>>111786683Pol targets young men, most beginning in early highschool, who lack a sense of self, have no strong community, have no social safety net, or who otherwise don't have a source of positive affirmation in their lives.
It starts as jokes and being contrarian for lols, just to get a rise out of people. Then it evolves into actually identifying with the joke, and the message behind it.
It's how the alt-right creates new recruits into mass shooters, and they've pretty much admitted to recruiting on /k/, which is horrifying, and have their hands on the reins of the nut house /x/.
These people are going to get 4chan shut down, or give an excuse for government censored internet, just like 8' did after their terrorists did.