Happy Friday. I hope you are all relaxing this evening.
Does Voat have any lore or crazy stories? Like, plebbit had that Carbon Monoxide story, the mysterious lamp incident, and the family poop shovel kid. Some kid on 4chan exploded himself with a grenade in his bathroom.
Over the years, have we accumulated anything like that?
This place is a pail shadow of what was once the most controversial website on the internet. I appreciate System for keeping the lights on so we have a place to hangout, but old Voat was an incredible community. If anything of value was happening anywhere in the world we knew about it first. We had real journalist, weaponized autists, and all breeds of glowniggers posting some of the most amazing deep dives on a daily basis. News would get posted on Voat days and weeks before it was released by the MSM to the normies. I remember telling people around me about shit that was going down well in advance of them hearing it from the television or newspapers. My favorite was watching the internet change in real time when something was exposed on Voat. The pizzagate investigations were wild. Someone would post their findings on Voat of some new pedo ring they had discovered and within hours social media accounts would be locked down or deleted, and often large corporations that were involved would have to modify their websites and run damage control. Grabbing screenshots back then was very important because as soon as the information hit Voat the original source would be edited or shutdown. The old Voat Goats around here remember those days. People were hunting rich pedos and revealing government secrets. Whenever something big got posted the site would suddenly be under ddos attack for days. I suspect we had a lot of government insiders leaking us information back then. It was a magical time, but sadly no one did anything with what we were shown and it was all shutdown.
ItsOk2bArian 10 points 1 day ago
This place is a pail shadow of what was once the most controversial website on the internet. I appreciate System for keeping the lights on so we have a place to hangout, but old Voat was an incredible community.
If anything of value was happening anywhere in the world we knew about it first. We had real journalist, weaponized autists, and all breeds of glowniggers posting some of the most amazing deep dives on a daily basis.
News would get posted on Voat days and weeks before it was released by the MSM to the normies.
I remember telling people around me about shit that was going down well in advance of them hearing it from the television or newspapers.
My favorite was watching the internet change in real time when something was exposed on Voat.
The pizzagate investigations were wild. Someone would post their findings on Voat of some new pedo ring they had discovered and within hours social media accounts would be locked down or deleted, and often large corporations that were involved would have to modify their websites and run damage control. Grabbing screenshots back then was very important because as soon as the information hit Voat the original source would be edited or shutdown.
The old Voat Goats around here remember those days.
People were hunting rich pedos and revealing government secrets.
Whenever something big got posted the site would suddenly be under ddos attack for days.
I suspect we had a lot of government insiders leaking us information back then.
It was a magical time, but sadly no one did anything with what we were shown and it was all shutdown.