These threads are a distinctly effective way of collecting photos of certain articles of clothing, brands, and hairstyles. And sometimes, it degenerates into people calling each other “ skinnyfat.” Sometimes, people use these threads as an opportunity to converse with each other and type “NOM NOM NOM” repeatedly. On the other hand, the products in question are usually not in the best of taste, the net impact on the world’s fashionability is probably zero. That said, when a user posts a photo from an old Prada ad campaign and claims that it’s “just what they wore out last night,” a grain of salt is usually in order.Īs with the haircut advice threads, 4chan users are surprisingly unlikely to deliberately dispense misleading advice. These posts often seem to be genuinely helpful to the people doing the asking, although a generous helping of verbal abuse is generally doled out alongside the advice.Ĭitizens of the internet love showing off what they happen to be wearing on a given day ( ahem), and /fa/ is no exception. Let’s run through the general types of discussion that happen on this hidden internet fashion kingdom, with examples! (The forum can be found here it is decidedly Not Safe for Work.)
Their primary pastime? Conducting ruthless holy wars over everything from desert boots to keffiyehs. This post originally appeared at our sister site Styleite.Ī cursory examination reveals that 4chan does in fact have a fashion forum, and it’s called /fa/! Its members refer to each other as /fa/scists (oh, dear) and really like online retailers like Yoox and Indochino. Wait a minute… 4chan? Cesspool of all that is wrong with the internet? Violator of Time‘s Person of the Year polls and Sarah Palin’s email account? Birthplace of LOLcats and Rickrolling?
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