while generally true, the term "slide thread" being invented "because 4chan" is false. the term was invented to describe a disinfo tactic on pre-4chan forums where if you posted something interesting and started getting responses, the forum would bet blasted with irrelevant distraction posts to quickly make the ongoing discussion "slide" either up or down (depending on the forum's format) so that new users would be less likely to scroll and see it. this was happening waaay before 4chan even existed. matter of fact, this was a thing almost right away from the conspiracy golden era of the web, circa 1995-2005. but this was just one (of endless) distraction tactics, the most obvious of which was the endless free pron that appeared on the web right alongside the time of the golden conspiracy era. while they gaslit web surfers with 60 minutes reports about how online pron was supposedly a "60 gabazillion dollar a year business"
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