>>543941>was 4chan always like the unironic /pol/ack stuff it is today?No, it got progressively more like this as internet neo-nazism got more popular and groups like stormfront actively engaged in campaigns to turn the site in that direction. There were always some nazis there, but in the same way that there used to be a wide range of other political ideologies.
>was told there was always ironic racism but was it always like full on /pol/?No, and the "ironic racism" was often directly making fun of those kinds of people, see picrel.
>wondered that /new/ really made the unironic stuff take over the site but i saw some denialism about it. is there a bit of truth to the denialism?It goes back further than that but basically yes through a combination of failure to moderate against active consensus cracking and moot stupidly deleting the board that contained these people (multiple times), their brainrot spread to the whole website and over time became dominant. Thanks to the insular culture and strong self-policing (contrary to the site's supposed ideals of free speech), once the neonazis became dominant their position became self-reinforcing.