>>96627872Having sadly witnessed everything from its start, I would say the book Kill All Normies was pretty accurate: the extreme fringes of tumblr and 4chan sort of created each other, and became this recursive cancerous idiocy that eventually did harm in the real world.
4chan (including infinitychan and other chans) has run countless false flags pretending to be crazy SJWs that idiots, include anons from 4chan, have bought into. But the bullying and bouts of crazy (including death threats, harassment, and violence) from the worst parts of tumblr also happened. Incidents like the SU one involved 4chan trolls bullying kids into suicide (which is just standard 4chan behaviour), but also tumblr assholes bullying kids into suicide.
4chan also involved trolls pretending to be murderous Nazis who attracted and inspired actual Nazis. The number of murderers and child rapists and shit who frequented 4chan is something the media has noticed.
Meanwhile the media, being all about clickbait, has manufactured some of this drama itself for clicks by both blowing things out of proportion and by RPing here and as socks in social media to egg people on.
