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Ironically enough, the person who introduced me to 4chan was a queer, fine arts student from Pratt in New York. A bit of an anime geek, she'd frequent those boards and /b. 4chan was always bad, gross and kind of fucked-up, but once /r9k and /pol started leaking onto other places, it got exponentially worse. Then, they caught the attention of the news it was like pouring napalm on a dumpster fire.
I haven't been there in years. But in those mid, to late 00s there were some hilarious threads on there, like Anon works in IT, the Time 100 thing, when they fucked with Scientology and got away with it. But then, there were threads that started out funny and it got taken too far. The whole Battletoads thing was one of those when they started harassing GameStop employees.
Finally, there was whole thing of the guy who shot up a Community College in Oregon and posted about it the day before. And the whole tread was actively encouraging it was beyond fucked. Amongst other things. And the whole 8cha/8kun thing, with Qanon, which I just watched the documentary because I was long gone by then.