Great Regulars: Never before have we been able to

hide behind a mask of anonymity and expose our lowest, our most intimate concerns before an audience that may include the entire world.

Stylistically, this generates a kind of vast in-joke. Regulars on 4Chan seem to despise newcomers and anybody who is not in on the specialised language--"newfags", they call them, as opposed to "oldfags". "Fags" is a frequently used suffix which seems to have become detached from its American role as an offensive term for gays. Similarly "nigger" seems to be okay on the site. Indeed, the only thing that seems to be positively discouraged--and suppressed--is child pornography.

from Bryan Appleyard: from The Sunday Times: 4Chan and Anonymous

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