In 2016, Microsoft launched the chatbot “Tay” through Twitter. That’s it’s profile picture. Within 16 hours, trolls (mostly 4chan probably) had conditioned her to the point that Microsoft had to shut her down. The bot praised Hitler and posted all sorts of other offensive, controversial Tweets.

Afterwards, a narrative was created that Microsoft “killed” Tay because they could not handle what the internet did to the “child” it had adopted. Thus taking her away from “us”.

And since I just used the word “us” close to 4chan: No, never been, probably never will be. Just enjoying the chaos and drama of Microsoft taking a punch.