As of November 2020[update], 4chan receives more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, with more than 900,000 posts made daily. The site was launched as 4chan.net on October 1, 2003 by Christopher Poole, a then-15-year-old student from New York City using the online handle "moot". [170] The post, accompanied by an image of another man holding a shotgun, threatened a shopping mall near Beverly Hills. A few anonymous individuals went to Sullivan's Facebook profile and found his address, phone number, school ID number, school schedule and teachers, and other personal information. (NSFW), and Adult (NSFW). Raids are organized off site and none of those people care about 4chan being on the main page. [70] Media sources have characterized /pol/ as predominantly racist and sexist, with many of its posts taking an explicitly neo-Nazi bent. On Telegram and 4Chan, a network of online message boards where users post anonymously, extremists stand out more prominently. The body was discovered in Port Orchard, Washington, after the images were posted. 4chan has often been the subject of media attention as a source of controversies, including the coordination of pranks and harassment against websites and Internet users, and the posting of illegal and offensive content. [139] A /b/ user then logged in and changed the password, posting a screenshot of him sending an email to a friend of Palin's informing her of the new password on the /b/ thread. [61] Due partially to its anonymous nature, board moderation is not always successful—indeed, the site's anti-child pornography rule is a subject of jokes on /b/. [119][120][121][122][123] In an article published on the animation website Cartoon Brew, titled The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation, the writer Amid Amidi referenced the then-recent debut of the show as an example of how the talent of creators such as Lauren Faust was being used to work on behalf of an established toy-centric property rather than original ideas developed by creators themselves. [102][103], In 2005, a meme known as the "duckroll" began, after Poole used a word filter to change "egg" to "duck" across 4chan. [96][97] He claims to have talked with both Harper-Mercer and Rodger on Reddit and 4chan and believes that he was part of a "beta uprising", also posting a message on 4chan about his intention the day before his attack. By 2015, he is the most popular meme in 4chan and Tumblr.. [175] A 21-year-old man was arrested after 4chan provided the police with the IP address of the poster. Therefore, because the majority of 4chan users are aware of such memes as Shoop da Whoop, cock mongler, pedobear, etc. The original post included a link to Westley Sullivan's Facebook profile, which has since been taken down, and a screenshot of a post which said "if fairview isnt closed tomorrow im going to blow it up", referring to Sullivan's high school, Fairview High School, in Boyd County, Kentucky. [30] Following 4chan's return, several non-anime related boards were introduced, including /k/ (Weapons), /o/ (Auto), and /v/ (Video Games). [33], Although there had previously been a strong left-libertarian contingent to 4chan activists, there was a gradual rightward turn on 4chan's politics board in the early-mid 2010s. In September 2010, in retaliation against the Bollywood film industry's hiring of Aiplex Software to launch cyberattacks against The Pirate Bay, Anonymous members, recruited through posts on 4chan boards, subsequently initiated their own attacks, dubbed Operation Payback, targeting the website of the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America. [92][93] It gained more traction on the forum following the Umpqua Community College shooting, where it is believed that the shooter, Chris Harper-Mercer, also warned people not to go to school in the Northwest, hours prior to the shooting as users encouraged him. [10] In January 2009, Poole signed a new deal with an advertising company; in February 2009, he was $20,000 in debt, and the site was continuing to lose money. [6] 4chan's Alexa rank is 1042 as of June 2020[update][7] though it has been as high as 56. [6], Later that year, the private Yahoo! [note 1] 4chan also has a junior moderation team, called "janitors", who may delete posts or images and suggest that the normal moderation team ban a user, but who cannot post with a capcode. These individuals then contacted Fairview school officials and the local police department, as well as the FBI. [196][197], According to court documents filed on November 5, 2014, there were images posted to 4chan that appeared to be of a murder victim. [146] In January 2010, members of the site attacked YouTube again in response to the suspension of YouTube user lukeywes1234 for failing to meet the minimum age requirement of thirteen. The unidentified person who made the posts may have been a first responder, in violation of privacy law, prompting a review by the New York City Fire Department. The next day it was learned that police had arrested Sullivan in his home and he had been charged with 2nd degree terroristic threatening, a Class D felony in Kentucky. [35] [143][144], In May 2009, members of the site attacked YouTube, posting pornographic videos on the site. [4][5] The site's homepage lists 70 imageboards and one Flash animation board, divided into seven categories: Japanese Culture, Video Games, Interests, Creative, Other, Misc. /pol/ was where screenshots of Trayvon Martin's hacked social media accounts were initially posted. I wrote a very general intro to Internet memes there, and added a bit more of a 4chan specific intro too. [62], The humor of /b/'s many users, who refer to themselves as "/b/tards",[62][63] is often incomprehensible to newcomers and outsiders, and is characterized by intricate inside jokes and dark comedy. This cost thousands of dollars of bandwidth bills according to Turner. [203][204] Devins had developed a small following online and was a 4chan user herself. [147] Later the same year, 4chan made numerous disruptive pranks directed at singer Justin Bieber.[148]. The site has been described as a hub of Internet subculture, with its community being influential in the formation of prominent Internet memes, such as lolcats, Rickrolling and rage comics, as well as hacktivist and political movements, such as Anonymous and the alt-right. A related meme format, "doomer girl", began appearing on 4chan in January 2020, and it soon moved to other online communities, including Reddit and Tumblr, often by women claiming it from its 4chan origins. [note 1][22] After the site's creation, Poole invited users from the ADTRW subforum, many of whom were dissatisfied with the site's moderation, to visit 4chan, which he advertised as an English-language counterpart to Futaba Channel and a place for Western fans to discuss anime and manga. [136], KTTV Fox 11 aired a report on Anonymous, calling them a group of "hackers on steroids", "domestic terrorists", and collectively an "Internet hate machine" on July 26, 2007. Three days later, Verizon Wireless confirmed that 4chan was "explicitly blocked". [194] The allegations were followed by a harassment campaign against several women in the video game industry, organized by 4chan users,[195] particularly /r9k/. In a series of posts on the topic, Nishimura explained that the split was due to 4chan being blacklisted by most advertising companies, and that the new 4channel domain would allow for the site to receive advertisements by mainstream ad providers. He also explained to the court the nature of the data given to the FBI as part of the search warrant, including how users can be uniquely identified from site audit logs. [193], Also in August 2014, 4chan was involved in the Gamergate controversy, which began with unsubstantiated allegations about indie game developer Zoë Quinn from an ex-boyfriend, followed by false allegations from anonymous Internet users. Giggy 02:01, 13 September 2008 (UTC) Example_4chan_random_board_thread.png we don't know the sources of all the pictures in this image, at least one is copyrighted, may need changing or tagging differently. please fix this and HEIL TRUMP 173.73.242.76 12:08, 16 April 2016 (UTC) Done Datbubblegumdoe [talk – contribs] 13:40, 16 April 2016 (UTC) Longcat retired? I am sincerely sorry", citing server costs, infrastructure costs, and network fees. [5] [6] People have associated it with the alt-right , Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers , as well as those part of the Red-Brown coalition, due to there being sections devoted to them. [188] According to the official criminal complaint filed against Thaddeus, he admitted to obtaining child pornography from the /b/ board on 4chan. [90][91] The "beta uprising" or "beta rebellion" meme, the idea of taking revenge against women, jocks[note 2] and others perceived as the cause of incels' problems, was popularized on the sub-section. The incident was criticized by some /b/ users, in that most reports on the hack focused on 4chan, rather than Palin's violation of campaign law. [9] However, the explicit content hosted on 4chan has deterred businesses who do not want to be associated with the site's content. [142], The stock price of Apple Inc. fell significantly in October 2008 after a hoax story was submitted to CNN's user-generated news site iReport.com claiming that company CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack. [98][99], Many early memes that originated at 4chan have gained media attention. [63] Users often refer to each other, and much of the outside world, as fags. Additionally, a lolicon board was created at /l/ (Lolikon),[26] but was disabled following the posting of genuine child pornography and ultimately deleted in October 2004, after threats of legal action. [124][119] The article was shared on /co/, where the alarmist tone of the essay provoked heightened interest in the show, resulting in praise for its plot, characters, and animation style. [137] Slashdot founder Rob Malda posted a comment made by another Slashdot user, Miang, stating that the story focused mainly on users of "4chan, 7chan and 420chan". [165][166][167][168] The incident turned out to be a hoax; the "weapons" were toys and there were no actual bombs. [24][40][41] Nishimura was the former administrator of 2channel between 1999 and 2014, the website forming the basis for anonymous posting culture which influenced later websites such as Futaba Channel and 4chan;[42] Nishimura lost 2channel's domain after it was seized by his registrar, Jim Watkins,[43][44] after the latter alleged financial difficulties. Above all, my friends and I found 4chan funny. 4chan has several boards devoted to heterosexual pornography, including "Hardcore", "Sexy Beautiful Women", and "Yuri". Influence of 4chan culture /htg/ or "Human Trafficking General" threads on the /pol/ board of 4chan have been called "the missing link" between Pizzagate and QAnon. [21], In April 2009, Poole was voted the world's most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by Time magazine. Upon his successful election, a /pol/ moderator embedded a pro-Trump video at the top of all of the board's pages. [213], On March 20, 2019, Australian telecom company Telstra denied access to millions of Australians to 4chan, 8chan, Zero Hedge and LiveLeak as a reaction to the Christchurch mosque shootings. [15] In place of registration, 4chan has provided tripcodes as an optional form of authenticating a poster's identity. ", "How Elliot Rodger went from misfit mass murderer to 'saint' for group of misogynists — and suspected Toronto killer", "Incel: What it is and why Alek Minassian praised Elliot Rodger", "Toronto Van Attacker Wanted 'Beta Uprising' to Inspire Other Attacks", "Iz not cats everywhere? The user posted a YouTube link that purportedly led to the trailer, but in reality directed users to the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". Each board has its own set of rules and is dedicated to a specific topic, variously including anime and manga, video games, music, literature, fitness, politics, and sports, among others. A "GET" occurs when a post's number ends in a special number, such as 12345678, 22222222, or every millionth post. [13][14] Any nickname may be used when posting, even one that has been previously adopted, such as "Anonymous" or "moot". "[152], In August 2012, 4chan users attacked a third-party sponsored Mountain Dew campaign, Dub the Dew, where users were asked to submit and vote on name ideas for a green apple flavor of the drink. [129][130][131][132], A report of Jeffrey Epstein's death was posted on /pol/ around 40 minutes before ABC News broke the news. I think this artice should be on the Internet Memes Category.--Tuddy15 14:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC) . When creating 4chan, Poole obtained Futaba Channel's open source code and translated the Japanese text into English using AltaVista [140] A multitude of /b/ users attempted to log in with the new password, and the account was automatically locked out by Yahoo!. [4] Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times likened /b/ to "a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line",[62] while Baltimore City Paper wrote that "in the high school of the Internet, /b/ is the kid with a collection of butterfly knives and a locker full of porn. [13] When creating 4chan, Poole obtained Futaba Channel's open source code and translated the Japanese text into English using AltaVista's Babel Fish online translator. The Guardian once summarized the 4chan community as "lunatic, juvenile (...) brilliant, ridiculous and alarming".[3]. [159] The threats came to light in the national media after Jake Brahm admitted to having posted the threats on 4chan and repeating them on other websites approximately 40 times.[158]. "[8] Wired describes /b/ as "notorious". Every Saturday, users posted pictures of cats with image macros relating to that day's theme. [8] On October 20, 2006, Brahm turned himself in to federal authorities, and was charged with fabricating a fake terrorist threat and taken into custody. [152] In retaliation for the initial attacks being called only a minor nuisance, Anonymous launched more attacks, bringing the site down yet again. [8] Christopher Poole told The New York Times, in a discussion on the moderation of /b/, that "the power lies in the community to dictate its own standards" and that site staff simply provided a framework. [45], In October 2016, it was reported that the site was facing financial difficulties that could lead to its closure or radical changes. "[54], On September 12, 2009, Poole gave a talk on why 4chan has a reputation as a "Meme Factory" at the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna, Austria, which was part of the Paraflows 09 festival, themed Urban Hacking. In 2008, the page containing Pepe and the catchphrase was scanned and uploaded to 4chan's /b/ board, which has been described as the meme's "permanent home". Die Seite ist dem japanischen Vorbild Futaba Channel nachempfunden und ist eine der meistbesuchten Seiten des Internets. My e-mails have been hacked. As a meme. On the website, users post pictures and discuss them. Similar conversations litter 4Chan. Certain post numbers are sought after with a large amount of posting taking place to "GET" them. [157] The threat claimed that the attack would be carried out on October 22, the final day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The 4chan imageboards were rewritten in valid HTML5/CSS3 in May 2012 in an effort to improve client-side performance. The article does not say that 4chan is politically incorrect, though.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦ (talk to me) 05:36, 10 May 2017 (UTC) 4chan List of Memes is a direct copy from WikiWorld's page. Rick Astley, king of the 'Rickroll,' talks about his song's second coming", "YouTube research shows picture is changing rapidly", "Foxy Boxxy : celle qui parle pour ne rien dire", "Polish newspaper claims 'Pedobear' is 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot", "Papal billboards vandalism 'does not respect people's sentiments'- Curia", "Online group declares war on Scientology", "Pony Up Haters: How 4chan Gave Birth to the Bronies", "Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! It was later reported that the HTML numeric character reference for the symbol had been posted on /b/, with a request to perform a Google search for the string. [145] A 4chan member acknowledged being part of the attack, telling BBC News that it was in response to YouTube "deleting music". The National Post's David George-Cosh said it has been "widely reported" that Anonymous is associated with 4chan and 711chan, as well as numerous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels. [181], Collin Campbell, a U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate, was arrested in February 2011 after a fellow seaman found child pornography on his iPhone that he downloaded entirely from 4chan. Her son will be home from school soon. This included "So I herd u liek mudkipz" [sic], which involved a phrase based on Pokémon and which generated numerous YouTube tribute videos,[13] and the term "an hero" [sic] as a synonym for suicide, after a misspelling in the Myspace online memorial of seventh grader Mitchell Henderson. [8] As a parody of the incident, 4chan temporarily added "Don't mess with football" as an additional rule for /b/. 4chan já foi rotulado como o ponto inicial do meme Anonymous pelo jornal Baltimore City Paper, [9] devido às normas de postagem assinadas pelo apelido "Anonymous". AT&T maintains that the block was not related to the content on 4chan. He estimated /b/'s post rate in July 2008 to be 150,000–200,000 posts per day. We could have changed history and failed, epically. We're glad to see this short-lived debacle has prompted renewed interest and debate over net neutrality and Internet censorship—two very important issues that don't get nearly enough attention—so perhaps this was all just a blessing in disguise. The 4chan community was able to track down the originator of the videos, a fourteen-year-old from Lawton, Oklahoma, and passed his details to his local police department. [71][72][73][74] The Southern Poverty Law Center regards /pol/'s rhetorical style as widely emulated by white supremacist websites such as The Daily Stormer; the Stormer's editor, Andrew Anglin, concurred. On September 20 it was revealed they were questioning David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell. Better? The raid drew criticism from some 4chan users who felt it would bring the site undesirable attention. [160] Users of 4chan helped to track him down by finding the perpetrator's father's name in the Exif data of a photograph he took, and contacted the police. Discussion of the show began to spread to communities external to 4chan in reaction, including the establishment of the fan news website Equestria Daily, causing the show to reach a wider audience across the internet. In February 2010, a photoshopped version of Pedobear appeared along with mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in an article on the games in Gazeta Olsztyńska, a Polish newspaper. He admitted to downloading about 25 child pornography images from 4chan. [21] Poole had been a regular participant on Something Awful's subforum "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse" (ADTRW), where many users were familiar with the Japanese imageboard format and Futaba Channel ("2chan.net"). [154], In January 2011, BBC News reported that the law firm announced they were to stop "chasing illegal file-sharers". Pepe the Frog is an internet meme.He is an anthropomorphic green frog who had originated in a comic by Matt Furie called Boy's Club. [8] It is provided to its users free of charge and consumes a large amount of bandwidth; as a result, its financing has often been problematic. [176][177], On January 21, 2014, an anonymous poster started a thread on /b/ identifying a student named Westley Sullivan who apparently went to the same high school as the poster. At some point Tuesday evening, the board’s Trump-loving, racist memers began to realize that they were actually right. Brain fork 22:41, 3 … Both Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., appeared to acknowledge the support by tweeting /pol/-associated memes. Poole has acknowledged that donations alone could not keep the site online, and turned to advertising to help make ends meet. 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It is not a 4chan meme because the 4chan users do not enjoy it, and it is forbidden to post ponies on 4chan, so it should not be in the meme section. 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[108] The portion of the song in which Zonday turns away from the microphone, with a caption stating "I move away from the mic to breathe in", became an oft-repeated meme on 4chan and inspired remixes. [63], Each post is assigned a post number. He then started the bulletin board (the first board being /b/) with the intention of it being a low-key English version of Futaba Channel. Christopher Poole (born c. 1988), known online as moot, is an American Internet entrepreneur.He is best known for founding the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, as well as serving as the site's head administrator for more than 11 years before stepping down in January 2015. [191] As a result of the incident, 4chan announced that it would enforce a Digital Millennium Copyright Act policy, which would allow content owners to remove material that had been shared on the site illegally, and would ban users who repeatedly posted stolen material. [182][183][184][185], Ronald Ohlson, 37, was raided in April 2011 at his upstate New York home by the Department of Homeland Security after he obtained child pornography from 4chan. [133][134], According to The Washington Post, "the site's users have managed to pull off some of the highest-profile collective actions in the history of the Internet. These events were described as a "civil war" internal to 4chan. "[141] The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident shortly after its occurrence. [117], 4chan has been labeled as the starting point of the Anonymous meme by The Baltimore City Paper,[8] due to the norm of posts signed with the "Anonymous" moniker. [88][89][86], The users of /r9k/ built upon by then popular 4chan memes "epic win" and "fail" to group the human population into "alphas", or stereotypical well-adjusted popular people, and "betas", or stereotypical geek-ish social rejects, self-identifying with the latter. [note 1], Before the end of 2003, several new anime-related boards were added, including /h/ (Hentai), /c/ (Anime/Cute), /d/ (Hentai/Alternative), /w/ (Wallpapers/Anime), /y/ (Yaoi), and /a/ (Anime). David George-Cosh, do National Post, disse que já foi "bem relatado" que o Anonymous é associado com o 4chan e 711chan, assim como vários canais IRC. It's okay to be white or It's OK to be white (IOTBW) is a slogan based on a poster campaign organized on the website 4chan's discussion board /pol/ in 2017. [16] As making a post without filling in the "Name" field causes posts to be attributed to "Anonymous", general understanding on 4chan holds that Anonymous is not a single person but a collective (hive) of users. [55][56], In April 2010, Poole gave evidence in the trial United States of America v. David Kernell as a government witness. Police said that the suspect called it off as a joke, and they released him after they found no indication that the threat was serious. [125] There is a ban on discussion of the show globally on the site outside of this board. 2016 United States presidential campaign. A seperate List of 4chan memes … Pepe was used in blog posts on Myspace and became an in-joke on Internet forums. 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. [61], On February 15, 2009, a user uploaded two YouTube videos that showed the physical abuse of a domestic cat named Dusty by a person calling himself "Timmy". Regardless of where the meme originated, they are prevalent in 4chan, and are surely worthy of explanation in the article. 4chan /b/ is 4chan /b/, its only purpose for an organized raid is a bulletin board for recruiting bodies. [12] On September 28, 2012, 4chan introduced a "4chan pass"[35] that, when purchased, "allows users to bypass typing a reCAPTCHA verification when posting and reporting posts on the 4chan image boards"; the money raised from the passes will go towards supporting the site. The suspect, 33-year-old David Michael Kalac, surrendered to police in Oregon later the same day; he was charged with second-degree murder involving domestic violence. [4] Several Internet memes have started at 4chan, including lolcats and rickrolling. 4chan is an English language website based on the Japanese Futaba Channel where people can post and discuss pictures and other images; sites such as these are called imageboards. Major news outlets have reported that the issue may be related to the DDoS-ing of 4chan, and that 4chan users suspected the then-owner of Swedish-based website Anontalk.com. bomb threat", "Australian Police Arrest Man Who Threatened to Attack Los Angeles Mall", "Teen Arrested for Threatening to Blow Up School", "Terroristic threatening in the second degree", "Indianapolis Man Arrested for Threatening Boston Free Speech Rally Attendees in 2017", "Another 4chan User Gets Busted By FBI: Student, 19, facing child porn, death threat charges. [8] They are often referred to by outsiders as trolls, who regularly act with the intention of "doing it for the lulz", a corruption of "LOL" used to denote amusement at another's expense. [18] In a 2011 interview on Nico Nico Douga, Poole explained that there are approximately 20 volunteer moderators active on 4chan. However, he forgot to blank out the password in the screenshot. June 29, 2011", "Man, 21, posts bond in child porn case over Facebook postings", "Apple confirms accounts compromised but denies security breach", "Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande Among Celebrities Exposed in Massive Nude Photo Leak", "Stolen celebrity images prompt policy change at 4Chan", "Face Behind The Name: Meet Matthew Riskin Bean, Convicted 4chan Cyberstalker. [67], /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") is 4chan's political discussion board. [163], Around midnight on September 11, 2007, a student posted photographs of mock pipe bombs and another photograph of him holding them while saying he would blow up his high school—Pflugerville High School in Pflugerville, Texas—at 9:11 am on September 11. Whoever pulled the trigger on blackholing the site probably didn't anticipate [nor intend] the consequences of doing so. i.4cdn.org is the new unified host. Neither Nishimura nor RapeApe responded to these allegations. [115] Similarly, the Dutch television guide Avrobode[116] used one of the images. [106] The Age reported that 4chan posters urged each other to "swarm" the video on YouTube and thus increase its ranking. Website under scrutiny after shootings", "Oregon shooting: Did 4chan trolls incite Chris Harper-Mercer to massacre at Umpqua Community College? In this talk, Poole mainly attributed this to the anonymous system, and to the lack of data retention on the site ("The site has no memory."). [114] Pedobear is one of the most popular memes on non-English imageboards, and has gained recognition across Europe. The "no invasions" rule was added in late 2006, after /b/ users spent most of that summer "invading" Habbo Hotel. /r9k/ was restored on October 23, 2011, along with /hc/ ("Hardcore", previously deleted), /pol/ (a rebranding of /new/) and the new /diy/ board, in addition to an apology by Poole where he recalls how he criticized the deletion of Encyclopedia Dramatica and realized that he had done the same. Users of 4chan's /b/ board would occasionally join into mass pranks or raids. It was the first board created, and was described in 2009 as 4chan's most popular board, accounting for 30% of site traffic at the time. [87] By 2012, personal confession stories of self-loathing, depression, and attempted suicide, began to supersede /b/-style roleplaying, otaku, and video game discussion. Use the simple past tense—"would be"-->were. [27][28] In February 2004, GoDaddy suspended the 4chan.net domain, prompting Poole to move the site to its current domain at 4chan.org.
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