Editing DC Inside (section)

== Culture ==
The culture varies between different galleries. One shared trait is that users call themselves ''x-bung-i'' (x-{{Korean|hangul=붕이|labels=no}}), where ''x'' is the gallery name's first syllable.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-07 |script-title=ko:대한민국 움직이는 16대 커뮤니티 1- 더쿠, 에펨코리아, 네이트판, 디젤매니아 |url=http://weekly.chosun.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=21826 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=[[Weekly Chosun]] |language=ko}}</ref>

=== Anonymity ===
Users have the option to be anonymous, which led to the forum's atmosphere being different from other major Korean forums.

Since 2007, you can choose to register, log-in and use your own account. Before that, it was a fully anonymous forum.

The anonymity led users to communicate casually, expressively, and with insults and abuses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sisapress.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=50166 |script-title=ko:게시물에서 댓글까지 '핫이슈' '디시' 뜨면 세상이 출렁인다 |language=ko}}</ref>

=== Parody and neologisms === 
The forum is a main source of popular jokes, buzzwords, and neologisms in South Korea.  Parodies, satires and slang based on controversial social or political phenomena and public figures are shared, and are quickly spread to other online communities and eventually to news, advertisements and everyday life. Some popular slang is as follows:

* ''ing-yeo'' ({{Korean|hangul=잉여|labels=no|lit=surplus}}), meaning a person who is incompetent and useless in society; it was used widely pre-2010.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ko:젊은 층의 자조 섞인 유행어 '잉여인간' : 뉴스 : 동아닷컴 |url=http://news.donga.com/3//20090310/8706013/1 |access-date=13 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101132035/http://news.donga.com/3//20090310/8706013/1 |archive-date=1 January 2015 |date=1 January 2015}}</ref>
* {{Korean|hangul=헬조선|labels=no|lit=hell [[Joseon]]}}, which was generated in the History gallery, which was notorious for anti-Koreanism as of 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-06 |script-title=ko:지옥보다 못한 '헬조선' "노오력은 해봤냐"는 꼰대들 |url=http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0002133175 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=[[OhmyNews]] |language=ko}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=See reliable sources list on [[WP:KO/RS]]|date=April 2025}} The word roughly means living in Korea is harsh and hopeless.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-23 |script-title=ko:청년 열에 일곱 "헬조선 떠나고 싶다" |url=http://www.danbinews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=12551 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=단비뉴스 |language=ko}}</ref>

=== As an alternative mass media === 
Criticism of [[Hwang Woo-Suk]] was led by the Science gallery along with the {{ill|Biological Research Information Center|ko|생물학연구정보센터}} gallery in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-09-21 |script-title=ko:10년, 강산 변해도 므흣한 '디시 폐인' |url=https://www.sisain.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=5295 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=[[SisaIN]] |language=ko}}</ref> The Stock gallery found video evidence for the trial of {{ill|Kim Ki-Choon|ko|김기춘}}, a central figure of the [[2016 South Korean political scandal]]. The video was referenced in the parliamentary audit by congresswoman [[Park Young-sun]].<ref>{{Cite web  |date=2020-07-18 |script-title=ko:[아무튼, 주말] "디시에 하루 게시글 75만개… 나는 멍석 깔아주는 하수인일 뿐" |url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/02/01/2019020101417.html |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |language=ko}}</ref>

=== Conservatism and misogyny ===
Initially a voice for left-wing politics, mainstream users turned to [[right-wing]] and [[Conservatism in South Korea|conservative]] views as early as 2013.<ref name="Ilbe right Donga">{{Cite web |date=10 May 2013 |script-title=ko:왜 국정원은 오유에 댓글을 올렸을까… : 뉴스 : 동아닷컴 |url=http://news.donga.com/InfoGraphics/View/3/all/20130509/55044420/9 |access-date=2016-01-03 |website=[[The Dong-A Ilbo]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-06 |script-title=ko:[역사속 오늘리뷰] 10월 6일 디시인사이드 개설 |url=http://www.financialreview.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=22896 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=파이낸셜리뷰 |language=ko}}</ref> However, because there are so many galleries and each gallery has different history and major themes, there are also left-wing and neutral galleries, so it is hard to say that there is a representative specific political tendency of all DC Inside galleries.<ref name="polinews">{{Cite web |date=1 December 2021 |script-title=ko:[이슈] 민주당 커뮤니티에서도 '이준석' 비판 잇따라··"2030세대로서 배신감" |url=https://www.polinews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=498223#0FV0 |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=Poli News}}</ref><ref name="xsports">{{Cite web |date=19 December 2019 |script-title=ko:2019년, 디시 갤러리 연예인 성명서의 시대 |url=https://www.xportsnews.com/article/1207878 |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=X sports news}}</ref>

Many galleries are accused of [[misogyny]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/women/1018909.html#cb |script-title=ko:여성정치네트워크 "이재명, 여성 비하 사이트와 손 잡을 건가" |date=11 November 2021}}</ref> and the Baseball gallery has been called out for insults against women and controversial views on today's equality and for its "secondary abuse" toward high school teachers reporting sexual assaults.<ref>{{Cite web |last=한 |first=예섭 |date=2022-12-12 |script-title=ko:"좌빨페미, 메갈교사" … 성희롱 고발 교사에겐 '2차 가해'가 쏟아졌다 
|url=https://www.pressian.com/pages/articles/2022120917345037054 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=[[Pressian]] |language=ko}}</ref>