quetzadrake:

throw-away-opinions:

eidolous:

hoody-spooktacular:

earthbound-is-creepy:

tjsbin:

When 4Chan has better standards and a better community than this website

Off the top of my head 4chan has
>taken down a child porn ring
>tracked down and got arrested two girls who filmed themselves torturing and setting a turtle on fire
>reported a paedophile to the cops who was posting about thinking of trying to fuck his 15-year-old daughter’s friend
>got an abused cat away from it’s ass hole owner and to a better home.

Tumblr has
>

I remember seeing this one post that broke down the general attitudes between 4chan and Tumblr and this quote stood out to me (a little different than I remember): “Most 4chan users are good people pretending to be assholes. Most Tumblr users are assholes pretending to be good.”

I’ve been trying to come up with a good way of saying something like that. 

Far too many people use social justice, identity politics, political correctness, and all this other shit that should be good as a cover to be the worst assholes around, and once you strip away all the excuses, you’re left with some truly vile and hateful people.

Tumblr is built upon your name and the reputation, opinions, and actions tied to that name. Do something someone doesn’t like and you could end up the target of callout culture and severe, malicious bullying by other named people who want to feel like the good guys, even though they aren’t. One screw-up and your reputation is done, probably forever.

4chan is built upon the merit of opinions without names. Do something someone doesn’t like and you can do whatever you want. You can ignore them, you can fight with them, you can apologize, you can let the argument drop, you can switch to their side either genuinely or shitpostingly. Because who cares? You’re no one, you’re Anonymous. There are no consequences to having been wrong or fought with, because you can just vanish or switch your tone, and whatever happens gets dropped. Even if your shit is screencapped, no one but you knows it was you.

There’s plenty of good people on both sites, and plenty of bad people. It’s just that on Tumblr, you can see the specific bad people very clearly. On 4chan, you can’t tell who specifically is the bad person because they’re all anonymous. Thus you get the common misconception that all of 4chan is awful while only parts of Tumblr are awful, thus not being as bad or even being “good” in comparison.

Also most people don’t even know that 4chan has multiple boards and they’re all incredibly different. The above are from /co/ and /b/, but those two boards are really unlike each other. Sure there’s a common attitude and culture among all of them, but there’s a cooking board, a toy board, an origami board, two photography boards, a cosplay board, several LGBT boards… Hell, there’s FOUR video game boards (/v/, /vg/, /vp/, and /vr/) and none of them are alike at all. But most people just remember Anonymous the hacker group and /b/ in general and think that’s all 4chan is.