"I used to think that 4chan was the internet's sewer system, but today I believe that both twitter and youtube underworlds are worse."
Good to see your posts again... Im interested in your opinion on this statement if you should choose to expound on it Mr. A!
Hi, tempest! I've been busy the past months now that I'm a parent!
While 4chan
is a troublesome place it is distinctive to be a relatively small place. You get what, 20 pages per forum? One can scroll trough all of them in one sitting, whereas youtube and twitter are full of crevices and dark alleys where you can hide shady and sometimes full blown criminal stuff (twitter is more troublesome on this, illegal content can stay online for months).
As an example, my wife was scrolling down youtube shorts and in a few minutes span what she saw as weird but still innocent content was clearly paraphilia fetish by proxy (a toilet full of candy and someone eating a chocolate bar next to it). Not only that, but she saw lots of videos where a kid was crying and some monster or train would come next to hit him just to be saved in the last minute, this was so embedded on her mind that she saw like one minute of it but it was enough for her to dream about it. All of these videos had
millions of views.
Twitter is well known in brazil for hosting criminal organization profiles, where drug traffickers post news and threats to other organizations. There are even specialized profiles dedicated to posting the drug dealers pets and guns, and chicks with guns.
Have you ever watched Constantine? Or MIB? In these movies people think that reality is one thing but there's a whole world behind the world the characters live in. We're kinda used to the concept of the rabbit hole here on VC, but when you
really see that there's a world behind the world firsthand it really blows your mind. This is where i'm trying to get into: there's a famous whatsapp sticker generator called
sticker.ly where you can download sticker packs or create one yourself. A friend of mine told me that if you query for a certain cypher, you could get access to illegal stickers made of scenes from illegal videos involving minors. Now, the profile hosting this content was excluded, but this doesn't matter on the big picture. There in a child exploitation ring operating under a whatsapp sticker app. Now, let that sink in.
There are literally millions of people using twitter and youtube for nefarious reasons, that's the bulk of their profit. 4chan is noisy but it just get splashes of what's hiding under twitter, youtube and God knows what other places