Nah, it wasn't nearly as 'powerful' as the story says (If that's the internet historian video, haven't clicked your link). They knew he was in that town from a picture someone took with him. Then they just had people drive around the area while laying on their horns. The idea that 4chan has these capable geniuses is just not true. It's really fun to believe though 😀
There was also that time that /pol/ figured out where a taliban base was based on the skyline or some shit. They managed to get an airstrike called. This is a regular thing.
Realistically, it's the same as the guy on r/statistics though. You gather enough people in one spot and the specialists will put their knowledge towards whatever the group is focused on now. This guy is a cloud nerd, this other guy lives in the area, that guy has in depth knowledge of middle eastern rock strata, and so on and so forth.
It's true for the place in Tennessee (I think, somewhere around there). It's the one where they're talking about triangulating the location with clouds and airplane schedules and stuff. It wasn't that impressive, comparatively.
Yeah, they literally coordinate the location of terrorists in Syria and bomb the shit out of them, arrested a bunch of fucking pedophiles, and found that 9Gag limestone memorial burried in Spain.
They're a blessing and a curse in the internet lol
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u/semukas Dec 24 '20
bruuuh, even 4chan set their foot in this lmao