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Essay / If 4chan succeeds, what's stopping us? - 568
Memes are everywhere and imitate everything we can imagine, from hentai to cats to nature and much more. If you can see it, hear it, or think about it, you can make it into a meme. Then the memes take on a life of their own, so it's like taking real life, imitating it, and then being able to create a new life. 4chan started as just a website where people could post anime-related content. Soon it imploded with millions of users and dozens of topics. 4chan has managed to realize its potential by using the Internet, which is cheap or free, and accessible almost anywhere in the world. There are currently seven billion people on this planet. With the diversity, the humor, the anonymous aspect, the free use, the potential for social connection and the spontaneity available, 4chan has of course succeeded. Just like an organization of English majors. Read on and find out why. Let's start with a simple question that is very difficult to answer, even for most English students: who are we and what do we actually learn every day in our English classes? We are excluded because many times pe...