/lit/ - Literature

>>9324386
> Nihilistically reveling in shock, transgression, and trolling, you’re more likely to find these young men posting diaper porn, My Little Pony hate, and swastika-laden Pepe memes than listening to Wagner or reading Alain de Benoist.

I think this statement displays her ignorance to this site. If you go on /mu/ there are certainly classical threads, though perhaps you will have to use the index to locate them. If you go on /b/ you will find mlp and diaper porn, if you go on /lit/ you may find something on Alain de Benoist, and on all the boards you probably have a good shot at seeing pepe.
But, she mistakenly suggests that these boards are all interconnected, that /b/ has any cultural exchange with /lit/ or any other board. Of course there are people who frequent both boards, but there is no real exchange between /b/ and /lit/ because both the mods and the users filter out content that does not belong. To suggest that there is any sort of "chan culture" is do present a distinct misunderstanding of how 4chan communities self segregate themselves and insulate themselves. Chan culture is separationist and that extends even to board subcultures where people hide and ignore threads that conflict with their own ideologies in order to participate in one that instead reinforces them.

Additionally to say that you know chan culture you have to consume a massive amount of media because chan culture is not just one board, there are what, 60 boards on 4chan each with a unique culture and dialect and memes that make sense only to its own participants. And chan culture is not explicity creates by 4chan alone because other chans are vastly different from 4chan, see 420chan or a non-english chan. Essential the journalist has examined one house on one street in the middle of a ghetto and then made assertions about the nature and personality of every black person in the USA. You cannot predict the properties of an ocean by studying a single drop of water, but that is what this journalist has done.

Furthermore the biggest objection to any discussion of chan culture is the fact the writer acknowledges that there is rampant trolling but does not identify how she distinguishes trolling from legitimate statements. In any thread there can be no real quantifiable claim that a post expresses the true sentiments of an individual or is a troll post because trolling is an art form and there are innumerable ways to do so. How does she separate truths from false flags, impersonations from "all me"'s, or presenting a legitimate belief via an irony laced assertion of the opponents position. The anonymity of chans makes any statement a dialectic that has no synthesis, it is wrong and right at the same time, but more wrong than anything.