Why do you say 4chan when it's other chans that tend to have CSAM? That's why the one had to move to a dot onion, plenty of places still serve up gore.

I'm a sadist. I won't kill you, but I'm not going to hide I might smirk. For many years I warned that if you abuse your access, nothing is off the table and it has been that way for years now.

I remember rumors about /b/ but I never saw abuse material, just gore and a bunch of racist bullshit circa 2009.

On my end, I found it... weird... how people would pair "only" looking at cartoons with some really weird shit they're write, on the erotica side of things.

(Weird as in power dynamics -- the idea you might just leak your preferences on a dating site is amusing to me, since... come on... you're both trying to meet people... the problem if it's paired with being more or less helpful depending on if people bang you. Keep in mind, I literally had a conversation with a published author about how so many fiction writers are basically doing a roman a clef I can't tell if it's rude to comment on it, but it's a lot easier to look things up nowadays...)

Anyways MOVING ON!

When I was considering grad schools I was told it was a known thing you can de-anonymize reviewers, but later on someone was dumb enough to self rate a five, state something factually incorrect about what would have become my PhD thesis, then rank it a 1. From there, based on "the metrics" I wasn't accepted to... a privacy thing.

Now, to be fair, before we got to that moment, I could have... not done a full on PhD.

But I was living in a shared house with some ex army libertarian who probably would have thrown a fit if I ran a packet capture, so I kind of assumed on day someone might knock on the door and tried to get a receipt when I went out for coffee -- I fully expected one day I'd have to sigh and go "listen, I just pay the internet bill, here's where I was then, that guy is a weirdo".

The above is... creative nonfiction... but I hope people know that is the source of a HUGE chunk of meme culture. Imagine you're Catholic, sheltered, have only been to Niagara falls, and people keep very obviously asking you questions with the promisem of not repeating your answers because apparently they find your opinions both intriguing and hilarious?

The classic example being that in the aftermath of the G20, people started testing the limits of free expression, and they had some kind of... nude art thing... down at CMU... and the bishop had been offended.

And I was just tired and annoyed and snapped "Well, it's a private college right? If the cmu want to take their pants off tell them to put down a towel" and tried to ask about something actually work related...

It was one of what became a series of very WTF moments. Like, ok we are "privacy researchers"... how am I supposed to ignore that I was born here, so if these rich weirdos want to wander around with thousands of dollars in electronics AND call the cops every time they get scared so someone can come shoot some poor bastard who wasn't lucky enough to be born in "Cali" or whatever...

Especially since I'd been told they had to bring every cop and swat person in from all over the country for the 2009 G20 -- the implication being if you had that many pissed off in multiple cities at once, there is NO WAY they could do the things they did if there were multiple protests at once.

So occasionally, from around Y2K until now, I'd meet these gun reform people who were just... rude. They were bullies who worried someone would literally kill them... like... with a gun. And they'd make a big scene about how someone they knew had been killed with a gun, then push... bad legislation... like the AWB.

And I'd smirk and go "*oh sure, I'd be willing to vote for someone who supports the AWB -- my main concern is just that we maintain access to things like bolt action rifles and revolvers... quiet little things you can't hear from the next house. That's what they did in Prague. Keep shooting those local party officials until one gets shipped in who is less of an asshole... or so I heard."

It's fun to watch their eyes bug out when you say that in your cheeriest "I'm a millenial and yes I vote" voice. (Literary or otherwise.)

You can associate with whoever you want, I think the thing people are finding out is that no one wants to fuck Nazis, then having meltdowns they're gonna have to jerk off for the rest of their lives.

(Personally I'm just hoping one day I can engineer it so it's a girl, but apparently the things I write are so incredibly offensive to women, I'm the poster child for planned parenthood.)