>The image board was started in 2003 to discuss anime and various other topics but festered into a safe space for hateful rhetoric soon after. In the aftermath of yet another racially motivated mass shooting by a frequent user, its dangers have finally reached the mainstream. >Any Forums is an extremely unique website. It has been running since 2003, and over the course of almost 20 years, has influenced many internet memes and phenomena. However, in the wake of the European Migrant Crisis in 2015 and the 2016 Presidential Election, it became associated with white supremacy, especially on its Any Forums board. This hateful rhetoric festered, worsening in 2020 during the COVID pandemic and George Floyd protests. Any Forums was sprung into the spotlight once again on May 14th, 2022, when a white supremacists livestreamed his massacre of a supermarket. >This attack, fresh in American’s minds, led many to question why Any Forums is still allowed to exist. This comes after Any Forums’s rhetoric inspired a 2015 mass shooting in Oregon and its users aided in the organization in the Unite The Right Rally and the January 6th Riots. Clearly Any Forums is a hotbed for far-right terrorism. But why is this image board the way it is? The answer lies in its lax moderation of content.
>Upon looking at Any Forums, you will find it is mostly made up of pornography. However, if you go on the site’s Any Forums board, it does not take long to find the kind of rhetoric that radicalized the Buffalo shooter. One particular post I found featured a racist joke at the expense of Black people. Another was praising fighters in the Ukrainian Azov battalion while joking about killing trans people. Yet another post complained about an “influx of tourists” due to the Buffalo shooter, who they insulted with an anti-gay slur. These memes and jokes seem to appeal to a younger, perhaps teenaged audience. It is clear that they are still trying to recruit youth into their ranks even after the tragedy in Buffalo.
>The content is, to say the least, vile. The fact that this stuff is permitted and encouraged by not just the userbase (which numbers in the millions) but also many moderators tells us that there is something fundamentally wrong with Any Forums. In fact, copies of the livestreamed Buffalo massacre were spread widely on Any Forums to the amusement of its userbase.
>Many of the users on Any Forums are social rejects who feel as if they have nothing to lose. They feel unaccepted and alienated from society, so they turn to Any Forums. Many harmful ideologies, such as White supremacy and incel ideologies, seem extremely validating for these dejected youth. Young, socially alienated men, who make up the majority of Any Forums’s userbase, are also among the most vulnerable demographics for radicalization.
Zachary Perry
ASK A ZOOMER ANYTHING
Jordan Davis
1st amendment Free speech means anything goes Don't like it move to China
Liam Diaz
youths aren't allowed on Any Forums
Gabriel Morris
Now we're being groomed to support globohomo by glowniggers makimg (((uhg))) & (((cvg))) threads.
Tyler Bennett
>What can we do to prevent further radicalization of youth and deradicalize those already affected by harmful rhetoric? First of all, we need to either heavily regulate Any Forums or have it shut down. There is no space on the internet for this kind of hatred or incitement to commit horrific acts like what happened in Buffalo. For those already radicalized, we need to perform a campaign of deradicalization among those affected by this rhetoric. But how can this be done?
>Any Forums prides itself on anonymity, so it is difficult to figure out who uses it. Thus, education on radicalization and identification of propaganda is vital. This education should focus on adolescents mostly due to their predisposition towards radicalization when exposed to hateful rhetoric. While White supremacy must be emphasized, other forms of radicalization should be mentioned as well such as Jihadism and other forms of ethnic supremacy. Finally, tolerance must be fostered among all people, not just those at risk of becoming groomed into terrorism.
>The age of Any Forums has spawned many humorous memes, but it has since become a hotbed for hatred and terrorism. Since memes are able to convey dangerous ideas, websites like Reddit and Facebook need to be heavily regulated to prevent the dissemination of dangerous misinformation. It is unlikely that Any Forums will ever moderate itself, as lack of strict moderation is its defining feature. Thus, it has overstayed its welcome and no longer has a place in today’s information-driven society.
>Since memes are able to convey dangerous ideas, websites like Reddit and Facebook need to be heavily regulated to prevent the dissemination of dangerous misinformation
translation: censor anything we don't like and deem anything that goes against the government's preferred narratives as "misinformation" to justify violating the 1st amendment. if it's misinformation then you can argue against it and disprove it, but they don't want to do that. they just want to suppress and censor their arguments rather than have a debate against them. its rather telling, if they were confident it were misinformation they would be able to easily dismantle their arguments and convince people. instead theyd rather avoid the debate entirely and not allow the opposition to present their arguments to the public. why is this?
ironically, its not even 4channers who are grooming people, its the discord trannies who raid and spam bmwf porn etc
Cooper Kelly
Never mind that the Buffalo shooter was writing school essays about how he wanted to commit mass murder-suicide before he was ever “radicalized”
Parker Ramirez
>It is unlikely that Any Forums will ever moderate itself, as lack of strict moderation is its defining feature. Thus, it has overstayed its welcome and no longer has a place in today’s information-driven society. Why not close the entire internet? SHUT. IT. ALL. DOWN.
archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/377966998/ The shooter wasn't tricked by anyone here, it was on discord. I believe armand is a government contractor who convinced the kid to copy and paste a manifesto and write gay slogans on this rifle. He got the ideas and money from somewhere. I believe it was done with the intent to stir up trouble before the midterm, so the people in charge can look like they are doing something about a serious problem. I believe it was also a human sacrifice for election victories.
these kikes want total control over the internet. they are butthurt that people on the internet disagree with them and are allowed to voice their opinions
Hudson Hughes
>How BLACKED.COM Radicalizes Youth and Grooms Them Towards Terrorism
>WHO IS THIS….Any Forums?!? We are a board of peace. We spread i formation, love and joy to all people’s around the world. Big shout outs to kikes, chinks, gooks, niggers, mutts, roaches, and the rest are animal tier
I'm a 40 year old midwestern latino guy with 4 kids, a mortgage, an ex wife, and I pay my taxes to be able to say whatever the fuck I want on shitposting internet sites, so miss me with all your intolerant faggot shit, kikes.
They really don't want you looking into Ukraine and Brenton Tarrant's ties to the Azov battalion and the training he got in Ukraine before shooting up the mosque in New Zealand.
How many articles did you read about Brenton Tarrant and the reason why he did what he did? What did they blame as the reason and source of his radicalization? They blamed e-ight chan for radicalizing him right? Now, how many articles did you read or were even written that talked in depth about his travels to Ukraine to train or who he trained with, on how to use weapons' or the fact that he had books and patches he got from the Azov battalion and that he used the Black Sun symbol when he could have used a swatstika?
No journalist bothered to check what he did in Ukraine or why that was even a good destination for a NatSoc?
We know that Ukraine, and the Azov battalion had people and organizations whose specific jobs were to attract and recruit foreign people. They were recruiting them using the Internet. Brenton Tarrant was one of them. Even his own social media showed the items that he brought back from Ukraine, made in Ukraine.
Peyton was inspired by Brenton Tarrant, why is that? He could have used any other NatSoc symbol for a patch, he could have used any other symbol or picture on his manifesto, but he decided to use the Black Sun symbol.
Why don't people want you looking into why so many domestic terrorists are being radicalized by Ukrainian National Socialists or why that country has such a big National Socialism following to begin with?
Why do the views of so many National Socialists around the world, fall in line directly with the philosophy of National Socialists, specifically from Ukraine?
