4chan wrecks an 11 year old girl's life - Page 4  

I'm not sure you understand how the prank works...

Wait, you mean it wasn't giving lots of cheeselicious pizzas to a lacteous intolerant girl, making her question the whys of her biology at the outset of puberty? No? Oh fuck those guys.

Ok, yeah, my last post reads a bit pie in the sky even to myself. And I'm not about to ride into battle against these guys or anything. But I'm just saying, as a matter of principle, just accepting that 4chan is gonna be around and do vile shit as some sort of part of the natural order of things is the wrong attitude, I think. There's plenty of other groups that I realistically can't "do anything about" either - I mean if the message here is that there's always gonna be assholes, and cowards, and psychos, well, yeah, that's true! But I'm not about to afford them the luxury of being put on the same level as some sort of divine intervention.

I love that I don't even know what the fuck a 4chan is.

Picture the internet version of the Reavers from Firefly. You don't go into their territory, and if they venture out, you just stay quiet and hope they don't notice you.

Not even to look at dirty pictures?

Hahahahah. And again, glad I haven't seen Firefly.




(note: Not actually "glad" that I'm ignorant. However, Whedon really doesn't do it for me as of yet. But it's more about the browncoats. That whole thing has just put me off that property, possibly forever. I've got too many classics to catch up on.)

TANGENT: Firefly is the only Whedon property I can unabashedly get behind. Don't let its fans deter you. It's worth it.

One day. Priorities and all that. Mad Men, The Prisoner and lots and lots of Criterion/classic film catching up is eating my time for the foreseeable future.


So this 4chan place... what, is it just a messageboard full of foul people who like to play pranks? I'd check it out myself, but doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd like to waste my time investigating and I feel like I might get a virus going there.

It's an imageboard, based on those in Japan that are basically sites for dumping images from anime. They're generally credited with starting the lolcat, Rickroll and Pedobear memes, among many others, and when they're not posting images (some actually not pornographic), they like to go after Scientology sites and anything else that strikes their fancy.

But when the images are pornographic, they're really pornographic. Often illegal. Rotten/ogrish type photos are popular there too. Browse at your own peril.

How about y'all just do the smart thing and don't go to 4chan

Don't worry. That decision was made up for me before I got past the first few posts here. I've heard nothing but filth about that place. What little I've heard, anyway.

Imagine the repeat trolls from here, now add intelligence, a really fucked up sense of humor and entitlement, anonymity, and multiply that by a lot of dudes. They're the uber-trolls of the internet, and they're pretty good at what they do.

It's telling that the guy who founded 4chan got his start on the Something Awful forums.

Yeah, that was my other thought, basically /b/ is Something Awful with a complete lack of conscience.

More like Something Awful without the registration fee to scare away the true loonies.

Someone should just burn 4chan to the ground. It because of them, things like this happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFIPuFgHqH8









[spoiler]Some people take the internet WAY too seriously.[/spoiler]

I have a friend who frequents SomethingAwful, and he has this grouchy "damn kids, get off my lawn" attitude towards 4chan, like "you don't get to be a troll if you enjoy anime!" It's kind of cute.

Reading/contributing to Something Awful's Cinema Discusso forums is honestly not any different than Chud's boards.

Edit: Come to think of it, sometimes threads will appear with similar topics on both boards simultaneously. Hmmm...

I think you should backtrace it.

I didn't watch the whole video but from the clip, I saw with him pointing his finger at the camera and saying "CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!". I was thinking the same thing. It looked like one of those promos for the upcoming grudge match at a wrestling pay-per-view.

Couldn't agree more. Yes, this girl's whole family needs to get with the program and her parents definitely are slipping in that aspect but the fact that so many seem to think that makes the behavior of those that attack her either acceptable or at the very least, less of a problem than it's being made out to be, is kind of sad.

A lot of eleven-year-olds are aware of all kinds of innapopriate language and obscene sayings. What they rarely have is a full understanding of the words or a grasp of what saying them can result in. Should this child have a YouTube account where she is broadcasting this kind of language for the world to see? Absolutely not. But I also realize that it's entirely possible that nobody in this house understood the full posibility of what could happen. If we're talking about making mock video or text responses to the content, that is one thing. However, we're dealing with a group of adults who leaked personal information out so they could harrass and torture this girl and her family. It is every bit, the same logic as "Well, if the parents aren't educated enough to teach her not to dress that way, I'm not gonna cry when someone sexually harrrases her."

She's also probably too dumb to know the difference among "to", "too", and "two".

I post on SA. Y'all leave it alone.

Jake is FYAD as fuck.

That explains so much.

Sadly, it does.

Hey. I write for SA. *fighting stance* Although I've never seen their boards before.

I'm in the same boat as joeypants. I actually had to visit wikipedia to finally learn what the fuck 4chan is. Fascinating read actually.

Since I now sorta grasp 4chan... did some group specifically target this girl to humiliate her? Or did it just happen organically on the boards because someone posted her video (to humiliate her)?

Somewhat organically I think. All it needs was one of them to make a move and it quickly becomes a rush of other jumping in to join in, trying to one up the other. It then de-evolves into a e-peen thing.

Pretty much this. Keep in mind though, that there are many, many 4chan users that probably thought the whole thing was stupid and ignored it. Preferring to repost old, unfunny memes and recycled porn pics instead.

Admitting I'm a member of SA too. Also, I've been to several of the anti-scientology protests. And I've written quite a few articles on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

That being said, I really don't like the idea of the stupid little brat's personal information being open to the public. But that's one of the things that happen when one runs afoul of 4chan. On the bright side, should a pedo get ahold of that info, 4chan would be just as happy to switch targets.

The articles on SA are massively divorced from the contet of the boards. Jake is pretty much a perfect representation of the SA style, albeit an extraordinarily intelligent example.

Actually, I wanted to ask Mighty Worm about that. I find it hard to believe you've written for SA, but haven't checked out the "Front-Page Article" Subforum.
Not that I doubt you. I've read your NOES stuff. And if I remember correctly, you are responsible for writing a movie generally regarded around here as "pretty shitty."
What I'm asking is, how do you avoid that subforum? Because once you start reading that, its a slippery, slippery slope into the gutter.

Ha. Pretty easily, I guess. Until this thread I didn't even know they had a popular forum. I don't actually visit SA's site much. I don't know, maybe that's weird too.

Not much of a boarder when it comes down to it. CHUD is the only forum I've ever belonged to. And I'm still kind of a noob here too.

If you utilize a public forum, you are, for the intents and purposes of that utilization, a public figure. This girl's address and number wouldn't be out there if she wasn't in a public space being an aggravating little shit.

Of course, she's 11. It's not her responsibility. It's her parents responsibility.

If someone's parents let their kid play with a pitbull, and the pitbull bites the kid in the face, it's ignorant to blame the pitbull. Put him down, yeah, but you can't be all "I can't believe this fucking beast would do that!" You blame the parents for being irresponsible as hell.

The internet can be just as destructive as a pitbull. No one should be surprised that 4chan are acting like internet assholes. But this girl's parents are just incredibly irresponsible. Their actions are the only one's that are truly reprehensible, because they have a legal and ethical duty to take responsibility for the situation. You don't encourage your kid to wrap a steak around their neck and go play with the nice pits some more.

Honestly, it was a bit much, but seriously, if that little girl expected that would just wash away with no backlash, I'm super happy it happened. She learned a lesson in a big way, and her parents learned to pay some fucking attention to what their slutty looking 11 year old daughter was doing on the internet.
It seems to me like they payed little to no attention to her internet goings on until after the backlash had already begun and the pizza's began arriving.
I laughed my ass off to the second video, the dad in his little shorts and giant mustache trying to scold and yell at the internet as if it were a child slightly older than his daughter in order to scare him away. I seriously hope they go down as the family the most made fun of on the internet, holy crap. She's found a super way to ruin her social life before she had a chance to make a decent one in high school.
No sympathy for the Devil, no mercy for swine.

And the consequences will never be the same...

And this rant against a "slurry looking 11 year old" is less funny than the dad's because...?

slurry ass bitch

Sorry, I don't quite follow what you mean, my rant compared to the dad's rant?
I'm basically saying how this whole thing amused me a great deal.
I dunno if I'd even consider mine a rant over it being my reasons why I have little to no sympathy for the family unit.

Also, can it be considered a rant if you're giggling as you write it?
Generally when I rant, I get in a bit more serious mode.

Fuck this thread. Talk about movies.