4chan on Fox
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited mockingly as an example of sensationalist television coverage of internet culture.
What it is
A 2007 Fox news segment that portrays 4chan users as hardcore hackers.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Critical apostacy · 2019-03 · on “Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon”
The term I would use is: 4chan users engaged in Live Action Role Playing. They were trying to spook you, and they did, apparently. The most they could muster from the entire world is < 200. I remember when the media tried telling us about how "Anonymous" were "hackers on steroids" who treated things like a "real life video game".[1] Yes, there are some creeps out there. But they are not a serious threat. [1]: [this video]
Critical ogurechny · 2021-04 · on “Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]”
Add to this a lot of overacting, and video clips repeating 20 times, and you'll have a half an hour program mostly about nothing. One can easily see that YouTube (as a platform) became just a shitty television when the host unironically flips through stacks of papers exactly the same way it was done in the classic: [this video]