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I mean... Not nowadays, sure... But 20 years ago 4chan was where memes were born.
But your implication is that it was a serious claim on 4chan? Nah, it was another troll device to mess with people.
In some sense, it was the most pure form of joke.
With the Epstein -> Poole connection the whole thing could just as well be a modern psyop platform. I don't doubt that quality greentexts and memes are just normal user driven content, but nearly everything that got amplified beyond 4chan was always the most hateful and regressive shit ("ironically" of course).
Other platforms at the same time had much more diverse content despite having overlap with the 4chan user base. It's not like edgy boys never had an anonymous content platform on the internet before.