There has been some speculation that 4chan has gone down because it was no longer receiving USAID funding. I do not know how much truth there is to it, but considering how many different things were being funded via USAID, I would not be surprised if they were indeed funding it.

But why fund 4chan? For anyone who has not been on the site, there has been a heavy amount of shilling, bait posting, and sliding of topics that are possible indicators that there are some paid actors behind the scenes with an agenda. Perhaps it may not seem clear why they would care about a website full of the most autistic members of the population, but I would not be surprised if they had goals of trying to steer opinions or surpress any voices that were too on target. At the very least having paid actors would give you some indicators of how some Anons are thinking.

Who knows if it will ever come back. While there have been some gems of wisdom to be found (among the many, many quantities of shitposting), 4chan is not something all that irreplaceable. There are many forums for discussion on the internet, and more can pop up at any time. People will just have to adapt and find/create new places.

@polishknight

It's a bit outside what's normally discussed, but I'll allow it

Rule 5, in its entirety, but with what makes this post fit in bold:

Submissions must show a woman who is looking for commitment while also either complaining about jerks or promiscuity, needing her kids provided for, being entitled or unreasonable, or complaining that she "can't find a decent guy".

While there's zero evidence that any woman quoted in there is slutty or a single mom or even unreasonable/entitled (it actually reads like a legit lament from their perspective), I think it lends itself well to a discussion of how feminism coupled with affirmative action keeping men down to help women up has led to this situation.

It therefore fits rule 5, and doesn't have to wait for the weekend.

Side note: the archive.ph link cut off the bottom of the article. I recommend using archive.is instead, or that textise one you linked is fine (though it's preferable to see it with pictures, etc)

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@Cautiousop

First of all, excellent find. Prime WAATGM material right there.

However, we need to fix some things.

1) judging by your post at reddit and how it displays the image hosted here, at your post on the WAATGM tribe on trp.red, rather than a link to a post at the WAATGM forum at forums.red as required by this announcement here, it seems you misunderstood the posting requirements. Apologies if it was confusing/unclear.

2) while you censored her face just fine and most of her personal info just fine, there's a small part of her name visible near the little green heart. Additionally, as per this announcement here, which was also crossposted to reddit here, the text content of screenshots need to have portions that make it relevant to WAATGM underlined, circled, or otherwise highlighted to get around copyright restrictions (Fair Use - commentary).

Since this is probably a bit of a pain in the ass and learning curve for you, I modified the screenshot for you. Please download and post to the WAATGM forum, and crosspost the link for that post to the subreddit.

Please also take down the one you currently have at reddit, or if one of my fellow WAATGM mods who still has reddit access sees this before OP does, would one of you please remove it at reddit.

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