>and the nature of shitposting perturbed you too much to enjoy the site

It's not shitposting. It's the actual cultural hegemony of the website. You can only be le ebin ironic nazi for so long before you're actually a nazi.

>I can go to /x/'s catalog page and see maybe 1-2 posts about le jewish nazi conspiracy theory, with less than 10 posts

50% of threads in /x/ devolve into jewish conspiracy theories, or otherwise fascist-inspired rabbit holes.

>There's a thread on /lit/ right now about African writers with a lot of recommendations. It's 4chan,

Lmao nice, you found a 2 day old thread, after the jannies were able to clean the overwhelming amount of /pol/tards that infested it. And even after the obvious ones got filtered out, there still remains the unspoken weight of genetic essentialism

>It's 4chan. As always, you wade through the shit to find the interesting stuff. It never existed to service you or your sensibilities.

>your sensibilities

When 75% of the sensibilities of a website are in one way or another related to National Socialism, you cannot have a normal discussion anymore.

>Sorry not sorry that your point of view is so narrow that literally any mention of Nazis triggers you. That's the nature of 2020 shitposting. You got filtered

Yeah there's a small difference between "a mention of Nazis" and literally every discussion that tengentially mentions someone who isn't white being approached with the entire cultural baggage of a Nazi, complete with phrenology and all.

There was a time where this was just shitposting, then the shit-posting got more and more intense, and then people started reading Evola "for the meme", and then people started quoting Hitler speeches to justify why this or that is wrong, and then the (((jew))) started being jokingly referred to as the cause of all society's ills, and then someone went into a mosque right next to my friend's house and killed 6 people, right as it was getting irony-posidoned into the zeitgeist, half of them earnestly accepting it, and another quarter """jokingly""" absorbing it. It's not a new concept, you know, this is a well-studied phenomenon.

>Hiroshima Nagasaki's incompetence is the one genuine cause of the downfall of the site. He wants money, and he's severed ties with 4chan's other referrals and sponsors for better deals. Not even J-List was willing to stick around. The site is more or less managed by a dedicated team of mods and janitors, with Hiroshi occasionally changing a few lines of code on the backend and fucking things up. He hasn't even figured out how to take down /qa/ yet, which was a board moot temporarily created to answer questions when he left. I don't (fully) fault 4chan's community for this. I fault the owner.

Hiro being the only person stupid enough to take on 4chan is a direct symptom of what I call the "sprit of /pol" and later also /pol/ itself and by extension a good half of the website became, certainly now that /b/ got cleaned up and they are all intensifying there. It's exactly why m00t sold 4chan, and exactly why only a complete idiot would buy it, and also what it made it completely radioactive. It's a consequence of the social process and the exponential increase in anti-social behaviour, toxicity and general puke that led to hiro coming to own 4chan, it's nothing but a symptom.

>Thank you for taking the most obvious of obvious baits, and proving once again that you got filtered.

A bait too obvious, too often for too long isn't bait, its a real belief in the process of being irony-poisoned onto the dominant worldview.

>I think it's best to just stop here. You clearly have a chip on your shoulder and any mention of 4chan's impact on the greater cultural sphere of society will be met with scrutiny

I don't have an issue admitting 4chan had a huge impact on the earlier internet culture, and as a result some extant impact on the greater culture in the anglosphere. It did. Just not anymore. That era is over. 4chan as a cultural powerhouse is very much dead. There is nothing of value coming from that website anymore. You can't notice it yet, but it's just stuck in a downwards spiral which was predictable since 7 years ago and it gives nothing but predictable results. You just lack the détachement to see what it is, what it was and where it's going. You've also been talking about how it is somehow creating new insight in going beyond liberalism. It isn't, it's literally going through the exact same process the Fascists did after WW1, producing the same bankrupt and useless conclusions as a result, in the exact same quest. It's not avant-garde, it's simply pure decay of people that can't survive anywhere else and cannot produce any sort of cogent result because they lack of awareness of the process they are participating in. It's now nothing but a dead end, and has been since ~2013.

Talk about changing the goalposts. Your original argument is that 4chan's general culture is apart from /pol/, and hasn't been consumed, and that 4chan is somehow a driving force for creative content on the internet, and that it was some kind of nice, prison-banter like place where no one really cares what you are if you can make a good point. You've failed to make any kind of proper case on that, and pivoted to absurd claims of being a "tourist", "filtered", or whatever. The only thing you've been able to state that did anything except fall a kilometer flat on it's back was claims that it did a lot of things for internet culture over five years ago, and some nebulous claim that it's at the forefront at some kind of cultural revolution against liberalism that you will not be able to substantiate because all it's been able to do so far is to repeat the shit points of bankrupt between-WW1-and-WW2 philossophers but with slightly more modern slurs. It's a dead end, you know it, I know it, you just can't bring yourself to admit it because you're in so deep you can't even recognize the classic process of ironic disconnection into the loss of your worldview and then a reconstruction based on what you previously thought of as a just a joke.

It's odd, you kind of remind me of another German I used to chat with on IRC, in a channel somehow related to crypto, in your writing style, but somehow not in intellect. Good luck.