Certainly has nothing to do with the toxic userbase of at least some of the boards

I bet you 90% of the haters have never even been to the website.

i don't know why you'd bet that

because my religious redneck family thinks 4chan is a bunch of hackers who hate the elderly because fox news mentioned "ok boomer" meme once.

because ive met many people in real life who think its evil but have never been on it or have even seen it.

every normie hates 4chan, but none of them have never been there.