“I am raping Amelia’s eyes RIGHT NOW with these words, forcing her innocent little eyes to look over my handiwork, wanting her to know that when she gets to the end of this sentence I will spilled [sic] my seed all over a printout of her doughy, 6/10 at best face.”
This is just one of the many messages posted about me on 4Chan after I broke a story about how some of its users were replacing racial slurs with the words “Google” and “Skype”. Its tone will not be particularly shocking or striking to anyone who has visited the anonymous online forum, which has previously goaded a man live-streaming his suicide attempt, hidden pornography in Hannah Montana clips and uploaded them – in their thousands – to YouTube, and repeatedly sent pictures of a girl’s decapitated body to her father after she died in a car crash. In the thirteen years 4Chan has existed, multiple users have been arrested for cyber-bullying and sharing child-pornography via the site.
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