>>31878That's how I myself discovered 4chan.
{ Story time. Prepare yourselves for the ride that I hope you will appreciate } :
I was a 9gagger. I used to comment on every post in the trending page (a part of 9gag where posts that will go afterwards to the hot page afterwards appear to first get some upvotes and not go directly from the fresh page to the hot page with only 300 likes). Those posts would be chosen by 9gag mods or because they accumulated 300 from the fresh page. When I say "or chosen by mods" I mean that 9gag literally l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y stole from Reddit with the same title without giving creddit to the original user that made the post on Reddit. Those were 50% of the posts that appeared on Trending page. Me one day i don't know why but I just randomly googled the title of one post from the trending page, and guess what, well first result was the reddit post, with a bunch of already existing comments from Redditors on it. I said to myself that no one from 9gag would think to randomly google the title of the posts so I am safe to steal comments from Reddit and paste them quick as soon as posts appear on trending page while only very few comments on it for my comment to get a lot of thumbs ups. I did and it worked. got tons of votes and people seemed to love the comments I posted. I went from trying to post on every trending post with my own 9gag cancer jokes to copying pasting way smarter and better comments from Reddit.
I was known on 9gag, since my comments would always be on the top of the comment section on the front page with most votes. They knew me by my username and profile pic.
I was safe because 9gag would basically delete comment that called me out for stealing comments from Reddit because they would be basically mentioning Reddit.
Back then I didn't even think of taking the time to discover Reddit, I was too blinded by the semi-fame I was getting on 9gag.
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