Kawakami “was afraid that Nishimura could be arrested by the police,” says Sei, author of the upcoming book. Sei recently interviewed Kawakami. “So he dismissed Nishimura as a director.” The two, however, remained friends, he says.
Kawakami, Sei says, “wanted the opportunity, through the 4chan business, to make inroads into the US and world markets. He had a special interest in this business.” Those discussions, according to Kawakami, went on to a “very late stage.” It birthed QAnon, grew the incel movement, and was cited by multiple mass shooters around the world as a direct source of inspiration. Its users generated a dizzying amount of disinformation around the 2020 presidential election, deployed swattings to go after their detractors, and produced an enormous amount of far-right, racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, and queerphobic memes.
Why does Wired care so much about a niche internet forum populated by edgelords?
What will Disney do?
There’s a lot of shitty sites like 4chan. They aren’t the only one.
sf_mills Good Smile Company, a Japanese-owned toy company producing licensed character toys, including for Disney, reportedly acted as the financial brace for one of the internet’s worst hate-filled cesspool, messaging boards (plus QANON content) 4chan.
I sure would love to read this story if there wasn't a paywall blocking it
burgos, você viu essa história? eu não tenho ideia do que é essa 'Future Search Brazil' com dinheiro japonês...
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