/lit/ - Literature

You know, 4chan is such a strange oddity in the grand scheme of modern day Digital Media. As someone going into Communications, 4chan and it's various boards are a fascinating case study.

You can't really write the 'content' and general idea and moods of 4chan and it's different boards down, as depending on the board the paradigm can shift very quickly. I find that if you really wanna put your nose to the grindstone, you have to study the processes of communities to really understand what the fuck is happening. And when you start peeling all the extra bits away, 4chan is pretty much working on the same principles as any other virtual community, just with the extra bits changed.

4chan has it's own dialect, and it's users can identify (Or think they identify) newfags by how they type or the opinions they spread. It goes through periods of constantly challenging whats deemed the usual (Defined that 4chan really never agrees on a usual), the larger a board or topic gets the more likely it is to split into sub-communites or cliques (/v/ was constantly splitting into General threads, which required making a new board just to house said General threads).

It's pretty neato