It actually is worse than it used to be
4chan used to have some really awful containment boards + a bunch of other actual interest boards where you could actually talk with people in normal ways about normal things (albeit rather rude + casually racist people). At some point in the past, I don't know exactly when, the containment boards sorta overflowed into the rest of the site and it really
did
get worse
PiOverlord posted...
I wouldn't be surprised if the branding of it being the "racist" site has just made it a racism loop that just will naturally attract racists to a space that will accept them when the rest of the internet has banished them to the shadows where they belong.
this is part of it too