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one of the guys got elected to parliament in Brittan.

I think it would fall under the sub heading of how something awful kicked out the weebs and got 4chan started and how that forum was basically the source of all internet culture for a decade.

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if you’re talking about carl of swindon, he tried to get elected to the eu parliament and failed spectacularly lmao

who would have guessed that being internet famous among mostly americans does not translate into votes in europe

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4chan definitely was a (online) cultural hub well before gamergate

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I don’t think it was even that much a story. Before there was ADTRW the subforum the weebs were caught up in forum drama along with the furries and got purged. This was all very web 1.0 so moot made fourchan as a place to post hentai and shota and it became reddit before reddit was reddit. Just full of cyberpunk wild west energy inst of cia money though. People posted the worst stuff ironically so much it stoped being ironic.

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