What people need to understand is that there is nothing particularly magical about /b/. The internet has always had a dark underbelly where people in the know have gotten together to speak freely. There’s really nothing that different between /b/ today and alt.* 15 years ago. /b/ will be destroyed by its own popularity (”newfags”) but another forum will inevitably appear.

The sicker society gets, the sicker that forum gets. /b/ isn’t a reflection of what’s wrong with kids today. It’s much scarier than that: it’s what’s wrong with the rest of us in the eyes of the kids, and they’ve got us dead to rights. When Oprah cries out about the child rapist syndicate called Anonymous, is she condemning evil or revealing her own fear of the unknown? Communists, terrorists, homosexuals, atheists, pedophiles, and who knows what we are going to be afraid of tomorrow.

On the episode of her show that’s making the rounds on Youtube et al., Oprah told her viewers that she wanted to read a post made to her forums by a member of the terrorist pedophile group Anonymous. Then she proceeded to say, with a straight face, “He says he does not forgive. He does not forget. He has over 9000 penises and they are all raping children. So you can see, these people are organized.” Then she essentially called for the destruction of the internet as we know it.

If she succeeds, /b/ will be replaced by something even worse. It will continue to be the chemo that is curing society. Most will not notice it, and most of those who do will not understand.