Ad-blockers? How about browser plug-ins that filter every pepe, wojack, gigachad, and all others forms of post-2014 4chan garbage? That would be a brilliant idea.

@xianc78 how would that even function? I can't imagine it would perform very well.

@beardalaxy AI

@beardalaxy It would be the most ethical use for it.

@xianc78 I just see that being too taxing for not a widespread enough use case

@beardalaxy I don't care how taxing it is. I want all the non-original shit filtered out.

@xianc78 would you pay for and run an AI service to do that for people that wanted to use it? or have it run locally and require a decent amount of horsepower to be used any time you loaded a website with images? i feel like it would bog down your system quite a bit if it were run locally, and obviously the cost would be a pretty penny if you were running it for other people to use.

nothing new is original, including memes. they are thoughts that enter into the world already built upon previous thoughts from others, which were already built on previous thoughts. if you find them annoying then that's fine i guess, but if you want all the non-original shit filtered out then where exactly do you draw the line? how far does something have to deviate from the original to become original again?

@beardalaxy Literally every meme post 2016 are just variants of those. People are under the impression that anything that comes out of 4chan is the edgiest shit, even though 4chan is just anon Reddit/Discord at this point.

Both Pepe and Wojack are over a decade old, but people are making variants of them like they are brand new. They probably weren't even on 4chan pre-GamerGate.