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GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s also how flat earthers started. 4chan started satirically memeing about flat earth. Then idiots saw it, missed the satire, and picked it up as a serious thing. At that point, 4chan went “this is funnier than any satire we could make” and stood back to watch the crazies launch rockets into the lower atmosphere.

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  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Flat earthers have been around (heh) for centuries. It’s mostly a religious thing in order to rebuke science in order to keep people stupid. There’s a passage in the bible that refrences the four corners of the earth that gets refrenced by these people as proof. It’s a way to keep people in their cult, because the outsiders are the ones who are tricked into beleiving in round earth ftom scientists.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m more of a dinosaur earth guy myself Image

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would say that it really became a thing in its current form in the 1800s. Lots of the weird Biblical “literalism” (and I think things like Salafism/Wahhabism) come from the combination of widespread literacy and direct access to the texts + those ideologies that deny that you need anything outside the text to interpret them yourself/solo scriptura.

      What we’re seeing now is related to shitposting being taken seriously for sure (the “birds aren’t real” thing has also been making a slow shift from stupid joke to conspiracy therapy, I think that’s how “Helen Keller” don’t real started)

      I trace it back a bit further than 4chan though. You start to see it all the way back in the 90s on Usenet, pretty sure that’s around when the Flat Earth Society Forums - which were clearly mostly Poes - started too.

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think that 4chan started a lot of this apocalypse that way.

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    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      4chan was sold in 2015 and that’s when it took a hard right turn.

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      • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Damn, sounds like a familiar story now

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      • Kirk@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “Shoop da woop” was a popular 4chan meme dating to at least 2006. Also the whole “newfag”, “oldfag” etc thing has been going on since forever.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1956.

    4chan’s downfall was mainstream media telling everyone that Nazis were on the site, so all the Nazis who were watching mainstream media went to 4chan and without moot running it, they were allowed to fester.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I first found 4chan around 2005 and there definitely Nazis on it. And pedophiles.

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      • Kirk@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Absolutely idk what that guy is smoking

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yea, but I’m a mod Who’s Built Different™️

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  • straightjorkin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      oof ouch my hubris

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  • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This one was already serious. The worst that can happen is it goes back to what it was before.

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