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4chan on Fox

SK · 1M views · 2007-07-27 · 4:18

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Overview

A 2007 Fox news segment that portrays 4chan users as hardcore hackers.

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Cited mockingly as an example of sensationalist television coverage of internet culture.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2019–2025

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Internet culture & memesMedia, journalism & propaganda
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Lammy · 2025-04 · Joke / meme

> Also it is still so surreal to me to see prestigious publications like the New Yorker talking about 4chan. Needs moar yellow van: [VIDEO] (2007)

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dementiapatie · 2022-06 · Joke / meme

Is it 2004 again? What's next, a news report with scary music showing how hackers from 4chan are exploding vans all around the nation using GPT-4?[1]. [1] [VIDEO]

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ogurechny · 2021-04 · Criticism

Add to this a lot of overacting, and video clips repeating 20 times, and you'll have a half an hour program mostly about nothing. One can easily see that YouTube (as a platform) became just a shitty television when the host unironically flips through stacks of papers exactly the same way it was done in the classic: [VIDEO]

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