1st June 2017:
“Jeremy Blackburn, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and one of the study”s authors, explained that 4Chan’s interaction structure (where, unlike more mainstream platforms like Facebook or Reddit, there is no like or upvote system, and the only way to gauge audience reaction is by the number of replies) encourages a constant attempt to galvanize a response by just about any means. More information can be found here” : https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-4chans-structure-creates-a-survival-of-the-fittest-for-memes