Kind of a funny development.
It's just autists roleplaying.
part of a psyop and counter-psyop measures
stay away from the idpol and woo
-- A proud Scientific American
You can thank RapeApe for that.
no, we have always been here
is that the others simply abandoned those places
I don't remember ever encountering christfags and socially conservatives in 2003-2009 though I was mostly on /a/ and /jp/. Now you find those even on those two boards by the dozen.
Because /pol/ single-handedly gentrified these places and the tipping point of all that bullshit was trying to colonize reddit and then getting out-colonized and filled with schizo boomers.
Because its technically counterculture and even underground. Back when these things were popular imageboards were chock full of smoke weed anti-Bush "fedora" atheists. It also reflects how things in general are more politicized.
1)Because they're not oldfags and western young people IRL are returning to their religions these years.
2)New Atheism movement failed, spawning the antifedora memes last bunch of years, becoming undesirable to identify as one.
3)An interest on traditionalist/perennialist authors like Evola and Guenon arose, spawning memes like "Retvrn to tradition". Vaporwave promoted these.
4)An increase on feminist and LGTB groups this decade caused a natural masive reaction against them.
5)God may be real and chose to make His moves both irl and on the net, sending "messengers" to nests of vice like 4channel, etc. Who knows, someone like moot or Hiroyuki could convert and be a new Paul.
People playing around, even if themselves don't notice that (like the poster above).
I may be or not playing around (I'm not), but my reasons above remain true even if I didn't mean to (I did).
>Because its technically counterculture and even underground.
Lol no, people who think that being a religious conservative is counter culture are delusional; maybe in certain cities being outspoken about that would be odd but those don't constitute the collective mindset of other cities and most suburban or rural communities which dominate countries like the US. The fact that Americans in particular think being conservative is somehow "counter culture" is mindboggling.
>>13
Regular conservatism/light reactionaryism no but the types of ideas popular with /pol/sters are definitely underground especially now that the Qtrump/pol/ stuff is unpopular with mainstream republicans now. Ditto for religious nuts who believe things that most popular churches (particularly the Catholics, which is ironic in this case) distance themselves from actively.
The only reason Americans think it is counter-culture despite being one of the furthest right countries (non-muslim) in the west, is because their media loves progressive ideas and popular social media is designed to show you things you disagree with so you use it longer to fight. The UK is the same way.
Do you think now with the internet being a cultural force, decades will now be extremely different or like they were in the past or it will be more gradual?
it's because they got booted from all of the Legitimate™️ Social Media®️ platforms
I think that as the Internet grew and became inseparable from IRL, anonymous boards have taken on a highly specific role in the gentrified Cyberspace.
the pendulum has left the conservative right and moved to the "progressive: (conservative) left
Social media censorship makes people with these views want to go to messageboards which support free speech
The grasping for last remaining straws of meaning as they're escaping our reality is getting desperate. Will Evolian cosmology, being batshit insane notwithstanding, be vindicated at last?
It's not just the evangelical boomerfaggots violently thrust on the chans by qanon facebook LARPs, you know. Neo-paganism, neo-barbarism, neo-spartanism, neo-antiquity are all the rage now on tiktok, though the kids may not even realize it. Will we live to see neo-rome arising from the ashes of that?
At the end of the classical age we realized that our commitments and norms are not written into nature or the mind of God but just our way of doing things, and we can change them if we want to. This led to the absolute freedom and terror of the French revolution and Enlightenment as human-kind attempted to redesign itself from the ground up, trying to use "reason" to structure society. But then it was found that reason was just as ungrouded and arbitrary as anything else and only contained the basic idea of self-legislation without any direction for that self-legislation to take. Thus we got stuck in our current era, half of the people don't believe in anything but the rule of self-legislation, the rule of not accepting any rule beyond themselves, and half the people believe in unrelenting dogmatism and inner conviction in an attempt to stave off the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us. Thus, the two political persuasions currently in existence.
i think it is because, over the last 30 years or so, we have always despised "normal people". currently, normal people are universally preaching for things like gender non-binaryism, transgender encouragement, anti-racism (minority fetishism?), child drag events, open borders, etc. for some reason.
Lots of answers in this thread. Unfortunately, they're all wrong.
>>21
I hope I get to neo-burn neo-witches at the neo-stake
I'm a Marxist anyway, so I fall outside the reactionary pole.
>>22
Interesting post.
>Thus we got stuck in our current era, half of the people don't believe in anything but the rule of self-legislation, the rule of not accepting any rule beyond themselves, and half the people believe in unrelenting dogmatism and inner conviction in an attempt to stave off the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us.
>the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us.
I think this is a great line.
Right-left politics seem to have become a disliked topic on imageboards and even on really cancerous I haven't seen a lot of /pol/-type posters in a while.
As for religion, it helps a isolated people cope, they like the aesthetics or they're mentally ill. People who still use imageboards tend to fall into these groups
I feel like all social media is just saturated with propaganda. There's no logic to it, ideas just want to perpetuate themselves, and the people who benefit -- whether in the form of a cheap dopamine hit, the comfort of feeling like you're part of something larger, those seeking an answer to all the problems of life, or for more substantial reasons like power and money -- are willing to invest time in doing so. It's like a memetic virus that infects people, and social media is the memetic equivalent to a coffee shop.
Because think tanks, lobbying groups, and shady outlets who serve doners have been spamming imageboards for years now. Imageboards are extremely easy to manipulate if you have the time and money. They are filled with vitriolic losers and the mentally ill. As for religious stuff, I mean Futaba had a whole board dedicated to cults and paranormal stuff so that's nothing new. What is new are breeds of psycho Christians who seem to care more about culture wars issues than divinity and scripture. You can't have a conversation with these people about the Bible or theology because for them Christianity and tradition are just ways to rubberstamp their retarded political views. They aren't really religious.
>>22
This.
>I mean Futaba had a whole board dedicated to cults and paranormal stuff so that's nothing new.
Are you talking about the fortune telling board?
But that's a bad example anyway because it's one of the Futaba joke boards, just like the moai board, the Umehara general board etc.
>>31
I mean the shukyo board. Its still a bad example because its mostly focused on cults, Sokka Gakkai activities, Unification Church scandal etc. Japanese sites did have occult boards though. I'd say the anti-religious sentiment on most of the English language internet during the 2000s was unusual and limited to the Western and maybe Japanese internet. Its not something you see in other places. I'm glad that atheist phase is mostly over but the reactionary Christians you see on imageboards these days aren't genuinely religious at all. It's a larp.
>>32
I don't want to sound petulant but can't people just say role playing instead of ''larp''?
There's no live action element to be found in net posturing.
>>33
Unfortunately, with these types of culture warriors there often is a live action element to it. There's a type of person who shows up to mass and is surprised when the message espoused is moderate if political at all. They usually last a year, I don't know if they join a more traditionalist, sometimes wacky sect or if they just go back to shitposting online
I knew a guy who decided to roleplay as Christian and changed all his views to match with the biggest retards on Politically Incorrect, started joining local churches and was kicked out of all of them for his extremist views. He then killed a family member and went on to do some terror attack. The roleplaying does not always stop at the monitor. He was never a religious person. Probably mental illness.
Thats so bizarre...