@sc said:
Don't know it well but appears the same as most websites except they have a certain reputation and appear to thrive on that notoriety. I like that they helped identify pictures of people doing illegal things such as employees tampering with peoples food in fast food restaurants, taking photos of this designed so the photos wouldn't identify them and a few animal abuse videos too. I think I remember it was 4chan that helped track them down. That and getting... was it Taylor Swift? Didn't they campaign for her to visit and perform for a school of deaf children? Trolling sure but kind of nice since deaf children can still appreciate a concert and Taylor Swift visiting them.
I know the website much better now, well, I am more familiar with some parts of it, its really like a lot of websites, especially the larger ones that try to cover everything, but with an emphasis on anonymity which invariably attracts certain types of people to various effect, negative, positive, neutral included. So like any website you are going to read some awful and ignorant messages, some extremely witty and clever messages, and some thought provoking and interesting posts and also a lot of junk trivial messages. /co/ has some great threads time to time, actually they tend to cover the creative and business aspects of the industry more than CV users who tend to pose questions and create threads based on the idea they are actually real. Found some good creator interviews and recommendations for older books there.
Its weird though, a lot of people tend to have this idea about what the site is and what it means that they post there. So like any website, CV included there are some well adjusted people there and some… not as well adjusted users, so not implying this is all people who visit that site, just certain people with a certain mindset. Sort of like baby's first edgy website. Like brooo, for real, I visit the edgiest website, it has people talking about raping dead cows with hammers and human waste and then a rap about it, thats now a meme. Yeah you know whats more edgy than that? Volunteering at a Retirement Home, having to wash and help out wrinkly old people who are near death. No random generic teenager/young adult living in the suburbs with a flatulence fetish, posting at 4chan doesn't make you this dark, degenerate, nihilistic, stoic example of humanity, it actually makes you relatively typical and mundane, and thats okay.
Basically some people think that it means certain things about them to visit certain websites, who cares about that stuff though and how edgy or cool it makes you feel. Just do whatever makes you happy, personally, not what sounds more impressive in an overly positive or negative way. Oh except GoodLookingLoser forums and Stormfront forums. Don't use those websites kids.
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