stratoscaster@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.ml•When someone makes a crude joke on the internetEnglish
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1 year agoAre your reading your own comments before posting?
Are your reading your own comments before posting?
“but why can’t I say offensive shit, it’s so funny every single time”
It’s not, edgy humor is stale especially the likes of 4chan
Yeah but also it enables stuff like Nazi dogwhistling soooo lmao
Yeah but Nazism spread via propaganda, which is what dogwhistling is a form of.
The Internet is the largest spreader of propaganda that humanity has ever seen, so it’s not surprising that it helped revitalize neo-nazism and fascism is general. It also served to make satire and actual radicalized behavior harder to detect. A lot of the time, 4chan boards use this “edgy satire” format to normalize the behavior (to an extent). See: the “MAP” misinformation campaign they did and how it reinforced actual pedophilia and demonized LGBT groups