It's why
@Aevann needs to go harder on exiling posts to chudrama
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You would just be ceding the site to the leftists. There are a bunch of users here who are unironically commies.
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So exile the commies to a new
hole, REDrama or something
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I prefer constant strife and complaining in the main feed.
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Counterpoint: /g/
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!bookworms !sophistry
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I will always enjoy serious descriptions of shit posts by legacy media
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There has to have been at least one "serious" article written that includes sneed or bane posting
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Literally me
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A literature journoid describing the "I hate the antichrist" meme is hilarious
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Satire is dead. Fat women ate it.
Jewish lives matter.
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Autodidacticism is a scourge. /lit/lets (and rsp dweebs) trying to one up each other is King Louie-butt behavior.
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Any journ*list who starts an article with "how" should be shot
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Orange Site automatically filters "How" from the start of titles
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How Duck got r*ped (by me)
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Can't respond, too buttmangled
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Well?
Was it anally?
I bet it was anally
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Nasally
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Cloacally.
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Obviously
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First two, last three
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This is feather Indian phobic.
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I'm amazed the New Statesman would release an article so pro-/lit/ that basically admits the left fricked up ceding these ground to the right and it now fills an important niche.
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You didn't realize? The left lost social control last year. It was fairly obvious for anyone that was paying attention.
Expect a bunch of people to suddenly notice things that have been obvious for over a decade. Soon you'll see lit people notice that publishing has been taken over by white women determined to publish trash.
This June party attention to rainbow flag profile pics on Twitter. They either won't happen or will last less than a week.
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What happened is that leftists lost their influence over the big tech firms. What first started this was when their workers started striking over social issues - the first such strike I remember was the Spotify Joe Rogan strikes. Corpos hate strikes, especially over business decisions. It wasn't immediately noticeable then, but the loss of power started to crystallize over the next four years, as the Biden admin started filing a lot of anti-trust lawsuits against the Big Tech firms. The final nail in the coffin obviously came when Elon bought twitter and fired 80% of twitter's workforce. Turns out that - in the non-unionized tech world, where the average dev isn't really that differentiated from other dev's - you can just do that and your core product will keep on working fine.
And then every tech company started following suit firing parts of their workforce and telling their employees to frick off with their ideological fights and get back to work(see: the Google Palestine strike firings). And that completely crushed the left's power over Big Tech.
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But the New Statesmen is one of the outlets is metastasised out of. It's a pretty colossal vibe shift
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They can tell which way the wind is blowing. Either shift your politics to attack those that make your side weak, or die with them.
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this is putting up "migrate to europe and get free housing" signs in buttfrick africa
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Snapshots:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/01/how-4chan-became-the-home-of-the-elite-reader:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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/lit/ is dying, look at its stats
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So is /fit/ only one solution really
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Ya because people are reading instead of poasting
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Further proof that chinkmoot needs to give us a philosophy board
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Philosophy is r-slurred. Like actually the entire concept of it is hilarious and it seems to be a filter to keep r-slurs out of real discourse.
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OK
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I'm calling you dumb. I know i need to explain this because you're into philosophy
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OK
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Dumb
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Everyone knows that posting on 4chan is a full time commitment, I mean, they were probably brought into existance by some sort of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin derived ritual
if you really think about it. Hardcore!
Very impressed by the stable geniuses posting on /lit/ in 2025.
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