Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

4chan Brain Is Real, and Donald Trump Showed How Damaging It Is

The notorious website that helped meme him to victory in 2016 is responsible for the utterly unhinged man we all watched in the presidential debate.

Thad Zajac
Sep 13, 2024
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The face you make when the man on the left starts yelling at clouds.

I’ve been on 4chan. It’s one of those places that, much like Twitter before Elon Musk, started as a place that was generally entertaining and sometimes absurdly funny, and then under new ownership morphed into a hellhole of racial slurs, Nazi organizing, and general awful behavior. One …

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