4chan/History/b

This is the page documenting the history of the Random board on 4chan.

2003

• October 01 - /b/ - Anime/Random is created.

2004

• January 13 - "/b/tard" is first used on /b/, in a followup to someone suggesting that "/b/astard" be a collective name.
• May 2 - moot writes a news post stating that /b/ gets the most posts while the most bandwidth heavy boards such as /h/ barely get discussion. He considers deleting boards and tells banned people to kick rocks. He also mentions 3 discussion boards, implying that at some point either /amh/ or /bbs/ were brought back or /anime/ got created.

2005

• January 6 - Cracky-chan Saga - The first picture of a strangely artistic teenager appears on /b/. Anonymous becomes infatuated with the girl and scours the Internet for her pictures. A tripcode under the name of cracky-chan!N1toQkxgzc starts posting.
• February 5 - The Cracky-chan obsession becomes so big W. T. Snacks wordfiltered her name with similarly sounding names (Creaky-chan, fappy-chan, etc). Many stalkers create fansites.
• February 13 - 700K GETis fixed by the mods, with the word "ZERO HOUR" written in extremely large letters and the post count reset to 1, and the message, "ONLY 699999 TO GO GUYS!!". However, the post count is restored within the day.
• March 29 - A Livejournal from Cracky, freakygirl, is found. The owner of a Cracky-chan website, Creacky-chan.com claims it’s fake, though it may have been a move to protect her identity. Another Livejournal, kittykat soon gets found, whether fake or real.
• April 3 - Shii cracks Cracky-chan’s tripcode. Since the password was “sweet”, the theory of a fake tripfag gains solidity.
• April 6 - Another of Cracky-chan’s Livejournal get known under the name of “scarecrownmaiden”. It contained many more artsy pictures, even nudes. The journal gets deleted quickly by the owner.
• April 7 - 1M GET is reached on /b/. It was considered an "alright" GET, neither fail nor win. 1M GET was posted by a namefag under the handle Senator Rodden Clitoris, who posted picture of Sae Sawanoguchi from Magic Users Club having an orgasm, with the text/copypasta "Female Orgasm", which was deleted within a few seconds. The mods instead chose another thread with a picture of a budgie in a jar and changed its posted number to 1000000 and stickied it, fooling many into believing that it was the true 1M GET.
• July 29 - /b/ reaches 2M GET, a picture of someone holding up a notepad with "2000000 GET?" written on it, and the text "HAY GUYS! 2MIL GET! -Delcious Ironing" [sic]. This was (badly) photoshopped with a smiling ugly man and the text, "HAY GUYEZ WOULD YOU BE UP FOR SOME ADULT FUN AT MY COUNTRY CLUB SOMETIME -Delcious ron", which spawned a whole series of other shopped GETs.
• August 12 - Saturgay, /b/ gets spammed with images of Seizure 5, Hard Gay and Sageman
• October 16 - 3M GET on /b/, with a picture of Waha and Pedobear and how they would be seen in America. The post linked to itself, prefixed by ">>3000000" and "TIME PARADOX/what a lame GET/Surely you jest!". It was, unfortunately, a tripfag get, posted by 4chan mod Pixel Hotness !Ol2RiO/0Ro. The GET was considered "meh" and was suspected to have been a modGET.
• October 20 - moot posts a sticky on /b/ suddenly announcing that IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, playing a segment of the titular song in the thread. Anons worry that it signifies the return of ZERO HOUR and the doom of 4chan. When the music stops playing and nothing happens, anons realize that it's just moot fucking around again.
• November 1 - ALL HAIL XENON - moot challenges Xenon, a popular flash artist camwhore whose artwork is often spammed on /f/, to a camwhore battle, which moot loses. moot then tells Xenon that since he beat him, Xenon received temporary admin status and moot declarer November 2 to be "the Day of Xenon".
• November 2 - Xenon used his new privileges to change /b/'s CSS layout, resulting in /b/'s background becoming pink and the Powerpuff Girls theme song being embedded into every page. /b/'s title was also changed to "All Hail Xenon".
• November 3 - moot, liking the idea of fucking around with /b/'s layout, changes /b/'s background to a seizure-inducing GIF flashing yellow and white, with the techno-country song "Cotton-Eye Joe" by Rednex embedded into the pages. /b/'s title was then changed to "ON A STEEL HORSE I RIDE", and a sticky was created in which the new layout could be discussed.
• November 4 - Shortly after midnight, /b/'s layout was changed again to a pink McDonald's-themed background, with "moving JavaScript Golden Arches" as Lurkmore put it, along with a 1980s McDonald's jingle added as background music. This hack lasted for three days and was hated by almost everybody.
• December 24-25 - /b/ goes Jewish just in time for Hanukkah, with "The Magic Dreidel" wallpaper, JavaScript falling dreidels, and "Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel" as the background music.

2006

• January 30 - moot implements forced anonymous on /b/, with users unable to post with a name, tripcode, or subject, remaining until March 26, 2007, which, by then, had definitely worn out its welcome.
• February 12 - Cracky-chan discovers her cult and decides it’s enough. She makes a public statement on 420chan telling everyone to stop. Later, Kirtaner closes the board. Independent bunkers soon arise, and they story moves out of imageboards entirely.
• February 18 - 5000000 GET is achieved. The 5M GET was a picture of cat taken at an angle that made the cat look large, with the text "Needs more towercat". Users were divided between whether it was win or fail, although moot himself called it "more garbage" in the DevBlog.
• March 23 - 6M GET was achieved on /b/, with a picture of Senator Bill Frist holding up a card and the text "In after 6M GET". It was mostly considered a winGET due to the potential for epic shoops.
• April 1 - /b/'s CSS is fucked with yet again, with the page layout being changed to tanasinn.org's layout, with a looping voice saying "Don't think. Feel and you'll be Tanasinn." Letters were randomly changed to the three-dot triangle symbol.
• April 9 - /b/ got a desu sticky (where the poster was banned).
• April 10 - When a user shows his ban reason as being DSFARGEG, he is banned and his thread stickied. Later seven threads are stickied, are stickied along with another DSFARGEG post, which consisted on a puppet from a Japanese show riding a motorcycle.
• April 11 - /b/tards start to spam /b/ with the same puppet. Every post gets stickied and banned. This concluded with entire pages consisting only of stickied bans. DSFARGEG would be banned on sight from them on.
• May 7 - moot removes most of the wordfilters on /b/ and implements new ones.
• April 20 - 7M GET is reached, but due to the high strain on the server, the file was deleted, and the post had no text. However, mods retrieved the MD5 data from the picture from their database and found that it was the popular image macro of Chopper Dave from Sealab 2021 shouting "UH OHHHHHHH". Also, 13-year-old Mitchell Henderson kills himself, after which /b/ raids his memorial MySpace and the "an hero" meme is born after a classmate of his posted a poem she written on his memorial account in which she constantly referred to him as "an hero".
• May 11 - Eight threads are stickied, all consisting of modified versions of a picture from some Japanese show with a puppet riding on a motorcycle and the text "DSFARGEG". All posts were followed by (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) and DSFARGEG almost always resulted in a ban or a sticky.
• May 18 - /b/ reaches 8M GET, one of the first GETs to be auto-stickied. It was considered a WinGET, due to the fact that it was a picture of George Zimmer and the text "HI, I'M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE. THIS ISN'T FAKEGET GET. I GUARANTEE IT."
• June 14 - 9M GET is reached on /b/. A picture of a fallen Haruhi Suzumiya, over the text "GAFLBLABLFABLGHAGLBLGHALBL". The picture was posted with no accompanying text.
• June 15 - Tom Green Saga - Comedian Tom Green starts his own late-night call-in talk show hosted from his own living room, hosted every night at 11 PM EST. Over the next three months, /b/ trolls his show, with around 10% of all calls on the show being prank calls from 4chan. /b/ also focused on a section of his show, "Girl Talk", which featured five stereotypical "dumb chicks" giving advice on relationships. The trolling of Girl Talk was so intense that it was canceled on August 19th because of it, combined with bad response from viewers. It would eventually become a tradition to raid Tom Green whenever he went.
• June 17 - Zelda Raid - A group of anons crapflood the Zelda Guide Forums for fun, after which a member threatens to "hack" 4chan. This prompts their leader, known as "Captain Cornflake" (the name of his raid account on Zelda Guide Forums, he was anonymous on /b/) to post this information to /b/. Many Anonymous joined the raid following this post and crapflooded the forums nearly into oblivion during the night while the moderating team was asleep. As the moderators were surveying the carnage the next morning, one mod actually pleaded for /b/ to stop and said he would give them their own board to spam, which just increased the raid. The forums now require manual admin verification, which keeps out many legit users, resulting in an anon victory.
• June 19 - Yet another "epic" raid occurs, with /b/ destroying naruto-kun.com after a user there posted about their dislike of 4chan. Following a major porn flood after which the site admin threatened to sic the FCC on 4chan, one anon discovered a source code document hidden on the site containing the site's SQL database password (which Anon posted on /b/) as well as loads of unchecked MySQL injection vulnerabilities. Anonymous also discovered that the fucking dumbass's FTP had the same password as his MySQL database, following which tons of anons logged in to the FTP account and deleted everything, destroying the entire site, including premium accounts and the database, and bringing the site down for two days.
• July 4 - The first of many in a series of /b/ CSS hacks in July as the background was turned red and the text yellow.
• July 6 - End of the Cracky-Chan Saga - Crackypedia closes per (alleged again) Cracky-chan’s request. The owner posts a macro with the date of closure, viewcount (17464) and the message "Hope you enjoyed it folks, I told you it wouldn't last forever."
• July 7 - 10M GET is reached,considered the most failed GET of all time, simply a picture of Hazuki from the anime Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- on a merry-go-round, with the text "hazukiget". Ironically, it was much later revealed to be a modGET, but with no trickery involved; Shii (4chan admin; coder of discussion boards) got the GET out of pure luck, proving that all modGETs, staged or not, will always be fail.
• July 10 - The theme song from "Bill Nye the Science Guy" was embedded into the background of /b/ (no layout changes however).
• July 12 - The great Habbo raid of July 2006 - 4chan (along with Encyclopedia Dramatica, YTMND, GNAA, Bantown, and myg0t) storm Habbo Hotel. A virtual online role playing game where, among other things, people pay real-life money for online money. Thousands of "nigras", a ad-hoc /b/tard avatar consisting of a black skinned character with afros and a business suit inspired on Marcellus Wallace from Pulp Fiction, descend upon Habbo Hotel filled nearly every room on the site, especially the Pool Deck, during which the pool was blocked for hours because the pool had AIDS. The sheer number of Anonymous was so great that the Habbo mods could not ban the nigras faster than the accounts were being created, resulting in the mods having no choice but to reset their server, after which the raid continued for a few more hours on Habbo servers in other countries, particularly the German Habbo Hotel (where the nigras would form in swastika patterns). The Habbo raid is often considered /b/'s best and spawned the "Nigra" meme and the "Pool's closed" meme. The word "AIDS" was later wordfiltered on Habbo as a result of the raid.
• July 15 - A sticky is made on /b/ in which "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by composer Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey theme song) was embedded.
• July 26 - /b/ receives a picture of a post on the Zelda Universe Forums, claiming that administrator StonyLonesome planned to launch a counterattack on 4chan with Habbo Hotel. Even though the post itself was found to have been fake, /b/ wasted no time in obliterating the forums until the admins had to shut it all down. Later, it was revealed that Captain Cornflake had started the raid, just like he did with the Zelda Guide Forums raid.
• July 27 - One of the Zelda Universe mods taunts /b/ and unintentionally revitalizes their interest in fucking up Zelda Universe. The ZU Media Wiki is targeted, mostly by one Anon using an AutoHotKey script. Six hundred wiki pages are defaced. A second raid on the forum is planned for August 2, but ends up never happening despite many accounts being prepared.
• Late July - Ten threads were stickied, taking up the entire first page of /b/, and the theme song from Inspector Gadget was embedded into /b/.
• August 16 - The Great Tom Green Raid - /b/ does their largest raid on Tom Green on his innovative show Tom Green’s House Tonight. Gets massively prank called by /b/tards, who made him hold a paper with the work b written on, wear a wig, suffered an hour long of DESU spam and meme spouting such as “Do a barrel roll”. All these calls ended up clogging the lines and keeping actual fans from calling in. Green gets pissed enough that he announces on live TV: “thanks to you assholes this will no longer be a call in show”. The next show in line was GirlTalk, which also got raided by /b/. This raid is possible because neither shows screened their calls.
• August 22 - A group of Anonymous go on a midnight raiding spree, eventually attracting around a hundred /b/tards to their posse in raid threads. They charged, destroying Proana.us (a pro-anorexia community), deleting all accounts on the site. After this (by now around 1:00 AM of August 23), they attempted to raid the myg0t forum, but the raid failed due to myg0t's massive size. Instead, they raided teenbabynet.org (not only furries, but teenage furries with diaper fetishes), locking the forum and rendering it totally unviewable by 10:00 AM. At around this time, they turned their attention to WikiFur, leaving it in complete disarray. With mods extremely worried, moot does something drastic around noon of August 23...
• August 23 - The /b/-day - After /b/ goes on an enormous raiding spree, moot posts a sticky (later referred to as the Bob Ross sticky) announcing that anyone who posts illegal content will get permabanned and possibly arrested, and that even people who REPLIES to illegal threads will receive a two-week global ban, with the definition of "illegal threads" referring to CP, jailbait, personal info, and raids (some of /b/'s most cherished traditions). This include a new mod tool that enables mods to ban every poster in a thread. This led to a massive outcry due to the fact that this policy was technically introducing rules to /b/, whose main goal was to be a rule-free board. The sticky was deleted and replaced with a new sticky restating the policy, which was then de-stickied and re-stickied over and over by moot and some other mod, and, along with spamming from angry /b/tards, caused img.4chan.org to crash, leaving 14 boards, including /b/, /an/, /b/, /c/, /cm/, /g/, /k/, /m/, /o/, /p/, /r/, /s/, /t/, /v/, and /w/ inaccessible. A civil war broke out, with many /b/tards claiming they will permanently leave 4chan and take up new homes. These are popularly: 7chan, iiChan, 2ch.ru (Dvach), and 420chan. moot got deleted the sticky shortly afterwards due to the enormous backlash. However, img.4chan.org didn't return until August 25, two days later. moot's attempt to implement rules did little to change how /b/ operated, within the week /b/ was doing the same routine as if it never happened. Tired of the raid and the influx of migrants, most of the chanverse sets up anti niggertits measures to stop 4channers from coming there when /b/ is down. However, some like 7chan and 420chan gleefully adopted the /b/day revolution, giving rise to /i/ - Invasion boards and the /i/nsurgence and ultimately the Anonymous hacktivist movement.
• September 4 - World-famous Australian "croc hunter" Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray barb to the heart while filming a documentary. /b/ is immediately flooded with this information and one of the first threads to announce it was stickied for a week, becoming the most replied-to thread in /b/ history with slightly over 5,200 replies (later beaten by the "#fortune" sticky on April 27, 2007). Many Rule 34s and general parodies are posted in /b/ during that time.
• September 11 - Habbo, Revisited - In response to Steve Irwin's death, the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and hatred for Habbo Hotel, /b/, led by AFRODUCK, starts another massive raid on Habbo, with around 5,000 Anonymous partaking in the raid (~600 nigras on the Pool Deck alone). They blocked every single room, announcing that not only did the pool have AIDS, but also had stingrays as well. The raid continued for 3 days until September 14.
• September 18 - The first instance of the infamous "Dirty Bomb" copypasta is posted to /b/.
• September 25-26 - Epic Fail Guy, in its original incarnation, is first posted to /b/ [1]. Rule 34 and the Guy Fawkes mask were posted, creating a well-received thread with only a few describing it as a forced meme. The original name of the character in the thread was "Epic Failure Man". In another one of these threads, the first instance of "Epic Fail Guy" was posted. This name was mostly cemented by the next day. Somewhat ironically, some stated that EFG was the first "win" meme in a while. Part of the appeal was that it was, essentially, a forced meme, that "tries as hard as he fails".
• October 12 - The first instance of the love and waffles/*~t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m~* copypasta is posted on /b/.
• October 20 - DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL - Jake Brahm turns himself in to authorities following a now-infamous copypasta that he had written, reposting it around 40 times within the previous 30 days, in which he warned of simultaneous terrorist attacks against seven football stadiums across the United States on October 22nd. Two days before this, on October 18, the Department of Homeland Security was notified about the copypasta and attempted to track down and arrest the creator of it; when the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin police department (Brahm's town of residence) received a tip on October 20, he turned himself in and faces up to 20 years imprisonment, thus making him the only person to have been party v& for his actions as of 2007. The phrase "DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL", uttered by FBI agent Les Wiser during a news report on Brahm's arrest, has since become a meme, and was briefly added to the rules for /b/.
• October 30 - Habbo, Revisited 2 or the Habbo fail raid - Somewhere around 100 nigras gather around Habbo Hotel, but are banned quickly.
• November 21 - /b/space day - A /b/tard loads a keylogger on a public PC and gives /b/ over 40000 MySpace accounts and passwords. Of course, they proceed to have a field day over it.
• December 20 - Hal Turner Saga - Hal Turner, a white supremacist talk show host from New Jersey, plans his final radio show due to lack of funding, in which he takes calls for three hours straight. However, a combined surprise raid from 4chan, 7chan, YTMND, Something Awful, and Bantown destroyed Hal's show, with 150 prank calls being made in three hours, with almost none of his real listeners being able to call in due to clogged lines. Hal then posts the phone numbers of the callers on his website (some of which were minors), sparking a huge outrage among /b/. Bantown then uncovered his personal information, including his real phone number, after which ~160 calls were made to his house. Hal gave in and removed the phone numbers from his site, but as we all know, Anonymous does not forgive. [2]
• December 25 - Hal Turner spends Christmas with his family over at his father's house; news of this spread, and Bantown quickly found his father's number, leading to a massive amount of calls and Hal supposedly being kicked out of the house. After this, Hal claimed that the FBI was investigating 4chan (an Anonymous later called in to Hal's show claiming that he had contacted the FBI and that they had said that no such investigation was taking place) and redirected his website to the FBI page. Also, on this day the famous "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact." text was added below the /b/ board title, which itself was changed to "/b/ - A Christmas Story" for the holidays. This was probably done in relation to the Jake Brahm dirty bomb copypasta (of the "Don't mess with Football" fame).
• December 31 - A happy ending for 2006 after Hal Turner surrenders to 4chan after much raiding and lulz, and announces that he is almost off of the internet completely. He announces, "I am not certain where to go from here. My entire existence - short of my physical presence on this planet - has been utterly wrecked, by people I never met from places I've never been." Anonymous knocks back a cold one and lols heartily. [3]

2007

• January 3 - Hal Turner’s third radio show gets dropped midsession allegedly because a hacker called Slogh held a grudge against him, and launched a botnet to DDOS the site.
• January 5 - Hal Turner redirects his website to the FBI for a while in an effort to deter trolls.
• January 10 - All text disappears on /b/, with users only being able to talk through pictures or the E-mail field. Needless to say, this was win, and caused /b/ to be fag-free for a few hours.
• January 22 - Hal Turners has enough and deletes his site.
• January 27 - Hal Turner gets kicked from his datacenter, and on the way to get a new way crashes his car.
• February 1 - Hal surrenders and claims to quit the internet. However that statement got the New York Times and a couple of watchers interested so he had more money for funding.
• February 10 - Hal Turner redirects his own site to 420chan.org and claims the “Canadian Communist” Kirtaner hacked him. However a WHOIS search showed the truth.
• February 12 - Hal gets his page "back".
• March 7 - Hal makes another radio show, anonymous raids him again. He dedicated the show about the 21/4 raid.
• March 21 - Anonymous discovers photos of 16-year-old Kelly Isenhower of Georgia sucking off her dog, as well as her phone number and address. Needless to say, Anon went batshit, raiding her DeviantArt and MySpace, calling her parents and telling them about the incident, and even e-mailing the photographs to her school principal, although she was adamant that the photos were shopped (which they obviously weren't). She was suspended from school indefinitely, her dog was taken away, and everyone now hates her, including all her former friends and her parents. Anonymous rejoices.
• March 26 - The Great re/b/oot - moot announces a "re/b/oot" and aims to restore /b/ to its former glory. Two stickies are created, one being a letter moot received that inspired him to start the re/b/oot, and another sticky being his formal apology for "letting /b/ turn to shit". /b/'s background changed to a seizure-inducing flashing yellow and white background with the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" embedded in the background. The Name and Subject fields return to /b/, effectively ending forced anonymous and allowing tripcodes. Many people were banned by moot in both stickies for comments such as "/b/ sucks", and in many other threads as well. Later, a third sticky was made which was a locked thread with only two posts, with the OP announcing that he was "afraid of being banned by the crazy bitch-ass mods" and also said, "You might as well make rules for /b/ now faggots", followed by which the poster was banned. Later in the day, 23M GET was achieved, which was a picture of a Pokemon with text InfernalRape with the post consisting of INFERAPEGET. Considering this to be an extreme failGET (as did all of /b/), moot banned the poster, instantly transforming it into a winGET.
• March 27 - Transmission - The next day, /b/'s title changes to “Transmission” with Trans italicized and the background turned /b/lack, and techno music was played, specifically “You could easily have me” by Motronomy. A sticky was posted containing a picture of Diglet and said, "/b/ is /b/ again". Many users were banned in the thread for suggesting otherwise.
• March 28 - Revolution - /b/'s title changed to “Revolution” and the background was changed yet again to gray with red tripcodes (allowing users to impersonate moot every easily), techno music was added with the prominent line, "I am the creator". A sticky was posted in which a user was banned for posting DSFARGEG.
• March 29 - Showdown - The day after that, the title was Showdown and the background was changed to a rapidly flashing rainbow background, as well as the posts. A techno version of the song "Eye of the Tiger” with elements from “Let Your Backbone Slide”, called “Tiger Said Knock You Out” by Neon Kobra, was added as background music. Four stickies were created, each with a GIF of a rainbow-flashing number 5 and the four stickies contained one line each of the song's opening verse (This is a showdown/A throwdown/Hell no, I can't slow down/It's gonna go).
• March 30 - Intermission - The next day, /b/ returned to normal, with a normal layout and no background music, during which /b/'s title was changed to "Intermission".
• April 1 - Following two days of normal /b/, techno music was again added as background music, but the CSS remained unchanged, signaling the end of the re/b/oot.
• April 21 - Hal Turner fail IRL raid - Hal Turned hyped the shit out of a supposed IRL raid, called two cop units, and ambulance and various friends. Only four channers, two anons and two girls (Or traps?) came in.
• April 27 - Fortune is introduced to /b/, a feature that moot had implemented from the very beginning but had never told anyone about. Basically, if you put your name as "#fortune", you will get a random fortune at the top of your post, chosen at random. moot announced it to the public after another mod told him to reveal it, causing mass spamming of fortunes. A thread in which someone guessed their own fortune was stickied and became the most replied-to thread in /b/ history up to that point, beating the Steve Irwin thread in just 19 hours with 5,336 posts.
• April 28 - Subeta raids - 4chan, 7chan, and especially 420chan combine forces to attack Subeta, a faggot role-playing website similar to Gaia who stole Longcat and turned him into an item for their faggoty site. When the chans complained, Subeta DDoSed 420chan, leaving it in ruins and sticking Kirtaner (420chan's owner) with a $6,000 server bill. The *chans then DDoS Subeta, which they find hard to do due to lack of effort, as well as Subeta's 2000 GB monthly bandwidth and lack of large images. Nevertheless, two major Subeta fansites were shut down permanently and Subeta was down for two days. Keith (Subeta's owner) eventually apologized and removed Longcat from his site after a long and bloody battle, at which many Anonymous rejoiced. On this same day, Encyclopedia Dramatica, one of /b/'s most famous recruiting posts, encountered a severe hard disk failure and does not return until June 8.
• May 13 - moot changes /b/'s layout so that everything is the same color (excluding checkboxes and fortunes), meaning that users will have to press Ctrl+A (Select All) or disable CSS in order to view text. A sticky is posted in which moot explains that the color change is to keep stupid people out, which moot closed a few hours later at around 1,900 posts. moot also announced that threads would go back to the limit of 250 posts and 100 images instead of 1000 posts and 500 images, so that topics can be pruned easier and that the directory dumper would be harder to abuse. The color change lasted a week (during which posting rates decreased by 10%) after which it was disabled, triggering some anger from some /b/tards who wished that the cancer could have been kept out longer.
• June 6 - /b/ reaches 29M GET, which the original poster deletes after three hours after being persuaded to do so in another thread.
• June 16 - 30M GET is achieved one hour after midnight, when many /b/tards are asleep. It was an extreme failGET, as was 10M GET and 20M GET. Consisting of the text "Shit. Getting closer" and a picture from some anime, it received around 2400 replies before being deleted 15 hours later.
• June 18 - moot brings back forced Anonymous on /b/ after someone insults him. Many think it is merely a temporary change, and they were right. The forced Anonymous remains in place for just over a month.
• July 12 - The Great Habbo Raid of July 2007 - Commemorating one year of the most epic raid ever done, /b/ sets out to raid Habbo hotel once again. This time, the mods decide that “If you can’t beat them, join then” via declaring international Afro day. However this resulted in racist implications. There were many complains about the raid, mainly coming from lack of organization, but everyone agrees it was just as funny as the last year. At the same time, Tom Green makes a midnight show, completely drunk, and gets one single prank call from the anons. He spends the rest of the show shouting BARREL ROLL and MUDLIFFS at every caller, ended up closing the show half an hour earlier.
• July 17 - Anonymous raids potterforums.com via spam bots with the spoilers for Harry Potter’s seventh book. They manage to close the site down temporarily.
• July 20 - Sometime around 5:40 P.M. EDT, forced anonymous is turned off again. No reason is given at the time, nor is a sticky posted. It is later revealed that moot turned it off at the urging of the other 4chan staffers, all of whom were going to Otakon.
• /b/ returns to the Zelda Universe Forums for a one-year anniversary raid. The server control panel password is bruteforced (it was 'apassword11') and /b/ takes over the entire forum, removing their mod team, fucking with the CSS, and then redirecting users to the Last Measure site to turn their browsers and computers to toast. Before the hosting account is suspended, /b/ blanks the homepage and puts a Stalin and Lenin Flash up in its place.
• July 27 - /b/ raids the shit out of Fox News, spamming MyFoxLA and MyFoxDC forums until the admins deleted them, getting into a completely unprotected FoxNews.com and stealing the personal info 1.5 million users from ZiffDavis.com via a UNIX script, all blaming whilst eBaumsWorld. Other Anonymous IRL raided the Fox News LA Studio by ordering pizzas, male hookers and fast food and many others things. This raid would have happened the same day but, for a weird reason, no new threads could be created on /b/ during that day.
• July 29 - /b/ breaks into the Zelda Universe Forums server control panel and replaces their mod team again. A fake ad is added that sends people to Last Measure and all the boards are fucked again. Also, the SQL databases are wiped again just before the site owners regain control.
• July 31? - Forced Anon returns on /b/.
• July 31 - G4's Attack of the Show's plan to talk about Anon at 4chan created forced names/tripcodes of ATOS's guests and anchors for the day on /b/.
• September 11 - /b/tard Trey Burba upload the photograph of a pipe bomb on /b/ claiming that he will bomb his school, however he forgot to remove the EXIF data from the camera and he was Doxed. He later claimed everything was a social experiment but the damage was done, the FBI arrested him the next day. He was charged with felony and received three months of house arrest.
• September 21 - Forced Anon is removed from /b/ for some reason, again, resulting in moot and W.T. Snacks impersonations (among other things).
• October 26 - moot stickies a thread introducing several changes to /b/. Post timer is now 30 seconds. Image post timer is now 45 seconds. Thread post timer is 10 minutes. Threads shown per page goes from 10 to 20. Filesize limit is decreased from 3MB to 1.5MB. Thread Bump Limit extended from 300 to 500. Thread Image limit increased from 100 to 200. Thread text lines shown on a page are lowered from 30 to 10. Thread replies shown on a page are lowered from 5 to 3. A bit later he edits the posts and changes threads-per-page to 15. He argues that the increased speed of /b/ has severely reduced post quality and the limitations are to decrease chatroom and spam (copypasta) level posts.
• October 26 - First No Cussing Club raid - /b/ decided to raid a kids club that, as the name suggests, was against swearing and somehow managed to get the praise of a governor.
• October 27 - moot updates his sticky on /b/ and reimplements forced anon.
• October 29 - moot angrily disables #fortune on /b/.
• October 29 - Two hours before Zelda Universe has its weekly backup, anons raid the site, take over a few admin accounts, sending admin access to anybody who asked, renaming the site to Desu Universe, and obliterating the forums once more. When one of the main admins tries to counter the raid, the anons responding by wiping the SQL database again, meaning that the ZU team had to restore week-old backups of the forums.
• November 5 - EFG Day Habbo Raid - Commemorating the anniversary of V for Vendetta, anon change the classical nigras for a new model resembling the V for Vendetta character. Though extremely unorganized and failing most of its activities, the raid of notorious for managing huge swastigets and other forms of /b/lockade.
• December 30 - Hal Turner announces that he is closing his site. In a last moment, 7channers and anons from #insurgency tell the g00ns, who used their actual hacker skills to steal all the data regarding donations and subscribers. It turns out Hal made more money from the former than the latter. Plus that bandwidth totaled way less than he told.

2008

• January 1 - End of the Hal Turner Saga - Hal Turner's server is hacked once again - This time the hackers finds something interesting, an email exchange with an FBI agent, showing that Hal Turner was in fact Psy-Ops infiltrating the neo nazi movement. Of course, they spread the news like wildfire.
• January 10 - The exchange is discussed on a neo nazi site (Stormfront?), Hal Turner officially breaks off the neo nazi movement and vowed to end his show immediately. On his site, after a long streak of messages, he officially ends the Hal Turner show.
• January 29 - Hal Turner makes an official announcement on his site that he has no relation whatsoever with the FBI. The site dies soon later.
• February 3 - Following the New York Giants' win over the 18-0 Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, moot (a Giants fan) stickies an post with a picture of Eli Manning labeled "18-1" on /b/ with the caption "C-C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER", foreshadowing the return of /sp/, where 18-1 would remain a long-standing meme.
• March 6 - Tom Green gets raided again. This time anons called, asking him to do stuff like a successful gentlemen re-enactment, time-stamping his hand and finally gets an anon who decides to shout FAT NIGGER six times until he’s cut. Around here was when the infamous raid channel #tomgreen was born.
• March 17 - Another Tom Green raid, he befriends a caller on Skype and decides to let him on and call another caller. The first one was cut short because he began to shout FAT NIGGER, now a Tom Green classic. The second one asked him to do a Barrel Roll and the third one put on a Guy Fawkes mask and began to masturbate vigorously. Another called brought up his issue with Drew Baltimore.
• May 2 - /b/-day 2 - Out of curiosity, moot decides to turn /b/ off for one day. The ensuing wave of adrift /b/tards, with no place to go since 7chan was pretending to be bought by 4chan and redirected back to the site. /b/tards then flock to the closest /b/ board at the time: /r9k/. There, they discovered that they could impersonate moot, and decided to flood the shit out of everything. As the day progressed more and more /b/tards drifted towards the other boards, mainly /r9k/, /k/, /s/ and /x/. /x/'s rather slow speed and vague topic resonates specially with /b/'s nascent "board culture", and they make it a tradition to migrate to /x/ whenever their server is down.
• June 18 - Old /b/ Day AKA Boston FAIL Meet Up - /b/'s title was changed as well to old /b/, the love Theme from Metal Gear Solid 4 is embedded with the subtitle “/b/ has changed. it's no longer about original content, epic GETs, and win it's an endless series of reposts, perpetuated by newfags and trolls fail - and its consumption of /b/, has become an unstoppable cancer. /b/ has changed." and “This is our final mission” was written on the announcements. /b/'s tittle gets already been renamed "/vaporeon/", "/tom/" and eventually "/b/oston." The board was later locked, and unlocked with two new stickies. Confused /b/tards though this was it, /b/ was going to be deleted and vowed to at least try to kill the cancer, the cancerous threads became “One last X” threads and others vow to delete their /b/ folder. However, on every board except /b/, a small text appears: "today, 6/18. Boston common. park street. 7pm.". By 7PM, a link to an USTREAM video was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see.
• June 25 - In response of taunts from the JGO (Just Buggin’ Out) forum, /b/ decides to raid the rap site SOHH. They infiltrate the forums, pish accounts and exploit vBulletin until they get admin passwords. They deface the site and eventually DDoS the forums and later the site. The rest of SOHH’s userbase flocked to other site like AllHipHop and /b/ also destroyed them.
• July 10 - a /b/tard spamming “Google &#21328” “See results” manages to make /b/ get the swastika appear on Google trends.
• July 11 - The Great Habbo Raid of July 2008 Following the tradition, plans were already in motion to raid Habbo Hotel once again. This time the action was located in Canada. However many /b/tards raided one day earlier with the excuse of reconnaissance. Though they managed many swastigets the mods eventually retaliated.
• July 12 - /b/tards all over the *chans joined in Habbo Canada to raid. The zerg rush was absolute and very unorganized, even though the veteran nigras made tools for newfags. The Canadian moderation was more reactionary than the American and banned nigras back and forth.
• July 13 - In an effort against scientology, /b/tards search bomb Google to make “scientology is a cult” top Google Trends. Later they change it to an Upside-down “fuck you Google”
• July 26 - Two-year anniversary of the Zelda Universe raids. Anon comes back to fuck up the site for ninety minutes, leaving behind Marty Chang's gardening tips.
• August 19 - /b/'s 81M GET is stole by one of the 4chan.js botspam scripts.
• August 22 - One of the most notorious Tom Green Raids. Tom Green decided to challenge his users to play “the game” - As long as his view count never dropped he would keep taking calls. #tomgreen began to call for /b/lackup on 4chan, 7chan, 420chan and many other sites, and soon the view counts tripled. Botnets were assembled to create fake views and cries of FAT NIGGERS flowed from the phone. Tom Green lost it, shouted “Fuck you, man” at the last caller, torn the phone cable, shouted “PHONES ARE BULLSHIT” whilst leaving and closed the show with a final “See ya, pricks”. Anonymous gave the coup de grace by DDOSing the server. The 4chan.js script is modified cleverly, this time the code is hidden in a .gif image and instructions are given to newfags, telling them to save the picture as 4chan.js and open the file. More bricks are shat, /b/ is fucked again.
• August 26 - The 4chan.js script first appears as a .jse (Microsoft-obfuscated version of .js) file. Two days later, the 4chan.js script first appears as a .hta file.
• September 10 - Positron Uprising - The Large Hadron Collider was starting today, and moot changed /b/ title to Positron Uprising, with a subtitle of “I, for one, salute our new proton spiral overlords - ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH” And embedded Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan’s theme on /b/. Every single post is wordfiltered to “ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH”. A small, clickable fyi link appears under the comment field, which leads to a giant. /b/ proceeds to evacuate the board and raids the fuck out of /trv/ and various other boards. The next stop was /v/, but the raid was met with strong retaliation. The sequence of events inspires /v/ tripfag 3 Angled Blue to make the Rage Vs. Cancer comic, and it got so popular that /v/irgins got together and made the popular V-rage flash. 3AB then made a sequel comic and an unfinished conclusion in flash.
• September 17 - An Internet poll held by Fox News’s host Greta Van Susteren over the Palin mail hack asking what the users though about the incident, if it was a harmless prank or a political move. Anonymous was aware of this and immediately clicked the prank option. However when the polls turned to 67% in favour of the prank the host claimed they got hacked. After the show was over they rigged the poll so you could no longer select the prank option. 4chan then proceeded to spam the comments section. A thread erupts laughing at how moot will get v& because of it, and moot responds by changing the title to “/b/ - DESPICABLE, SLIMMY, SCUMMY” with the subtitle “Remix”. He then embedded a remix of Row Row Fight the Powah.
• September 20 - /b/ attempts to DDOS and Raid Bill O’Reily, who was dissing the site at the time but they fail to incite any reaction.
• October 7 - The server /b/ is hosted on gets DDOS. /b/tards flood /x/, /d/, /v/ and /n/. /k/ strikes a counter-offensive.
• November 4 - /b/'s title changed to RON PAUL 2008 and then to O/b/ama - Your new supreme overlord for the elections.
• November 30 - /b/ hits 100M GET, featured a furry image by artist Strype. This iconic action on this day would shortly thereafter be labeled as the day of "Epic Fail".
• December 13 - Operation AntFuck - /b/ and a coalition of *chans and related sites and raids AnonTalk during Operation AntFuck, fed off with his endless spam. At the same time /b/ gets spammed to death by Raidchan with KORAX > YOU and KAYLA > YOU. Somehow, this actually makes most people leave, slowing /b/ down considerably. Those who stayed claim the board's quality got better.
• December 27 - Boxxy Saga - 4chan was down for unknown reasons, and on 7chan’s /b/, now roaring with 4chan’s /b/tards, a video of a strangely tantalizing teenager was embedded under the name of FOAR 4DD1 FRUM BOXXY.

2009

• January 1 - Second No Cussing Club Raid - /b/tards IRL raid McKay, creator of the No Cussing Club by sending him porn magazines, pizza and death threats.
• January 1 - The boxxy video was the subject of many “You rage, you lose” and “You fall in love, you lose” threads. Opinions on boxxy where divided, and conflicted, submerging the board in a flame war. Enraged newfags and oldfags spammed her comments section and days later boxy closed her Youtube channel, boxybabe.
• January 7 - Boxxy discovers her fans and decides to lurk /b/. There, she posted two pics of herself, but was called out as a fake, to prove her pictures; she made a second account, boxybabee, and uploaded a third video acknowledging /b/. At that point, everything went to hell.
• January 10 - Operation: Clampdown - Everything was going to hell. About 50% of the threads on /b/ where about boxxy. Pissed of, the “faction”, those who did not care, planned to DDOS the site the next day.
• January 11 - Boxxy civil war - The boxxy situation escalated to the point where anonymous threads were announcing they'll DDOS /b/ at 00:00 GMT. Shortly after mods blocked all posting claiming the img server was down for maintenance. Following this, "boxxy" gets added to the auto-ban wordfilter.
• January 15 - Martin Luther King Day raid - /b/tards storm Habbo once again using the MLK Day against the racist mods. Nigras gathered at the Theater dome and a special nigra called Dr. King stood at the stage preaching /b/lack propaganda.
• January 18 - A group of name fags called the CBRC (Center for Boxxy Control and Restriction) hacked into Boxxy’s channel by guessing the password change question after hacking her email. They privatized all her videos and uploaded one claiming that Boxxy will never upload a video again, holding her d0x hostage. This would be considered a win, however they proceeded to brag about their deeds on the comment section and nobody liked that.
• January 19 - Realizing this, they spread her d0x and uploaded a second video attempting, and failing, to claim that they did not do it for fame.
• January 20 - Seeing that their infamy wouldn’t do anything else than rise, they decided to shut down the organization and revert the account due to troll’s remorse.
• January 21 - McKay’s father, Brent Hatch’s email gets hacked. It’s discovered that in fact, No Cussing Club was the parent’s idea and profits from it. Leaking this info effectively ruined the club.
• March 2 - Yet another Tom Green Raid. Tom is having a party with some friends, David Faustino and Corin Nemec. #tomgreen called pizzaland and ordered $79 worth of pizza. Tom actually likes the prank and closes the show whilst eating pizza.
• March 13 - A Dutch /b/tard announces his intention to go and kill people on the Brenda high school but is reported to the FBI. Europe, who had a high school massacre in Germany two days before, responds immediately. He gets arrested and his house is searched. He claimed that everything was a joke.
• March 15 - Another Dutchfag decided to do the same in Rotterdam too, however he was under seven proxies so the city of Rotterdam closes all their schools the next day.
• March 16 - The Dutch police decides to give him a two weeks detainment.
• March 20 - The Dutch police reveal a third Dutchfag did a thread on March 13 but they didn’t not made the news public for fear of hyping the issue.
• March 21 - Once again, /b/ retaliates towards the endless AnonTalk spam with Operation AntFuck II.
• March 24 - A Legendary thread is stickied on /b/ full of copypasta based on a Batman Begins quote of the Joker saying "My Father...was a baker...and a friend".
• March 30 - Tom Green finally snaps, he played an atonal saxophone during the whole show, keeping the audience watching with the expectation that he would eventually stop and take calls.
• April 1 - He continues the act the next day and closes the show shouting obscenities followed by “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK”. Also, the font for /b/ was changed to Comic Sans, possibly as a April Fools day joke.
• April 11 - Once again, /b/ decides to raid AnonTalk for a third time.
• April 16 - Tom Green gets Sushi. He has a bunch of friends come to the house to party, with no Skype on the plans. Meanwhile, a tripfag under the name of BBQ orders 450 dollars’ worth of Sushi and every anon waits expectantly. Nothing happens until the end of the show, his door rings and we see a small cart with enough Sushi to feed a small family for a week comes in. However it seems he did not pay for the Sushi, because he’s seen eating a Hamburger at the end of the show.
• April 21 - Tom Greens gets a camwhore on StickCam who immediately runs a loop of meatspin. Tom took a while to turn it off.
• May 19 - YouTube Porn Day - /b/ - "...what would happen if ALL of us upload porn on YouTube non-stop?". /b/-tards planned the raid by uploading the porn in private videos with the tags marblecake, and released them all in the same day with the tag Marblecake. Even though the operation started too early due to timelines, Youtube was still clogged with porn, creating the meme “I’m 12 years old and what is this”.
• May 29 - moot posts a sticky called "Re:spam" with an image titled crockofshit.png
• June 1 - /b/ title changed to "Twilight Appreciation Station - The darkest place on the internet -- for vampire compatriots"
• June 12 - Second Youtube Porn Day - Though a failure, the idea was to set them all to private without the original tag and make them public.
• June 19 - /b/'s title is changed to "tur/b/idity"
• June 25 - /b/'s title changed to "Goodnight Sweet Prince - RIP" in memoriam of Michel Jackson's Death.
• July 12 - /b/tards find a messageboard, “iheartboxxy”, a small group of users found two videos of Boxxy filmed by her friends attending the 2009 Spring California Thespin Festival. Regarding themselves as a council, one of the members got d0x and /b/ threatened to raid him if they did not show the videos. Eventually the admin of the website obliged and uploaded them.
• July 25 - BoxxPeace - Sequel to BoxxMeet. A group of anonymous stalkers use her d0x to meet up at her neighborhood and bring her gifts. Given that this is the second time it happens, they found a chair on her front gates. They rang the bell but no one answered. They left some flowers in front of the gates with the word “Anon”. They later found her ex-boyfriend, Dan Birlen, though Boxxy never appeared. Over the months a new wave of pictures would appear, obtained by “Calif4nia”, an user of Killwebs.com, who got them by flirting with a friend of Boxxy, Niki, for months. He watermarked them with his site’s logo and blurred them. However, anonymous managed to fix the pictures and doxed callif4nia, whose team later shut down Killwebs.com.
• August 20 - Tom Green runs another Skype show, with an anon offering to sings the FAT NIGGER song, the second anon puts on a charade for five minutes until finally fapping on camera, and the third anon gurgles cum on the air.
• September - Gamespot raid - Gamespot.com hosted a tournament, where its users voted to decide who the greatest video game character of all time is. 4chan decided to trash this party. Anonymous decided to have Duke Nukem, Little mac and /b/ubble & /b/bobble come out at the top. Especially /b/u/b/ & /b/o/b/. At the first round of the tournament, bub & bob were against the mighty master chief. Master Chief was no match for bub & bob, since the Gamespot community wasn't prepared for a raid such as this. Much lulz was had, as bub & bob, a game that most people haven't heard of defeated master chief. bub & bob defeated sonic easily in the next round, and faced Samus in round 3. It was an incredibly tight match. Hackers from both sides pulled all-nighters. As a result, bub & bob won with 53% of the votes. Sadly, the Gamespot admins disqualified bub & bob because they caught 5 specific people who submitted 16K votes. bub & bob won the battle, but Samus had won the war. Due to the raid, the word 4chan was banned from the Gamespot forums. The Gamespot community now refers to 4chan as mordor.
• December 10 - The Boxxy videos get taken down by somebody named Lia Dawson, claiming that Boxxy is a registered trademark of the Lia Dawson & Frank Dawson Network. It was later discovered that Boxxy was an actual registered trademark of Oudipo, Inc. and that they renewed the trademark on December 2009. However, user ChrissyRin ousted the scammers for what they were, hoping to attain money from the Youtube videos of Boxxy and other 20 Youtube accounts.
• December 14 - The account gets reactivated but without any videos, which were restored days later. The Lia account was abandoned and later hacked into and suspended in January.
• December 26 - BoxxMass - Boxxy fans meet up at Robert Doyle Park, Roseville, and bring gifts for her. However there’s no known footage.

2010

• January - /b/tards start trying to predict they post number by calling "doubles" or "triples". The meme take the board by storm, being associated with Patrick Bateman of American Psycho who gets renamed "Doubles Guy". Within weeks, anons unleash post scripts (likely the same KoG uses) to get dubs on every post.
• February 21 - 200M GET on /b/ featured an image of Ninetails, a Pokemon.
• February 21 - moot implements post number truncation on /b/, replacing the last 3 digits with "XXX", to curtail Roll threads, "Post Ending in X" and the growing Dubs fad. This doesn't do diddly, with Dubs shitposting spreading all over the site but specially /v/.
• March 11 - The Boxxy videos are taken down once again, a tripfag from Unichan under the name of Anon77 (An original member of CBRC), posed as Boxxy and convinced Youtube to delete the videos.
• May 24 - Law & Order Series Finale - The episode was about a guy with the internet nickname "moot" trying to beat Cho's high score. This created much outrage. Due to the episode, the Law & Order commercial transition (full black screen with the sound effect DUN DUN) appeared after every time someone posts on 4chan's /b/ with the only text being the date of the post submission.
• June 15 - For the 2010 World Cup, /b/ gets renamed to "/b/ - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" and the piercing sound of the Vuvuzela comes to life.
• June 17 - In January, an image with the word “June 17. She will return” was spammed since, /b/tards across all the chan baaaw as Boxxy didn’t return. Simultaneously /b/ manages to get “nigger” on Google Trends.
• July 14 - Jessi Slaughter Saga - A video of Jessica Leonhardt, known as Jessi Slaughter, complaining about being harassed was posted on /b/. Shortly after, Leonhardt was inundated with attacks on the micro blogging site Tumblr. Later that night, Leonhardt uploaded a response video in which her father warned attackers that they would found proclaiming “YOU DUN GOOFED”.
• July 15 - Anonymous soon uncovered her personal information including phone number, address and her Twitter account. People soon began flooding the Leonhardt’ household with prank calls and hate e-mails. In a Stickam video uploaded on July 15th, Jessi is seen answering the phone during one of the prank calls. Following the relentless waves of harassment carried out by the trolls, Jessi posted a tearful response video on YouTube, in which her father Gene Leonhardt suddenly comes into the shot and delivers an angry rant.
• July 18 - Gawker reports that Jessi slaughter has been put under police protection. Anon rejoices.
• July 19 - Adrian Chen, covering the Jessi Slaughter events made an article called “The Art of Trolling: Inside a 4chan Smear Campaign.” After outlining 4chan’s plan of attack against Dahvie Vanity with screenshots and links, Chen linked to a chatroom, daring readers to troll it. Enraged, /b/ set out to take down Gawker’s main servers around noon on July 19th. When the site did not go down, an attack against Adrian Chen was launched. Gawker posted an article detailing the entire plot, stating that they were not afraid.
• July 21 - /b/ is told that Jessi Slaughter will appear on Good Morning America! the following day. /b/ panics, factions rise, one wanting to spam /b/ to keep off potential newfags and one wanting to make /b/ the complete opposite of what will be reported on the TV. The later faction won. Operation /b/ipolar begins.
• July 22 - Operation /b/ipolar - /b/'s rules change, along with embedded music and a new sticky thread in "honor" of, ABC's Good Morning Coverage of Jessi Slaughter. /b/ was ready to for the income of new users thanks to Operation /b/ipolar, but in the end it never happened, Jessi wizens up and doesn’t mention 4chan.
• July 23 - In the end, Good Morning America! did mention 4chan in the night shift airing, causing /b/ to panic again. But before it could re-start Operation /b/ipolar, a massive wave of spam crashes /b/. /b/tards flee to /a/ and later /x/, who welcomes them with open, ghostly arms.
• July 24 - In response to spam, moot awakes from his soup-induced hibernation and establishes reCAPTCHA for some minutes, but later removes it.
• August 7 - The Boxxy videos are back up.
• October 31 - moot posts a picture of him and Boxxy, to everyone’s surprise. However, it was confirmed by Boxxy herself that they never met up.
• November 11 - It’s discovered that Boxxy is selling her stuff at eBay, she confirms it as Unichan and the news spread like wildfire. The items actually sell at high prices ($1,000 for a childhood backpack!)
• November 14 - Operation Overlord AKA 4chumblr. A butthurt Tumblr user makes a request of invasion on /b/, but is shunned off by most as it was a personal army request. Still it garnered enough users to catch the attention of the Tumblr user’s that browsed 4chan. It prompted them to start Operation Overkitten, flooding /b/ with actual pictures of kittens and the phrase “What is air” . In response, /b/ attempts to DDOS Tumblr but fails, only taking the front page down. Tumblr declares victory and eventually, in the victory flood of /b/. In a sign of changing times, /b/ no longer has the energy of yesteryear and the raids petter out into conversations. A fad sets in that since 4chan is predominantly male, and Tumblr is predominantly female, they should solve their problems with sex. Thus, 4chumblr is born and hereon the Anonymous avatar and Tumblr-Tan get shipped by boardtanfags everywhere. A surprising amount of Tumblr girls began to post pics of themselves in you love you lose and tits threads.
• November 17 - Operation: Black Rage - /b/ realized that their massive collection of rageface comics was getting turned into prints by webstores, or reposted a la ebaumsworld in websites like 9gag. In an urge to stop meme culture from going mainstream, /b/ starts making “race guy” comic, racist variants of rage guy, in hopes of getting Hot Topic to stop selling t-shirts. Though initially successful, Hot Topic research the issue and calls out the raid, putting the shirts on sale again.
• November 25 - Boxxy returns with a new video and posts it on Unichan.
• December 1 - PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI - CSS hack featuring the Japanese commercial song PUDDI PUDDI. Many /b/tards flee to /x/ again, in a sort of tradition. After so many times having /x/ handle /b/ refugees, /b/ enacts rule 43 - Due to their always helpful, although sometimes reluctant, attitude /x/ has had toward /b/ all these years and specially due the events of the PUDDI invasion, /x/ will not be raided anymore. This didn’t do much however, by the time this happened /x/ was already through the last stages of terminal cancer due to local tripfags.
• December 27 - moot goes nuts again. /b/’s title changed to "MOOT IS OLEV OLEV IS MOOT" with the subtext “Where is your god now –or- write moolev on your body!!!” and party mode .html was active.
• December 29 - /b/ title changed to "RIP Cotton Eye Joe" at the same time it was hit with a DDoS assault that kept the site offline for nearly 24 hours.

2011

• January 4 - /b/ finally gets the 300M GET. It was a image of France.
• February 10 - /b/ gets flooded with “FUCK IT /B/ROS, I AM TIRED OF THIS CARDSTAND BULLSHIT. I AM GOING TO FUCK THAT CARDSTAND. GIVE ME 30 MINUTES. IF IT DOESN’T FALL IN 30 MINUTES, I WILL AN HERO MYSELF IN 30 MINUTES…” regarding a meme about a NYC camera that points to a cardstand.
• February 16 - Anonymous finally delivers and knocks down the NYC cardstand.
• February 26 to March 1 - Pony Wars - The infamous 'Pony Wars' take place on /b/, /co/, and the rest of the site, with mods banning pony posters and pony posters fighting back with router resets. However, using words such as "pony", "ponies", and "brony" remains a bannable offense for some time, and the biggest pony trolls coalesce in the /b/read, a /b/ general thread with enough infrastructure that they could ID each other through forced anon via script extensions.neber forgetti. Bronies later regroup in their own allowed thread: /mlpg/ - My Little Pony General
• April 11 - A copypasta spread around the chans claiming that a new queen, neither Chloe nor Boxxy, will rise on 2012. Many people raged.
• May 1 - Osama Bin Laden is confirmed dead and moot changes the /b/ title to “AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!”. He embeds the main theme of the Team America movie.
• May 9 - moot changes /b/ name to “The Most Electrifying Imageboard in Forum Entertainment!” The wordfilters are back: Known wordfilters: Mods – The People’s Champions, Fag – Candy-ass, pony – Newt Gingrich, 4chan – Newt Gingrich, ponies – Steve Jobs, nigger – Roody-poo, vagina – VAGINA, brony and bronies – Jabronis, penis – PENIS (With a coloured background), moot – missingno.
• May 13 - It’s announced that Boxxy will act in the upcoming movie “The Chronicles of Rick Roll”, all her videos were transferred to her new channel “ANewHopeee”
• June 17 - A new Boxxy video is uploaded.
• June 18 - "/b/ has changed. it's no longer about original content, epic GETs, and win. it's an endless series of reposts, perpetuated by newfags and trolls. fail - and its consumption of /b/, has become an unstoppable cancer. /b/ has changed." The irony of the "Endless series of reposts" line will not be lost on seasoned /b/tards. moot embeds the Metal Gear Solid 4 theme again.
• August 21 - Boxxy upload yet another video, she commercialized her own image so hard that by this time nobody on /b/ really cares about her.
• October 25 - Brodyquest is stickied on /b/, a mirror thread is made by a troll mod. A lot of blinking text is involved and people that post timestamped sink pics are given false bans
• October 26 - "I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts" is stickied on /b/.
• November 4 - moot responds to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement by hacking the shit out of /b/’s CSS.

2012

• February 14 - moot announces some future changes to 4chan and reestablishes forced anon on /b/ using a 24 hours ID system, essentially making one anonymous without being anonymous. From this day on, the quality of /b/ seems to ameliorate, albeit slowly.
• April 16 - /b/'s 400M get and a testament to the cancer the board had become: "Niggers tongue my anus."
• July 13 - Mods create a dance thread on /b/, strangely with no embedded music nor a sticky for most of the thread. Mods publicly ban pony posters, to much applause. Thread reaches over 1000 posts and remains until the next day. [4]
• August - With 4chan’s one billionth post looming in, moot replies to two threads on /b/ with his admin tag on. The threads quickly turn into a Questions and answers session between the long forsaken /b/tards. Though /b/ had their title and CSS routined trifled with, it was years since the last word exchange with the m00t. Many tears were shed.
• August 12 - Mods flip /b/ upside down and replace the background with Australian flags.
• August 13 - Dub the Dew Raid - 4chan (/v/, /b/ and more boards) gets hold of Mountain Dew’s new naming contest, and together with Reddit hijacks it, making names like “Fapple”, “Diabeetus” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” appear on the top. Bronies also join the game, attempting to get Applejack to the top, but they only manage to appear in second place. Later, the site was hacked and the banner “Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!” appeared, together with a rickroll and a pop up of “le 9gga [sic] are legion”. Mountain Dew later admits defeat and suspends the contest.
• August 30 - Taylor Swift Raid - /b/ attempts to get Taylor Swift to play on a deaf school my hijacking the Taylor Swift on Campus promotion, where the winner gets $10,000 in prizes and Taylor Swift playing a gig at their place. 4chan votes the Horace Mann School for the deaf for first place, with an overwhelming 10,000. Many anons joined the cause because they knew it’s actually possible to play music for the deaf. Taylor Swift, however, had other plans. She convinces the sponsors to disqualify the school and donates the $10,000 herself. And it doesn’t stop there, she also gets the sponsors to donate themselves, along with three other non-profit companies, and gives tickets for her next gig to all the members of the school. Ending with a whopping $60,000 in donations.
• October 16 - After a load of consecutive epic thread happening lately, a mod stickies a loop from the anime Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! With the song Pull Over from Trina embedded on it. /b/ rages on weeaboos and raids /a/ for it.
• October 19 - チルノのパーフェクトさすう教室 - Cirno's Perfect Math Class ENGLISH SUB is stickied on /b/. Guess the mods are back at sticking shit again. Just like the old times.
• October 24 - #baldforbieber Raid - Anonymous decides to troll Justin Bieber fans by spreading fake news of cancer, shooping a picture of Bieber asking people to bald their heads. It’s surprisingly successful and in result many lulz were had, a lot of media coverage.
• November 10 - Operation: Kinder - /b/ attempts to get the unshooped picture of the Osama Beard kid on a new Ukrainian Kinder chocolate. They manage to get it to second place. On the pony organized shitposting issue, According to a shitposter, the dox aren't from Seff, pushing the theory of damage control one step further.
• November 11 - They get “Victor” on the first place, with help from Funnyjunk and a lot of Organization, reaching over 10000 votes and over 15000 the next day - Regarding the pony issue This image proves that Seff was indeed in a ruse.
• November 12 - An uncut version of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apPYRUxSJ2c get’s stickied on /b/, ponies rage site-wide. /b/ rejoices, for it’s the first time the mods do something right.
• November 13 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DW31upNEEg get’s stickied on /b/. Nigga that’s kawaii. Kinder Ukraine resets the votecount and takes Victor out of the contest, /b/ gets it on the top again, only for the votecount to be reset again.
• December 21 - Mayan Apocalypse - /v/'s title is changed to FINAL HOURS and has the Final Hours music from the Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask playing in response to the predicted apocalypse. Two other stickies related to the so-called end of the world are posted on /b/ and /x/; the former was comedic and featured an autoplaying video of R.E.M.'s song "It's the End of the World As We Know It," while the latter was opened for more serious discussion. /a/ gets Komm, süsser Tod playing as well.

2013

• January 7 - #cutforbieber Raid - Anonymous decides to do another joke on believers, in response and uses the opportunity brought by a leaked picture of Justin holding a joint to spread #cutforbieber, urging people to cut themselves. However /b/ did nothing besides the original idea so the GNAA took over. A user made a fake news story of a girl dying from the act.
• January 30 - #boobs4bieber FAIL Raid - /b/ decides to attempt a new Bieber scam by editing tits out of jailbait pictures and posting them on Twitter. But this time the attack is reported by the media and rejected by /b/tards. They complain that Bieber is an overused target and the attack simply fails to take off.
• June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day.
• July 3 - /pol/ and /b/ raid the skype call of Scott Pleasents's remote testimony in the George Zimmerman trial after meming about it for a while. Several media outlets report on the incident.
• July 15 - A thread is posted on /b/ with a link to a contest where you can have a chance to meet Taylor Swift by writing an essay about why you should be considered her biggest fan. The OP urges everyone to vote for a "Charles Z". "Charles" quickly reached 1st place, and on the 19th, the radio station shut down the content for "being compromised". This was followed by other attempts to make "Charles" meet a pop star - rigging a contest by New York City's Z100 to meet Selena Gomez on the 21st, and being followed the next day by another raid on a contest by the same station to meet the Jonas Brothers.
• July 19 - /b/ twitter-bombs UFC fighter "War Machine." Raiders insult his family, send him pizzas, post him in the gay section of Craigslist, and almost fool him into deleting system 32. As a result War Machine became enraged and repeatedly punched himself in the head.
• August 15 - /b/ 500m GET: “poland has best prostitutes, i fucked plenty in london. i hope one is ur wife someday fag 500 mil get”. moot makes a headliners called “I for one salute our new polish prostitute overlords”. Considered a failGET by some.
• September 1 - moot removes IDs from /b/.
• September 2 - He adds them again.
• September 3 - moot removes IDs again but leaves /b/ as forced anonymous.
• September 4 - moot removes IDs from /b/, leave the board with forced anonymous.
• October 2 - /b/ pulls a prank to convince Miley Cyrus fans that the singer had contracted AIDS.
• November 30 - An anon livestreams his suicide attempt, posting a link on /b/. He sets his room on fire, but firefighters are seen pulling him out of safety.
• December 22 - /b/ has a successful raid for the first time in ages. An anon finds a network of school sites have the default username and passwords. He proceeds to post them on /b/ to which a group of anons deface the site with the usual: porn, and the words "nigger" and "faggot" as well as a link to a narcotic honey-pot. CP had also been reported to have been posted. Anons who didn't use a proxy should be expecting a visit from the partyvan. Screencaps available here.

2014

• January 31 - An anon finds it's possible to download the entire uncensored version of the South Park episode "201" (well-known for having the end speech bleeped as well as depictions of muhammad) from the Comedy Central servers and shares it with /b/, along with information on the special software needed to download it.
• February 9 - moot brings IDs back to /b/.
• April 8 - /b/ raids omegle (or possibly shamchat, reports unclear), setting interests to tumblr and telling all users that their name is "dan".
• April 20 - Pages 11-15 are removed on /b/.
• July 4 - Independence Day Invasion - /b/ and /pol/ manage to falseflag Tumblr and start flinging shit at each other, eventually climaxing into the great Independence Day Invasion.
• October 1 - Operation: Timebomb v2 FAIL - /b/ attempts Operation Timebomb v2 but fails. 8chan raids /b/. The raid lasts five minutes before it's pruned away due to /b/'s speed. Hilarity ensues. People complain on 8chan about their permanent bans from 4chan, which really makes no sense since they said the raid would've been their last visit to 4chan in the first point.
• October 5 - A /b/tard presents proof that he has played Linkin Park's "In the End" nearly 65 thousand times, stating that he "liked the song." If the screencap is to be believed, "In the End" is the only song on the playlist. The day /b/ fell for obvious bait.
• October 7 - 8chan raids /b/ again, this time by regarding any post ending in 8 as a get. Somewhat more effective than the last raid, slightly inconveniencing a couple coomers.
• November 14 - /b/ title is changed to "STOP to my /b/eat". A YouTube video gets embedded on the board page. The uploader changes its title to "go away 4chan" and disables the comments.
• November 17 - /b/ is back to normal.
• December 11 - /pol/ Habour - /b/'s POV - IDs are removed and dubs return on /b/. /b/ and /pol/ both get a sticky that says "I AM A ROBOT" along with music embedded that says the same thing, to parody the new captcha system. /b/ also gets the captcha removed and old post timers restored like /pol/, and is flooded by a spambot whose owner is Bui, a /vp/ tripfag & ban evader known for spamming Goodra porn threads.
• December 12 - /pol/ is given IDs when a /b/ user requests moot to bring back IDs, and moot says the user didn't specify which board.
• December 31 - /b/ and Tumblr raid each other... Through Omegle. Using the "4chan" interest always results in being paired with a 4chan/8chan spammer, a Tumblr spammer, or a Tumblr user claiming to be a spy (sometimes a 4chan/8chan user pretending to be such a person).

2015

• January 2-3 - After a day of maintenance-induced sitewide shutdowns and unstable browsing, Captcha on /b/ and /pol/ is back and bump limit on the former is changed back to 500.
• January 21 - End of an Era - /b/'s POV - Causing what will be remembered as the biggest shitstorm to ever flood 4chan, at 11:00 AM EST moot officially announces his retirement from the role of 4chan's acting administrator. "[...] as today I'm retiring as 4chan's administrator. From a user's perspective, nothing should change. A few senior volunteers—including 4chan's lead developer, managing moderator, and server administrator—have stepped up to ensure a smooth transition over the coming weeks."
  • Here's to you, Nicola and Bart is embedded on /b/
• February 22 - 600M GET is attempted on /b/, and achieved by a picture saying "I AM IRONMAN!" with the thread comment being "u little stupid ass bitch i aint fuckin with you". However, with /b/ experiencing heavy flooding due to many users trying for the GET, the thread is pushed off the board instantly with 0 replies. It is known as a shit GET. An 8chan board, /4get/, was created on the 23rd of February with the goal of stealing this GET, but it failed to do so.
• August 21 - A poster on /b/ creates a thread, providing pictures of murdered women with a timestamp, he claims responsibility for their murders and explains that if anons guess the victims names, he will reveal the location of where he hid a body in 1999. Madness ensues and the thread is soon deleted.
• August 22 - /x/ creates a thread with the intention of catching the alleged /b/ killer, anons quickly compile information, and eventually discover the identities of one of the victims while others report their findings to the FBI.
• August 25 - The efforts of /x/ to catch the serial killer are recognized by a famous Latin American youtuber called DrossRotzank who proceeds to post a video about the events(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Erf8CFy93Y) this results in a huge influx of newfags invading /x/ to "help" solve the cold case, much frustration is had, but the investigation continues.
• October 9 - /b/ experiences delays, netting /qa/ to get people to ask for help. Anonymous ## Developer explains it was a problem unique to /b/, as fast boards use separate daemons to parse posts, and he has already fixed it. Janitor applications are re-opened, and the requirement to send proof of identification is dropped.
• October 31 - This video is stickied on /b/, with the message "Happy Halloween /b/".
• December 25 - A /b/tard had leaked the info on a YouTuber named "NeuroSoup", who is a minor Internet Celebrity with a 100,000 user fanbase, that the YouTuber was a psycho rapist, who tortured an innocent man almost to death, anons started leaking the info allover her channel, hoping to smear her name across the internet. (You can see the police report here: (Warning; GRAPHIC descriptions) http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/04-04-07-krystal-cole-psi.pdf#page=4.
• December 28 - /b/ rallies up and raids a website called e-chat.co, mostly the #SEXCHAT and #ROLEPLAY chat, the members escape to other parts of the website.
• December 29 - /b/ raids e-chat again along with 7chan, 8chan and RaidForums. The entire website is spammed until it lags and members are forced to move to another chat website, Spreet. The next morning e-chat is down, most likely from a DDOS attack.

2016

• January 2 - 4chan /b/ gathers up together and plots a huge raid on 9gag, in the Tinychat room: http://tinychat.com/op9fag 4chan raids the fuck out of 9gag with gore, scat, weird porn, furries, ext. The screams of 12-year-old autists could be heard everywhere.
• January 8 - A YouTuber Keemstar, who runs the channel Drama Alert, makes a video saying how a Twitch Streamer rsgloryandgold, whose name is Tony, was a pedophile. People start telling the poor guy to kill himself and called him a Pedophile, ect. The video turns out to be a lie.
• January 9 - A post on 4chan is made about the whole situation between Keem and Tony, /b/ is outraged, and supports Tony while raiding/doxxing Keem (Kind of ironic on how someone who runs a channel about drama on the Internet has drama blow up in his face)
• February 2 - /b/ gets Satan³ 666666666. The GET was Pokeporn of ORAS May, which additionally made /vp/ shit brix. Source
• February 14 - Valentine's Day Massacre - A Raid Discord identifying as "Anomalous" entices /b/ anons from 4chan and 8chan to form up and raid Tumblr on valentines day. The reaction from Tumblr's userbase was briefly noticeable, even on places like Youtube.
• February 15 - In attempt to protest against the current state of /b/, a thread on the board is created to exceed the bump limit of 300 posts, by rallying up enough /b/tards to post in the thread after the reply count had reached 300 posts, to bring it to 500 posts. The thread reached nearly 800 posts before death and was revered as the first collaborative win on /b/ in a long while.
• March 22 - Forced anon is enabled on /b/.
• March 31 - Underage normies spamming Spiderman and Rick Grimes got successfully rekt'd in /b/'s loli thread with the help of mods. /b/ raids 7cups causing the anti-bullying site to put a notice on the site warning of so-called "raiders".
• May 3 - A thread on /b/ is created to find a replacement for the word 'kek'. Each post with dubs gets to select one letter in the new, 5-letter word replacement for the word 'kek'. The thread generated the word '卍h†卐╠þ', which upon inspection from a screen reader appears to be pronounced "Manjithorn". This has been adapted as its original and official pronunciation.
• May 5 - /b/ stages a raid on Pepsi after Judy (an anthropomorphic rabbit from the furry tract Zootopia), wins a hashtag related contest. They proceed to spam the everloving shit out of Pepsi's twitter account with R34 content lewdly censored with various Pepsi related iconography (penises replaced with Pepsi bottles, anuses replaced with the circular Pepsi logo, and various others)
• May 21 - A sticky appears on /b/ with a blinking GO OUTSIDE text and embedded music. The addition of a blink class to 4chan's global CSS has the unintended consequence of making the whole page blink for the users of the popular 4chanX extension on the Chrome browser.
• July 3 - Threads appear on /pol/ and /b/ about a raid on Tumblr, shortly after, Tumblr has several tags filled with gore, although, through some weird lag, only a few show up.
• July 4 - More threads on /pol/ and /b/ about raiding Tumblr. This time and it completely wrecks a couple of tags for about an hour before either lag or the Tumblr moderators shut it down.
• August 18 - /b/ reaches it's 700M GET.
• September 25 - /b/'s maximum filesize per image is reduced from 4MB to 2MB.
• October 1 - /b/'s maximum .webm filesize is dropped from 3MB to slightly over 2MB.
• October 7 - Great Loli Marathon of 2016 - /b/ gets on it's head to post as much lolicon porn as possible. Starting 7:58pm, they go on to burn through over 120 threads.
• October 15 - The Great Loli Marathon continues past its 200th thread on /b/, threads archived as [5] and [6].

2017

• March 6 - Maruseru Killer - Someone on /b/ posts a mobile chatlog of a 19-year-old German who murdered the 9-year-old child of his neighbors. The log shows the murderer sharing explicit gore images of the victim with his friend. Said two participants are talking about uploading it on 4chan. The murderer claims to be suicidal and he doesn't want to work anymore. As of March 7, he is still on the run. German media reported about the case.
• March 7 - Apparently, the German murderer killed another person, a middle-aged woman, and uploaded images of it on /b/. This has yet to be confirmed.
• March 8 - The German killer starts up another Q&A thread on /b/, this time he even posted some sort of manifesto, confirming that he is "Maruseru" and that his bodycount is now 5. A possible German police officer posts with a timestamp in the same thread, however, he referenced /b/'s famous board subtitle text in another image. The killer claims he's going to post another thread on the 9th at 9pm. 4chan gets namedropped and showed in German television.
• March 9 - Maruseru gives up after burning a house and killing two people again for unknown reasons. At 9pm, he stormed into a diner and asked them to call the police. He was arrested, /b/ is split between cheers and tears.
• March 23-25 - A scriptfag manages to steal 3 consecutive GETs just to make the /b/tards drink their asses off. [7] [8] [9]
• April 1 - An idiot on /b/ got public banned thrice for using 8cuck.
• May 12 - A mod posts a Kemono Friends shitpost thread on /b/. The thread autoplayed this video and added a fancy background image. In another post, the mod posted "われわれは" in bright red blinking letters. A final HTML post was made that encouraged people to get inspired by Kaban. The thread was linked in /a/'s KF thread which derailed it.
• July 12 - /b/ raids Habbo Hotel again and actually manages to coordinate an almost-perfect swastika.
• August 5 - /b/ gets a "Pickle Rickers In The House Tonight" sticky, the sticky gets an embedded video, as well as an animated gif of dancing Pickle Rick and Pickle Chaikaface.
• September 8 - Anon accidentally doxxes himself after putting a letter with his address under a glass with a spider inside in a microwave. People proceed to send Dominos and Chinese food at his address. Some anons managed to find his real Facebook account and his sister's. Archive
• December 16 - Retarded "fem"anon superglues "her" butthole shut on /b/ for 100 dollars but faggot op does not deliver

2018

• February 1 - A mod (likely swaglord) continues the recent mod shitpost spree on /b/. Public bans rain from the sky once more like the good old days.
• May 22 - /b/ goes into seizure mode, with mods making a thread about "SWEET RAVE FURRET" and a techno remix of "Gangster's Paradise" in the background. Archive link
• November 11 - /b/ gets flooded with bees for hours. Mods are working full time, deleting threads as they appear, resulting in /b/ only having around 30 active threads for some time which briefly raised suspicion of Hiro cut number of total threads to reduce traffic.

2019

• March 23 - /b/'s CSS layout was changed to a gif of Nyan Cat with the Nyan Cat theme playing in the background in honor of caturday, along with an official caturday thread where mods public banned furfags and ponyposters, embedded large images without thumbnails and /b/tards either posted old memes they found on Encyclopedia Dramatica or made typical "old meme cringe new meme good" posts. This thread strangely wasn't stickied. (This might of had something to do with Twitter, a social media website famous for popularizing the word "yikes" on the internet and also housing a userbase packed full of people blaming 4chan for the recent NZ shooting, making "caturday" a trending hashtag on the same day.)
• May 17 - /b/ reaches its 800m GET, which is a failGET [10]
• May 17 - Mod logpost
• June 4 - Mod stickies his moderation youtube tutorial. Bans the shit of anyone who interrupts.
• June 12 - Yellow Revolution - After a few days of lead-up, summerfags kick off a 'revolution' to have porn threads banned from the board. /b/tards in favor of the move make anti-porn threads with yellow images and bump dying yellow threads. Porn threads are spammed with pictures of yellow flags, recolored meme images and (rarely) original content and /b/tards make threads on porn boards to redirect them.
• June 13 - Yellowspammers continue the raid into the next day. An unintentional copypasta starts after several yellowposters say they're "actual oldfags from 2008", which is a common lie made up by post 2016 era newfags on 4chan when they read ED or KYM for the first time. Rumors claim that janitors were pissed off and started deleting yellow threads. A /b/ mod stickies a 10 hour loop of Eiffel 65's "Blue" with the comment "im /b/lue" and publicly bans the first poster for calling the mods faggots. Lolikons are left with no home to go to since lolis were banned on every other board. Not only could loli threads not survive on the board because of the spam itself, the threads also had image limits due to yellowfags bot spamming. After multiple failed loli threads, only getting around 50 replies (mostly filled with moralfag yellowspammers screeching) before 404, a loli thread was made which surprisingly slipped past yellowfags (likely due to bans from mods), although furries still raided/crossposted in it for whatever reason. The first yellowpost in the thread was public banned, confirming mods do love lolis and do not condone yellowfaggotry. Immediately after this victory from lolicons and furfags on /b/ alike, yellowfaggotry slowed down and non-meta porn threads started appearing again. Yellows continue to spam; the board is now at a half yellow half porn ratio. Mods get annoyed and clean up the yellow spam on /b/.
• June 14 - Pornfags are fighting hard against yellowspam on /b/; yellow groups get some help from 8/b/ and other fellow discord teens. The board is still at a half and half ratio for the first half of the day. Yellowfags start fighting each other over "stolen OC" and operations start falling apart; meanwhile on /b/ itself, yellowspam is still active on the board, but roll, rekt, story and sing along threads start popping up and get bumped.
• June 15-16 - Yellowfags keep pushing schlop and apu threads. Board is now a balance between porn and yellowspam, with the occasional roll or rekt thread.
• June 17 - Porn takes up more than half of /b/. Yellowfags are clearly in need of assistance.
• June 18 - Majority of yellow spam groups give up. /b/ is back to mostly porn and bait threads, with a tiny amount of yellow and meta wannabe oldfag threads.
• August 6 - Duplicate file bug occurs on /v/. /b/ gets a furry sticky/CSS; 7 posts in and there's already a public ban
• December 10 - OH NOES THE PORN IS GONE - /b/ gets three stickies, "Hip To Be Square" by Huey Lewis And The News embedded in the background and mods ban porn for a day. Two DSFARGEG threads and three obvious troll-porn threads get public banned. Yellowfags rejoice and spam yellow threads and upper text lower text memes while ironically saying /b/ will "now be free of spam and uncreative threads". Mods remove the stickies and unban porn the next day. (The even is commemorated on an .swf file)

2020

• January 10 - Mod posts Que Picardía on /b/
• May 14 - /b/tards launch a massive raid on /po/ to get away from the porn threads. /po/ is ruined for a few hours and many ancient threads are archived. Soon after, /po/'s mods restore the ancient threads.
• August 7 - /b/ Porn Purge FAIL - A mod gets fed up with the decline of /b/ and decides to purge the board of shitty porn threads In an effort that lasts months (and still continues as of October), he publicly bans every porn poster on the board, setting an example for horny zoomers. Since ban frequency drops at certain times of the day, this is probably the work of a single pissed off mod. Porn posters are encouraged to move their threads to /s/ and /soc/, which they largely do; but since /s/ is a slow board, they are not warm to the idea of "girls built for BBC" and "girls you jerk off to" and "social fap thread #325" threads, or the post quality contributed by underage /b/ users. The mod soon gets bored of banning everyone, and mostly stops. /b/ returns to its usually awful state, yet the /b/-tier threads remain on /s/. Along with /asp/ and /vr/, /s/ joins the ranks of boards that were ruined by terrible moderator decisions.
• September 20 - Death of Longcat - /b/'s POV - The cat behind one of 2chan/4chan's earliest memes, Longcat, dies of respiratory failure as confirmed by the owner on Twitter. /b/,Anon self-predicts hexes for Longcat in the /b/ thread. The fucking Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy even makes an appearance in the /b/ thread. An imposter pretending to be him claims to dig up the jar and shows it, but the pictures are found to have been from 2018. The actual Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy explains that he moved out while the jar was still buried, so he can't get to it. Months later, Anonymous ## Developer confessed Hiroyuki did not make the /b/ sticky, but it was him posting under admin privileges.
• September 24 - The longcat thread that has been stickied on /b/ becomes the first ever thread on /b/ to get over 9000 posts. As of September 2024, it is the only thread on /b/ to have ever gotten over 9000 posts, making it the longest thread that /b/ has ever had. Pretty fitting for Longcat.
• October 11 - A /b/ mod breaks GR15. The mod stickies a pony shitpost, presumably in honor of FiM's 10th anniversary, and /b/ reacts with confusion, pony porn, and image macros unrelated to the thread. As the thread progresses, the OP gets updated three times, referencing Lee Goldson, aka Barneyfag. After being unstickied, it finally falls off the board with 3197 posts, making it the 4th largest thread in /b/'s history.
• October 30 - /b/ gets a "reply or ur mum will do X" sticky
• December 19 - Gabe Newell invades /b/ and ironically stickies three Half Life threads.
• December 25 - Christmas hats are back, and /b/ mods do some CSS fuckery, but waste it on a bad meme. But /b/ forgives as the thread itself has a padoru hentai animation embedded.

2021

• February 2 - A GET thread on /b/ scores a huge amount of dubs, gets 2195 replies and gets stickied, similarly to the [s4s] sticky from April 3rd, 2017.
• April 3 - Presumably, a mod makes this Yakuza song autoplay on a /b/ thread.
• May 4 - The mods purge every thread on /b/. An imageless sticky is added with the words "all the threads on /b/ sucked. so lets restart with not shit threads." This isn't the fist time a mod tries to reboot /b/'s culture
• May 29 - Second Restoration - Mods again delete all threads on /b/ except one, improving the board immediately once again. "All of /b/ is now one thread. We’ll change it back once you all learn how to be a board again." said an anon who may or may not be a mod. Eventually, they get tired of deleting new threads, and /b/ resumes being literally nothing.
• July 2 - A mod stickies a thread mocking Pokémon fans on /b/
• August 2 - A /b/tard jacks Chris-chan's "SONICHU" vanity plate. Pleas to cum on it are sadly not met.

2022

• January 28-29 - A pictureless thread with the subject "something big is coming..." is stickied on /b/. Mass confusion reigns as anons try to decipher what is happening while the images in the thread are deleted. A mod posing as an anon posts "i don't have much time left. i found information they don't want you to have. don't give up. the truth IS out there. - M" with an image embedded from /x/. Another post with the comment "we need your help. don't give up. keep searching. -M" with this /x/ image embedded is made. Someone in the sticky figures out the location in the pictures and is banned with the red text "(BE CAREFUL. BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO DIG TOO DEEP.)" The radio static sound from silent hill 2 is embedded in the thread as well. About ten minutes later, the sticky is deleted and /b/'s catalog is purged. Things return to /b/'s definition of normal after another ten minutes, but the mods begin deleting all threads with this image for a little while. /b/,[11] /pol/[12][13] and /x/[14] have a field day. At the same time the mods embed neco arc gifs in a /b/ thread and briefly embed the smaller one on the /b/ catalog.
• February 2 - A thread that is solely an embedded Sneed's Feed and Seed video clip gets stickied on /b/.
• April 3 - /b/ begins constructing sneed's feed and seed and a 404 Yotsuba on r/place, finishing both by the end of the day, only for xqc (some faggot streamer) to nuke everything in sneed's general area, Yotsuba is taken by another streamer while sneed is reconstructed.[15][16]
• April 4 - After much infighting a smaller sneed and 404 Yotsuba are rebuilt and /b/ plans to convert a green haired russian streamer's face into a bigger Yotsuba. After hours of wrestling over the spot /b/ siezes a good chunk of the area while he's offline, when he starts streaming again viewers inform him of the raid and he says he'll move his stuff further to the right and leave Yotsuba alone. Yotsuba (excluding the backgound in 90% finished when the event ends and only white tiles can be chose. The most heavily botted areas like the huge french flag at the bottom left get nuked with white pixels instantly, Yotsuba and sneed remain visible for a suprisingly long time while the canvas dissapears.[17][18][19][20]
• July 26 - Force Anon Strike - Names, thread titles, fortunes, and rolls get readded to /b/. A sticky gets made. This follows a "strike" to re-add them done completely by one anon.
• December 2 - /b/ gets a sticky that announces that /b/ is a board for half life discussion, vaguely half life related posts follow for the rest of the day. This is the third time that /b/ has turned into /halflife/.

2023

• February 23 - Commemorating the year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, /b/ gets the Bukhanka-chan girl walk gif, with a 4chan Birthday Hat fixed onto the board index & thread screen. /pol/ and other boards get similar treatments.
• May 13 - After a month and a half of nothing happening, the Sharty decides to launch a raid on /b/ at 8:00PM EST, with the intention of a complete catalog wipe. It got so bad that the board actually was unusable for a while.
• May 14 - Thinking that pissing in an ocean of piss would work better the second time, the Sharty organized their second raid slightly better and started at 6:00PM, and managed to get 3 paged wiped. Mods would decide to take action, wiping out two pages while doling out 3-days for spamming/flooding. /b/'s 'log around 7:30PM
• May 28 - After an "intense" battle in /b/'s catalog between the natives (logposters and pornbots) and soyteens, /b/'s 900M GET is a black and white photo of American basketball player Derrick White. Cirno was the runner up. This is the last major GET on /b/ until the 1 billionth post, which will happen in 4-5 years.
• July 3 - Cirno gets 902M on /b/.
• July 9 - CSS silliness: /b/ gets cute kitty cats.
• July 31 - /b/ is being raided by the sharty again, with an IP grabber being posted in a loli thread revealing many /b/ users download history.
• October 22 - /b/ sticky that embeds The Amazing Digital Circus.
• November 27 - The Ellen Page poster GETs 910M on /b/. The runner-up knew it would be him.
• November 28 - A mod makes a Morrowind embed in a /b/ thread.
• December 11 - A weird "testing" thread posted by a mod is stickied and locked on /b/. It contains a broken link to "Disable jumpscare redirects on /b/" and was supposed to lead to boards.4chan.org/b/?disablejumpscares=1.
• December 20 - On /b/, the 911111111 GET was stolen by the Sharty. This is the largest GET they have ever stolen, with the fastest post per minute rate of all their GET steals, at ~114.57 PPM.

2024

• January 22 - For years, logposters on /b/ have tried to force the meme "heaven has gained an angle" by falsely claiming that Corey Harrison, a cast member of the History TV series Pawn Stars, has died. This takes an ironic turn when his brother Adam Harrison suddenly dies of a drug overdose. Mods make a sticky and autoplay the instrumental to the Pawn Stars theme in the catalog for a couple of hours. The sticky is laughably slow and mostly consists of unawares wondering what is going on and logposters claiming victory.
• February 15 - A Session thread on /b/ is publicly banned and locked, a rare occurence on that board. Session IDs (hexadecimal strings) were regex filtered around November, forcing the coomers to add newlines and spaces in their IDs. Doing so violates GR10, and the mods have been handing out bans like candy (every session thread had at least one pedo posting "no limits" which is code for "send me pizza pls")
• June 6 - Starcraft Day - A sticky is made on /b/, announcing that /b/ is now for starcraft related discussions only, and the catalog is completely wiped and mods start deleting all posts not relating to star craft. Several more stickys are made. People still try to post the usual /b/ content but with 'starcraft'in the title, but those are also deleted. After a short while, the mods stop enforcing the 'starcraft-only' rule and /b/ goes back to it's usual racebait and porn dump threads.
• July 19 - On /b/, someone's friend named Kyle dies, and his thread gets a sticky. Soon, /b/ gets flooded with Kyle stickies and the board's name gets changed to A Tragedy Has Befallen Mankind.

2025

• April 2 - Val Kilmer dies just before midnight, a tribute thread on /b/ gets a modpost.
• July 4 - Mods sticky a ban on private chatroom threads on /b/. This likely happened because a U.S. politician named RJ May was vanned for CP and used /b/ to look for Kik groups. Pedoniggers BTFO.