Comments by "Maxwell Benz" (@Tential1) on "How 4chan Changed Society Forever" video.

  1. This wasn't just a 4chan thing. This was an internet old guard vs new mobile users. Ostracized people were online a lot, and the internet was nerdy and not cool. And then all of a sudden the internet was mainstream, and "newbies" kept coming on, and trolling them was easy. 4chan was the worst of it, or close to it, but lots of internet communities felt the same way and openly trolled in similar manners.
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  2. Why did people do it? Because you could. You knew more about computers and the internet than the newbies just coming online. It was just too easy not too and if you're bored why not? You may be stuck in a classroom during a 1 hour lecture with a computer in front of you. That's enough time and resources to cause serious mayhem.
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