WI: No 4chan and Something Awful Forums

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and there would be peace on Earth.

The truth? Probably some other site would take its place as "wretched hive of scum and villany", though whether Anonymous as we know it will still exist is debatable.
 
There will most likely be Anonymous hackers, but they will take a different name. I feel that most anons in these hacktivist groups do not come from 4chan as I never seen any desire to change the world through hacking there. They just use anon as a name. Most likely they might call themselves some shadowy name or something.

Many memes would probably not get popularized, let's play will still exist but not in the Something Awful manner. A certain Baldur's Gate 2 mod that quickly fell out of favor on Gamefaqs and the internet at large might remain popular since SAF didn't dissect that mod(I forgot what it is just heard of it long ago and tried to download it before SAF's let's play). Also there will be less backlash against Bioware until the ME3 ending controversy(so no DA2 backlash or TorTanic meme)
 

Heavy

Banned
If there were no Something Awful forums I would have the equivalent of ten dollars that I otherwise would not have. Haha! :D
 

NothingNow

Banned
Less crap, and less virality, too.
Nah, that be if EBaums world never appeared.
But the internet is defined by two things really, viral stupidity and porn. They are constants and have been since the 90s.

Even without 4chan I'm sure the internet would still be full of crap just different crap and probably less homogenised.

Yeah there'd just be something else. Probably some spin off of Rotten or newgrounds maybe.

That said, Something Awful forums are actually really nice. Expensive as fuck to run, but also very well moderated. It's everywhere else they turn into a (hilarious) shithole.
 
The situtation in the MMO EVE would be significantly different. This potentially could have knock on effects.
 
Yeah, I'd be ten dollars richer and this guy wouldn't be bringing joy to my life. Truly a dismal existence.
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IRC youth culture produces another den of iniquity with the same themes of japanese culture and pornography.
 
In case people didn't understand what 'nature abhors a vacuum' means, I'm saying that something else like Something Awful and 4chan would emerge. If a particular Paris salon had burned to the ground, Voltaire and Rousseau would've found somewhere else to write. Subcultures don't disappear because their homes do.
 
In case people didn't understand what 'nature abhors a vacuum' means, I'm saying that something else like Something Awful and 4chan would emerge. If a particular Paris salon had burned to the ground, Voltaire and Rousseau would've found somewhere else to write. Subcultures don't disappear because their homes do.

But... but... but.... LIKE, NO 4CHAN, DUDE!
 

Tohno

Banned
But... but... but.... LIKE, NO 4CHAN, DUDE!

the founder - moot took 4chan from the japanese imageboards. And there were -other- imageboards like iichan. There will be some other otaku who would come up with the idea of exporting chan culture to the US, -even- if somethingawful ALSO dies out. The growth of the anime scene GUARANTEES that......
 
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