4chan is making me gay

Enter 4chan—the bowels of the Internet. Is there a virtual shitstorm of celebrity nude leaks clouding up the news? Chances are 4chan brewed it. The various boards on 4chan are divided by specific interest like subforums. The occasional insult or complaint about being gay might pop up, but for the most part, the abrasive nature of the site takes the sting out of it — if everyone is a degenerate, no one is.

4chan Turned Me Gay

Instead of immediately going in full pelt, organisers plan a more insidious approach, which they hope will gradually turn the tide of opinion against queer people. As Pride month progresses, the trolls will gather on 4chan and organise an escalation of the frequency and intensity of the campaign.

Inside Operation Pridefall: 4chan’s Attempt to Bring Down Pride 2020

It has to do with access, impulse control problems, and other kinds of psychopathology. In the meantime, Krause said this experience has emboldened him to continue his work, showing spaces gay travelers can go without harassment through out the world. We try to tell people that we just want to be treated equally.

The Facebook event simultaneously received high numbers of links to fake donation pages relentlessly posted by bots. Horse Meat Disco may have been among the first victims of Operation Pridefall, a concerted effort from the alt-right to get corporations to disassociate their brands from LGBTQ rights.