4chan User Attempts Suicide on Live Cam as Hundreds Watch and Do Nothing

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by pearjuice • 13 years ago

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adamnemecek• 13 years ago

I mean what could they really do?

lcasela• 13 years ago

What can someone actually do in this type of situation?

I do I agree that it's disgusting that people were watching tho.

/b/ is literally the worst board on 4chan, I don't know why moot hasn't deleted that board.

supergauntlet2• 13 years ago

It's a containment board, it keeps the shitposters from spilling into other better boards. Same reason /s4s/ is still there - it's the board where people go to shitpost so that the other boards don't have to be filled with it.

tyuop• 13 years ago

Same reason /s4s/ is still there - it's the board where people go to shitpost so that the other boards don't have to be filled with it.

No, no, no. 4chan is still full of shitposting, and /s4s/'s own shitposting has steadily been leaking into other boards. Moot has no idea how to manage and build a community. His answer to troublemakers (spammers, shitposters, idiots) is to give them their own place, hoping they'll just stay there and leave everyone else alone. The racists, the misogynists, the ponyfuckers, you name it. Then when they have established a presence (thanks in no small part to his retarded policy) and people still complain about them, he says now he can't get rid of their board, or they'd spill out into the others. This kind of approach is, at best, horribly naive, and at worst, downright stupid. The site has been hemorrhaging quality posters for years and creating abominations like /s4s/ won't help to reverse the trend.

angersock• 13 years ago

Anybody remember Gulf I?

The live streams from the bombings, almost like a video game.

Those were people too.

mikeyouse2• 13 years ago

I was a bit young for Gulf I, but I definitely remember the very uneasy feeling of watching 'Shock and Awe' in 2003.

The world had a live-feed to the destruction of a city;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NktsxucDvNI

1,700 air sorties and over 500 cruise missiles impacting and broadcast live to your living room. I wonder what the death toll from that night was.. 10,000? More?

MetaCosm2• 13 years ago

Significantly less -- even the highest estimates on the invasion phase (not just the shock and awe portion) where at 5600, and of course, the US government claims an order of magnitude less than the 5600 number.

Shock and Awe was about display of power and infrastructure destruction... now how many died due to lack of power, water, and various types of infrastructure is an open question, and those deaths probably went on long after the "invasion phrase"

astrodust• 13 years ago

If there was a "war prevention hotline", I would've called it.

sergiotapia• 13 years ago

This isn't new. It's been happening for years now on 4Chan. Moderators (called Janitors) _should_ have deleted the thread and alerted authorities as they usually do. I wonder how the thread managed to stay alive for so long.

supergauntlet2• 13 years ago

It's possible they just didn't see it. Maybe none of them were online at the time it happened.

thrillgore• 13 years ago

Because the janitors are absolute garbage. I see more illegal shit on the "worksafe" boards stick around for hours and days on end without going answered by any 4chan staff or volunteers.

acostoss• 13 years ago

Hasn't this happened in the past? I recall viewing a successful attempt sometime back in 2006.

unethical_ban• 13 years ago

John is an unfortunate Liberal soul who lives uncomfortably in the middle of a Conservative hellscape. While he is not a fan of politicians, period, he has developed a deep-seated hatred for the bigotry, fear mongering, and lies of the Right Wing. He also rather enjoys steak.

Uh-huh. Also posting a Youtube link of it for all the heathens to take a look at.

aestra• 13 years ago

This isn't the first time it has happened. I don't have the link, but a teen streamed a completed a suicide a while back while hundreds watched. There was a question if some of the onlookers knew he was serious/it was real.

carsongross• 13 years ago

And when you stare into 4chan long enough, the 4chan also stares into you...

4chan User Attempts Suicide on Live Cam as Hundreds Watch and Do Nothing

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