What qualifies as "hot" nowadays It has been many years since I visited 4chan, but I decided to check it out on a whim today. What I found was horrifying, but not in an old-school 4chan way -  in this thread about "hot girls", 70% of the posted young girls are fat. Not just skinny fat (20% of that 70) - we're talking no visible collar bones, stomach flab, and love handles on freshmen college girls that people are calling "hot".  Thinking surely someone must have had the common sense to call out the pigfuckers, it was to my horror that actually everyone also found them to be "hot" and that there was not a single comment about the lard hanging off of them. They were being fetished for being "cute", and the fat just didn't even register as being abnormal or unattractive. Contrast this to the 4chan of my youth, where skinny emo and scene chicks like Boxxy were online queens and fatties were mocked for being the whales that they are. Wtf has happened to the young people? My god.  I'm not that old, but this is completely alien to me. These must be the late 90s children who are the children of the most unhealthy generation in America. I just can't think of another explanation for this, or maybe I have rose colored glasses about the 4chan of my youth.