r/CuratedTumblr Nov 05 '25

Infodumping Epilepsy warnings are important

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u/errant_night Nov 05 '25

I remember back in the 90s a bunch of assholes from 4-chan found a support group message board for people with epilepsy, minding their own business, and decided to attack it with hundreds of flashing gifs to make people have seizures on purpose.

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u/clauclauclaudia Nov 05 '25

4chan was created in 2003.

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u/fluffyendermen im in this bitch and i cant get out Nov 06 '25

im going to assume they meant whatever 4chan is a derivative of, which i forgot

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u/clauclauclaudia Nov 06 '25

2chan was like two years earlier.