It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again. But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250422233152/https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-is-dead-its-toxic-legacy-is-everywhere/
Yeah, there’s a lot of revisionist history ITT, if I had to guess, it’s because people don’t want to admit/accept that it was already an extremist site by the time they were frequenting it.