>>11465>common spamming ofIt's one guy/group doing that with bots, and they get banned every time. Also that didn't even start until like the late 2010s, it's not an inherent feature of imageboards, it's a specific sick fuck. In fact, Reddit and Tumblr actually had a way worse problem with that for years (when alt chans were already popular) before the bots started targeting alt chans hard.
People talk about all the topics you listed on all kinds of sites, not just imageboards.
>where else mass shooters get aspired? [SIC]Like the other topics, anywhere. The mass shooters who famously posted manifestos to 8ch also posted them to sites like Facebook and Instagram, which were, mysteriously
;), not targeted by the US federal gov't the way 8ch was. Before there was any association made with imageboards, there was an association made with sites like VampireFreaks, iirc Myspace had this "problem" (a large userbase, within which some people sometimes do murder, which then gets blamed on the site regardless of whether the site had anything to do with it) too.
You'll also find "true crime" people on TikTok, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, fbi.gov, etc. whose entire personality is stanning serial killers. Like it's really naive to think this stuff is unique to or even characteristic of imageboards specifically.
>not as much attentionImageboards are under disproportionately high scrutiny if anything.
>not underground anymoreLiterally like at least half of my generation, most likely mpre, between 2006 and 2012, grew up using 4Chan
at least a little. Like it hasn't been underground in 20 years, I'm aware that 4chan's /R9K/ did the "reeee normies" thing later than that, but they were completely delusional. 4Chan and 4Chan memes had been mainstream for 5-6 years back then - in fact, a lot of the niche hobby boards were
more active before /R9K/'s spergout and the creation of /pol/.