How To Image Search, 4chan Style
While working on a porn attribution research commission, I stumbled over these charming instructions in an archived 4chan /a/ (anime) thread from 2012. You have to wonder about the mental space that composes semi-helpful instructions in a tone of derisive rage:
HEY stupid faggot ass piece of shit OP, you want the source on something? I HATE TO INFORM YOU THAT THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH OH IM SORRY I GUESS SOME AUTIST DIPSHIT SUMMErFAG LIKE YOU CANT COMPREHEND THE SOPHISTICATION OF USING GOOGLE. OK LET ME BREAK IT DOWN SO THAT ITS SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND A KINDERGARTENER COULD DO IT YOU GO TO http://WWW.GOOGLE.COM AND THEN IMAGES NOW IF YOUVE GOTTEN THERE THEN ALL YOU NEED TO DO BESIDES CHANGE YOUR SHITTY FUCKING DIAPER IS PLAY A GAME OF PICTIONARY AND FIND THE LITTLE CAMERA YOU SHOULD KNOW CAMERA PRETTY WELL AS WHEN YOU WERE MOLESTED THEY WERE USED QUITE OFTEN OK SO AFTER THAT YOU CLICK NOT ONCE BUT TWICE AND OMFG THIS GREEK AS FUCK BAR SHOWS UP ASKING YOU TO ENTER A URL OR UPLOAD AN IMAGE I KNOW YOU MAY BE PULLING YOUR HAIR OUT IN PRIMAL RAGE BUT HEY LISTEN BRO CHECK IT OUT SEE THAT IMAGE YOU POSTED HERE YEA? PUT IT IN THERE BY EITHER UPLOADING IT MEANING TAKING THE PICTURE YOU HAVE SAVED OR YOUR BIG BROTHER SAVED FOR YOU AND YOU SHOULD FIND OUT YOU WASTE OF GENETIC MATERIAL DO US ALL A FAVOR AND KILL YOURSELF AFTER YOU DO THIS OK
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I suspect whoever wrote that resented having been asked to provide attribution in the first place — perhaps because their faith in Google’s all-knowingness had not yet been properly debunked, perhaps because they’re unaware of any reason other than laziness to want an attribution.
Alternatively, perhaps their mind has been so warped by 4chan that that truly is their idea of helpfulness.
Wow. Just… wow. All that just for a source request? Me thinks the person has never written for anything beyond the internet.
STOP SHOUTING!!
I have an aversion to all caps sentences and a full paragraph nearly gives me a headache.
I tend not to read them as a matter of course.
I wonder if that was written by a certain sorority girl of recent infamy? I can just hear Michael Shannon reading it.