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[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yes it was literally the stormfront forum website that set up camp very first. There was no white nationalism on the site before they came along. I guess voat/whoaverse is 4 years old, so it probably happened about 3 years ago. I remember it clearly, and they were linking to the stormfront forum over and over. Then it kind of subsided and I hoped it was going to get better. But then it just slowly got worse and worse, and in the last year it's just terrible. I think the latter part was probably mostly 4chan types. But the initial spark was undoubtedly the stormfront forum migrating to voat.

I suppose in retrospect maybe that was all some elaborate 4chan "prank" to make the site look super racist and I didn't realize it at the time. Either way I think there is some overlap anyway

[–]Troll 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, four years ago is about the time coontown got banned.

The stormfront linking, to me, sounds like leftists attempting to further the reputation voat had. The channers were dumb enough not to realize it.

I have had plenty of experience wtih basically everything. Back in ye olden days I was an oper in stormfront's IRC channel. That's why I don't believe it was them.

I doubt anybody younger than 50 even goes on stormfront these days.

Furthermore, the ADL and SPLC never write about stormfront these days. Why is that? They too realize it's a paper tiger existing only on an old reputation back from the 2000s.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's interesting, thanks for the well-spoken perspective on it because I've never actually gone on those forums myself.

[–]Troll 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm just a pig who has tussled in a lot of mud back in my day.