Flags



Five boards on 4chan currently have flags. Four of them have country flags, which display the country you're posting from (or the location of your VPN or proxy if you are using one.) Flags are used on 4chan as a method of pseudo-identification.

Country Flags
Country flags, or geoflags, display the country of the IP address that was used to submit a post. This flag is displayed to the right of a poster's name, or to the right of their ID, depending on the board. There are around 254 countries currently supported. During certain sporting events, /sp/ gains specific flags for England, Scotland, and Wales. These flags can very rarely be found on /pol/ and /bant/ if a thread is moved from /sp/. Outside of these events, posting from one of those countries would normally display a Union Jack labelled United Kingdom.

Rare Flags
Certain flags are more common to find than others. Countries with very low populations, or limited access to the Internet can be very rare to come across while browsing 4chan. These are often referred to as rare flags, and are pointed out by many when they are sighted.

Retired Flags
There are various flags that have been retired, and now will no longer appear on posts from their previous IP ranges. Not much is known about them; we can only infer from the archives that they have been retired due to an extremely long time since the last post from that country.

Board Flags
Board flags, previously troll flags, are colloquially referred to as meme flags by most posters. These flags are not determined by poster location, and instead can be chosen from a drop-down menu underneath the posting field.

/pol/ Harbor
-memeflags only (list them below)

-moot fucks with /pol/, removes them

-adds geoflags and IDs

anomalous flags
-vaporwave bhutan

-easter egg flag

-brotherhood of nod

-Portoia (need to research)

/mlp/ pony flags
-board town hall feb 2021

-anon proposes flags

-twimod agrees

-board designs flags for a couple weeks

-eventually 80 get added

-too many to list

/lgbt/ pride month flags
-/lgbt/ got flags for pride month (June) 2022

-todo: crop and label them

-list them