the alt right existed before 4chan. it just didn’t become popular until the mid 2010s after social media allowed it to rapidly reach a mass audience, and people started making money from alt right talking points. Stormfront started in 1996, and hate.com was a docufilm from 2000 that reported on internet extremists
it was all over the internet in the 2000s if you knew where to look, but there were no big mass market social networks back then. FB only became open to anyone in 2008 and it took 5+ years for it to really take off.
I remember my first reddit experience, in 2016, I didn’t make an account, and was incensed I had to make an account as such to make a comment, and it was all alt right douchbags so I never joined at that point. I was there to research new and exciting drug plants anyway and it was an intellectual wasteland as I saw, at that time, although now that is not the case if you can find the right places, and don’t mind your queries being logged by corporations and governments, but I digress.
They were still on the harambe thing, mocking the murdered gorilla, pissed me off.
the alt right existed before 4chan. it just didn’t become popular until the mid 2010s after social media allowed it to rapidly reach a mass audience, and people started making money from alt right talking points. Stormfront started in 1996, and hate.com was a docufilm from 2000 that reported on internet extremists
it was all over the internet in the 2000s if you knew where to look, but there were no big mass market social networks back then. FB only became open to anyone in 2008 and it took 5+ years for it to really take off.
I remember my first reddit experience, in 2016, I didn’t make an account, and was incensed I had to make an account as such to make a comment, and it was all alt right douchbags so I never joined at that point. I was there to research new and exciting drug plants anyway and it was an intellectual wasteland as I saw, at that time, although now that is not the case if you can find the right places, and don’t mind your queries being logged by corporations and governments, but I digress.
They were still on the harambe thing, mocking the murdered gorilla, pissed me off.