The whole 'anonymous is legion' thing from early Yas Forums was just kids, right?
I've been reading up on early Yas Forums, and all the 'epic raids lololololo' seem to be in the same vein as pranks that young teenagers partake in, basically just prank phone calling for the modern age.
Did this website literally start off as a kids website?
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>Do you think it's something else now?
this but since zoom zooms only care about women it gets boring
Ironically I came here after project chanology, so I can only speak to the culture from 2009 onward
The whole "anonymous is legion" thing was high school newfag bullshit that didn't start until several years after Yas Forums started, and most of the older users hated it. The "anonymous movement" was largely divorced from Yas Forums anyway, it initially started here but most of the raids and stuff were organized offsite, I wasn't part of it so I don't know where though.
I get the impression that most posters on Yas Forums, at least the hobby/niche interest boards, are approaching their 30s desu.
The ones that use /soc/ and the foidchanners might be younger though.
moot was 15 when he started the site. A lot of people have admitted to being secretly underageb& when they started lurking and/or posting. I participated in some raids when I was in high school, and it would have been after I turned 18. I was still immature in terms of humor, so that theory isn't entirely wrong. However the same people that did that shit back then are older now and still doing it, just less cringey. I considered it but stopped since I'm paranoid that I'd get caught and don't want to have to flee the country like some people have.
But I'm speaking mostly of more serious raids, I do think the battletoads prank call shit was kid stuff that everyone grew out of. Of course people are still doing that too with trying to get news reporters to banepost on air.
It was mainly teenagers and college kids looking for a "cause" to get into. They had a lot of fun and caused a bit of chaos on the internet. These days raids are not allowed so with the exception of the shia flag stuff nothing fun happens on Yas Forums anymore.
You've been lurking around encyclopedia dramatics, haven't you? You do realize they're still recovering from the site owner going to prison and losing their server. Everything there has not been updated since 2017 because the place is run by idiots who do not know how to backup shit. Also, fuck Oddguy, that jew-nosed fuck from New Jersey. He isn't responsible for any of this; I just wanted to heckle him.