"Now Epic Lulz come from..." 4chan on Fox II news

Bang Bang Miss America

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyR_90RdOg

Wow, I was find it really strange when big serious news people say interent memes and phrases really seriously.

"lulz"

Though we all know 4chan is pretty bad, though this sheds more light on Anonymous' activities. Pretty tight how the woman had to get a dog, security system etc.

What are your views on 4chan? Or more specifically, their hacking, raiding etc.?

ViolentChemistry

I think this is why it's common-sense that you shouldn't go putting your real name out on the internet. Especially not with a picture.

Neli

oh dear god

Fallingman

Ah hahahaha!

I'm 30 seconds in when a greyed-out woman says "I think they're domestic terrorists" *cut to footage of a van exploding*

I American news shows.

This is the best.

ViolentChemistry

Fallingman wrote: »

Ah hahahaha!

I'm 30 seconds in when a greyed-out woman says "I think they're domestic terrorists" *cut to footage of a van exploding*

I American news shows.

This is the best.

Oh they do that shit every time they talk about anything electronic. Remember how the DS Lite is specially designed to let pedophiles talk to your kids with their penis?

Fallingman

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Fallingman wrote: »

Ah hahahaha!

I'm 30 seconds in when a greyed-out woman says "I think they're domestic terrorists" *cut to footage of a van exploding*

I American news shows.

This is the best.

Oh they do that shit every time they talk about anything electronic. Remember how the DS Lite is specially designed to let pedophiles talk to your kids with their penis?

Really? I'm going to have to look that up.

"a corruption of L-O-L, Laugh out loud"

Leitner

Bang Bang Miss America wrote: »

What are your views on 4chan? Or more specifically, their hacking, raiding etc.?

They're scum and they're eventually going to piss of the wrong person. Like when they pulled stunts by pissing off a load of skin heads, great idea guys :^:. Nothing could go wrong there.

Oh and the are terribly unfunny.

Hybrid

Fallingman wrote: »

"a corruption of L-O-L, Laugh out loud"

that made me laugh so hard.

"how dare they corrupt the purity of lol!"

sdrawkcaB emaN

Man, the internet is fucking evil.

What happened to the good ol' days, when All American boys got their jollies by lynching a few black people? What happened to tradition?

Shazkar Shadowstorm

Epic Lulz. Wow.
Local news is crazy. Especially local Fox affiliated news.

Jacobkosh

I'm amazed no-one's linked to the relevant PA strip yet. I would but...y'know. Lazy.

Leitner

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

I think this is why it's common-sense that you shouldn't go putting your real name out on the internet. Especially not with a picture.

How so? because you may get randomly targeted by a bunch of pathetic nerds? It's a rather minute risk, like walking out into the street, it carries many small inherent dangers.

ViolentChemistry

Fallingman wrote: »

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Fallingman wrote: »

Ah hahahaha!

I'm 30 seconds in when a greyed-out woman says "I think they're domestic terrorists" *cut to footage of a van exploding*

I American news shows.

This is the best.

Oh they do that shit every time they talk about anything electronic. Remember how the DS Lite is specially designed to let pedophiles talk to your kids with their penis?

Really? I'm going to have to look that up.

"a corruption of L-O-L, Laugh out loud"

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/02/09#1171010520

Edit: Associated comic.

Fallingman

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Fallingman wrote: »

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Fallingman wrote: »

Ah hahahaha!

I'm 30 seconds in when a greyed-out woman says "I think they're domestic terrorists" *cut to footage of a van exploding*

I American news shows.

This is the best.

Oh they do that shit every time they talk about anything electronic. Remember how the DS Lite is specially designed to let pedophiles talk to your kids with their penis?

Really? I'm going to have to look that up.

"a corruption of L-O-L, Laugh out loud"

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/02/09#1171010520

Edit: Associated comic.

Their link was broken (From the blog, not yours). So I found this...

This might just be the funniest thing I've seen in a while:

"Well stop the music... *and it does!* ...because its also redefining how vulnerable your children are to child molesters"

That was fantastic. Everything from asking the kids questions from downstairs, to presenting the good wifi signal as an even more sinister feature...

ViolentChemistry

Leitner wrote: »

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

I think this is why it's common-sense that you shouldn't go putting your real name out on the internet. Especially not with a picture.

How so? because you may get randomly targeted by a bunch of pathetic nerds? It's a rather minute risk, like walking out into the street, it carries many small inherent dangers.

The internet is less like walking out into the street and more like sailing out into international waters in either the carribbean or southeast asia.

Edit: with a huge sign on your boat that reads "pirates are gay and their moms are fat!"

Mojo_Jojo

4chan is the very bottom of the internet. It is best just to pretend it doesn't exist and get on with our lives.

ViolentChemistry

My friend's sister destroyed the family-computer by playing with digital-pets on some "free digital pets" website. All I'm saying is that free candy isn't really free.

Jandaru

Is that the newsreader from Arrested Development at the start of the video there?

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ViolentChemistry

electricitylikesme wrote: »

His girlfriend left him because she thought he was gay after gay porn was posted on his mySpace? LOLOLOLOL.

Yeah, I got that far in and I gave up. The phone-message was the worst thing I saw, and frankly I could see a lot of people on these forums even doing that shit given half an opportunity.

Shazkar Shadowstorm

But if you stopped there you wouldn't get to the epic lulz, VC!

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ViolentChemistry

Shazkar Shadowstorm wrote: »

But if you stopped there you wouldn't get to the epic lulz, VC!

I'm probably okay with that.

ViolentChemistry

Man, the first thirty seconds of the damn thing are written so stupidly as to actually cause pain.

Lanz

having watched it all the way through, they talk about invasion boards.

4Chan doesn't have invasion boards

hell, I remember hearing people left 4Chan because the mods started cracking down on members organizing raids. I suppose being worried about getting sued and the like kinda makes ya realize somethings aren't that good of an idea.

Fallingman

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Man, the first thirty seconds of the damn thing are written so stupidly as to actually cause pain.

You didnt miss anything... Aside from a sudden violent desire to spoon out your own frontal lobe rather than face the onslaught of all seven different flavours of stupid.

Andrew_Jay

Hell, a recent story here in Canada involved people acting like douches through the near-complete lack of anonymity on FaceBook:

[URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070724.CAMBRIDGE24/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/]Globe and Mail[/URL] wrote:

Last month, two young men thought it would be hilarious to create a Facebook group about an alleged drug-addicted street woman in Cambridge, Ont., whom they nicknamed "Obeeba."

Yesterday, in the latest incident of Facebook infamy, the group was removed after a renegade group formed less than a week ago complained to the site's administrators, local police and politicians.

"I hope we've made people more aware that you can't say things like that on the Internet and not expect there to be repercussions," said Rebecca Johnson, a 23-year-old Cambridge native and Facebook white knight of sorts, "because it's not as anonymous as it seems."

Justin Bernard and Cory Buckwell were the administrators for a group named "Obeeba Sightings," and they invited members to post photographs and video footage about the woman, who is black, and comment about her.

Derogatory messages came swiftly. Some group members called her sexually explicit and racist names. There were posts that called for her to be stuck in a garbage incinerator or run over by a car.

And then, about a week ago, came the Facebook community's renegades. Fed up by the lack of action taken by Facebook's administrators - the offensive group was in blatant violation of the site's terms of use - Ms. Johnson took action after a friend brought it to her attention.

She formed a group to counter the offensive one, which had grown to more than 700 members, calling it "The Obeeba Stalkers are Horrible People." Ms. Johnson's group had almost 300 members by last night's count.

Yesterday, the offensive group was taken down around 4:30 p.m., and a video of the woman was also removed from YouTube.

"We hope this person can get the help she needs because, from the description, she's obviously a very troubled woman," Ms. Johnson said.

Olaf Heinzel, spokesman for Waterloo Regional Police, said police were notified by local media yesterday about the offensive group and they intend to review the material and launch an investigation if necessary.

"I can't speak specifically to whether there is an investigation at the present time, but our officers are certainly aware of it," Mr. Heinzel said. "They are looking at that site. They are reviewing the material that's on that site and some of the comments that are made, and that's where it sits at the present time."

Ms. Johnson said her group members had contacted the police last week, but Mr. Heinzel said he was unaware of any complaints before yesterday. Mr. Heinzel said there's an onus on the administrators of social-networking sites like Facebook to ensure the terms of agreement are met and enforced.

"It's an opportunity for people to anonymously express themselves," he said. "We fundamentally believe the Internet and the World Wide Web are excellent communications tools. It's a great way to communicate globally with people, but unfortunately there are people out there who will also abuse that."

Facebook administrators did not return The Globe and Mail's telephone calls yesterday.

Alfred Hermida, a University of British Columbia professor of new media, said that instead of telling jokes in public spaces like a playground or bar, more people are telling jokes in cyberspace, within what they consider to be their inner circle of friends.

"The difference here, is that because it's on the Internet, the audience is anybody in the world at any time, not necessarily part of their group of friends," he said.

And when people write a comment down in cyberspace, Prof. Hermida said, they often don't think of the consequences.

"When people are leaving these comments, you have to question whether they were really being serious about this, or did they really intend to go out and do something? Or where they just letting off steam or thinking 'Well, this is going to amuse my friends.' "

Fallingman

You know what I like about the internet? It brings out the best in people.

Lanz

Fallingman wrote: »

You know what I like about the internet? It brings out the best in people.

SNES

"Out of 90 friends, they killed 32 of my friends' computers."

Whenever I end up watching fox news, it isn't nearly as entertaining as the bits that get glorified on the internet.

Katchem_ash

Man 4Chan is awesome. Not for thier raiding though. Thats 7Chan's area, and they are far, far more worse than 4Chan

Malkor

Didn't someone from 4chan get in trouble for threatening football playoff games? I think he turned himself in as opposed to being tracked down.

Leitner

Malkor wrote: »

Didn't someone from 4chan get in trouble for threatening football playoff games? I think he turned himself in as opposed to being tracked down.

Yes and I hope they throw the book at him (and it looks like they're going to), bomb threats - serious business.

I believe he's currently awaiting trial.

Katchem_ash

Malkor wrote: »

Didn't someone from 4chan get in trouble for threatening football playoff games? I think he turned himself in as opposed to being tracked down.

No I think it was a hoax which was tracked down. I don't know the result.

Target Practice

I'm confused. Since when is 4chan a haven for hackers? I thought it was mostly for weeaboos, perverts and assorted nerds.

Unless by hacking they're talking about them raiding other forums and shit.

Katchem_ash

I can't stress this enough. 7 Chan is for Lolis. 4Chan clamps down on Loli's so there nothing there about Lolis. Just some *ahem* unusual stuff regarding tentacles etc.

Target Practice

Lanz wrote: »

having watched it all the way through, they talk about invasion boards.

4Chan doesn't have invasion boards

hell, I remember hearing people left 4Chan because the mods started cracking down on members organizing raids. I suppose being worried about getting sued and the like kinda makes ya realize somethings aren't that good of an idea.

To be fair, they didn't actually mention 4chan. It could be any futaba-powered board.

Malkor

Target Practice wrote: »

I'm confused. Since when is 4chan a haven for hackers? I thought it was mostly for weeaboos, perverts and assorted nerds.

Unless by hacking they're talking about them raiding other forums and shit.

Any asshole can hack stuff. A group of assholes that think they won't face any reprecussions from their actions can do impressive things once in awhile. It's pretty much an echo room for stupid. That said, I still go there once in awhile for wall papers and uh, stuff..

Target Practice

Malkor wrote: »

Target Practice wrote: »

I'm confused. Since when is 4chan a haven for hackers? I thought it was mostly for weeaboos, perverts and assorted nerds.

Unless by hacking they're talking about them raiding other forums and shit.

Any asshole can hack stuff. A group of assholes that think they won't face any reprecussions from their actions can do impressive things once in awhile. It's pretty much an echo room for stupid. That said, I still go there once in awhile for wall papers and uh, stuff..

Wait, are we talking about /b/? Because I never go there.

Katchem_ash

Target Practice wrote: »

Malkor wrote: »

Target Practice wrote: »

I'm confused. Since when is 4chan a haven for hackers? I thought it was mostly for weeaboos, perverts and assorted nerds.

Unless by hacking they're talking about them raiding other forums and shit.

Any asshole can hack stuff. A group of assholes that think they won't face any reprecussions from their actions can do impressive things once in awhile. It's pretty much an echo room for stupid. That said, I still go there once in awhile for wall papers and uh, stuff..

Wait, are we talking about /b/? Because I never go there.

/b/ is a good place to get pictures and stuff.

Target Practice

Katchem_ash wrote: »

Target Practice wrote: »

Malkor wrote: »

Target Practice wrote: »

I'm confused. Since when is 4chan a haven for hackers? I thought it was mostly for weeaboos, perverts and assorted nerds.

Unless by hacking they're talking about them raiding other forums and shit.

Any asshole can hack stuff. A group of assholes that think they won't face any reprecussions from their actions can do impressive things once in awhile. It's pretty much an echo room for stupid. That said, I still go there once in awhile for wall papers and uh, stuff..

Wait, are we talking about /b/? Because I never go there.

/b/ is a good place to get pictures and stuff.

Yeah, pictures of a furry with shitting dicknipples. No thanks.