>>12954190Good question. 4chan since 2010 has been a cesspool of political discourse masquerading as good humour. Its origins lie in the rise of "the new internet, no more 'cringe-show' or YouTube videos," wrote The Verge's Eric Swalwell in this week's issue of the British satirical magazine. In short, the term is quickly becoming a meme, an emblem of the rise of a new movement, an unspoken moral code whose adherents, no doubt, share deep personal grudges; it is an oxymoron, though the word does not mean it is bad.
Some of the more outrageous remarks are so offensive, though, that some journalists have chosen to include them in their reporting. As the Guardian's Mark Landrigan tweeted, an early piece that took aim at a racist, misogynistic "whore porn whore" and its online equivalent The New Yorker, featured in an article called "The New Gawker," has "become a viral sensation." "I couldn't be happier with @Gawker getting picked up by the Guardian," tweeted a reader of the New Yorker who did not believe the magazine to be a reliable source of information; he went on to add that even when he first read it, he couldn't believe just how "diversity, civility, diversity — these are all good values I cherish at Gawker Media." At any rate, this article was picked up by The Hollywood Reporter's Nick Frost, who sent back an email
