>>7
I'll agree on that first point but; the problem cannot be fixed by only overlays, but with added cultural obscurity aswell. No amount of encryption on its own will keep someone from content they really really want to find, if they believe it to be "viral".

4chan was only a obscure site for nerds until it wasnt, just like youtube was just a place to upload and watch average user's videos until it wasn't. The new cultural and economic emphasis on qualities of uniqueness, virility, easier living through computing, and novelty, create a machine of events that can bring any subculture to its knees before the mainstream in a month or less. Unique ideas get run through the wringer and retired to the recycle bin in the name of progress; creating a vacuum that only new cultures and memes can fill

It would be cool if there was a symbol or something to use in the wild, to just talk with other browsers on the street, but with the speed that things get appropriated these days it's effectiveness and novelty would be short lived.

>>13
Without getting too chatty, i believe you about the disruption. Maybe it'll be a phase, like adbots. Maybe. I hope...

I never got a chance to see iichan/Wakachan in action but i enjoyed SAOVIPQ for about six months, finding it after the universal disruption during and in the wake of GG. The SAOVIPQ replacement is decent, i suppose.