The violent culture of 4chan seeps out into the real world
May 06, 2022
3 minutes
By Justin Ling
When police in Washington DC burst into an apartment building on 22 April in search of a man who allegedly had shot four people at random, they found Raymond Spencer, 23, dead by his own hand, a cache of guns, and a poster with an ironic white supremacist meme.
The poster invoking the meme, popular on the extremist online forum 4chan, was a stark reminder that this was the most recent mass casualty
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