Interview · moment 18 of 18
Closing Thoughts: Dark Web Gone Mainstream and Living With Paranoia
from I Am The One Who Dox · #134
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4 minGuest
The guest concludes that dark web behaviors (doxxing, extremism, call-out culture) have gone fully mainstream onto Reddit and 4chan, describes his own resulting paranoia about job interviews and social media privacy, and Tim closes with a joke about comedians as an extremist group.
- 1:18:28Dark web culture has gone mainstream—doxxing, political extremism, and anonymity's worst impulses are now just found on Reddit and 4chan.
- 1:19:19Guest explains he's become incredibly paranoid about technology and social media after years involved with online extremist groups.
- 1:20:09At a job interview, when asked why his social media was private, he joked it was because he posts child porn.
- 1:20:48His boss asked for social media handles for emergencies, but he refused to share them—uncomfortable with that level of digital exposure.
- 1:21:24Guest says he's not disgusted by the chaos online so much as interested, but paranoia clouds that interest because he's seen people jailed for protest attendance via their own social media.
- 1:22:01He now mostly posts dick jokes and photos of Taco Bell menu items—watching a car crash while terrified of it happening to him.
- 1:22:13Tim claims comedians are an extremist group and proposes a QAnon-style mass arrest of comedians into Guantanamo Bay, with him and Jimmy Fallon cellmates.