I don't have any links, but the gist is this: Redditors tried to do the 4chan Investigator thing to identify the Boston Bomber from the Boston Marathon in 2013. They screwed it up so badly that they identified zero people involved in actually doing the bombing and pointed fingers at 100% innocent bystanders. They were then attacked and harassed by said redditors in typical fashion. The phrase "We did it, Reddit!" became a meme afterward, which was a comment posted in one of their "investigation" threads after they thought they had figure it out.
Once the real investigation started and the police realized all the "tips" they were getting about the identity of the bomber(s) were just from a bunch of retard redditors and they started pointing fingers at the two muslim kids that were actually involved, there was a monumental sweeping-under-the-rug of all their "investigations" and everyone pretended they didn't do it. It is my hope that Internet Historian or Fredrik Knudsen does a video on it sometime.
I don't have any links, but the gist is this: Redditors tried to do the 4chan Investigator thing to identify the Boston Bomber from the Boston Marathon in 2013. They screwed it up so badly that they identified zero people involved in actually doing the bombing and pointed fingers at 100% innocent bystanders. They were then attacked and harassed by said redditors in typical fashion. The phrase "We did it, Reddit!" became a meme afterward, which was a comment posted in one of their "investigation" threads after they thought they had figure it out.
Once the real investigation started and the police realized all the "tips" they were getting about the identity of the bomber(s) were just from a bunch of retard redditors and they started pointing fingers at the two muslim kids that were actually involved, there was a monumental sweeping-under-the-rug of all their "investigations" and everyone pretended they didn't do it. It is my hope that Internet Historian or Fredrik Knudsen does a video on it sometime.