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Cake day: May 31st, 2026

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  • It’s crazy that I’ve seen some of the most heinous things on 4chan. VRchat is one of the worst places for kids to this day and no good parents allow their kids on VRchat. That is freaking wild.

    1. The 4chan Myth: “Aggressive, 24/7 Global Paid Janitors”

    The claim that 4chan has a “sophisticated, 24/7 global team of paid and volunteer moderators” keeping it clean is a massive stretch.

    The Reality: 4chan’s moderation team (affectionately or derisively called “janitors”) consists almost entirely of unpaid volunteers. Their moderation style is notoriously hands-off, reactive, and localized to specific boards.

    The Truth in the Claim: 4chan does use automated fingerprinting tools like PhotoDNA. However, they didn’t implement these out of corporate goodwill—they were legally backed into a corner after years of massive federal and international pressure regarding severe illegal material.

    The Exaggeration: To do anything comparable as considering 4chan to be a multi-million dollar pristine corporation ignores its entire history. It is a textboard that has historically operated on a shoestring budget, relying heavily on ad networks that frequently drop them, and surviving on the absolute bare minimum of infrastructure required to avoid getting shut down by the government. - Gemini AI

    1. The VRChat Myth: “Massive, Flawless Automated Safety Teams”

    The speaker frames VRChat as an iron-clad fortress of safety because of its corporate backing. Anyone who has spent an hour in a public VRChat lobby knows this isn’t true.

    The Reality: VRChat is famous for its “Wild West” atmosphere. Because users can upload custom avatars and private worlds, it is incredibly difficult for automated tools to scan 3D assets for toxic, hateful, or inappropriate content in real-time.

    The Exaggeration: While VRChat absolutely has a Trust & Safety team and a reporting system, a huge burden of the moderation is pushed onto the community (vote-kicking, private instances, and blocking). It is far from an automated, corporate-scrubbed paradise. - Gemini AI

    “Not 100% Foolproof” Section 230 protects platforms from being sued for what their users post, provided the platform acts in good faith to remove illegal content when notified.

    There are bans, reports, AI moderation, Creators of generators also exercise control over chatrooms, there is an effort in good faith to moderate the website within reason, a 24/7 human staff cannot be expected for Perchance, the same is true for many other websites that are in operation. If you want to sue somebody just do it, you complain about it, you make a lot of claims, yet the Dev is not intimidated by you.






  • It doesn’t matter if it isn’t, legal debates regarding the topic are irrelevant to ownership. The level of ignorance to consistently ignore the fact that this is arguably among the worst crimes globally; in the name of some sort of opposition to censorship, is ridiculous

    Worst crimes globally, worse than slavery, the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide? What? Oh my God… You’re a user with a blue helmet UN avatar larping as though you are an authority who can demand things of a developer who is literally ignoring you with good reason no less.

    “Client-Side Processing: Sites that require no login—where scripts and data are temporarily processed directly in the visitor’s browser or local device—minimize server-side data logs. By not retaining user history, these platforms often bypass liability for the content users generate locally.”

    “User-Generated Moderation & Obscurity: Content moderation is often decentralized, relying on community reporting, private groups, or obscure sub-communities rather than a central team. By maintaining a low profile or operating as a directory of independently hosted sandboxes, they evade sweeping censorship.”

    • Gemini AI