4chan–the anonymously-generated breeding ground for memes–and its off-kilter, surreal, creative and often-juvenile perspective has overflowed on Facebook in the form of a group. In its anarchic spirit, the group organizers have taken it upon themselves to send the group messages by rapid-fire renaming of the group itself, which, if you’re signed up to receive email notifications, results in a series of emails in your inbox with the final message. You can read it if you click the image for a bigger version.
It’s funny because it’s 4chan and they’re the only ones doing it that I’ve seen. Hopefully renaming-as-message doesn’t catch on, like the super-annoying “you’ve been tagged in a note / 25 things” meme on Facebook (which, I assume is from people not understanding that “tag” does not mean “as in the game”).
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It will be interesting to see if this lasts on Facebook, which is predicated on more transparency than 4Chan is willing to allow. IMHO, it seems awfully counterintuitive to go about it this way… I understand it as a gesture or artistic statement, but it makes no sense for increasing the visibility of 4Chan. Medium as message, sure, but content itself too obscured to be of use to anyone not already knee-deep in 4Chan. I think the reason you see no one else doing this is obvious: why put the effort into a group if you’re going to obfuscate it? Facebook is intended for socialization; anti-socialization is irrelevant in the FB environment.
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It was an accident.
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We’ve lasted about three years, so I believe you can now sleep soundly at night.
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