The 4chan site from which later 8chan evolved was already notorious for its gallows humour, grotesque content, and bigoted memes. The reactionary diaspora on 8chan took 4chan’s ghoulish irreverence to a new level. Celebrations of racism and…M. Tuters meticulously charts the appearance of the Q drops that began on 4chan, transitioned to 8chan,[^66] then, following the revocation of 8chan’s hosting due to the site’s association with the 2019 Christchurch mass shooting, began app…TUTERS, M.: LARPing & Liberal Tears: Irony, Belief and Idiocy in the Deep Vernacular Web. In FIELITZ, M., THURSTON, N. (eds.): Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US. Bielefeld :…
Marc Tuters
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Marc Tuters is a researcher who traces the genealogy of conspiracy theories and far-right movements across distributed online platforms, particularly documenting how QAnon migrated from 4chan to 8chan to 8kun following content moderation crackdowns. His work helps the course examine how algorithmic architectures and platform affordances don't simply host extremist content but actively shape its circulation, mutation, and radicalization potential. By analyzing the "deep vernacular web" and irony as a vector for radicalization, Tuters provides critical infrastructure for understanding how AI-mediated spaces become incubators for networked extremism.
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