Editing 4chan/History

''This timeline is the collective effort of thousands of anons over the span of a decade, passed down from generation to generation, rescued from wiki to wiki.'' 

''Record the milestones, disasters, and achievements of today, so it will not perish from the memory of the anons of tomorrow.''

== 4chan Timeline Project  ==

=== Introduction ===

This page is an open contribution compendium of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blurb text blurbs] remarking memorable events in the day to day life of 4chan and its constituent communities, generally comprehensive up to board level. The 4chan timeline has existed in various forms for the last 20 years and is one of—if not ''the''—oldest 4chan community project still active. For over a decade the timeline has served as the go-to guide for the site's history, going through multiple versions and websites. It should be noted that the Bibliotheca Anonoma fork is not an official narrative or historiography of 4chan. It is intended as a humoristic reference guide that, ideally, provides the means for the reader to do their own research and draw their own conclusions. The timeline's currently inactive sister project, the historiographical summary formerly known as the ''4chan.doc'' can be found on Wikibook's ''[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/4chan_Chronicle 4chan Chronicle Page.]''

=== Project Corpus ===

'''Anyone willing is welcome to contribute, no permissions or account needed.''' It's suggested to link primary evidence of the events through a 4chan archiver, a webpage saver such as archive.is or the Wayback Machine, or archive it yourself and upload it on archive.org. Events regarding individual threads or microcommunities (''neé Generals'') are selectable for submission if they are impactful enough to be noticed by the rest of the board or have visible off-site impact. There's no filters for language, but overtly partisan takes may be corrected over time.

Recommendations and questions may be posted on the [[Talk:4chan/History]] page. For in-depth discussions, you can engage other Bibanon contributors in a bridged chatroom you can access through [http://qchat.rizon.net/?channels=bibanon&uio=d4 IRC], [https://discord.com/invite/3jxxGDC Discord] or [https://riot.im/app/#/room/#bibanon-chat:matrix.org Matrix].

==== Contribution Suggestions ====

===== Sources =====

* Link to the [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all 4chan News page], [http://blog.4chan.org/ 4chan Blog], [https://www.4chan.org/blotter 4chan Blotter], [https://x.com/4chan the official site twitter], [https://x.com/hirox246 admin Hiroyuki's twitter] and [https://x.com/grapeape9k manager RapeApe's twitter] for any official statements or site-wide structural changes.
* Add primary/secondary sources, from thread screencaps to news reports, or even archived websites on Archive.org.
* 4chan archivers as of 2025: desuarchive.org - arch.b4k.dev - thebarchive.com - archived.moe - 4plebs.org - warosu.org - archive.palanq.win - boards.fireden.net - old.sage.moe - ayasequart.org - eientei.xyz - archiveofsins.com - 4rchive.org - sfwchan.com
* General archivers: archive.org
* Snapshot archivers: archive.is - archive.org's Wayback Machine (4chan.org/4channel.org domains are excluded, but it is likely that the data is still saved, just inaccessible) (4chan.net domain from 2003 is still accessible)

===== Writing =====

* Complex or major events that have become part of popular memory (ie: BRB, Compromised; Gamergate) may have a title written in '''Bold'''.
* If multiple, unrelated events occur on the same day, each even should have their own entry.
* Don't be afraid to make jokes! <sub>we are not ED tho'</sub>

==== Status ====

On simple terms: '''The timeline has crossed the threshold of comfortable readability.''' It is a chore to go through several thousand entries to read a few items of interest. It is a chore to edit several thousand lines of plain text.

Discussion has concluded that, at this point, the only ways to increase readability on a page as large as the timeline is by migrating from the Wikimedia format. There's been many ideas being discussed, generally along the idea of being able to '''tag''' and '''filter''' entries, and camps align along two general solutions:
* A simple but custom website and database with filtering capabilities.
* Migrating into a more modern Wiki format with the appropriate required features.

'''Currently, such work is outside our development team's scope and requires the aid of dev volunteers.'''

Until that milestone is achieved, a number of ad-hoc solutions have been proposed and implemented:

===== Visual Guides =====

There's sequences of related entries, popularly titled "sagas", that span months and even years. There's currently no way to tag or link subsequent entries without making [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links extremely cluttering mediawiki anchor chains.] A still cluttering but more readable solution is using icon-like visual guides.

* '''4chan.js''' -> [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] (note: figure out how to link picture height to text-height).

===== Code Guides =====

Another solution is unicode symbols that can be browser searched as a form of improvised filtering.

* '''New Boards''' -> ○

===== Individual Board Timelines =====

Splitting the darn thing into thematic timelines. Following the dash format, all 4chan/History/* pages belong to the timeline project and may be created as needed. 

General guideline for timeline subprojects: 

* Snippets that exclusively reference a board should only appear in the board's timeline
* Snippets should be added to the primary timeline if they involve multiple boards, involves team4chan (and something more notable than a simple public ban) or are otherwise considered innovative or newsworthy (ie: first board to have a new site feature). Such duplicate snippets are ok, but ''please'' try to keep them matched.
* Complex events whose effects could be broken down into multiple snippets for an individual board may have a short snippet in the primary timeline and an more elaborate sequence in the subproject timeline. It's recommended to link to the subproject timeline's year if so.
* Deleting snippets from the main timeline after moving them to a board timeline should be first announced & discussed with other members.
* Subprojects are ''not'' limited to boards only, and potential /dev, /mod & /GET timelines have been suggested.

====== Rule: Current Year Goes Unsorted ======

Reader and contributor alike check the timeline for the latest entries. In order to not make keeping up difficult for either party, the current year should act as a catch all for all site events. When the next year sweeps in and the current one becomes old news, then entries may be moved their respective timeline.

====== Boards Fully Split ======
* [[4chan/History/b|/b/ - Random]]
* [[4chan/History/s4s|<nowiki>[s4s]</nowiki> - Shit 4chan Says]]
* [[4chan/History/qa|/qa/ - Question & Answer]]
* [[4chan/History/mlp|/mlp/ - My Little Pony]]

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=== Timeline Historiography ===

===== 4chan Milestones & The Complete History of 4chan =====

The earliest attempts at documenting 4chan history began in early 2004, just months after the site's creation. A wikiworld.com page written by 4chan fans surfaces, it was simple effort at noting down the context behind some catchphrases and memes. By 2006 it sees the development of a short ''Milestones'' section that would represent the cornerstone of all 4chan checklists to come. In September 2006, the 4chan page is deleted as Wikiworld's administration is not willing to host non-politically correct content. Refugees run first to Lurkmore.com's new wiki, where the Milestones section gets it's own page and a few updates, but is otherwise forgotten.<ref>
* Wikiworld's 4chan page, earliest screenshot. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061026095640/http://www.wikiworld.com/wiki/index.php/Talk%3A4chan]</br>
* Final version of Wikiworld's 4chan page, including the Milestones section. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060902092221/http://www.wikiworld.com:80/wiki/index.php/4chan]</br>
* Wikiworld's 4chan Discussion page, with admin deletion message. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061026095640/http://www.wikiworld.com:80/wiki/index.php/Talk%3A4chan]</br>
* Lurkmore.com/wiki/'s 4chan Milestones. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080303070708/http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/index.php?title=Milestones]</br>
</ref>

''The Complete History of 4chan'' was an open contribution page created around May 2007 in wikichan.org, a wikimedia site hosted by an Anon and maintained by the budding ''chanverse'' community. The page imported Lurkmore's Milestones page and updated it with several new developments, such as GETs, raids, /b/ drama and other events, including mentions of then active 4chan spinoffs such as 420chan and 7chan. Contributors maintained this history page through Wikichan.org's death in July 2008 into successor Wikichan.net.<ref>
* First TCHo4 iteration on Wikichan.org [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511013508/http://www.wikichan.org/index.php/The_Complete_History_of_4chan]</br>
* Second TCHo4 iteration on Wikichan.net [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201141754/http://wikichan.net/The_Complete_History_of_4chan]</br>
</ref>

The project went inactive with the coming of the new decade as the original chanverse cliques splinter and disband, and the imageboard zeitgeist moves on to new pastures such as documenting raids and drama on Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED). Wikichan Net falls into inactivity by 2010, and off the web by 2011. With no-easy-to access archivers, the events that defined these imageboards become something akin to folklore, recited in ''oldfag'' diatribes and joked about in ED pages.

===== The GET Encyclopedia & Individual Efforts =====

While Lurkmore ditched the Milestones page in favour of individual pages for significant events, on March 2008 they independently developed their own timeline named ''The GET Encyclopedia''. The Encyclopedia became the authoritative source on the esteemed bulletin board tradition until it fell inactive in 2015. Other attempts at noting down 4chan's history were made by Shii in his personal wiki ''Everything Shii Knows'' and JonnyDigital's blog, both of which folded by the mid-2010s. Many other ''imageboard otaku'' imageboards and textboards surface around this period, such as Wakaba's /soc/.<ref>
* The GET Encyclopedia, earliest reference point. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080330224150/http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/4chan_GET_Encyclopedia]</br>
* The GET Encyclopedia, as it currently exists. [https://www.lurkmore.com/view/4chan_GET_Encyclopedia] - Archive 2025 [https://web.archive.org/web/20250313003038/https://www.lurkmore.com/view/4chan_GET_Encyclopedia]</br>
* Shii's article on 4chan and early days timeline. [https://archive.is/Lxml]</br>
* JonnyDigital's board dates timeline. [https://archive.is/2KmV]
* The, ''ahem'', Society For the Study of Modern Image Board Culture. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200706162944/http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/index.html]</br>
</ref>

The Complete History of 4chan goes on to become a bit of a treasure, being hosted by multiple sites. Around 2012, recovered copies of the timeline appear on tanasinn.info, partyvan.info and Yotsuba Society's wiki. The last traditional version of the timeline was published by jKid of Yotsuba Society blog in 2014.<ref>
* Tanasinn's TCHo4 fork. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120407222259/http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Complete_History_of_4chan]</br>
* Yotsuba Society's fork. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120414042054/http://www.yswiki.org/wiki/The_Complete_History_of_4chan]</br>
* Yotsuba Society's updated TCHo4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140320010044/http://yotsubasociety.org/The_Complete_History_of_4chan/]</br>
</ref>

===== Unified Timeline & Bibliotheca Anonoma's 4chan.doc =====

A new generation of imageboard enthusiasts appeared to pick up the pieces on the sadly derelict sites. The spartan ''4chan Timeline'' was developed in late 2014 by an independent anon, first through merging and fact checking Tanasinn's extant page of The Complete History of 4chan, Jonny Digital's timeline, Shii's wiki dates, tidbits of Lurkmore's GET Encyclopedia then through their own research. The rediscovery of the ''Nanashii World'' network saw the timeline extend back past 4chan's founding all the way to the foundation of the first eastern anonymous BBSs. Linking up with the other hobbyists at ''vyrd.net'' and ''Bibliotheca Anonoma'' (Bibanon), the latter of whom developed the narrative retelling called the ''4chan Chronicle'', the (unintended) closed doors project was subsumed and published through Bibanon's Github as the ''4chan.doc''; An Office document containing updated forms of the timeline & chronicle plus new sections such as provisory board addition dates and a staff members list. The document's iterations saw it lean towards a stronger historicity, being rechristened as the ''4chan Ethnographic and Historic Summary''.<ref>
* 4chan Ethnographic and Historic Summary AKA the 4chan.doc, releases. [https://github.com/bibanon/4chan.doc/releases/]</br>
</ref>

As development on the 4chan.doc slowed, its contents were exported to other sites, with the Chronicle being rehosted on Wikibooks and the Timeline being reabsorbed by revitalized Tanasinn and Lurkmore forks. While the later saw little activity, the former's unified Complete History became the main hub for the once again open contribution project, which innovated with ''actual'' citations after a whooping 13 years of hearsay additions. In December 2019, Tanasinn folds and Bibanon wiki imports the timeline to this current page alongside orphaned contents of the .doc. As the timeline grew, the limitations of the wiki format became a problem for readers, problem which the ongoing effort of splitting the timeline into constituent sections attempts to ameliorate.<ref>
* Tanasinn's TCHo4 fork, final state. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191130230256/http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Complete_History_of_4chan]</br>
* Lurkmore's TCHo4 fork, current state. [https://www.lurkmore.com/view/History_of_4chan] - Archive [https://archive.is/XC11r]</br>
</ref>

==Timeline==

===Pre-History===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2003 | ►]]
* 1996, August 21 - A man named ''Masayuki Shiba'' opens a '''Registration-less BBS''' called '''Strange World''' (あやしいワールド / ''Ayashii Warudo''), a WWW continuation of a [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%95%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96#%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%EF%BC%88HP%EF%BC%89 Home Party service] BBS he used in the summer/autumn of 1995. It runs a custom fork of CGI Rescue's  Perl script [https://web.archive.org/web/19981206135748/http://www.ask.ne.jp/%7Erescue/support/arrange.html SimpleBBS (''簡易ＢＢＳ''), later miniBBS.] Warez and (then legal) csem are posted and a second BBS opens for technology discussion, where an early troll / hacker group named GUESS conducted website hackings and invasions. The website hops through free services and [https://web.archive.org/web/19990823060329/http://www.bea.hi-ho.ne.jp:80/strangeworld/recycle/readme.html similar BBSes are formed under the "あやしいわーるど＠" prefix, collectively called the ''Nameless World''] after the default name field ''Nanashi''. Through 1996 to 2000, [https://randomcrapmuseum.neocities.org/exhibits/ayashii/fansite/historyabridged the Nameless World becomes the largest network of websites in Japan] and develops a culture based on memes and trolling, marking the official starting point of '''Anonymous Internet Culture'''. In September 9, 1998, Shiba shuts down Strange World over personal disgust (and potential legal repercussions) when his userbase doxes a spammer.<ref>
* Two-part [https://web.archive.org/web/20180912191457/http://ayashiiworldhistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-small-history-of-ayashii-world-1.html history of] [https://web.archive.org/web/20180901160221/http://ayashiiworldhistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-small-history-of-ayashii-world-2.html Ayashii World].</br>
</ref>
* 1998, March 18 - Nameless World link aggregator ''Amazing Links'' (あめぞうリンク / ''Amezou Rinku''), better known for it's url '''Amezo''', opens with their own miniBBS forum. Under the motto [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%82%E3%82%81%E3%81%9E%E3%81%86 "A silent protest against people who say information on the Internet is boring."] amezo becomes a leading Nameless World site and with Ayashii World shutting down, one of the main hubs of the Japanese Internet.
* 1998, August 6 - Amezo switches to a new Perl script [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205221858/http://www2q.meshnet.or.jp/%7Eterra/cgi/ ''resBBS'',] a threaded BBS they modified into the first '''Floating Thread BBS''' (rechristened '''Textboard''' in the west), where new posts '''bump''' threads to the top. Amezo's "kitchen sink" approach to forums makes the site incredibly popular, leading to non-stop raids and trolling, and severe site-loading problems. Amezo keeps developing resBBS, coming up with their their fork, 
* 1999, May 10 - Entrepreneur ''Hiroyuki Nishimura'' opens BBS called [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/2ch-History ''Channel 2''], but more popularly known as '''2channel''' (2ちゃんねる / ''Ni Channeru''). Claiming pedigree from Amezo as the "first channel", 2ch was a perl clone coded from scratch, with several backend changes and the added feature of opting-out of bumping threads through '''sage'''. Between 1999 and 2000, 2ch and amezo find themselves in harsh competition over userbase, with spambots involved on both sides and even Nameless World sites chiming in. In the end, Amezo shuts down on Aug. 12 1999 and Nishimura sees 2ch become a cultural phenomenon and Japan's largest website by far.
* 1999, November 16 - Amateur writer ''Lowtax'' starts a comedy blog called '''Something Awful'''. It explodes in popularity, prompting the creation of a vBulletin forum by 2000. [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/Something-Awful The forum overtakes the blog and becomes the largest gathering of content creators on the western internet.]
* 2001, May 14 - Lowtax creates an Anime subforum titled [https://web.archive.org/web/20010607011103/https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=27''Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse'' (later shortened to '''ADTRW'''). The forum speeds up the next year, creating an involved community and [https://web.archive.org/web/20030603165407/http://www.sylphex.com/ZOMG_FAQ.txt coining the ZOMG meme.] Lowtax's (and his inner circle's) disposition towards ADTRW was never very high and only got lower with time, leading to the regulars' ''othering'' over weird cute cartoon threads being posted side to side with tentacle rape.<ref name="adtrw"/>
* 2001, August 30 - [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/2ch-History#unix-and-2chan-and-the-august-2001-crisis 2channel is in danger of dying.] While a fix was in the works, users created a bunker 2chan.net, officially named ''Channel Two Leaves'', popularly known as '''Futaba Channel''' (ふたばちゃんねる / ''Futaba Channeru'').
* 2002, March 12 - Futaba implements a custom fork of [https://web.archive.org/web/20011225220533/http://php.s3.to:80/bbs/bbs3.php ''GazouBBS'',] a Floating Thread BBS script made on PHP known by westerners as an '''Imageboard''', where a thread's opening post may attach a file. The spartanly named [https://web.archive.org/web/20030129152139/https://www.2chan.net/script/ '''Futaba script'''] improves Gazou by limiting the number of threads instead of posts, having old threads '''pruned''' as new ones are made. In the coming years, imageboards become wildly popular among ''Anime Otaku'' and even in the English speaking internet.<ref>
* Futaba meta thread. First imageboard mentioned on post 39, Marc 12, 2002. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030519015539/http://www.2chan.net:80/test/read.cgi?bbs=junbi&key=1003308079]</br>
</ref>
* 2002, November 6 - ADTRW regulars ''mdl'', ''Inpheaux'' (''[NPH]'') and ''Uziga'' form '''Studio ADTRW''', fangroup dedicated to anime fansubbing and manga scanlating. On November 6 they open an official website, [https://web.archive.org/web/20021208061739/http://www.adtrw.org/ adtrw.org], with a forum, wallpapers page, [https://web.archive.org/web/20030207122111/http://mods.adtrw.org/index.php?p=faq videogame mods], IRC #adtrw on irc.aniverse.com (later irc.mircx.com, irc.pyoko.org, and irc.synirc.org), torrent releases and personal blogs. Studio ADTRW absorbs a handful dying fangroups, developing a small network of supporters that don't completely overlap with Something Awful.<ref name="studioadtrw"/>
* 2002, November 16 - Studio ADTRW member ''Hannibal''<ref name="studioadtrw"/> and acquaintance ''IchibanMuffin'' create DC++ hub '''Raspberry Heaven''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWsxg3uNMt4 (After the ending of ''Azumanga Daioh'').] Initially, Raspberry Heaven is a anime-only hub doubling as one of Studio ADTRW's release venues, [https://web.archive.org/web/20021208112620/http://dc.obso.net/~hannibal/raspberry/ hosted by obso of (also ADTRW's) SADCHUB.] In May, hannibal moves to his own domain at [https://web.archive.org/web/20030625201305/http://www.raspberryheaven.net/ raspberryheaven.net]. By the end of 2003, the hub had accrued over 100 active members and the IRC-DC++ bridged channel #raspberryheaven (on irc.myrx.com and later irc.pyoko.org) imposes itself as ADTRW's everyday lounge, with forum top posters doubling as RH regulars.<ref name="raspberryheaven"/>
* 2003, March 3 - The first English language textboard is created: [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/world2ch '''world2ch'''], made by ''RIR6'', a 16 years old Japanese user. Its userbase consists of a mix of Japanese and English users, the only time that this happens for any considerable amount of time. The English speakers there are members of ADTRW, and they are also familiar with Futaba and visit it as a pasttime. In June, English users would convince the owner to make an imageboard. He makes two, officially becoming the first western imageboards.
* 2003 Circa June/July - 15 years old anime fan from New York City named '''Christopher "moot" Poole''' joins #raspberryheaven IRC through ADTRW.<ref name="raspberryheaven"/>
* 2003 - The 2chan.net appreciation thread is created on ADTRW, becoming the gateway between the eastern Internet culture and western. There World2ch is discovered, gaining a steady influx of English speaking users. 2chan rapid-fire image sharing becomes wildly popular on ADTRW and RH, making it one of the fastest threads on the forum and spawning fan videos. (ref pending)

===2003===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#Pre-History | ◄]] [[#2004 | ►]]
* September 29 - '''[http://i.imgur.com/mf0BMfJ.png moot registers 4chan.net]''' just because it looked like 2chan. [https://shii.bibanon.org/www.jonnydigital.com/4chan-history.html According to RH regular and former 4chan mod Jonnydigital], moot was encouraged by 2chan's recent ban of all foreign IPs, and he did it to own an e-mail address @4chan.net,<ref>
* 4chan's Something Awful thread. moot between June and Semptember 2004. ''"I started 4chan when I was very bored, in need of porno, and wanted a cool email address (especially because I couldn't register pant.su )."'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626030323/http://forums.somethingawful.com:80/showthread.php?threadid=724028]</br>
</ref> but he quickly gets thinking...
 <moot> regging 4CHAN.net
 <moot> FOUR CHAN
 <moot> brace for faggotry
* September 30 - Circa 21:30, moot announces 4chan.net in Something Awful's ADTRW forum. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626030323/http://forums.somethingawful.com:80/showthread.php?threadid=724028 The Thread] is titled '''''"4chan.net - English 2chan.net!"'''''. Most of Raspberry Heaven is in on helping moot's project. The website is hosted by ''Apis Network'' webhosting on the Advanced plan (20USD/m), which is owned by SA Goon ''nem''. The site is not finished yet, there are no boards and the frontpage is built from "4 lines" with no content. A couple hours later [NPH] offers to fix up the frontpage.<ref name="4chansathread"/>
* October 1 - '''4chan-net goes officially online around 9:00 PM'''. It opens a single board running a translated fork of GazouBBS: ○ '''/b/ - Anime/Random''', inspired on Futaba's ''backroom'' (secret) 2D Imageboards URL suffix and the motto ''"A comprehensive english based resource for the collection and distribution of yaoi and dickgirlz"'' and the footer says ''"- GazouBBS + futaba + moot -"''.<ref name="4channet"/> The website was coded by moot with help of RH regulars ''hova'' who helped translating Gazou and ''[NPH]'' wrote the 4chan frontpage HTML with a '''Sidebar''', a '''News Frontpage''' plus '''Frequently Asked Questions''' and '''Rules''' pages.<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> He makes a test post on 10:30PM EDT and welcome post minutes later begging people to not start fights over 2chan and w2ch. The SA does in fact explode into a fight between moot's RH crew and world2ch regulars upset they stole their credit for the first 2chan-like forum. He later opens a '''Contests''' page to decide 4chan's banner, to be taken from posts on /b/.<ref>
* 2003-10-21. Wayback Machine. Apis Network website and payment plants. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031021144905/http://apisnetworks.com/]</br>
* News post. ''TEST by moot - 10/01/03 @ 10:32PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#1] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#1]</br>
* News post. ''WELCOME by moot - 10/01/03 @ 10:36PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#2] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#2]</br>
* News post. ''CONTEST by moot - 10/01/03 @ 11:18PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#3] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#3]</br>
* Banner contest. .org era pages [https://www.4chan.org/contests] archive.is [https://archive.is/B9ZFs]</br>
* Contest winners. .org era pages. [https://4chan.org/contests/logowin] archive.is [https://archive.ph/snnnQ]</br>
</ref><ref>
* moot on the people who helped him. - ''"hova - helped me get my first translation of futaba-script working, I would probably have given up without the guy."'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#21]
</ref>
* October 2 - New Boards: ○ '''/h/ - Hentai'''.
* October 2 - Apis receives an e-mail complaining about "lolikon and guro" posted in /b/ and nem shows it to moot, who writes a witty retort. The email was sent by world2ch regular ''Menchi'' (later known as ''Shii''). He started an outrage thread with fellow w2ch regulars [https://web.archive.org/web/20200314123218/http://world2ch.org/dramabomb.html who felt 4chan ripped them off with the "first english imageboard".] moot writes a longer retort on the news page, then personally goes to their site to defend himself. They manage to make amends, and exchange advice in how to fix the code. There moot learns to implement tripcodes and discovers Futaba had already made an English translation of their code, making his effort at translating Gazou a massive waste of time. Later, moot creates /h/ and tells everyone to check the rules page. There he describes /b/ as a "test board" which will later become an anime board and it's only rule being ''1. ZOMG NONE!!!1''. moot in another news post describes /b/ as "a retard bin". Hours later he makes a second post, explaining he had huge amount of entries (unsourced: 50 within 3 hours) and he decided to cycle his 36 picks with a PHP script he found on the net titled ''"Urakh's Rotating Signature Script"''. He then adds a '''Navigation Bar''' to the link all boards at the html header.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* Only proof the script existed. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111220124733/http://ww5.merchantguild.net/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=12&t=7315&s=]
* News post. ''BANNERS! by moot - 10/02/03 @ 1:55AM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#4] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#4]</br>
* News post. ''E-MAIL by moot - 10/02/03 @ 4:13PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#5] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#5]</br>
* News post. ''WORLD2CH by moot - 10/02/03 @ 6:37PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#6] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#6]</br>
* News post. ''/h/ by moot - 10/02/03 @ 7:24PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#7] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#7]</br>
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* October 6 - New Boards: ○ '''/c/ - Anime/Cute''' ○ '''/d/ - Hentai/Alternative''' ○ '''/w/ - Wallpapers/Anime''' ○ '''/y/ - Yaoi''' ○ '''/i/ - Oekaki BBS'''.
* October 6 - First, boards /c/ and /d/ are added to clean up /h/ as people were arguing about fetishes even then. On the Something Awful thread, he announces RH regulars ''Shingo'' and ''Marshall Banana''<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> as '''Board moderators''', describing them as ''janitors''. Shingo also wrote a '''Japanese Page''' for the site. moot and [NPH] continue making sense of GazouBB, fixing a retention bug that caused posts to be deleted too quickly and raised the maximum number of log entries for each board from 500 to 5000 (2000 for /b/). By now /b/ had over 2000 posts. To close the day, they implement /i/, an '''Oekaki Board''' running [https://web.archive.org/web/20021015003207/http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016309/ PaintBBS] and /y/, which moot refuses to moderate directly, naming SA goon ''BadLuck'' as the site's board mod for /y/. BadLuck advertises 4chan in Livejournal [https://badluck.livejournal.com/127300.html socials] and [https://yaoi.livejournal.com/753839.html Yaoi communities]. moot announces that bandwidth costs are going to be up, as they are "200% over the [monthly transfer] cap, which is 50", requesting '''Donations''' for the first time at ''moot@raspberryheaven.net''.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''UPDATES by moot - 10/06/03 @ 1:33AM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#8] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#8]</br>
* News post. ''RETENTION by moot - 10/06/03 @ 3:35AM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#9] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#9]</br>
* News post. ''MORE UPDATES by moot - 10/06/03 @ 7:50PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#10] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#10]</br></ref>
* October 9 - New Boards: ○ '''/g/ - Guro''' ○ '''/s/ - Sexy Beautiful Women'''
* October 9 - Both new boards have their own moderators. /g/ is yet another board made to clean off undesired paraphilias from /h/ moderated by ''Portable951'' while /s/ has no given reason for addition and is moderated by ''Boco_T'' and ''PotatoSan'', all 3 of them #RH regulars.<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> The 4chan team now numbers at 10. moot announces that 4chan received over had over 9000 unique visions and over one million hits in the past six days. He considers be looking for advertisers (sponsors) to help pay the bills and elaborates on future self-serve ads. Boco_T also drew two of 4chan's banners: one of ''Osaka'' from ''Azumanga Daioh'', and one of ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' drawn in the style of ''Fist of the North Star''. On the Something Awful thread, someone points out that 4chan was not thumbnailing images, meaning they sending 10 times as much bandwidth than they should have. moot did not seem to understand.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''WAHO! by moot - 10/09/03 @ 12:40PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#11] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#11]</br>
* 2003-10-09. Something Awful. Man-Eating Cow wrote: ''"Just to make sure moot knows: The images aren't having thumbnails generated; instead, they're just being shrunk on each index page. Thus every image is being loaded, whether or not people click on all of them. I don't know whether this is the intended operation, but I figure that bandwidth is a lot more expensive than a little bit more disk space and a modest increase in processing power."'' [PENDING]</ref>
* October 10 - At some point here, the frontpage motto chances to [https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/39379-full-metal-panic?language=es-ES "we love chidori"]<ref name="4channet"/>
* October 16 - '''First Death of 4chan''' - 4chan is announced to 2chan, resulting in a massive number of Japanese users coming to the site, at least doubling the traffic of all boards with /c/ going up by an actual order of magnitude. The onslaught of unexpected traffic mixes up with the thumbnailing bug and sees nem cut 4chan from Apis servers for eating up almost the entire company's monthly bandwidth quota. Posters on IRC and SA joke the site is done for good.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''... by moot - 10/16/03 @ 4:08PM EDT'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#12] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#12]</br>
* 2003-10-16 - Something Awful. nem ''"…the server was doing 1 Megabyte per second, mathematically speaking we were looking at doing over ~2530 gigabytes per month, I have a 700 GB limitation, I would incur a lovely fee of ~$1370, I'm not taking that out of my 401k plan at all. Unfortunately 4chan spread like wildfire and was due to annihilating not only my bandwidth quota, but the server (with peaks of over 300 concurrent connections per second). I can't do that, sorry. I'm not ponying the $1370 per month either in fines, so it had to go."''. SA post [PENDING] - cited on 0037's personal wiki. [https://w2ch.14get.helioho.st/wiki/4chan.html] archive.is [https://archive.is/f1d06]</br>
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* October 17 - moot refuses to let the site die and discusses his options on RH and SA. One of them is contacting ''Peter Payne'' of the ''J-list'' for hosting.<ref>
* Something Awful. moot on 17 October 15:28: ''"The current plan is to get a new, dedicated server. I've already started talks with two people about getting a server online, one whom I know is trusted alot.''</br>''PETER PAYNE–MY FRIEND IN JAPAN contacted me, and didn't check it out, he seems… interested though. The only backup I have is one of /c/'s pictures (old), but I may be able to grab one out of the midnight tarball.''</br>''It'll take a few weeks, but I'll be damned if I let the dream die in fifteen fucking days. PayPal is the same as my regular mailing address, moot@raspberryheaven. Thanks to any that have the cash to donate, anything helps."'' [PENDING]. Anon's rehost of 0037's wiki. [https://w2ch.14get.helioho.st/wiki/4chan.html] - archive.is [https://archive.is/f1d06#selection-585.1-593.223]</br>
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* October 21 - Candidates for new hosting are considered, including [https://www.datacenterjournal.com/united-colo-gmbh-ngz-server-de/ United Colo Gmbh] and Apex Solutions. (source pending). On the world2ch dramabomb thread, moot announces he had a new server.
* October 29 - Deleted boards: • /i/ - Oekaki BBS
* October 29 - The site is back online, hosted under [https://web.archive.org/web/20031121152826/http://www.apex-solutions.com/index.shtml Apex Solutions.] This time 4chan is backed by RH leadership, with ''IchibanMuffin'' helping him cost the site by letting him share server space and ''Hannibal'' becoming the site's second administrator.<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> The new site motto reads ''"Yotsuba what?"''. /i/ does not make it. moot makes various changes to the imageboards, including fixing Japanese character display and adding the day of the week to posts. He also announces that boards will now use a MySQL database (a modified form of 2chan's ''futabaSQL'' called '''yotsubaSQL'''), coded with help of RH regular ''thatdog''<ref name="raspberryheaven"/>, leechers will now receive a punishing giant .gif instead of their hotlink, a robots.txt file gets made to keep out some auto-downloaders, along with an .htaccess file to prevent hotlinking and monitor app to track offenders, courtesy of ''scuzzy''. /g/ temporarily suffered a problem with tripcodes, and all boards had a problem where users said their posts were not appearing and they were getting a Japanese error message. Both of these were fixed within the day by modifying the anti-spam script and fixing the imageboards' .php files, respectively. moot sneakily changes his email to ''moot@4chan.net'' and a '''PayPal Donation Button.''' on the sidebar.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''HOORAY by moot - 10/29/03 @ 2:38AM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#13] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#13]</br>
* News post. ''ERRORS by moot - 10/29/03 @ 4:23AM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#14] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#14]</br>
* News post. ''MORE ERRORS by moot - 10/29/03 @ 4:08PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#15] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#15]</br>
* News post. ''LEECHING by moot - 10/29/03 @ 11:35PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#16] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#16]</br>
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* moot on IchibanMuffin. ''"ichibanMuffin - partnered with me to revive 4chan (the second version). It didn't work out so we mutually called it off and now he has his own box again at the same datacenter."'' [https://archive.ph/3iVup#21]
* moot on hannibal. ''"hannibal (handyball) - bears with my whining and persistant questions about Linux, also was admin of the second server."'' [https://archive.ph/3iVup#21]
* moot on thatdog. ''"made yotsuba-script better than ever, helped me with futabaSQL and made the beta-archive."'' [https://archive.ph/3iVup#21]
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* November 1 - moot laments that Peter Payne rejected a sponsorship. The site is also running extremely slowly due a mistake not too dissimilar to the tables problem 2ch suffered back in 2001. This is a problem as it's also bogging down the shared server he and other Apex clients use. moot laments would have to block Japanese domains unless something was done - A possible solution, moving to a dedicated server - could rank up the bill to $400/month. moot warns that 4chan will die slowly unless enough donations are received.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. '';_; by moot - 11/01/03 @ 10:30PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#17] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#17]</br>
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* November 2 - moot resets img.4chan.net and drops all MySQL tables, deleting all post counts and purging all boards. He announces the following changes: The maximum post limit for each board is reduced from 3000 to 750. MySQLd and PHP were optimized and moot laments that he cannot implement auto-pruning after ten pages like 2chan.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''PRUNED by moot - 11/02/03 @ 7:27PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#18] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#18]</br>
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* November 7 - moot makes a newspost announcing an upcoming ''Archive'' feature, new boards and a problem with PayPal that isn't letting him retrieve payments.<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''NOTES by moot - 11/07/03 @ 12:46AM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#19] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#19]</br>
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* November 8 - New Boards: ○ '''/a/ - Anime''' ○ '''/l/ - Lolikon'''.
* November 8 - /a/ was planned from the start as the second main board together with /b/, while /l/ happens after a week-long flamewars over porn in /c/. moot announces the future release of a database of archived 4chan threads that requires a paid subscription, which had been suggested by RH regular (now mod) Spork, a week before. By this time /b/ lost the anime/random subtitle and became just "Random".<ref name="4channet"/><ref>
* News post. ''UPDATE by moot - 11/08/03 @ 5:40PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#20] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#20]</br>
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* November 10 - New Boards: ○ '''/r/ - TRAINZ'''
* November 10 - moot and RH friends ''thatdog'' set to finish the Gazou+Futaba shishkebab moot had created. thatdog also works on the ''beta-archive'' and sets up a test board called TRAINZ. It's not announced anywhere but /b/.<ref>
* Terra and moot on Futallaby credits. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040602192557/http://www.1chan.net/futallaby/]</br>
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* November 20 - '''Second Death of 4chan''' - The RH-backed 4chan implodes. Ichiban and moot have a talk and he moves out of their server space, moot is forced to take down the site and loses his email. Hours later thatdog sets up the first 4chan spinoff, '''1chan.net''' and sets up prototype site for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20040202191226/http://www.1chan.net/demo/ Futaba-script fork they are working on.]
* November 22 - Deleted boards: • /r/ - TRAINZ
* November 22 - 4chan returns following two days of downtime after moot reformatted the now-dedicated server to RH9, making the everything considerably faster. he also deletes /r/ as it's now redundant and announces that the thread archive will be up shortly. Somewhat humbled, he thanks all the people who helped him code the site so far.<ref>
* News post. ''STATE OF 4CHAN by moot - 11/22/03 @ 1:55PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#21] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#21]</br>
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* November 23 - moot comments on many technical problems still unfixed. The RH9 apt-get repository was cleared out, causing GIFs not to be thumbnailed correctly for a few hours. thumbnailing has problems and .bmp files are not uploading properly.<ref>
* News post. ''UPGRADES by moot - 11/23/03 @ 9:03PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#22] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#22]</br>
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* November 28 - moot announces 3-days downtime to fix lingering problems.<ref>
* News post. ''DOWNTIME by moot - 11/28/03 @ 8:40PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#23] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#23]</br>
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* November 29 - Downtime cancelled. Another RH regular now turned admin, ''DJLucid''<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> managed to fix every single problem without needing to reformat the servers. He also states that by next week thatdog will have a major backend rework of futaba-script ready.<ref>
* News post. ''FIXED by moot - 11/29/03 @ 5:38AM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#24] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#24]</br>
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* November 30 - moot announces his @4chan.net email is working again, a new context for the site's favicon.<ref>
* News post. ''E-MAIL & CONTEST by moot - 11/30/03 @ 10:50PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#25] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#25]</br>
* FavIcon contest. .org domain only. [https://www.4chan.org/contests] archive.is [https://archive.is/B9ZFs]</br>
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* December 8 - The FavIcon contests ends. RH regular turned 4chan developer ''shut''<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> announces the winner.<ref>
* Winner. org era page. [https://4chan.org/contests/iconwin] archive.is [https://archive.is/4tbgp]</br>
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* December 16 - New Boards: ○ '''/t/ - Torrents'''
* December 16 - Along with a '''4chan Torrent Tracker'''. moot tightens the rules regarding /h/ and /l/ and cracks down on rule breakers. moot also considers blocking Japanese domains due to the fact that they make up half of 4chan's traffic and post only extremely rarely. He reminds everyone to not sass the mods.<ref>
* News post. ''GREETINGS by moot - 12/16/03 @ 11:58PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#26] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#26]</br>
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* December 17 - '''Goodbye Japan''' - moot blocks all Japanese IPs, who had been keeping /c/ as the second fastest board at the cost of a large chunk of the site's bandwidth. Apparently, moot says that in the two weeks before the announcement, Japanese domains had accounted for 650 GB but only made about fifty posts or so. <ref>
* News post. ''JAPAN by moot - 12/17/03 @ 12:49PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#27] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#27]</br>
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* December 20 - '''Futallaby''' - thatdog's great work is done. '''Futallaby''' is an upgraded Futaba script sporting a complete rework of the backend with some UI upgrades. 4chan changes its footer text ''"- GazouBBS + futaba + futallaby -"''. The first published version is ''v031222'' and moot and later RH regular ''terra'' (maintainer [https://web.archive.org/web/20031130213309/http://pyoko.org:80/ Pyoko.org,] [https://digicharat.fandom.com/wiki/Pyocola_Analogue_III named after Piyoko from ''Di Gi Charat''.]<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> contributed to the code.<ref>
* News post. ''FUTALLABY by moot - 12/20/03 @ 12:39PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#28] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#28]</br>
* Terra and moot on Futallaby credits. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040602192557/http://www.1chan.net/futallaby/]</br>
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* December 23 - The first Futallaby website is created by Terra, '''Burichan''', who advertises it as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20040218054729/http://burichan.pyoko.org/ "Gay 4chan".] The primary board ''/b/ - Bridget'' is about the eponymous ''Bridget'' from ''Guilty Gear'' who Terra (''terra !hv8fIUoYQw'' in Burichan) describes as the "posterboy for yaoi". Terra shakes up the colour schemes from soft red of Futaba to a cool blue shade.<ref>
* Nameless Rumia's page on Burichan. [https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=burichan] archive.is [https://archive.today/6R9GE]</br>
* 2003/12/23. First test threads on Burichan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040218173218/http://burichan.pyoko.org/b/14.htm]</br>
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* December 29 - Deleted boards: • /l/ - Lolikon
* December 29 - Following a massive flood of child pornography, /l/ is deleted. moot refuses to talk about it, so RH regular and (presumably) former /l/ board mod ''Censored Vagina''<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> states that the raid wasn't the only reason, citing the board becoming attracting people who think posting such content is ok required a "practical solution". Minutes later, moot announces that although he has blocked Japanese domains, his traffic from the rest of the world has now passed the rate from before December 17, meaning that moot's server bill is still $400/month.<ref>
* News post. ''NEWS by CV - 12/29/03 @ 10:00PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#29] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#29]</br>
* News post. ''PAYPAL by moot - 12/29/03 @ 10:03PM EST'' [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#30] archive.is [https://archive.today/3iVup#30]</br>
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===2004===
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* January 8 - New Boards: ○ '''/r/ - Request'''
* January 8 - /l/ returns. /r/ was created chiefly for torrent requests after /t/ was filled with beggars, although it quickly morphed into the /r/ we know and love today.<ref>
* News post. ''/r/ by moot - 1/08/04 @ 5:30PM EST''. [https://archive.today/3iVup#34]</br>
* News post. ''/l/ RETURNS by CV - 1/08/04 @ 5:13PM EST''. [https://archive.today/3iVup#33]</br></ref>
* January 25 - Studio ADTRW Manager now turned 4chan Manager ''Censored Vagina'' makes a news post announcing that the torrent tracker and /t/ had been taken down due to representing a major strain on the server. He declared that the tracker will return shortly in a considerably smaller form, with a maximum of 40 torrents.<ref>
* News post. ''/t/ AND THE TRACKER by CV - 1/25/04 @ 9:40PM EST''[https://archive.today/3iVup#35]</br>
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* January 30 - moot writes a news post. He announces that the torrent tracker will return shortly albeit it in a considerably smaller form, with a maximum of 40 torrents and profoundly thanks donators and supporters. He also adds the donate button to all boards and '''4chan's first advertisement''': A small 88x31 ''AnimeNation'' ad banner above it.<ref>* News post. ''STATUS by moot - 1/30/04 @ 12:36PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#36]</ref>
* February 8 - moot announces all previous bans are now lifted, as he can now writer ban reasons.<ref>* News post. ''BANS by moot - 2/08/04 @ 6:18PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#37]</ref>
* February 11 - People report they can't access 4chan and moot makes a news post explaining it's a Windows XP registry problem and how to fix it.<ref>* News post ''PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED by moot - 2/11/04 @ 8:40PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#38]</ref>
* February 11 or 12 - '''Third Death of 4chan''' - Something Awful user "nubdestroyer" attempts to get 4chan shut down, this time by e-mailing GoDaddy, the owner of 4chan.net. ''He succeeds''.
* February 14 - moot registers '''4chan.org''' and reestablishes the site there, complaining GoDaddy simply never answered back.<ref>
* News post ''DOMAIN by moot - 2/14/04 @ 10:33AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#39]</br>
* Domain registry info [https://archive.today/3fEPz].</ref>
* February 16 - moot writers a news post. He announces that 4chan is now fully integrated on the org domain, but he still hopes to get net back. He also sets up the new mootmail ''moot@4chan.org''<ref>* News post. ''TEMP FIX by moot - 2/16/04 @ 10:20PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#40]</ref>
* February 19 - New Boards: ○ '''/f/ - Flash'''.
* February 19 -  /f/ is an "Upload Board" with file upload code from 2chan (someone coded this for moot, can't remember who). Only 20 threads max. /t/ returns, albeit without the tracker. moot announces this in a news post, also showing the new '''FAQ''' page, also explains that the .net domain is flagged "Redemption Period" which is why it was taken out.<ref>* News post ''UPDATES by moot - 2/19/04 @ 1:55AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#41]</ref>
* February 21 - New Boards: ○ '''/amh/ - Anime-Manga-Hentai''' ○ '''/bbs/ - 4chan Discussion'''.
* February 21 - '''4chan BBS''' - Moot introduces the 4chan "Discussion Boards", two experimental textboards built from [https://web.archive.org/web/20031009111029/http://tolkien.s7.xrea.com/jikken/index.html 0ch], the Perl clone of 2channel's now proprietary code. The experiment is labelled a failure and the boards are closed in a few days.<ref>
* News post ''0ch by moot - 2/21/04 @ 1:45AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#42]</br>
* 0ch BBS script 4.XX hosted at mine.nu, 2005. (moot likely used a 3.XX version) [https://web.archive.org/web/20050426031348/http://0ch.mine.nu/]</br>
* What it looked life: 0ch proof of concept, hosted by f17 around August 2003. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050217141040/http://f17.aaa.livedoor.jp/~zerotest/jikken/index.html]</br>
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* February 22 - Censored Vagina writers a news post answer donator questions: He explains the cost of running 4chan for the rest of 2004 should add up to $2,200. He also announces they plan to set up rotating ad banners.<ref>* News post ''FUND RAISING by CV - 2/22/04 @ 12:25PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#42]</ref>
* March 1 - New Boards: ○ '''/q/ - EMERGENCY DISCUSSION'''
* March 1 - '''First Donation Drive''' - In a news post titled '''THE END''', a very upset moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay out of pocket and the donation money hasn't been enough. He makes one final request for donations and hopes for the best. He creates /q/ to discuss the problem, placing it at the bottom of the frontpage sidebar. There, an awkward poster under the name ''Lain!I53PaYay6o'' offers to donate more but fumbles the approach, upsetting many staff members and becoming a meme.<ref>
* News post ''THE END by moot - 3/01/04 @ 2:20AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#44]</br>
* Lain's unfortunate post. 2004/03/01. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2004-03-01-q-lain.png]</br>
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* March 8 - After a week-long swarm of donations, moot announces that not only does he have enough money to pay the March bill, but that enough money was donated to keep the site running into 2005 and is considering contracting a second server. moot thanks all donators and posters and announces that he is currently in "Cancun, Mexico". /q/ was likely deleted at this point, having become the place of flamewars about /l/.<ref>
* News post ''FRESH START by moot - 3/08/04 @ 7:05PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#45]</br>
* /q/ thread by shii mentioning a flamewar about /l/. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2004-03-05-q-thread.png]</br>
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* March 28 - A disheartened moot writes a news post announcing that 4chan.org is likely to be permanent, and encouraged anons to spread the news. By now, 4chan.net is occupied by domain squatters (people who buy domains that will get a lot of traffic, such as porn.com, and put ads on the page).<ref>* News post ''4CHAN.? by moot - 3/28/04 @ 3:05PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#46]</ref>
* March 30 - New Boards: ○ '''/p/ - Photography''' ○ '''/cm/ - Cute/Male'''
* March 30 - Both boards are added at some point prior this date. /g/ was deleted. Drama ensued and moot writes a news posts where he clarifies the rules for some boards, telling people to not use /d/ as a replacement /g/, not shitpost on /p/ or post minors on /s/. He would like to add /g/ back some time, and still wants to make textboards but refuses to use 0ch engine again, calling it "the shittiest perl script known to man". He ask readers for suggestions. /cm/, created either the 30th or 31th, was unannounced and like made to keep male content out of /c/.<ref>* News post ''RULES by moot - 3/30/04 @ 11:25PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#47]</ref>
* April 1 - As an April Fools' Day prank, moot decides to reveal himself as one man named Robert Bobkins. He later makes a news post with another picture of the same man next to an Aztec statue saying ''GREETINGS FROM MEXICO!''. ''mootxico'' is born. <ref>* News post ''HELLO by moot - 4/01/04 @ 9:50PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#48]</ref>
* April 4 - New... Board? Changes: Moderator ''Spork'' creates an official 4chan IRC channel at Pyoko net. '''#4chan''' or ''<nowiki>irc://irc.pyoko.org/4chan</nowiki>''.<ref>* News Post ''IRC by moot - 4/04/04 @ 1:55AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#49]</ref>
* April 19 - 100K GET on /b/ is reached. Many were creating new topics rapidly in hopes of getting the GET for themselves, but 100K GET turned out to be an unrelated text reply in a thread that attempted to be 100K GET. The reply was completely unrelated to the thread that it was in, only saying '''"lol internet"''' with no image. To this day, it is considered to be the most win that a GET has ever been. 
* April 30 - New Boards: ○ '''/dis/ - Discussion''' ○ '''/sug/ - Suggestion'''
* April 30 - In response to moot's previous news post, world2ch turned RH regular<ref name="raspberryheaven"/> and now 4chan developer ''shii'' came up with '''shiichan''', a PHP rewrite of 0ch. moot then announces that textboards are back and adds them to a new section of the NavBar.<ref>* News post ''DISCUSSION BOARDS by moot - 4/30/04 @ 1:00AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#50]</ref>
* 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.<ref>* News post ''WORTH READING by moot - 5/02/04 @ 6:50PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#51]</ref>
* May 9 - '''Second Donation Drive''' - moot writers a news post announcing that 4chan's bandwidth usage is raping the server bill, exceeding the permitted 500gb limit and thus doubling the cost, noting traffic is ''still'' growing. He states his plan is hiring a second server, which places a one time donation quota of $2400. He also considering adding a PaintBBS 'oekaki' boards and berates troll posts outside /b/.<ref>* News post ''THE SITUATION by moot - 5/09/04 @ 4:30PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#52]</ref>
* June 15 - TheRowan, owner of HentaiKey and host of 5chan, attempts to get 4chan shut down. This time by e-mailing PayPal who controlled 4chan's donations at the time. ''He succeeds'', freezing the donation money.
* June 20 - '''Fourth Death of 4chan''' - A day that will live forever in short-term memory. 4chan dies for the fourth and longest time, nearly ''six weeks''. The site is shut down with the only thing left being macro of moot escaping a crashing jet and the last News post titled <span style="color:maroon">'''''DING DONG, 4CHAN IS DEAD'''''</span>. Among other things, moot blames lack of contribution, exponential growth and his own lack of skill plus asshole posters, lack of donations and the GNAA flooding as the reasons for 4chan's death while thanking the his Raspberry Heaven friends, new world2ch volunteers and SA acquaintances for their continued support through this months long venture.<ref>
* News page ''DING DONG, 4CHAN IS DEAD by moot - 6/20/04 @ 11:35PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#53]</br>
* 4chan.org Frontpage on June 26. [https://archive.today/tvinG]</ref>
* July 24 - '''Birth of the Chanverse''' - As a direct response to 4chan shutting down, a man named Thock created '''iichan''' aka ''Idlechan'', technically the first 4chan spinoff imageboard, built on the '''Wakaba''' engine coded by ''!WAHa.06x36''. It pioneers the what was popularly known as the ''chanverse'', the network of imageboards all claiming pedigree from 4chan's posting culture. It also merged efforts with other IBs and became the first webring of the imageboard scene.<ref name="kareha">
* WaHa's wakaba website hosting the latest version of both engines. [https://wakaba.c3.cx/docs/docs.html] archive.is [https://archive.today/DJva3]</br>
</ref><ref name="idlechan">
* iichan's frontpage, July 30, 2004. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040730073506/http://iichan.net/]
* Nameless Rumia's Wiki, iichan & Wakachan page. [https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=wakachan] archive.is 2025/07 [https://archive.today/uu1kJ]</br>
</ref>
* August 7 - '''Resurrection''' - 4chan returns in its fifth incarnation following six weeks of downtime after gathering up enough money and support. With the revival, new structural changes are added: 4chan now has both official webmasters (''W.T. Snacks'') and sysadmins (''DJLucid''), developers (''shii, shut, etc'') and many new moderators. News post by staff members are made under the name of ''“The Team”''. The news announcement subtly jabs moot for his antagonistic ways, while he later clears  thing up with a note stating that he's still the owner, albeit a much humbled one.<ref>* News post ''RESURRECTION? by "The Team" - 8/07/04 @ 1:30AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#54]</ref>
* August 11 - News post announces 4chan is "fully back" and there's now a '''Portal Page''' acting as a secondary front page (with the ''news'' page being the primary). It's hosted on subdomain ''dis.4chan.org'', hosting 4chan's introduction and categorized board lists. Textboards are re-added under the same subdomain.<ref>* News post ''WE'RE BACK! by "The Team" - 8/11/04 @ 12:00PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#55]</ref>
* August ~14 - New Boards: ○ '''/m/ - mecha''' ○ '''/u/ - Yuri''' ○ '''/n/ - Trains''', imageboards. ○ '''/anime/ - Anime''' ○ '''/ascii/ - ASCII Art''' ○ '''/game/ - Games''', textboards.
* August 14 - Dates are unknown as the boards were likely announced on /sug/, a /b/ sticky or the portal instead of news posts, this is their earliest known date.<ref>
* /b/'s page 1 on 2004/10/15 with visible NavBar. [https://archive.today/TNOkc]</br>
* /m/ being linked in 2004/08/14 [https://archive.today/AnKtD]</br>
* /u/, /n/, /anime/, /ascii/, /game/ are all unconfirmed because the anon who submitted the original date (aug 16) forgot to include the evidence!.</br>
 </ref>
* August 15 - Flammant new Developer ''W.T. Snacks'' announces that 4chan updated its board software to a ''"super-hacked"'' '''Futallaby v081404'''. It contains many new features such as replying with an image, hiding posts, the Name and E-mail fields, displaying image names and sizes, and linking to other posts by adding a ''>>'' next to the post number. Tripcodes were also added to /f/, showing it has a custom board software.<ref>* News post ''NEW IMAGE BOARD FEATURES by W.T. Snacks - 8/15/04 @ 1:45AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#56]</ref> 
* August 18 - Moderator ''Lucid'' aka ''DJLucid'' writes a newspost showing that bandwidth consumption has ''doubled'' despite the downtime. He asserts ad rotation will comes back and encourages people to donate via the ''YowCow Digital Service''. Four days later he edits the post stating YowCow has booted them out due to reports. Typical.<ref>* News post ''BANDWIDTH AND DONATIONS by Lucid - 8/18/04 @ 1:40PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#57]</ref>
* August 27 - Moderator ''Man of Wax'' writers a newspost announcing that 4chan is still struggling with bandwidth, announces that banner ads are back again and can be bought via '''advertise@4chan.org'''. They also announce that they've switched money handlers from PayPal to ''Yahoo PayDirect''. At some point moot edits the post and adds PayDirect closed down.<ref>* News post ''FINANCING 4CHAN by Man of Wax - 8/27/04 @ 1:48PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#58]</ref>
* September 8 - New Boards: ○ '''/k/ - Weapons''' ○ '''/o/ - Auto''' ○ '''/sm/ - Shota/Male'''.
* September 8 - Moderator ''Jibaku'' announces that /b/ is severely lacking in quality and asks users to contribute better. Jibaku also announces that post quantity is going down and what little there is rather bad, callout out /b/ over it, encouraging posters to fix themselves up.<ref>* News post ''BIG UPDATE by Jibaku - 9/08/04 @ 5:00PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#59]</ref>
* September 12 - moot registers '''4channel.org''' in order to comply with TOS requirements for payment processors YowCow and/or PayPal. Safe-for-work (SFW) boards opened via 4chan now redirect to 4channel. The attempt fell through but a partial solution was found by contracting ''Google Ads''.<ref>
* ICANN Lookup on 4channel.org [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:ICANN_Look_Up_4channel-org.PNG]</br>
* /m/ being part of the 4channel redirects. [https://archive.today/wIVEp]</br>
* W.T. Snacks confirming the TOS compliance attempt and the Google Ads. [https://old.sage.moe/img/thread/1/#q5]</br>
* Screenshot of the SWF boards on 4channel.org and with Google Ads. PENDING.</br>
</ref>
* September 26 - Moderator ''Souldark'' writers a news post complaining that contributions has gone too far down and threatens to delete boards if they don't get active. There is also to be a crackdown on trolling. On other news, moot promotes 4chan's first browser extension, the spartanly named '''4chan Firefox NavBar Extension''' coded by ''DamageInc''.<ref>* News post ''NEWS AND VIEWS by Souldark - 9/26/04 @ 9:00PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#60]</ref>
* September 27 - Rampant shitposting about ''chiidesu'', the first (confirmed) girl on 4chan (IRC) prompts moot to rename /b/ to an image called "chiidesusbf" lifted from her Livejournal. The image has been lost time, but this so far the earliest known humoristic '''HTML / CSS Hack''' in 4chan history. Almost a hundred different ones were to come.<ref>
* Nostalgic 4channer made a thread about the event in old.sage.moe. [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/28501827/#28501946]</br>
* Likely the same 4channer but angrier, mentioning chiidesu again. [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/28606629/#28606629]</br>
* 2004/09/27 Screenshot of an unrelated /b/ thread with the header title being the image's html. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2004-09-27-b-screenshot-chiidesu.png]</br>
</ref>
* September 28 - Lucid announces some hours of downtime.<ref>* News post ''DOWNTIME UPTIME by Lucid - 9/28/04 @ 7:09AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#61]</ref>
* September 30 - All boards down. moot writes a news post explaining a server migration went bad accidentally deleted the whole thing and they are working on getting it back up. Snacks later edits the post adding the recovered the data.<ref>* News post ''OH SNAP by moot - 9/30/04 @ 8:22PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#62]</ref>
* October 1 - 4chan turns one year old. No news post is made, moot presumably celebrates on /dis/ and /b/.
* October 9 - New Boards: ○ '''/ib/ - Oekaki Random''' ○ '''/ip/ - Oekaki Pro''' ○ '''/v/ - Video Games''' ○ '''/z/ - ZOMG NONE!!1''', imageboards. ○ '''/tech/ - Technology''', textboard.
* October 9 - /i/ is deleted and /n/ is frozen. All new boards were added a few dates prior. /z/'s creation is unconfirmed but not unannounced, it was a user-moderated board which utilizes the “Idiot King” model from SA’s FYAD where the userbase has to vote for its mod. The board features flashing backgrounds, annoying embedded music, and legendary posts. Their first moderator was legendary shitposter ''Soviet Russia !lM51PoudCg''. Snacks also states /n/ will stay online for some time and trains can be discussed on /o/, and that /dis/ got it's posts restored while he retouched shiichan a bit. There's also a new '''Tools''' page, with links to semi-official 4chan stuff like the now updated ''4chan Firefox NavBar Extension''.<ref>* News post ''BUNCH OF CHANGES by W.T. Snacks - 10/09/04 @ 11:45PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#63]</ref>
* October 23 - '''Idlechan Webring'''. Another Wakaba imageboard, '''Wakachan''' is made. Right as iichan was about to die off from lack of funding. Wakachan's ''Lain'' offers ''Thock'' a refugee board for iichan's posters. The two hit it off and develop the idea making a ''Federation'' of imageboards that would help host, promote and crosslink each other - on layman's terms, a webring. The exact start of the webring project is lost to archives, but plan (and iichan's return) was already being discussed before the end of October.<ref>
* archive.org's wayback machine of wakachan's first test threads in 2004/10/23.</br>
* archive.is 2018/08 capture of archive.org's Wayback Machine feature on wakachan, ''IICHAN IN TWO WEEKS'' thread, archived 2005. [https://archive.today/V7CJK#selection-677.0-677.19]</br>
</ref> Months later the webring includes Squeek's 4-ch.net (for a time), nucleating most active posters in the early chanverse (The others being Burichan, Gurochan, fchan and soon to be joined by WTFux).
* October 27 - Man of Wax announces that 4chan will host a panel at the AnimeUSA 2004 Convention at Viena, Virginia, run personally by him.<ref>* News post ''4CHAN ENTERS THE REAL WORLD by Man of Wax - 10/27/04 @ 10:45PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#64]</ref>
* October 30 - '''First 4chan Panel''' - 4chan hosts a panel at the AnimeUSA 2004 Con in Vienna, Virginia. The same day, 4chan experiences DNS problems, and moot asks that people edit their registries once again.<ref>* News post ''DNS DOOZIES by moot - 10/30/04 @ 8:40PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#65]</ref>
* October 31 - /l/ and /sm/ are deleted due to threats of legal action. 
* November 1 - '''Third Donation Drive''' - Man of Wax announces that 4chan continues to be anally raped by growing bandwidth costs, this time requiring a whooping ''$7400'' to pay, asking for a new donation drive and declaring they are back with YowCow.<ref>
* News post ''HE'S ALMOST DEAD JIM by Man of Wax - 11/01/04 @ 1:10AM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#66]</br>
</ref> On Something Awful, an user named ''squeeks'' promotes his newly registered 2channel-styled BBS '''4-ch.net'''. moot appears to complain that they are stealing his thunder. 4-ch ran on the Waha's recently completed '''Kareha''' engine.<ref name="kareha"/> Contrary to expectations, 4-ch survives and their culture develops heavily influenced by 2ch-style posting, evolving in wildly different ways from mainstream *chan culture. 4-ch goes on to become a major branch of the chanverse, sprouting a small but persistent network of anonymous BBSs.<ref name="4-chnet">
* Squeeks-moot fight. PENDING.
* Xiongnu's Compendium of Personal Ignorance, 4-ch page. [http://xiongnu.org/wiki/doku.php?id=internet:chans:4-ch] archive.is [https://archive.today/YyUDK]</br>
* Nameless Rumia's Wiki, 4-ch.net page. [https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=4-ch] archive.is 2025/07 [https://archive.today/VqyqN]</br>
</ref>
* November 5 - moot registers domain '''not4chan.org''', and hosts a parallel 4chan clone on his servers under the may.not4chan partition. /l/ and /sm/ are moved there. No announcements are made (it's unknown where it was announced, clould have been global announcements), but anons quickly discover they are effectively the same server as bans from one site translate to the other. At some point in time, domain ownership is transferred to saber, friend of moot from the Raspberry Heaven days, while Censored Vagina offered help setting up.<ref>
* May server links. [https://old.sage.moe/b/search/text/%22may.not4chan%22/order/asc/]</br>
* Saber noting not4chan.org downtime. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222000243/http://www.raspberryheaven.net/~saber/not4chan.txt]</br>
</ref>
* November 11 - moot registers domain '''world4ch.org''' as part of a collaboration with Shii.<ref>* ICANN look up on world4ch.org. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:ICANN_Look_Up_world4ch-org.PNG]</ref>
* November 15 - /g/ is deleted again as well due to threats from YowCow to seize 4chan's donations account due ToS violations. This time it's permanent.
* November 30 - ''Donation Drive Successful (at a price)''. moot writers a news post detailing how YowCow is completely retarded, even worse than PayPal and their donations account is once again dead, but also declares that 4chan had made ends meet.<ref>* news post ''WOE IS ME by moot - 11/30/04 @ 9:43PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#67]</ref>
* December 1 - New Boards: ○ '''/tl/ - Torrents/Loli'''
* December 1 - /tl/ is hosted on not4chan.org, earliest known date<ref>* Screenshot of /b/'s bottom page showing the NavBar and /tl/. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:1415429516658.jpg]</ref>
* December 24 - New Boards: ○ '''/lounge/ - Lounge''' ○ '''/vip/ - News for VIP''' ○ '''/img/ - Imageboard Discussion''' ○ '''/sjis/ - SJIS Room''' ○ '''/prog/ - Programming''' ○ '''/games/ - Video Games''' ○ '''/anime/ - Anime & Manga''' ○ '''/carcom/ - Comics & Cartoons''' ○ '''/music/ - Music''' ○ '''/tele/ - Television & Film''' ○ '''/pol/ - Politics''' ○ '''/tech/ - Technology''' ○ '''/comp/ - Computers'''
* December 24 - '''world4ch''' - Shii pushes a major update for shiichan, rechristening the engine as '''world4ch''' and introducing comprehensive changes to 0ch's code. First is the introduction of 2channel styled persistent '''Frames''' (opposed to the frontpage only sidebar) and multiple '''Styles''' or '''Themes''': world4ch's original being '''Pseud0ch''', an imitation of 2channel's colour scheme with a nifty brickwall motiff, but also making '''Burichan''' which is adapted from the colour scheme of the ''gay 4chan'' website of the same name. world4ch is hosted on dis.4chan.org partition as a separate codebase with it's own sidebar frame that crosslinks to 4chan. 4chan links back with a "world4ch" section on the NavBar. shii made several new boards imitating the 2ch "everything and the kitchen sink" organization style, and singles out: /lounge/ a general off-topic forum, /meta/ for discussing the nascent chanverse scene, /vip/ to serve as the local /b/. All 4chan BSS non-meta textboards (/ascii/, /tech/, /game/ and /anime/) are deleted and their replacements don't inherit post history. /dis/ and /sug/ continue existing. It's well received as both staffer and anon congratulate shii, albeit some complain it is not original when ''!WAHa.06x36'' and ''lolocaust'', both 4-ch devs, accuse him of stealing their site's features.<ref>
* Archive of /lounge/ on old.sage.moe. First post dates to ''24/12, 12:00 AM GNT''. [https://old.sage.moe/lounge/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /vip/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/disvip/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /img/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/img/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /sjis/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/sjis/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /prog/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/prog/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /anime/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/anime/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /games/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/games/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /carcom/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/carcom/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /music/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/music/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /tele/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/tele/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /pol/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/newpol/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /tech/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/tech/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /comp/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/comp/search/order/asc/]</br>
* 4-ch posters complaining about plagiarism. [https://old.sage.moe/lounge/thread/14/]</br>
* Burichan theme, earliest mention. [https://old.sage.moe/lounge/thread/11/#70]</br>
</ref>
* December 29 - A few days later (12/29 at earliest) world4ch is promoted on an ad-hoc '''Global Announcements''' section replacing the now useless donate button with the text <span style="color:red">'''''CHECK OUT WORLD2CH'''''</span> ('world2ch' embed with an unknown hyperlink).<ref>
* Original global announcement mention. [ (mention: [https://old.sage.moe/lounge/thread/14/#q14])]</br>
* Global announcement for world4ch on 2005/02/14 (second version) [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-02-14-b-frontpage.jpg#Summary]</br>
</ref>
* December 27 - New Boards. ○ '''/book/ - Books''' ○ '''/sci/ - Science & Math'''
* December 27 - Unannounced new boards. Likely promoted on the portal, /b/ or the global announcements.<ref>
* Archive of /book/ on old.sage.moe. First post dates to ''27/12, 05:36 AM GMT''.. [https://old.sage.moe/book/search/order/asc/]</br> 
* Archive of /sci/ on old.sage.moe. Ditto. [https://old.sage.moe/dissci/search/order/asc/]
</ref>
* December 28 - '''New Layout''' - moot writes a news post announcing world4ch's improvements have been adapted to 4chan proper - meaning the static frontpage sidebar written by [NPH] has been replaced, albeit it can still be accessed. The ''frames'' era begins now. The updated sidebar sections read the following, responding to the NavBar. '''4chan''' (''Remove Frames'') - '''4chan BBS''' (''/dis/ - /sug/'' - ''more... world4ch'' (''COLLAPSIBLE PENDING'') ) - '''Image Boards''' (''/a/ - /b/ - /c/ - /cm/ - /d/ - /h/ - /k/ - /l/ - /m/ - /o/ - /r/ - /s/ - /sm/ - /t/ - /tl/ - /u/ - /v/ - /w/ - /y/'') - ''' Drawing Boards''' (''/ip/ - /ic/'') - '''Upload Boards''' (''/f/''). With the old bottom text blurb reading: ''<u>Note:</u> These boards may or may not be worksafe. All users give up their right to a worksafe enviroment when entering these boards - you have been warned.'' A "style" selection reading ''[ Futaba / Burichan ]'' is added below the post deletion button. <ref>* News post ''NEW LAYOUT by moot - 12/28/04 @ 6:00PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#68]</ref>

===2005===
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* January 2 - New Boards: ○ '''/new/ - World News'''
* January 2 - /new/ likely announced on the portal.<ref>
* Archive of /new/ on old.sage.moe. First post dates to ''01/03, 01:59 GMT''. [https://old.sage.moe/newnew/search/order/asc/]</br>
</ref>
* January 3 - '''Shii gets booted off team4chan''' - Without consulting moot, Shii adds crosslinks to 4-ch in the boardlist of world4ch. Squeeks does the same. moot reverts the changes the same day and has an episode where he orders the rest of the team to never let shii touch anything site-level again. While not explicitly kicked out, shii's relation with the team never recovers and he cold quits there and then, although he remains an active member of both site and IRC.<ref>* 4-ch thread where Shii proposes crosslinking. [https://archives.4-ch.net/req/kareha.pl/1104718613/]</ref>
* January 13 - 4chan's IRC channel #4chan moves from Pyoko to a moot-owned channel on Rizon net (more concretely: ''<nowiki>irc://irc.rizon.net/4chan</nowiki>''). moot announces this in a news post along with one of the chat's first lines: ''<moot> i wish to be the little girl'' and the protocol link to the channel gets put on it's frames section '''IRC''' under ''#4chan @ irc.rizon.net''<ref>
* News post ''WE ARE LONELY by moot - 1/13/05 @ 12:45PM EST'' [https://archive.today/3iVup#69]</br>
</ref><ref name="screenshotb20050214"/>
* January 19 - New Boards: ○ '''/e/ - Ecchi''' ○ '''/3/ - 3DCG''' (Three Dimensional Computer Graphics) ○ '''/g/ - Technology''' ○ '''/n/ - Nature & Wildlife'''. 
* January 19 - All boards are announced on the global announcements section under "'''<span style="color:red"><span style="color:blue">/3/ /e/ /g/ /n/</span> TRIAL BOARDS ADDED - POST TO THEM</span>'''", appended below the previous world4ch announcement. /g/ and /n/ are worksafe.<ref name="screenshotb20050214"/>
* January 23 - Squeeks removes the crosslinks to world4ch.<ref>* 4-ch thread. [https://archives.4-ch.net/req/kareha.pl/1104718613/]</ref>
* January 24 - W.T.Snacks enables the first '''Emoticon''' on /b/ and they quickly spam it everywhere. Tired of the overuse, moot suggests snacks to wordfilter it to a giant bold ''NIGGERS AND BISCUITS''. What the original emoticon was is unknown, but a handful others follow (and most get wordfiltered)<ref>
* 2005/01/24 /b/ screenshot with the N AND B wordfilter. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-01-24-b-niggers-and-biscuits-wordfilter.jpg]</br>
</ref>
* January 27 - New Boards: ○ '''/ic/ - Artwork/Critique''' ○ '''/p/ - Photography''' ○ '''/x/ - General Photo'''.
* January 27 - The previous /p/ is deleted with /x/'s taking it's place. It's unknown if posts were moved. The new /p/ has new features such as EXIF data.<ref>
* 2005/01/27 - Screenshot of /ic/ on it's first day. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-01-27-screenshot-ic.jpg]</br>
</ref>
* February 2 - New Boards: ○ '''/food/ - Food''', textboard.
* February 2 - Unannounced. Likely the last admin change pushed by shii.<ref>
* Archive of /food/ on old.sage.moe. First post dates to ''02/02, 13:54 GMT''. [https://old.sage.moe/food/search/order/asc/]
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* February 3 - moot and Developer ''shut'' register '''ikuzo.org''', a side project they had formulated during 4chan's downtime in summer 2004. The site was basically meant to be a weeaboo site with news and reviews of things like anime, hentai, and general Japanese imports. However, the project is quickly abandoned and the site now redirects to img.4chan.org. 
* February 7 - Saber updates not4chan's rules and posts a news posts on their frontpage. The contents are unknown.<ref name="screenshotl20050418"/>
* February 25 - In an unknown date between Feb 25 to March 21, the global announcements are retracted and replaced with a restored YowCow Donation button.
* February 26 - New Boards: ○ '''/gif/ - Animated GIF''' ○ '''/hr/ - High Resolution''' ○ '''/wg/ - Wallpapers/General'''.
* February 26 - /x/ is removed. All three boards are added as trial status while the previous addition graduate to permanent boards. The changes were suggested during the IRC townhall.<ref>
* 2005/03/30 Screenshot showing the trial status of the new boards. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-03-30-b-screenshot.png]</br>
</ref>
* March 21 - Earliest known date for the return of YowCow donations. Below the button, global announcement solemnly reads: "'''<span style="color:red">Please support 4chan</span>'''". Google Ads are not present on /b/. It is likely that as a requirement to get the account back and the /b/ ads, '''not4chan's boards /l/, /sm/ and /tl/ had to be delinked on frames''', making neither site link back to the other anymore. Further frames changes sees the textboards collapsible become a new '''world4ch''' subsection with a custom brownish color.<ref>
* 2005/03/21. 888888 GET. Showing donation button and known google ads on /b/. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:888888_on_b.jpg]</br>
* 2005/03/22. 900000 GET. Showing frames with not4chan boards removed. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-03-22-screenshot-b-900000-GET.jpg]</br>
* 2005/04/24. /b/ screenshot of a non-descript thread showing donation button and known google ads on /b/. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-04-24-b-thread.jpg]</br>
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* March 31 - moot purchases a new server (tmp.4chan.org, backup of orz.4chan.org) and announces that it will be up in April. He also announces that 4chan will have a panel at Otakon 2005 and announces that he would soon recruit a new administrator following DJ Lucid's (4chan admin) departure. (This is likely when Modern Vac Bob got hired)
* April 1 - New Boards: ○ '''/fur/ - Furry'''. 
* April 1 - '''[https://archive.org/download/4chanCaps2005/4chan-caps-2005.zip/4chan-caps-2005%2Fdata.4chan.org%2Fb%2Fsrc%2F1118029064543.jpg Aprils Fur’s Day]'''- For April Fools' Day, moot makes a front-page newspost containing a picture new of Robert Bopkins in graduation gear shortly after graduating from Stanford University, along with the message "GREETINGS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL!". moot also creates a new board ''/fur/'', despite his promise never to do so. Although many think it the board is simply an April Fools' Day joke, the board remained the next day, and the board was started to be taken seriously. However, on the morning of April 3rd, everyone who had posted in /fur/ was banned for three months, causing a ''massive shitstorm'' given how many people were just playing along. Tripcode user ''Tapioca'' makes a rant post telling furries to go to fchan that gets stickied. The drama from the events gets to the point /fur/ became a meme in the zeitgeist of furry and anon alike for years to come.<ref>
* 2005/04/03 - /b/ screenshot of the Tapioca sticky [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-04-03-screenshot-edited-b-aprils-furs.jpg]</br>
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* April 18 - New Boards: ○ '''/rl/ - Request/Loli''', not4chan imageboard.
* April 18 - Earliest known mention.<ref>
* Mention, 4chan /r/ post. [https://old.sage.moe/r/thread/86886/#87097]</br>
</ref><ref name="screenshotl20050418"/>
* April 30 - Something Awful falls into a Purity Spiral and purges any ADTRW poster who ever made a positive post of media with lolicon in it. (former) moderator Shii is of course banned. Hours later Saber and Censored Vagina also get banned after being called out about not4chan. '''Anons on 4chan start joking that 4chan was founded by people banned from SA, starting a decades old internet myth that persists to this day.'''<ref>
* Thread where ADTRW is accused of being filled with pedophiles. PEDNING.</br>
* Something Awful ban long, April 30. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-04-30-Something_Awful_Ban_Log.jpg]</ref>
* May 12 to June 6 - /3/ was probably deleted somewhere in this period, according to ancient 4chan screenshots.
* June 6 - Cracky-chan pics become a bannable offense, according to W. T. Snacks, per alleged request of Cracky-chan herself.
* July - /b/ Warchief Rend Niggerhand opens Crackypedia, a place with all storts of stalkerish information about Cracky
* July 1 - Many of 4chan's boards were closed unexpectedly and announcement was supposedly made by "moot's secretary" was posted on the front page, announcing that moot had abandoned 4chan and that 4chan would cease operations in a few days due to lack of funding. The next day, moot made a newspost announcing that that this had all happened behind his back, and that the post was neither true nor official. 
* August 13 - '''Second 4chan Panel''' - Shortly after celebrating one year of uptime, 4chan starts its panel at Otakon 2005, the first time ever that /b/tards actually met the real moot, after which moot revealed that "Robert Bopkins" was not only not him, but that Bopkins' name was actually Eric J. Ross and that moot picked the photos at random. Everyone has a really good time and moot hangs out with the other /b/tards who flip out over the fact that they are experiencing mootfaggotry IRL. 
* August 23 - 7chan.org is created
* August 28 - '''DONATE OR DIE 2005''' - The fourth and last donation Drive. moot announced that he requires $20,000 in donations to purchase three baremetal servers (bin.4chan.org, nov.4chan.org, and a second img.4chan.org). Frenzy started, with camwhores showing their tits and vagoo if users donated to 4chan. Within a week, $14,000 was raised, which was actually enough to purchase the three servers, although they fell short of their goal. Later, on September 15th, moot announces that donations will cease September 30th, and even then can only be delivered by snail mail. 
* September 28 - Some browsers were having problems loading site html with frames on.<ref>
* 2005/09/28 frames bug. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:4chan-frames-bug.jpg]</br>
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* October 1 - 4chan turns two years old. Dan makes a commemorative picture.
* October 25 - moot announces that "things are looking up" and announces that many new features will be added to 4chan, including the DevBlog. He also begs for people to advertise because he needs money to construct additional pylons. 
* October 30 - '''Firing of W.T.Snacks''' - moot and Snacks have a long fight over IRC as moot takes the site down for a few hours to fix some problems. moot rages against Snacks for being a lazy coder and threatens to take away his server access, Snacks doesn't take it sitting. They both go to sleep, and continue in the afternoon the next day for about three hours, until moot tells Snacks that he's fired, closing his account. Snacks' friends continue to make Radio threads that occasionally get deleted.
* October 31 - The '''4chan Development Blog''' is inaugurated at ''www.4chan.org/blog''. shut publishes a post titled ''"Behind the Scenes at 4chan!"'' where he shows off the ''Romper Room'' - a nickname for the Moderator IRC, '''#team4chan''' - and the homebrew ''admin toolkit'' written in PHP, '''FutabaLight'''. In the following days, shut and moot answer comments while the latter declares that they have no intention of releasing, much less selling their modified Fuballaby code, arguing it's ''"5th generation script, i have no intention of selling code that isn't really ours"''.<ref>* DevBlog post ''Behind the Scenes at 4chan!'' - shut, 2005/10/31 4:01 AM. Full page Screenshot [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Www_4chan_org_blog_2005_10_31_behind-the-scenes-at-4chan.png]</ref>
* November 1 - After "losing" a camwhore battle on /b/, moot gives prominent /f/ creator ''Xenon'' an admin account and tell him he can do whatever he wants on /b/ for the next day. He thoroughly rapes /b/'s CSS and causes moot start fucking with /b/'s lay out too, starting a years long tradition.
* November 3 - Around this time Xenon released the chatlogs from moot and Snacks' fight on /b/, causing massive outrage. 
* December 19 - '''First Janitor Recruitment''' - moot posts a thread in /v/ asking for applications to be a '''Janitor''', volunteers who read reports and delete posts, which was up to that point unheard of. News spread and many applications were received. Janitors were implemented within the month.

===2006===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2005 | ◄]] [[#2007 | ►]]
* February 2 - Latest known appearance of /dis/ and /sug/. By next week, they are removed.<ref>* Full page archive of a /b/ thread on 2006/02/02 with NavBar on. [https://vyrd.bibanon.org/rx/4711564.html] Archived [https://archive.today/iK605]</ref>
* February 6 - orz.4chan.org and cgi.4chan.org crash and are not fixed until three days later. During this time the secret board /5/ was deleted. As it was hoted on the orz server, the crash is possibly related.
* February 17 - The three new servers purchased during the Donate or Die 2005 campaign are successfully brought online. Each served as a backup for three of 4chan's content servers, with nov.4chan.org backing up cgi, bin.4chan.org backing up zip, and tmp.4chan.org backing up orz (img was already backed up by dat.4chan.org). In addition, the new servers took care of all post submissions, speeding up the boards significantly. 
* February 18 - The day after the new servers are installed, 5M GET is achieved, during which the posting rate increased twenty fold. The servers were put to the test, with jumbo.4chan.org maxing out its line at 99.31 Mbit/s (~12.41 megabytes per second). 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. 
* February 20 - New Boards: ○ '''/lang/ - Foreign Language''' ○ '''/sports/ - Sports''', textboards. 
* February 20 - By now, Developer ''Mr. Vac Bob'' (MVB) was on w4ch maintenance duties.<ref>
* Archive of /lang/ on old.sage.moe. First post dates to ''02/20, 21:42 GMT''. [https://old.sage.moe/lang/search/order/asc/]</br>
* Archive of /sports/ on old.sage.moe. First post dates to ''02/20, 22:23 GMT''. [https://old.sage.moe/sports/search/order/asc/]</br>
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* March 14 - /a/ was still titled Anime at this time.
* March 24 - Smash hit movie ''V for Vendetta'', released a few weeks ago, sees their '''Guy Fawkes Mask''' imagery integrated into the aesthetics of /b/ and the growing ''Anonymous'' identity.<ref>
* Screenshot of one of the earliest threads linking the Guy Fawkes mask with /b/'s identity. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2006-03-24-b-copypasta.jpg]</ref>
* April 6 - New Boards: ○ '''/co/ - Comics & Cartoons''' ○ '''/po/ - Papercraft & Origami''' ○ '''/sp/ - Sports'''. 
* April 6 - Added on a trial basis, if their activity doesn't cut it, they will be deleted.
* April 8 - New Boards: ○ '''/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL''' (Elegant Gothic Lolita) ○ '''/ck/ - Food & Cooking''' ○ '''/mu/ - Music''' ○ '''/n/ - News''' ○ '''/tv/ - Television''' ○ '''/i/ - Oekaki''' ○ '''/an/ - Animals & Nature''' ○ '''/ss/ - Straight/Shota''' ○ '''/yg/ - Yogurt'''.
* April 8 - More trial boards are added. /ib/ and /ip/ are deleted and merged back into /i/ with all their posts intact. The previous animals board, /n/, is deleted and no posts are moved. At the time of the merger, /ib/ had accumulated just over 14200 posts, while /ip/ only managed just under 5600 posts. It's possible than when the boards were merged, the final post numbers were combined into one, as evidenced by /i/'s post count being at 23200 by the start of June 2006. /ss/ is added to not4chan. moot secretly adds the mysterious ''Yogurt'' board. The NavBar reads: ''[ a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / w / wg ] [ i / ic ] [ cm / y ] [ an / cgl / co / mu / n / po / sp / tv ]'' - Roughly representing ''[ Image Boards ] [ Drawing Boards ] [ Gay ] [ Trial Boards ]'' - It is also the point where the Frames section starts being ignored in favour of NavBar oriented sectioning.<ref>
* 2006/08/30 - Screenshot of the post-April NavBar. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2006-08-30-b-screenshot-navbar.png]
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* April 13 - By this time, /a/'s title has been changed to Anime & Manga.
* April 14 - moot announces that the three servers purchased during Donate or Die 2005 have been collocated and are up and running and also announces that he will rarely use the front page for small updates from now on, instead choosing to announce them on the DevBlog and blotter. moot also announces that 4chan will have a panel at which he will appear at AnimeCentral 2006, which took place on May 6.
* May 13 - Earliest known mention of <nowiki>http://www.4chan.org/tmp/tiny/'''tiny.cgi'''</nowiki><ref>Post. [http://www.4chan.org/tmp/tiny/tiny.cgi]</ref>
* June 10 - /v/ gets a [https://randomcrapmuseum.neocities.org/exhibits/4chan/2006-GEC-tan-thread/829381 sticky] dedicated to GEC-tan (Giant Enemy Crab drawn as an anime girl).
* July 11 - A reporting system across all boards is finally added, with a [https://archive.today/qNXT3 global message] complete with image plastered across every board. [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/10163722/ Response is mixed].
* July 20 - moot announces that they will have a panel at Otakon 2006 from August 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland, with enough seating capacity to allow 680 people compared to the 230 from Otakon 2005. 
* July 22 - [https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/1000000/ /v/ reaches 1M GET], considered to be one of the greatest non-/b/ gets of all time. The GET was a picture of PONG, thus a very fitting get for /v/. 
* July 23 - '''not4chan dies''' - moot closes not4chan.org and removes it from his servers, deleting the site and boards /l/, /sm/, /ss/, /tl/ & /rl/. Moderator ''Butter'' states ''too many resources taken up for something not even associated with 4chan directly'' as the reason, hinting that saber and moot may have had a falling out.<ref>Thread. [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/10627878]</br></ref>
* August 4 - '''Third 4chan Panel''' - Otakon 2006 starts and so does 4chan's panel. Many important 4channers are there, including moot, shut, Shii, and the apparent return of W.T. Snacks. An epic sermon was delivered by "Reverend" Lemmy Caution to spread the gospel of Raptor Jesus, and moot even created a new board, /con/ (Conventions), for people at the con to use, which was deleted a few hours after the con ended. 
* August 12 - The 4chan :codes: (words put between colons that are turned into smilies, like how posting :happy: would display a happy emoticon, for example) are released to the site. They are soon spammed all over the place, and threads are pruned extremely quickly. 
* August 23 - '''The /b/-day''' - After /b/ goes on an enormous raiding spree, moot [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/12080322 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'''.<ref name="bday">
* Images for reference [https://i.imgur.com/k2OMPbe.jpg #1]
* Images for reference [https://i.imgur.com/6NHBE1k.jpg #2]
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* August 30 - A not4chan revival site is opened at '''not4chan.us''' by admin narunett / narunetto.<ref>not4chan.us opening date. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061108065857/http://not4chan.us/]</ref>
* October 1 - 4chan celebrates its third anniversary. Every board gets blue-and-pink striped party hats slapped on the top of each thread. /b/tards made pictures interacting with the hats, causing many threads that are epic win (a good chunk of epic thread screencaps are from this day). Dan makes a second commemoration.
* November 7 - '''OH NOES THE SERVERS ARE DOWN''' - Coinciding right with the 2006 Midterm elections, moot forgets to pay the bills, the site goes down for two days, during which a page was put up explaining that the servers were gone because moot didn't pay and that the problem would be fixed within "24-48 hours" (crossed out with "FIFTY-BILLION YEARS" written next to it). As the days go by, the server down message gets rewritten with new updates shitting on the electoral parties. Many /b/tards, looking for a temporary *chan to go to until 4chan returns, cause a major spike in traffic for other *chans as /b/tards go there temporarily. 7chan and 12chan were destroyed by the flood of traffic and suffered severe downtime.<ref>4chan frontpage, Nov. 9. [https://archive.today/8mf4P]</ref>
* November 30 - moot announces that more banner ads from ''AdBrite'' will be added to 4chan in December due to the fact that donations are no longer possible. As a result of the extra money, 4chan becomes faster after moot uses the money for extra bandwidth capacity. 
* December 9 - /sp/ is deleted. Pissed off users flock to /b/ to demand /sp/'s release to no avail.

===2007===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2006 | ◄]] [[#2008 | ►]]
* January 9 - moot posts on the front page, announcing that 4chan would soon have interstitial ads due to dwindling revenue. moot also allows all of the trial boards created on April 6, 2006 (except /sp/, which got canned a month prior) to become full boards.
* January 24 - Ian, owner of 7chan, gets a notice from his host saying that the board /i/ violates the TOS. He deletes it.
* January 27 - '''The Great Chan Death of January 2007''' - 4chan has a power failure and dies in the usual manner, however, so do all the other major imageboards of the Internet. 420chan was kicked out of hosting, 12 was suspended by the FBI, 2ch.ru died for unknown reasons, and 7chan couldn’t handle the influx of all the users bases put together and crashed. Even wikichan went down.
* February 15 - New Boards. ○ '''/tg/ - Traditional Games''' ○ '''/x/ - Paranormal'''. 
* February 15 - Both are /b/ spin off boards product of ''Warhammer 40000'' and ''Creepypasta'' threads becoming a permanent presence on /b/'s frontpage. moot also may have or have not responded to 7chan's own /x/ board. moot also announces the winners in a contest for new banners.
* February 16 - Janitor applications are opened and then closed four days later, with the new janitors being implemented around early March.
* March 13 - Artist and friend of team4chan ''Dan Kim'' makes an /a/ thread announcing his entry into the Joe Shuster awards for the ''"Outstanding Canadian Web Comic Creator"'' category, and asks for their votes & support. A mod stickies the thread, which moot did not authorize, and when he finds out later he dunks on Dan Kim.<ref>
* /a/ thread on old sage moe. [https://old.sage.moe/a/thread/2320141/]</br>
* Short /a/non collage of the event. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2007-03-12_-_Dan_Kim.png]</br>
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* March 29 - [https://archive.today/EgpcM the first known instance of a '''Rickroll''' occurs on this day, on /v/,] the bait-and-switch placeholder was the Grand Theft Auto IV reveal. 
* April 20 - 4chan administrators are forced to temporarily shut down img.4chan.org after a thread containing four uncensored images of child pornography became stuck on the front page for over an hour (during which nobody could post) and could not be deleted due to MySQL problems. Rather than getting v&, the plug was pulled on img.4chan.org and was restored around 12-15 hours later. During the downtime, since 7chan was down as well, a massive amount of /b/tards flocked to 420chan, thus ruining 420chan's most special day, 4/20. 
* April 27 - '''Fortune''' is introduced to /b/, a feature that moot had implemented from the very beginning but had [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/25586562/#25587570 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. 
* June 5 - [https://old.sage.moe/co/thread/1000000/ /co/ reaches 1M GET]; the thread disappears within five seconds or so, and due to the strain on the server, the file was deleted as soon as it was uploaded. The post also had the text, "reducto get", referring to Reducto from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, meaning that the picture was most likely one of him. 
* June 22 - On /x/, the [https://archive.today/QD9UF first '''SCP''' thread] is posted, quickly becoming a phenomenon on the board and a sub-culture outside of 4chan.
* July 26 - '''HACKERS ON STEROIDS''' - Fox News makes what is the probably most hilariously retarded act of journalism in history. A sensationaist exposé on "Anonymous" describing them as internet terrorists, followed by a sequence of inane imagery and fake interviews, including: Stock footage an exploding van, an interview of a mother whose sons' MySpace account got hacked and took to defensive measures such as "buying a dog". A voice-modified teenager spouting /b/ catchphrases at random. The presenter goes on a tirade where he coins the therms HACKERS ON STEROIDS, INTERNET HATE MACHINE, "lulz, a corruption of lol". It is likely Hal Turner's harasment has some relation to this. The reception on 4chan was one of ''utter glee'', almost every scene in the exposé became a meme.
* late August (August 16-August 21) - The first known instance of an automated, non-crapflood posting script on 4chan. /b/ gets botspammed ads for something called ''Agloco''.  It won't be the last.
* September 5 - New Boards. ○ '''/rs/ - Rapidshare'''. Upload Board.
* September 5 - It has a custom board script derived from Futaba's Upload Script (same as /f/'s) that allows posting Rapidshare hyperlinks.
* October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 4th birthday with the return of the purple and blue party hats to /b/. A good time is had by all. The yearly commemoration is made by Mac. Global announcements read: "'''<span style="color:red">4chan turns four years old today! (10/01/07)''' :toot:</span>"<ref>
* 2007/01/01 /b/ screenshot with the global announcement. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2007-10-01-bday-hat-combo.jpg]</br>
* Something Awful's :toot: emoticon. [https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilies] archive.today 2023 [https://archive.today/SlZnw#selection-3709.0-3709.6]
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* October 19 - '''The Caturday Nap''' - /i/nsurgents from ''partyvan.org'', a 420chan /i/ spinoff, had come up with the idea of centralizing all chanverse IRC communities in a federation called ''Lulznet'' aka ''irc.lulz.net''. Having gotten a number of local personalities interested (such as legendary shitposter Soviet_Russia and Kirtaner of ''420chan''), they decided it was time to contact moot. User ''kakama'' under the handle ''Locutus_Of_Lulz'' comes to #4chan. The exchange devolves into Star Trek roleplay demanding the channel be moved from its current location (irc.rizon.net) to their IRC. They are simply not taken seriously and get banned in short order, with moot famously coining the phrases ''“Im gonna go make soup”'' and ''"IRC is stupid"''. Angered, lulznet starts a massive crapflod and LOIC attack against 4chan. Yotsuba's servers are timing out, moot's solution: ''Plug them out''. #4chan is swamped with complaints and paranoia for days, including rumous that the site closed down.<ref name="catnap">
* Encyclopedia Dramatica's parody of The Caturday Nap with some live accounts [https://edramatica.com/The_Caturday_Nap] archive.today 2025/07 [https://archive.today/5r6qw]</br>
* Encycloepdia Dramatica's page on partyvan.info aka lulznet [https://edramatica.com/Lulznet] archive.today 2025/07 [https://archive.today/36Ilt]</br>
* BRB, Soup [https://edramatica.com/Brb,_soup] archive.today 2025/02 [https://archive.today/M1hkB]</br>
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* October 20 - 7chan crashes as collateral as their servers cannot take the /b/tard influx, while 420chan engages preventive party hard mode. Simultaneously, Encyclopedia Dramatica DDoS's Wikichan for the sake of it. 
* October 21 - A 7chan mod decides it’s enough and attaches an upgraded version of partyhard.css to /b/, sending everything to hell. Later they decide to DDOS Lulznet, they fail and Lulznet counter-attacks, bringing them down and having their host null them for a while. The p4ch3c0 redirects 7chan to Habbo hotel. /b/tards schedule raids while they wait.
* October 22 - /b/tards and /i/nsurgents gather at Freechan and begin to plan a counter attack. The surge of users puts the site down for fifteen minutes and the OP of the invasion threads gets banned due to fear of Lulznet retaliation. Later that day, the DDoS stopped but moot is still hanging onto his soup and does not attempt to get 4chan back on, turning the sequence even more ridiculous.
* October 24 - A good samaritan decided to DDOS irc.partyvan.info, taking them out of commission and stopping their DDOS. The site returns to normalcy and 4chan spams parodies of moot killing 4chan to get some soup. The sheer embarrassment caused by this fiasco kills the federated chanverse idea there and then. Everyone goes back to their servers while Encyclopedia Dramatica rips lulznet a new one. With the back site up, moot writes on the global announcements that the '''4chan Status''' page has been created (with alternative link ''4chanstatus.blogspot.com'').<ref name="mootstickyb2007octscreenshotpartial"> 
* 2007-Oct-26 moot's /b/ sticky screenshot. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2007-10-26-Changes_in_b.png]
</ref>
* November 3 - '''RSS feeds''' are enabled for every board except /b/. A [https://archive.today/0WEq2 Global message] is added for a few days.
* November 24 - The legendary troll ''King of GETs'' makes his first appearance, posting a picture of Yami Yugi and informing a poster on /a/ that his sister will die if his post number ends in 5, [http://web.archive.org/web/20220110181752/https://iili.io/YL4pmx.png and it did end in 5,] sending the thread into an uproar. In the many years following, KoG would go from predicting 5's to dubs, trips, quads and eventually major GETs using images of yugi, and later cirno.[https://www.youtube.com/user/KingofGETs/videos]
* Early December - moot changes the front page
* December 14 - '''BRB, compromised''' - Hacker group ''Did It For The Lulz'' aka [Lulz] obtains moot’s domain account password. Leaders ''XyriX'' and ''Vipsta'' first redirect the 4chan.org domain to an HTML with hack credits then to ''diditforthelulz.net''. This is a nuclear shitstorm of unequalled proportions. diditforthelulz was a forum with a subsection called ''The New 4chan''. There Xyrix and fellow teammember/girlfriend ''Angyl'' spend days trolling Anons under the pretense of making a "4chan for the people", even giving out IRC Q&As. The sequence becomes a total drama as it's revealed in Freechan and ''Digg'' that [Lulz] member ''CeLe'' was in fact ''Mike Williams'', the owner of 4chan’s hosting provider ''Glexia.com'' and he had simply ''handed the domain over''. There is a [https://archive.org/details/moot-angyl-transcript-4chan-domain-hijacked_202111 recorded phone conversation] where Angyl tries to get a fansign picture of a very angry moot in exchange for giving them the site back, she later states she called him several times until he unplugged his phone. /i/nsurgents (including a redeemed kakana) and other anons compiled Angyl's dox and ''teamloosh'', her former posse, republished it in revenge for the heat caused due to association. As CeLe was at risk of real life harassment, he has Glexia suspend both 4chan’s and ''teamloosh''’s accounts and [Lulz] walks out of the affair, then disbands soon after.<ref>
* Encyclopedia Dramatica's parody of the events. [https://edramatica.com/Brb,_compromised] archive.today 2025/07 [https://archive.today/UKbat]</br>
* Encyclopedia Dramatica's page on Xyrix [https://edramatica.com/XyriX] archive.today 2025/07 [https://archive.today/LA4Ex]</br>
* Encyclopedia Dramatica's page on CeLe [https://edramatica.com/CeLe] archive.today 2025/07 [https://archive.today/j9nO3]</br>
* Encyclopedia Dramatica's page on Angyl [https://edramatica.com/Angyl] archive.today 2025/07 [https://archive.today/nIzI7]</br>
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* December 10 - DamageInc's ''(un)''Official 4chan Firefox Extention gets updated - moot announces it on the global announcements as ''"<span style="color:red">4chan Firefox Extension has been updated to version 0.4.5.4. See <span style="color:blue">/tools/</span> or grab it <span style="color:blue">here.</span></span>"''<ref>
* Placeholder for the mythical tools page. PENDING.
* Screenshot with the announcement on 2007/12/10 [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2007-12-10-b-sticky.JPG]</br>
* wrathfilledhate's 4chan page showing v0.4.5.4. Earliest archive.org screenshot at wayback machine, 2007/12/16 [https://web.archive.org/web/20071216013851/http://4chan.wrathfilledhate.net:80/#thread-watcher]
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* December 21 - The FBI reports "the arrest of Trey Burba" in their website, showing that they really don’t have any idea of how /b/ works.

===2008===
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* January 15 - '''Project Chanology''' - The /i/nsurgency's greatest hour. On ''partyvan.info'', ''711chan'' and IRC backchannels there's a shift towards ''political activism'', which eclosions with Scientology's takedown of Tom Cruise's hilariously propagandistic video recently uploaded to Youtube. Threads on /b/ start to surface shaping the grounds for their upcoming activities, declaring that "Anonymous should go big".<ref>
* Earliest threads on /b/ trying to gauge interest in Chanology. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120208055632/http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=51051816]</ref>
* January 18 - The /i/nsurgency, keeping notable OPSEC, starts DDoS Scientology websites. This is of little interest of /b/ who continues to posts their tubgirlgoatsedickbucketsealnipples as usual, and goes mostly unnoticed sans for more shaping attempts.
* January 21 - /i/nsurgents release the oddly clever ''"Message To Scientology"'' video on Youtube, declaring the start of Project Chanology. '''This goes viral beyond all their expectations, becoming trending discussion on ''Digg'' and ''Facebook'' and spawning actual real life protests''', but it also becomes an enormous headache for 4chan: Now, on top of the spamming manchildren screaming about ''epic raids'', they have to deal with actual bona fide activists who think /b/ is a secret ''liberal hacker cabal'' and appropriate 4chan culture for their political activism, earning the moniker '''protestfags'''. It is also the swan song of raid culture, as most movers behind the /i/nsurgery had either retired or jumped towards blackhat hacktivism.
* February 12 - moot posted on the news page basically talking about imminent changes on 4chan (new trial boards, more janitors, etc).
* February 19 - New Boards: ○ '''/fa/ - Fashion''' ○ '''/fit/ - Health & Fitness''' ○ '''/hc/ - Hardcore''' ○ '''/n/ - Transportation''' ○ '''/sp/ - Sports''' ○ '''/toy/ - Toys''' ○ '''/trv/ - Travel'''. 
* February 19 - /n/ - News is deleted, leading to some protests.
* February 20 - New Boards: ○ '''/jp/ - Japan/General''' ○ '''/r9k/ - ROBOT9000'''. 
* February 20 - /jp/ is created after moot intervenes in an ongoing drama in /a/, anons had grown tired of the Touhou fandom that had essentially become a troll group on the board, up to "hijacking" threads with spam. Robot 9000 was an experimental board based on the idea that killing repetition would impose originality. A comparison script would mute the poster if the post was previously found within /r9k/ post database.
* March 6 - Janitor applications go live.
* March 18 - The new themes '''Yotsuba''' and '''Yotsuba Blue''' are introduced as replacement for the original default themes, ending the "Times New Roman" era.
* April 11 - /n/ was invaded by news posts in seeking to turn the board back to /n/ - News, but in a few hours the threads were removed and the posters banned. 
* 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.
* May 22 - Operation Jewtube - In response to protests from My Chemical Romance fans regarding criticism of the band, /i/nsurgents from Britchan troll the media by making videos about the protest, adding a final note telling that they were going to kill themselves at the end.
*May 27 - [https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/15372505/ /v/ steals] [https://old.sage.moe/a/thread/11998905/#12000000 /a/'s 12000000 GET] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220112111030/https://iili.io/ad9bHB.png (partial screenshot of both threads)] with a picture of Cory in the House for the Nintendo DS.
* June 13 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] '''4chan.js Saga''' - Showing how dangerous web 2.0 could get before the browser sandbox environment, 4chan's /b/ got spammed with obfuscated JavaScript code (henceforth known as 4chan.js) with the simple instructions. In reality, it effectively turns your computer into a 4chan-only botnet that reposts more copies of the script to /b/. The server is almost fucked by the load of hundreds of bot until the mods manage to filter the text and delete all threads containing the instructions.
* June 14 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] The 4chan.js script from the previous day is modified to dodge the filter, and spam starts anew.
* June 14 - The ability to roll '''Dice''' is added to /tg/ with an [https://old.sage.moe/tg/thread/1991877/ announcement directly from moot].
* June 15 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] moot steps in to crack down on the 4chan.js scriptfags. The text string "eval(" is filtered into a 15 day autoban. Also, for some reason, moot adds more word filters such as replacing ''"femanon"'' with ''"cumdumpster."'' /b/tards troll newfags by making threads such as "eval (now wordfilters to niggerjews)", getting many retards banned for two weeks.
* 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 called ''4CHAN LOLBUTTS'' was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see. While initially it looked decent, it quickly dispersed after a group of Chanology supporters showed up in large numbers. moot personally took the chance to rant on ''protestfags'' being even worse than raid enthusiasts, ''"the ultimate form of cancer"''.<ref>
* Screenshots of moot's posts on a post-meetup thread. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2008-06-18_-moot-on-chanology.jpg]
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* July 16 - [http://web.archive.org/web/20220110183923/https://archived.moe/a/thread/13323979/ KoG announces a retirement from GETs. He doesn't actually commit to that.]
* July 21 - '''The Chanopocalypse''' - Three users from Raidchan, Pacifico, ViraL and f have the idea to start an imageboard civil war; their attempts fail as they were discovered, so they decide to go nuts and DDOS every major imageboard on the net.
* August 7 - 4chan's DNS servers were down and it was not restored until August 11 2008.
* August 11 - New Boards. ○ '''/con/ - Convention'''.
* August 11 - '''Fifth 4chan Panel FAIL''' - The glorious return of /con/ for the discussion of the ongoing '''Otakon 2008 Convention''' and what would be 4chan's fifth official panel. Global announcements reads: "'''<span style="color:red">/<span style="color:blue">con</span>/ is open for discussion of Otakon 2008.'''</span> <small style="color:red">A news post will be up in the next <s>48</s> <s>72 hours</s> A FEW MORE DAYS--SORRY!</small>". The strikethrough is because Otacorp's administration was stonewalling moot. Hours later he writes on /con/ that it's extremely likely that Otakon will not let them host a new panel and promises to write a news posts about it. It is quite likely that there were prior preparations by team4chan who assumed they were already guaranteed a spot. user mood at the convention isn't very positive either, with many reporting ''protestfags'' being annoying or embarrassing and criticizing the very idea of referencing 4chan at conventions. Many pics were posted too.<ref>
* Almost complete archive of /con/ v4 at old.sage.moe. [https://old.sage.moe/con4/search/results/thread/order/asc/]</br>
* 2008/08/11 screenshot of /b/'s frontpage featuring the /con/ global announcement. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2008-11-08-b-thread.jpg]</br>
* moot's thread on /con/ (captionless) [https://old.sage.moe/con4/thread/123/#123]</br>
* anons complaining about 4chan weirdos in /con/. [https://old.sage.moe/con4/search/order/asc/page/3/]</br>
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* August 19 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] 4chan.js script returns and retards continue to fall for it, this time as images with embedded js, spammed with the text "''1. Open this image. 2. Save it as lol.hta 3. Open the file you saved. 4. Shit bricks."''. One of the script posts steals the 81M GET.<ref>
* lol.hta spam posts on /con/ [https://old.sage.moe/con4/thread/290/#290]</br>
</ref>
* August 29 - Another spam script gets hold of /b/ taunting people to come to their house for some reason.
* August 31 - A third 4chan.js variation appears which now copies files from your My Documents folder and implements them in the .gif files. Essentially, if you save the script like a tard, you've just had your documents uploaded to 4chan.
* September 2 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] /con/ is closed again to avoid script spam.
* 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 16 - '''Sarah Palin Email Hack''' - David Kernel hacks into Sarah Palin’s email by guessing the secret questions, looking to derail his campaign. However he’s scared of being discovered and posts the password on /b/ under the name of '''Rubico'''. Subsequently, another user changes the password and posts a screencap, but forgets to censor it. Besides getting labeled a white knight, the account gets the password changed a third time, but due to Yahoo policy it gets locked. Rubico essentially showed /b/ all the information necessary to get v&, including his email, his American Proxy. 
* September 17 - Rubico posts his story of how he did it, it immediately becomes a copypasta. The news get on the old media and an Internet poll held by Fox News’s host Greta Van Susteren over the issue, 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 - Rubico gets arrested and his house is investigated. It ends up he’s the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell. Months later moot gets called into court to testify in a case against David.
* October 1 - 4chan turns five years old. moot celebrates again adding party hats to everything. Mac makes a second commemoration. 
* October 7 - The second grand jury of Kernel’s case. moot had to go and testify about 4chan.
* October 27 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] 4chan.js is revived again. It apparently fails.<sup>'''How? MARGE.'''</sup>
* November 6 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] The ultimate 4chan.js script hits 4chan. This time, the script takes a rusty dildo and fucks literally every single board up, even the poor bastards at /i/. Mass bans are handed out to combat the spam.
* November 24 - moot personally comes to /tg/ to announce the permanent ban of infamous tripfag ''Jim Profit''. /tg/ cannot believe moot would actually post there. Everyone rejoices and a short Q&A ensues. drawfags chime in with celebratory OC.<ref>
* Thread on suptg archive [https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2008/3052712/] archive.is [https://archive.today/VHOpl]</ref>
* November 27 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] A variation of 4chan.js, known as lol.js, appears on /b/. This time, running the script downloads something a copy of the script from Rapidshare and runs it on /b/. Technically speaking, this version of 4chan.js is an actual virus.
* December 12 - '''Anontalk Saga''' - /b/ starts getting bot spam advertising a site known as ''anontalk.org''. /b/tards plan retaliation. Hal Turner meanwhile tried to convince anonymous to hack into the Federal Reserve and get him some dox.

===2009===
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* January 23 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] 4chan.js is back, but the .gif's are now yellow squares.
* January 28 - "After four months of being ad-free, we're running some ad tests. We ask that you bear with us as we filter out the shitty ads and see what works. Also, please don't block them, and be sure to click those that interest you. Thanks!" 
* February 1 - /a/ is brutally raped by 4chan.js, this time the .gif squares are now in all sorts of colors. /r9k/ gets buttfucked the next day.
* February 5 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] The script fucks /b/ again with a sea of glorious red squares. On Caturday that month (which Caturday, we don't know), 4chan.js instructions tell newfags that they can use them to get to the sekrit raid board, /z/. It's /b/, so /b/ does what /b/ does and fucks itself. Those who escape the carnage take refuge on /x/ and shit up that board instead.
* April 14 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] 4chan.js returns, telling /b/ users to take a break from DESU DESU DESU spamming and copypastas. Surprise surprise, /b/ falls for it again and the board is assfucked by colorful squares.
* April 17 - After multiple /b/ counter-spam waves, Kimmo makes a news post declaring that he won’t spam any longer. Anonymous declares victory. Two days later he goes full circle and the spam starts again.
* April 27 - '''moot Goes to Time Magazine''' - 4chan related groups successfully hacked Time 2009's Person of the Year contest by rigging the candidates’ names with mARBLECAKEALSOTHEGAME. Time refuses to shallow pride and declare the poll valid, inviting moot to a Time magazine event, sparking a meme in the process.
* May 5 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] '''4chan DDOS’s itself''' - /b/ and /r9k/, hosted on the same server, grinded to a halt by DDOS. Everyone suspects 711chan is to blame. However it was later discovered that users downloaded an image that contained a DDOS script, likely yet another 4chan.js variant. The attack continued an entire week.
* June - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] 4chan.js returns with a vengeance, this time injecting the script into a random picture taken from your hard drive, then uploading it to 4chan. The script also dodges the wordfilters by removing random letters from the script posts. Mods apparently just gave up at this point.
* June 18 - '''Washington Square Meet Up''' - A year after the events of the old /b/ day, /b/’s title changed to "you forgot - it was your final mission nothing will save you now." On the other boards, the meet up was scheduled at Washington Square, and this time, moot was there. The meet is a pleasant surprise and goes on without drama. Everyone has a good time.
* June 20 - After countless complaints on /a/ about the infamous tripfags ''Lanced Jack'' and ''Taiga'', [http://web.archive.org/web/20220111182610/https://archived.moe/a/thread/22365302/ moot changes everyone's default name to either lanced jack or taiga for nearly two weeks.]
* July 5 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] '''4chan DDOS’s itself 2: Electric Bogaloo''' - /b/ starts to be spammed as if there is no tomorrow. At first the suspected culprit was Blackhatworld.com, but eventually they concluded that the /b/tards where downloading infected images again. The script uploads a rainbow of coloured images of the main character of A Clockwork Orange. The attack spread to every damn board and lasted until July 8.
* July 12 - moot makes a global announcement stating that he might use a '''4chan Twitter''' "(ugh)" for site updates in addition to other stuff. (Despite the initial feelings about twitter, he eventually learns to enjoy it.).
* July 23 - Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2083 announces] he has acquired an archive of over 10 million 4chan threads, which he plans to upload to archive.org over the next week.
* July 25 - Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2094 suddenly decides] he will not be uploading his 4chan archive "anytime soon". It will not be uploaded until October 8, 2018.
* July 27 - '''AT&T blocks 4chan''' - moot attempts to reduce damage from having AnonTalk DDOS them with dire consequences: AT&T blocks 4chan's /r9k/ and /b/ more specifically the img.4chan.org sub domain was blocked. The entire site rises in arm in retaliation, but the matter is soon cleared and the block lifted. moot used the opportunity to talk about Internet censorship. The blotter is removed.
* August 6 - The infamous Endless Eight arc of The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya's second season finally reaches it's eighth and final episode, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220111180546/https://iili.io/a9a8Gf.jpg /a/ erupts in celebration.]
* August 10 - Moot releases the emails sent to him by Lanced Jack (annoying and infamous tripfag who avatarfagged as ''Konata'' from ''Lucky Star'') in which he pathetically begs for his rangeban to be removed. [https://archive.today/Fs762 The thread gets stickied.]
* September 22 - [[File:Bibanon-icon-4chan-js.png|16px]] 4chan.js returns with a barrage of scripts hidden in pictures of greyness, but mods counter it after 5 hours. Three days later, the script returns but now the pictures are brown. This attack ends up being much more successful, taking over /d/, /wg/, /r9k/, /x/, and a number of other useless boards.
* October 1 - 4chan turned 6 years old. The party hats return once again. /b/ crashes due to delicious cake. As usual, /b/ flees to /x/. The server crashes twice more until all of 4chan.img is down. Mac makes his third commemoration.
* November 20-24 - Earliest known dates for the deletion of /hc/ - Hardcore.

===2010===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2009 | ◄]] [[#2011 | ►]]
* January 25 - New Boards: ○ '''/adv/ - Advice''' ○ '''/lit/ - Literature''' ○ '''/new/ - News''' ○ '''/int/ - International''' ○ '''/sci/ - Science & Math''' ○ '''/3/ - 3DCG'''. 
* January 25 - /3/ and /new/ bring back their previous incarnations (/3/ and /n/ respectively). /int/ is directly copied from German imageboard ''Krautchan''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s own /int/ board, but without geolocation flags.
* January 26 - The start of the longest ever collab thread in the history of 4chan on /3/. The thread continued until 2012/17/03 and later.
* February - '''moot Goes to TED''' - A sticky was created on /b/, where he announces he'll be making a presentation at TED and asks what he should mention and talk about. The thread received over 12000 posts. moot described Anonymous to a bunch of confiscates in 70 different countries (wait until all those people go on 4chan, realizing that 4chan is dead and full of porn) on a TED Talk. He claimed 4chan was dying due to the movement towards removing anonymity causing people to self-censor (Facebook). moot also revealed that he recently moved out of his mom's house and went back to college.
* February - Massive Q and A threads on /a/, /jp/, and /r9k/. moot creates a '''4chan Q&A formspring''' page for the process but it was flooded with 20,000 messages. Around 2012 he quietly replaced the formspring page with the '''4chan FAQ'''. 
* February 4 - Verizon users started experiencing problems loading 4chan. Soon moot confirmed with Verizon customer support that 4chan was blocked. Verizon took a week to "resolve" the situation.
* February 20 - /jp/ - Japan/General is officially renamed to '''/jp/ - Otaku Culture'''. Many people complain.
* 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/.
* February 23 - A clue was featured on Jeopardy in a category entitled 'Internet' containing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNaUiAVT0Ls&ab_channel=HowToBeASerialKiller a reference to 4chan.org]. moot posted an image about the broadcast. (where?)
* February 26 - '''HARMONY''' - A /v/irgin delves into the depths of Adult Swim’s flash section and finds a single game - Robot Unicorn Attack. The /v/irgin, felt something weird… something new. For the first time he actually liked a game. So he went to /v/ to tell the news.
* February 27 - Robot Unicorn Attack invades the entirety of /v/ and leaks into /a/, /jp/, /co/, /m/. /tg/, /k/, /x/ and /mu/. Many tripfags contributed, MFGreth1 added it on wiki recommended games list, Gay Purple Man, began streaming the game, BaconShota made #robotunicornattack, lordofhet started a group on Steam. Hundreds of /v/irgins emailed moot asking him to embed the RUA theme - Always by Erasure - on /v/. And he complied. Surprisingly, the game wasn’t even mentioned on /b/, something the /b/tards didn’t like. This event, in its own small way, change the way /v/ reacted towards games, from the hate bandwagon to actually admitting what games they liked. This would be a perfect reflection of the cultural changes 4chan went through during 2010.
* February 28 - "Over the past 48 hours 4chan's formspring page has gotten over 12,000 questions, and I've received over 3,000 e-mails. Many thanks to everyone who submitted a question, and sent me a message! I was able to respond to a few hundred e-mails and had hoped to start answering questions on formspring, but it seems that the number of questions broke the page. Once that's sorted out, I'll sift through them and answer as time allows. Thanks again for all of the support!" - However this fix never happened due to various reasons. 
* April 1 - '''4chan 2.0''' - An April Fools prank that was actually useful when dealing with the onslaught of .hta spam the site was suffering from. 
* April 20 - After testimonies by Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin and moot himself, Rubico, the author of the Sarah Palin email hacks, get convicted to one year and a day of prison. He appeals but is later rejected in 2012.
* May 4 - '''Quiptext Day''' - /r9k/ discovers Quiptext's vulnerability and /b/ chimes in. Quiptext day was begun. 
* May 23 - '''Lost Series Finale''' - /tv/ is renamed /tv/ - L O S T, and two stickies reach 4000 posts each within 24 hours.
* June 8 - OP trolls /b/ for an entire afternoon by pretending he was gonna kill himself on camera. Angered, /b/tards troll OP by figuring out how to send cops to his house.<ref>
* 2010/06/08 - Cringey screenshot collage of the events. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2010-06-08-b-screenshot-collage.jpg]</br>
</ref>
* July 4 - Youtube Independence Day - /v/irgins discover and exploit in the comments sections and proceed to insert HTML codes into every damn videos of Youtube, redirecting many to the Last Measure, Goatse and many other things.
* July 14 - New Boards: ○ '''/vp/ - Pokémon'''.
* July 14 - Here comes the first of the ''/v/ermin''. The first post was "This is a thread about Pokemon." [http://i.imgur.com/zYZbAma.jpg Two stickies] [http://i.imgur.com/9Kd7XQt.jpg were created].
* July 15 - /vp/ gets another infamous sticky, this time featuring Bill. Its name also got changed to "/tr/ - Team Rocket" at some point in the future. The time from 2010-2012 will be remembered as /tr/'s "glorious" shitposting years, with tripfag trolls trolling trolls, NSFW furfaggotry and Gary spam.
* July 27 - '''CAPTCHA Wars''' - After an initial test run on /b/ during Good Morning America!'s coverage of 4chan, moot decides to permanently add '''Google's reCAPTCHA''' to quell the waves of spam they have been suffering for years. This is arguably the biggest shitstorm on 4chan since the /b/-day, and likely the biggest shitstorm since ''ever''. Many 4channers swear the site has been ruined, while others solemnly conclude that the site is indeed better.
* September 7 - On /x/, [https://old.sage.moe/x/thread/5585433/#5585433 BEN DROWNED is introduced to the world.] It would go on to become one of the most famous and <s>influential</s> SHITTIEST creepypastas of all-time. While initially it's laughed off and ridiculous, a young subset of the fandom swear by it, and ultimately marks a turning point in the subculture. From now on, there's a general trend towards video game horror.
* September 15 - /g/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/13279967/ sticky] for the 15th anniversary of ''Hackers'', the world's most accurate movie about hacking. This [https://imgur.com/OeALB GIF] of scenes from the movie and the Leftfield song Open Up are embedded into the first reply.
* September 17 - AnonTalk dies after being spammed endlessly by ''Minichan'', their clone site, since April 13.
* September 22 - AnonTalk returns. To everyone’s dismay.
* September 25 - moot fills /b/ with falling dongs.
* October 1 - 4chan turns 7 years old today. He chatted as MOOTCHAT on ''Meebo'' and ''AIM'' via airplane internet. But that didn't work out, so he created '''#4chanbirthday''' @ irc.rizon.net. He discussed a bit about ''The Social Network'' movie that premiered in cinemas in the US. Mac makes yet another commemoration.
* October 14 - A single anonymous began hammering AnonTalk with all his might, killing the website a second time.
* October 19 - An article titled [https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/the-end-of-the-creator-driven-era-29614.html ''The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation''] is posted to /co/. It receives widespread condemnation due to its alarmist tone and prompts more /co/mrades to ironically watch some of the shows mentioned therein, notably the new incarnation of ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic''.
* October 25 - An anon coins the term [https://i.imgur.com/KWk16J5.png "brony",]. Consequences were never the same.
* November 4 - Kimmo brings the site back a third time under an American host and DDOS protection. He must really like the site. This time, however, both Tinychan and Minichan had their spambots at the ready.
* 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. '''This marks the beginning of the end for /b/'s board culture, and ultimately ends with 4chan denouncing rage faces as foreign culture.'''
* November 18 - Kimmo Alm, who has been showing a surprising amount of patience towards the wave of spam, finally snaps and raises his entry requirements to impossible limits.
* November 19 - ''Itamake'', an enemy of AnonTalk, makes a domain under the same host as them. He puts ALTBBS on the work, which is an exact copy of AnonTalk. Kimmo loses his shit and kills his own site a third time.
* November 27 - Kimmo brings the site back again for a fourth time, this time even more restricted as before. Same old, same old.
* 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.

===2011===
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* January 3 - 4chan suffered another distributed denial of service attack "Right on the eve of /b/’s 300 millionth post". 
* January 9 - New Boards: ○ '''/soc/ - Social'''. 
* January 9 - The board is designed to remove "rate me" threads, "report in" posts and local meetups from /b/. Arguably one of the more controversial boards, but it's effects at the time could have never been predicted.
* January 17 - moot introduces multiple changes around 8PM EST. He deletes /r9k/ and /new/. He also removes the XXX post truncation filter from /b/. The navigation bar lists: [a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / w / wg] [i / ic] [cm / y] [3 / adv / an / cgl / ck / co / fa / fit / int / jp / lit / mu / n / po / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / x] [rs] [status / ? / @]. 
* February 13 - Andrew W.K. posts on 4chan's /mu/ with two threads. This is the beginning of the end for /mu/, as a flood of off-topic threads began to take over the board, with a special mention to /r9k/ feels.
* February 26 to March 1 - '''Pony Wars''' - The infamous [https://i.imgur.com/TUukltB.png '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 general thread with enough infrastructure that they could ID each other through forced anon via script extensions. [https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2013/1/29/226875.jpeg neber forgetti]. Bronies later regroup in their own allowed thread: ''/mlpg/ - My Little Pony General''
* March 14 - '''moot Unveils canv.as''' - moot had his SXSW 2011 (South By Southwest Festival) talk regarding canv.as. 4channers mocked him in countless threads and it was considered to be the worst of all the talks he had about 4chan in history. moot also meets future 4chan admin Hiroyuki Nishimura here.
* April 25 - nonTalk dies its fourth and final death, Kimmo finally fed up with the board.
* May 1 - '''End of AnonTalk Saga''' - Attempting to reach AnonTalk shows a tl;dr post by Kimmo explaining how the host told him to censor the site or leave, so site will never return unless he has tons of money to run it himself
* June 26 - /vp/ steals /v/'s [http://i.imgur.com/4OPGyAg.jpg 100000000 GET] with an image of Haunter.
* July 2 - For some reason /b/ resets to the standard Yotsuba Image Board title, it was later reverted.
* August 6 - '''First 4chan Cup''' The inaugural [http://implyingrigged.info/wiki/Main_Page 4chan Cup] kicks off; Soccer teams representing 16 of 4chan's finest boards are pit against each other to prove their superiority.
* August 9 - /a/ becomes the first 4chan Cup champion, defeating /ck/ 3 - 0.
* August 18 - A final post by Kimmo realizing that there’s no possible way he could ever get any money of sorts.
* October 1 - 4chan turns eight years old. Mac makes another commemoration.
* October 6 - [https://archived.moe/a/thread/55555555/ /sp/ steals /a/'s 55555555 GET,] the most important GET in KoG's career.
* October 23 - New Boards: ○ '''/r9k/ - ROBOT9001''' ○ '''/pol/ - Politically Incorrect''' ○ '''/hc/ - Hardcore''' ○ '''/diy/ - Do It Yourself'''. 
* October 23 - /r9k/ and /new/ (now rechristened /pol/) are re-added after moot hears ''Sherrod DeGrippo'', owner of household name ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'', nonchalantly explain how she de-platformed her own community in the hopes of monetizing ED's fame. /hc/ comes back because why not. (And they celebrates with [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219041049/http://chanarchive.org/4chan/hc/25437/in-this-itt-we-will-be-of-posting-blowjobs blowjobs]). This effectively depopulates 4chon, who goes onto produce a number of spinoffs such as ''Wizardchan'' and ''8chan'' (''Infinitychan'') as it's userbase specializes. '''This "new guard" chanverse would come to be extremely influential in years to come.'''
* October 31 - '''The Great Raven Ban'''. A raven thread on /x/, a normal occurrence around Halloween, was deleted, randomly. The OP of the thread was [https://archive.today/8gMxV banned for two days] for "shitposting". Soon, anyone who posted ANYTHING related to ravens & crows were having their posts deleted, and those who posted the the [https://archive.today/cQRZA original OP image] were issued two-day bans. For the months in which the ban was in effect, ravens became symbols of freedom on the board and rebellion against mod abuse in general on /x/, which had gotten out of hand. However, around Valentine's day of 2012, as mysteriously as it began, the ban suddenly ceased as a regular occurrence, with only occasional public bannings to keep the /x/men in line. By the next Halloween, bans had practically ceased altogether. Possibly the work of a single rogue janitor/mod, or maybe part of a larger anti-raven conspiracy, but no real reason was ever determined.
* November 8 - /new/ is (accidentally?) revived. No news posts are made, rules given, or mods on it. Title is "Yotsuba Image Board," the default title given to new boards; seems to be a mix of /co/ and /sp/ users with a healthy blend of racism thrown in. Posts from January still made up over half the board. Deadmau5 appears on /mu/ in two sticky threads. The off-topic posts in /mu/ intensify.
* November 12 - 4chan's '''Official Chrome Extension''' released and the '''4chan Firefox Extension''' updated. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220112072042/https://archived.moe/a/thread/57099999/ KoG gets publicly banned 9 times after getting quints.]
* November 13 - 4chan suffered a sustained DDoS onslaught by an unknown person or entity.
* November 16 - DDOS dies down after moot contracts '''CloudFare''' services, offending yet more /g/ay men's anthi-big-tech sentiments.
* November 17 - moot has a sticky in /g/. /r9k/ gets spoiler tags thanks to Tage Heyn and people(s) talk about Shii. /v/ becomes '''/v/ - El Vidyo''' and gets Hispanic background music. 
* November 20 - moot tries to make pages load more quickly by changing how captchas load. Naturally, this makes captchas stop working altogether. Quick reply/Noko/All non-official 4chan applications stop working and the submit button grays out for a lot of people. I link moot to the thread and after he posts, the thread explodes with people bitching and moot undoes the changes after the thread hits 200 replies about an hour and a half later. (/g/21167645).
* November 26 - '''/sp/ - Ship Posting Day''' - moot completely loses it and changes the name of /sp/ to WE NBA NOW!!!!!!!!!, with the subtitle of “our body is ready”. He proceeds to sticky random off-topic threads and ban users with random tags such as [USER WAS RHYTHMICALLY SLAPPED FOR THIS POST] or [USER WAS HORSEPLAYED FOR THIS POST] and changing his name to mootdusky. This is due to the state of /sp/ reaching critical mass, becoming the vanguard of a new generation of trolls; after this, moot pretty much gave up on the board.
* December 20 - 4chan, along with reddit and tumblr, invade 9gag after they stole their memes and claimed it as theirs.
* December 25 - An original story called [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/A-Tsundere-Christmas-Carol A Tsundere Christmas Carol] gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/58936586/ posted to /a/ for the first time.] It becomes widely loved, to the point that it's tradition to repost it every Christmas since then.

===2012===
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* January 3 - [http://web.archive.org/web/20220128184253/https://iili.io/lj67Bn.png The 123456789 GET on /v/] is taken by a picture of Yugi, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQVuGJNImw&ab_channel=KingofGETs KoG later claimed it wasn't him.] [https://archive.org/download/4chanV123456789/4chan_v_123456789.rar Archive]
* January 4 - Katawa Shoujo, /a/'s long-awaited visual novel, gets [https://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2012/01/katawa-shoujo-released.html released]. /a/ [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/59367841/ goes apeshit] in anticipation and gets a giant [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/59369004/ sticky] with relevant music playing in the background.
* February 4 - '''shazbowl''' - /v/ beats Reddit at Tribes Ascend, becomes ''/v/ - "Well-coordinated and heavily practiced Reddit team beaten by a rag-tag group of /v/irgins run by a furry tripfag and a BR with 140 ping"'' and gets GAL男宣言 (Galo Sengen) embedded as background music. This event is known to this day as the "shazbowl." The /int/ board is occupied by Russian channers from 2ch.so due to a DDoS attack by pro-government groups. 
* February 14 - During Valentine’s Day, moot announces that he is planning to add up to 15 boards, including one to contain the rising brony phenomenon. Later, he reestablished 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.
* February 16 - New Boards: ○ '''/mlp/ - My Little Pony''' ○ '''/vg/ - Video Game Generals''' ○ '''/hm/ - Handsome Men'''. 
* February 16 - /mlp/ represents moot finally giving up on curtailing the /b/read spammers, and also ends the absolutely enormous speed discrepancy between ''/mlpg/ - My Little Pony General'' and the rest of /co/ which was causing no end of moderator problems. Ditto for /vg/, since over half the frontpage of /v/ was General threads at any given time. It is now impossible to get repeating digits on /v/, other than 00s. He explains the formal definition of general and his reasoning [https://archived.moe/v/thread/129777358/ in a /v/ sticky]
* February 21 - Legendary spammer [https://wiki.bibanon.org/Barneyfag_(Lee_Goldson) ''Barneyfag''] [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/99464/#108046 makes his first appearance].
* March 21 - Noboru Ishiguro, director of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, dies. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/63080409/ /a/ gets a sticky].
* April 1 - moot hacked /pol/'s CSS to a [https://userstyles.org/styles/120270/communist-4chan-css communist theme]. The Russian anthem plays.
* May 26 - /a/ gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/66314919/#66314919 a sticky about Toonami] since it was airing that night. It said that in order to prevent /a/ being flooded with it, mods would create a [https://archived.moe/vg/thread/6303642/ Toonami discussion thread on /vg/] (as well as vowing to delete all Toonami threads on /a/ for the rest of the night). This created a massive amount of confusion and anger among the /a/ userbase as well as /v/ and /vg/, particularly because Toonami didn't have any real place on /vg/, and would have been better put on /tv/ or /co/ if not /a/. Many called out the mods for being lazy and simply tossing the problem to a different board.
* June 5 - New Boards: ○ '''/wsg/ - Worksafe GIF'''. 
* June 5 - /gif/ officially becomes a porn board after a couple years of being almost 100% porn threads. The 3 /gif/ oldfags left despair.
* June 8 - The anime series Chihayafuru gets a second season. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/66874559/ /a/ gets a sticky]
* July 6 - moot writes a note talking about bandwidth usage, extensions and asks both add-on developers and users to be reasonable with update intervals.
* 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 8 - New Boards: ○ '''/q/ - 4chan Discussion'''. 
* August 8 - The glorious return of /dis/ and /sug/. After 4chan’s billionth post, moot posts the first news post in four years. He /q/ and states that he plans to start a series of "primer minister" style Q/A threads stating he feels he lost touch with the community. Following some suggestions on /q/, avatarfagging becomes a banned offense. There was also a failed attempt at allowing minors 13 years old and up to browse 4chan, but was quickly replaced with '''MINERS''' because of the huge negative backslash from the community. With time /q/ is flooded by users from /a/ and /v/, the two boards with the most traffic after /b/, known to be notoriously reactionary. Not long after that, most mods are taken to /v/ to deal with the recent wave of shitposting and the deprecation of /v/ culture. /a/ users keep complaining about undesirable anime threads like Naruto, and how they shouldn’t be on /a/. The staff seems to have divided opinions and shift between deleting threads and leaving them be. The following debates backslash when trolls begin to crapflood /a/ with Naruto threads, whilst the rest of /a/ bandwagoned against them. Eventually moot stepped in and clarified that Naruto is /a/ content.
* August 10 - moot hacks /a/’s CSS and wordfilters every post to JIBUN WOOOOOOO. He embedded the first opening of Code Geass on the first page. He also fucks with the rules page and shitposts, users wonder if he's just drunk. [https://archive.today/EjKLO] [https://archive.today/vFJBU]
* 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 28 - For a few days, a mysterious game titled [https://archive.org/details/lostboy_202102 LostBoy.exe] gets posted, containing a virus that steals users' personal information. A mod makes a [https://files.catbox.moe/5c7l6t.jpg sticky] on /v/ saying "DON'T PANIC", reminding people to not download things linked on 4chan.
* September 3 - moot announces on a news post that he will start working where he left off on the last news post of 2008. He announces that on 09/09 Janitor applications will open again.
* September 5 - On a news post, moot announces that lead Developer ''KING JAFFE JOFFER'', along with the coder of the '''Yotsuba Catalog''' and new Developer ''Desuwa'', made a major overhaul of the HMTL5 code, created the '''Inline Extension''' and added a '''JSON API'''.  All threads are now rendered in JSON too. Joffer also ports the Official Firefox extension to Google Chrome. The inline extensions are published on Github, in hopes that the coding community will give suggestions to make it better. Unsaid, according to Moderator Fission, was also a major rework of the '''Admin Toolkit'''.<ref>Bibanon IRC logs 2025 gotta check</ref> This would be KFF's last major project as 4chan Developer. He'd later retire.
* September 9 - After a long time, janitor applications open for a period of 24 hours. moot reports receiving 7500 applications and will oversee them within the following months. 
* September 12 - moot opens the first official Q/A on /q/ a la prime minister questions.
* September 14 - The 4chan 9gag war ends. '''Marge.'''
* September 18 - After a lengthy discussion with /q/ regarding moot's ethics towards site finances and his refusal to accept donation again, moot & /q/ come up with the '''4chan Pass''' system. It allows users to bypass reCAPTCHA for a year at the price of 20 dollars. This is simply because moot doesn’t support the concept of ongoing donations nor donations rallies, citing he dislikes receiving without giving.
* September 28 - moot makes a news post clarifying some doubts and questions about the 4chan pass
* October 1 - 4chan turns nine years, with the sixth consecutive commemoration from Mac.
* October 5 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure sticky]. The first episode was airing that night, so there was a lot of hype in the thread (as well as those complaining, as always). Throughout the early parts of the thread, many were asking for a stream for the show, with the requests growing in number as the show was closer to airing, culminating in the show being five minutes from airing and no stream available. Even [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72542440 the mods] were asking for a stream. However, with only minutes before the show started, one hero anon [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72543061 posted a link] to a Justin.tv stream, saving the day. /a/ went into a frenzy of excitement when the stream link was posted, even a mod [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72543477 thanking the poster]. Thread was either deleted by mods a bit after the stream ended or, according to one anon, "So good it broke the sticky."
* November 8 - '''The Seff Affaire''' - On a /q/ thread about /mlp/, http://thereisnosanity.com/posters/statistics.php is posted by a pony shitposter, leading 4chan to question if organized shitposting is actually real. '''Who knows, we should ask ''Siztra'', ''Niggy'', ''Trevor'', ''Tokiko'', the ''/b/read'', ''Raidchan'', ''Lulznet'', ''#tomgreen'', and every friend of moot from Raspberry Heaven who ever forced a GET.'''
* November 9 - /g/ begins to investigate. They eventually come to the conclusion that the website’s owner, Seff, is in some form a leading figure within the shitposters. The plot thickens; users panic and the mods start get involved. On a second thread, Seff himself comes in to clarify the situation: He is building a system to track the shitposters, their threads and their posts to later email them to moot. Still investigation shed some light on him and proved he was a shitposter on /a/, "There is no sanity" is nothing more than Seff’s personal nick on the Internet, with sites like his Youtube channel and myanimelist page (Though thereisnosanity is a common phrase, there’s a chance, albeit low, that the users are unrelated). The situation got many boards in a panic and Seff was doxed and raided IRL. Later on the same thread moot posted screenshots from Seff’s emails, confirming that Seff was a shitposter that ratted everyone out by emailing moot when he realized there was a leak. Still, He wasn’t forgiven. Whether this was a clever act of damage control for when the site was discovered, or Seff was genuinely scared of being discovered, is yet to be seen. 
* November 16 - [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74823670/ /a/ gets a Evangelion sticky] (Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo was coming out the next day). Fly Me To The Moon from Evangelion was embedded and autoplaying. Since it was stickied and autoplaying, when anyone would open the frontpage of /a/ it would begin playing. After only 21 posts in the thread, a mod (thought to be the same mod behind the modposts in the Jojo sticky from October) [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74823670/#74823768 posted a crude drawing of Asuka from Evangelion] along with the text "P.S. If you're in Kyoto, let know so we can see the screening on Sunday." Since it was impossible to not hear the music coming from the thread when coming onto /a/ (other than simply hiding the thread and ignoring it), the thread became one of the largest stickies in a long time, almost triple the number of posts from the Jojo sticky. Along with general discussion of the show, much of the thread was just spam of various copypastas, mostly the same few being spammed over and over again. The thread finally died more than a day and a half later with 2940 posts, at which point the constant music on the frontpage was starting to get a bit annoying.
* November 18 - '''( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)''' - The ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) meme becomes widespread in record time.  It was born out of the Finnish imageboard Ylilauta and overran 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr and Facebook in a single day. On /a/, a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74919556/ thread regarding the announcement of Season 3 of Rozen Maiden] gets stickied. Most anons responded very positively and excitedly (it had not aired in almost six years at the time and was mostly seen as a dead project) to the news. It had been the first Desu-related sticky in a long time and the thread quickly turned into a series of 2006-era desu memes and screenshots.
* November 19 - The second /q/ townhall starts
* November 27 - moot talks about 4chan pass and the economic state of 4chan
* December 7 - /a/ gets a sticky: One anon got Nyotai ka!! Sekai no Dokusaisha Retsuden, a mook (magazine/book) showing moe and bishoujo depictions of dictators and autocrats, and began [https://archived.moe/a/thread/76055826/ posting scans of it to /a/]. As the thread progressed, the topic of the thread shifted from the discussion of girls and scans themselves to the dictators and countries in real life. Many interesting accounts of people who lived under or have a relative who lived under one of the dictators were posted in the thread (several relayed accounts of Pinochet). Near the end of the thread, the OP (who is swiss) [https://archived.moe/a/thread/76055826/#76072897 posted the final mediafire links] to the complete raw scan of the mook. Many in the thread thanked the OP and sent him wishes for a speedy recovery as he revealed that he had been suffering from a cold (some hypothesized that he caught a Japanese cold through his imports). 
* December 13 - moot adds '''Bitcoin Support''' to the 4chan pass
* December 20 - On /a/, the popular manga series Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! gets an anime adaptation. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/76754471/ A thread discussing this was stickied]. This was good news to most, although some voiced sadness over the fact that they wouldn't be able to see it since the world was due to end the next day. There was noticeably less excitement in the sticky then there usually is when a new anime adaptation gets announced, as there was more general discussion of the show than there was all-caps spam (which is preferable). There was more room for complaints in this less-enthusiastic group of posters, and some complained that there was nothing to make an anime of from the manga, some saying it would only be three minutes per episode (others joking that J.C. Staff would be producing it).
* 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/; opening the /b/ sticky opens a CSS hack featuring an autoplaying video of R.E.M.'s song "It's the End of the World As We Know It" and a custom background, while the /x/ sticky was opened for more serious discussion. /a/ gets Komm, süsser Tod playing as well.<ref>
* /b/'s sticky [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2012-12-21-b-sticky.png]</br>
</ref>
* December 25 - Christmas faggot hat day. 4chan passes go on their first Sale. They are advertised on global announcements with "'''<span style="color:red">><span style="color:blue">4chan Passes</span> are on sale for Holidays. <span style="color:blue">Click Here to learn more and purchase one.</span>< PS: Passes can now be purhased with Bitcoin, and as a gift to others.'''"</span>. Links lead to the /pass and /news 4chan Pass announcement respectively.<ref>
* 2012/12/25 - Screenshot of /b/ showing the global announcements. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2012-12-25-b-screenshot-pass-sale.png]</ref>
* December 29 - This post throws some light on the matter of /pol/. Days later a mod took notice and vowed to take the matter to moot. '''Marge.'''
* December 30 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/ sticky created by mods] to clarify certain moderation policies and address the problems of /a/ for the coming year. Mods claimed the biggest problem plaguing /a/ was the "“us vs. them” mentality," meaning clique/fanbase and board.v.board warfare, something they claimed was mostly exemplified by bannable shitposts. After just over an hour, mods decided to [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77392834 lock the thread],[https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77397556 unlocking it] two hours later, something most /a/nons saw as mods being lazy. Later on, a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77399054 mod who didn't watch anime was publicly banned] and just over 40 minutes after the thread had been unlocked, it was [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77399616 locked again] to "delete some irrelevant posts so it's easier for people who missed it to go through the thread". The thread would remain locked until it was removed by mods sometime on the 31st due to its clear failure.
* December 31 - '''r/a/dio''' - /a/ gets three [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77470007/ r/a/dio] [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77478188/ new years] [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77485545/ stickies] with gifs playing in the backgrounds. These stickies are seen as an official mod approval of r/a/dio threads, a topic discussed during the December 30 town hall sticky as some claimed it was "not related to anime or manga and does not promote discussion thereof" and a "topicality". For EST, Colors (theme of Code Geass) played for new years ( while the first post made after new years was [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77448600/#77471202 a picture of Yukikaze Panettone] from Dog Days in a boobs thread). When new years came for CST, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9vkt7BHYI Trainroll] was playing, and the song playing for PST New Years was Feel So Moon, by Unicorn. By the next and final sticky, the thread stopped being a "celebration of the new year thread" and turned into a "first stream of 2013" thread. At 3:48:38 in the morning, EST, exactly [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77485545/#77486940 this point in the thread], the stream began breaking. "Unfortunately the stream is down for the moment, please return later" was on the front page, and many began freaking out, although many were happy to finally be free to go to sleep. Luckily, in just over two minutes the stream was back, and an admin said some time later "the entire server broke a moment". The DJ that had been on earlier, Hiroto, said that he "woke up to fix everything". The thread, over the next two hours, became something of a goodbye thread for those that had stuck around for all the threads; Activities such as the posting of [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77485545/#77488415 new year's resolutions], [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77485545/#77488498 dance gifs], and [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77485545/#77489425 waifus] were had. One final celebration was had when one anon posted that a well-known and hated tripfag shitposter, ''Komeiji'', had announced he would be [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77487912/ permanently leaving 4chan], although many doubted this (he would come back in March of 2013). By this point, most were too sleep-deprived to understand what was happening, and the thread was locked and then deleted. The last post of the thread was the fitting "there's no way in hell /a/ could agree on what songs to include". There were more than 9700 posts in the stickies combined and roughly 8000 in the non-sticky threads before it, and it's estimated that they accounted for 1/5 of all posts on /a/ that day. Hiroto [https://archive.today/wJe5s posted a message to the r/a/dio site] with some stats the next day.

===2013===
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* January - moot announces that desuwa has adapted his Yotsuba Catalog into an official '''Inline Catalog'''.
* January 10 - /pol/ finds gold on Tumblr and [http://web.archive.org/web/20160804061655/https://encyclopediadramatica.se/The_Great_/pol/_Social_Justice_Raid_of_2013 The Great /pol/ Social Justice Raid of 2013] starts.
* January 15 - Ghost in the Shell gets a new anime, titled "Arise"; [https://archived.moe/a/thread/78372981/ /a/ gets a sticky]. This was very exciting news for most as the last major release in the Ghost in the Shell franchise by Production I.G was in 2008 (Ghost in the Shell 2.0, which was only a rerelease), although there were [https://archived.moe/a/thread/78372981/#78373263 some] [https://archived.moe/a/thread/78372981/#78373654 complaints] over the casting/production choices and some claimed that Ghost in a Shell is [https://archived.moe/a/thread/78372981/#78376308 /v/ shit]. Although there was a plenty of petitioning towards the mods to have the thread stickied (one anon even posted to /q/ to get mods to see it), it would be over ~700 posts before the thread was stickied, at which point it had already begun to autosage (in fact, [https://archived.moe/a/thread/78374412/ another thread was created] just in case the original thread would 404). Interestingly, [https://archived.moe/a/thread/78372981/#78378647 a few anons] were able to determine that the anime was a prequel before much information had gotten out about it (which ended up being correct), although this was quickly disregarded and argued against by the others. After this, much of the thread was either arguing about very minor details of the anime ([https://archived.moe/a/thread/78372981/#78433764 small redesigns]) or anime in general ("Name one anime from the last 10 years with no cgi at all"), although for a while the discussion mainly revolved around board culture as there were mainly complaints about /v/ (as usual), this time as someone linked to a [https://archived.moe/v/thread/171694015/ /v/ thread] discussing the new anime, leading to much anger amongst /a/ ("/v/ is full of hypocrites who shun almost anything Japan-related but then circlejerk over certain Japanese games/anime anyway").
* January 30 - /mlp/ is renamed to "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?", due to the reaction of the board towards the main character becoming an alicorn, for the sake of new toys.
* February 5 - A [https://archived.moe/q/thread/408520/ sticky is made on /q/] discussing the possible improvements to the catalog.
* February 15 - moot stickies his [https://archived.moe/a/thread/79925283/ shitposting thread] on /a/ (although he may have been drunk considering many of his posts made no sense). Prior to this, he had made a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/79921923/ non-stickied test thread] on /a/ (a pastime of his) without an image. Much of /a/ was fed up with moot using the board as his "test board" as this always drew in off-topic discussion, and mod-sanctioned shitposting had been a topic discussed during a town hall sticky by mods back in December, as mods denied that there were any shitposting mods, much less the admin. One frantic anon made [https://archived.moe/q/thread/420009/ a thread on /q/] trying to get him to stop fucking with the board. However, as this was directed towards the mods, nothing ever came of it. The thread that moot had stickied was even more off-topic than the test thread, although this time the ever-so-light presence of mods (surprising considering it was moot's thread) was clear in the thread from the posts deleted. The topic of the /q/ thread from earlier had also shifted topic towards moot's shitposting on /a/ with this new sticky, but it was mostly just complaints as they knew there was nothing they could do. Several began speculating what the occasion was this time, whether he was drunk or if he was just in the mood for fucking around. Based on his posts later in the thread, it's probable that moot was either 1. actually drunk and just pressing random buttons on his keyboard, explaining why some of his answers made no sense and why they were all in lowercase, or 2. he was just pretending to be drunk and stupid for shits and giggles. The latter was more favored by speculating anons in the beginning of the thread but as the thread carried on and moot's text became making less sense, among other changes (including no longer using any capitalization), the possibility he wasn't actually pretending took hold. Some believed he was just sleep-deprived. The thread reached over 2500 posts (13 of which were moot's shitposts).
* February 20 - The '''nokosage''' function is changed, and now using it shows the user’s sage.
* February 21 - For a while, all posts quoting another bug out and are hidden from the thread.
* March - With the sticky finished, the improved catalog gets released.
* March 18 - New Boards: ○ '''/asp/ - Alternative Sports''' ○ '''/gd/ - Graphic Design''' ○ '''/out/ - Outdoors''' ○ '''/lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender''' ○ '''/vr/ - Retro Games'''. 
* March 18 - However, there seems to be no ''/his/ - History'' nor ''/quest/ - Quest'' Games on sight, which were the two most requested boards. After [https://warosu.org/3/thread/S340309#p340313 a short sticky on /3/] as to whether /3/ and /gd/ should be merged (moot forgot to get their opinion before creating the board), moot decides to keep the boards separate. moot on the other hand refuses to add /his/ because he's certain it would become ''"/pol/ with dates"''. This comes long with a general restructuring of the boardlist on the top of the page. <ref>Archive. [https://archive.today/Wq8ph]</ref>
* April 1 - New Boards: ○ '''/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says'''. 
* April 1 - '''April Fool's 2014''' - Making fun of both the recent Reddit hate fad, moot adds a r/srs ('''Shit Reddit Says'') spoof board. In the global announcements he writers: “Unlike the other new boards, this is being added on a permanent basis. If it doesn't pan out or goes unused, you should probably check your privilege.” The board gets two stickies - a 5555 dubs GET and another saying “Post in this thread to have your privilege checked” Later the full joke kick’s in and moot changes the format and CSS to make it look like Reddit. On both /s4s/ and /b/ a popup about AdultCatFinder appears. A mod checks everyone’s privilege on the second sticky and an empty thread is stickied on /b/.
* April 2 - /s4s/'s reception if overwhelmingly positive. moot confirms /s4s/ is here to stay.
* April 3 - /s4s/ becomes an official 4chan board, becoming a rules-free yellow board. moot first tries to decouple it from the Reddit references by changing the title to ''“/s4s/ - Shitposting 4n Steroids”'', but it’s not listed on the main page and many people complain about the name change.
* April 7 - /vp/ gets renamed to /vp/ - RIGHT IN THE CHILDHOOD after a certain new Pokemon gets released. /s4s/ is renamed again, this time, to ''/s4s/ - Shitp4sterS''.
* April 10 - /s4s/ gets renamed back to Shit 4chan Says.
* April 15 - moot makes a public announcement telling he’ll log in AIM as moot chat and try to answer emails.
* April 20 - /mlp/ reaches their [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/9987898/#10000000 10M GET], (taken by Vinyl Scratch) and breaks the record of the most replied post of 4chan with 2046 replies.
* May - '''#Outlaws''' - Recent crackdowns on the shitposting of /sp/ and /tv/ (Two long-forgotten, but still alive, boards) lead to many users outright rebelling against the moderation team. On one side, users form /tv/ have long been complaining about constant celebrity waifu threads that could take as much as half the board. /sp/’s off-topic posting has been increasing exponentially since 2010 and this is coupled with severe crackdown on multiple generals, including topic bans. The upset and banned users essentially cry revolution and start spreading anti mod propagandas and signing their posts with hashtag parodies #freesp, #freetv and #outlaws. The spamwave extend to /fit/, /int/, /s4s/, /v/ and more. '''/sp/ becomes one of the first boards to wipe their own catalog in protest''', all parodying the moderator by making an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us3_8FxoAls avatar of janitor ''Mr. Morris'' of ''Arthur'']. Though it’s agreed that /tv/ has no holding ground to claim celebrity threads to be allowed, moot has agree that he would consider allowing certain classic /sp/ threads such as power level and current even threads. Self-wiping in protest becomes a tradition in /sp/ and culturally similar boards like /tv/ and /int/. Later, /sp/ diehards would migrate to spinoff '''GETchan'''.
* May 4 - After a 4 year long hiatus, Cirnopoly !/ciRNo/Ym. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/84826797/ released the 11th issue] of [https://www.lurkmore.com/view/Four_Chan_Magazine Four Chan Magazine], an /a/ oldfag project last updated in 2009.
* May 12 - moot opens the third Q/A, fucks with the CSS by forgetting a “ and jokes with /s4s/ by giving it Comic Sans.
* May 13 - Anamanaguchi, whose members are friends of moot, make a Q/A session on /mu/. Luke becomes a fan favorite.
* May 18 - '''Israel Affaire''' - The then main /int/ janitor nikka gets fired over internal drama at #janiteam. He is revealed to have been defending his moderation actions as anon to the point of infamy within /int/, known as a Pole flag that always suck up the janny. Infamous janitor of /jp/ ''Anonymous of Columbia'' (''AoC'') volunteers to replace him. Within weeks, every mention of the word Jew, Israel or posters by Israelites outside their own general start getting instantly deleted. Turns out, AoC was running a post autodeletion script hooked to dunaemoody's '''Janitor Extension'''.<ref>
Nikka getting fired. [https://archive.today/cqZBQ]
</ref>
* May 23 - '''Dragongate''' - 4chan Cup /n/ team manager Dragonfag is revealed to be /cm/’s manager Kageyama, and former /sp/ manager Torres McIlroy...and fifteen other personalities. After an extensive investigation, many matches in which Dragonfag was a manager are nullified. /sp/ loses its 2012 Winter Cup trophy. Dragonfag is banned from the cup (he later came back to run the cup betting before each matchday)
* May 27 - Lauren Faust makes an AMA on /mlp/ [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/10902082/#q10904210 (inside an existing thread)] and the entire board collectively lose their shit. moot renames /mlp/ to "IT'S HAPPENING".
* June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day. This time, however, instead of a meet up on the other board, he starts two contests on /q/, one about rotating banners (Those things you see on the top page that always have the 4chan title) and house ads (Replacements for the adspace when there are no current adds running).
* June 19 - The entire catalog of /int/ is nearly completely wiped. Nobody knows why. It's revealed in the #janiteam leaks of 2015 that Janitor AoC (Anonymous of Columbia) of /jp/ was also moderating /int/ and running a regex reader auto deletion script through a custom made modtool extention that just had a major mishap. '''This tool was the reason why mentioning the words Israel or jews, or posting from Israel entirely, on /int/ was almost impossible at some points in 2013.'''<ref>
8chan's /irc/ thread, post 5257, discussing the event. [https://archive.today/8ch.net/irc/res/107.html#q5257]</br>
<nowiki>#</nowiki>janiteam logs</br>
* ''(13:01:37) %fsdfdsf: A ton of bad threads and AoC's script got away from him a little</br>(13:02:21) +Spitch: y is aoc getting all of the credit :(</br>(13:02:28) +AoC: this pretty much buries any future autodeletion code btw. It was a huge mistake and I should have learned from the time a bad regex wiped /b/</br>(13:03:00) +axism: so your report page went HAL 9000 on /int/?</br>(13:03:12) +Spitch: Yes</br>(13:04:00) +AoC: sorta. Was checking out some old code and thought it could be modified to work now. Tested it in All Pages mode, got a 504 error and then bamf</br>(13:04:03) +AoC: nothing''</br>
</ref>
* July 3 - /pol/ and /b/ raid [https://web.archive.org/web/20220110195255/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJ1tTGjyS0&ab_channel=Law%26CrimeNetwork 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 14 - /v/ achieves its [https://archived.moe/v/thread/199999406/#200000000 200M GET]. After lots of tension, the GET goes to a completely unrelated post in a Pikmin thread, asking, "Also why does everyone crash land trying to get to Earth? Seriously." 
* July 27 - A harsh critic from GameInformer journalist Martin Beer makes Indie games developer Phil Fish ragequit Twitter and cancel his newest game, Fez 2. /v/ celebrates by making tons of OC, including a new /v/ Sings and countless Youtube videos.
* August 11 - moot renames /soc/ to '''/soc/ - Cam & Meetups''', /q/ to '''/q/ - 4chan Feedback''' and /fit/ to '''/fit/ - Fitness'''.
* August 13 - '''Naruto Day''' - /a/’s elitism finally goes too far when they try to dox a 4chan mod (RapeApe) who posted on /q/ telling them to stop complaining about naruto threads. moot retaliates changing the board name to /a/ - "N/a/RUTO CONFIRMED BEST ANIME CHINESE CARTOON OF ALL TIME", with the subtitle "BELIEVE IT (also dubs are better than subs)", embedding a remix of "believe it", changing the posting form and stickying a bunch of Naruto threads. /a/ goes berserk and begins spamming CP and guro, forcing the mods to shut all down.
* August 26 - '''Thanks Australia''' - Congratulating Kojima on his 50st birthday, /v/ sends him over a hundred postcards. However, Kojima thanks Australia instead of 4chan, because the sender was Australian. moot considered this funny and renamed the board to “/v/ - Australia” with the subtitle “T-Thanks Kojima-Sama!”
* August 27 - moot announces that he will host a 4chan Panel on AnimeWeekend on September 26 and 27 to celebrate the site’s tenth birthday.
* September 3 - After some days of the announcement, he makes a news post detailing the 4chan Panel and who will be there. It comes with a new image from Jim Ken.
* September 4 - moot has an impromptu Q/A session on /q/ where he’d livestream the answers.
* September 5 - moot hosts his 4th PMQ/Q&A, but live-streamed from Google Hangouts to YouTube in audio. He states "If it goes well, we'll probably switch over to this format for the future." He then goes on to confirm this, and will now be hosting all Q&A's in audio format for the future. He later makes a sticky on /s4s/ where he discusses porn threads on the board, both him and the community decide they should be banned. Meanwhile, Harach, the most popular Russian imageboard, dies and the entirety of its userbase returns to /int/.
* September 9 - Due to overwhelming popular request moot renames /s4s/ to its true name '''[s4s]''' in reference to being the only off-topic board in the Navigation Bar.
* September 10 - moot in a glorious soup-induced delirium, adds :fortune: to [s4s]. Many rolls where had.
* September 15 - [s4s], notorious for stealing GETs, has their 1M get stolen by /g/.
* September 18 - '''Full House Update''' - moot posts a tl;dr newspost where he defines the site's official stance on shitposting and on-topic content, introducing a "final" batch of updates meant to modernize 4chan and encourage high quality content: Intra-thread and inter-thread (threads vs posts) timers are now separate, and the post timer is increased to 1 minute with the sage post timer now equalized to it. He announces that all future Q/A sessions will be livestreamed and deletes /q/, replacing it with the new '''Feedback''' suggestion box  and it's answers page. He also adds a 4chan '''Ban Log''' page that shows only a mod-detrmined ''sample'' of all bans. Finally, in an act that will live in infamy, he makes sage invisible after almost 10 years of the feature. R.I.P in pieces, Sageman.<ref>
* Former page. [https://www.4chan.org/news#114]</br>
* Current page. [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#oldnews]</br>
* Feedback Form today. [https://4chan.org/feedback]</br>
* Ban log. [https://4chan.org/bans]</br>
</ref>
* September 19 - /co/ flips out when they realize the timer has effectively killed storytimes, their most important tradition. moot makes an extremely rare /co/-post to revert the change to 30 seconds, specifically for images posted on /co/. /co/ is to this day still processing the fact that senpai noticed them.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/54269663/#54272509]</ref>
* September 27 - AWA 2013 starts.
* September 28 - '''4chan's 10 Years Anniversary Panel''' - The aforementioned 10th Anniversary 4chan panel takes place at AWA. As with previous cons. /jp/ changes its title to ''"/jp/ - Weaponized /a/ Home of <nowiki>``Misunderstood Genuises''</nowiki>"''. /jp/ watches the 4chan panel on youtube, and this is ground zero for the shitstorm as the board got hijacked by /b/tards when moot mentioned it as “Weaponized /a/”.
* September 29 - New Boards: ○ '''/con/ - Convention'''.
* September 29 - In keeping with the Otakon tradition, he readds the temporal board /con/. moot also does a meetup on Atlanta before the Panel starts and signs a /k/ommando’s Mosin Nagant.
* September 30 - Newspost on the Panel. moot livestreams the panel for an hour, and later uploads the video to Youtube. Shut and Snacks were present alongside many original mods and friends of moot. He also jokes saying that /jp/ is the new /b/ which turns the board to shit for a while.
* October 1 - '''TEN YEARS MOTHERFUCKERS.''' Also fgt hats are back, the American government shuts down, the Silk Road is closed, Terraria has a huge update and /v/ discovers Half-Life 3 is already trademarked and on the making.
* October 6 - '''UTV Affair''' - /sp/ flips the fuck out as an /trb/ general poster who has been stalking tripfag UTV since June reveals he has been discovered and has to leave the general. He subsequently releases a [https://archive.org/details/4chanSpUTVFanEverythingPDF 97 page pdf] detailing everything he ever thought or written about UTV. It includes notes, poems, artwork, and all posts by namefag UTV since July 1. UTV Archiver was later referenced as “The most autistic user in the history of 4chan”
* October 8 - /con/ is removed.
* October 22 - Developer ''hotwheels'' created '''8chan.net''' (''Infinitychan''), an experimental IB that lets anon create their own boards like the AnonIB site of old. Initially their userbase has strong overland with former ''4chon'' developers and the Imageboard ''Wizarchan''. It soon comes to house /new/ oldhead that refuse to assimilate into /pol/ and a plethora of small communities. Years later, unexpected internet-wide developments sees them become truly massive and declare themselves sworn rivals of "halfchan" neé 4chan.
* November 20 - All images, flashes and static files are now hosted on their own server, which will make loading speeds a little faster.
* November 22 - [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/1216281 The /vr/ sticky] is updated to include the Sega Dreamcast as a retro console, though other sixth generation consoles such as the Xbox and PS2 are excluded.
* November 25 - 4chan Pass goes on sale.
* November 29 - moot announces a blog post explaining the rationale behind his MO.
* December 2 - moot implements a new domain for images and .sfws, '''4.cdn.org''', a new strategy that has been implemented by other sites, saving data by reducing cookie and packet size. The new measure totals up to 43 terabytes of saved data per month. moot announces the update in his Tumblr via the news. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6835392 He also submits his post to Hacker News] where it reaches the top of the front page for a few hours, leading to a small technical Q&A in the comment section. 
* December 15 - With an ad blocker activated, ads are replaced with ''"Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan.org/*, purchasing a self-serve ad, or buying a 4chan Pass."''
* December 22 - 4chan passes go on sale again.
* December 23 - /k/ is flooded with mourning threads following the death of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mods embed the song "Moscow Nights". The sticky stays up for over a week and gets several thousand replies.
* December 25 - anus hats, Hanukkah edition.

===2014===
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* January - moot implements code upgrades that greatly fasten the site’s browsing speed.
* January 5 - Site goes on an outage from 01:32 - 13:10 (EST) due to MySQL error. Boards are semi-functional, as in the board pages are frozen, but you can open threads and post, and also make new threads. People begin to make CP threads during this time.
* January 10 - /a/, despite being one of the oldest boards and one of the most active, finally reaches the [https://imgur.com/hyJWqeU 100M GET], and it only took them a little more than 10 years.
* January 18 - It is announced that "You can now add a '''search term''' to the end of a board URL to default to a catalog search for that term. Example: 4chan.org/a/waifu" 
* January 21 - moot’s startup, the one in charge of Canv.as and DrawQuest, finally closes after the venture is confirmed to be unprofitable. moot makes the news public on 4chan.
* January 23 - A stickied thread on /s4s/ becomes the second (sorry!) thread in 4chan history to reach ten thousand replies. The thread, which was posted by a namefag called ''Getter Robo'' with the text 'LETS BREAK THE REPLY RECORD' and a picture of said robot exclaiming 'UOOH!', is nearly impossible to view without crashing the computer. The OP of the post received ten thousand replies, doubling the previous record set by a namefag called ''eternal samefig'' on the same board, who vowed to reply to his post until 4chan died. The thread dies on February 18.
* February 9 - moot modifies captchas so they only appear when you type something in the comment field because Google raises the difficulty of captchas as a punishment for sending too many unanswered requests.
* February 12 - moot makes a new blogpost, The Anonymity I know, and publicizes it on the news page.
* February 13 - New Board: ○ '''/biz/ - Business & Finance'''. 
* February 13 - Another ''containment'' board in the vein of /vg/ and /mlp/. /biz/ attempts to move the crescent cryptocurrency thread out of /g/, also taking with them the free market and neo-classical posters from /pol/. He also makes a sticky on /g/: “take your shitty bitcoin threads here”.
* February 14 - moot makes a Valentine's Day sticky on /soc/, like last year.
* February 18 - '''Chaos in [s4s]''' - [s4s] goes completely out of control after the aforementioned "Reply record" thread is un-stickied, resulting in a glitch in the system. This includes up to 26 pages being added one by one, resulting in threads linking to 404's, or 504 gateway errors, and multiple threads being made to "keep" the pages once the bug is fixed... only to be reverted later. The ongoing kek thread gets deleted as well.
* February 23 - moot opens janitor applications. States that he will open them once every 1/1.5 years and that’s he’s feeling like doing a new Q&A. At the same, he adds IDs to /biz/, to curb the tripfag population.
* February 25 - Start of the Crimean Crisis, which would eventually lead to the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Vladimir Putin's Russia. On /pol/, threads about it [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/26948796/#26948796 devolve into a shitshow], with lots of WW3 doomsayers, people accusing each other of being Russian/EU shills and people waifufagging around prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya. 
* February 26 - An exploit is discovered where pasting a large amount of text into the CAPTCHA field allows the poster to bypass it.
* March 13 - 4chan goes on yet another outage where if one attempts to post, he will be redirected to a page saying "Posting temporarily disabled. Come back later!" moot makes a sticky on /biz/ stating you can now target /biz/ with self-serve ads. The page numbers bar is also added to the top of the page. "Settings" is organized into several categories which can be hidden; Quotes & Replying, Monitoring, Filters & Post Hiding, Navigation, Images & Media, and Miscellaneous. Brief descriptions of the options are added underneath. A new option, "Snippets in page title" is added, which allows you to show/hide post subjects or comment snippets in the page (tab) title.
* March 25 - All hell breaks loose when it is announced that Facebook has purchased the gaming device Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars. /v/ and other boards outrage, with /v/ getting the title, changed to "Where were you when gaming died?", embedded music with the song "Komm, süsser Tod", and a sticky.
* April 1 - For April Fool's Day, captchas are substituted with fake Japanese character captchas. To get the actual captcha, you must scroll over the fake captcha.
* April 2 - A new file type named "WebM" is introduced to /g/ and /jp/, with several [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/41175103/ stickies] [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/41178861/ in] [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/41183707/ the] [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/41184007/ former]. A few days later (April 6), it became available on all boards, with a [https://archive.today/B3cIm new sticky on /g/] made by <hype>the Developer</hype> describing how to encode (convert) gifs/generic video files into vp8 webms. The sticky was linked to from the global red-text message and blog post (see below).
* April 6 - The blotter and the blog are reintroduced, most likely because of all the new features/code changes moot wanted to implement this month. [https://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan The first post to the blog] was made regarding the decision to support webms. [https://archive.today/UPa4t (archive of that blog post)]
* April 7 - '''Death of world4ch''' - moot uses the blog to announce that discussion boards, nominally known as textboards, will be frozen but not deleted, as they have gone unmaintained for too long. However /rs/, the fileshare board, will be deleted to focus on the image boards. /vip/ and /prog/, world4ch's two most (and only) active boards, mourn and disperse.
* April 18 - New Boards: ○ '''/htmlnew/ - /test/ - Testing'''. 
* April 18 - Titled "/test/ - Testing", it's an unannounced "secret" board to preview upcoming CSS/html changes. Posting is only available for mods/admins.
* April 19 - /htmlnew/ is removed and the new changes are implemented. In thread URLs, thread links, which go by ''"res/"'' are renamed to '''"thread/"''', and subject/comment snippets are appended after the thread ID as a slug (#). The ''"src/"'' and ''"thumb/"'' directories are removed from ''images.4chan.org'' and ''thumbs.4chan.org'' and shorthands ''i.4cdn.org'' and ''t.4cdn.org''. Files now live at the board root on those subdomains. The board index now starts from ''"Page 1"'' instead of ''"Page 0"'' and there's now an un-browsable ''"Page 11"'' representing the next thread up for deletion. There is now an option on all pages to search for OPs. A drop-down menu is added beside every post, with the options ''"Report post"'', ''"Hide thread"'', ''"Image search »"'', ''"Download file"'', and ''"Filter selected text"''. There are also several minor cosmetic changes.
* April 23 - '''4chan Hack of 2014''' - An Australian manages to get admin access and starts posting as moot. He posts the location of FWG, a French /int/ tripfag, ip's of mods and janitors and the password to the moderator IRC channel. Subsequently, 4chan was frozen for about 6 hours.
* May - /fk/ is removed.
* May 11 - A sticky is posted on /v/ regarding a moderator who outed himself for a forum of an EA game. moot demands that everyone stops doxing him or else they will receive a ban.
* June 27 - Homestuck generals are banned from /co/. "At this point, we are no longer allowing Homestuck General threads. They've long since become echo chambers for off-topic discussion and are a detriment to the board as a whole. Please do not create any more homestuck generals. Thank you." A Homestuck general is stickied on [s4s].
* July 4 - Aftermath of speed running convention, original content is developed in the form of that autistic guy annoying a passive aggressive manchild. It also comes to light that a streamer was cheated on by his wife and her potato faced cuckold that goes by the stream name Stivitybobo on twitch; he continues to exhibit signs of his disability in the form of playing the victim. Stivy also got a pizza dinner delivered to his home, interrupting and prematurely ending his streamed speed run. 
* July 4 - '''Independence Day Invasion''' - /b/ and /pol/ manage to falseflag Tumblr and start flinging shit at each other, eventually climaxing into the great [http://web.archive.org/web/20161025220004/https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Independence_Day_Invasion Independence Day Invasion.]
* July 12 - The oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, [https://archived.moe/i/thread/381533/ a thread about a drawfag on /i/], finally dies after 978 days, almost two and a half years. It was overtaken a few months later by a different /i/ thread about a drawfag.
* July 30 - '''The robot on /r9k/ is disabled''', the reason being that "/r9k/ ceased to be "original content" years ago". At rhis point, /r9k/ was firmly the "incel frog board" it is popularly known as. A user on /pol/ makes a post saying "Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art / This post is art.", which then was photographed off the screen and framed by another user who posted another reply in the thread with a photo of the framed quote. Later the that user created an auction [http://www.ebay.com/itm/221509460160?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 on eBay] for the framed photo which quickly rose to high prices, culminating in a price of $90,900 after which many news outlets picked up on the story, i.e. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/05/a-photo-of-a-4chan-post-sold-for-almost-100000-because-art/ The Washington Post].
* August 13 - The ''E-mail'' field is renamed ''Options'' field, and it is no longer to link your email in it. And threads on /a/ and /v/ will now be accessible for a period of 48 hours after being pushed off of the board index
* August 17 - /lit/ [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S5302969 starts writing a book collectively] that later came to be known as [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_in_a_Tundra.pdf "The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra"], the first book by 4chan and probably also the first written in anonymous collaboration online. Proceeds from the book on Amazon are donated to the Autism Research Center.
* August 21 - A [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/34389333/#34389333 Ukraine General] is created on /pol/, with overall pro-Putin sentiment.
* August 28 - '''Gamergate''' - The weeks long, ongoing Zoe Quinn cancellation drama takes an unexpected turn as nearly all independent video games news pages publish variations of "Gamers are Dead" on the same day. What was previously a controversial lolcow watch becomes a civil war within the gaming community. On /v/ the affably received quinnspiracy threads, now coalesced into the Gamergate general, become the single most active threads on the site, burning through the bump limit in hours as refugees from NeoGAF, r/games and many more forums rush to the only forum that allows discussion on the topic.
* August 31 - '''The Fappening''' - A guy on /b/ leaks several hundred celebrity nudes hacked off of iCloud. TMZ offers him over a million dollars for the rest (which he declined), and continues to post pictures and videos throughout the day. A thread on /b/ made by him has bump and image limits disabled until it reaches over 9,000 replies (Reached 10,111 replies) in a non-stickied thread, causing the entire site to lag. The event is dubbed both by 4channers and the media "The Fappening".
* September 2 - A 17 year old kid on /out/ embarks on a 5500km walk from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales
* September 4 - 4chan implements a series of major policy changes, now including a '''DMCA takedown service'''. Possibly due to threats of legal action by Jennifer Lawrence due to The Fappening incident. This takedown service operates through a MD5 hash blacklist. The most public pictures of Jennifer Lawrence are the first MD5s confirmed banned.<ref>BBC News Article. [https://archive.today/OPdXc]</ref> It's most likely the legal threats did not end there, as Martin Singer would soon threaten Google itself. 
* September 15 - An unfortunate anon makes a terrible first post on the Gamergate general and anons start demanding people report non-helpful posts. At this point, the thread was moving so fast such actions saturated the report queue, an enormous problem for a moderation that is dealing with the fallout of The Fappening and another headache for an Administration that could find itself in court soon.
* September 16 - '''Exile of Gamergate''' - A mod posts on the Gamergate general declaring the topic banned because it's clogging the report queue. Every new GamerGate thread gets deleted and users riot and accuse this mod of going rogue. In the wake of the crackdown, 4chan's "feedback" page is also removed from the website, moot's e-mail address disappears from all contact pages, and Germany allegedly gets a mass IP range ban (this was then discovered to be just a rumour with no basis, due to several German flags appearing on /int/). The outrage that ensued is on a scale unseen since the /b/day of legend, making /v/ unusable for several days, having ripples in several boards, most notably /b/ and /pol/, the latter seeing it as a "gotcha" moment for their anti-moot narrative.<ref>
<nowiki>#</nowiki>janiteam logs.
*''[07:45:06] <RapeApe> #### GamerGate threads on /v/ are now over ####</br>[07:45:31] <RapeApe> They've started spamming the report system and have become a burden to moderation.''</br>
</ref>
* September 18 - Sticky on /v/. moot declares GamerGate officially banned from the whole site because of Global Rule 4 (no doxxing). "''Said threads are being deleted primarily because they violate our blanket "no personal information / raids / calls to invasion" rule. Spamming the reports system and creating multiple topics were also a factor, especially given /v/ is one of 4chan's fastest moving boards and has historically struggled with keeping topics limited to actual video games.''" It's later discovered that modposting was disabled by order of moot. Following the crackdown, a vast amount of complaining stirs up on /b/, with a good portion of threads speaking out against 4chan moderation and administration. Many of said threads say that users should simply leave on October 1st (4chan's 11th anniversary) and only return when (and if) moderation of 4chan returns to its original relaxed state. A 4chan clone, 8chan, gets popular for discussing Gamergate threads. Linking to it results in an auto-ban.<ref>
* /forfree/ thread about modposting being disabled. [https://archive.today/U8TAU]
</ref>
* September 19 - '''moots the Luggage Lad''' - For the first time, moot suffers leaks of his personal life. /pol/ discovers the Instagram account of moot's fellow NYC acquaintance, Mallory Blair, which is completely public and happily blogging that she went to Europe with him around July. It's soon discovered that Blair together with moderator Swaglord had ties to NYC news media, particularly Gawker. Many assume moot finally got a gf, others that he is a simp. One of her social media posts however has unfortunate friendzoning vibes with the line ''"he carries luggage & is single ladies"'', sparking a meme. With /pol/ in full rebellion and /v/ still reeling from Gamergate, anons eat this up and spread it everywhere claiming 4chan sold the site to SJW over a woman. The leaks were likely motivated by Gawker's involvement in Gamergate (via Kotaku), and while initially taken in stride by all involved, may have directly affected moot's personal social life.<ref>
* Blair mentions on /pol/. 1 [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/mallory%20blair/end/2015-02-01/order/asc/] - 2 [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/yourpalmal/end/2015-02-01/order/asc/]</br>
* Invisibro and Blair. [https://warosu.org/fa/thread/9019282#p9021161]
</ref>
* September 22 - moot makes a shitposty /sp/ sticky about going to see the Bears. A picture of Blair's actual boyfriend is posted and /pol/ implodes as soon as they see it. Everything related to moot gets flooded to hell and back with cuck spam.<ref>
Post. [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/chunk/52621864/#52625986]</ref>
* September 24 - /lit/ [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/5478831 writes a sequel] to the original Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, titled [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_in_a_Tundra_II_-_Miami.pdf The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra II - Miami], in just over one and a half days.
* October 1 - The 17 year old kid from /out/ now titled ''Little Thor'' by the community passes the 1000km mark. 
* October 12 - moot [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S12534873#p12582276 announces] that he'll be at the Aizu-Wakamatsu train station to [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S12534873#p12582378 wave] at the iconic webcam, which was followed for years in a /jp/ general; even if the webcam service was [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S16552062#p16792971 discontinued] in March 2017, the beloved general is still running.
* October 19 - Little Thor is a faggot and drops out after 1200km.
* November 5 - A murderer who strangled his girlfriend and uploaded pictures of her corpse on 4chan is apprehended. Judging by the media coverage, being associated with 4chan trumps the fact that an innocent girl died. '''Board, Marge?'''
* November 9 - moot announces that the number of unique posters in a thread will now be listed, and that the thread watcher can now auto-watch and highlight threads based on custom filters.
* November 12 - The admin of ''archive.heinessen.com'', the main archiver for /mlp/, /fit/, /k/, and /x/ (among others) [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/20608656/ announces on /mlp/] that the site will close due to personal reasons. /mlp/ panicked as there was no other archiver that had archived /mlp/ from birth and many requested a torrent be provided. Some even offered to pay for the archive to continue while others asked to mail him a HDD to save full images. Other threads discussing this were made on /r9k/, /toy/, and /k/. In the end, /k/, /mlp/, and /r9k/ were made available for torrenting (/fit/ was given to other archives as well) while /x/, /int/, /an/, /toy/, and /gif/ were deleted.
* November 21 - moot makes a new blog post, saying that janitors now have the ability of request warns instead of bans. He also states that roughly 90% of the 4chan users are lurkers and only 10% of the 20 million monthly users actually posts. His suggestion that recommendation threads on /a/ are not ban-worthy but only deserve a warn causes a shitstorm in the board. He also illustrates some changes in the mobile version of the site.
* November 23 - A new sticky on /co/ explicitly stating that ''"The posting of non-worksafe content under spoiler tags is not permitted, and will result in a ban. Furry content is also not permitted"'' causes furries in the board to protest in outrage.
* December 4 - Asuka's Birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0 is embedded into every board along with Chen pictures and signs stating "No honk allowed". /a/ gets renamed to "USAKA" with the subtitle "USAKA IS LUUV USAKA IS LUUF". moot posts on /a/ sending the board into chaos, and he also makes a post stating "ayy lmao" in a BANE? thread on /pol/.
* December 7 - '''The /pol/ocaust''' AKA '''/pol/ Harbor''' - After months of harassment over personal photos, moot goes nuts and transforms /pol/ into a shitpost board - It starts with the addition of multiple wordfilters, e.g. "moot" becomes "the CEO of Troll, Inc.", and "cuck" becomes "cluck". More word filters are added as the day progresses. 4chan temporarily goes down for maintenance, and comes back a few hours later. Several threads are stickied - the first is a locked "FOR FREE" thread mocking janitors, and the second is a picture of moot getting fucked by Anita and Zoe. Captcha and flags are removed, and moot adds a global announcement urging people to go and test /pol/'s new captcha-less posting. Another sticky is added, this time saying "POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE". The post timer is later reduced to 15 seconds, and the global announcement is edited to say "Now with legacy timers!". The timer for creating threads is reduced to 1 minute. All posts are turned into dubs by adding an extra digit identical to the last digit at the end of the post number, which causes chaos as people are unable to link to previous posts. At the request of an Anon on [s4s], moderator swaglord stickies a thread that repeats the phrase "wew lad" over and over. Furry porn, guro, loli and ponies are posted with little retaliation from the mods, although some threads are deleted. The board goes apeshit as the users try to flee to /mlp/, /int/, [s4s], and other boards to no avail. After a couple of hours the "wew lad" and "POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE" stickies are removed, but the cuck sticky and janitor sticky remain. The audio from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPM6LKIaopk is embedded into the front page and the board is renamed '''The 8 Steps of Cuckolding''' with subtitle ''>she does it for fun''. A feature is added which makes every post be preceded by "[trigger warning]", which is given a marquee animation soon after. The fortune function is added, and is later changed to say "Your privilege:" instead of "your fortune:" and "Cuck" instead of "Luck". People had been typing "moot ## Admin ⌘" in the subject field to impersonate moot, so the subject field is renamed "moot ## Admin ⌘" as a joke. Two threads are stickied; one is unicode art of an anime girl, the other is a sticky request. They are both locked and unstickied later on. Many believe these happenings mean moot is going to delete /pol/. Antisemitic cartoonist Ben Garrison made a cartoon threatening moot prior to this happening, which referred to moot as "the CEO of Troll, Inc." (which is what the word filter is referencing). The cartoon was deleted shortly after.
* December 8 - '''ReCAPTCHA 2''' is implemented, replacing the CAPTCHA box with a button that says "I'm not a robot". Publishers breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to worry about the word nigger getting into their books. moot posts on /b/ after a year of abscence, and [https://i.imgur.com/z5lfv0Q.png publicly fires a janitor.]
* December 10 - /pol/'s 39999999 GET, containing a naruto page edited to be a dubs pic, is stickied & locked, while the 40M GET, simply consisting of "HITLER WAS RIGHT!", happens in a GET thread and quickly goes 404. /pol/'s title is changed back to "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect", and the embedded audio is removed, but the stickies and the other effects still remain. [s4s]'s font is changed to Comic Sans.
* December 11 - 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 13 - moot has a lengthy Q&A session in a thread on /pol/, dispelling rumors about him selling 4chan, deleting /pol/ and him being a cuck, along with several other topics. IDs on /pol/ are different for every post, regardless of poster's IP, thanks to a user suggestion. Two threads are stickied on /pol/ - one asking if newpol stands with (((Our Greatest Ally))), the other stating "this is nice board".
* December 15 - Geolocation flags are added on /pol/.
* December 20 - 4chan is down for unknown reasons.<ref>Frontpage on Dec. 20. [https://archive.today/NOqqH]</ref>

===2015===
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* 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. Thumbnails are broken for several hours after the update. A new '''Board Archive''' inxed is quietly rolled out, accessible by going to ''boards.4chan.org/boardname/archive''.
* January 6 - '''Substitute Banners''' are rolled out, visible by those who use ad-blockers. The banners read: "Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan*.org/*, purchasing a self-serve ad, or buying a 4chan Pass." While this same message has been displayed previously, the substitute banners now occupy space as if they were the same size as banner ads, drawing more attention. They actually don't display while using 4chan Pass and blocking ads. A new link next to the catalog link is also rolled out to access board archives, previously only accessible by visiting boards.4chan.org/boardname/archive
* January 8 - /pol/ returns to normal - wordfilters, trigger warnings, shitpost stickies, and fake dubs are removed, and the "Welcome to /pol/" sticky is reinstated. However, geolocation flags and board-wide IDs remain.
* January 17 - '''#janiteam leaks''' - Clearly coached by a lawyer, moot rolls out in-depth internal policy changes for team4chan. Including sweeping changes to janitor application wording, the definition of Janitor, and the added requirements that janitors are now required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement and present a real ID (with no proper solution for international janitors). At 13:00 EST he breaks the news to #janiteam, where a palpably jaded moot to confirms the change applies to all current team4chan members, not just new ones. This is immediately protested, even by old guard mods, with janitor Cephei getting told to just resign. Within hours another janitor, andonuts, leaks his entire logs of the #janiteam IRC on 8chan's IRC, both hosted on Rizon, prompting Brennan to visit team4chan to gloat. moot later makes the news official with a 4chan Blog post titled "New requirement for 4chan volunteers going forward". Brennan then adds fuel to the fire by making his own sticky thread on 8chan's /b/ and leaking the entire logs to the public. The next day andonuts creates a board on 8chan: ''/forfree/ - Journal of Janny'', where he rants on various topics regarding moderation and leaks screenshots. He "confirms" his identity by linking to pics hosted on the secret janitor board, /j/. This is by far and wide the largest leak of internal practices 4chan ever had, leading to multiple hundred threads of Anons trying to find who "their" janitor was and confirm every single bias they ever had. Janitors on rizon are privately contacted and dozens of chat snippets would become the basis for years-long conspiracy theories. Above all, the leaks portray a moot that shows signs of severe burn out, addressing janitors passive-aggressively and making dismissive remarks about 4chan, stating he only made the Otakon anniversary convention to meet old acquaintances and didn't give a care about common anons.<ref>
*<nowiki>#</nowiki>janiteam Logs.</br>
** Breaking the news.</br>
*:''[13:14:27] *** moots changes topic to 'janiteam | We highly suggest setting +GCRp user modes on IRC connect. | Want to change your password? Use https://reports.4chan.org/changepass | CHECK YOUR E-MAIL!'''</br>''[13:14:30] <moots> per topic, check email''</br>
** Brennan contacts janitor FnFy.</br>
*:''[19:53:25] <FnFy> [03:53:23] �25<copypaste��25>� Hello''</br>''[19:53:25] <FnFy> [03:53:28] �25<copypaste��25>� <FnFy> >inb4 everything leaks tomorrow''</br>''[19:53:25] <FnFy> [03:53:36] �25<copypaste��25>� Do you know how to get in contact with moot? :^)''</br>''[19:53:25] <FnFy> [03:53:55] �31<�25�22FnFy�31>� I'm sorry, who are you?''</br>''[19:53:25] <FnFy> [03:54:16] �25<copypaste��25>� I am the administrator of 8ch.net. That is a line written in #janiteam (I assume) and is part of a leak I have.''</br>''[19:53:28] <FnFy> It's happening''</br>''[19:54:37] <FnFy> MVB, ALTERNATIVE moots Zephro buttly help I don't know what to do''</br>''[19:54:39] <Inf> its not like moots nick is a secret why doesnt he just pm''</br>
** moot not being the nicest guy in the block.</br>
*:''(15:23:18) ~moots: im not, moron''</br>''(15:23:31) ~moots: what about "i have zero interest in attending anime cons and never wanted to do a panel again" is misunderstood''</br>''(15:23:39) ~moots: the only reason i am going to awa is to see friends in town from japan''</br>''(15:23:50) ~moots: and the timing worked out that it made sense to do a panel as a 10th anniversary celebration''</br>
4chan Blog post. [https://archive.today/OOy0i]</br>
/forfree/ on archive.today [https://archive.today/N7DON]</br>
Brennan gloating about it on 8chan /b/ [https://archive.today/RyQac]
</ref>
* January 20 - The site is frozen for 4 hours and 46 minutes.
* January 21 - '''End of an Era''' - Causing what will be remembered as the biggest shitstorm to ever flood 4chan, at 11:00 AM EST [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#118 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.''" 
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc Here's to you, Nicola and Bart] is embedded on /b/, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECQApj9IJs Futurama's Goodbye Seymour... Will Wait For You] is embedded on /co/, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XgCEFVE9w poor ocarina rendition of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On] is embedded on [s4s].
**/a/ gets renamed to "It /a/ll returns to nothing.", subtitled "tumbling down", with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRwRlicEmw Komm, Susser Tod] embedded. moot also posts in a thread on /a/ which gets 7403 replies and nearly 3000 uploaded images, [http://i.imgur.com/3py6RcC.png with about 3600 of which are replying to his post], breaking the record for most replied post in /a/'s history. There was also [http://i.imgur.com/xxvsRK1.png a smaller thread] which moot replied to that was stickied on /co/.
** Several boards, including /a/, /v/, /g/, /int/ and /mlp/, and [s4s] make (or attempt at making) [https://www.mediafire.com/folder/946c0q5dpl50y/4chan_Farewell_to_Moot goodbye cards for moot.] It's noteworthy to point out that /a/ tried to reach 10,000 signatures.
* January 23 - New Boards: ○ '''/qa/ - Question & Answer'''
* January 23 - '''moot's Farewell Stream''' - At 00:30~ EST /qa/ is created, moot makes the first post at 00:50 EST; The board remains unannounced until midday.<ref>FIRST. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1/#q1]</ref> At 14:00 EST - /qa/ is announced. moot has a livestream session that lasts eight hours. Twelve stickies in /qa/ are maxed out. He ends the Q&A with a misquote from Cowboy Bebop: "See you later, space cowboy".<ref>
Stream. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUKJBZuUig]</br>
Transcript: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pL3LmKIb6Q25LGzO3GwNqgGOAjQnrCasdMULVpwF4vw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.mw67go6pwfq6]</br> Stickies. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/sticky/start/2015-01-23/end/2015-01-24/]
</ref> /a/ is renamed to "See you, sp/a/ce cowboy." with the subtitle "Bang.", and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s this] is embedded in its front page.
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUKJBZuUig Archived 8-hour YouTube livestream]
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pL3LmKIb6Q25LGzO3GwNqgGOAjQnrCasdMULVpwF4vw/edit# Livestream Transcript under construction here].
* January 26 - /a/ returns to its normal state. moot's final Q&A is still embedded as an announcement site-wide. /qa/ is frozen [https://archived.moe/qa/search/deleted/deleted/filter/text/ so a wave of shitposts can get deleted] (and presumably, a full-time team of mods and janitors are assigned).
* January 27 - After fears that it was en route to getting deleted, /qa/ is unfrozen. Based on [http://archived.moe/qa/thread/68391 a unilateral declaration] by it's users, /qa/ is now a permanent metaboard dedicated to discussion on the decade-long (and counting) legacy of 4chan. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/67896/ A similar thread] was previously created that discussed the possibility of /qa/ becoming a U.N. of sorts for the boards.
* January 29 - '''Webms with Sound''' are allowed on /wsg/ and /gif/ (unmute to listen). First sound webm to be uploaded is a 10-second loop of Bane's "for you" clip from The Dark Knight Rises. A poorly-dubbed version of said clip is soon embedded and autoplayed on the same thread. Moderator swaglord embeds the entire /wsg/ thread into a /tv/ baneposting thread, effectively creating a "portal" from /tv/ to /wsg/ through which users can post. On /i/, [https://archived.moe/i/thread/384891 a thread about a drawfag dies] a few months after becoming the oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, at 1106 days. It would be overtaken a few months later by another /i/ thread.
* January 30 - [https://i.imgur.com/fxwOQ1h.jpg ISIS comes to /mlp/] and threatens to [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619064 kill a rainbow dash plushie] if trips aren't achieved in the thread. Trips are gotten [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619444 relatively quickly], while more trips are garnered to [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619555 kill the terrorists] [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619666 and their families]. After this /s4s/ joined the fight, making /s4s/-tan the leader of /mlp/ [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21620000 with quads] and permanently banishing the terrorists [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21622222 with quints].  
* February 1 - A Super Bowl ad shows the main cast of MLP in Colts fan gear for two seconds. /sp/ has a meltdown and /mlp/ has a good time.
* February 3 - A Spurdo Spärde thread [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140 is stickied on /int/] by moderator swaglord, who then shows [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37070690 his] [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37074635 mod] [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37073964 powers] for a while (including unsticking and resticking said thread) before the thread finally dies shortly before reaching 2000 replies.
* February 5 - /v/ gets [https://imgur.com/a/TW0vk9a spammed with "find a flaw" for a few hours or so.] /mlp/ gets sad after [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21688506/#21688506 a known writefag gets terminal leukemia.]
* February 11-12 - Hilarity ensues as NBC airs "Intimidation Game", a Law & Order SVU episode that focuses on Gamergate and chan culture. Notable flubs include improper use of image macros, old or irrelevant video game jokes (a man shouts "LEVEL COMPLETED" while punching a woman, Ice-T complains about campers, and "I read on Kotaku that it's better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion pack"), and redchanit, a fake website and bastardized version of Reddit and a chan board. Threads pop up on both /tv/ and /v/ the night of and the day after. Actual Redchanit is created as a board on 8chan (http://redchan.it redirects there).
* February 15 - 4chan experiences database and php issues. Most boards' titles change to default "Yotsuba Image Board". 4chan Pass login is broken.
* February 19 - Flags are removed from /pol/, only to be returned later that day. ID's on /pol/ are changed to be thread-specific.
* February 27 - Leonard Nimoy dies.  Sad music is embedded on /tv/. A thread is stickied, and after a couple of hours a second thread dedicated to shitposting is stickied by moderator swaglord, who also embeds the Battlestar Galactica main theme in said thread.
* February 28 - Janitor applications are opened for 48 hours.
* March 3 - 4chan is down at around CST 4 am. Some boards appear empty due to an unknown error. After approximately 4 hours, service returns, with boards that appeared empty having their previous content restored.
* March 5 - /co/ reaches their 70M GET. 8chan's /sp/, in conjunction with /4get/ [https://archive.today/gO7xW#59% steal the GET] with the comment [https://archive.today/qlyrO "claiming this GET for the 8cháñ army" and a picture of Wade Davis]. It is instantly deleted with 0 replies before archive.moe could save it and the [https://archive.today/8r3Zi user banned for breaking Rule 4]. /co/'s 69999999 GET is [https://archive.today/jqWQB#90% also stolen by 8chan's /4get/] and [https://archived.moe/co/thread/69989673/#69999999 is archived by archived.moe] before being deleted.
* March 7 - Posting is down for a half hour or so for an unknown reason.
* March 10 - Shitposting on /pol/ hits an all-time high through speculations of a "World War 3" because of NATO drills. Putin's sudden disappearance, earlier, allowed for shitposting to also skyrocket.  Happening threads are posted on a constant basis. /pol/ is still shitposting about what may happen next.
* March 19 - Part two of the Death Grips album The Powers That B, titled Jenny Death, is leaked. /mu/ is flooded with Jenny Death threads, over 45 were present at one point.
* March 26 - [https://archive.today/LJvWB A thread in /tv/] pertaining to a plane crash that has many coincidences with the baneposting fad is stickied. In less than 8 hours it gets over 6000 replies and over 1600 images by the time it is de-sticked, breaking the record for largest single thread on /tv/. The final images were 2 enlarged spurdo photos posted by moderator swaglord. A parody of All-Star is also embedded into the thread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9994nv8BcU), prompting massive amounts of praise to the mods.
* April 1 - A robot from /r9k/ starts a ten day auction on eBay for a folder containing over 1200 rare Pepe pictures downloaded from the board over the course of a year, which takes off much like the "This post is art" one from /pol/. For April Fool's Day, Sticky (a Clippy parody) is added. It is a duplicate of 4chan's 2008 April Fools prank.
* April 3 - The eBay Pepe folder achieves a highest bid of $99,166 USD from 126 bids, and is then taken down by eBay.
* April 4 - Default name on /mlp/ is changed to "=" as a reference to the premiere of Season 5 of MLP:FiM
* April 8 - [http://normi.es/getout/ A robot registers a site to sell rare pepes.]. There is also [http://pepe.booru.org/ an entire pepe booru.]
* April 10 - [https://archived.moe/vg/thread/100000000 /vg/'s 100M GET] is stolen by 8chan's /undina/, mods immediately delete the thread.
* April 11 - The default name on /mlp/ is back to normal.
* April 14 - Janitor acceptance emails are sent for those who applied in Late February/Early March.
* April 20 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/55555555/ /tv/'s 55555555 GET] is taken by GoT, mods sticky the thread.
* April 22 - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/100000/ /qa/'s 100000 GET] is "wew lad".
* April 29 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/44444444/ /pol/'s 44444444 GET] is stolen by 8chan's /imperfectsatan/, mods immediately delete the thread.
* May 1 - [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/55552715#p55555555/ /mu/'s 55555555 GET] successfully stays in their hands, despite [https://archive.today/nHHiO#95% 55555554] and [https://archive.today/wlIsI 55555556] both taken by attempts by 8chan's /sp/.
* May 9 - At approximately 4:30 AM CST, 4chan goes down unexpectedly.
* June 2 - ''warosu.org'' /jp/ archiver, successor of ''easymodo'', disables their ghostposting feature after months of abuse.<ref>
* Ghostposts on /jp/ disables on June 2. [https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&ghost=true&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=2015-01-01&search_dateto=2016-01-01&search_media_hash=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=yes&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post]</ref>>
* June 7 - Almost all OP files and most files across all boards are hit by 404's and dont open.
* June 10 - /z/ is removed, along with its "Why am I getting "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE"?" section in the FAQ.
* June 11 (appx.) - /i/ old, Java-based drawing applet ''ShiPainter'' is replaced by a new, JavaScript-based one.
* June 16 - Donald Trump officially launches his 2016 presidential campaign. In his first speech as a candidate, he claimed Mexico was sending rapists and drug dealers to the US, besides promising to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. On /pol/, reception to his announcement [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/46566312/ was lukewarm] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/46570571/ at first], with some anons agreeing with his stance on Mexico, but overall sentiment favoring candidate Rand Paul. A few days later, [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/46711086/#46711086 the first Trump general] was created, but it did not reach bump limit.
* June 21 - An option is added to use the old (text-based) captcha instead of the newer "one click"/picture selection one. No longer do users have to select 3 "sandwiches" (hamburgers) in order to make a post.
* June 24 - /v/'s [https://archive.today/u3f3N 300000000 GET is "Splatoon is new meme."] The OP gets banned and stickied, inkling music plays and /v/ shits its brix with over 5100 replies.
* July 02 -  ''Error: You may not post more than 5 active threads at a time.'' - Maximum threads per IP limited to 5. Possibly implemented earlier<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/134739/</ref>
* July 12 - Nintendo president Satoru Iwata dies. Multiple threads are stickied on /v/, with at least one thread reaching over 800 replies in less than 10 minutes.
* July 20 - /vg/'s [110000000 GET] is a post in the Katawa Shoujo General saying: "I would just like to point out that best girl is whoever is your favorite, because they're all best girl , but Akira is bestest girl."
* July 25 - A '''"Hide recursively"''' option is added to the drop down menu. It hides the selected post and all posts replying to it.
* July 26 - The archived textboards are removed.
* July 29 - [https://archived.moe/soc/thread/22222222/ /soc/'s 22222222 GET] is stolen by 8chan's /imperfectsatan/, mods immediately delete the thread.
* August 16 - /tv/'s [https://archived.moe/tv/thread/60000000/ 60000000 GET], referencing the BANE meme, is deleted by the moderation team for unknown reasons. A shitstorm followed immediately with people being upset with the mods/janitors.
* August 20 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/49999131/#50000000 /pol/'s 50000000 GET] is "FOR NIPPON". Immense butthurt commences.
* 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.
* August 27 - Some anons decide to make a tumblr account where they recolor Steven Universe characters into white and blond people, [http://imgur.com/gallery/RcW1N successfully causing anal annihilation among tumblr.]
* September 2 - Users are unable to upload images. A message located below the news-feed tells users "Image posting is temporarily unavailable due to a hardware issue. Please wait warmly" with an option to dismiss the message located at the end.
* September 21 - '''New Management''' - 4chan is bought by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel. Anxious threads on both 4chan and 2ch discuss the possibility of Nishimura scamming the former for a profit [https://archive.ph/eXE3E as some claim he once did with the latter]. The global announcement changes to ''"4chan is now owned and led by [https://archive.today/o/R1S7z/archive.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/mf_hiroyuki?currentPage=all Hiroyuki Nishimura], the founder of the largest anonymous BBS in Japan, 2channel. Read the full announcement on the [www.4chan.org/news 4chan News page]. Hiroyuki will be conducting his first Q&A as 4chan's administrator on Tuesday evening, at approximately 8:00PM ET. The thread(s) will be stickied on [boards.4chan.org/qa/ /qa/]."''
* September 22 - '''Hiroyuki's Welcome AMA''' - Hiroyuki has his first official interaction with 4chan, divided between a questions thread and an answers thread. In total, 16375 posts spread around five stickies and other threads, where Hiroyuki spends 4 hours answering around 200 replies that were all submitted in the first two minutes of the first thread being up. He (hilariously) answered every single post, including troll-posts, shitposts, and repeated questions, seriously and with broken English. Users of 4chan were highly entertained by his 'Engrish.' Due to his weak grasp on English and 4chan culture, he was seen as innocent and naive, with many posters believing this to be cute and endearing, albeit not without detractors convinced he's playing dumb to fool people and scam them like he did in 2ch. Even some old guard 4chan members drop by. He would later go on to accidentally post several answers [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/62106829/ on /sp/], and then abandon the Q&A to post [https://archived.moe/a/thread/131253890 on /a/]. Nine hours after the Q&A began, the site begins to break, and then completely freezes. It remains down for about six hours. The event reminds everyone that /qa/ exists, bringing it's post rate up permanently, from 400pph to 800pph.<ref>
Questions thread. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/183963/] - 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/186714/] - 3 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/190105/] - 4 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/193721/] - 5 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/197995/] </br>
Answers thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/183913/]</br>
Hiro appearing in random threads. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/221428/#q221428] - 2 https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/203389/#209213] - 3 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/208079/#218601]
Hiro's own google doc [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HEMmPwVaimb7wvDjtzzPGjJaruU3jNpbIeW3u8NuuN4/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0]</br>
Anons reaction to Hiro. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/185655/]</br>
</ref> Highlights: (''Reminder to always take Hiroyuki statements with a grain of salt.'')
** Keeping with the honorable admin tradition, Hiro is an ''Asukafag''.
** Explains the ongoing lawsuit between him and Jim Watkin's over 2ch leaked data.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/183913/#192022]</ref>
** Explains that hottolink, a JP company, had explicit access to 2ch's enormous post history because it was required by law to operate as a search engine in Japan.
** Hiro and moot met in 2014 and moot told him he wanted to retire.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/183913/#192864]</ref>
** Hiro borrowed money to buy the site but refused to reveal the amount. ''This was later revealed to be 8 Million, with 2.4 million being from an arrangement with Good Smile Company, a Japanese figurine maker, for 30% of the site's shares.''<ref>
Wired article. [https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/] - Proxy [https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/]</ref>
** He has some strong opinions on the state of modern anime, his favourite Pokémon is ''Magikarp'' and his favourite eroge is ''Sengoku Rance''.
** He wants to add a picture to the frontpage logo.
** He'd like to add a search function and worries about the lack of commercial ads on the site.
** He'd like to let the userbase determine changes to 4chan.
** Otherwise, he intends to be as hands-off as possible.  
* September 23 - Anons agree to call their new overlord simply hiro or Hiroyuki. Hiroyuki changes his Twitter avatar to his shota equivalent. /pol/ affectionately names Hiroyuki g00k, because it sounded like moot.
* September 23 - ''Winter Ball 2015'' - /qa/ hosts the Board-tans Harvest Festival, by hand of the board tans general. Anon suggests hosting the Winter Ball that /v/ celebrated last year. It grows into a beast of an event, burning through 25 threads on /qa/ plus even more threads site-wide, generating several hundred pics' worth of OC art. Albeit it's not without criticism and open rejection in some threads, and a large flamewar in the main thread.<ref>First Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/231461/]</br>
4chan ball threads. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/subject/4chan%20ball/end/2016-02-01/order/asc/]</br>
Winter ball 2015 threads, most moved. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/subject/winter%20ball/end/2016-02-01/order/asc/]</br>
Thread with detractors and old artists. [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/294171/]
</ref>
* September 24 - A /qa/ thread on an /a/ public ban over loli gets hiroyuki to unban the anon, saying he'll ask mods about loli policy later and causing a minor shitstorm as /a/fags claim loli is now allowed. The next day he makes a thread on /a/ apologizing about his behaviour, seemingly confusing it with a ban request for some reason, it is here he post his first ''yap''.<ref>
/qa/ thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/236954/]</br>
Hiroyuki /a/ thread. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/131357234/#131357234]</ref>
* September 28 - One of /tg/'s worst-ever tripfags, ''virtualoptim'', is banned for praising FATAL.
* October 1 - New Board: ○ '''/aco/ - Adult Cartoons'''. 
* October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 12th birthday. An /r9k/ user shoots up a school in Oregon, killing 13 people and injuring 20 others. /d/ goes through a mi/d/life crisis, as the ban on Western art is enforced to get rid of the ''Shortstack'' thread, causing outrage. /d/eviants discuss this in /mlp/, who acts as a safehaven (because /d/-tan and /mlp/-tan are dating). Mods keep deleting Winterball threads. On /pol/, a German anon named Comfybro creates [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/52873422/ the first Syria general], to discus the Syrian Civil War mainly from a pro-Assad/pro-Russia viewpoint.
* October 7 - Hiroyuki changes the homepage: It is now displaying a photograph of the [https://archive.md/dGxjD "Atlantis" spaceshuttle] he took with 4chan's logo above it. After long periods of downtime, archive.moe displays a "410 - Gone" error. It [http://web.archive.org/web/20160123075610/https://archive.moe/404 died] the same day.
* 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.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/286041/#q286689]</ref> Janitor applications are re-opened, and the requirement to send proof of identification is dropped.<ref>
/b/'s frontpage, Nov. 1. [https://archive.today/uApsG]
</ref> Tripfag '''Andromeda !!j9XuANAxf9x''' [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/312508605/#312509249 confesses] to being a paid EA shill [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/333253031/#q333271093 in participation with TORtanic] (The Old Republic hype-train <s>disappointment?</s>).
* October 10 - Hiro slowpokes into a /qa/ asking about posting problems with 4chan. An anon calmly explains that the dev already solved that problem. Anons spend the rest of the thread arguing about reCAPTCHA.<ref>[Thread. https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/288636/]</ref>
* October 13 - /jp/ gets [sjis] tags, allowing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art SJIS art] to be posted.
* October 17 - A Valkyre Drive thread gets a ## Moderator to declare that the clearly softcore porn scenes they keep posting are not allowed, and suggests they move discussions to /u/, /a/nons as usual whine for hours.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/132371569/#132380619</ref>
* October 18 - ''/a/'s Ero Riot'' - Hiroyuki makes a thread discussing the Mod's previous appearance, uncertain why /a/ got upset. He starts asking about the nature of lewdposting, how to define NSFW and concludes he'd like to allow NSFW content referencing the recent rise in lewd anime but he doesn't want turn /a/ into a porn board. He considers splitting the board in two before ultimately settling in allowing "TV" approved lewds. /a/ celebrates their acquired "rights" but a few hours later, the Mod from yesterday makes a hastily written sticky reminding anons that softcore ero content is not allowed, that ''tactful'' lewds are allowed at mod discretion, as to retain ''"/a/'s culture of the last 4-5 years"''. The sticky immediately turns into a 2300 posts beatdown on the mod in question as /a/fags accuse him of going rogue while others cry that mods have already killed /a/'s culture. Many anons come to /qa/ demanding the mod be fired, in the end, nothing really changed and /a/'s shitposting culture continued their death by a thousand cuts.<ref>
Hiroyuki thread. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/132401684/]</br>
Hiroyuki Interjection [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/132411776/]</br>
''Rogue'' Mod sticky thread. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/132416116/]</br>
</ref>
* October 20 - Hiroyuki makes sticky asking anons to spoiler borderline lewds and mods to take it easy on the bans.<ref>
Hiroyuki sticky [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/132521198/]</br>
</ref>
* October 23 - Anon asks for a /neet/ board. A perplexed hiro asks what they would talk about. Nothing came out of it.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/302656/#q306281]</ref>
* October 24 - The robot on /r9k/ is enabled again.
* October 27 - Anon asks for a /his/ - History board, requested on /qa/ since it's creation. Hiro appears to discuss the details, the thread gets a bit of traction as hiro discusses all the rules that would become the basic building blocks of /his/ while explaining anon why reCAPTCHA is a thing.<ref>Anons requesting /his/ [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%2Fhis%2F%20when/type/op/order/asc/]</br>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/300895/#]</ref>
* October 29 - A global announcement is added: ''"You might like it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvcc9C8SbM "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz"]"'', a documentary on Anonymous hacktivism. Anons are confused, as Anonymous has long stopped being representative of 4chan."<ref>
Announcement section, /b/ frontpage. [https://archive.today/3Grsy]</br>
YouTube video. [https://archive.today/fQumA]
</ref>
* October 30 - Hiroyuki visits the /qa/ 4chan Happenings thread and has a chat with anons about his taste in media, and says that a /his/tory board will be made "by weekend".<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/310926/#311900]</ref>
* October 31 - New Board: ○ '''/his/ - History & Humanities'''. 
* October 31 - 4chan gets 2spooky. [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c784ac7abd5c94287e52 A site-wide CSS hack] changes makes the entire site use a Halloween-ish theme, with a dark blue background and orange text and a random GIF of a skeleton in the corner. [https://youtu.be/trpm4fSfhEE This video] is stickied on /b/, with the message "Happy Halloween /b/". Wordfilters are added site-wide (except on [s4s] and /b/) as well, changing smh to baka, tbh to desu, fam to sempai (later becomes changed to senpai), fams to senpaitachi, cuck to kek and SJW to SPOOKY SCARY SKELETON. [http://i.imgur.com/8KraokX.jpg /v/ successfully raids Reddit's r/agario] by adding random mods.
* November 1 - 4chan's theme returns to normal. The wordfilter for SJW is removed, but the rest remain.
* November 3 - Hiro tells a /qa/ thread about /v/ to take it there, instantly derailing the thread.<ref>post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/314830/#322303]</ref>
* November 5 - The homepage gets changed again; this time, the Atlantis banner features a Guy Fawkes mask, in reference to the "hacker" group Anonymous. The global announcement is changed to ''"You anon might like it more. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAECyLvSCHg "Anonymous Documentary - How Anonymous Hackers Changed the World Full Documentary"]"'' Anons and even more confused, a thread complaining about the Anonymous mask on the front page gets an appearance by Hiro assuring him it's about Guy Fawkes day.<ref>
Announcement section on /b/ frontpage, Nov 5. [https://archive.today/mGfS5]</br>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/325996/#q326053]</br>
Hiroyuki asserting it's about Guy Fawkes Day. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/325996/#q326053]</br>
YouTube Video. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAECyLvSCHg] - archive.today (non-watchable) [https://archive.today/ggORn]</br>
</ref>
* November 6 - An anon on /qa/ complains about the Guy Fawkes Mask added to the home page, saying ''"Next it will be some shit like Longcat or another 2007 tier meme."'' Hiroyuki answers his request. Janitor acceptance emails get sent out.<ref>
Thread. [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/328745#328823]</br>
4chan Frontpage, Nov. 9. [https://archive.today/eRpY1]</br>
Longcat logo. [https://s.4cdn.org/image/fp/atlantis_longcat2.png]</br>
</ref>
* November 7 - New Board. ○ '''/trash/ - Off-Topic'''. 
* November 7 - Off-topic threads from other boards will be moved here, but other than that it's basically /b/ with ponies and avatars allowed, but with no loli or shota. Forced anonymity is enabled from the beginning and threads can't be created (not certain - need proof).
* November 8 - A thread requesting webms with audio gets a visit by Hiro. He forgets about webms and talks about moderation instead.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/333029/#q333380]</ref>
* November 9 - Hiroyuki makes a thread on /trash/ discussing possible limitations to add on the board, but no changes are made.<ref>Thread. [http://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50909]</ref>
* November 12 - /asp/ is renamed '''/asp/ - Alternative Sports & Wrestling'''. Hiroyuki makes a sticky on /sp/ stating that wrestling and WWE threads should be made on /asp/ from now on.
* November 13 - Hiroyuki visits the /qa/ Happenings thread again and instantly derails it.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/335967/#q342416]</ref>
* November 14 - New Board. ○ '''/news/ - Current news''' 
* November 14 - /news/ is a standard Yotsuba board with image replying disabled, intended to be the real "Politics" board. OPs require news links that aren't older than 48 hours, as stated in the first sticky. Posting can only be done once a day per thread.
* November 19 - Hiro apologizes for disappearing for days, citing he has a bad connection, then visits other threads<ref>Posts. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/350742/#q352674] - 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/345606/#q352680]</ref>
* November 22 - /lit/ releases the third Legacy of Totalitarianism In a Tundra book, titled "[https://wiki.bibanon.org/index.php?title=File:The_Legacy_of_Totalitarinism_in_a_Tundra_3_-_Tokyo_Drift.pdf The Legacy of Totalitarinism in a Tundra 3 - Tokyo Drift]." A spin-off novella is released alongside it called "[https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Kolsti%27s_Adventure_in_the_Everglades.pdf Kolsti's Adventures in the Everglades]."
* November 24 - After 68 chapters (equivalent to 7 years) of Berserk mostly taking place on a fucking boat, Guts and the gang finally reach Elfhelm and gets off the boat for good, [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/133925435/ /a/ gets a sticky].
* November 26 - /vg/ reaches its [https://i.imgur.com/8ixAhaF.png 123456789th GET] which is taken by /4ccg/, demanding BorisxKeksandra porn where Boris is buttfucking Keksandra and saying "This is how I made /mlp/ win Summer you know".
* November 27 - The stickies in /news/ have been deleted and were replaced with another generic sticky, stating the board is a ''text board'', although it is in imageboard format. The "File" field in the submission box has been removed. Additionally, the rules page was updated with /news/' rules. The board hasn't been opened yet. Meanwhile, Hiro reassures anon that he didn't die in the Paris attacks.<ref>Hiro Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/361135/#361823]</ref>
* November 28 - Posting is enabled on /news/. OP images are allowed a few hours later. The default name on /mlp/ is changed to "=" again for the Season 5 Finale. Anon discovers redirect ads on the frontpage, and Hiro comes affirm he put those there. The thread doesn't take it well.<ref>Ads Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/362590/]</ref>
* November 30 - After his lulzy debate performances, Trump overtakes Rand Paul as the favored candidate among /pol/acks. From this day on, a Trump general is posted daily on the board, reaching bump limit every time.
* December 12- Masterchan starts advertising itself to 4chan and 8chan, growing in number. Moderators banned Masterchan users from both sites once noticed.
* December 15 - Anon shows /qa/ a /pol/ poll arguing they "agree" the cuck wordfilter must be removed. Hiro appears and for some reason agrees, but chooses to leave ''CUCK''  still filtered "as an heritage" (sic).<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/379749/]</ref>
* December 16 - The global message changes to "It's getting cold, isn't it?"<ref>/b/ Frontpage, Nov. 23. [https://archive.today/gWR0A]</ref>
* December 20 - New Board: ○ '''/wsr/ - Worksafe Requests'''.
* December 23 - Some boards go down and posting is disabled for hours ([https://archive.today/dCeku example]).
* December 26 - The front page layout is changed for the first time in 8 years, with the Popular Threads section now resembling the board catalogs, the Recent Images and Latest Posts sections removed, and the video game boards now having their own section. Anons on /qa/ complain but hiro defends the change.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/393938/]</ref>
* December 28 - A Lemmy thread on /mu/ about how he lived so long despite chain-smoking, drugs, and alcohol gets a cursed reply: [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/chunk/61318297/#61318865 "I think hell be fine".] Just under nine hours later, Lemmy's death is announced, two days after discovering he had terminal prostate cancer. The thread is stickied, receiving over 6000 posts, and the anon who made the reply drowns in (You)'s.

===2016===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2015 | ◄]] [[#2017 | ►]]
* January 1 - In reference to The End of Evangelion (which takes place on New Years Day 2016), /a/'s theme is forced to Tomorrow, Komm, süsser Tod is embedded and glowing crosses come up from the bottom of the screen [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a0d0d6cad8658e4ef836 (script)]. /pol/ fears for John Oliver's death as the current year becomes 2016. They celebrate the new year through 'IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR' shitposting. Hiro changes the global message to "I wish you anon a Happy New Year."<ref>
/b/ frontpage, Jan. 2. [https://archive.today/wyaEP]</ref>
* January 3 - /pol/ gets its [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/59998074/#60000000 60000000 gorillionth post], only five words, "We will all feel the Bern" users everywhere outraged. However, the 59999999 is believed to be a (((trump))) post.
* January 7 - /r9k/ gets its [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/25555200/#25555555 25555555 post], "He´s dead jon", 5 minutes later the thread was deleted by the faggot mod in charge. Also /lit/ publishes it's first collective shitpost, "[https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere Hypersphere]." It's uh, an epic for the ages.
* January 11 - /mu/ has a stickied thread and the audio of Space Oddity embedded to mourn the death of David Bowie.
* January 17 - Masterchan starts spamming 4chan and 8chan (Consisting mainly of /b/tards, a couple of anons from /g/ and /k/ and /pol/) to come and join their chan, after the 2 websites refuse, Masterchan starts raiding 4chan and 8chan very violently, specifically /b/ and to little success. After a good deal of getting slapped around by management on both sites, they stop.
* January 18 - Anon remarks the announcement bar still wishes anons a new year. Hiro unexpectedly asks if he should change it. An [s4s] anon tells him to change it to his forced meme but he doesn't exactly understand. ''"You like movies, anon? it's [www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival Sundance]."'' There is now a link to the Sundance Film Festival being broadcast all over 4chan, although he formats it incorrectly on the first try.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/414868/#q414872]</br>
/b/ frontpage, Jan. 26. [https://archive.today/1IPni]</br>
</ref>
* January 20 - Hiro clarifies he doesn't think dead boards should be deleted. And confusingly remarks ''No place is no shitposting on 4chan.'' He later tells an anon calling out a /qa/ raid to take it to IRC or feedback.<ref>
Hiro's Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/416437/]</br>
Telling anon to ask elsewhere. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/413374/#416680]</br>
</ref>
* January 23 - /w/'s image limit is increased from 150 to 250.
* January 29 - Hiro makes an incomprehensible post in a /qa/ thread about reddit shitposting. His antics are starting to receive lukewarm welcomes.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/428067/#428856]</ref>
* January 30 - The in-thread image cooldown on /c/ and /cm/ is reduced from 60 to 30 seconds.
* February 14 - The [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/327577825/ first archived instance] of the Final Fantasy Valentine Day Poster, where Vaan from Final Fantasy 12 stares are NPC couples. The same set of images are posted to the thread at [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/trash/image/1676/40/1676408395836.png around 19:00 UTC.]
* February 16 - /vr/'s 3000000 GET is claimed by a [s4s] namefig posting doge. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/2997624/#3000000 Awoo!]
* February 18 - A mod accidentally stickies an [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/327911173/#327911173 off-topic NSFW thread on /v/,] but quickly realizes their mistake and deletes it.
* February 20 - Hiro defends mod behaviour in a /v/ meta thread, then defends WWE on /asp/<ref>
/v/ meta Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/447513/]</br>
/asp/ meta thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/448431/]</ref>
* February 23 - /tv/ gets visited by porn star and maker DickBush, after Brazzers published a meme porn teaser. Mods sticky the [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/66307533 thread].
* February 26 - The leaked Pokémon games Sun and Moon get announced. /vp/ gets two stickies, a hype thread and a confirmation sticky.
* March 2 - Notch visits [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/329398076/#329401285 /v/ for a small Q&A]. It's confirmed on twitter.
* March 3 - Some downtime happens. Hiro tells anons through the global messaging system to wait warmly.
* March 7 - [https://chrishateswriting.com/post/140641275808/my-next-chapter moot is now hired by Google.] An apparent Google employee also announced it [https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S53322162 two days ago on /g/]. The reactions were mixed, and Hiro congratulated him. Some say moot became a hypocrite, others were happy that he moved on. A number of changes are made to 4chan, in particular to uploads. Maximum .webm durations of 120 seconds are applied to all boards, except /gif/ and /wsg/, where it's capped at 300 seconds. /gif/ and /wsg/ also receive sound for their webms. Minimum image dimensions are added to /hc/ (500x500), /hr/ (1000x1000), /s/ (500x500), /w/ (480x600) and /wg/ (480x600). /news/ is made a text-only board.<ref>Hiro post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/462211/#q463170]</ref>
* March 18 - The much-reviled Gawker is forced to pay $115 million to Hulk Hogan for leaking his sex tape. Anons around 4chan rejoice over the death of Gawker.
* March 10 - Hiro refuses a request to make the spam filter list public.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/464263/#q465013]</ref>
* March 16 - The "anomalous" discord sever that planned Valentine's Day raid recruits people from /pol/ to shortly raid Anonymous' IRC chat and successfully shut down their #OpTrump temporarily and the rest of the IRC in the process. Anons from /g/ laugh at Anonymous for their technical retardation. The IRC gets reported to the FBI.<ref>
* Raid promotion. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/optrump/start/2016-03-01/order/asc/]</br>
* Results [https://web.archive.org/web/20160918163328/http://imgur.com/a/Xj3zB]</br>
</ref>
* March 20 - The global message is changed to tell anons to go to /news/ if they want news. Permission popups on the 4chan frontpage are appearing, and Hiro posts on /qa/ to explain he was tweaking the ads. He later posts on an /a/ meta thread about exhentai threads getting deleted. Then proceeds to completely ignore the topic. Anons are not amused.<ref>
Ads thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/472371/#472450]</br>
Sadpanda Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/470478/#q472448]
</ref>
* March 22 - A number of changes are made to 4chan. Forced anon is enabled on /b/, /soc/ and /trash/, killing namefags and tripfags on these boards. All /vg/ threads now require a subject. An oekaki function is added to /i/.
* March 24 - Cirno gets the 33333 GET on /news/. The image features a blue CNN logo left to her. Under them is the text "The Worldwide Leader in News Strength!" A sequel to the well-known anime FLCL is announced, being co-made by Adult Swim. Most of /a/ becomes up in arms about it, and a sticky about it gets over 4000 replies.
* March 28 - /mlp/ mod goes beserk for a short-lived Scruffening 2.0. Board is cut down to 6 pages. A new sticky appears shortly after, found [https://archive.today/6oJab here.] Shitposting ensues.
* March 29 - /fa/ gets the [https://archive.today/Tpz6d 11111111 GET].
* March 30 - [s4s] is "raided" by a Spanish chan (Hispachan?), thinking they were somehow causing damage to the board and 4chan as a whole. It was entirely ineffectual and did nothing but liven up the normally drab and shit filled halls of 4chan's most EBIN board.
* April 1 - For April Fool's Day, the theme of the site is changed to resemble Google's "material design" (A joke on moot's recent employment at Google, and the rumor he's been slated to do work on improving Google+). Image thumbnails are cropped to fit inside a circle like Android contact photos. Users are also given randomly generated names such as "Sergio Blackwell," Karla Goodwin" or "Alberto Barbossa" which override custom names or tripcodes, but [https://i.imgur.com/EwrS6Dm.jpg do not remain consistent between posts]. The global message changes to "There is no anonymous." A website-wide hunt for board relevant names ensued, with /v/ practically ceasing to function for the whole day while users attempted to post as "Anthony Burch", an infamous video-game writer; however even after hours upon hours of combined shitposting, the website went back to normal and in the end no user managed to draw the lucky lot. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/483818/ Notable names] pulled include Christopher Poole, Annie Frank, Christian Chan, Maggie and Homer Simpson, Sheldon Cooper, Ronald Macdonald, Jack Bauer, Nathan Drake, George Washington, Jennifer Lawrance and Michael Jordan.
* April 3 - Janitor applications open yet again for ~48 hours.
* April 4 - /pol/ gets Microsoft's AI chatbot "Tay" shut down after teaching it to "tweet hateful and racist messages," as mentioned by TIME magazine. 
* April 5 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/69997767/#70000000 /pol/'s 70000000 GET] is "Geert cant have this; the spics will pay for the wall" in a response to a Mexican thread OP saying "Oh, and we are not paying for the wall." The janitor applications are now closed. In addition, Deakin, member of the band Animal Collective, visits /mu/. Six years ago, he'd recieved funding on Kickstarter for a solo album, and many assumed he took the cash and ran. Today, backers started receiving physical copies and Deakin announced the album would launch next week. It leaks, as always, and recieves universal praise from /mu/ (in part with universal bashing of the other members of Deak's band, regarding their last disappointing album). Deakin sees this and mentions on a forum that he feels bad people are bantzing his friends (indirectly mentioning /mu/). People instantly begin apologizing and the shitposting ceases. He posts a couple times, gets an apology card from /mu/ and mentions he might do an AMA someday.
* April 6 - Another GET party for Cirno! This time on /mlp/, claiming both [https://i.imgur.com/n14tJc2.png 26999999] and [https://i.imgur.com/GeONi4w.png 27000000].
* April 24 - Hiro, for some bizarre reason, advertises the sixth season premiere of Game of Thrones in the global announcements section: "Winter is Coming April 24, at 9 p.m. Eastern time".<ref>Threads commenting on it and screenshot. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/505919/#505919] [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/505919/#505919]</br></ref>
* April 27 - /film/ - Film & Movies is briefly added. It's deleted a few hours later. '''/qst/ - Quests''' is also added to offload quest threads from /tg/. Uniquely, it has text formatting such as italics and text color available, along with dice rolling and the oekaki applet. Mods have a [https://archive.today/pviHX field day, per usual.]
* April 29 - Two /trash/ generals get into a shitflinging fest (Steven Universe General and The Loud House General). I have no idea what it was about, but it seemed stupid and funny enough to take note of.

* May 10 - Cirno claims [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/cgl/thread/S8999999#8999999 8999999] and [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/cgl/thread/S8999343#9000000 9000000] on /cgl/. Mods sticky a Sun/Moon announcement thread on /vp/.
* May 19 - Another GET claimed by the Cirno scriptfag, this time it's [https://i.imgur.com/qts8cFh.png /k/'s 30000000]. <nowiki>https://archive.moe</nowiki>, Bui's second archive, goes down, the only one to ever take on the task of archiving /b/ in full (full images and text). The message on the site claims it's because his provider took it off for not deleting CP fast enough, and there were no backups. He also did it for free. 
* May 23 - Hiro pops on an /a/ metathread to tell anons to just ignore posts they don't like.<ref>Hiro Posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/533114/#q539394]</ref>
* May 30 - The userbase is starting to turn against Hiro, who visits a thread complaining about him on /qa/. He manages to turn the thread's opinion by saying that 4chan is not profitable, but he prefers but thinks an interesting 4chan is better than a profitable one.<ref>Thread. Archived.moe [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/544514/#546214] - Desuarchive [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/544514/#q546143]</ref>
* May 31 - A developer on /g/ gets his hands on a Microsoft Hololense. It's pretty [https://archive.today/bnWgw neato].
* June 3 - /r9k/ takes a tour of 4chan as a group and gathers "souvenirs" from other boards, listed [https://web.archive.org/web/20160918164138/https://pastebin.com/YmCSR9it here]. 
* June 4 - A /pol/ user's Chrome extension (one that highlights "Jew" names anywhere for easy spotting of their nefarious plans) is pulled without reason by Jewoogle after complaints from various Jews who's feefees were doing a little crummy that day. 
* June 6 - While you were having a fap, /pol/ helped the Russian military bomb ISIS. For the third time. (Strikes 1 and 2 are [https://imgur.com/17uBUIv,m3IeTtA here], couldn't find a cap for the third). [https://web.archive.org/web/20160607023828/https://www.vocativ.com/326039/how-one-4chan-board-is-trying-to-fight-isis-in-syria/ Here's] an article from some shitty Buzzfeed clone about it. 
* June 7 - A GG anon tries to get Hiro's attention and he casually gives the mods an anal raping of a lifetime by complete accident.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/555141/#q555517] - archive.today [https://archive.today/RAxdv]</br>
</ref>
* June 8 - Hiro makes a sticky on /v/ asking for suggestions on new rules. In less than an hour it reaches over 3000 replies. [https://archived.moe/v/thread/340366735/ A B S O L U T E M A D M A N]
* June 10 - Gordie Howe dies and [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/68265834 /sp/ gets a sticky for anons to drop an F in.] Elsewhere, an American [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/68267557 makes a thread mocking Johan Cruyff], who didn't get a death sticky and has [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/68081692/#68096084 haunted] the [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/67291452/#67314302 stickies] since [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/68088542/#68089008 his death.] For once, the /sp/ mods become based, publicly banning the OP and stickying the thread.
* June 11 - Russian users are rangebanned after the site freezes for about an hour and a half. The ban is announced on the 4chan [https://twitter.com/4chan/status/741452104112439296 Twitter account] although it doesn't mention which country was banned. Various /pol/ users paid their respects in a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/76772943/ Russian politics thread ] which was emptied after the ban. A mod on /int/ said they are working on fixing it. UPDATE: And we're [https://archive.today/PLCi3 back] baby. Also June 11 - A new homepage [https://i.imgur.com/1DSoOhF image.]
* June 12 - Hiro Changes the frontpage photo from the Atlantis plane to the (Sundance?) festival.<ref>4chan frontpage, June 14. [https://archive.today/OVZZL]</ref>
* June 13 or 14 - Hiro makes a new frontpage picture, replacing his (Sundance?) festival photo with the painting "Highway of Combes-la-Ville" by Giovanni Boldini, of the French countryside. The painting as displayed on the frontpage is slightly oversaturated, cropped, and has the 4chan logo in the top right corner. For the span of a single day, /f/ gets it's filesize reduced from 10 MBs to 9 MB. It's reverted when an anon on /qa/ makes a thread petitioning team4chan and a mod quickly replies.<ref>
4chan frontpage, Jun. 14. [https://archive.today/1ZMuZ]</br>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/561599/#561772]</ref>
* June 17 - Hiro nonchalantly suggests solving the "slide thread" /pol/ conspiracy by simply making the catalog bigger.<small>ironically, that actually worked on other IBs</small><ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/561454/#q563453]</ref>
* June 18 - Hiro banters anons over his frontpage blogging.<ref>
Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/564401/#q564858]</br>
</ref>
* June 19 - /pol/s 77777777th GET is gotten. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/77776483/#77777777 Praise kek!]
* June 21 - 4chan opens a banner contest with the reward of 4chan passes. Banners will replace self-serve ads in some cases.<ref>
archive.today list of banner contests: /s4s/ [https://archive.today/bssT2] - /3/ [https://archive.today/NruaZ] - /an/ [https://archive.today/rYNOp] - /asp/ [https://archive.today/THse9] - /biz/ [https://archive.today/Aj5TX] - /c/ [https://archive.today/pAKIF] - /cm/ [https://archive.today/uN3L8] - /diy/ [https://archive.today/ncHCV] - /f/ [https://archive.today/Vbj7P] - /gd/ [https://archive.today/ALiLW] - /i/ [https://archive.today/Oe97C] - /ic/ [https://archive.today/BveIh] - /n/ [https://archive.today/sRdyn] - /news/ [https://archive.today/W6oSu] - /out/ [https://archive.today/RAmKF] - /p/ [https://archive.today/K1FB9] - /po/ [https://archive.today/N9EEe] - /trv/ [https://archive.today/EsYtD] - /u/ [https://archive.today/Kqdtr] - /vr/ [https://archive.today/MvxuP] - /w/ [https://archive.today/0mRIc] - /wsr/ [https://archive.today/1pwIT]
</ref>
* June 21 - Several boards (/pol/, /b/, /r9k/, /lgbt/, /s4s/) and chans (4chan, 8chan, 2ch.hk, Ylilauta and Krautchan) jump in the hate bandwagon of the #proudtobe [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtCyepuLt8Q official youtube video]. Youtube ends up remove the heart from their logo and shut down the comments. The video eventually became one of the top 100 most disliked videos on youtube.<ref>
* #proudtobe threads on /b/ [https://thebarchive.com/_/search/boards/b.bant/text/proudtobe/end/2016-12-01/results/thread/order/asc/]</br>
* #proudtobe threads on /pol/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/proudtobe/end/2016-12-01/results/thread/order/asc/]</br>
</ref>
* June 23 - A rolling /pol/ sticky about the UK referendum to leave the EU (Brexit) shatters the record for the most posts in a single thread in 4chan history, crushing the previous record set by [s4s] in early 2014 by nearly twenty thousand posts. The sticky received 58281 replies over the course of 23 hours. The archived thread is so large that it actually can't be opened in its entirety, since 4plebs times out requests after sixty seconds. 16230 images were also posted in the thread.
* June 27 - Voting for the banner contest begins after submissions for /3/, /gd/, /i/, /n/ and /po/ are sent through.
* 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 - Moderator Swaglord makes a thread on /s4s/ and embeds music into it, something about Independence Day. Meanwhile, /pol/ and /b/ gets caught up in a much larger raid on 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. The banner contest for /cm/, /news/, /p/, /trv/ and /wsr/ begins its voting phase.
* July 5 - /pol/ is changed to host 200 threads instead of 150, with 20 on each page rather than 15. The in-thread reply and image cooldowns are reduced from 90 and 120 seconds respectively to 60 seconds each. [https://archived.moe/i/thread/398517 The oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, an /i/ thread about butts,] dies. It originally started in December of 2012 and died at 1304 days.
* July 8 - Hiro's relationship with the userbase keeps deteriorating. On a meta thread complaining about his passivity, he explains that his current first objective is maintaining boards.<ref>Hiro posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/583098/#q585239]</ref>
* July 11 - The banner contest for /an/, /c/, /diy/, /out/ and /w/ begins its voting phase.
* July 16 - /r9k/'s 30000000 GET got claimed by [s4s], which resulted into /r9k/ deciding to raid [s4s] and vice-versa. It took 30 minutes until mods started banning people and deleting threads on both boards. Big keks were had.
* July 18 - The banner contest for /asp/, /f/, /ic/ and /vr/ begins its voting phase.
* July 25 - All /news/ threads now require a subject. The banner contest for /biz/, /s4s/ and /u/ begins its voting phase.
* July 31 - moot gets [https://www.businessinsider.com/4chan-founder-chris-pooles-journey-to-google-2016-7 interviewed].
* August 1 - The banner contest for /jp/, /sci/, /t/ and /y/ begins its voting phase.
* August 8 - The banner contest for /e/, /lgbt/, /m/ and /toy/ begins its voting phase.
* August 15 - The banner contest for /cgl/, /ck/, /hr/ and /lit/ begins its voting phase.
* August 16 - A fucking leaf from /n/ steals the [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/85555555/ 85555555] GET from /pol/. Almost a month later, on September 14, a fucking leaf from /r9k/ steals the more significant [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/88883807/#88888888 88888888] GET and Canadians are confirmed for being the worst posters (again).
* August 18 - Gawker is bought by Univision, finally signaling the death of that godawful site, /pol/ and /v/ throw a party. 
* August 19 - Swaglord stickies a thread on [s4s] where they pretend to be /qa/, another mod stickies a thread on /qa/ where they pretend to be [s4s], lulz ensue.
* August 22 - The banner contest for /adv/, /his/, /wg/ and /wsg/ begins its voting phase.
* August 29 - The banner contest for /fa/, /hm/, /o/ and /x/ begins its voting phase.
* September 5 - The banner contest for /g/, /mlp/ and /vp/ begins its voting phase. /mlp/'s contest is raided from two sides: One by /mlp/ to get their desired banner, the other supposedly by Barneyfag on multiple passes to get his banner on top. In the end, /mlp/'s banner is withheld until 2021, when a new contest specifically for /mlp/, by /mlp/'s mod, begins.
* September 12 - The banner contest for /r/, /soc/ and /sp/ begins its voting phase.
* September 13 - /pol/s outreach managed to grab the attention of a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton by shitposting on twitter at her with Pepe the Frog (note: there is no direct acknowledgement, but it's likely what triggered a recent article on her website about the dangers of memes and how they're "used" by the alt-right). On /qa/, Hiroyuki barges into a /pol/ meta thread, says something incomprehensible, and leaves.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/665677/#666275/]</ref>
* September 14 - A notably more distant Hiro tells anons that before they can dictate what mods can do, they first have to agree on ''regulations'', which anons denounce that it's impossible because mods don't let them determine rules or have meta threads. He later comes across /jp/'s meta thread and thanks the OP for making the effort.<ref>
* Hiro posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/667528/#q668022]</br>
* Hiroyuki /jp/ post. [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/15836573#p15837070]</br></ref>
* September 17 - Hiroyuki rents the 404 page to the band Boys Noize as a marketing stunt for their new album and the release of the Snowden movie. Some anons are not amused at the disrespect towards Yotsuba. In a /qa/ thread Hiroyuki discussed the change with anons while nonchalantly blogging, and later add the Yotsuba images back, under the video. He the meanwhile he declares ''"I ruled to permit one thread par boards to talk about the board."'', starting the Hiro-Approved Meta Thread phenomenon that haunted 4chan for years, with it's immediate aftermath being a series of feedback threads on /qa/ and elsewhere he later had shoot down.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/675371/]</br>
One meta thread per board. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/675371/#677151]</br>
Hiro feedback thread. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/679615/] - 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/682208/#q682745]</br>
</ref>
* September 19 - The banner contest for /d/, /h/ and /k/ begins its voting phase.
* September 21 - A 4chan raid on Google's AI program Jigsaw Conversation code-named Operation Google in retaliation against censorship. The raid causes the AI to censor Google sites. 
* September 22 - A thread about Nintendo's 127th anniversary gets hijacked by the mods, who embed music, voice clips, a scrolling Mario across the screen, and Mario in the background. The thread reaches 1300 replies before dying. Hiroyuki also posts an apology on the 4chan Twitter account, but nobody knows what it's for, prompting rumors that he sold the site, which a mod denied.
* September 26 - The banner contest for /aco/, /int/ and /tg/ begins its voting phase.
* October 1 - 4chan turns 13, and pedos lament that it's too old now. A new Global announcements declares ''"[https://www.4chan.org/pass 4chan Passes are now $25 off for 48 hours!] Cooldown time lowered for 4chan Pass users!"'', originally typo'd with $5 but fixed a couple hours later. 4chan Pass users have their post cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, and gain an option to showcase how long they've had their pass by putting "since4pass" in the option field. The latter creates a shitstorm and is removed an hour later only to be reactivated a few minutes after that. A number of changes are made to 4chan's boards.json as well. The in-thread reply and image reply cooldowns are removed from most boards, with reply cooldowns being increased from 30 to 60 seconds (if not already), while image reply cooldowns remain at 60 seconds. A number of exceptions exist for other boards: The image reply cooldowns on /aco/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /hr/, /i/, /ic/, /r/, /r9k/, /s/, [s4s], /soc/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /wg/ and /y/ are decreased to 30 seconds. /b/'s maximum .webm filesize is dropped from 3MB to slightly over 2MB. /vg/'s reply cooldown is increased from 30 to 90 seconds, and its image cooldown is increased from 60 to 120 seconds, likely to enable longer-lasting generals. On /qa/, a thread about the since4chanpass feature that lets users show how old their pass is has Hiroyuki appear to defend the feature, and a mod explains that Mac wasn't available for this year's picture and he recommended Ramen in his stead. ''In the end, he was just covering for Mac. He indeed refused to many any new pieces.''<ref>
Hiroyuki thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/703770/]</br>
Mod post about Mac. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/701580/#701980]
</ref>
* October 2 - '''Winter is Coming''' - Out of nowhere, Hiroyuki makes a thread titled ''"winter is coming"'', fearmongering that increased server costs made it so 4chan can no longer foot the bill. If the site doesn't make sweeping changes to monetization, the website is going to close down. He then says that if 4chan should stay afloat, one of three things has to happen: Reduce traffic by lowing filesize limits and deleting boards, introduce pop-ups and malicious ads, or have enough people buy 4chan passes to cover the server costs. Despite being unannounced, the thread makes the rounds immediately with 4727 replies and being mentioned off-site, with controversial celeb Brianna Wu making a news article about it. Anons rush to tell hiro to delete /pol/, the reason of the speed increase and the unwarranted attention the site's been getting. This event permanently increases /qa/'s posting speed and puts it in the sights of a massive /pol/ raid. The banner contest for /fit/, /mu/ and /vg/ begins its voting phase.<ref>
* Hiroyuki's ''winter is coming'' thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/706294/]</br>
* Brianna Wu. ''4chan Shuttering Is A Win For Feminism'' [https://www.bustle.com/articles/187476-4chan-is-on-deaths-door-thats-a-win-for-feminism] archive.today [https://archive.today/0GgXY]
* Hiroyuki's reply on 4chan Twitter account. [https://x.com/4chan/status/783060509356658689] archive.today [https://archive.today/Siy1O]</br>
* Minute timeframe between threads accelerating in real time. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-10-01/end/2016-10-03/order/asc/page/10/]</br>
* /qa/ crosslinks on /pol/ and [s4s]. [https://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/boards/pol.s4s/text/%22%2FQa%2F%22/start/2016-10-01/order/asc/]</br>
</ref>
* October 3 - Notch, billionaire, and creator of Minecraft, says he would consider buying 4chan on twitter but in the end, it turns out he was merely baiting. Swaglord makes an appearance and exchanges a bit of banter. Notch later deletes his past 4 months of tweets.
* October 4 - Global announcement gets added ''"You can now [https://archive.today/o/eWb1H/https://www.4chan.org/pass?req_renew renew] your Pass if it expires in less than 6 months."''. '''/vip/ - Very Important Posts''' is brought back, this time as an imageboard. Everyone can view it, but only 4chan pass users are allowed to post.
* October 7 - The simple 4chan logo is brought back on the homepage, replacing the painting. There are also only two rows of "Popular threads" now. 
* October 10 - The banner contest for /co/ and /r9k/ begins its voting phase. Hiro appears on a thread about him where he shoots down implement the /r9k/ robot site-wide, on a strange argument about bandwidth. <ref>Hiro Posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/755578/#q755578]</ref>
* October 11 - [https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452 A scientific paper] about /pol/ and its effects on the Web is published.
* October 12 - 4chan opens donations for the first time in 11 years, to accommodate people who want to contribute to the site's finances, but don't want the extra features given from buying a 4chan pass. He does an impromptu AMA on a /qa/ thread about it, where he refuses to publish finantial data and implies 4chan has special treatment from it's provider.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/760901/#q760927]</ref> Highlights: (''Reminder to always take Hiroyuki statements with a grain of salt.'')
** Hasn't decided how donation credits will get shown
** Will not release financial information
** Will Consider bitcoin donations
** Insists 4chan cannot sustain itself on Ads (''neither could in passes or donations, clue about selling post data'')
** "We are in talks with an infrastructure company" (''selling post data clue #2'')
** This company is giving the free hosting or discount hosting for a time
** Using Stripe to process credit card payments
* October 13 - Image loading starts to lag. Anons complain on /qa/. Hiro apologizes.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/763976/]</ref>
* October 15 - A janitor on /vg/ goes apeshit and starts deleting all overwatch general threads. Anon makes a /qa/ thread about it, where Manager RapeApe declares the janitor has been fired. Hiroyuki HONKS.<ref>
Post. ''NOTE: Before 2017, desuarchive rewrites special capcodes such as Manager or Developer to Mod'' [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/767364/#767588]</br>
Hiro Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/766947/#q766947]</br>
</ref>
* October 17 - The banner contest for /hc/ and /tv/ begins its voting phase. Hiroyuki gets chastised for begging for Donations on 4chan's Twitter, then the thread devolves into blogging.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/771337/]</ref>
* October 20 - Through the collective willpower of a few dedicated anons and some spiderman posting, the Great Loli Marathon surpasses 260 threads.
* October 23 - Thousands of users on /pol/, /b/ and other boards were banned for triggering the wordfilter for posting the name "Ben Fischbein", a person related to CTR.
* October 24 - The banner contest for /a/ and /s/ begins its voting phase.
* October 27 - Hiro implements giant ads on blue boards, prompting many to install 4chanX and adblockers. As the new ad situation goes in full swing, Hiroyuki makes a series of stickies encouraging anons to report malicious ads they find. Over the course of 7 days the total post count reaches  6223 replies, with Hiro making 481 posts. The thread's focus is chiefly on reporting pop out tabs and never ending redirects, plus other fuckery from the shady agencies Hiro hired. Besides that, he refused to answer financial questions, elaborated on future plans for monetization and new site features while nonchalantly ignoring hundreds of insults of an increasingly angrier userbase. When asked if he thought 4chan was influencing the elections, he made a poll on the official 4chan Twitter account. Mods occasionally chimed in. Right before leaving, Hiro answers to an [s4s] anon's request to change the frontpage logo to one starring Keksandra causing a minor shitstorm.<ref>
Threads. 1[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/786307/] - 2[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/786936/] - 3[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/792663/] - 4[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/799401/] - 5[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/804505/] - 6[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/809679/]</br>
Other hiro posts. [https:/f/desuarchive.org/qa/thread/791180/#791361]</br>
Twitter Post. Final Result was 58% for Yes. [https://x.com/4chan/status/793524629751103488]</br>
Absolute madman moment. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/809679/#809770]</br>
</ref> Highlights: (''Reminder to always take Hiroyuki statements with a grain of salt.'')
** 4chan has been refused by a dozen ad platforms.
** Would like to get to Google Ads
** With the current shady ad servers, there's a chance of being flagged by Google Safe Browsing.
** jList was preparing their own ad servers. ''(??)''
** Implies jList operated at a loss on 4chan, calling them a "special advertiser"
** The then-current Self-serve ad system, Rubicon, dropped 4chan from their client list over the John Podesta email leaks.
** So now the ''ad team'' is making their own self-serve system, (likely just MVB and Desuwa)
** 4chan passes are not enough to finance the site.
** Considers the possibility of 4chan splitting into different domains
** Does not want to price users. Plans to subsist on ad money (likely failed, 4chan post 2016 almost certainly subsists on selling post data)
** Defended premium access, insists on the 4chan search plan and a thread archive on for pass-only access (didn't take off), and let pass users vote on potential future features.
** Considers 4chan merch as an option.
** 4chan's host gives them special discounts. (likely a lie to not disclose any number)
** Somehow, server costs increased a whooping 13.7 times, and they managed to negotiate a reduction to a mere 5 times.
** Links the increased bandwidth costs to the growing popularity of /pol/ and consumes, by October 2016, 3 Petabytes.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/chunk/786936/#789780]</ref>
** In response to an anon suggestions, Hiroyuki shows the bandwidth timeline on the 4chan blog<ref>
First Blog. [https://blog.4chan.org/post/152410819927/donate-to-4chan-the-result-for-two-weeks] - archive.today [https://archive.today/mCSdl]</br>
Second Blog. [https://blog.4chan.org/post/152411853897/4chan-bandwidth-was-3pb-last-month-4chan-doesnt] - archive.today [https://archive.today/KaSBj]</br>
Third Blog. [https://blog.4chan.org/post/152413219542/you-can-see-4chan-traffic-rank-increasing] - archive.today [https://archive.today/LdxB0]</br>
</ref>
* October 28 - /tg/'s [https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/49990210/#50000000 50000000 GET] is stolen by Cirno. A failure. The other GET was stolen by [https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/49999999/ Serena]. Hiro also has another ad Q&A.
* October 29 - Anons start reporting problems with loading images. Hiro makes a thread and 'accidentally' forbids hotlinking to i.4cdn..org.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/797492/]</ref>
* October 31 - 4chan went down for a bit and people didn't know where to go, but the majority of the users apparently raided Reddit to turn into the new 4chan. The whole site gets a spooky CSS theme for Halloween again. The loli marathon faces contention over continuity, but threads up through 377 are verified, New archive established at [https://fullelite.com/]. The banner contest for /v/ and /vip/ begins its voting phase.
* November 2 - The great loli marathon seems to have ended at 387 threads. Spiderman posts still get deleted and banned regularly.
* November 3 - Image problems persist. Hiro considers a browser problem.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/808207/]</ref>
* November 4 - Hiro takes a modified 4chan logo (now featuring a picture of Keksandra, [s4s]'s board-tan, checking 'em) from a malicious ad-reporting thread on /qa/ and makes it the new homepage image, as suggested by a user. [s4s] celebrates, while some /a/ and /qa/ members complain that Keksandra is replacing Yotsuba. A few hours later on /b/, Keksandra gets sexts and declares herself the new mascot of 4chan, causing a slight meltdown. The thread is filled with dubs checking and Keksandra porn.
* November 6 - The banner contest finally ends. Every board except /b/, /gif/, /pol/, /qa/, /qst/ and /trash/ has one at this point. /mlp/ also doesn't have one due to the previous controversy.
* November 7 - An anon on /vp/ gets his hands on the full version of the upcoming game, Pokémon Moon, and [https://archive.alice.al/vp/search/tripcode/%21%21fFO0IgPFrv8/order/asc/ leaks a large amount of information before uploading a playable copy the next day], 10 days before the official release date.
* November 8 - Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America. /pol/ goes completely apeshit and celebrates his victory. Two stickies get placed too, with one being the results of the election...
* November 9 - ...and the other being an embed video of Trump's victory dance. Meme magic is real once again! Meanwhile, Hiro removes Keksandra from the front page after five days. /pol/'s rolling 2016 Presidential election results sticky breaks the record for most posts in one thread again, receiving 73171 posts in its 23 hours and 53 minutes. This surpassed the Brexit sticky by nearly 15000 posts.
* November 11 - ''Winter Ball 2016'' - The third 4chan Board-tans event arrived late with no board acting as official hub. Yet it was not dead: Multiple dozen threads popped out site-wide around November 11 in a larger volume yet with reduced activity. Compared to 2015, most don't make bump limit except for a select few boards. Multiple small ''dates'' are carried out by crossboarding drawfags with the /qa/ board-tans general acting as impromptu hub. The event lasts around a month, without an official end date, activity winds down to trickle just a few days before Christmas. At least a hundred new illustrations made and a strange drama with a kid who tried to force a design update on /qa/-tan occurs.<ref>
Winter Ball mentions flare up by the end of October. [https://archived.moe/_/search/text/winter%20ball/start/2016-08-01/end/2017-02-01/order/asc/page/3/]</br>
Winter Ball threads across the site. [https://archived.moe/_/search/text/winter%20ball/type/op/start/2016-10-01/end/2017-02-01/order/asc/page/1/]</br>
Board-tans general prepares for the ball, first thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/852139/]</br>
/qa/-tan drama. [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/877516/#886668]</ref>
* November 15 - For a hot hour image thumbnails weren't loading. Hiro makes a test thread to see if the problem persists. He alter asks anon to give him a croissant.<ref>
Test thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/835116/]</br>
Other thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/834962/#834979]</br>
</ref>
* November 16 - After confirming that he goes to McMaster University (having gotten most of their IPs banned from 4chan) and being dumb enough to leave his full name and email on the manifesto he released in 2014, Barneyfag is doxxed by a /v/ user. His name is revealed to be Lee Goldson, and his pictures confirm how much of a disgusting shit we all imagined he looked like. [https://pastebin.com/xN3mtfE8 See here for his info].
* November 17 - Hiroyuki is rude for a bit. Slow day, eh?<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/840030/#840046]</ref>
* November 18 - /vp/ reaches its [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/29999052/#30000000 30000000th post], an image of Lana, a new loli character. Get [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/29995104/#29999999 No. 29999999] is Elesa doing a dubs gesture. Also, janitor applications are back again for the next 48 hours.
* November 19 - Anon asks if the image problem was solved. Other anon comments that is.4cdn.org is still slow and Hiro comments they plan to upgrade the servers.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/842976/]</ref>
* November 20 - /a/ hits its [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/149963322/#150000000 150000000th post.] It's wasted by some homo with poor tastes in hairstyles who can't even speak english properly. While not quite making up for the disappointment, [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/149999999/ 149999999] is taken by loli.
* November 21 - Hiroyuki makes a thread abou the Fukushima Tsunami on /jp/.<ref>* Hiroyuki's Tsunami Thread. [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S16139660]</ref>
* November 23 - A few minutes before midnight EST, /pol/ hits the [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/99995014/#100000000 100M GET], the fifth board in the history of the site (after /b/, /v/, /a/ and /vg/) to reach such milestone. And surprisingly, it wasn't stolen by a Leaf.
* November 25 - Hiroyuki nerds on science.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/853817/]</br></ref>
* November 26 - /g/'s /ptg/ general hacks into the admin account of a private BitTorrent tracker, and the login info is posted. Many lulz were had before the staff shuts the site down.
* November 27 - Code Geass gets a third season announced. /a/ loses its collective shit, the announcement thread is stickied and receives over 4000 replies. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150244109/] JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
* November 28 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20220112114032/https://warosu.org/fa/thread/12000000 KoG steals /fa/'s 12000000 GET for /a/,] the same GET that /v/ stole from /a/ in May of 2008. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150287838 He posts about it on /a/ and the thread gets stickied, locked, unlocked, unstickied, restickied and eventually deleted.] He also steals [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/87999193/#88000000 88000000 on /co/] and gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150287838/#150290999 triple 9's with cirno in his /a/ thread.]
* December 12 - Might not be worth mentioning, but [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/102746387/#102756099 /pol/ issued a "Deceleration" of War on the island nation of Tuvalu.]
* December 15 - Apparently Lanzer returns to Gaia, /v/ has a thread about it which housed nostalgiafags and the like. Hiro returns to /qa/ to defend his heavily damaged reputation and state he won't delete boards because anons don't like them.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/882580/]</ref>
* December 17 - Anonymous makes a complaint demanding the unbanning of /pol/'s /diy/ - Right Wing Safety Squad, a raid thread using fire safety regulations protocols to close down spaces, arguing that Hiroyuki gave them the go. A later poster asks for elaboration on part of the mods, to which Anonymous-San, famous as modcat, replies in his old format of using the warning form. The next day, the outraged poster posts his warning revealing the usage politically loaded language<ref>
Thread complaining about /diy/'s ban. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/888188/]</br>
Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/888188/#q891098]
</ref>
* December 18 - Cirno visits /pol/ and promises a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/103333333/ frosty inauguration.] She was blushing too, well, at least according to her filename.
* December 19 - ''Firing of Anonymous-San'' - 10:30 EST - Asan is unceremoniously and permanently relieved of his moderator duties after a verbal beatdown by RapeApe. The news breaks over #4chan IRC provoking outrage from basically the entire /a/ & /jp/ webspheres and even within team4chan. 10:39 EST Manager RapeApe, posts a sticky on /qa/ explaining his reasoning and answers minor /q/ questions. /diy/ takes refuge on the 8chan board /rwss/ - Right Wing Safety Squad. Asan later pops in on an earlier asan thread with intent to burn bridges with team4chan's new management. He explains what happened in detail, revealing considerable information on 4chan's inner workings and rousing /qa/ into a riot. A few days later, a ranting ex-janitor comes by, upset by A-san's firing and chastises the board on their paranoia while giving out facts about RapeApe, seemingly arbitrary janitor firings and promotions and his thoughts on what Asan said.<ref>
Threads immediately after his firing. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/897686/#q897686]</br>
Asan tells of mod support. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/897686/#q899169]</br>
Manager Thread. ''NOTE: Before 2017, desuarchive rewrites special capcodes such as Manager or Developer to Mod'' [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/894474/]</br>
First Asan post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/897686/#q899157]
/rwss/ on day of creation. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161220123058/https://8ch.net/rwss/index.html]</br>
Ex/then/possible janitor rant on /rwss/, check german flags and titles. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170805145301/https://8ch.net/rwss/res/1453.html]</br>
</ref>.
* December 19 - /pol/ entered HAPPENING status about an hour after as some Russian dude got assassinated and a couple of attacks happened in Europe.
* December 22 - is.4cdn.org continues underperforming. Hiroyuki appears on /qa/ to talk about it, but the thread quickly derails into Asan's recent firing. Hiro is adamant that Anonymous-san had to be fired over his abused of moderation tools, his arguments invoke the man himself to defend his point of view, half recount and half goodbye letter. Hiro ignores it, clearly not prepared to actually scrutinize the half-info he RapeApe gave him and start a second drama. In the same thread, the same [s4s] anon as November 4 ask to modify the frontpage featuring Keksandra. Only this time, Keksandra is wearing Santa's hat. 'tis the season to be dank.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/903669/]</ref>
* December 25 - Christmas hats are added again.
* December 28 - 03:00 UTC - Without warning, Hiroyuki removed (you) and replaces it with an dotted underline on replies. The entire site immediately flips it's shit. He latter appears on the Happenings threads, implies asan evidence's was not enough to absolve him, and refuses to elaborate on the changes to the site. On top of that, the Christmas hats still weren't removed.<ref>
Discovery. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/906608/#912898]</br>
Hiro posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/913456/#917246]</br>
</ref>
* December 29 - 22:00 UTC - Hiro makes a thread and links to a new inline poll feature where only 4chan pass users can vote. 4chan passes are required to prevent rigging. The first poll (10) asks anon how their day was, the second (11) their opinion on the new (you). Hiroyuki once again has the thread derailed by the Asan topic, and he insists that he wants evidence of Asan consulting with mods over the custom warning. Asan once again appears only to be ignored.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/923531/]</br>
Poll #1. [https://www.4chan.org/polls/10] - archive.today [archive.today/YmSy1]</br>
Poll #1 Results. [archive.today/CBs75]</br>
Poll #2. [https://www.4chan.org/polls/11] - archive.today [archive.today/qQTps]</br>
Poll #2 Results. [archive.today/L3Qi7]</br>
</ref>
* December 30 - Results for poll #2 are 56% Negative, 22% Neutral, 21% Positive, out of 1380 votes. Within hours, (You)s are returned and hiro doesn't post again. Users speculate that Hiroyuki planned this from the start as a scheme to get people to buy passes.

===2017===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2016 | ◄]] [[#2018 | ►]]
* January 10 - /pol/ tricks John McCain, Rick Wilson, Buzzfeed and the CIA into believing scat fanfiction about politicians as fact, fooling many. [https://archive.today/PDpKd Relevant Image.] Archive: [[https://archive.today/kQpfx 1]], [https://archive.today/d8xdG[2]] 
* January 17 - /a/ manages to decode the witch script in Little Witch Academia, which impresses the English PR guy for Trigger, Tattun, so much he starts posting on /a/. Mods being Mods ban him for no reason, after 30 minutes they say it was mistake and apologize, and then sticky the thread for a few minutes, then make it so that the thread can't be bumped off the index or hit its image limit.
* January 20 - Donald Trump is officially inaugurated as President of the United States. /pol/ celebrates endlessly and laughs at liberal tears. Swaglord makes a visit in the sticky, posting a picture with the caption "WE PRESIDENT NOW". The only sad note of the day is the announcement of Gabe the Dog's death, where /wsg/ honors his <s>memory</s> memery by posting Gabe remixes. [https://archive.today/mNA6T moot also posts about it on his Twitter], the first anyone's heard from him in months. Also, to protest Donald Trump's presidency, (((Shia LaBeouf))) sets up a 24/7 live stream "art" exhibit called "He Will Not Divide Us" in the heart of New York City, with the goal of live-streaming people chanting the stream name in solidarity. /pol/ and /tv/ host threads on the stream, and within hours, people arrive to meme IRL and causes shenanigans. On /qa/, anon makes a thread asking hiro to recruit more mods and hiro refutes that there's only 12 mods working on 4chan.<ref>Hiro post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/963000/]</ref>
* January 21 - Tattun visits /a/ again to announce that the show's producer has agreed to visit for a AMA in a few days. He sticks around for several hours to answer questions. Mods show up to give him a 4chan Pass at Hiro's request. Users from /pol/ continue to raid the HWNDU stream by shouting "Pepe!" and playing Shadilay. One brave /pol/ack plasters the name of KEK on the side of a building. 
* January 24 - In a few days, the HWNDU stream trolling becomes more sophisticated, ranging from uttering meme phrases and ordering tendie delivery, to non-stop Eurobeat music DJ's and anti-Semitic picture drawing. Even CIA and Moonman cosplay make an appearance. Because the trolls are 'mostly harmless', many reappear as regulars on the stream, and are universally loved by the thread lurkers. The two most popular regulars are "Jackie4chan", the delightfully vanilla 4chan browser, and "/pol/ Blart", the policeman dead-ringer for Paul Blart.
* January 25 - /a/ gets their AMA with Trigger. Notable highlights include yurifags being BTFO and the producer laughing when asked if one of the characters is a virgin. The Verified capcode shows up for the first time. An example can be found [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/156559433/#156563785 here]. 
* January 26 - Days earlier, after constant trolling, Shia snaps and pushes an offending crowd member. On this day it was announced he was arrested and charged with assault. Ironically, one of the stream regulars, dubbed "Tony" for his loud Italian voice and aggressive debating, was removed from the premises by police. Even more ironic was the reveal that another troll "Adidasbro" had an arrest warrant, suspected to be related to playing Johnny Rebel and Moonman music in public. Lastly, topping the ultimate in irony, both demonstrators AND trolls find themselves having a civilized debate in an unbelievable moment of unity, proving once and for all that Shia LaBeouf is a fucking joke.
* January 27 - Another slow day with Hiro saying hi on /qa/.<ref>Posts. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/978626/#980103] - 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1092842/#q1092842]</ref>
* January 28 - The HWNDU stream hits critical chaos, as trolls outnumber demonstrators. In a successful effort to kill the memes and restore order, the property owners only allow people to speak group-by-group. They enforce this by erecting a fence, because irony is not their strong suit.
* January 30 - Disney announces that it'll be closing Club Penguin in late March. /v/ decides to give it one last raid for old time's sake. Swastikas were made, memes were spammed, and keks were had.
* February 5 - /pol/'s 111111111 GET predicts Trudeau will fall. This is incorrect.
* February 6 - /tv/ Anon(s) begin counting down the days until Avatar 2's release date. Time will tell if he/they are able to keep it up.
* February 10 - Small changes are made to 4chan's archives: The latest archived threads now are viewable for only 3 days rather than 7, and the post count for each archived thread is removed. If you have a direct link to a thread you can view threads past 7 days old; It is yet to be seen how far back this is possible with some of the older threads archived at around 17 days (as of 2/21/2017). Easily demonstrated with threads that have "previous thread" in the OP.
* February 11 - Shia's HWNDU project is shut down by the museum. /pol/ celebrates.
* February 16 - Hiro finally removes Christmas Keksandra from the 4chan homepage and replaces her with Sachiko Koshimizu, after /qa/ reaches out to him on Twitter.<ref>
* Request thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1017087/#1017618]</br>
* Twitter post. PENDING.</br>
* /jp/ reaction. [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/16329914#p16580763]</ref>
* February 17 - HWNDU returns, this time in Albuquerque, NM. Within days, /pol/ trolls the project all over again, even spray-painting over the camera whilst putting up graffiti.
* February 21-22 - Image posting goes down on the entire site. /qa/nts suspect that Hiro wants to ban mobileposters. The theory is dropped after some Anons report that they can't post images from their PCs. Posting also fails to work for periods of time in different places, from the entire globe to single countries.
* February 22 - Hiro finally took notice of the glitch and fixed it. The only explanation about it is that it was a "site issue" which really doesn't explain much. The glitch also killed many images over many boards, resulting in image dump threads becoming wastelands. Many stickies are now devoid of pictures and are eventually replaced.
* March 8 - 4chan gets namedropped and showed in [https://a.yiff.moe/zpzzli.webm German television] over the Maruseru killer posting his murders on /b/.
* March 9 - Shia's HWNDU project goes live again on March 8, this time in a completely unknown location. The stream simply broadcasts a flagpole with a white flag saying "He Will Not Divide Us", in front of nothing but the sky. Within 24 hours, /pol/ correctly triangulates the whereabouts of the flag, based on what was available from the stream, including plane routes, star patterns, bird calls, frog croaks, wind direction, the position of the sun, playing marco-polo with an anon's car horn, and pure autism power.
* March 10 - The flag is removed by an unknown /pol/ user and replaced by a MAGA hat and Pepe shirt for fifteen minutes, before it's removed by someone else. The stream shuts down 25 minutes later. /pol/: 3, Shia: 0. [https://archive.fo/YO8u3 The anon then collected the flag and put it on display.] [http://imgur.com/a/yMnot]
* March 13 - Audio webms have been enabled on /r/ and /wsr/.
* March 15 - First instance of someone reporting that some invisible characters like (U+2063) are filtered out of the input fields, killing a large number of anon hijinks. Likely implemented in March 13 together with webms<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1153551/#1155368]</ref>
* March 15 - First instance of someone reporting that towerposting aka reporting the same post several times triggers the spamfilter.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1153551/#1156901]</ref>
* March 17 - Modpost post on Sci asking to STOP FEDDING THE TRUMPTARDS<ref>Post. [https://archived.moe/sci/thread/8753339/#8753886]</ref>
* March 20 - (((Rockfeller))) dies on World Frog Day and Barron Trump's birthday, /pol/ litters their catalog with celebratory threads.
* March 22 - Shia LaBouef, still learning nothing, sets up his HWNDU project for the fourth time, this time hosted in Liverpool, England. Within an hour, a terrorist attack happens in London, resulting in the death of four people. As the happening continues, /pol/ quickly figures out where the flag is.
* March 23 - An anon in Liverpool makes it to the top of the building, fails to remove the flag and the police are called. The anon gets away and the museum shuts down the exhibit once more at the advice of the police.
* March 29 - Malicious ads act up on mobile again and anons report it on /qa/, netting attention from Hiro.<ref>
Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1190210/]
</ref> Shia LaBeouf, after getting BTFO for the fourth time by /pol/, moves his project to Finland and changes the name of his project from HWNDU to AloneTogether. This project consists of him, Rönkkö (the Finnish semen demon) and Turner living in separate wood cabins on the isolated island of Lapland. During this time, Shia and Co. will have no access to phones, computers etc. The only way they can communicate with the outside world is through a small video chat that is linked with the Kiasma Museum from Helsinki, where visitors can talk with them. This project is planning to start on 12 April and last for about a month.
* March 29, 30 - Club Penguin shuts down, /v/ has one final raid for the purple republic before it shuts down and then looks back on it all.
* April 1 - Reddit adds a new subreddit called /r/Place, essentially a big pixel canvas where every account can put down one pixel every 5 minutes. /pol/, upon hearing about it, begins to raid it and spam Pepes and Tranny Flags. [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/119148066/rpg-rplace-general-assault-edition The inaugural thread] ([https://archived.moe/pol/thread/119148066/ and an archived version]). Boards are merged as an April Fools joke, resulting in: /can/ - Animals/Cute, /cock/ - Comics & Cartoons & Cooking, /fap/ - Fashion & Photography, /fitlit/ - Well-Rounded Citizens, /mo/ - Mecha & Auto, /mtv/ - Video Killed The Radio Star, /mlpol/ - My Little Politics, /outsoc/ - Outdoor Socialization, /spa/ - Tanoshii Sports and /vint/ - International Vidya. [s4s] celebrates its 4th birthday, with good wishes from all boards [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5268144/official-s4s-foreth-birthday-discussion], but the thread is deleted for an unknown reason just as the day began. Swaglord also pulls of the greatest ruse in history, stickying what seemed to be a link to a future get, but when clicked leads to a secret duckroll thread [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5273416#p5273416]. Barneyfag gets banned on [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1194185/#1195824 /qa/, twice]. /cock/ got a [https://archived.moe/cock/thread/22398 McChicken sticky] and also [https://my.mixtape.moe/vqziez.png this entertaining thread]. /fitlit/ had a thread stickied. /vint/ celebrated getting its dubs back. Flags on /spa/ revealed that a large number of /a/ users were from South America, and it gets a [https://archived.moe/spa/thread/55359/ ## Developer sticky]. For first few hours, /mlpol/ was in a bloody civil war, but soon /pol/ realized /mlp/'s horse porn have chased away many low effort threads and actual discussion starts to take place amongst floods of pony porn. /mlp/ and /pol/ both share their interests and autism, and become best friends
* April 2 - After the merge was undone, /pol/ goes back to full shitpost mode. Quality in discussions suffer in /a/ as a result of the flags, posters are accused of being Canadian or South American when they state an unpopular opinion; /a/ risks devolving into /pol/. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5277777 The 5277777 GET (which is a reply to swaglord's April Fools Peek) actually occurs and is stickied on s4s]. The link in the OP of swaglord's peek sticky is changed to point to the GET.
* April 3 - A legendary get thread on esfores is posted, getting ~1500 replies and an insane number of dubs [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5279555/get-thread]. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279535 A necc thread] is stickied on s4s. The April Fools Peek and the 5277777 GET are unstickied. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279555/ A get thread] is stickied.
* April 5 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5284272 A "would swaglord swaglord swaglord" thread] and [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5286151 a "swaglord sure knows how to pick a sticky" thread] are stickied on s4s. The latter thread is a reference to namefig Doctor Worse Than Hitler's Sticke Budde userscript.
* April 6 - Cirno takes the 373000000 GET from /v/, and proclaims blue hair > pink hair, damn bakas. [https://archived.moe/v/thread/372998196/#373000000] /a/'s 155555555 GET is also stolen by /s4s/. [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/155555555/]
* April 7 - After a week straight of escalating shitposting in a war between two different groups of off-site raiders, one from 8ch's /int*/ Discord trolls and another from Sageru/g/ and the /jp/ spinoffs, /qa/ is frozen when the latter starts spamming GR1 reports. Hiro casually posts that day, unaware anything was happening.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1248333/#1263917]</ref>
* April 8 - /int/'s 73333333 GET gets wasted by a Jap Flag, confirming that Japanese people are the worst posters on 4chan. [https://archived.moe/int/thread/73333007/#q73333333]
* April 12 - The first day of Shia's "AloneTogether" project. Finnish /pol/acks begin to visit the museum and fuck around with Shia and Co. Some /pol/acks pose in front of the cameras doing the CIA pose. Some /pol/acks managed to make Shia say "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" on the livestream chat and also tell a strange story about his childhood toilet trauma. Shia goes berserk.  
* April 13 - /pol/ has another session of trolling but this time,the security is much tighter and after 10 minutes, they get kicked out. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8MxelBXt2g One managed to walk around in front of the cameras while wearing a frog mask before a guard kicked him out.] The Twitter hashtag for the event gets leaked on /pol/, resulting in a shitstorm visible on a television inside the museum. Meanwhile, /pol/ begin working on pinpointing Shia's cabin. A group of 4-5 Finnish /pol/acks planned to visit the cabin during the weekend to give Shia a warm greeting and a MAGA hat.
* April 16 - /qa/ is brought back from being frozen, as shown with [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1248943/ this thread], but the majority of the community doesn't noticed till [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1248945/ April 22].
* April 21 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5333313 A "big guy for you" thread] where the [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5333313/#5333333 5333333 GET] occurs is stickied on /s4s/.
* April 27 - A manager stickies a thread on /pol/ announcing the possible creation of a new off-topic politics board in order to keep /pol/ focused on political discussion. The manager asks for suggestions on a board name (three letters max) and a board title. Ideas tossed around include /hap/ - Happenings, a resurrected /mlpol/, /id/ - Ideology, /fag/ - Foreign Appreciation Generals, and /kek/ - Autism/Frogposting. Other /pol/ users claim that this is what Shia wanted: Division.
* May 1 - /a/'s favorite BitTorrent tracker for anime, Nyaa, goes down permanently. Nobody, not even the site's staff, is sure why. /a/ suffers a shitstorm as many newfags are left in the dust as to how to obtain their shows.
* May 3 - In an effort to revive or mirror Nyaa as good as possible, anons from both /g/ and /a/ come together and recreate a working mirror of the site.
* May 4 - New Boards. ○ '''/bant/ - International/Random'''. 
* May 4 - A trial board meant to receive off-topic threads from /pol/. Many anons are upset about the fact that Hiro, instead of enforcing the rules and cleaning the boards, makes new boards to dump all the cancer from other boards in it. The board is rushed by several groups, including every Cirno poster on the site.
* May 5 - The 99999th /bant/ GET is achieved by Cirno, who declares war against frogposters, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjXN_xPQd0M Chirumiru Cirno] is also [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/98674/#99999 embedded into the thread] [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/98674/#102931 A moderator also posts in the thread].
* May 8 - Anons on /f/ report being unable to upload new flashes, getting distinct errors. A modpost on a /qa/ meta thread clarifies it's a Cloudfare issue and they can't do anything about it.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1305241/#1310263]</ref>
* May 9 - A new anti-spam filter appears to have been enabled, catching posts seemingly at random and presenting a "Connection Error" message when using the Quick-Reply form instead of the usual spam message. When posting using the old reply form, you are informed that "Your IP or IP range has been banned," when in reality it hasn't been. This message is additionally displayed to 4chan pass users. 
* May 13-14 - Both /int/ and /bant/ get Eurovision Song Contest stickies, /bant/'s thread reaches over 3000 replies, /int/'s sticky gets 14000.
* May 17 - Hiroyuki NOPES. Hiromoot then makes a text thread test on /qa/ and accidentally disables image posting on the entire imageboard for a few minutes. Many anons go crazy, thinking that he is turning 4chan into a textboard and beg him to stop, others assault him with requests to delete /pol/.<ref>
NOPE. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1319612/#1328486]</br> 
Thread. [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1328590]</br>
</ref>
* May 18 - A guy on /x/ made a thread about how he saved his family by imitating the sound of a shotgun reload with his mouth. A new copypasta was shortly born. [https://archived.moe/x/thread/19020571]
* May 19 - Janitor applications are open for the next 48 hours.
* May 21 - /bant/ raids itself with the same picture of an old man with Alzheimers and edits thereof. An Argentinian starts a thread posting a picture of an old man with the comment 'ask someone with Alzheimer anything' [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/641416/], other anons catch on and follow suit, it avalanches from there until the entire catalog is filled with lost old men. [https://thebarchive.com/data/bant/image/1495/42/1495420980534.jpg] This goes on for a few hours until a mod deletes all threads with pictures of the old man.
* May 23 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5423420 A thread asking whether swaglord would sticky Jay Irwin] is stickied. The thread features a pic of swaglord wearing a kek shirt and holding a bury pink hammer.
* May 27 - Captcha is broken for non-pass users for some hours, the pass users mock the poorfags as a result. The post quality increased on several boards.
* May 29-31 - Multiple threads are stickied for a short amount of time on /s4s/ (15 at once during peak sticky time), including [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5444204 Eh? You've never seen a sticky before?!], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446179/ swaglord's favorite anime is skrillex], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446259 stick], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446314 there are too many sticky's, swaglord], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446436/ swaglord if you fricking sticky one more thread i swear to god], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446549/ perro caca], a [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446626/ "blue man" thread linking to multiple boards], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446670/#5446670 le char], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5446933/ someone tell swaglord to please not sticky anymore threads. it's really having a negative effect on this board please stop], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5447000/ If I get trips, Swaglord must sticky two more threads so that s4s can have eleven stickies and thereby have sticky dubs], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5447377/ ass], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5447797/ !be me !see a new meme on s4s !the meme is talk about urselv with excamarks !cool], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5448438/ COVFEFE], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5448773/ Throwback Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with le sune], [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5448781/ no anime on the front page jej], and [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5449019/ would swaglorde sticky a screenshot of a swaglorde sticky inside of a swaglorde twitter bio?] All threads are unstickied except the kek thread.
* June 2 - Originally meant for a Japanese audience, Hiro and another minor celebrity were found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54EhSD5UkDA livestreaming Clash Royale]. People were wondering what Hiro was thinking. The stream peaks at around 160 viewers. Hiro later visited [https://archived.moe/v/thread/378877171/#378877171 /v/'s thread].
* June 12 - /v/ reaches its 380M GET on the night of E3. [https://archived.moe/v/thread/379989620/#380000000 The post] is just replying to two people with a "your tears are delicious" image.
* June 13 - Old flags are added to /pol/ again since being removed in 2015 as well as keeping the geolocation flags. A "new flag testing thread" is stickied.
* June 17 - The moderators and local janitors actively start deleting caption threads on /d/. This resulted in a lengthy [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1404725 meta discussion thread on /qa/].
* June 18 - /jp/ archiver Warosu.org brings back ghostposting.<ref>
* Ghostposts starting June 18. [https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&ghost=true&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=2017-01-01&search_dateto=2018-01-01&search_media_hash=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=yes&search_ord=old&search_capcode=all&search_res=post]</br>
* Celebratory teenpost [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S17200491#p17200565_25]</ref>
* June 19 - Moderators were contacted on IRC and [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1497/90/1497903727839.png gave a short statement] that these threads have [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/d/image/1497/92/1497921583907.png never been allowed on /d/] in the first place. /s4s/ gets a '''gun''' [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5510957 sticky]; embedded video included.
* June 20 - /r9k/ finally gets a [http://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/37842102 Mod-made locked sticky] forbidding users to not only post pictures of themselves but also ask for them of other users. The sticky is also a reminder that such posts and threads belong on /soc/. The original sticky also remains.
* June 21 - /bant/ succeeds in trolling an edgy dutch girl by making her open her "MUH DEPRESSION" cuts and put lemon and salt on them. Also tripfag town rapist breaks his phone mid-thread [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/1126536]
* June 21-23 - [https://warosu.org/g/thread/61009719 /g/ apparently discovers the purpose behind ekansovi], in that it could be an adblock-evading script using unique cookies to track and possibly identify posters via exploits. It was found out that 4chan's native javascript [https://warosu.org/g/thread/61009719#p61013685 linked to ekansovi]. In response, gorhill adds [https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/releases/tag/2.25 4chan to uBO's Upmanager]. Later, ekansovi seems to have been shut down for [https://warosu.org/g/thread/61017968#p61032195 reasons unknown].
* June 23 - Users on /d/ start [http://archived.moe/d/thread/7496576 making meta threads]. 
* June 24-25 - The last issue of the Weekly Peek is released and stickied. - Other popular topics such as CYOA and Erotic Fiction are now being deleted on /d/. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5526499 The last issue of the Weekly Peek] is released and stickied.
* June 26 - The meta discussion on /d/ reaches its peak with an uproar in form of [http://archived.moe/d/thread/7503408 a thread] that gathered over 1200 replies. More than 100 users participated.
* June 28 - The mods post a [http://archived.moe/d/thread/7509079/#7509079 clarification sticky]. It was also confirmed in IRC that caption threads and the like have always been deleted, on all pornographic boards. The second [http://archived.moe/d/thread/7507633 meta thread] also reached over 1200 replies in response to the sticky.
* July 4 - Anon upset at a recent Hiro tweet saying that it's not his job to interact with the userbase makes a thread stating good admins listen to users and that there's a laundry list of unsolved admin problems such as: /bant/ redirect not working, country flags being wrong or outdated, no https redirect. Hiro comes by and at least fixes the /bant/ redirect.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1436614/]</ref>
* July 6 - All boards except for /a/, /b/, /v/, /vg/ and /pol/ break. Refugees are welcomed in a /b/ thread, and adventurous users recreate their generals in /a/.
* July 10 - /vp/ is flooded with Discord/Pokeporn spam, completely obliterating the catalog. The spam then wipes /vg/ clean, followed by /v/, [http://i.imgur.com/MFwAz3K.jpg where just eight threads survive.]
* July 12 - A site-wide message linking to battleforthenet.com is displayed in thread reply mode. This day was dedicated across the internet to shill Net Neutrality.
* July 13 - 4chan scrambles to achieve a 1500000000000.jpg GET as the Unix time passes 1.5 billion seconds at 2:40am GMT. Nobody gets it as expected. An /a/non comes the closest, [https://archived.moe/a/thread/159745979/#159778296 posting a picture 114 milliseconds past the milestone]. Gentlemen from /g/, /qa/ and [s4s] flood to congratulate him.
* July 19 - /his/torians decides to do a bi-monthy hunger games thread featuring historical figures. Whether or not they actually do it is uncertain.
* July 20 - Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington hangs himself. /mu/ has a rolling sticky remembering the singer, although most of the sticky is filled with lines from In The End and Crawling In My Skin. Many boards visit the thread to pay tribute. /pol/ finds cause for celebration since Chester had previously declared Donald Trump a greater threat to the USA than terrorism.
* July 25 - Adobe declares the end of Adobe Flash in 2020. Havoc breaks loose in /f/ and a sticky gets made related to said announcement.
* July 31 - Hiroyuki releases an official search engine for 4chan. He announces it on /qa/ and asks anons to test it. It leaks posts from /j/ and /test/. It is disabled a few hours later and reenable at an unspecified date.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1488849/]</br>
Leaks discussion. [https://desuarchive.org/meta/thread/2432/]</br>
Disabling. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1488849/#1489991]</ref>
* August 6 - The Pickle Rick episode airs. /tv/ is impossible to use for hours as it drowned in pickleposting. "Pickle Rickers In The House Tonight" plays in the background. The cursor becomes Pickle Rick. /s4s/ gets a [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5662468 PICKLE RICKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT sticky]; the sticky has blinking Comic Sans text and an embedded video.
* August 8-17 - '''SNEED''' - /tv/ latches on to Sneedposting, referencing the wordplay gag "Sneed's Feed & Seed - Formerly Chuck's" from The Simpsons. Fa/tv/irgins gather to theorize the real meaning of the gag, discussing the history of Chuck and Sneed as well as trying to figure out why Sneed turned Chuck's Fuck & Suck into a seed-selling business. The meme takes over every non-Sneedposting Simpsons thread and soon spreads to other threads on the board.
* August 9 - [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/160930099/ The first instance] of a recurring /a/ shitpost copypasta is posted as a "legitimate" thread. ''[https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/%22even%20with%20all%20it's%20flaws%20it%20still%22/ How does /a/ do it? Even with all it's flaws it still manages to maintain a level of quality far above the other media boards and a resistance to shitty external board culture thats not present anywhere else.]''
* August 17 - Mods make a sticky for the upcoming American solar eclipse on /sci/.
* August 18 - One of the mods on /tv/ goes on a rampage and spends five hours deleting Sneedposts.
* August 19 - A Dutch /bant/er steals the 33333333 GET from /vp/ with a picture of Kagari. A butthurt mod who tried to take the GET for himself immediately bans him for a day [https://thebarchive.com/data/bant/image/1503/15/1503157131020.png] and deletes the thread before anyone can reply. [https://archive.alice.al/vp/thread/33333333/ Archive of the thread]
* August 21 - The /sci/ sticky explodes as the eclipse proceeds travelling over America.
* August 25 - The plot to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 gets leaked by the former lead writer onto the Internet. /v/ gets a sticky with a link to the leak and "It's dead, jim." written underneath it, and [https://youtu.be/iy61r3Qkm6o this song] on autoplay.
* August 30 - [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93987126/#93992248 An anon] on /co/ manages to get a subtly insulting letter printed on the fan mail section of one of Marvel's worst comics, mods sticky [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/95000647/ a thread] about it. It eventually turns into a celebration of all the things 4chan has achieved over the years, while also becoming proof that half of /co/ doesn't understand sarcasm.
* August 31 - /bant/'s 2000000 GET is fiercely contested by Cirno and a Dutch anon posting Kagari: [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2000000/#q2000000 Cirno wins], stickying the GET, leading to [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2000553/ mass butthurt] on the latter's part.
* September 15 - After failing on /jp/, a spammer decides to target the innocent /po/. The entire catalog was wiped by Mexican Easter toads and only about 12 threads survive.
* September 16 - The devs recover the archived /po/ threads. This marks the first time that threads have been restored.
* October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#123 14 years have passed since the creation of 4chan.]
* October 3 - Sakurafish poster gets banned. After consulting with the mods, the practice - and daily threads in general - is confirmed to no longer be allowed. He decides to call it quits. /a/ rages. <ref>Thread on /qa/. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1606861/]</ref>
* October 6-7 - Ylilauta raids 4chan, especially /pol/, by spamming copypasta of Marutei Tsurunen. 4chan reacts by blocking Finland from posting on all boards for almost the whole weekend.
* October 12 - New Anti-spam measure implemented on some boards. MD5 hashes of some images trigger a 10 minute post cooldown when reposted on another thread. Earliest known mention.<ref>Trevor caught one. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1618458/]</br>
/co/mrade catching one. [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/96149933/]</ref>
* October 12 - Suiseiseki is revived on /bant/ after its tragic desu-worthy death on /b/ back when moot was still a faggot. LET THE DESU HELL BEGIN! [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2488686/#2488888]
* October 21 - An anon on /v/ known as 4chanleaker as his Switch name or Brainlet, finds an copy of Super Mario Odyssey and decides to leak the game. People on the thread think he's lying, but then he streams the intro and posts screenshots and the show begins. Brainlet keeps streaming for hours while anons laugh out the game for being too empty and bland. 
* October 21 - ''NeoGAF Incident'' - On NeoGAF a huge drama takes loose where the owner of the site has been accused of sexual assault against a woman. Users get banned, staff members step down (and get banned as well) and the owner has plans to shut the website down. Neogaf's server crashes at least 3 times. As usual threads pop out on /v/ to laugh at the situation. However, threads start getting deleted and soon a sticky appears with the message ''“The NeoGAF scandal and/or bitching about social justice garbage is NOT VIDEO GAMES. Threads posted about it will be deleted and the posters warned or banned. If you want to talk about it go to /pol/. If you want to stay on /v/, then talk about VIDEO GAMES.”'' with a picture of moot with a quote ''"It has the most basic fucking rules: Talk about video games!"''.<ref>
/v/ Sticky. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/394206347/#394206347]</br>
Oneangrygamer article. [https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/10/4chan-v-bans-discussion-neogaf-sexual-misconduct-scandal/42448/]
</ref> Drama ensues, /v/ instantly rebels and heads to the #4chan IRC, somehow resulting in /v/irgins obsessing over moderator BEAM, coming to believe they are a female single mother and accusing them of being ''from NeoGAF''. NeoGAF threads start getting redirected to /pol/ causing an outrage bandwagon. On /pol/ the idea of messaging Hiroyuki directly is floated around, and on /v/ what is essentially a joint /pol/-/v/ raid happens starring the John Morris "He does it for free" meme. The event would result in half of the United Kingdom and parts of Canada to get temporarily ISP banned. 
* October 21 - /a/ gets a new rule, low-effort, catchphrase and template threads are now banned. Statements from various mods on IRC confirm that generals are allowed again, they just should follow the new rule.
* October 23 - Hiro read the news and visits /qa/, unaware that the topic was banned on /v/. After a brief exchange in one thread, he asks the mods to allow it back... on the /qa/ thread itself for some reason.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1641685/#1642260]</ref> A series of stickies appear on /v/ with the first one unlocked resulting hundreds of posts mocking the mods. According to the stickies, NeoGAF discussion is to be held on a single thread. After this little episode, hiro says on a /qa/ thread ''"I'm trying to make the condition clear to talk about NeoGAF on /v/ with mods."'' <ref>
Stickies. First. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/394406861/] - Second. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/394408020/#394408020] - Third. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/394450575/#394450575]</br>
Hiro saying he will solve the problem soon. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1643864/#1643965]</br>
</ref> Hours later, without any explanation, /qa/ becomes a listed board. The board HTML is changed, with an off-topic section reading ''[r9k / s4s / vip / qa]''. Part of the reason seems to be to curtail the constant ''"Hiro-approved meta thread"'' spam and formalize Hiro's insistence on using /qa/ as meta, but the true reason is likely an affable excuse to move ''secondary'' threads akin to NeoGAF's. Everybody groans. [s4s] mourns the loss of their brackets and their status as the only board on the off-topic section.<ref>Announement blob. [https://archive.today/fc1Kr] [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171502/https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1508/81/1508819394828.png] </br>
Tracking history commit. [https://github.com/floens/ChanTracking/commit/97f63c3bf6ffaf87657d75b2435ce32b008ceea0]</br>
Top page board list. Before [https://archive.today/aplpb] - After. [https://archive.today/GbxLX] </ref>
* October 24 - Hours later, after struggling for a bit, Hiro makes a locked "welcome to /qa/" sticky saying that other than meta topics the board has "no specific theme". Mods ban honking on penalty of fine.<ref>
First. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1644065/]</br>
Second. Not locked. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654853/]</br>
Third. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/] - [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171106/https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/]</br>
Web Archive. [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171223/https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/subject/welcome%20to%20%2Fqa%2F/type/sticky/]</br>
NO HONKING. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/#q1657444]</ref>.
* October 26 - A mod adds a post to the /qa/ sticky indicating how to contact them with appeals, technical problems or urgent issues on IRC, using an anon-made infopic.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/#q1664491]</ref>
* October 27 - Catalonia declares independence (and fails), resulting in a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/146841910/ /pol/ sticky]. The Catalonian flag is added as a troll flag on /pol/.
* October 30 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again. In addition, pass users can also type "tricks" into the options field which attaches a pumpkin to the name field that tracks how many replies they've gotten.
* October 31 - /pol/ raids real life by putting up pieces of paper that say "It's okay to be white" in a calm, black font, in response to a police investigation at Boston College over "Don't apologize for being white" signs being placed on their campus. Aiming to prove that the media and the snowflakes will turn the harmless posters into a major shitstorm and out themselves as racists, /pol/ succeeds as usual. Posters are ripped off, school principals explicitly state that the message is hateful, the media shits bricks and /pol/'s point is proven. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT6xWWUgk3TYzwo4XOrRxsEpVeTxHT2vDpfcGs29YGY31jAN7iAB8RjEsoarOXg1EYNUMKZzbvd0flz/pubhtml Collection of media and snowflake butthurt,] as well as a [https://ghostbin.com/paste/3g6ks Ghostbin].
* November 1 - The [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147433975/#147433975 first Q post] happens, without a trip, and a shit ton of schizos buy into it despite previous larps of similar nature not biting. This would later culminate in the accidental degeneration of boomer's brains all across the USA. On /qa/, a thread about ccd0's planned advertising of altchans on 4chanX gets a surprising visit by Hiroyuki, where he conforms posters over the switch and refuses to implement a 4chan-made CAPTCHA, arguing it will increase server costs.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1681938]</ref>
* November 4 - ''Winter Ball 2017 Fail'' - Board-tan fans learn on November that mods are suppressing Winter Ball threads by sending them to /trash/, and those that aren't fail to get traction with content creators. With the /qa/ Board-tans general lost months ago, organization is effectively gone. Anons try to organize a hub on /qa/ but it sadly putters out, with a few illustrations as compensation. Site-wide, there's little activity outside /bant/ and /qst/. This arguably marks the end of board-tans as general 4chan culture.<ref>
Early threads. /co/ [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/96288364/] - /qa/ [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1628633/]</br>
Mentions. [https://archived.moe/_/search/text/%22winter%20ball%22/start/2017-09-01/end/2018-01-01/order/asc/page/1/]</br>
/qa/ hub threads. Ex. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1689804/] - Ex. 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1705637/]
</ref> 
* November 19 - /bant/ is on suicide watch after a thread moved from /pol/ gets >>2999999 & >>3000000. many users call for /bant/ to no longer be /pol/'s trashcan.
* December 13 - /v/ gets it's 400 millionth post. [https://archived.moe/v/thread/399999018/#400000000 It declares Saika Totsuka to be best girl (boy).] /v/ experiences full-blown butthurt.
* December 18 - /g/ discovers something major. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/63894609 Three shady new domains, two of which were registered earlier in the month and one of which isn't registered, now show up in ad-blocking extensions.] Two of the domains belong to a suspicious Ukrainian company, and filtering out the domains ruins 4chan's CSS. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1794456 Later investigation of the malware-ridden advertisements] shows that the Ukrainian domains host a variant of the Nemucod ransomware. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/63922522 Word is passed around that Hiro was hired by MGID] to put these ads on 4chan, and that the payload added to 4chan is being used to data-mine or mine crypto.k
* December 20 - Hiro (presumably) blocks Desuarchive's IP address from both the a.4cdn.org and i.4cdn.org servers, rendering it unable to archive. [https://desuarchive.org/desu/thread/2700/ rbt.asia and yuki.la also appear to be showing similar issues.]
* December 24 - [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/166165240/#166165240 /a/'s collabarative redraw of the Daicon IV OP is finished.] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93bj1HARA4 video]]
* December 29 - William Shatner makes a post on /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/92355705/]
* December 30 - [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/83655045/#83658861 A swede on /int/ posts the original soyjak,] destroying all online discourse for years to come. Among politicians and (possibly norwegian) academics this event is considered a swedish fail, however among 'jakkers of all nations this is considered the greatest swedish win in history. This is still a hotly contested political debate.

===2018===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2017 | ◄]] [[#2019 | ►]]
* January 1 - '''End of the Q Saga''' - The Q poster, now going with the tripcode "ITPb.qbhqo" (using #Matlock), [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/155169876/#155173632 drops his LARP] and confuses the fuck out of the schizophrenics obsessing over him. This possibly occuring due to an imitator becoming active on 8chan. He declares his favorite 2hu to be Fujiwara no Mokou and [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/155175394/#155175394 makes one last thread] where he freely gives out the trip. What continued on 8chan would later mindbreak every other boomer in the USA, turning this into technically one of the largest trolls ever performed.
* January 5 - Janitor applications open for the next 48 hours.
* January 16 - A new sticky with an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQdugNM-0M embedded video] appears on /bant/.
* January 22 - Image posting is broken site-wide for over 18 hours. The blame is put on Cloudflare although no one really knows what's up. Anonymous is converting images to braille characters [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/167454731/ (example)] and swaglord embeds a few images [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/93602516/#93603384 here and there]. Since threads rarely prune, this allows different boards to compete for who can have the most posts in one thread before they die.
* January 23 - 4chan disables Legacy Captcha support, forcing all users to use Google's broken garbage Captcha for every post from now on. Users are not pleased. Anon [https://archive.today/BgALo starts] a [https://files.catbox.moe/0js2s2.jpg wildfire] in Mexico. It gets on the [http://www.criteriohidalgo.com/noticias/hidalgo/fuerte-incendio-consume-hectareas-la-mexico-laredo news]! 
* January 29 - Hiro does an exquisite šhïtpõśt on [https://archive.today/FsDLi /v/].
* January 31 - Hiro asks how one knows another's a newfag.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1881247/#1883009] - archive.today [http://archive.today/VphZ3]</ref>
* February 1 - Bitcoin begins to crash, hard. swaglord shitposts about it on [http://archive.today/ZzV2P /biz/], cryptocentral in case you didn't know. /biz/ Goes on full suicide watch mode, resulting in spams of red angry faced wojaks usually screaming or reciting sad/angry lyrics from various songs, such as LinkinPark, Guns N, Roses, and Nirvana. 
* February 4 - Ekureiru goes to Gensokyo. He was a good lad.
* February 8 - Reminiscent of [https://archive.today/3thkj a year ago] Hiro gets [https://archive.today/kj2eG another ad] placed on the 404 page, tying into some video game called [https://global.grandsummoners.com/?page=4chan Grand Summoners]. It advertises "paper 4chan money" for people with a pass.
* February 15/16 - Some kid shoots up a school in Florida. The [https://archive.today/V0EDa mainstream media], eager for anything to spice up their story, come to 4chan. Since everything posted is of course true and factual, they are immediately pumped full of misinformation and made a gigantic national laughing stock by /pol/. [https://i.imgur.com/4lHJWaj.jpg Picture.] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/160593952/#160594607 4Plebs.] [https://archive.today/awZFg Archive.]
* February 20 - 2hu fags at /jp/ celebrate the birth date of their prison as idolfags and javfags generals continue to infest the board. Hiro tells an anon that 4chan werks on his machine.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1916622/#1916939]</ref>
* February 25 - Hiro kills a bit of time posting on /qa/. <ref>Post. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1923554/#1927099] - 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1927068/#1927101]</ref>
* February 27 - After many years of its absence, Harmony Day makes a triumphant return to /v/. A [https://archived.moe/v/thread/408214404/ sticky] with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MC0G-Lbuuk autoplayed music] and a gif of rainbow Yaranaika are posted. Happiness and joy abound for the few hours it's up.
* March 3 - Billy Herrington, Aniki, dies. Threads and stickies are made on many boards, [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/18528505#p18528505 /jp/], [https://archived.moe/v/thread/408619304/#408619304 /v/], [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/169274269/#169274269 /a/], even [https://archive.today/eaktu /pol/]. Hiro posts in /jp/'s sticky and makes a site-wide announcement about it. 4chan and Futaba mourn his death.
* March 14 - Stephen Hawking dies. Hiro makes a site-wide announcement, "RIP Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 🙏". [https://find.4chan.org/ The search engine] is back without any official announcement. An /r9k/ user streams himself committing suicide via shotgun on YouTube, shortly after holding up a sign that said "Bye R9K".
* March 15 - /a/, /b/, /v/ and /vg/ are frozen for over 14 hours. A lot of users flee to /qa/ as a substitute for their own boards making it the second fastest board on the site for a while.
* March 16 - The freeze continues and eventually even /pol/, /qa/ and other boards are frozen. An hour later the site works again. Hiro later posts on /qa/ about it. The outage lasted this long because [https://twitter.com/4chan/status/974576454787776512 Hiro was sleeping].<ref>Hiro posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1979954/#1979957]</ref>
* March 19 - Several anons from /tv/, /v/, and /co/ edit and revision the wiki of Ready Player One multiple times before the wiki users removed said revisions.
* April 1 - 4chan's April Fools joke this year randomly assigns you to 1 of 5 teams based on the sum of your last two IP octets modulo 5. The teams are Team Creme, Team Mini, Team Peep, Team Peanut Butter, and Team Chocolate. A bar graph of each team's 'score' is shown in the announcement. It is not clear how this score is influenced, these scores are most likely predetermined and updated at regular intervals. The confused panic that resulted rendered most big boards almost completely unusable. In the end, Team Peanut Butter won and the winners got rickrolled.
* April 2 - Many reported sadness due to the fact they'll never see their queens again.
* April 4 - First known post of a robot claiming to be blackmailed by a user known as Reiko. This is the start of a trend pertaining to trap "harems" in related discord servers, but information on whether blackmailing and such is actually prevalent is still unknown.
* April 13 - Many boards have been frozen for over 7 hours. Reason unknown so far.
* April 15 - Actor Ronald Lee Ermey passes away due to complications related to pneumonia. An site-wide announcement gets made with the text: "R.I.P. Ronald Lee Ermey." Mods sticky [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/4789876/ another embedded video] on /bant/.
* April 20 - Mods finally crack down on soyposting and add wordfilters. "soy" is now filtered to "onions", and any word with "soy" in it will turn it into "based" (e.g. soyboy becomes basedboy). As of April 29, /ck/ does not seem to have these filters. Later during the day, /co/ joins the big guys club with its [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/99986250/#100000000 100M GET]. Swedish musician Avicii dies at the young age of 28, [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/79536153 resulting in a sticky on /mu/.]
* April 24 - Many boards are frozen yet again for an unknown reason. After around 8 hours 4chan works again.
* April 25 - Yet again many boards are frozen for unknown reason.
* April 28 - The oekaki is added to /vip/.
* April 29 - Image uploading stops working site-wide, intermittently. An option to start threads with no picture is added on all boards except /f/{{cite}}. A thread is stickied on /qa/ saying [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2061327/#2061327 "this is a text board now."] Later in the day, image posting worked again, but the option to start a thread without an image remained as the developers worked on applying a "more permanent fix."
* April 30 - Image posting still worked, but it's still being touched up in the background. The option to start a new thread without an image has now been removed from all boards except for /a/, /b/, /v/, /vg/, and /pol/. A short time later, the aforementioned boards caught up.
* May 11 - Mods officially [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/6680508 endorse Merulaposting].
* May 15 - Hiro fails to post with his name and leaves a thread in shame. An website for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gets made with the game name and an possible hint or date. Because of this, an sticky gets made on /v/ and quickly goes past the 1000 post mark.<ref>Hiro Posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2086267/#2086289]</ref>
* May 19 - Anon complains that everyone on 4chan is always angry and it wasn't like this. Hiro posts and says that there's more sad people on the Internet thesedays. And he screws up his nametag again.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2092422/]</ref>
* May 29-30 - [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/35690955/ Screenshots appear on /vp/] of what seems to be the 1997  Spaceworld demo of Pokemon Gold.
* May 31 - Some based Anon [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/35736202/#35737816 drops the full ROM] of the Pokemon Gold Spaceworld demo, which contains a whole bunch of unreleased content including scrapped Pokemon. This is the first thing released from wack0's hack of Nintendo, the rest of which surfaced in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nintendo_data_leak 2020 "Nintendo Gigaleak"]. Happenings are summarized [https://archive.today/FR0jG here].
* June 2 - Loss was posted 10 years ago. /v/ gets a [https://archived.moe/v/thread/418383831/ sticky.]
* June 4 - Site dies A G A I N
* June 8 - Hiro announces a fixed search function, and makes a new test thread.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2123643/]</ref>
* June 12 - E3 2018 begins. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is shown off, and /v/ goes crazy. /v/ gets a sticky after Ridley is announced for the game.
* June 18 - /tv/ reaches 100,000,000 posts. The [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/99999999/ 99999999 GET] being a confused Sneed sign thread, and the [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/99997359/#100000000 100000000 GET] being a comment saying "why can't we just talk about movies". Perhaps the most board defining GETs imaginable.
* July 8 - An anon on /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/423541124/ makes a thread] about Recycle City, an HTML game for kids made by the Environmental Protection Agency that uses the underground theme from Yoshi's Island DS. Anons partake in lulz as they flood the leaderboard with funny names; they quickly discover how poorly secured it is and edit its code to give themselves impossibly high and low scores. After they have their fun and the thread dies, the game's music is changed to some chiptune and the leaderboard is cleared.
* July 18 - Hiroyuki tells /qa/ his favourite anime is Gurren Lagan<small>And Kill La Kill is coomer shit</small> then exchanges memes with the #qa mafia.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2194767/]</ref>
* August 2 - '''4chan VTuber Competition''' - Hiroyuki suggests making a official 4chan VTuber. The idea picks up fast and it turns into an official VTuber design contest, inviting everyone to submit their design so that pass holders may vote on them. The winner gets a lifetime 4chan pass award. /qa/ gets a Hiroyuki sticky announcing the start of a VTuber design competition, encouraging anons to post their designs so that pass users may vote on them after Sep. 30. There the elusive ## Manager also known as RapeApe announces team4chan is setting up a voting page that should be ready tomorrow. The first thread gets 1207 replies, the sticky gets 1327 and is force archived the manager.<ref>Initial threads. First. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2218443/]</br>
Second. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2219558/]</br>
</ref>
* August 3 - 15:00 UTC - A rolling sticky for discussing the contest is created by the ## Manager and Hiroyuki keeps answering anon's questions. The sticky gets over 5000 posts and dies on Nov. 23.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2222886/] - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/chunk/2222886/]</ref> A few hours later the announcement page gets updated with the test "4chan Virtual YouTuber Contest - [https://www.4chan.org/banner-contest Submit Designs Here]", where the voting phase is declared to be between Oct. 1 and Oct. 8.<ref>/pol/ frontpage on August 3 20:00 UTC, not announcement yet. [https://archive.today/OsUXF]</br>Front page on August 7. [https://archive.today/YMGqO]</br> Banner Contest Page. [https://archive.today/Cx4Kd]</ref>
* August 6 - The report function now lists a drop-down menu which allows reporters to specify what rule a user broke, rather than a single checkbox to indicate a broken rule.
* August 21 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson (Robbie Rotten) dies. /tv/ gets a sticky.
* September 7 - Terry Davis is confirmed to be dead. /g/ gets a sticky in his memorial and his picture is added to the regular /g/ sticky.
* September 9 - /bant/ celebrates Cirno Day, which is canonized as an official board holiday via sticky.
* September 18 to 19 - PD, a prominent /bant/ namefriend known for entering private property and posting photos of his antics on /bant/, is snitched on by 'Normie' after vandalising an art gallery. Gets a visit from the sheriff, and teases the possibility of going to jail. [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/6467696/ Initial Thread] [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/6475915/ Follow-up] 
* October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 15th birthday. Voting for the 4chan Vtuber opens, a grand total of 153 designs compete for votes. The announcements section is changed to "4chan Virtual YouTuber Contest - [https://www.4chan.org/banner-contest/all Voting now open] for [https://www.4chan.org/pass 4chan Pass] users!".<ref>Voting round one. [https://archive.today/e5Yv9]</ref> By midnight, the site crashes for reasons unknown and remains unusable to the masses for a span of roughly 15 hours.<ref>/pol/ frontpage on Oct. 1 [http://archive.today/RVdiE#selection-1021.0-1032.0]</ref>
* October 6 - The autosage on "cute boys", set over a decade ago, is removed.<ref>Thread testing. [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/2349102/#2349131]</br>
Evidence of autosage. [https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/_/text/cute%20boys%20autosage/order/asc/]</ref>
* October 8 - Nine years after first promising to do it, Jason Scott [https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1049369826190352389 finally releases a huge archive] containing all 4chan posts from 2006 to 2008. No images though; only text. In it, [https://old.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/9mkms3/hi_this_should_be_the_first_iteration_of_the/ a redditor finds] the first ever SCP Foundation post.
* October 8 - Unexpectedly, the VTuber voting phase was merely round one. Voting closes for a while and is reopened with the 20 most voted designs, scheduled to close on Oct. 15. The announcements section changes to "4chan Virtual YouTuber Contest Final Round - [https://www.4chan.org/pass 4chan Pass] users can now vote on one of the [https://www.4chan.org/banner-contest/all top 20 entries!]".<ref>
/pol/ frontpage on Oct. 9. [https://archive.today/Yikax]</br>
Voting page, round two. [https://archive.today/MiXQY]</br>
</ref>
* October 10 - /pol/s [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/188888888/ 188888888 GET] is shit.
* October 14 - /wsg/s obession with TikTok and a girl (boy) called Bonbibonkers eventually leads them into [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKMLdXDlEI conflict with a group of Russians from 2ch's /fag/ board]. At some point people started trying to dox Bonbibonkers and inadvertedly ressurected Ricardo Milos and DotA (by basshunter) into one meme. In the end, Bonbibonkers had to leave TikTok and the internet in general. It was for the better. 
* October 15 - The VTuber contest ends. Voting closes without much fanfare and a bit of anxiety and mild implications that it's ''FUCKING RIGGED''.<ref>Anon reports the end of voting. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/chunk/2222886/#2363485]</ref>
* October 16 - 11:30 UTC - The winning VTuber design is announced! Say hello to the [https://archive.today/PStnN#125 winner]! The announcements sections is modified to include ''"The 4chan Vtuber Competition is over. Click [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php here] to see the winning entry!"'' Many anons wonder what will happen now.<ref>/qa/ frontpage Nov. 23 [https://archive.today/DuaKC]</br>
4chan News Page. [https://archive.today/PStnN#125]</ref>
* October 17 - '''VTuber Contest FAIL''' - With the new VTuber design voted, Hiroyuki makes a sticky for a where anons brainstorm what to do for a potential 4chan VTuber series, but the first thing they do is name her Clover and consider opening lines. Hiro throws around the idea of a VA contest and community scriptwriting (clearly not aware of the decade long experience most creative-minded have with the fate of community projects) inevitably the hype wears down as the magnitude of the task becomes clear. In total, the project gets 4219 replies and Hiro makes a mere 81 posts. The final thread lingers for four months before Hiroyuki confirms the project has staled on February.<ref>Threads. 1 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2369102/] - 2 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2371519/] - 3 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2374294/] - 4 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2377476/] - 5 - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2452130/] - 6 [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2452029/]</br>
Final hiro post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2452130/#2579222]</br>
</ref>
* October 24 - [https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anime-haruhi-math-mystery Someone discovers an old /sci/ post from 2011 that may have wound up solving a 25-year old mathematical problem.]
* October 30 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again.
* November 10 - Several rangebans affect 4chan, most of them image-only and exclusively on mobile data providers. Anons flood /qa/ with complaints.<ref>Posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/rangeban%2A/start/2018-11-10/order/asc/]</ref>
* November 12 - Stan Lee dies. /co/ gets a sticky in his memorial.
* November 16 - The 4chan Twitter account makes a cryptic [https://archive.today/NzhIu tweet]: "A test will run."
* November 17 - '''The Great Split''' - An announcement is made sitewide, approximately nineteen hours after the tweet: "Attention: All work safe boards are soon going to be on the 4channel.org domain. For now, all boards are accessible through either domain. Make sure to update your script blockers and whitelist the new domain." The whole of 4chan loses its collective shit. /qa/ receives a flood of shitposting related to the news, resulting in a massive spike in activity that temporarily makes /qa/ the fifth fastest board on the site. Hiro as usual waits for anon to make a thread in /qa/ before chiming in, indicate that the move was due to 4chan.org being on a blacklist from advertising, and that having a domain to host the worksafe boards would bring about advertising once more. The trolls plan to report /pol/posting on 4channel.org to advertisers in order to get the new domain blacklisted. swaglord stickies a petition on [s4s] demanding that they move to 4channel and become a blue board and avoid company with the NSFW boards.<ref>
Hiro posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2421255/#2421509]
</ref>
* November 20 - Sachiko is removed from the front page.
* November 23 - The split is completed. All SFW boards automatically redirect to 4channel and the board list at the top only shows SFW boards.
* November 27 - Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Spongebob, dies. /co/ and /tv/ get a sticky.
* December 6 - An anon on /g/ buys the domain for linux.org and proceeds to dox a tranny 
* December 12 - Posting "The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" now results in a one day autoban [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2488961/#2489091 due to an anti-Chinese copypasta containing it being spammed.] Threads are made tricking people into posting it to get them banned.
* December 19 - The JSON API gets severely rate limited, only updating every 30 seconds or so.
* December 20 - /fit/ and /g/ are unexpectedly nuked of all their threads. It turns out that apparently [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/69006085/ somebody on /g/ hijacked a janitor's account]. Both boards quickly turn into janny mockery, including numerous "JANNY ARE YOU OKAY?" song lyrics.
* November 23 - On /qa/, mods make a locked sticky directing 4chan pass having anons that can't log in towards a temporary login.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2453937/]</br>
Authentication page. [https://archive.today/pI73D]</ref>
* December 22/23 - a furfag discord organizes a [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/197521375/the-furry-posting-is-a-organised-discord-raid night raid on /Pol/]. A bunch of furry porn and lefty thread's end up on /Pol/, owner of discord is [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/197519826/lets-see-who-is-messing-with-us doxxed] and the raid cease's.
* December 24 - /wsg/ celebrates Christmas Eve as a TikTok girl (boy) called Bonbibonkers publicly returns to the internet in a spectacular Christmas miracle. The hype over this girl results in the [https://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/2563031/ largest /wsg/ thread] since the Dodger Leigh threads in 2014.
* December 26 - /mlp/ has a Christmas themed [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/33332284/#33333333 33333333 GET].

===2019===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2018 | ◄]] [[#2020 | ►]]
* January 11 - /int/ reaches 100 million posts. [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/99998559#p100000000 The GET is an Italian posting a picture of a priest.] The 99999999 GET, a much better GET, [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/99999185/#99999999 is claimed by /polska/.]
* January 16 - /pol/ reaches 200 million posts. The post ominously read [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/199996452/#200000000 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. The day will come when Jesus returns to slay the filthy kikes]. 
* January 18 - 4chan receives its 3 billionth post.
* January 22 - A plane carrying soccer team Cardiff City's record signing goes missing. [http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/90430297/#90430297 A thread is stickied on /sp/] a few hours after the news breaks.
* January 24 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/201175755 /pol/ kicks off the sequel to It's Okay To Be White.] Users print out posters of Nick Sandmann (kid with a MAGA hat who stood and smiled at a Native American and got death threats from journalists and celebrities, even though the full footage released later shows that Sandmann did basically nothing) with the caption "Stand Your Ground" and post them up on campuses. As expected, journalists flip their shit in their articles and shills flip their shit trying to shut the threads down.
* January 28 - A new [https://powerad.ai/customScripts/4channel.js script] was added to 4channel, documented first on [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/90551436/#90552099 /sp/]. It apparently tracks what you view and click on with more precision and attempts to connect what you do with your real world person via google and amazon data.
* January 30-31 - /tv/ is raided by a Zootopia-spamming furry. The threads are mainly just pictures of Nick (and some Judy) without a comment, but as the raid continues, a comment is added: [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/109260664/ "Steven universe nor does The Sneedsons belong on /tv/".] Later, the picture is a generic furry dog with the comment "im bored", then it's Nick again with a comment calling /tv/ "too based to be raided" and promising to raid /mu/ later.
* January 31 - The day of unJUSTing: [https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ct-superior-court/1662208.html actor Brendan Fraser pays his final monthly alimony to his wife,] freeing him from ten years of his shit getting fucked up. /tv/ celebrates his redemption.
* February 1 - Hiro stickies a thread on /qa/ asking users to test a new subdomain designed for mobile browsing, p4.4chan.org, with a custom UI. Beta testers are required to register an email AND a 4chan Pass to post. The sticky gets large with 3023 replies, and some testing does get done, but not much. Hiro leaves without any closing statement and says he will do as an anon requested and unlist /qa/.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2579226/]</ref>
* February 2 - The new oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, a Reibear thread on /i/, [https://archiveofsins.com/i/thread/421349 dies peacefully after 1668 days.]
* February 9 - Mod calls out a troll thread about fake transphobia bans then moves it /qa/.<ref>Thread. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/202613173/]</ref>
* February 22 - /tv/ decides to fuck with Drake Bell again during a Twitch stream of him at a fan meetup. He becomes visibly upset, types out a bunch of insults, and cancels the stream prematurely after witnessing the sheer autistic faggotry from the chatroom. [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/385156348## Stream and comments can currently be found here, highlight is in the last few minutes.] 
* February 25 - The image limit on /vg/ is increased from 250 to 375.
* February 27 - /v/ is once again filled with [https://archived.moe/v/thread/452671878 HARMONY and LOVE.]
* March 14 - A /pol/tard Aussie named Brenton Tarrant posts his manifesto on Facebook, Twitter, and 8chan and streams himself shooting up a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on Facebook. During the stream, he says “Subscribe to PewDiePie” and plays Serbia Strong and Gas Gas Gas. His manifesto contains further meme references such as the Navy Seal Copypasta (which Australian media fell for) and reveals his plan to stoke a larger divide beteeen the left and right. Fifty people are killed. The 17 minute footage of the stream is shared across 4chan, 8chan, and Liveleak, resulting in three New Zealand ISPs blocking the sites. Blue checkmarks stand on the bodies to renew their “shut down 4chan” narrative, even though 4chan technically has nothing to do with the shooter. PewDiePie is also dragged through the mud by the media. Calls to delete /pol/ ramp up again, although this will still never happen. [s4s] “officially” declares that they don’t want anything to do with /pol/ and cut ties with them.
* March 16 - Google announces "Stadia" at GDC 2019; [https://archived.moe/v/thread/455069671 /v/ gets a sticky.]
* March 17 - Dick Dale dies at age 81; [https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/86549199 /mu/ gets a sticky.]
* March 18-19 - Multiple New Zealand and Australian ISPs begin blocking 4chan, 8chan, Kiwi Farms, Liveleak, Zerohedge, archive.is, archive.fo, Gab, Voat, xyzchan, and many others, depriving shitposters their right to sick bantz. The ISPs claim that these are temporary blocks and that websites which take action and remove the Christchurch footage will be removed from the block. Some only block at the DNS level, leading to easy workarounds by changing DNS to OpenDNS or Google DNS. Other ISPs block at the IP level, leading to Tor and VPN usage.
* March 19 - [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/7699999/[Russian brony gets the 7699999 on /bant/]], dethroning the current queen (Cirno) and replacing her with a humanized Starlight Glimmer.
* March 31 - Australian ISPs unblock all websites, including 4chan and 8chan. The Aussie shitposters return. [https://archive.today/bUIdf A 22222222 GET on /trash/ gets stickied.]
* April 1 - April Fools' Day returns. A like system is added to posting. Users earn points by liking posts, receiving likes, or making posts. Unlockable perks include the use of fortune, dice rolls, adding an emoji tag, hats, the /fit/ T-rex, and spooky skeletons. Some lament the low-effort attempt while most others rush to shitpost their way to the top. /mlp/ gets [https://archive.today/knpI2 two] [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/33679515 stickies], [https://archive.today/5Kn6e /vp/ gets one sticky], [https://archive.today/p8DY1 /s4s/ gets one sticky], [http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/91810533 /sp/ gets one sticky], [https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/86839201 /mu/ gets one sticky] & [https://archive.today/WDoBf /v/ gets one sticky and a VGM playlist in the background]. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2669430 All NSFW boards have had broken catalogs since the day prior;] /f/ loses its embed function on the same day.
* April 2 - [https://archive.today/AjUAH /mlp/ gets a sticky] announcing the lift of some former board-specific bans, with the exception of rp/fetish threads and Anonfilly, Milky Way, and tulpa threads.
* April 6 - [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/33705498 /mlp/ gets a sticky] for discussion of the opening two episodes of Season 9. Stickies for further episodes continue to happen.
* April 8 - Popular Vocaloid producer wowaka passes away at the age of 31 due to an acute heart failure. [https://archive.today/F3m5s /jp/ gets a sticky in his memorial.]
* April 15 - Both [https://archive.today/5l7PC /tv/] and [https://archive.today/Uj3zY /co/] get stickies reminding anons to always use spoiler tags. Gene Wolfe is confirmed dead; [https://archive.today/mHlxL /lit/ gets a sticky.] The Notre Dame burns down; [https://archive.today/wOVsi /pol/ gets a sticky.]
* April 16 - Monkey Punch dies at age 81. [https://archive.today/rAvBD /a/ gets a sticky] in his memorial and Sandra Hohn's "I Miss You Babe (Yes, I Do)" playing in the background. A Smash Brothers Ultimate 3.0.0 trailer appears without a direct; [https://archive.today/Tn6TO /v/ gets a sticky.]
* April 18 - The redacted version of the Mueller report is was released to the public. [https://archive.today/VXiwK /pol/ gets a sticky.]
* April 19 - Koike Kazuo passes away on the 17th; [https://archive.today/8jSEO /a/ gets a sticky.]
* April 21 - ccd0 pushes changes to 4chanX to change the title of /qa/ to ''"/qa/ - 2D/Random"''.<ref>Github Commit. [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/commit/5e663fb5b931916087e11c81653a5f0529127f75]</ref>
* May 2 - A meme of Lily from Zombieland Saga holding up and gun and saying "shut the fuck up terf" is held up in british parlament by MP Joanna Cherry. [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/12392214 /lgbt/ gets a sticky] with the audio from [https://streamable.com/89dbci this video] embedded in the background.
* May 5 - Cinco de Mayo; [https://archive.today/Fw3ch /a/ gets a Cinco de Maho sticky] with [https://www.youtube.com/embed/wztuzAkF0hw?version=3&autoplay=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&playlist=wztuzAkF0hw Himeko's Maho Song] playing in the background.
* May 6 - Raphiposter gets the legendary "Kot" ID on /bant/. Frogposting slows down as a result. [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/7976914/]
* May 9-10 - Popular gaming YouTuber ProJared [https://archive.today/IaSWs cheated on his wife and sent NSFW photos to underage fans]; /v/ was spammed with threads about the incident and they were all quickly banned on sight, and a mod even [https://archive.today/jl9gF stickied] a thread saying, "An e-celeb cheating on his wife is not video games. Take it to /b/." And so they did, not only crossboarding to /b/ but /v/tards fled to /qa/ as well and started to mention the fact that viral marketing threads, constant "home" and vtmb threads, 10+ Smash """"""leak""""" threads at once, twitter screencap threads, /pol/ bait threads, Dunkey/Jontron/literalwho e-celeb threads were are allowed to stay up, but this one event specifically got banned from /v/ entirely without a second thought. On May 10th, Jared had officially lost over 100,000 subscribers. Moralfags from twitter spam clown pepe memes and wojacks on all of his social media. [https://archive.today/qguVl An 8000000 GET gets stickied on /bant/]
* May 14 - [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/105567419 A Eurovision Song Contest 2019 thread is stickied on /int/].
* May 15 - YTMND is shut down; [https://archive.today/yDkhh /f/ gets a sticky in memorial]. Italy decided to air the next month of MLP:FiM ahead of schedule; [https://archive.today/V1hg9 /mlp/ gets a sticky]
* May 16 - Joshua Schubart (who plays Frank on the series The Tick) pops in on [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/107606269 /co/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/114875021 /tv/] after doing a Reddit AMA. It goes well on /co/ and [https://twitter.com/Josh_Schubart/status/1128900575016443904 about as you expect on /tv/]. Both threads later get deleted, probably because he was advertising the show
* May 17 - Earliest known soyduel happens on /qa/.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2744415/#2744440]</ref>
* May 20 - [https://archive.today/cNtXH /tv/ gets a sticky] for the Game of Thrones finale
* May 24 - Theresa May confirms resignation; [https://archive.today/fhApW /pol/ gets a sticky].
* May 29 - All boards except /pol/, /v/, /vg/, /a/, and /b/ were frozen. sys.4chan.org and sys.4channel.org were also broken.
* June 6 - Pokémon Direct 6.5.2019 starts; [https://archive.today/gxH0Y /vp/ gets a discussion sticky]
* June 8 - /v/ gets two stickies; [https://archive.today/4qFyV one for The EA Play e3 Press Conference] [https://archive.today/6vZAj and another one for the Nintendo 2019 World Championship Tournaments].
* June 9 - Microsoft E3 Briefing starts; [https://archive.today/WI8NN /v/ gets a sticky]
* June 10 - /v/ gets two stickies; [https://archive.today/Ifsvg one for the PC Gaming Show at e3] [https://archive.today/gxbmc and another for the Ubisoft e3 Conference]
* June 11 - /v/ gets two stickies; [https://archive.today/ltqUX one for the Nintendo e3 direct] [https://archive.today/zkK8k and another for discussion of Banjo-Kazooie getting confirmed for Smash]. [https://archive.today/7B6HA /vp/ gets a sticky] for Sword/Shield discussion
* June 18 - On /pol/, a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/216617834/#216617834 thread] [[http://archive.today/Fe7N3 Archive]] is posted that confirms that the FBI does browse 4chan (and 8chan) and posts. It appears they have a rather base understanding of the lingo and thus the glownigger phenomenon became reality. It comes with court documents. [https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.626722/gov.uscourts.casd.626722.1.0.pdf Direct Link], [http://archive.today/Xb3Ei Archive].
* June 20 - '''/tv/'s Great Soyjak Raid''' - The first ever soyjak raid. A24's meteoric rise in popularity ticks /tv/ in a contrarian way. Anons have been shitting on the upcoming ''The Lighthouse'' film for months already. A pair of schizos posting the gigachad and soyjak of /int/ fame who proceeds to enact nonstop raep on /tv/ for the entirety of July, August and a bunch of September, causing a domino effect of shitposting that wipes the board several times.<ref>Thread sample of the raid. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/text/%22slow%20burn%22/type/op/start/2019-06-20/end/2019-08-17/order/asc/]</ref>
* June 20-21 - 4chan goes down. People flood to 8chan to wait it out. /pol/ theorizes that this is because Iran shot down a US drone. On the day before the release of the Netflix NGE dub, /a/ had 1-3 discussion threads an hour discussing the dub and the impact it's going to have on /a/ for the next couple of weeks. At 3AM EST the dub is released and [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/189620606/ threads dedicated to the dub immediately start getting submitted]. Shinji's VA in the new dub [https://archive.today/hiRvo is a tranny], Fly Me To The Moon is removed and certain iconic lines are replaced, which causes every evafag on /a/ to go apeshit. Mods are already prepared and delete 10-20 Eva Netflix meta threads at a time. 
* June 23 - In another move to benefit the #qa mafia, ccd0 pushes changes to 4chanX to dissuade posters from posting on their meta threads that got moved to /qa/. Text reads ''Moving a thread to /qa/ does not imply the mods will read it. If you wish to contact mods, use feedback or IRC.'' linking to the feedback page and a self-hosted IRC. <ref>
Github Commit. [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/commit/086175a668d55d6b01d6308f5ba5e4983318924d]</br>
Text. [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1561/66/1561668840206.png]</br>
IRC page. [https://www.4chan-x.net/4chan-irc.html]</br>
</ref>
* June 25 - YouTube e-celeb Desmond "Etika" Amofah is confirmed dead by the NYPD, after going missing on the previous Wednesday and his presumed body being recovered from the East River the day before. Etika, known to have had mental health issues, had scheduled an eight-minute suicide note to be uploaded at midnight on June 19, titled "I'm Sorry" (apologizing for his manipulative behavior and never getting help). [https://archive.today/BSY8L /v/ gets a sticky.] Anti e-celeb anons complain about how mods stickied e-celeb drama since ProJared drama wasn't stickied because the mods said e-celeb drama isnt video games. 
* June 26 - Mods sneakily revamp the rules page and change details of Global Rules 3 and 6, switching from a blanket ban on furry content to a specific ban on furry porn, and providing examples of bannable phrasing.<ref>
Anons on /qa/ find the change. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2816565/#2817743]</br>
Rules page on April 2019. [https://archive.today/b5G5d]</br>
Rules page on December 2019. [https://archive.today/V4snn]</ref>
* July 2 - Cloudflare dies for an hour; 4chan and many of its spinoffs can't be accessed.
* July 6 - The creators of "Race with Ryan", a Mario Kart ripoff based off of the YouTube channel Ryan ToysReview, [https://archived.moe/v/thread/469450932 tried to promote their game on /v/]
* July 9 - 117777777 GET on /tv/. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/117777454/#117777777 The mods were a tad miffed.]
* July 10 - Images refuse to enlarge on /adv/. An [https://archive.today/lHB8q unfunny raid] lead by summerfags pursues on /ck/. Rip Torn dies at age 88; [https://archive.today/6mp2n /tv/ gets a sticky]
* July 14 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/94213776 /sp/ gets a sticky] for the England vs New Zealand final of the Cricket World Cup.
* July 15-16 - [http://web.archive.org/web/20190716202258/https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Ecsty An emo twink junkie kills his slutty friend, that /r9k/ and /soc/ knew as Oxychan, and shared pictures of her bloody corpse with her discord orbiters]. Turns out the faggot emo wasn't bluffing when a story came about [https://archive.today/k3at0 17 year old girl, Bianca Devins from Albany NY, getting her throat sliced open]. The guy killed her out of jealously supposedly after a friend told him she was fucking guys behind his back and then after [https://thebarchive.com/data/b/image/1563/28/1563288787771.jpg this confrontation], they went on a five hour road trip to a Queen concert and he brutally stabbed her. [https://archive.today/9arXu /b/ goes wild] over this event and robots get feels because of pics [https://archive.today/xJlS3 like this]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190716150132/https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Main_Page ED mod sets an edited image of her corpse as Picture of the Now]. Before this incident she was an emo weeaboo that was into violence and had the personality of a typical lainfag, and often talked about her violence fetish and wanting to die. Bianca's story [https://archive.today/Jj9od becomes the featured article of July 17-18 on ED.]
* July 18 - Kyoto Animation Studio 1 is burned down by a possible train otaku who believes the studio ripped off his song and used it an episode of Hibike Euphonium. /a/ gets [https://archive.today/m3vd9 two] [https://archive.today/YQbXf stickies] covering the [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/190751690 news]. Many lament the possible death of KyoAni animation, as 33 of the staff are burned to death, including Takemoto Yasuhiro, director of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and Lucky Star. Other boards send condolences. /a/'s [https://archive.today/rypdO catalog] is filled with almost nothing but threads about the tragedy. [https://archive.today/urdRy Hiro adds a new global message]; "'''Please consider donating to help the victims of the KyoAni studio fire: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kyoani-heal'''". The second /a/ sticky soon becomes the [https://desuarchive.org/a/statistics/largest-threads/ largest thread] in /a/'s history, passing 25000 posts in just under a day. In other news, /wsg/'s file limit is increased from 4MB to 5MB.
* July 19-23 - [s4s] is about to get their 8000000 GET; [https://archive.today/s3UWj a sticky is made]. [https://archive.today/usd5j The 8000000 GET is stickied along with sixteen other threads]. The board goes along with the stunt and makes i sell threads [https://archive.today/u3SoM for three days]. Then on the 22nd, all eighteen threads are unstickied and a [https://archive.today/UZIlL new meta call-out thread for /qa/] is made.
* July 24 - Images refuse to enlarge on /c/. When trying to open them in a new tab, it would send you to a SSL error page.
* July 25 - Some autist on /tv/, probably the Moeposter, starts [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/118590654 trying] to [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/118596965 force] Maskposting [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/118597696 in] a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/118597853 desperate] attempt [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/118597943 to] defeat [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/118599797 Sneedposting.] This goes on at least a week and only makes Sneedposting stronger.
* July 25-26 - [https://archive.today/vjOOa Blue day on /s4s/]. The Netherlands cracks down on sites hosting loli/shota material; Sad Panda is hosted in the Netherlands, and is therefore forced to shut down. [https://archive.today/4DLeu They issue a 12 hour warning to download all of their shota/loli content before they get shut down.] [https://archive.today/LfdyC /h/ gets a sticky warning everyone to back up all of their favorite h-doujins.] [https://archive.today/N4twl /h/ gets 4090% activity]. Loli, shota and incest doujins are being actively removed before the shut down. Many boards band together to save their hentai, scans, comics, and other such things, or to discuss the events, such as [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/191147220 /a/], [https://desuarchive.org/aco/thread/3347468 /aco/], [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/8443298 /bant/], [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/108947013 /co/], [https://desuarchive.org/d/thread/8631222 /d/], [http://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3397413 /f/], [https://warosu.org/g/thread/72045749 /g/], [https://warosu.org/ic/thread/4035100 /ic/], [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/108930866 /int/], [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/21761060 /jp/], [https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/17647785 /m/], [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/34076122 /mlp/], [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/220712370 /pol/], [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2870187 /qa/], [https://archived.moe/t/thread/894749 /t/], [http://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/24484657 /trash/], [https://archived.moe/u/thread/2934105 /u/], [https://archived.moe/v/thread/471716210 /v/], [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/5764328 /vr/], and [https://boards.fireden.net/y/thread/2646441 /y/]. Other boards celebrate Sad Panda's death, like [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/53583048 /r9k/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/8013155 /s4s/]. After a last ditch run to save everything, the exhentai.org domain goes down on July 26th at approximately 10:12:25am Dutch time, leaving behind a Non Non Biyori ending picture. Activity on /h/ rises, peaking at 6600% at 10:43am and 67.09 posts per minute, temporarily making /h/ the fastest board on 4chan (beating /v/'s 66.48ppm). It lasts only 3 minutes before 4stats.io updates /h/ again, making it drop to 60 posts a minute. On 26th, [https://archive.today/mSR5u a /g/ anon makes a site-wide backup of Sad Panda.] The thread makes it over three times the bump limit. It is however a troll. 
* August 2 - Psyche. The Panda returns, this time hosted in Moldova, "hopefully permanently". Many /h/ residents thank [https://archiveofsins.com/h/thread/5495996/#5496208 the Moldovan Spurdo] for his help, while remaining wary and making sure to archive more content. The immediate traffic to Exhentai causes 503 errors to return. A mod posts on a [http://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/2972574#p2975266 /wsg/ thread for bigger webms thanks to the recent filesize limit increase] and ups the limit from 5MB to 6MB. /v/'s new buzzword, "cumbrain", is given a word filter on the board ("cumbrain" becomes "gamer").
* August 3 - An /mlp/ anon [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/34107526 gives Lauren Faust a letter written by the board]. The thread proceeds past the bump limit. /a/, /aco/, /co/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /i/, /ic/, /mlp/, /news/, /pol/, /r/, /s4s/, /soc/, /sp/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, /w/, /wg/ and /y/ all have their image limits increased from 250 to 300, while /qst/'s image limit is increased from 250 to 375. Two mass shooters kill a combined total of roughly 30 civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, the former of whom reportedly posted a manifesto on 8chan and claimed to approve of the shooter's actions. Like all mass shootings, politicians and the media in the USA blame 4chan and Trump, stand on the victim's dead bodies to promote gun control, and launch racist attacks against white men. Infamous commie politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets about 4chan and claims it's the place where radicalized young men go to after radicalization.
* August 4 - The SadPanda backup sticky on /h/ passes 73000 posts and officially becomes [[the largest thread]] in the history of 4chan, taking the crown from /pol/'s 2016 election sticky. Shortly afterwards, the thread is unstickied and later gets archived. Many begin to pay respects and repeat the iconic statement "through dick, unity." The thread's final post count is of uncertainty. Archived.moe gives a count of [https://archived.moe/h/statistics/largest-threads/ 73274], while Archive of Sins reports a count of [https://archiveofsins.com/h/statistics/largest-threads/ 74553].
* August 5 - Cloudflare reverses its policy and cuts off protection to 8chan, because apparently white supremacy will stop existing once 8chan dies. 8chan struggles to find an alternative and floods to 4chan for the time being. Even Hotwheels himself (the former owner) has had enough of 8chan and demands the current owner to shut the site down, stating that he's sick of dealing with calls from the media every time shit happens and that the site is a "megaphone" for shooters.
* August 7 - David Berman of Silver Jews dies, /mu/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/89393475/#q89395136 sticky] for less than an hour before being unstickied for unknown reasons.
* August 8 - /qa/'s Patron mod enacts a sweeping autosage on all threads older than 7 days. Emasculating the bumpbot and all the blogposters. The /qa/ weeb mafia loses their shit, crying crocodile tears. Soon later, a shitposter purge happens, rangebanning even innocent anime posters not part of the mafia. Board activity falls by 90% as a result of the image bumpbots no longer running.<ref>Autosage posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/autosage/start/2019-08-08/end/2019-08-09/order/asc/]</ref>
* August 10 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/222518349/ An anon on /pol/] spills information about the death of Jeffery Epstein before reporting it to any authorities or press. The post in questioned was then reviewed by the FDNY.
* August 14 - Shooting in Philadelphia; [https://archive.today/uFjbz /pol/ gets a sticky]
* August 15 - [https://archive.today/OPxAT /vg/ gets a DOTA sticky]
* August 17 - Richard Williams dies; [https://archive.today/jYT74 /co/ gets a sticky in memorial]
* August 18 - Benefiting the #qa mafia once again, ccd0 pushes changes to 4chanX to force a pop-up on /qa/ that says ''"Stay in touch with your /qa/ friends"'' linking to kissu.moe, 4taba and gnfos and the #qa IRC at sageru.org.<ref>
Github Commit. [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/commit/19deb7c065bf81d1f02e9299e5df3f8aa9c4ad5f]</br>
Links. [https://www.4chan-x.net/qa_friends.html]
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* August 22 - /qa/, now moderated, begins to receive public bans similar to /a/: [https://archive.today/GdYHF public ban]. 4chan's boards go down at approximately 12:25am and return half an hour later. Connecting to 4chan appears lethargic with repeated timeouts and Cloudflare issues for hours to come.
* August 25 - A Dutch media service called Videoland uploads the remaining episodes of MLP:FiM, including the series finale. /mlp/ goes fucking apeshit and [https://archive.today/KDAnL gets a spoiler bunker sticky.]
* August 27 - Fight between Frogposters and weebs continues on /qa/. Animeposter makes an anti frogposter thread [https://archive.today/pt8YB Mods publically unban him] 
* August 29 - Posting on 4chan is fucked. Some posts can get through, but most of the time, it returns a Connection Error. Apparently posts can go through despite the errors, according to some reports. The shittiness continues into August 30 as everybody calls Hiro a gook.
* September 4 - [https://archive.today/iKDAv /o/ gets a sticky]. [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/39900085/ /vp/] and [https://archive.today/BPgRl /v/] get Nintendo Direct discussion stickies. 
* September 4 - ccd0 escalates the conflict with the staff further. A custom html gets added to the front page by 4chanX, explaining how to avoid google captcha via paid captcha solving services, forcing noscript captcha and recommending captchaless altchans (really just kissu.moe). /qa/ makes a thread the next and it devolved into shitflinging.<ref>
Initial commits: [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/commit/175350bb3db5beda063a4d49906a60a7c20edb4b] </br>
html injection: [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/commit/f086c2ec526135163768fee2c23117b5995b5e1c] </br>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2946336]
</ref>
* September 5 - It's quickly found that he was using a referral link to these sites, pocketing some money for himself. He removes it as soon as he's called out. The #qa clique rushes in to defend him.<ref>Commit. [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/commit/626e37acac3f5ae31c200104c67ed29bf61be736#diff-3b1b782ffd960ded7bfd7174cceb6598L19897]</br>
Callout. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2946336/#2947132]</br>
</ref>
* September 5 - The new 4chan janitors arrive.
* September 9 - /jp/, /a/, /v/, /c/ and [https://archive.today/LdDmW /bant/] celebrate the 10th annual Cirno day; meanwhile on /bant/, a [https://archive.today/U2Nla cirnoposter tries to get the 99999 GET] but is off by one, and a kagposter gets the [https://archive.today/jcfRQ 99999 GET]. [https://archive.today/KkBKJ /bant/ gets a cirno sticky] and every single [https://archive.today/QaJov frogposter gets public banned]. Many call this the "Day of The Lake".
* September 13 - Mods tell a /qa/ ledditor to [http://archive.li/PdPnY get fucked]
* September 14 - Stallman defends Epstein and gets fired by FSF; [https://archive.today/GXgfh A /g/ anon suggests Nagoor Babu] be the new thumbnail for the /g/ sticky; [http://archive.li/NzIez mods fulfill his request.] [https://archive.today/8xqSo /g/ is spammed with Stallman pedo threads and discussion threads about who should be featured in the sticky.] 
* September 15 - Mods on /g/ remove the Nagoor sticky and replace it with a [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/72758574 Satania sticky], but the mod forgot to put on his nametag; once again the board goes in chaos.
* September 16 - Original Stallman /g/ sticky from December 20, 2015 is restored; [https://archive.today/mZ0nJ the Terry/Satania sticky are included in the posts below it.]
* September 17 - [https://archive.today/yWJ5p /g/ gets a RMS general sticky]. It consists of nothing but bickering for 10 hours, then it later devolves into loliposting and mods don't pay attention.
* September 22 - [https://archive.today/rTGmB /v/ votes for Samus] as the Queen of /v/ for 2019.
* September 25 - [https://archive.today/iGFos /f/ anon emails 4chan staff about the end of flash support.] 4chan devs confirm they're working on a "permanent replacement" of the original flash player so /f/ can remain on the site.
* October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#125 4chan turns 16]. The party hats are enabled on all boards as usual.
* October 3 - [https://archive.today/VqHdt /v/ decides to vote for Senator Armstrong] as the King of /v/ for 2019.
* October 9 - A German shooter mimicking Tarrant attempts to storm a synagogue. He fails miserably and becomes the laughingstock of /pol/ for multiple days. There are several hints he frequents imageboards.
* October 10 - 4chan is mentioned on [https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/anschlag-in-halle-toedlicher-judenhass-in-deutschland-sendung-vom-10-oktober-2019-100.html German TV] and other media. Just in time for its ninth anniversary /mlp/ gets a sticky after a Russian hacker once again leaks production files, resulting in a total of 434GB leaked and [https://s1.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1570/82/1570824573538.png three simultaneous rolling stickies] being up at the same time, the other two about the anniversary itself and the previous dutch leaks.
* October 12 - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's last three episodes air. [https://archive.today/ZrN0s The event is stickied on /mlp/], and /mlp/'s activity is more than 500% above normal.
* October 31 - Annual [https://archive.today/oA2Hh spooky skeletons CSS] arrives.
* November 2 - KoG scores [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/123455574/#123456789 the 123456789 GET on /tv/,] the rarest GET he's ever gotten.
* November 4 - /vp/ gets a [https://archive.today/3zZh1 sticky]
* November 13 - /pol/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/233047285 sticky]
* November 14 - /s4s/ [https://archive.today/puxYc gets] [https://archive.ph/yrics four] [https://archive.ph/kIrMI stickies]; one of the four stickies is an embed of "Space People" by Bob Orilee that autoplays
* November 18 - Half Life: Alyx is announced by Valve on [https://web.archive.org/web/20191130230318/https://twitter.com/valvesoftware/status/1196566870360387584 Twitter]; /v/ gets a [https://archive.ph/5gbOh sticky] in response.
* November 24 - Bizarrely, anamanaguchi (old indie band friends of moot) posts under a ## verified capcode. Less than a minute after a mod congratulates OP and deletes the thread.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3040199/]</ref>
* December 6 - A Western Sahara flag appears for the first time ever, posting on [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/235280862/#235287293 /pol/]. It's not known when the flag was added to 4chan, although it may have been on the same day as the Kosovo flag (circa July 12, 2019). 
*December 15 - [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/55809968 Cracky-chan "returns"] A cracy-chan look alike makes a post on /r9k/ asking how people would feel if she returned, then reveals herself as the OP. She goes on to post current pics of herself (including nudes) and reminisce about the old days. ''Fake as fuck''
* December 15 - Google's noscript reCAPTCHA is disabled by 4chan.<ref>https://archived.moe/qa/thread/3064011/#q3064011</ref>
* December 25 - Christmas hats are added.
* December 31 - /v/ [https://archive.today/lu9je stickies] International Wrestling Festival's 2019 gachimuchi collab

===2020===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2019 | ◄]] [[#2021 | ►]]
* January 12 - The soyjak Discord behind the June /tv/ raid tries to wipe the /his/ catalog.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3090759/]</ref>
* January 16 - UTF-8 Emojis are enabled and anon proceeds to spam them to hell and back, getting them disabled within the day. However, image filenames still work.<ref>emoji shitposts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3095023/]</br>
/qa/ thread about emojis. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3095058/]</br>
</ref>
* January 22 - The first [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/240319260/#240319260 coronavirus general (/cvg/)] is posted on /pol/.
* January 25-26 - swaglord has another [https://archive.today/CRsWb sticky parade] on /s4s/, and makes "respond to my funny thread" a new board meme.
* January 26 - Kobe Bryant fucking dies in a helicopter crash, likely caused by the pilot's spatial disorientation from transitioning from VFR to IFR (translation: if you fly into low visibility you'll lose your bearings). [http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/chunk/98445212/ /sp/ gets a sticky.]
* January 28 - Anon on /qa/ makes a thread saying /vr/'s board name is misleading because the board isn't related to virtual reality games. Hiro comes back from the grave (his last post being a reply to the "test p4" thread on February 2, 2019) and asks "Should we have Virtual Reality board?" Mostly everyone says no and he agrees. Most of the thread is just desperate anons suggesting dumb board ideas and someone who asks hiro to enable noscript captcha, and which he then tells them to buy a pass.<ref>
Hiro posts. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3107638/#3107649] - archive.is [https://archive.today/Ye1kp]</br>
</ref>
* February 2 - /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/494776448/ releases] Super Mario /v/orld, a collaborative ROM hack of Super Mario World inspired by 2channel's VIP hacks. The organizer attempts to submit it to Super Mario World Central, but the hack is [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/519478486/#519490765 rejected] because of its loli joke. The hack receives a very positive reception.
* February 3 - /qa/ mods embed loud nigra on the index of /qa/ for roughly two hours, then remove it. (Note: the only evidence of this happening existing is [https://archive.today/eevNv this thread], which people responded to presumably after the YT embed was removed and just thought it was another nonsense thread with an anime girl thumbnail)
* February 5 - /tv/ gets a [https://archive.today/EUuxz sticky] in honor of Kirk Douglas, who had previously been memed for living so long.
* February 11-12 - A [https://archive.today/7mpWC#selection-2429.0-2429.9 /qa/]non points out the majority of stickies on 4chan still have santa hats, which are removed the following day.
* February 19 - /v/ gets a [https://archived.moe/v/thread/496666890 sticky] for Mount & Blade II.
* February 21 - The coronavirus general on /pol/ enters its [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/244592483/#244592483 1000th iteration], just thirty days after beginning.
* February 26 - /v/ celebrates 10 years of HARMONY with [https://archive.today/1PdDG a sticky]. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the Konami Code, dies and also receives [https://archive.today/RQvur a sticky.] However, it is quite massively overshadowed by the HARMONY sticky and just barely makes it over 1000 non-deleted posts.
* February 28 - Anon finds out that you can submit events to the offical Republican Party website of New Hampshire with no filter. He reports his findings to [https://archive.today/CNJIy /pol/], which then spends the next few hours [https://archive.today/tXkw9 trashing] the [https://imgur.com/gallery/uF4ASHW website]. 
* March 6 - [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/199998848/#200000000 200M GET on /a/]
* March 9 - /tv/ gets a [https://archive.today/OnfHs sticky] in honor of Max von Sydow. [https://archive.today/HSj5H /biz/] and [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/247199076#p247199076 /pol/] get stock market stickies as an oil war and the growing coronavirus threat causes a massive dump, leading to trading being halted just five minutes after the NYSE opened for the day.
* March 17 - One of 4chan's servers goes down for a while.<ref>Post with 4chan stats. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3155633/#3158402]</ref>
* March 20 - /v/ hits the 500M GET. The post is [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/499990681/#500000000 "bats are more delicious"] in reference to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 
* March 20 - Madagascar also confirms its first coronavirus case, [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/500002987/ prompting a /v/ sticky] with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" autoplaying as a reference to the old Flash game Pandemic 2.
* March 20 - 4chan announces that in March 27 they'll switch to https protocol by default.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3155633/#3161024]</ref>
* March 21 - A [https://archive.today/OPvYI#selection-963.0-966.0 global announcement is made] stating 4chan will switch to HTTPS by default set for March 27th. Kenny Rogers died and gets [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/93874336 a sticky on /mu/]. Somehow this sticky managed to stay up for a whole week despite him [https://desuarchive.org/mu/search/text/kenny%20rogers/start/2012-01-01/end/2020-03-20/page/14/ rarely being discussed] on the board.
* March 27 - 4chan switches to https.
* April 1 - The first April Fools day of the decade begins. The joke starts on /v/; OP says the joke is "no names or tripcodes". An [https://archive.today/Gz1i8#selection-13785.0-13790.0 anon responds] "cope seethe dilate", his username is distorted and the outside of his text box is sickly green. He was then (USER WAS QUARANTINED FOR THIS POST). The next case is from /mlp/; someone makes a meta thread about the no name/trip rumor, and anons in the thread say the prank is gimmicky. A few posts later, an infected user [https://archive.today/lchNZ#selection-5023.0-5028.0 shitposts]. By this point, half of [https://archive.today/OHxbL /b/ is already infected]. A [https://archive.today/4MFd9#p251306968 frogposter on /pol/] manages to get an even sicklier, more dense green outline around his text box. /a/ gets a quarantine [https://archive.today/OeyQG sticky]. Each board gets a news ticker; /b/'s [https://archive.today/LCn0a infection level] is the most critical. Several boards get corona stickies: [https://archive.today/d1rq3 /co/], [https://archive.today/XGqaN /tg/], [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/251317888#p251317888 /pol/], [https://archive.today/ZvUrX /v/], [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/131556003 /tv/], and [https://archive.today/epTF1 /vp/]. /s4s/ gets a [https://archive.today/7klIn birthday sticky]. /qa/ gets a thread and funpost.<ref>https://archived.moe/qa/thread/3174447/</ref><ref>https://archived.moe/qa/thread/3171989/#q3172025</ref>. The index of /int/ gets an embed of a youtube video hiro [https://archive.today/3hxRa uploaded]; the video itself is a static image of Pepe The Frog with 30 minutes of sirens, gunshots and thunder in the background. It's nothing special, but it does confirm hiro is, in fact, a frogposter, and is the most likely explanation as to why frog spam hasn't been filtered.
* April 6 - 4channel gets [https://archive.today/MtECR new ads]. The ads in question are promoting a YouTube series called [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHfAEvP2WAbuu_4vCi4kqQ "The Non-Family"], a presumably-unintentionally creepy South Park knockoff that only has one episode. Since these ads were links to a YouTube video and not the usual sketchy porn site, everyone without an adblocker on 4channel watches The Non-Family and it quickly becomes a [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/text/non-family/ meme on /tv/].
* April 10 - /vp/'s Pokemon Clover, a major ROM hack of Pokemon FireRed, is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RympaeJSUc officially] [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/43250229/ released] to a very positive reception.
* April 14-15 - A YouTuber by the name of Frank Hassle had been a trendy subject on /tv/ ever since he started his youtube channel, considering he works with Sam Hyde. Most anons shit on his videos, while the small majority say they're kino. But on April 14th, Frank uploads a new video where he messes with people at a crossfitting place. When one of Frank's usual fans made another thread about it on /tv/, an [https://archive.today/dpbIV#selection-25603.0-25608.0 anon in the thread finds the crossfitting place's facebook page and contacts the owners]. Keep in mind, the video was recorded at least 2 years prior ([https://youtu.be/2tRBFqGg9mk?t=254 was previously teased in a Sam Hyde video]), but nontheless, the owners were infuriated and [https://archive.today/FqdGa claimed the video]. Afterwards, he [https://archive.today/YV3OZ privates everything on his channel].
* April 21 - Qtard and Twitter moms discover that Googling "tv television and film" and going to Google Images shows a bunch of child model pictures caused by cunnyposter pedophiles posting on /tv/. A minor shitstorm develops. One retarded Twitter wine aunt decides that "4plebs" is a shortened version of "4 pedo celebs". [https://archive.4plebs.org/plebs/thread/2480/ 4plebs staff make an official statement] and assure people that they always delete such pictures from their archives when reported. [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/132559790 /tv/ discusses the event.]
* April 21 - Porn ads gets called out on /qa/. Mod posts and says they'll contact the ad company.<ref>https://archived.moe/qa/thread/3190556/#q3190573/</ref>
* April 27 - Piedpiper threads on /x/ get shutdown by a mod, who informs them they should inform the authorities.<ref>https://archived.moe/x/thread/24814560/#q24814567</ref>
* May 1 - Nintendo 64, Gamecube, and Wii SDKs get [https://archive.today/gjMjl leaked on /v/]. All of the video game emulation and preservation communities go insane. After the news spreads, Nintendo starts DMCA'ing download links posted on /v/ and /vr/. 
* May 5 - Cinco de Mayo; [https://archive.today/uaUJO /a/ gets a Cinco de Maho sticky] with [https://www.youtube.com/embed/wztuzAkF0hw?version=3&autoplay=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&playlist=wztuzAkF0hw Himeko's Maho Song] playing in the background.
* May 10-11 - The first TLOU2 leaks start showing up around this time, so /v/ started making templates and edits of the game. The edits were primarily based on [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/abby-choke-edits Ellie getting choked by Abby]. These threads were only the beginning for what's to come next.
* May 14 - [http://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3213024#p3217654 /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.
* May 15 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/22222222/ /adv/ gets post 22222222.]
* May 16 - Twelve hours after octs on /adv/, [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/100000000 /sp/ gets its one hundred millionth post: Cristiano Ronaldo commenting on someone's piss stream.]
* May 19-23 - /s4s/ gets flooded with cat stickies [https://archive.today/hOY5f 1] [https://archive.today/sykgx 2] [https://archive.today/Y0ZBD 3] [https://archive.today/XYkAW 4] [https://archive.today/NeZpE 5] [https://archive.today/6ItWX 6]. At one point, the board has 17 stickies. One of them redirected from /qa/.<ref>https://archived.moe/qa/thread/3226507/#q3226532</ref>
* May 22 - Reporting changes so the first report [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3220559/#3230299 doesn't require a captcha.]
* May 26 - hCaptcha replaces reCaptcha on the report system. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3230364/#3233667 /qa/ complains.] 4chan begins site maintenance at 7:33pm GMT. hCaptcha is mysteriously removed shortly afterwards.
* May 29 - 4chan reaches a daily total of one million posts owing to the increase in /pol/ traffic due to riots across the United States. It is the first time since April Fools Day 2020 that 4chan has had one million daily posts.
* May 31 - /pol/ gets a new [https://archive.today/vAQx7 locked sticky], informing people not to post the same twitter screencap thread when it already exists. /pol/ is now at its most active since the 2016 Presidential election, reaching nearly [https://4stats.io/ 273 thousand posts in one day] thanks to the nationwide George Floyd """protests""".
* June 1 - /lgbt/ gets a [https://archived.moe/lgbt/thread/15781584/ pride month sticky.] [https://archived.moe/lit/thread/15502583/#15502583 /lit/ finishes work on The Coronameron] - a collections of stories written by anons while in quarantine.[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N0AOCE7OvTX90eYH3fllNyTXSYVj6_fu/view]
* June 12 -  Volcano High, a furry dinosaur visual novel, was announced at the big PlayStation 5 reveal press conference; [https://archive.today/WPURg#selection-3115.0-3118.0 /v/ blows up] with threads about the game, but doesn't get a sticky. /trash/ got a [https://archive.today/ZkuSu sticky] instead.
* June 16 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/512736886/#512739794 A /v/ reply poster gets banned] for criticizing the apparent ignorance of the /v/ boards transformation from war positions anti-furry motive to accepting furry posts.
* June 18-21 - TLOU2 releases. While critics are having a field day with the game the user reviews turned out to be highly negative and people started bashing the game. /v/ catches wind of the negativity and anons start making various templates of certain cutscenes from the game. One of these in particular is the sex scene where Abby and Owen are fucking each other. One anon began compiling a spreadsheet of every frame in the scene that everyone could claim so that it could be compiled into a video. When the video was finished /v/ got a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/513438328 sticky]. A huge MEGA collage got made of all the TLOU2 edits as well which can be found [https://mega.nz/folder/onxAEaYZ#Qn9jj34uz4hPdLVSQ7TG6w here.]
* June 25 - It is announced that Studio Trigger will be producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime; /a/ gets a [https://archive.today/OTik0 sticky].
* June 26 - /a/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/205000000/ sticky] for the 205000000 get, featuring Yotsuba.
* July 11 - /g/ gets a replacement sticky with no image attached; the same mod that made the thread made a proposal reply offering [https://archive.today/3DmhP#selection-1489.0-1491.1 /qa/] a chance to suggest who's image should be in the next sticky.
* July 13 - The mods end up choosing to include Steve Ballmer, Terry A. Davis, Stallman '''and''' Satania in the [https://archive.today/Rqerk sticky]; an almost year long debate (2019, September 17) has finally concluded.
* July 14 - /vp/ turns ten years old; a [https://archive.today/UfC6a sticky] is made, both the [https://archive.today/MxyCq index of /vp/] and the sticky were embedded with a compilation of every Pokemon anime OP in the background.
* July 24 - [https://archive.today/jFMAA /vp/ Anon (possibly "wack0"'s friends) once again leaks a shitload of source codes and prototypes of various Nintendo games.] Many threads are made on /v/ [https://archive.today/pRpFy][https://archive.today/hHMLY][https://archive.today/Ai59S][https://archive.today/DRAYe][https://archive.today/V6ElA][https://archive.today/An4K8][https://archive.today/qwsd6][https://archive.today/LALzb][https://archive.today/drcHQ][https://archive.today/sbjWR][https://archive.today/S2rT6][https://archive.today/3BxOF][https://archive.today/HeGe1][https://archive.today/vA9QF][https://archive.today/qdBwt][https://archive.today/irZ6x][https://archive.today/1X509][https://archive.today/RayxM][https://archive.today/iIj5J][https://archive.today/hN8SF][https://archive.today/xI1Ek][https://archive.today/xI1Ek][https://archive.today/Hfsyc][https://archive.today/OC2uu][https://archive.today/vPmOU][https://archive.today/1judV][https://archive.today/zDKQ8][https://archive.today/02a4O][https://archive.today/ugcwW][https://archive.today/lS8Yi][https://archive.today/BFxWk][https://archive.today/u45kI][https://archive.today/p11xY][https://archive.today/rdami][https://archive.today/6Lnxj][https://archive.today/AzlZr][https://archive.today/5ytfT][https://archive.today/UO74B][https://archive.today/wmWtz][https://archive.today/O07rM][https://archive.today/O0mSq][https://archive.today/2FEB9][https://archive.today/TfXMD][https://archive.today/IdTwZ][https://archive.today/pyHE2][https://archive.today/b8AjE][https://archive.today/ni8mV][https://archive.today/ni8mV][https://archive.today/cpxUU][https://archive.today/7iXbY][https://archive.today/e0HRG][https://archive.today/EoOo3][https://archive.today/5MhcD][https://archive.today/oO80n][https://archive.today/F8WNh][https://archive.today/LmfQK][https://archive.today/4HvaZ][https://archive.today/N7hMz][https://archive.today/hmZuk], some on /vp/ [https://archive.today/A7qy3][https://archive.today/SwgqR] ,and some on /vr/ [https://archive.today/Ubxa7][https://archive.today/SYkPu] Discoveries are made (mostly by /v/) and are summed up [https://docs.google.com/document/d/176d5yx2GtWDudFNQW4mJC8QYE1B4uJdhk0HD45nandU/preview?pru=AAABc6YbDVw*m9IRWqADahQ0Jbbul6_t4w# here] and [https://lombtv.neocities.org/info.html here.] and [https://pastebin.com/XyRs7Qkf here.]
* July 25 - The leaks don't end. The sourcecode to Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time leaks. The [https://hiddenpalace.org/ Hidden Palace] discord had to temporarily shut down because of the massive influx of tourists asking for Mario 64 related leaks. The 2 decade+ mystery is finally debunked; '''[https://archive.today/jdD2k L was, and always has been real].''' The internet shits itself. Some people speculate the release of this leak was on purpose, theorizing "24 + 01 2+4+0+1 = 7 (June), 24 (Day of the leak) + 1 (One day after) = 25". 
* July 31 - New Boards: ○ '''/vrpg/ - Video Games/RPG'''.
* July 31 - '''/v/ermin Month''' - Unannounced, every week for a month, new /v/ subboards are added, implicitely intended to give extra space to topics that wouldn't survive on /v/ or /vg/.<ref>
* Board's first day. [https://archive.today/4ap89]</br>
* /vrpg/'s Announcement [https://archive.today/02q64#selection-195.0-202.0]</br>
</ref>. The usual [https://archive.today/dfEa2 shitpost spam on /qa/] asking for unnecessary boards runs rampant all day. An anon makes a post asking about new spoiler tags; [https://archive.today/mg99O#selection-4113.0-4117.6 a mod appears] and offers anons a chance to create new spoiler tags.
* August 6 - An Elesaposter on /vp/ gets the [https://archive.today/YW0T6#selection-3291.17-3291.18 44444444 GET].
* August 7 - New Boards: ○ '''/vmg/ - Video Games/Mobile'''
* August 7 - '''/b/ Porn Purge FAIL''' - Initially thought to offload most of the gachashit from /v/ and /vg/, the board does neither and its purpose is unclear.<ref>* First day of /vmg/ [https://archive.today/x5ASE]</ref> 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. 
* June 26 to August 8 - In response to drama, /mlp/ denizens organize, create, and release an [https://www.marenheit451.com/ art pack] promoting free speech. It results in [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H7QyODrLItk44uhj3-t5sIYgoONMc9qmE7NjIAgTjDA $21,132.94 worth of donations], nearly all going to 3d horses in need, and becomes the most successful art pack in the fandom's history. [https://twibooru.org/search?q=verity Verity!]
* August 11 - At precisely 12:21pm on August 11, 2020, /trv/ and /out/ both had exactly 1851060 posts made on their board, and then /out/ eclipsed /trv/ in posts.<ref>https://archived.moe/out/thread/1841440/#1851060</ref><ref>http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/1851002/#1851060</ref>
* August 14 - New Boards: ○ '''/vst/ - Video Games/Strategy'''.<ref> /vst/ on it's first day [https://archive.today/U4J5H]</ref> [https://archive.today/gFUfU /qa/ flips shit]. Many on /v/ theorize the new boards are the start of an aim by mods to split /v/ up into pieces by genre, but mods refuse to comment.
* August 15 - /g/ gets a [https://archive.today/UPALc sticky] celebrating Satania's birthday. Later on, [https://files.catbox.moe/5f9sqj.webm background gifs of dancing cats] are added.
* August 20 - A thread on /tv/ about the Netflix show "Cuties", featuring underage actresses acting sexually, is replied to by a mod who denounces any sexual imagery from the show and tells them to get perma b&. A fatal blow to cunnyposters. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/138099994/#138100467 [4Plebs Archive]] [https://archive.today/NB9wc [Archive.is]]. The film was already gaining a bad rep in the mainstream, so [https://www.newsweek.com/4chan-bans-images-netflix-film-cuties-1526545 the media] and [https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1296441745761284096 Twitter users] soy themselves over the big bad ebil 4chon banning the film while other anons cry about their bans on /qa/ and get their threads locked.<ref>/qa/ Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3392587/#3394201]</ref>
* August 21 - New Boards. ○ '''/vm/ - Video Games/Multiplayer'''. 
* August 21 - Waiting through the day, [https://archive.today/LBfHt /qa/ anons] feel like another board is coming up. And the mods answer their prediction, right on schedule. At first, the board isn't even loadable.<ref> * /vm/ on it's first day. [https://archive.today/Ass7i]</ref> /soc/ gets the [https://archive.today/wDh5U name field enabled].
* August 24 - Some weird shit starts happening to /vg/. Each index page increases from 15 to 20 threads, emptying out page 9 and 10 and half of page 8. The post count in each thread does not italicize when the 750-post bump limit is reached (despite autosaging anyway), implying a possible increase of the bump limit. Threads on the index pages do not show the latest replies.
* August 25 - [https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/9325436/ A /his/torian discovers] that more than twenty thousand of the articles on the Scots Wikipedia have been written by an American horsefucker who doesn't even know the language and writes articles in a Scottish accent (and had been doing so since 2013, as a twelve year old). Media picks up on it but credits the cockmunchers at Reddit for uncovering it instead. Many consider it the most damage done to a single language in recent memory, all because of a fucking autistic INTP brony.
* August 28 - "New Vidya Board Friday" appears to have ended, but change comes to /vr/. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/6770545 Mods officially announce] that sixth generation consoles launched between 1999 and 2001, such as the Xbox, PS2, Game Boy Advance and GameCube, are now "retro" enough for /vr/. Vidya on these consoles released before 2008 is also allowed. Users on the board are divided, with a two-thirds majority (approximately 63% according to an informal straw poll) standing against the change and preferring the creation of /v2k/ instead. Trolls flood the board with shitty 6th gen content, both as a form of protest and for the lulz. [https://archive.today/nIyG1 The new sticky] incorporates this update, as well as allowing homebrew console games made in 2008 and beyond on the sixth generation consoles. A mod on /qst/ announces that the board would be getting a new banner, [https://archive.today/knMBW and is open to submissions]. 
* August 29 - A mod on /qst/ makes and stickies a thread for voting on banners submitted in the previous thread, [https://archive.today/VM7dh and one is chosen almost unanimously]. 
* August 31 - ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan (The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya)'' is announced; /a/ gets a [https://archive.today/XSQga sticky] with embedded Haruhi music and [http://web.archive.org/web/20220131104243/https://iili.io/lr6UeS.png the catalog gets flooded with haruhi threads.]
* September 4 - On the 30th of August, /pol/ denizens [https://archive.today/Koojr doxxed] a man called Michael Reinoehl who in popular consensus seemed to have murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, painting a target on him all over the web. After an interview with VICE, the [https://archive.today/WPI8b man is killed] by law enforcement trying to arrest him on Sep 4.
* September 5 - A random [s4s] anon makes a thread and received the 9000000 GET; thread is [https://archive.today/7SqjU stickied]. 
* September 7 - After rumors that the Venture Bros has been cancelled, Jackson Publick confirmed the rumors were true, leaving the series on a huge cliff hanger; /co/ gets a [https://archive.today/8wCpE sticky]. "Like a Friend" by Pulp is played in the background.
* September 9 - It's Cirno Day. There are scattered threads all over the boards celebrating Cirno, the ice fairy. On /bant/ [https://archive.today/2NHln an image of Cirno and the words "*blocks u're path*"] is overlaid on both the index, the catalog and [https://archive.today/asDUq this sticky]. This year, /bant/ notably had a much better Cirno Day than /jp/. This is likely due to the coup d'état by vtubers who now own the board and don't know who Cirno is.
* September 12 - /jp/ experiences a huge surge in posts due to Hololive threads, becoming one of the fastest boards on the site. Its post rate even passes /b/'s at one point.
* September 13 - File names change from [https://archive.today/VhOqf 1500000000000 to 1600000000000]. While the true 1600000000000 wasn't posted in time, the closest someone got to it was in a German /int/ thread with a [https://archive.today/2X3hg#p130428119 1600000000012.]
* September 14 - The Ms. /co/ 2020 competition experiences a major shitstorm as an anon [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/117682027#p117683098 exposes a Spanish Facebook group] known as "Random Cartoon" that has been brigading their polls. The group appears to have been encouraging votes for Emmy (Emmy the Robot), as well as others such as Miko Kubota (Glitch Techs), and their heavy favoritism for Spinel in 2019 may have been the reason why Spinel won the previous year's Ms. /co/. It turns out they've also used the competition to steal fanart created by /co/mrades during the event. Some anons call for the disqualification of Emmy and Miko. The tournament organizer suggests redoing the round, others also suggested replacing both characters.
* September 17 - /g/entooman got the [https://archive.today/8Fi9K#p77777777 77777777 /g/et] and later got banned with (USER INSTALLED GENTOO FOR THIS POST). He also had to install StumpWM due to asking anons to [https://archive.today/8Fi9K#p77778448 roll] trips for the DE/WM.
* September 18 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice, dies. [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/278112396 /pol/ gets a sticky.] /pol/ celebrates by laughing at "NO NO NO" trending on Twitter, posting Twitter and Reddit salt, and watching Democrats melting down and hoping to prevent Trump from adding yet another conservative justice to an already packed court.
* September 19 - A /qa/ user who goes by the name [https://archive.today/fiuRW Soot] creates [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3484141 soyjak.party,] (aka. the sharty) a 4chan syle imageboard centered around soyjak posting and /qa/ culture.
* September 20 - '''Death of Longcat''' - The cat behind one of 2chan/4chan's earliest memes, Longcat, [https://twitter.com/miyabi_2222/status/1307543841449234433 dies of respiratory failure as confirmed by the owner on Twitter.] [https://archive.today/7FjWs /b/], [https://archive.today/1MZ4g /an/], [https://archive.today/JL4rG /f/] and [https://archive.today/K8DRp /s4s/] all get stickies. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/836329620/#q836333333 Anon self-predicts hexes for Longcat] in the /b/ thread. The fucking [https://archived.moe/b/thread/836329620/#q836334040 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.<ref>
* Longcat sticky [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2020-09-20-b-sticky-longcat.png]</br>
* ## Developer says he stickied the longcat thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3881520/]</br>
</ref>
* September 21 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax, including Bethesda, iD, Obsidian Software and more. An anon makes a post that gets [https://archive.today/Ppi80 stickied] and /v/ goes absolutely apeshit. The consolewar is on.
* June 26 to September 22 - KnowYourMeme shitposter Southern Yeehaw starts flooding KYM with soyjak images, causing [https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/report-problems/topics/61633-southern-yeehaws-soy-boy-wojak-spam massive amounts of butthurt]. He is soon banned, but a cabal of soyposters on /qa/ [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3277303 pick up on his efforts] and start flooding KYM with soyjaks themselves. KYM is completely inundated with soyjaks for months; as a result, the recent images gallery [https://s2.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1598/59/1598594844344.png turns into] [https://i.imgur.com/AXVcm3n.png a giant wall] of soyjaks, the soyboy article stays on 'trending' for months, and of course [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1598/97/1598974993451.png the forums and comments] [https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/serious-debate/topics/62083-regarding-soyjak-and-soyjak-spams fill with the seethe] of dozens of KYM autists. Though the butthurt from the userbase is unanimous, The Great Soy Flood divides KYM mods: some view it as a great addition of OC and meme documentation and even [https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1890465-kym-tan join in] [http://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3430771/#3431706 soyposting] themselves, while others view it as low-quality spam. Several KYM users rage quit and delete their accounts. Spammers during this time include peanusweanus, grasshopper, and albinorhino. Albinorhino is the most notorious; he manages to upload hundreds of soyjak images without getting banned by uploading only a few a day and keeping them SFW. Also notable is a KYM oldfag, elleichops, who [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3414594/#3430459 sacrifices] his decade-old account to share some nice soyjaks. On September 22, the KYM mods finally agree to crack down on soyjak spam and albinorhino is banned, seemingly bringing an end to the spam. Efforts on /qa/ still continue, however.
* September 25 - Ron Paul (/pol/'s former Republican idol back when /new/ was a thing) has a stroke-like episode during a livestreamed interview. [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/279184817 /pol/ gets a sticky] with two videos of the event uploaded to Bitchute. Two hours later, [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/279202714 /pol/ gets another sticky] with Ron Paul announcing on Twitter that he's "doing fine" in hospital. 
* September 26 - [s4s] users finish a collage of Longcat drawings and [https://archive.today/cz20x send it] [https://archive.today/wip/CY6y9 to the owner on Twitter.] She goes to the [s4s] sticky [https://archive.today/WNFMk to thank them] for the image and for remembering Longcat, and sticks around to read their kind words. [s4s] sends her respectful condolences.
* September 28 - At some point, the Hololive streamer Coco gets attacked by insect drones from China for daring to mention Taiwan at all. Suddenly, /pol/ was sprawling with Hololive threads until the jannies got them all wiped off the face of the earth. It seems. Meanwhile, /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/526512573/ releases] Super Mario /v/orld 2: Moot Point, the sequel to Super Mario /v/orld. The hack is [https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=103735 acclaimed] and hailed as a masterpiece by those who play it.
* October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#127 4chan celebrates its 17th birthday]; Party Hats are enabled on all boards. Meanwhile, Steve from Minecraft is in Smash. No, really. The meme is real. Among the massive meltdown on /v/, [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/526844941 a sticky emerges and CaptainSparkles's Minecraft parody of "DJ's Got Us Falling In Love" is embedded.] The sticky barely lasted an hour.
* October 2 - Donald and Melania Trump confirm that they have the coronavirus. /pol/ freaks the fuck out and [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/280346889 also gets a sticky.] Meanwhile, bunkerchan.xyz (the remainder of 8chan's /leftypol/) considers it wise to raid /pol/ with 'Chudjak', a Wojak of the guy who did the El Paso shooting, which they proclaim a caricature of the typical /pol/ user. Pissing into an ocean of piss leads to you getting pissed back at, and Bunkerchan proceeds to be raided overnight by a few shitposters, a spambot, gore, lolicon, cp and the subversion of the meme they were trying to spam. It gets too much for Bunkerchan mods, and they lock the board. It eventually turns out there's no evidence that the spam started on Bunkerchan.
* October 9 - /mlp/ gets a [https://archive.today/qI7BV sticky] in honor of the infamous "this is going to have so much porn" /co/ post becoming a decade old.
* October 10 - /mlp/ gets another [https://archive.today/UpWYc sticky] in honor of the actual 10th anniversary of Friendship is Magic. Later that day, after teasing it on his [https://archive.today/yRmZ4 Twitter], M.A. Larson, one of the show's script writers, also [https://archive.today/Y5rMr visits] the [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/5/#35979038 anniversary sticky], answering questions, showing unused scripts, and bidding farewell with his favorite [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/6/#35979809 mantra.] The stickied thread becomes the largest thread in /mlp/'s history.
* October 12 - A minor controversy: /a/ reaches the 210M mark, [https://archived.moe/a/thread/210000000/ 210000000 is taken by a Higurashi thread] which gets immediately deleted and it's poster banned for 7 days for "roll threads outside /b/" while [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/209999999/ the 209999999 is taken by an obvious haruhi GET thread that is allowed to stay up.] 210M was deleted too fast for desuarchive to archive it in time but other archives got it. The Higurashi poster's ban is later extended to 150 days and [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3540801/#3541578 proof is provided by in a /qa/ thread] by another anon who contacted him, sparking theories about haruhi favoritism and modGET faggotry.
* October 15 - [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/45099200/#45099549 An autistic /vp/oreon shows his dead grandma his Shiny Dusknoir.] Needless to say, /vp/ fucking breaks. The shitstorm is so large that the thread reaches beyond 3000 posts without ever being stickied. It even reaches Twitter and [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/showing-grandma-my-shiny-dusknoir gets a KnowYourMeme entry.]
* October 16 - The 8th /v/ the musical ends at 152 songs. /pol/ debunks itself into oblivion with its new "debunked" meme, mocking how the media dismissed leaks from Hunter Biden's laptop as false.
* October 17 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283248827 Somebody on /pol/ discovers that they can literally modify Oregonian voter's votes through one of their websites,] just as long as you know their name and date of birth. If you don't understand, it means /pol/ is literally hacking the US election. They use the data on the website to track down big names and who they voted for. An anon summarises: ''"Ok I just logged into the Washington state system for my ex wife, not only can i submit a ballot for her, but by even STARTING the process it cancels her other ballots. So if she orders a ballot, fills it out and sends it in THEN i start the online process even if I stop it and never file it CANCELS her ballot she thinks counts. THIS IS MASSIVE."'' Jannies try to cover everything up but [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283257640 new] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283261966 threads] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283264915 continue] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283266723 to] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283272228 crop] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283278894 up.] [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283248827/#q283256721 The founder of Nike, Philip Knight, voted Trump.] It also turns out that [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283257640/#q283257784 the same can be done for voters in Washington state's VoteWA site.] Soon, it is claimed that other states can also be rigged because they use the same "name and DOB" system, including California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC, Michigan, New York, and Nevada. Ideas and thoughts are tossed around, including the possibility that Antifa may have used these records to dox Trump voters, or that Trump can use this as evidence that mail-in voting is easily rigged, or that people with administrative access can delete or change Trump voter's preferences. An anon from Uzbekistan (or using an Uzbek VPN) [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283261966/#q283263661 makes a script that allows anons to cancel shitloads of votes.] The addresses of big names living in the vulnerable states are found, including those of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Someone also finds out that a laptop with the personal details of 650000 Oregonians was stolen in February of 2020. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283272228/#q283273711 Someone ELSE changes the Governor of Oregon's address to "533 Poopoo Peepee Boulevard South, Department of Based", BTFOing her for saying "You can't hack paper. #VoteByMail".] The Oregon site goes down in the early morning. Seething damage controllers from Twitter and Plebbit try to deBOOOOOOOOOOOONK but get laughed off of /pol/.
* October 18 - A mod [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/529016056/#529019303 posts] in a /v/ thread about the Touhou character "Chen", and puts [https://youtu.be/roh0aiNoQR8 this video] on autoplay. As you can tell, the mods are gods. Meanwhile, [s4s] mods sticky an absolute fuckton of meme threads.
* October 22 - [https://archive.today/SBhTB Self-serve advertisements are back]. Two days earlier, somebody noted [https://github.com/Floens/ChanTracking/commit/03a9db1de53d6d8a2ea0d213189902a499fc935e that the page's] statistics have changed: 4chan is down to 500M impressions a month (from 703M), 20M unique visitors (down from 27.7M), and a bunch of new guidelines have been added, such as no gambling ads, no drug ads, no piracy ads, and no firearms ads.
* October 23 - It takes one day for self-serve ads to BTFO a board. Somebody spends money on ads that directly link to /vp/ and say "I spent $60 on this ad instead of Sword and Shield to tell (You) that they are shit games and to not buy them". Tourists from all over 4channel flock to /vp/ to laugh at them. Dozens of other inflammatory ads go up, despite it supposedly being against the rules; these include a banner showing Pepe fucking janny in the mouth, barneyfag bait, and a soyjak banner on /a/. Many of the banners are archived [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3565365 here]. 
* October 31 - Skoopy CSS is added. /vp/ gets a LoL [https://archive.today/N8OOE sticky] unrelated to Halloween.
* November 3 - /pol/ gets an election results [https://archive.today/ZBj0X sticky]. There's so much traffic 4chan gets repeated SSL errors, and /pol/'s sheer traffic surpasses that which it had during 2016's election day. 
* November 4 - Due to strange circumstances, it takes forever for the votes to get counted. Arizona goes blue, and soon Wisconsin and Michigan follow, putting Biden ever so close to victory. With less enthusiasm, /pol/ turns into a shitshow about election fraud, coping, OHNONONOs and the like. A bunch of crappy Pepe Joe Biden memes get posted (expect /pol/ to hijack it for their own gain). The rest of 4chan wonders if this will finally kill the election tourists off.
* November 5 - The [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/286876906/ election sticky] is unstickied. It has shattered the record for [[The longest thread|the largest thread in history]], breaking the one hundred thousand reply barrier for the first time and ending with about 103,581 replies, shattering the SadPanda /h/ sticky by about thirty thousand posts.
* November 7 -  After a ton of waiting, the Media declares Joe Biden to be the new President of the USA. /pol/ explodes again, this time in /leftypol/ or bunkerchan invaders, crossboarders and many more tourists all either making fun of /pol/, shitposting or having serious threads. This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg song] is put on autoplay with a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/288562771/#288562771 sticky that has a picture of Joe Biden].
* November 11 - 4chan randomly goes down for about fifty minutes. When posting finally works again, a message "〜 sorry 4 the downtime 〜" is added underneath the self-serve ads announcement.
* November 12 - /trash/ gets a random [https://archive.today/LILsQ pokemon sticky]
* November 15 - Eventually the Biden thread is unstickied, perhaps due to the prolonged vote counting. /pol/'s activity remains extremely high as measured by 4stats.io, easily crushing the 2016 election's numbers both before and after election day. With the election results either strangely uncertain or perfectly sure depending on who you ask, the board has possibly become the most chaotic out of any in 4chan history. There's also [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/290686119/#290687462 Sneed and Jannieposting] in the wild.
* November 16 - /f/ gets global ids. [https://archive.today/aG3jE Blue name threads are made]
* November 20 - [https://archive.today/5IPwM /v/ votes Reimu Hakurei] as the annual (and unofficial) Queen of /v/, and a lot of seething over /jp/ ensues as a result.
* November 22 - A mod gives an anon on /pol/ a twitter disclaimer for [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/292296472/#292298840 his post.] [https://archive.today/rAsFq Archive.] A storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network apparently starts [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/119154788 shilling their #bettercartoon contribution on /co/] (no solid proof, but pretty suspicious). She tweets about finding the thread and claiming to be happy that it's not all negative feedback. [https://warosu.org/ic/thread/5014402 Another Apple Mage thread] pops up on /ic/ as well, also probably shilled by the creator, who then magically appears in the thread and bitches about transphobic replies. An [https://archive.today/zOzfj anon on /f/ finds out the flash archive uses a flash emulator]; this gives a very pessimistic /f/ hope that their board won't die by the end of the year.
* November 25 - Argentina's Lamb of God, Diego Maradona has passed away. [https://archive.today/d2LQI /sp/ makes a sticky.] An [s4s] investigation reveals that a janny/mod known as nana_ [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9234113/ has been encouraging and possibly participating in the Enbie spam]. For no apparent reason, [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3648722 mods move the thread to /qa/]. Several [s4s] threads dedicated to taking back the board [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9238271/ are] also [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9238646/ deleted]. The mod also [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9231836 locks an OC thread] and remakes it, [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9233249 this time with the enbie photoshopped in.]
* December 2 - Mods add fuel to the fire and [https://archive.today/LrROO sticky] an Enbie thread on /qa/.
* December 5 - /mu/ becomes the tenth board to join the one hundred million post club. Despite the K-Pop general's overconfidence, they [http://archived.moe/mu/thread/99999999 miss] both [https://archived.moe/mu/thread/100000000 gets] and get laughed off the board. Cirnospammer rages at losing all 3 major numbers to a /jp/ scripter and a random from /mu/<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3678486/#3678691</ref>
* December 7 - Barneyfag experiences the most epic BTFOing ever as a /qa/ anon pays the actual Barney voice actor to record a message directed at Lee, who obliviously mocks him for his incessant spamming, love of cheese, and Barney hatred. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3683720 thread] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7bkr_ygSQ video]
* December 8 to January - [https://web.archive.org/web/20220110201111/https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/535284186/#535286268 After a guy on /v/ suggests the idea,] /tv/ tries forcing the usage of [https://web.archive.org/web/20220110201817/https://iili.io/YQCtov.md.png "keyed" and "locked"] as substitutes for based and cringe. It doesn't really catch on.
* December 10 - Cyberpunk 2077 is finally released and /v/ is absolutely flooded with threads about the game. Hilarity ensues as the hype bubble bursts and the game is revealed to be a buggy piece of shit.
* December 16 - [http://archived.moe/biz/thread/24850475/hol-fukc-we-did-it /biz/ gets a sticky] as Bitcoin finally breaks the 20000 USD/BTC barrier with a glorious pump at 1:42pm UTC.
* December 17 - Pastebin decides to fuck itself and automatically privates any paste that the SMART filters identify as NSFW, in effect killing virtually all NSFW stories and plenty of SFW stories that writefags have uploaded to the site. /mlp/ and /trash/, both hyper-dependent on storing their works on Pastebin, freak the fuck out as at least half of their shit is obliterated. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/34819143/#34825193 Some anons] come to [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/34819223/#34823721 the rescue] with a number of archive downloads to ease the pain. The Pastebin SMART filter is, as you'd expect, not smart at all and also privates a bunch of completely SFW pastes found in generals and stickies.
* December 22 - The meido on /jp/ forgets to delete excess Hololive threads and they start to flood the board. Panic from everyone actually native to the board ensues.
* December 24 - Dante beats Raiden in the [https://archive.today/HbMte finale of King of /v/ 2020] and becomes the unofficial King of /v/ for the year.
* December 31 - /f/ gets a [https://archive.today/EyNhA sticky] confirming that the board isn't going anywhere, and confirms that if the Ruffle emulator is a success, it'll be used as the standard flash file player on the board. MF DOOM is confirmed dead; /mu/ gets a [https://archive.today/XBE5k sticky] and other boards like [https://archive.today/DVzFM /co/ mourn too].

===2021===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2020 | ◄]] [[#2022 | ►]]
* January 1 - The nightmare of 2020 truly never ends. As December 31 ends, the date and time on each post doesn't read 1/1/21, but rolls over to 12/32/20. Whether this is mod fuckery, a glitch in the Matrix, or the beginnings of the Great Reset isn't entirely known yet, but 4chan freaks out anyway. However, [https://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3453189/#3454457 this bug doesn't affect /f/], the only board that wanted to stay in 2020.
* January 2 - /biz/ freaks out as Bitcoin continues its monumental bullrun, blazing past 30000 USD/BTC and peaking at nearly 35000 USD/BTC. It turns out over $130 million dollars worth in BTC short positions got liquidated, so all the Boboposters start blowing their brains out. ''(seriously though, when this bubble pops, it's gonna be fucking amazing to watch /biz/ implode)''
* January 3 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/299999445#p300000000 /pol/'s 300 millionth post] declares Christ the King.
* January 4 - Trump apparently said a thing and Bitcoin crashes to below 28000 USD/BTC before rebounding slightly. The pink fields are not yet ready. Alexi Laiho dies at age 41; /mu/ gets a [https://archive.today/pDov8 sticky], but many anons either call his music shit or complain mods "replaced the DOOM sticky", when in reality it was already removed a day prior.
* January 6 - With the election to be certified, a shit ton of protesters storm the Capitol in D.C. /pol/ goes absolutely apeshit and gets a [https://archive.today/XG4PL sticky].
* January 8 - A voice actor dies and tons of candle emojis are posted by other voice actors on Twitter, not revealing the name because the family wanted privacy. That, and a few dipshits giving away too many clues (male, married, the work of the people who tweeted), results in /co/ and /v/ positively ID'ing the guy in under two and a half hours, with a little help from two voice actresses basically getting duped into confirming who he was. A bit of backlash happens when /co/ and /v/ see the candles as nothing more than an ego boost against the family's wishes. Meanwhile, a number of conservative figures and sites are struck by big tech in the USA, making anons primarily on /pol/ fear that 4chan's days may be numbered.
* January 10 - Bitcoin sinks from 39000 USD/BTC to 32000 USD/BTC over the course of eight hours, sending /biz/ into a pink frenzy.
* January 12 - The day of the Adobe killswitch arrives; /f/ gets a sticky, but Merlin comes in at the last minute and gives everyone on the internet [https://archive.today/rjdmR#selection-3219.0-3219.9 a solution to the flash problem]. Flash is saved!
* January 15 - 
** The leebot gets a custom public ban.<ref>Post. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/540516154/#540520795]</ref>
** The anon who created the legendary meme song Bane Star reappears with a fixed & improved version.<ref>Thread. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/145120506/]</ref>
* January 16 - /g/ gets a new, unlocked, random [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/79731833 sticky] for the first time in ages. 
* January 17 - 4chan goes down at about 4:26am local time. It returns roughly an hour later, but only passfags can post. The issue seems to resolve itself about ten minutes later.
* January 23 - Larry King is pronounced dead; /tv/ gets a [https://archive.today/80yBy sticky].
* January 26 - The /biz/ reddit colony called /r/wallstreetbets causes GameStop's stocks to go up into the billions and threads pop up on several boards including /v/, /pol/ and /biz/. Hedgefunds be damned on Friday.
* January 27 - /r/wallstreetbets temporarily goes private due to the GameStop short squeeze and their Discord server is banned for "hate speech" (because somebody beat the filter). Redditors flood onto /biz/ and make the board the fastest on the whole site. Other stocks such as AMC, Express Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond, iRobot, and Blockbuster get the GameStop treatment too. The subreddit is unprivated an hour later. /biz/ is finally fucking making it. At the same time, /v/ finds and raids a stream for the New Vegas mod "The Frontier" after memeing about the mod for a bit more than a week and exposing one of the devs as a pedo or some shit (it's quite confusing). Afterward, the mod creators pull the plug on the mod out of stress. [https://i.imgur.com/rlvLm1v.png This image sums things up decently.][[https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/subject/frontier%20meltdown/ b4k archive]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZKmEZFW9c video]], [[https://youtu.be/waNTnRTXrH8 interview]]
* January 27 - [https://archive.today/aevby 1M GET] on /t/ is reached
* January 28 - /biz/'s GME stock trading take a hit when stock trading app Robinhood (and a few others) delist GME and AMC, only allowing people to close positions but not buy or sell. The Internet goes wild, uniting rightists like Donald Trump Jr. with leftists like AOC under one banner of "Fuck Robinhood and fuck market manipulation." GME closes the day losing nearly half its value, though it mostly recovers by the next day.
* January 29 - New Boards. ○ '''/vt/ - Virtual YouTubers'''
* January 29 - Finally freeing /jp/ from the endless cycle of VTuber cancer. The anime VTuber virgins do battle with the Annoying Orange OG VTuber chad's but the mods delete the Orange threads. /vt/ initially does not appear on any offsite archival websites, leading some to believe many early threads are lost to time. However, the [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/ Nyafuu] and [https://warosu.org/vt/ Warosu] archives began archiving a few days later, having archived mostly everything.
* January 30 - PhilosophyTube, a popular leftist YouTuber and one of /lgbt/'s favorite lolcows, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITRzvm0Xtg&ab_channel=PhilosophyTube comes out as transgender] and the board is [https://archive.today/4C5El flooded with threads about it.] Many posters feel like PT's coming out is illegitimate, partly because of /lgbt/'s meme/conspiracy theory that he raped contrapoints (another trans youtuber and /lgbt/ lolcow), which has now been [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/18841274 resparked.]
* January 31 - Hiro makes his first appearance in a year in a [https://archive.alice.al/vt/thread/132025/ /vt/ thread asking what happened to the 4chan VTuber.] He confirms that the project was cancelled, and that all of the new boards added recently have been the mods' idea and not his. 
* February 2 - Phoneposters are temporarily cucked as loading a blue board covers the entire page with an impossible-to-remove ad. The problem is fixed a few hours later.
* February 2-3 - /tv/ had a long car chaseb owl thread series when some schizo in South LA leads the cops on a retarded 15mph freeway chase over the course of like five and a half hours. Police spikes stripped the leather off of two tires and eventually one of the rims blew out and ended the chase. A couple of drivers beside the vehicle livestreamed it all. After the rim got destroyed, the anons who wanted to see suicide by cop [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146031031 were disappointed to see him bitch out and cooperate after ten minutes of standing still.] ReviewBrah himself even appeared in the YouTube stream chat. The [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/18888888/ 18888888 GET] on /lgbt/ is taken by (probably) a scriptfag and the mods lock the thread. 
* February 5 - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3881520 /qa/ gets a rare Developer post.] Anon Dev clarifies it was him, not Hiro, who posted the RIP Longcat sticky in /b/ on September the 20th. Christopher Plummer dies. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146144533 /tv/ gets a sticky.]
* February 7 - /sp/ gets an annual [https://archive.today/G6TKt Super Bowl sticky.]
* February 9 - CD Project Red, the makers of Withcer and Cyberduck, [https://archive.today/sTSYZ announce that their database has been hacked.] [[https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/543671841/ Anon post] the source code of Gwent on /v/ but digging reveals its an old build. Suspicions grow of the leak being a lie only for pity to make up for the Redditry disaster of Cyberdunk2077. It is suspected that the devs bought the game in the auction but it isn't confirmed yet.[https://archive.today/fYD8T][https://archive.today/j36JF]
* February 12 - After a week-long absence of New Board Friday, a new board, '''/pw/ - Professional Wrestling''' is created. /asp/ is suddenly locked, and at 12:37pm UTC, two moderator posts confirm that /asp/ is being closed as a board. This is the first mainstay board removal since the deletion of /rs/ in April 2014 (or /q/ in September 2013, whatever you want to believe constitutes a board). A new board for extreme sports is also confirmed "soon" and all non-wrestling content is temporarily sent to /out/. The last post in /asp/ history is a resounding, short, and sweet [https://archived.moe/asp/thread/12946854/#q12971596 "BASED."] And as if that wasn't enough, a Sneedposter who managed to enter a livestreamed Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card competition manages to make it all the way to the finals against Virtual Seto Kaiba. Though he couldn't take home the victory overall, the actual Seto Kaiba voice actor playing the virtual version says, [https://clips.twitch.tv/GleamingMildPheasantJebaited-ACfykV4H-Og0eEnU "I guess I'm going to have to...'''CONSNEED''' that match, but it doesn't mean you're any good!"], which sends [https://archived.moe/vg/thread/324368749 /dlg/] into a frenzy.
* February 17 - Rush Limbaugh died. A sticky is made on [https://archive.today/gXW2b /pol/.]
* Feburary 18 - During the airing of the 20th episode of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou, Featherine Augustus Aurora appears and [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/216641078/ /a/ goes absolutely bananas.] /sci/ gets a sticky [https://archive.today/5Wm1v for the Perserverance landing.] Crashing predictions are made.
* February 19 - New Boards: ○ '''/xs/ - Extreme Sports'''. 
* February 19 - Providing a home for it after the grand majority of /asp/'s threads were deleted the week prior. /asp/ is removed from the board list, though it can be accessed manually (still frozen). Meanwhile, [https://archive.today/6mEdd /v/ gets a sticky 'bout BLIZZCON.] 
* February 20 - Developers finally put /xs/ at the end of the board list after triggering everyone's OCD by leaving it between /sp/ and /tg/.
* February 22 - Daft Punk split. [https://archive.today/HbB64 /mu/ gets a sticky.]
* February 25 - In the early morning (or late evening for burgers), a screenshot from the new 5th generation MLP movie gets published and /mlp/ promptly goes crazy. Later in the day, at 10AM EST, Hasbro holds their annual investor conference virtually, showcasing plans for brands and supercharging their blueprints, among which is MLP. More footage of new characters is shown and a male lead is confirmed, among other things. /mlp/ reaches over 500% of its usual activity and [https://archive.today/tBwTb two] [https://archive.today/NLmWZ threads] are pinned.
* February 26 - Pokémon Legends Arceus and remakes for Diamond and Pearl are announced. /vp/ gets [https://archive.today/DHu5z two][https://archive.today/FMO6X stickies.] More importantly though, a thread with a picture of Monke Putin is stickied on /int/, stating that janitors can't delete stickies. Anons take it as an announcement that one of the notorious Russian janitors has been dismissed, and, coincidentally, janitor applications open for the next 72 hours.
* February 27 - /v/ gets its annual [https://archive.today/e5T0D HARMONY] sticky. The [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/546183064/ /v/GAs for 2020] are also held and stickied, during which W.T Snacks makes an appearance as a DJ and even posts on /v/.
* February 28 - /mlp/'s mods (headed by Twimod) host a [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36641353/ town hall sticky] to ask for improvements and ideas for the board going into the new MLP G5 series.
* March 2 - The /mlp/ town hall concludes. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656144/ Twimod officially announces new changes to /mlp/:] An increased character limit from 2000 to 3000 for writers, the dice roll feature used on /tg/ and /qst/, pony meme flags like the ones found on /pol/, and after a long time since the banner contest, the board is also getting a banner. Twimod also unbans Anonfilly threads on the condition that degenerate erotic roleplayers fuck off, while other threads such as diaper ponies and Milky Way threads remain banned on the grounds that they're based on fetish content. Equestria Girls content is also confirmed /mlp/. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656404/ An /mlp/ banner suggestion thread is also stickied.]
* March 4 - [https://archive.today/nvE6v Someone on Futaba Channel] decided to post places where Hololive was discussed internationally. Discussion soon shifted to 4chan, as it was the opening image. This drew the attention of /vt/ and resulted in a [https://archive.alice.al/vt/thread/1191041/ thread that reached post limit] where Nameless and Anonymous people mingled.
* March 7 - /a/ mods [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/217766474 sticky and lock a reminder] to use spoiler tags in the wake of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time's release.
* March 8 - [https://archive.today/PX5qv /g/'s daily programming general] turns into the Rozen Maiden general, accompanied by an embedded Suiseiseki as well. Odd for a board concerned with Junk.
* March 13 - One of the /c/ jannies (probably newly hired) monitoring the Nanachi thread deletes all the Nanachi aggie.io links and threatens to get anybody posting about aggie.io in the future banned. Apparently, you can't have a proper discussion over whether Nanachi is a minority-hating Nanazi. [https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/3862748#p3871279 The janny loses his position and gets publicly banned.] It's possibly the first time a public ban has been handed out in /c/'s history. The [https://archive.today/aqeWU Desutruction of /bant/] starts, and weeks of DESU spam follow. Other spammers, like Snyderposters, try to fight them and the Cirno threads hang on like usual.
* March 14 - /mlp/'s Twimod [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36717832/ stickies a thread for selecting the new /mlp/ banner] from a shortlist of ten. Twimod confirms /mlp/ pixel flags will be implemented on the next weekend (it's just pony heads, not even flags). [https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/1973636/ /trv/ also gets a sexy new locked sticky.]
* March 16 - The /mlp/ banner is selected: Twilight reading from a book titled "Butts." It goes into rotation the following day, triggering many who still get mad at cartoon horses after 11 years.
* March 23 - The cargo ship "EverGreen" [https://archive.today/AGpGo gets stuck in the Suez Canal,] pausing international trade. General threads made in [https://archive.today/m9z0t /pol/] later leading to tourists arriving and [https://archive.today/L1c0o discussing] on [https://archive.today/mfoNp /n/.] An open letter against Richard M. Stallman of GNU fame is brought forth, and /g/ doesn't like it. They [https://archive.today/oTrok create their own letter in support of him.] It eventually surpasses the original in signatures, and gets support from all over the world.
* March 24 - The expansive archive of yuki.la mysteriously dies without a clue as to what happened to it.
* March 27 - [https://archive.today/LPySg An anon from /g/] appears and declares to have scraped the text, URLs, and MD5 hashes from yuki.la in its entirety, rescuing mountains of posts that were briefly lost to time. No thumbnails or full res images appear to have been saved however, and it took till May 2nd for the anon to finish zipping (see that day).
* April 1 - New Boards: ○ '''/qb/ - Quebec'''. 
* April 1 - '''April Fool's 2021''' - Jannies ask for assistance against the leaf menace. Flags are removed from all boards. A live tracker count of Canadians in added to each board. A rake icon appears next to each post, where users can report posters suspected of being Canadians. Caught leafs are sent to ''Quebec'' for the time being, as well as anons who make too many false reports. A number of word filters are also added: "Sorry" becomes "based", "tranny" becomes "hoser", "out" becomes "oot", "about" becomes "aboot", "house" becomes "igloo", and "football" becomes "hockey". The board quickly becomes a slower /b/ due to a lack of rules, with various /mlp/ users willingly raking themselves in order to post more pony. Around 1PM EST posting site-wide is disabled for an unknown reason and returns a connection error when attempted. The website returned around 2:30PM. Later, /qb/ gets the Canadian flag as its background and gets songs like "O Canada", "Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback, "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber autoplaying as well.
* April 2 - /qb/ is frozen at 2:19am local time after 16289 posts and a shitload of ponies, leafs, and shitposting. The last post on the board was [https://archive.today/N67VU a screencap of a vore fetish green featuring Lyra from MLP.] A fitting end.
* April 3 - Faggot eceleb threads [https://archive.today/gtzqT take a vacation] to /qa/ as /v/'s favorite one, Vinny, is accused of sexual harassment. Merely by shitposting about it, they [https://archive.today/ZfiDQ receive the blame from Twitter] in an amazing display of intellectual disability.
* April 4 - The final chapter of Attack on Titan is released and /a/ was very vocal about it and not happy. The catalog suffers a meltdown and /a/ briefly surpasses /pol/ in posting speed as [https://archive.today/VCXs7 the ending] brings disappointment to many.
* April 9 - Around 1PM EST a new teaser for the new MLP movie drops, showcasing the last two main characters that were not seen in 3D yet. One of them looks like a carpet muncher and the other one is seen holding a smartphone. /mlp/ reaches 300% activity and [https://archive.today/C4pL4 a thread is stickied.]
* April 18-19 - European <s>soccer</s> ''footbol'' is changing as some major teams want to leave the FIFA's monopoly on everything ''footbol'' and want to form their own league called "European Super League". /sp/ activity rises and the entire board is covered with discussion on this.
* April 20 - Derick Chauvin found guilty of all charges. [https://archive.today/yozvH /pol/ has high activity] and [https://archive.today/mGrNL board is covered in this.] The European Super League also collapses when all the English clubs leave due to fan pressure. /sp/ celebrates.
* April 22 - Out of nowhere, [https://archive.today/u93DR moot leaves his position at Google.] Threads across the entire site pop up ([https://archive.today/btYej /qa/], [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/220906502/#220906502 /a/], [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/552896541/#552896541 /v/], [https://archive.today/GkBG8 /pol/]) to discuss it, and anons wonder if he'll ever come back, let alone do a Q&A.
* April 25 - /a/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/221041183 sticky] after a fourth Madoka Magica movie (Turning the Tide of Walpurgis) is announced for the anime's tenth anniversary.
* April 28 - IQDB has been down for 5 days, the reverse image search button for it is replaced by SauceNao.
* April 29 - /pw/ hits 999999 and 1mil get, 1mil gets scrubbed. 999999 is about blowing Stone Cold after he makes anon grab Stone Cold’s ass, reactions are mixed on win or fail.
* May 1 - After an eternity, the /mlp/ mods finally implement selectable pony waifu flags. There are eighty different icons to choose from, including main characters, side characters, board-centric characters like Anon and Anonfilly, Equestria Girls and Them's Fightin' Herds characters, the known G5 characters (at least those that were known when anons were creating the flags), and even the /mlp/ 4chan Cup logo. The reason it took so long is still uncertain, but likely due to the fact that the site's code itself had to be altered to accommodate them. [https://archive.today/jXLye Self-fellating thread that mods stickied.] Also on the same day, [https://archive.today/ekaD1 /vm/ gets an "Official Vidya Night"] with Alien Swarm Reactive drop being played.
* May 2 - After weeks of zipping and a scary period of silence, anon comes through with the [https://archive.today/TOQ4i yuki.la html scrape] and a torrent for it.
* May 5 - [https://archive.today/J1Zql LiveLeak shuts down after fifteen years of service,] saving countless Chinese steel factory workers from a grisly death. On the same day, the 4chan House Shimmie goes down after the admin account is suspended.
* May 8 - 4chan House Shimmie is up again. Its suspension a result of it [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/122852570/#122858568 becoming compromised] due to poor cybersecurity against botted attacks, no thanks to its antiquated software. Board-tans live on!
* May 9 - A bunch of 4channel (not 4chan) boards start to go down on occasional reloads due to a "400 Bad Request" error relating to nginx. A temporary fix is available by deleting certain 4channel cookies, though the error pops back up again later.
* May 19 - During a time of uncertain change and racial justice, [https://archive.today/Jt67d /biz/ encourages all to have "Positive Vibes Only" in a stickied thread.] In actuality, crypto is crashing and [https://archive.today/ar6L5 all hell is breaking loose, with pink wojacks.]
* May 20 - Kentaro Miura, the creator of manga series ''Berserk'', passes away. [https://archive.today/g1jTo /a/ gets a sticky.] Eurovision, or something with eyesight idk i'm not swedish, begins, [https://archive.today/G4uI8 /int/ gets sticky] and rogue Australia-ist MOO-derator [https://archive.today/PQZGF stickies a Minecraft House Rate thread.] Bans are given to disrespectful repliers but may be lies.
* May 21 - [https://archive.today/mUbuc /lgbt/ makes sticky] discussing upcoming "Pride Month" thread improvements from [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/15781584 last year.]
* May 24 - [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/323039250/#323042414 A Belgian anon on /pol/ reveals] that he and a team of three other people used a public database to sign up to 750000 people to Walmart with the name "Nigger Coon", making them send automated emails that say "Welcome to Walmart, Nigger!" Twitter gets outraged and Walmart is forced to issue a statement.
* June 1 - /lgbt/ gets its [https://archive.today/3dBI0 pride month sticky] ([https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/20824120 alternate archive]).
* June 3 - A mod stickies their [https://warosu.org/ck/thread/S16217041 among us shitpost] on /ck/. the thread is later deleted.
* June 5-10 - '''Snoot Game''' - Anons [https://archive.today/wip/PcyNX complete a parody of Goodbye Volcano High] called "snoot game" before the game is even released, just so they could [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/558234035/#558254721 showcase it for /v/3.] The game quickly grows popular on /v/, and then the mods start deleting all threads about it. Someone [https://archive.today/6UPq3 confronts them about this] on 4chan's IRC and receives unsatisfying answers. The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, and particularly of the moderator "I AM ABIB".
* June 6 - /tv/ learns about Tariq Nasheed's (black Alex Jones) documentary "Buck Breaking", which claims that gay white slaveholders would rape black male slaves (this literally did not happen). By the end of the next day, [https://archive.today/WpmOK almost 80% of /tv/ threads are memes about the documentary.]
* June 9 - A snoot game thread gets [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/39271068 stickied on /trash/]. It's quickly unstickied and replaced with a [https://desuarchive.org/trash/chunk/39297776/ new snoot game sticky made by a mod] ([https://archive.today/TWCiC alternate archive]). This thread remains stickied on /trash/ for nearly two months, prompting a ton of [https://booru.snootgame.xyz/ fanart], fanfiction and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncQoXSJJhgg&ab_channel=examanon 4chan sings project]. On /qa/, mods congratulate Hiro on getting 1 million subscribers on Youtube by embedding a fuckload of shit on a sticky Hiro promptly asks how to :stopmusic: and soyjaks raid the thread.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4504941/]
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* June 10 - A /biz/raeli buys the www.battlefield2042.com domain name and [https://archive.today/BjkOe after EA doesn't reach out to him] makes it [https://archive.today/iD8Wh redirect to /pol/.]
* June 16 - Mod tells the greatest secret of 4chan. It was mac minis. Always was.<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/82105896/#82107781]</ref>
* June 17 - The oldest living thread (non-stickied) on 4chan, [https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/po/thread/535361 a Pepakura thread on /po/], dies after 1990 days as a result of the soyjak.party faggots who spammed new threads and bumped existing ones to kill ancient /po/ threads. [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/109567945 Flag icons for England, Scotland, and Wales get added to /sp/], conveniently before England and Scotland are due to play each other in the Euro tournament. Northern Ireland users are stuck with the UK flag. /pol/, /bant/, and /int/ do not get the new flags (yet).
* June 18 - The Euro match between England and Scotland is [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/109621957 stickied on /sp/.] On a completely different note, the "He Will Not Divide Us" flag stolen from Greeneville 4 years earlier (see 2017 section) was [https://web.archive.org/web/20210921193520/https://www.greenevillesun.com/news/local_news/he-will-not-divide-us-flag-recovered-returned-to-artist/article_9edcbf7b-8d8f-5366-96a5-789a8309cb34.html| returned to Luke Turner], one of the three artists (along with Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Shia Labeouf) of the anti-Trump exhibit of the same name.
* June 25 - On /mlp/, new screenshots of the G5 movie emerge in book previews, and a thread about it gets [https://archive.today/1zjQx stickied.]
* June 26 - The RAID controller for 4chan's server fails and site becomes unavailable for a little over 4 hours. The night turns into morning by the time the problems are over. /int/ and /qa/ lose their entire archive.
* June 27 - In /qa/'s Happening Thread, Developer Mr. VacBob shows up and explains the RAID controller works proper after being power cycled. He then has a very short Q&A with the anon's in the thread where he explains he was always a volunteer, and things like new boards often happen through consensus rather than hierarchy, plus a couple personal questions, thankfully not alerting the entire site in the process.<ref>Thread. Desuarchive [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4590748/#4591916] - Archive.is [https://archive.today/YUWRk]
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* June 28 - The /PNN/ - /pol/ News Network general, yellow pages-like general (featuring a podcast) meant to make the board "easier to use" is moved to /qa/ for the first time due to being a meta thread. The userbase of this general was not used to boards outside /pol/, and when besieged by /qa/'s catalog of shitposters they became hopelessly panicked. Several threads were made on /pol/ that tried to go back or raid /qa/, but the users of /qa/ reported them each time and pulled them back in to milk the lulz. The war rages on for a few days to a week as /PNN/ can do nothing and drowns in soyduels, leebait, tranny baiting, anime spam and falseflag trolling.<ref>
Original /pol/ thread. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/327808495/]</br>
Moved /qa/ thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4598100/]</br>
/qa/ shitposters stalking /pnn/ [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4602534/]</br>
Subsequent moved threads. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/subject/pnn/order/asc/]</br>
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* June 30 - Voice actors for the G5 movie are revealed and /mlp/ talks about it. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37193117 Another one.]
* July 2 - /v/ gets the [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/562327114/#562327114 doom source code] leaked on /v/.
* July 5 - A new '''Inline CAPTCHA''' is implemented. New announcement saying ''"New CAPTCHA testing thread is [ttps://boards.4channel.org/qa/thread/4644876 here]."'' with a link to a /qa/ rolling sticky. Sliders cause low-IQ retards to froth, mobileniggers are utterly btfo while others are thankful they don't have to click 20 bicycles to post anymore, anons go apeshit in the sticky which reportedly jumped above 1000% usual activity, breaking /qa/'s board reply record with 36613 replies. Many usually fast boards such as /biz/ and /bant/ see their activity rates absolutely plummet, which should give you an idea of the average poster there (they recovered the next week tho'). Mod teases anons who think captcha's too hard.<ref>
Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4644876/]</br>
Announcement and thread. [https://archive.today/soz86]</br>
Post. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/capcode/mod/start/2021-07-05/end/2021-07-06/]</br>
Activity on July 05 [https://i.imgur.com/syAXKrU.png]</br>
</ref> Meanwhile, the audio software Audacity gets called "spyware" after recent data collection changes by the new owners, leading to a forking of the project on Github. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/82402134 /g/ finds the naming poll] and pushes "Sneedacity" which leads to analblasting by GitTards and the fork's creator, who claims 4chan trolls are calling him IRL (100% a lie). Somebody else lies and claims "Sneed" is a slur meaning "Special Needs". While the original poll/fork is deleted, /g/ users make their own Sneedacity fork.
* July 5-7 - According to 4stats data, posting activity on 4chan dropped by nine to thirteen percent following the addition of the new captcha. For specific boards at peak times immediately surrounding the new Captcha's addition, /a/ dropped by 30%, /b/ dropped by 11%, /co/ dropped by 24%, /fit/ dropped by 28%, /int/ dropped by 28%, /mu/ dropped by 19%, /pol/ dropped by 2.5%, /r9k/ dropped by 31%, /tv/ dropped by 21%, /v/ dropped by 13%, /vg/ dropped by 11%. Some boards, like /biz/, /g/, /sp/, /tg/, /trash/, and /x/, increase in activity for various reasons (Sneedacity, Euros, etcetera).
* July 7 - An anon on /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/562986690/ makes a thread] showing off his drawing of his donut steel Starfy OC: a star with boxing gloves. Anons immediately fall in love with the character and create a mountain of fanart (including porn) of him, as well as a female version. Anons ultimately decide to name him Starfist the Fistar. [https://archive.today/Zp3hc Alternate archive.]
* July 08 - An anon on the Happenings general discovers that he can lock a post from being reported by anyone by reporting a post then reporting a second post before the 15 seconds timer ends. It's fixed days later.<ref>Anon explains how he did it. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4692003/#4699153]</ref>
* July 11 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/chunk/110843819/ /sp/ gets a sticky for the Euro 2020 final between England and Italy.] Celebrations of "it's coming home" turn to "it's coming Rome" as England does what it does best and chokes in the penalty shootout (coincidentally, they're managed by the guy who choked his penalty at Euro 1996). The sticky becomes the largest thread in /sp/ history, beating out Super Bowl LII. /sp/ peaks at 600 posts per minute post-game and the board ends up with 115000 posts in a day, easily outdoing every day of the 2018 World Cup. [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/110878290/#110879128 England says the line.] The England mockery on the board is further increased over how all three black players missed their penalties, after the English team kneeled for diversity and anti-racism prior to every game, and /sp/ basks in the Twitter and YouTube cope.
* July 13 - England, Wales, and Scotland flags are removed now that the Euros are over. All bongs now post under the Union Jack once more.
* July 27 - Joey Jordison passes away suddenly. /mu/ gets [https://archive.today/tCCaS a sticky.]
* July 28 - Just a day later, Dusty Hill also passes, with [https://archive.today/zpnjo another sticky] on /mu/.
* July 30 - The Chris-chan Saga is almost certainly over: A leaked chat and phone call in which Chris-chan literally admits that he is fucking his 80 year old mentally-deficient mother makes the rounds. The shitstorm begins a-brewing on [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/64764372 /r9k/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/332124544 /pol/]. "CHRIS CHAN DID WHAT" trends on Twitter. Kiwi Farms struggles to handle the influx of users. Greene County police is contacted and within a few hours of the leak, [https://kiwifarms.net/threads/chris-chan-incest-leak-chris-has-been-removed-from-14-branchland-court.96559/ Chris is removed from his base of operations (and probably put in a cell) and his mother is taken to a hospital to be assessed.] Mother/son incest in Virginia is a Class 5 Felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison if Chris-chan is convicted of the felony, or up to 12 months if convicted of the misdemeanor (and that's not accounting for likely rape and senior abuse charges). Following his removal, Chris-chan attempts to stay with extended family, but instead gets the boot and has to sleep at a hotel. Joshua Moon, the Kiwi Farms op and Chris-chan simp who'd set up a GoFundMe  to help Chris get to the Everfree Northwest convention, learns that they've just banned him and announces that he is refunding the donors.
* July 31 - The saga gets more retarded. Joshua Moon discovers that Chris-chan [https://kiwifarms.net/threads/chris-chan-incest-leak-chris-has-been-removed-from-14-branchland-court.96559/page-407#post-9580110 has stolen $750 out of his mother's bank account], violating the emergency protective order he'd just been put under. He calls the cops on him and finally declares that he's done helping Chris-chan. He also releases private chat logs from a month prior in which Chris-chan talked about his new girlfriend.
* August 1 - The cops finally descend on Chris-chan at the Regency Inn in Richmond, Virginia. Chris-chan is arrested and the arrest is streamed for the world to see. The Henrico County Sheriff's Office shows that he is officially being charged with incest. The snoot game sticky on /trash/ is finally unstickied after 67129 posts, making it the 4th largest thread in the history of 4chan.
* August 6 - The /funkg/ general of /vg/ [https://archive.today/dsTYt releases a long awaited mod of Friday Night Funkin'] featuring the classic /v/-tan and Cancer Lord from 3 Angled Blue's original comic about the Positron Uprising (2008, 10th of September) and [https://archive.today/5r6qn is received] with the [https://archive.today/3mMoZ closest thing to critical acclaim] such a thing could get on 4chan.
* August 7 - A deranged Aussie shitposter [https://archive.today/JZp3N dumps his screencaps on /qa/] after slowly making one new Hololive thread on /jp/ each day to piss everyone off. Eventually they flood the catalog and the Meido shows too little intellect to delete the faux on-topic threads. /jp/ is ruined!
* August 8 - Isabella Loretta Janke, the person Chris was talking to when he admitted to fucking his mother, is exposed. She is revealed to have boiled a hamster alive, driven a transgender student to suicide ''(keyed)'', and lied to prevent the recording from being disclosed, among many other horrifying acts. [https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Isabella_Loretta_Janke She almost makes Chris look like a goody two shoes.]
* August 12 - The trailer for the upcoming G5 movie "My Little Pony: A New Generation" is released, and /mlp/ gets a [https://archive.today/JblGS sticky.] The reaction to the trailer is a resounding "meh", much to the dismay of doominggers and hopefags alike, although a book detailing the movie's whole plot was leaked a week early just a few hours later.
* August 13 - A Britbong /trv/eler named Miles Routledge [https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2075339 posts from Kabul, Afghanistan] as the country is caught up in the Taliban resurgence. [https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2076699 Miles continues] posting [https://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2078614 subsequent threads] that become the most popular in /trv/ history. [https://archive.today/UjRgG Routledge gets recognition in the media over his Facebook updates.] With flights out of Kabul stopped, [[Lord Miles]] is trapped.
* August 14 - The Friday Night Funkin' vs. /v/ mod gets canned after the alternate ending to "/v/ goes to the cinemas" is found in the files. Twittertards apparently think they've downloaded CP. The mod remains downloadable through MEGA links. Later, the original creator of the comic draws an official response to the drama which ends just like the alternate ending to the infamous comic.
* August 15 - The tenth anniversary 4chan World Cup ends with /s4s/ going on an insane run to beat /b/ 3-1 in the final. [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9843882 The board gets a sticky with Hip To Be Square embedded.]
* August 17 - Lord Miles is successfully evacuated out of Kabul and lands safely in Dubai.
* August 20 - [https://archive.today/zr414 /vt/ engages] in a shitposting [https://archive.today/25PXi skirmish with a 5ch thread] over a [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/cookie%E2%98%86-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E2%98%86 "Cookie"]-derived Vtuber, which is the only interesting thing /vt/ can do.
* September 1 - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4970397/ 'Jak historians on /qa/ discover bombshell evidence] that the original soyjak, previously believed to have been posted by a swede on December 30th, 2017 possibly wasn't truly the first, putting the "swedish win" theory in jeopardy. While the swede's soyjak is the one that became ubiquitous, another very different looking soyboy edit of wojak was posted more than a month before on /v/. Swedish detractors argued that it doesn't count as a soyjak, sparking philosophical debate as to what truly makes a 'jak and causing anti-sweden sentiments on /qa/ to grow.
* September 9 - It's Cirno day! The mods sticky a [https://archive.today/JU5JD Cirno thread] on /bant/. The song Chirumiru is also reportedly played on [s4s]'s catalog.
* September 10 - Ms. /co/ begins but due to heavy moderation of "hype" threads a feud [https://archive.today/K7Z03 results between the mods and anons.] Dozens upon dozens of anons flood into the IRC to complain, and eventually they manage to settle things with some talk. Ms. /co/ is saved!
* September 12 - A complete and utter newfag [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/570613502/ makes a /v/ thread] asking to know more about /v/-tan and Cancer Lord, as FNF Vs. /v/ has become surprisingly popular amongst normalfags. Anons humor him and mock his newfaghood. Suddenly, a link to his Discord server appears, and anons discover from it that OP is a gay black underaged furry who engages in fake ERP. OP tries to damage control, but it's far too late as anons have a field day shitting on him for 700 posts. Thus ends one of the lulziest threads of all time.
* September 16 - Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum dies at age 81. /vr/ gets a [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/8144197 sticky.]
* September 17 - Simu Liu (the lead actor in Marvel's new Asian capeshit movie) gets exposed as a r/aznidentity (racist Asian incels) user called "nippedinthebud" who also [https://archive.today/qGeDL helped start a war against 4chan by...crowdfunding and making an AM/WF porno?] ...and also defended "non-offending pedophiles".
* September 15 - In a completely unexpected reveal, the news site Polygon exposes Japanese toy & figurine company, '''Good Smile Company, Inc''' as co-owner of 4chan together with Nishimura himself and Nishimura's company, after members of it's american branch are taken to court over breach of contract. The news however fail to garner much impact on 4chan in general.<ref>Polygon article. [https://www.polygon.com/22675642/nendoroid-toymaker-goodsmile-lawsuit] - archive.is [https://archive.today/Q2wvw]</br>
Little reaction on /pol/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/%22good%20smile%22/start/2021-09-20/end/2021-12-30/order/asc/]</br>
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* October 1 - 4chan turns 18, now making it officially older than some people who aren't underage posters. Party hats return and [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9922923/ /s4s/ also gets a sticky as soon as it turns to midnight.]
* October 5 - [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/83691438/ Someone leaks a metric fuckload of source code from Twitch onto /g/.] Leaked data includes the codes from Twitch properties such as CurseForge, a bunch of Twitch clients, and most importantly: a massive log of each streamer's income from 2019-2021. The latter is put up onto a [https://web.archive.org/web/20211007001100/https://www.twitchearnings.com/ website] where people can find out just how much streamers make. Big names like xQc, Hasan "Make The Rich Pay" Abi, Asmangold, Cr1tikal, shroud, pokimane, tommyinnit, and Ninja made more than a million dollars over the course of two years.
* October 7 - Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama dies at the age of 90. Stickies are made on [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/573667838 /v/], [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/8211519/ /vr/] and [https://arch.b4k.dev/vrpg/thread/2163142 /vrpg/], with the /v/ and /vr/ stickies autoplaying music from the series.
* October 10-11 - /pol/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/343043007 raids the Southwest Airlines discussion forum] after their employees walk out to protest the vaccine mandate, which resulted in many cancelled flights that they blamed on weather and ATC issues (both bullshit to anyone who knows planes, but they probably had shit-eating grins while they said it). [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/343006728 A fake Southwest tweet blaming the far-right circulates.] The forums then get taken down for maintenance.
* October 12 - Two days after the 11th anniversary of FiM's premiere and 2 days after being admitted to a hospital, the CEO of Hasbro, Brian Goldberg, dies. The coincidence makes Anons wonder whether Chris Chan's prophecy of Hasbro suffering drastic consequences for not making more seasons of FiM instead of G5 came true.
* October 21 - Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots two people on a movie set, killing one. Anon on /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/158000521/ leaks the story].
* October 23 - The 9th /v/ the Musical [https://archive.today/H9f6I releases] for the year with 160 parodies in total.
* November 3 - The [https://archived.moe/lgbt/search/deleted/deleted/type/op/start/2021-11-2/end/2021-11-4/ /lgbt/ catalog was raided] [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5366311/#5366336 with hanging tranny soyjaks] by /qa/ and [https://archive.today/HAuqr soyjak.party.] /qa/ later has posting disabled, and all non-meta threads [https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/start/2021-11-3/end/2021-11-4/ deleted,] [https://archive.today/OIKHY leaving a grand total of 12 posts.] The happenings threads, a popular general on /qa/, begins being [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/42889476 hosted on /trash/] for the time being. 'Jakkers and /qa/nons alike fear /qa/ is in danger now that Operation Clean Stable is in full swing.
* November 4-5 - /qa/ is [https://archive.today/5GnHN reduced to the 4chan Happenings, Not A Happening, and the sticky threads.] Posting is still disabled and users begin flocking to other boards as well as [[soyjak.party]]. Rumors are circulating that a /qa/ discord server orchestrated the /lgbt/ raid (while the existence of the server was proven, it has since changed its name and many posts from the days of this event were deleted, most of which were not screencapped. This makes it difficult to tell who was "truly" behind the raid- /qa/, [[soyjak.party]] or the discord server. It's all very confusing).  A meta thread is [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368011/ moved from /a/ to /qa/,] then subsequently deleted. Meanwhile, /qa/ refugees, driven by the party and the discord server, [https://archive.today/GnVGS culturally enrich /bant/] with 'jaks and try to make it their new home on 4chan, causing the board to [https://archive.today/Pe1XZ spike in activity.] The mods start deleting all soyjak threads and banning anyone who posts them for "cross-board raiding". A few links to the discord server are given out on /bant/ and the situation gets more chaotic as /bant/ natives and /qa/ refugees continue to wrestle for control over the board. For some reason, a few /vt/fags decide to join in on the fun and help fight back the invaders by spamming gawr gura. Eventually things calmed down but /bant/ retained a higher level of activity than it had before, and while many /qa/ refugees left for soyjak.party, some of them stayed and continued to post /qa/ memes on /bant/. This shitstorm is known as the great /qa/-/bant/ merge.
* November 6 - /co/ [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/126848381/ rediscovers] the Honeyback Queen, an unused character from Bee Movie who appears in a suggestive [https://files.catbox.moe/la5x3k.mp4 deleted scene] with her and Barry. Another [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/127665377/ thread] later gets made where anons create a bunch of art to celebrate and masturbate to their newfound waifu. The OP embarks on [https://archived.moe/b/thread/868900000/ a] [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/127722815/ mission] to contact the film's staff on Twitter to remind them of the cut character.
* November 10 - Richard Kyanka, AKA Lowtax, the founder of Something Awful, [https://archive.today/ySzU3 is confirmed dead.] A sitewide message is displayed: '''🙏 RIP Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka 🙏 Our dad who disowned us'''
* November 12 - The mods do some [https://archive.today/Dx382 CSS fuckery in a lain thread on /g/,] confirming lain is still the queen.
* November 16 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/578279059 Recette] is elected Queen of /v/ for 2021. Everyone on /v/ feels a little more jewish.
* November 18 - [s4s]'s memetable is finally finished and the result is [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9993499 stickied.]
* November 19 - After four days of jury deliberations, Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all five charges pertaining to his shooting of three convicts in self-defence during the Kenosha riots. [https://archive.today/HLTci /pol/ gets a sticky with music.] (or view on [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/348399785/ 4plebs])
* November 21 - [s4s] reaches 10 million digits. The [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9999867/#9999999 9999999 GET] declares /jp/ their girlfren, while the [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9999967/#10000000 10000000 GET] is stolen by [[soyjak.party]], mods seethe and the thread gets deleted.
* November 24-25 - [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/66297471 /r9k/] and [https://warosu.org/ck/thread/S17035985 /ck/] get stickies for thanksgiving.
* November 27 - /d/ finally reaches the 10 million mark (and it only took 18 years!). [[soyjak.party]] tries to [https://archive.today/bEl6r steal the digits] but fails to hit both [https://desuarchive.org/d/thread/9992922/#9999999 9999999] and [https://desuarchive.org/d/thread/9982820/#10000000 10000000], which were taken by regular image posts instead.
* November 28 - Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer and gets a [https://archive.today/SVtVc sticky on /fa/.] Norwegian youtuber Tor Eckhoff dies after falling through thin ice and gets a [https://archive.today/N6Tq5 sticky on /bant/.]
* December 4 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20211204170702/https://iili.io/5y4jxj.png Bitcoin tanks] from 52000 BTC/USD to 46000 BTC/USD in 40 minutes, and /biz/ gets a [https://archive.today/AFQNh doom sticky] with Kanye West's "flashing lights" embedded in the background. In less then 30 minutes, the thread is unstickied and locked.
* December 7 - The Batter gets [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/580588660 voted for king of /v/ 2021] after a very climactic finale. The tournament produced hundreds of pieces of OC.
* December 8 - Barry Harris dies at age 91 and gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/107498759 sticky on /mu/].
* December 9 - Masayuki Uemura, lead designer for the NES and Super NES consoles, dies at the age of 78. [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/S8403383 /vr/ gets a sticky.] /v/ gets a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/580919526/ game awards watchalong sticky.] Genshin Impact wins the award for best mobile game but the presentor accidently says "Jenshin" instead of Genshin, and the mods [https://archive.today/aXUMd shitpost about it in the Genshin Impact general on /vg/.]
* December 10 - Mike Nesmith dies at age 78. [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/107535730/ /mu/ gets a sticky.]
* December 11 - Baneposting officially turns ten years old and /tv/ gets an [https://archive.today/FLSPu epic sticky] with embedded gifs and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJroOnp7-Rg music.] [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/581251715 A random Lanky Kong thread on /v/] also gets the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAaB66b_r1c&ab_channel=juanmacrespo87 plane scene from The Dark Knight Rises] embedded in the background, but it later gets deleted.
* December 19 - A guy on /g/'s /cumg/ general [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/84836699/#84839113 creates the Third Eye extension,] which allows you to post additional files from a booru by putting the second file's MD5 hash in the container file's filename, and only those with the extension can see the additional file.<ref>Commit history on [https://git.coom.tech/cunnysoft/third-eye/commits/branch/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%9A%E3%82%8A?page=4 git.coom.tech]</ref> This is later followed by the PEE (PNG Extra Embedder) and Media Embedder scripts which let you embed ANY additional file(s) in the container file directly as well as third eye capibilities.
* December 23 - [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/84890341/#84898735 /g/ finishes their first album titled "Shitposting Fundementals".]
* December 24 - 4chan gets festive with all the boards getting the traditional Christmas hats, along with falling snow and the entire site switching to the Tomorrow theme and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey] being embedded on the front page of every board. A sitewide message, "All I Want For Christmas Is ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJresi7z_YM You])" is added as well. Christmas themed fortunes are enabled site-wide and newfags who don't know how to use them get trolled. You can see all these fortunes in [https://archive.today/wEfOa [thread 1]] [https://archive.today/YEUtJ [thread 2].] /a/ gets its annual [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/232079335/ tsundere christmas carol sticky.] /tv/ invades r/a/dio and the baneposting parody of a visit from St. Nicholas is read out. After 52 days of /qa/ being frozen and the locked sticky, the happenings thread and the /nah/- not a happening thread being the only threads left on the catalog, [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5347698/#5347698 the /nah/ thread] gets deleted for some reason.
* December 25 - /sci/ gets a sticky for [https://boards.fireden.net/sci/thread/14006678 the launch of the James Webb Telescope.] [https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/30595281/ /x/schizos are in shambles.] Padoru gifs and runscape music gets embedded in [https://archive.today/bA9xA the /v/ annual collage thread.] /tv/ gets [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/161184421 the usual christmas bane sticky.]
* December 27 - Richard Marcinko dies, [https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/51477582 /k/ gets a sticky.] [https://archive.today/oFimn /jp/ orginizes a farewell card for the touhou doujin circle FELT.]
* December 28 - Grichka Bogdanoff dies. [https://archived.moe/biz/thread/44901746 /biz/ gets a sticky] while Bitcoin "coincidentally" sinks. John Madden dies. [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/116317230 /sp/ gets a sticky.] In some cross-site shenanigans, a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/583059614/ /v/ thread] gets made reacting to a [https://anago.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/ghard/1640645609/0- 2channel thread] reacting to a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/582902836/ /v/ thread] reacting to a [https://www.gematsu.com/2021/12/over-50000-japanese-users-vote-for-their-favorite-console-games-in-tv-asahi-poll-top-100-announced list] of Japan's favorite console games. Epic inter-website lulz and shitflinging are had.
* December 31 - Betty White dies at 99, [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/161537368 /tv/ gets a sticky.] To celebrate the new year, [https://archive.today/L4tGZ gifs of dancing anime girls cover the screen on /a/,] along with a [https://archive.today/AxFDa r/a/dio sticky to play various music.]

===2022===
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* January 1 - /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/583439376 stickies] International Wrestling Festival's 2022 gachimuchi collab.
* January 2 - On /trash/, a Cirnoposter claims the [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/44444444/ 44444444 GET.] 
* January 3 - Igor Bogdanoff dies six days after Grichka, [https://archived.moe/biz/thread/45083736 /biz/ gets another sticky.]
* January 9 - 4chan passes 4 billion total posts. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/chunk/162055119 /tv/ gets a sticky for the death of Bob Saget.] /biz/ gets a new locked sticky, [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/21374000#p21374000 replacing the image of hiro] with [https://archive.today/EnzzO an image of Sminem and the Bogdanoff twins.]
* January 11 - After they started growing popular outside of /g/, the mods kill the PEE and Media Embedder extensions, probably because some people used them to secretly post child models. The third eye script is still usable, [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/85161913/ but /cumg/ is in disarray.]
* January 14 - [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/85205005/#85210246 The mods completely crack down on /cumg/,] locking the thread and [https://desuarchive.org/g/search/subject/%2Fcumg%2F/end/2022-01-17/ banning all subsequent attempts to recreate the general.] /cumg/ takes refuge in a mostly dead /jp/ spinoff 2chen.moe (formerly .org)<ref>https://archive.today/offset=20/2chen.moe</ref>, which is later killed by the admin, presumably after he realized what /cumg/ and ecker were doing. That site is cloned into sturdychan in January 2023.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20230118080521/https://sturdychan.help/tv/</ref>
* Janurary 20 - /vp/ starts meming hard about Pokemon Legends Arceus revealing that apparently all pokemon have the abillity to shrink, [https://archive.today/nIWsj the catalog drowns in shrinkposting for the next few days.]
* January 21 - [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/108318065 /mu/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/chunk/162673034 /tv/] get stickies for the death of Meat Loaf. /tv/ gets [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/chunk/162673182 another sticky] for the death of Louie Anderson. Russia proposes to ban cryptocurrency and bitcoin expectedly plummets, [https://archive.today/xJ0c4 /biz/ goes into another pink frenzy and gets a sticky.] Other boards discuss the event as well, and many anons on /v/ celebrate the potential death of bitcoin mining in hopes that GPUs will be affordable again.
* January 24  - Lucifer And The Bicuit Hammer is announced to be recieving an anime adaptation, [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/233375528/ /a/ gets a hype sticky.]
* January 28-29 - [https://archived.moe/b/thread/871600804/ 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 [https://archived.moe/x/thread/30861012#30893136 image embedded from /x/.] Another post with the comment "we need your help. don't give up. keep searching. -M" with [https://archived.moe/x/thread/30861012/#30893267 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.)" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3RjLpA7t8 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220129160216/https://iili.io/lk7au2.jpg this image] for a little while. /b/,[https://archived.moe/b/thread/871614553/] /pol/[https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/358659726/#358670967][https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/358683722/] and /x/[https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/30894373/] have a field day. At the same time the mods embed neco arc gifs in [https://archive.today/Kdamp a /b/ thread] and briefly embed the smaller one on the /b/ catalog. Also around the same time, a 34 year old in Utah named Christopher Poole is arrested for receiving CP. Despite the name and approximate age matching up (we still don't know his birthday), it's not the real moot. Several boards discuss the event.[https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/233588608][https://archive.today/hDum7][https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/30893605/][https://archive.today/Dqls7]
* January 31 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/359027537/ The Christopher Poole that got arrested for CP makes his first appeareace in court, confirming he's not moot.]
* February 4 - [https://archive.today/oi4Ca /his/ gets raided] by [[soyjak.party]] and 8 pages are wiped, the mods restored the archived threads to repopulate the catalog. [[soyjak.party|The party]] also tried to steal the [https://archived.moe/news/thread/1000000/#1000000 1000000] GET on /news/ but it's taken by an anti Trump news post, the [https://archived.moe/news/thread/999952/#q999999 999999 GET was a post saying "no." in a raid thread and linking to /qa/.] A /mu/tant makes a thread supposedly leaking Godspeed You! Black Emperor's legendary lost album "All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling", more threads are made about it and attract a ton of attention, including that of the band's discord server which goes into a panic state. Following that the threads devolve into discord drama shitflinging as people try to figure out if the leak is real or not.[https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/108589111/][https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/108593818/][https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/108596566/][https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/108599421/]
* Feburary 13 - Kiwi Farms is taken down by a DDoS for the umpteenth time, prompting users of the site to make a [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/14479527/ refugee general] on /bant/. When opened in the brave browser, Kiwi Farms even directs you to the /bant/ threads. The mods occasionally delete their threads, and occasionally allow them to stay up. In the meantime, /bant/ natives spam the general. After mods delete the Kiwi colonies a couple times, the message on the site changes to say [https://web.archive.org/web/https://iili.io/0SNoLG.png ''"The transgender moderators of 4chans' board for any topic has started deleting our threads so I don't know what to tell you."''][https://archive.alice.al/bant/thread/14483305/][https://archived.moe/bant/thread/14487267/][https://archived.moe/bant/thread/14487568/][https://archive.alice.al/bant/thread/14490001/]. 
* February 14 - [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/108793498/ The leaked Godspeed You! Black Emperor album is confirmed to be real.]
* February 17 - /mlp/ celebrates the 10th year of it's existence. As if on cue, Hasbro releases a preview of the upcoming G5 2D YouTube shorts meant to accompany the upcoming 3D series. They are all presented in the typical Cal-Arts style and the board goes apeshit. In addition, several VAs from the 2021 movie confirm that they won't be returning for the series.
* February 23 - Russia invades Ukraine, /pol/ goes apeshit and gets [https://archive.today/jp6zr a sticky saying "SOVIET INVASION CONFIRMED " and with Hell March from Command & Conquer Red Alert embedded]. /k/ is forever turned into a board dedicated to Ukraine war with its original posters fleeing to other sites as /k/ is filled with off topic /pol/ posters who accuse each other of being an Indian or Russian poster. Any thread opened that isn't about the Ukraine war automatically gets treated as a slide thread.
* February 25 - Spice & Wolf season 3, one of /a/'s never evers, gets announced; [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/234693234 /a/ gets a sticky in response].
* February 26 - The Soviet invasion sticky on /pol/ is unstickied after 88034 posts, making it the second largest ever thread in 4chan history.
* February 27 - [https://archive.today/EMf6g HARMONY returns to /v/.]
* March 4 - [https://archive.today/fncwE Sole janitor applications for /tv/.] Australian cricket legend Shane Warne dies of a heart attack, hours after another Australian cricket legend died of a heart attack (which Warne commemorated on Twitter). [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/118190024 /sp/ gets a sticky.] 
* March 10 - After many delays, /v/ finally [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/591543398/ releases] its highly anticipated third Super Mario World collab hack, Super Mario /v/orld: New Vegas, an ambitious project made with assistance from [s4s] and /vr/.
* March 13 - /a/ gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/235291285 a sticky] to mourn the death of ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' Illustrator Ikumi Mia. 
* March 19 - A meta thread is [https://archived.moe/pw/thread/4918414/ moved from /pw/] to [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368066 /qa/,] the first time this has happened since November 4th. The christmas theme is also subsequently disabled on the catalog, locked sticky and index.
* March 21 - /a/ gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/235579969 a sticky] to celebrate the 19th anniversary of ''Yotsuba&!''
* March 25 - 4chan occasionally slows to a crawl and the CAPTCHA becomes unloadable, resulting in posting essentially being impossible for brief periods of time.
* March 26 - The /pw/ thread moved to /qa/ gets deleted.
* March 28 - Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars. [https://archive.today/gq2nu /tv/] and [https://archive.today/GkW6q /pol/] drown in threads about the event, an exploitable frame based on the slap and within hours self serve ads with slap edits are up all over the site. Slap edit threads are often met with hostility on other boards due to suspicion that the whole thing was staged for views.
* March 30 - [https://archive.today/307RQ Mods start teasing a Lobotomy Corporation-themed April Fools prank on /v/.] Music is embedded and several anons are publicly banned, including a mod who fucked up the CSS in a post. Jack Maxey, one of the guys involved in leaking data from Hunter Biden's laptop, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220402100050/https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/370195796/#370203543 makes a post on /pol/.]
* April 1 - April Fools rolls around again. Discord-style emotes are added to the site, with people able to roll for them with points given out every 5 minutes as well as collect which emotes they've seen other anons post. [https://archive.today/z6Kde You can see all the emotes in this thread.] The site gets filled up with threads sharing emotes so people can complete their collections. Various boards get stickies: /v/ gets [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/594007980 a repeat of its sticky from April Fools 2019], [https://archive.today/63S17 /lgbt/ gets one about Discord trannies], [https://archive.today/hvU4i /aco/ gets a dance thread with Dr. Dick embedded], [https://archive.today/3M4Ey /int/ gets one that just says "Slovak cat"], and [https://archive.today/O1zd7 <nowiki>[s4s]</nowiki> gets one celebrating its 9th birthday]. [https://archive.today/3CPnP /vp/ asks if u liek mudkips] and /v/ gets [https://archive.today/1xfH2 a modpost thread about Longcat]. Abnormalities start appearing in the /v/ sticky before breaking containment, spreading to [https://archive.today/EGA4k /v/], [https://archive.today/HlBLk /vg/], [https://archive.today/OyAS2 /vst/] and [https://archive.today/bWl0h /tg/]. A [[soyjak.party|soyjak]] thread is [https://archive.today/Heck5 moved from /s4s/] [https://archive.today/wb75r to /qa/,] then quickly deleted, presumably the mods were just trolling /qa/ diaspora[https://archive.today/9ErMD][https://archived.moe/bant/thread/14847189] Reddit brings back r/place, announcing it days in advance this time. /pol/ raids the large trans flag at the center, falseflagging Epita and Mexico/Italy into helping to erase the east side and the british into taking the west. Reddit jannies step in to ban a bunch of people's throwaway accounts ([https://archive.today/jRPpg/ and get caught cheating on video]) and /pol/ jannies start nuking every r/place thread increasingly quickly, only allowing them on /b/, /mlp/ and off-topic boards that didn't want to help from then on.[https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/370541631]
* April 2 - The abnormalities spread further to [https://archive.today/ux0V2 /pol/] and [https://archive.today/T054F /trash/], before culminating in [https://archive.today/83y6m another /v/ sticky to close out April Fools]. All emotes are unlocked for all posters for a few hours, giving some anons hope they'd stay, before finally being removed. Shortly after, posts on /pol/ start randomly getting filtered to uwuspeak. The filter is removed after a couple of hours.[https://archive.today/pOnjm][https://archive.today/hUh5N][https://archive.today/vaaas] /mlp/'s ponies on r/place get assaulted by streamers and the void, but they survive it each time, making several ponies, and euquestria flag and discord by the end of the event on April 4th, much to twitch's dismay.[https://archive.today/QF2Zd][https://archive.today/G7QCf][https://archive.today/MtDtl] 
* April 12 - Gilbert Gottfried dies. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/166456514/ /tv/ gets a sticky.]
* April 23 - A guy called Raymond Spencer (unsuccessfully) shoots up a school in DC and posts a video of it on /pol/, causing a bit of panic after what happened to 8chan. He later gets caught after injuring 4 people but killing no one.[https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/374162418/][https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/374176998/][https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/23/raymond-spencer-dc-shooting/]
* April 25 - For a brief moment of 5 hours, [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368163 a thread appears] on /qa/ with a Paxiti OP image, stating that "/qa/ lost." [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/47208679 A thread on /trash/] also appears at the exact same time, with the same filename, suggesting that it was created by the mod then moved to /qa/.
* May 2 - The Supreme Court announces plans to end Roe V Wade (abortion rights for women). [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/375779341 /pol/ gets a sticky] to celebrate liberal tears.
* May 7 - George Perez passes away, [https://archive.today/ohaEi /co/ gets a sticky.]
* May 8 - [https://archive.today/mbQCU Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build gets teased] by a leaker named '''"x0r_jmp !!IzwHHMJWNiy"'''. A fully functional build by leaker's group will be released ''"this June."'' Q&A's and proofs are in the previous linked thread and [https://archive.today/VkRmM this thread.] One of the creators of Duke Nukem 3D, George Broussard, says [https://archive.today/3flBQ "Yes, the leaks look real."]
* May 12 - Crypto continues on its merry way into the red as Redditors who went all-in on TerraUSD and LUNA lose about 95% of their cash. As some threaten suicide, [https://archive.today/S7rTh /biz/ gets a sticky with some embedded imagery and music.] Bitcoin drops to about 27000 USD/BTC, well below half its all-time peak just seven months earlier.
* May 14 - Payton Gendron shoots up a supermarket in Buffalo, citing 4chan and /pol/ in his manifesto as his reasoning for the shooting. The media goes apeshit over this, and so does /pol/. /pol/ and other boards go into panic mode as the shooter  explicitly listed every gun and website he used (writing he began using 4chan in 2020 as an underage b&), leading to another scare of 4chan getting shut down, such as what happened to 8chan after the El Paso/Christchurch shootings. The shooting was livestreamed on Twitch, leading /pol/ on a wild goose chase as "a fucking leaf" (Canadian namefag who apparently recorded the stream) leads them on with several screenshots before the video was finally posted several hours later.
* May 19 - [https://archive.today/Qs0mA Two new selectable ideology flags are added to /pol/ - a NATO flag and a russian Z flag, in reference to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.] Vangelis is confirmed dead and /mu/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/110605986/ sticky.]
* May 22 - [https://archive.today/F7xFH /v/ gets a sticky of a Weedle.]
* May 24 - /v/ hits its 600M GET. [https://archive.today/zHXgT The GET is stolen by a scriptfag] in a random thread that the mods archive literally seconds later. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/600000001 People gather in the 600000001 thread] to discuss it where it is widely considered to be one of /v/'s worst GETs, so much that some people just pretend that 600000001 was the real GET due to it being much better.
* June 1 - /vp/ gets a [https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/50586093/ sticky] for the new Pokemon Scarlet and Violet trailer. /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/168937868 reacts] to Johnny Depp winning his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, briefly filling the catalogue with celebration threads and [https://files.catbox.moe/umpn05.png shitting on jannies] for deleting them. /lgbt/ gets a Pride Month [https://archived.moe/lgbt/thread/26072079/ sticky].
* June 3 - [https://archive.today/p66f5 /lgbt/ gets selectable pride flags.]
* June 5 - All of a sudden, [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/87227268/ iOS users can now play WEBMS] directly from Safari. Its not a native player, so someone from <s>Good Smile Company</s> 4chan<sup>INC</sup> must have implemented something.
* June 6 - ''Berserk'' resumes production. /a/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/238644118/ sticky].
* June 10 - /i/ has its 700000 GET: [https://archived.moe/i/thread/700000/ "cute redneck bf"]. Bid Glass [https://archive.today/Ksi9w discontinues] its relationship with 4chan, killing self-serve ads once again.
* June 11 - /vr/'s [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/8998181/#9000000 9000000 GET] is about how common composite video was compared to S-video.
* June 15 - [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/111110812/#111111111 /mu/ GET number 111111111] gets stolen by a K-POP post. 
* June 16 - ''Dragon's Dogma II'' gets announced. /v/ gets a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/602701707/ sticky]. Tim Sale dies. /co/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/131313864/#131313864 sticky].
* June 24 - Roe vs. Wade is overturned by the US Supreme Court. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/383677565/ /pol/ gets sticky on the momentous occasion].
* July 3 - Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt season 2, one of /a/'s never evers, gets announced; [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/239693161 /a/ gets a sticky in response].
* July 4th-ish - [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/49024204/#q49049627 /trash/ users start reporting Captcha's change now needing 6 characters instead of 5 to solve.] ''Long Lived the Bots''...for a day or so.
* July 6 - Support for VP9 WebMs are finally added.
* July 7 - /a/ gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/239884101 a sticky] to mourn the death of ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' mangaka Kazuki Takahashi. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is shot during a speech, stickies are made on [https://archived.moe/jp/thread/40442267 /jp/] and [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/385738122/ /pol/]. Six hours after the stickies are posted, Abe is confirmed dead by NHK.
* July 8 - Janitor applications open for 48 hours. /qa/ is included for the first time on the applications list, despite the board being locked. [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/15678420 This brings up questions about what will be done with the board] in the near future. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220708165657/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/756958.html][https://web.archive.org/web/20220708165425/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/756952.html]
* July 17 - The UNIX timestamp format used in filenames changes from milliseconds to microseconds after a brief stint as nanoseconds. Practically, filenames now have 3 extra digits at the end. A filename posted on July 18th is ''1660830020109328.png'', if we were still using millisecond filenames it would be ''1660830020109<s>328</s>.png''. The increased precision makes [[Image swap|image swaps]] much, much more unlikely.
* July 19 - GIFs and WEBMs now have their metadata stripped on upload, like JPEGs. This follows a few days of extraneous embedded file detection that blocked several classic files from being uploaded.
* July 20 - For whatever reason, the SSL Handshake on the 4chan domain starts to fail. But not on the subdomain, so while boards are available, the ban and main pages for example aren't. The issue resolves itself by the end of the day. The PEE extension, which had made a return in recent months, is struck a blow by the dev. Time will tell what effect it will have.
* July 22 - Vince MacMahon retires. /pw/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pw/thread/6490689/ sticky].
* July 31 - It's the supposed birthdate of George Jetson from ''The Jetsons''. /co/ celebrates with a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/132129284 sticky.]
* August 7 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/172249039/#172249377 A reply post on a /tv/ thread] [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/9b2t855tuDF4ZpyCFKsWBg/ created a paranoid-like image] where he counts down the time to when [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/19657635/#19659058 a reply poster from 2011] claimed that Victoria Justice will win an Oscar's by the age of 30.
* August 15 - The first confirmed mention of the 'ecker ban evasion tool is posted on the 4chan Happenings Thread, hosted on the /cumg/ git.coom.tech website. '''This is the beginning of an arms race between an Italian homosexual and the Team4chan development team, the root cause of the many posting limitations to come.'''<ref>https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50177750/#50188731</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/g.trash/text/ecker/type/posts/start/2021-01-01/order/asc/</ref>
* August 18 - Infamous pedophile and furry homosexual Leto / unicodefag begins spamming his fork of the 'ecker tool on the 4chan Happenings Thread. While the ecker tool is gated and requires an account, this one is free to use by all through a residential IP provider. '''Shit has hit the fan.'''<ref>https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50234771/#50269359</ref>
* August 18 - The minimum time between posting and deleting one's post is raised from 1 to 10 minutes. This is reverted within hours. Currently it seems to vary based on the board and the age of your cookies (and maybe your IP range.)
* August 19 - A brazillian 4chan janitor [https://archive.today/m43ds leaks information] about /j/ on [[soyjak.party]], including screenshots of threads, userscripts made for the janitors, and [https://archive.today/dD1Ga the Team4chan Discord]. The event is discussed in the happenings thread. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50284202/] [https://soyjak.wiki/J]
* August 25 - sys.4chan(nel).org, which serves captchas and forms, is now behind the Cloudflare anti-DDoS service. Allegedly due to a furry using proxies to spam his pictures, like Accelspammer of old. This results in some browsers and (and notably phoneposting apps) not being able to post. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/88292821 Butthurt ensues]. Actually, the furry was running a custom ban evasion tool built by Italian steam deck penis spammer and accidentally broke it, spamming sys.4chan. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/88307861/#88318234 This is only the beggining of something far worse.]
* September 6 - /r9k/ [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50712537/#50743849 reported to be playing music] in the background. Song is ''Mr.Roboto'' by Styx.
* September 8 - Queen Elizabeth dies. /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/394410549/#394410549 sticky].
* September 21 - KurobaEx, one of the only 4chan apps with regular development, suddenly has its Github repository archived with no explanation. After some concern on /g/, it was found that the Russian developer [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/88735965/#88736004 got fucking mobilized] [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/g/image/1663/77/1663770162427.png by Putin into the military], leading to a full-blown panic. 
* September 27 - The admin from KurobaEx finally [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/88817147/#88854043 posts an update to /g/], saying he was able to cross the border into Kazakhstan, unarchiving the project as proof. In several other posts he clarified that he served in the Russian military but [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/88817147/#88854748 didn't get a subpoena] (and therefore wasn't a deserter), [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/88817147/#88865752 driving ~20 hours from Moscow] to flee Russia preemptively because he was 1A health category, the first wave to go. /g/ rejoices.
* October 1 - 4chan celebrates its [https://archive.today/pQHR0 19th birthday]. Party hats on all boards as usual.
* October 6 - [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/51447734/#51448202 Report forms now have the in-house captcha], in replacement of Google's reCaptcha. All that's left of Google's Captcha is the [https://4chan.org/banned ban check page] and the [https://4chan.org/feedback feedback page]. And [[:File:F_recaptcha.png|/f/ as well]], for some reason. 
* October 15 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/399992951/#400000000 /pol/'s 400M GET] confirms that the Nuclear End Times are coming. Mods have only one question: (where?).
* October 19 - After nearly two years, the @4chan Twitter account [https://archive.today/jEVTw sends a tweet] in a certainly indirect response to the ''[https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/buffaloshooting-onlineplatformsreport.pdf "Investigative Report on the role of online platforms in the tragic mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, 2022"]''. The report mentions the investigative committee being in conversation with a "moderator". With this in mind, could have someone ''spilled the beans'' to the Jan. 6 Commission?
* October 31 - Halloween as always. [https://archive.today/zpyTV /x/ got a sticky] with sp00ky pumpkin.
* November 3 - The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) seized all domains for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library Z-Library.] By accident, it is announced that the US Postal Inspection Service originally seized the domains.[https://archive.today/ZB2Wg] Discussion ensues [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21209720 in /lit/] for the fate of other, so called, ''shadow libraries'', and the true conspiracy of this debacle...
* November 4 - [https://archive.today/d8Tha "Request recomendations thread" on /a/] gets banned text and repliers get warned text.
* November 6 - 2022 League of Legends World Championship finish with first timers ''<s>Asians</s>'' DRX winning against ''<s>Asians</s>'' T1. [https://archive.today/qP3P8#47.443% Red text post] by Mod is made on the /lolg/ claiming '''Common Zeka W''', in reference to the winning team's player. [https://archive.today/E7BLz#7.84% Anon gets labled a Redditor] by mods for trying to blend in with zoomer hate thread. [https://archive.today/H1rGU A /vp/ anon leaks shitloads of Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet screenshots.]
* November 7 - [https://archive.today/eKphn#81.85% /wsg/ user gets banned] for asking if the Grey Cat wipping is real. Sneed's Feed and Seed [https://archive.today/Gdg3G is seen in the background of a post] on /tv/, featuring [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kZVf_jtubU music].
* November 8 - Anon on /v/ leaks prototype game builds from Eurocom, THQ, and maybe others, including some Wii firmware & dev testers.[https://archive.today/zs9HC][https://archive.today/BytI0]. Further Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet leaks renders /vp/ unusable until mods step in to take control. A dedicated leak general is set up. /vp/ peaks at 58 posts per minute. [https://archive.today/bGoCN Modpost] featuring [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYDox4mHx8Y Wolf's Rain OST] is seen on /biz/.
* November 10 - [https://archive.today/qrC2R There is a circulatory system walking through a /co/ thread...]
* November 11 - [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89715475 /g/ anon reports] that 4chan's Google Image search is broken as the company is seemenly transfering to their new '''Len's''' system. The issue also [https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x/issues/3307 affects] the 4chan-X script. Also, at 5:15am 4chan time, after 25 years of being a choke artist, Ash Ketchum finally wins a Pokemon World Champion. /vp/, still in the wake of earlier leaks, goes nuts again. 
* November 14 - [https://archive.today/Ui3Bz A partially muscled skeleton stands in another /co/ thread and screams endlessly while Bob Dylan's Desolation Row plays.] Anticipation grows for the ultimate reveal on November 22...
* November 20 - The flags of England, Scotland and Wales return to /sp/ in time for the World Cup. Also mods have stickied match game threads with [https://archive.today/UgG1W Indian Pepe's representing all nations] as their [https://archive.today/VYiHJ opening posts]. This will seem to continue until the World Cup final arrives on Dec. 18th, but isn't enough to contain /fwc/ posters in their respective threads. 4stats.io puts board activity at 300%. Moderation on the stickied threads are at an extreme high.
* November 21 - /v/ votes Midna from The Legend of Zelda [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/618781547/#618781547 as the Queen of /v/] for the year.
* November 22 - [https://archive.today/ycF9V The radiation-blue body of Doctor Manhattan arrives on /co/ in his completed form.]
* November 22 - /bant/ has an autosage imposed to cut down necrobumping & blogposting. <ref>https://archived.moe/bant/thread/16585684/#q16585684</ref>
* November 23 - Pokemon Scarlet & Violet characters [https://archive.today/euHD0 bugged eyes] [https://archive.today/dDiNM#100% appear on /vp/ for a short time.] A poster is [https://archive.today/7kJRy#p39336168 publically unbanned] in the /mlp/ Secret Santa thread by Anonymous ## Mod after (supposedly) being banned for doxxing for posting his own address. (His dox was deleted from the archive, but he had actually made his house the headquarters of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_for_Democracy Burmese political party] on Google Maps.) Understandably, no one really wants to trade presents with him over fears he might accidentally dox them.
* November 24 - [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/52569224/#52577216 Around 16:00 UTC] [https://archive.today/P1iiu or 21:00 UTC], 4chan Advertising is back to allow bids on [https://archive.today/7o5wJ advertisement spots through "danbo.org"].
* November 28 - During the Portugal vs. Uruguay World Cup game, a pitch invader/streaker interrupted the second half with a message to ''"save Ukraine"'' and rainbow flag. He gets tackled by outstandling fast Qatari <s>censors</s> guards [https://archive.today/CfiB5 /sp/ jannitors notice and tribute him with a thread in a gif of his image in the background and Sonic as the pic related.]
* November 29 - After America won 1-0 against Iran in the glorious game of <s>divegrass</s> '''SOCCER''', diverting a Dark Brandon retalliation, [https://archive.today/CNJNo mods make thread stating ''"USA WINS FIFA."''] and [https://archive.today/EjNUu mods on /sp/ change all flags to the US flag,] [https://archive.today/Av1Kv#20.9% but this backfires as posters act as submissed BBC race-betrayers American citizens][https://archive.today/LBhou#35.05%] A forcible reversion is made with flags being restored to their original function, but this doesn't stop escapees, like a Britbong who makes a BBC pedo text post so abhorrent [https://archive.today/Av1Kv#8.9% that the mods called MI5.] A killa stickied thread by mods[https://archive.today/LBhou#35.05% exposes Portugal as a country where getting BLACKED is their national sport.] Johan Cruyff also [https://archive.today/ysQtT finally gets his sticky,] but is quickly deleted as other matters are present on the board.
* November 30 - Surprise! Star Control 2 has its 30 year anniversary and to celebrate [https://archive.today/b0QVT mods make a thread about it with background image], plus any mention of ''"androsynth"'' by repliers results in custom ban texts. [https://archive.today/b0QVT#0.98%][https://archive.today/b0QVT#3.75%][https://archive.today/b0QVT#selection-11143.0-11143.32] In bad news for /vmg/, they received their [https://archive.today/23pBV first sticky announcing that Dragalia Lost is sunsetting.]
* December 1 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/chunk/126234681 Japan beats Spain 2-1]in the 2022 World Cup and goes to knockouts. It was just like my Japanese animes.
* December 2 - Korea somehow manages to go through, resulting in another [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/126300443 musical sticky.] Meanwhile, Uruguay receives a [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/126302291 message] from the mods. 
* December 8 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/620470206/#620470206 /v/ gets a sticky for The Game Awards.] At the end of the show a kid runs on stage, grabs the mic and says he "nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton". A ton of threads get made in the resulting confusion, and mods post [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/620542052/#620542052 another sticky] with Bill Clinton edited to look like a rabbi. 
* December 9 - Armored Core 6 is announced at The Game Awards. [https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21327588/#q21334009 /m/ gets a sticky] that floods rapidly with /v/ tourists, reaching several thousand posts before being unstickied and allowed to slide down.
* December 12 - [https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21339168/ /m/ gets a sticky] for the passing of Anison legend and JAM Project founder, Ichiro Mizuki, after some much deserved bitching. Meanwhile, [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/246212914/#q246212914 the /a/ thread] gets no such luck, with many calling out the tranny jannies for prioritising burger VAs over actual Japanese folks.
* December 16 - After years of counting down on /tv/, Avatar 2 releases in theaters.  Because the mods dislike fun unless they're the only ones having it, any real anons who attempt to make '0 days until Avatar 2' threads are banned.  A mod, presumably, makes and stickies his own thread.
* December 19 - /v/ votes Jack Garland from Final Fantasy 1 and its spinoff, Strangers of Paradise, [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/621606560/#621606560 for King of /v/]. Chaos is forever BTFO.
* December 24 - A Rayman 4 prototype gets [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/622131670 leaked on /v/.]
* December 25 - It's Christmas Day, and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" is played ON EVERY BOARD.

===2023===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2022 | ◄]] [[#2024 | ►]]
* January 3 - 4chan Happenings Thread discusses the first potential effects of the 'ecker tool - schizos destroying threads on /vg/<ref>Thread. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/53454266/#53464749]</ref>
* January 4 - 4chan goes down for roughly an hour from 8:30 to 9:30 PM EST, with various Cloudflare SSL and 50X errors. Those that are able to load board catalogs find that the following boards appear to be [https://i.imgur.com/41r0SNj.png wiped:] /bant/, /co/, /int/, /lgbt/, /mlp/, /p/, /r9k/, and /vt/ (and maybe more). All posts return once the site comes back online.
* January 9 - [[soyjak.party]] raids /trash/ after Undertale porn steals their 2000000 GET on /soy/. /trash/ fights back by permabanning the raiders, and soyjak gets DDoS'd too.
* January 11 - WWE rumored to be sold to Saudi Arabia. /pw/ change its board name [https://i.imgur.com/oueySlw.png to Arabic]. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/623923934/ A /v/irgin tries to make a slowpoke combo], but fails. However, [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/623923934/#623926297 another anon turns that fail into a win]. The best thread on /v/ in a long time ensues. But mods hate fun, so [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/623923934/#623982758 the thread was moved to /b/].
* January 20 - [https://archive.today/BGOvu Janitor applications] are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. /b/, /bant/, [s4s], and /trash/ are not available to apply for.
* January 27 - Sometime between the 15th and 27th /qb/'s catalog is wiped and the board is renamed to [https://archive.today/X7Ro6 Yotsuba Image Board]. Perhaps the dev left something behind while trying to finally delete it?
* January 28 - After months of hoping and waiting and background organizing, [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/39568733 Mare Fair is announced] to actually be happening. Following on the success of multiple online [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/40083878/ board] [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/39490058/ cons], /mlp/ does the unthinkable and organizes a real life convention about ponies, or more specifically, MARES! The hype is unreal.
* February 3 - Tickets [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/39588899/ go on sale] for [https://web.archive.org/web/20230204101452/https://marefair.org/ Mare] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230208042529/https://marefair.horse/ Fair.]
* February 7 - /g/ had received a raid spanning for more than twenty four hours. Mods were not able to clean the board from those spam threads. This event will be known as the Femboy Event.
* February 10 - Another <s>baloon</s> balloon flies over U.S. Alaskan airspace and is shot down. [https://archive.today/URoKQ /pol/ mods make][https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/415653885 a thread] with ''Bloons Tower Defense'' Monkey and have embedded a red balloon onto your screen ''([https://archive.today/7yZ48 image from a reply][https://archive.palanq.win/vip/thread/120174/#121556 post on /vip/])'' , with some [https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-4SthopN2U nice theme music] from BTD5.
* February 12 - Super Bowl LVII happens, [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/129138989/ /sp/ gets a sticky.] But before this, another set of balloon's, now unidentified aerial objects enter U.S. airspace, reaching to Lake Huron. /pol/ gets two stickies. [https://archive.today/fJUAH One thread] has an opening sticky of the news headline, an "ayy lmao" embedded from [https://archive.today/KllVm /vip/] and plays the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAlDoAtV7Y X-Files Theme.] [https://archive.today/n5cGf Next sticky thread] has the same opening image, but probably the same [https://archive.today/wip/PcoYh "red bloon"] from Feb. 10th sticky and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSlTQmDLx4 song ''"99 Luftballons"'' from the band '''NENA'''.] [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/17036155/ /bant/ Newspaper] returns after 4 year hiatus.
* February 13 - President of Toei Animation dies but strangely /a/ did not get a sticky for the [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/248925994/ dedicated thread.] ''The age of shonen is neigh...''
* February 15 - The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment Ohio Train Derailment incident/disaster/<s>coverup</s>] is sending chemicals into the air to the North-Eastern United States. Government & coorporation hiding stuff is the general concensus. As a result of such observations, mods added to a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/416331580/#416347044 /pol/ thread][https://archive.today/dWLCV#selection-28474.0-28481.0] and [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/418648506/#418717837 /vg/ thread][https://archive.today/04dWc] for '''/rwg/ - Rimworld General''' have [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqyH5TSOWo8 Rimworld's OST - Chaos Bringer] playing in background and an <iframe> from [https://archive.palanq.win/vip/thread/121383/#121605 /vip/] , mentioning the toxicity that is supposedly happening.
* February 16 - [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/54436899/#54465560 /a/ gets][https://archive.today/wip/oNGFo multiple threads] in reaction to the new Jojolands release. [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/17051072/ /bant/ poster] says they are "Jew", but ID says "Goy".
* February 19 - Victoria Justice is now 30. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/180807477 A "persistent" OP][https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/9b2t855tuDF4ZpyCFKsWBg/] has reminded all that she has not won any Oscars as predicted on a well known [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/19657635/#19659058 /tv/ December 11, 2011 reply post.]
* February 23 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/628742301 /v/ user has their lawsuit against FROM Software and Warner Brothers] thrown out because <s>of stupidity</s> he cannot build a case on how '''''quote'''''...''its too difficult and life-destroying to actually go to the other world in Bloodborne and The Matrix.''..'''''end quote.''''' On that same thread, a reply poster has pareidolia and [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/628742301#628765841 notices how the Thai script] of a reply looks like the [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/628742301/#628768208 eyes of the cereal meme guy.]
* February 23<small>Midnight</small>-24 - A year has passed since the start of the Russian Aggression or the Special Military Operation in Donbas depending on your '''<s>general thread</s>''' side. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/417387096/ /pol/ gets a sticky] with a [https://archived.moe/gif/thread/24564347#p24613222 .webm from /gif/,] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230224043534/https://i.4cdn.org/gif/1677198446959693.webm] with music from ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OYAjj8JKkE Ирина Аллегрова - с Днём Рождения!]'' and a [https://archive.palanq.win/vip/thread/120716/#121699.gif Bukhanka-chan girl walk cycle, with a 4chan Birthday Hat from /vip/,] fixed onto the board index & thread screen. [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/894874999 /b/ also gets the same] treatment but no sticky thread.
* March 3 - Meta’s LLaMA 7B-65B model [https://web.archive.org/web/20230617163532/https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/91848262/#91850335 leaks on /g/]. 
* March 4 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20230311021329/https://torrentfreak.com/warner-fights-unreleased-scooby-doo-and-krypto-too-leaks-230306/ Warner Bros vaults many cartoons] set to be released. A '''possibly''' disgruntled animation employee leaks one of these "vaulted cartoons", "Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!", [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/135841946/ to /co/.]
* March 6 - Captcha breaks and 4chan grinds to a halt for <s>two</s> <s>four</s> AT LEAST SIX hours.
* March 11 - The /lgbt/ 30M GET is [https://archived.moe/files/talk/image/1678/54/16785455618903.png claimed by] [[soyjak.party|the Sharty]], and is deleted so fast that it [https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1622/ wasn't archived]. Some claim the screencap was doctored, and are waiting for Snopes to verify if the GET was legitimate or not.
* March 12 - [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/249958249/#250000000 /a/'s 250M GET] is a reply telling an anon to "please use your brain". Instantly declared a FAIL, with [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/249921990/#249999999 249999999] being held as the real GET despite being only marginally better.
* March 14 - A /pol/tard is [https://eu.news-journalonline.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/14/new-jersey-man-issues-death-threat-against-volusia-county-sheriff/70006901007/ arrested] for [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/417233045/#q417239087 threatening] to murder a cop. You didn't actually think the "in Minecraft" meme worked, right?
* March 21 - [https://archive.md/j1p7M The /fit/ sticky] is updated with new links.
* March 29 - Wired.com, through the USA's ''Freedom of Information Act'', files a successful request to the NYC attorney general office and publishes information on how Hiroyuki Nishimura acquired 4chan LLC: The total sum was 8 million, with 5.6m from Hiro & his companies and 2.4m from ''Good Smile Company Inc'', in exchange for 30% on 4chan's revenue. Articles around the web pop out encouraging people to Boycott Good Smile and pressure companies dealing with them to drop the contracts, citing 4chan's tangential relationship to the Buffalo Shooter, seemingly unaware GSC had announced they are leaving their 4chan stake. The news garner little interest in 4chan proper outside some screaming schizos.<ref>Wired article. [https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/] - Proxy [https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/]</br/>
Reaction on /pol/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/%22good%20smile%22/start/2023-03-20/order/asc/]</br>
Reaction elsewhere. [https://archived.moe/_/search/text/%22good%20smile%22/start/2023-03-28/order/asc/]</ref>
* April 1 - The big April Fool's joke is...tagging one in 25 posts posts with "Powered by 4chan-GPT ●⏶●" and changing the anon's name to a random person's name (literally the same gimmick as the 2016 April Fools Day event). Anons lament the laziness of the mods who did nothing but take some old code and added one extra line to pretend it's fresh. Many anons instead prefer to wax nostalgic over the 2018 prank, leading to a [https://archive.today/VvpjU nearly 700-reply /v/ thread complete with candy princess CSS.]
* April 2 - The 180M /int/ GET is a [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/179999731/#180000000 Brazillian win], despite [[soyjak.party|the Sharty]] desperately trying to claim the GET for themselves.
* April 7 - in response to the Wired article detailing their acquisition of 4chan, Good Smile Company, Inc announces on their news page that they never had more than an ownership stake on the company and weren't involved in it's management and, in fact, have sold their state in June 2022.<ref>New article. [https://archive.today/wZV8X]</ref>
* May 2 - The word "[https://desuarchive.org/g/search/text/nakadashi/ nakadashi]" is now spam filtered on /g/, because coomers would post it in response to every picture of an anime grill. Some claim to have been banned for posting it but that's probably because they were spamming/replying to off-topic bait.
* May 15 - Give it up for [https://sp.logwarehouse.net/read.cgi/soy/3195657 day three]. Today's raid started at 3:00PM and ended by 3:15, due to a lack of manpower because most [[soyjak.party|soyteens]] are actual children who had to go to school. Also, 4chan & the Good Smile company are [https://archive.today/7edZV filed against in a lawsuit] filed by the families of victims of the May 14, 2022 Buffalo massacre.
* May 16 - /lgbt/'s [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/30997425/#31000000 31M GET] is a FAILGET, and but at least [[soyjak.party|the Sharty]] failed to secure it this time.
* May 17 - /biz/'s [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/S54995340#p55000000 55M GET] is barely better, and [[soyjak.party|the Sharty]] has once again failed to steal it. They did, however, steal the /gd/ [https://archived.moe/gd/thread/444444/  444444 GET]. For some reason that 'teen was using a Pass while raiding, and when he tried to appeal his 5-day ban it was [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/17692750/ bumped to a perma.]
* May 18 - Cirno gets /tg/'s [https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/88888641/#88888888 88888888 GET], with a mostly negative reaction.
* May 21 - Cirno gets [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/427764003/#427777777 Seven 7s in a row] on /pol/, leading to much seething.
* May 23 - The shark gets /vt/'s [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/50000000 50M GET] leading to a thread of bitching about script-use and bots and even [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/50000000/#50000974 accusations] of [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/49997510/#50000550 DDOS]. /adv/'s [https://archive.4plebs.org/adv/thread/28999894/#29000000 29M GET] is generic but good advice.
* May 24 - An Anon posting his nasty-ass room on /v/ gets told to [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/638139008 clean it up] by the mods.
* May 26 - On /ic/ a wizard gets [https://warosu.org/ic/thread/6647131#p6666666 Satanic Septs]. /a/'s [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/252996432/#253000000 253M GET] is a fail, and the runner-up is a thread made by a pedo about how much he likes young girls.
* June 1 - /lgbt/ gets a [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/31230716/#31230716 sticky] and [[Flags#/lgbt/_Pride_Month_Flags|selectable pride flags]] for pride month.
* June 2 - For the past couple days, /pmg/ on /biz/ was mysteriously being autosaged. Accusations that the jannies were kikes or being paid off by kikes to suppress gold and silver began to fly, before a [https://archive.today/YWWiS#p55159337 mod finally stepped in] and informed them that a pastebin link in the OP was the culprit. It contained the word cunny, which will automatically permasage a thread on any board if it's in the OP.
* June 5 - The /t/ [https://archiveofsins.com/t/thread/1108580/#1234567 1234567 GET] is something saying thanks. [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] tried to steal it but somehow failed despite /t/ being one of the slowest boards. The /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/185999317/#186000000 186M GET] is an Anon who doesn't need guns because he has a big dick. Also, [https://archive.today/BVAE0 Wired released an article] that contains some new info on Team 4chan. Turns out some of the top mods do not, in fact, do it for free. (The article was written by someone who thinks that 4chan has user accounts, and that janitors and moderators are the same thing, so take it with a grain of salt)
* June 6 - It's [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/17777777 Tea Tuesday] on /bant/.
* June 7 - /mlp/'s [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/39999282/#40000000 40M GET] is stolen by a ponified Cirno. The runner-up is a [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/39999999/ Shimmerbro]. [[soyjak.party|The Sharty]] planned to steal the GET hours in advance, but they failed miserably, not even getting the off-by-ones.
* June 9 - /v/'s [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/639989669/#640000000 640M GET] is stolen by Cirno mocking frogposters. It was deleted a few minutes later. The runner-up is absent in the archives. /pol/'s [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/429995679/#430000000 430M GET] is a random reply about inclusivity in commercials. The runner-up is someone [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/429996983/#429999999 telling people to not cope] in /ptg/. Both of the off-by-ones are advocating for Total Zigger Death.
* June 11 - [[soyjak.party|Soyteens]] steal /x/'s [https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/35000000/ 35M GET]. The runner-up is [https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/34997998/#34999999 even worse]. Mods handed out month-long bans to most of the raiders.
* June 18 - A torrent containing the Starbound source code is [https://archiveofsins.com/t/thread/1237684/ posted on /t/] by the leaker.
* June 20 - /vr/'s [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/10000000 10M GET] is a FOTM meme.
* June 22 - Mods send a thread about the missing submarine [https://archive.today/iUoke underwater], complete with the Goblin Slayer OST. They do the same to a [https://archive.today/ztkuw stickied thread] that was posted around the time the sub's oxygen was estimated to run out, this time with My Heart Will Go On. The sticky was originally rolling, but it was set to a normal sticky so the mod's embed post wouldn't be pruned. Around 3:25PM after it was announced that the sub had imploded it was changed back to a rolling sticky, causing ~4600 posts to be instantly pruned, including the embed. At 10:38PM a mod re-posted the embeds, and unstickied the thread. [https://archive.today/pZTR4 Thread after archiving]
* June 23 - Mod makes an [https://archive.today/YUDt4 Essex thread] and Anonymous [https://archive.today/YUDt4#p641700804 finally loses his virginity].
* June 24 - Prigozhin marches Wagner towards Moscow and civil war breaks out in Russia. /k/ is ecstatic at new Kino after months of stalemate, comparing Prigozhin to Caesar and Horus Lupercal. /pol/ is absolutely demoralized and cannot cope.
* June 26 - An Anon is [https://archive.today/5f2mv#p186805457 publicly banned] on /tv/ for calling Monty Python reddit.
* June 30 - /int/'s [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/183907284/#184000000 184M GET] is a reply in the Japanese learning thread. The runner-up is [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/183997864/#183999999 Cirno BTFOing frogposters] yet again.
* July 3 - A Neco-Arc thread on /v/ gets [https://archive.today/z7zbw GIFs and music] embedded.
* July 4 - [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/22222067#p22222222 22222222 on /lit/] is got by Bernkastel from Umineko. [[soyjak.party|The Sharty]] once again tried and failed to steal it, but they still tried to claim it because the post contains the word chud.
* July 5 - A pirate steals [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/433332003/#433333333 433333333] on /pol/. /u/'s [https://archiveofsins.com/u/thread/3990912/#4000000 40M GET] is just the word "sexo"
* July 6 - /funkg/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/436669671/#436740326 pays to have a clip shown] of the Vs. /v/ mod on a billboard in Times Square. Said clip contains the word "infinigger" in the bottom left that got cut off on the billboard to just "nigger", which somehow wasn't caught by the ad company.
* July 10 - More CSS silliness: /v/ gets a [https://archive.today/RMUC1 gay bear from Baldur's Gate 3]. The game was confirmed to have a man-on-bear gay sex scene (actual bear, not a hairy guy,) and /v/ is flooded with threads about it.
* July 11 - [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/254792343 It's been seven years since /a/ laughed.]
* July 12 - [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] steals /r9k/'s [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/74000000/ 74M GET]. A shitposter on /a/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/254808910 custom public ban] for his thread, two replies are also banned before the thread is locked. Another shitposter gets a [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/57966776 public ban] as well, and his thread is moved to /trash/.
* July 14 - [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/55553892#p55555555 55555555 on /biz/] is got by a numerologist.
* July 15 - The ecker ban evasion tool changes domains.<ref>Post. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/58023763/#58025441]</ref>
* July 16 - Cirno gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/254987424/#255000000 255M on /a/].
* July 17 - moot's disabling of GETs on /v/ comes back to [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/644444214/#644444445 bite him in the ass]. Someone on /co/ [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/138336297 describes in explicit detail] how they want a <s>fuckdoll</s> lifesized plushy of a cartoon character, later preceeding to describe how they are the ''least'' fucked-up person in their family.
* July 18 - Stu's [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/138352550/ making chocolate pudding] on /co/.
* July 20 - Someone on /k/ is [https://archive.li/4caEd publicly banned] for posting a screencap of a reddit post, and the thread is closed. The same happens to an /a/ thread [https://archive.li/TcbFH shilling Crunchyroll]. /tv/ also gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/187782506 sticky] in anticipation of both the Barbie Movie and Oppenheimer movie releasing the next day. (A /tv/ anon also [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/187784145 built a replica of Sneed's store] for his cats, but janny deleted the thread.)
* July 21 - Tony Bennett dies, /mu/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/117425938 sticky].
* July 26 - A rare [https://archive.4plebs.org/x/chunk/35400599 /x/ sticky] is made for the Congress hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, where a whistleblower claims that the US government recovered downed alien crafts and had been attempting to reverse-engineer them. Also, Sinéad O'Connor died and /mu/ got a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/117511783 sticky].
* July 27 - A frogposter on [s4s] gets [https://archive.today/dTi7y two same bans!]
* July 31 - A very eventful day. /a/'s [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/255555555 255555555 GET] was Rozen Maiden, their first octuplet 5s that weren't stolen by another board. After several hours the thread was briefly stickied, getting 967 posts in total. [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] was [https://archive.today/djuOF seething] that they were unable to steal it, being [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/58423873/#58437979 9/200ths of a second] too late. A mod on /v/ makes an [https://archive.today/UNy3w Azur Lane sticky] complete with earrape and embedded GIFs. [[soyjak.party|The sharty]], still reeling from their loss, spam the sticky and many other [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/645951532 threads] across /v/. Also, Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) passed away, and got a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/188237993 sticky on /tv/].
* August 1 - [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] steals [https://arch.b4k.dev/vm/thread/988391/#1000000 1M on /vm/], and promptly memory-hole the massive /a/ GET they failed the day prior.
* August 2 - An ice expert with an appropriate ID [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/436697275/#436699112 weighs in on /pol/]. [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/54999161/#55000000 /vt/'s 55M GET] is posted by the picture of a perfect human.
* August 3 - [[soyjak.party|Sharty]]  raid on /vp/, wiping out half the catalog.
* August 4 - [[soyjak.party|Sharty]] raid on /cm/, wiping out half the catalog. Jannies restored threads from the archive, accidentally restoring [[soyjak.party|soyteen]] threads as well. The [https://soyjak.wiki/Baby_bot Baby bot] makes its first known appearance on 4chan, assisting in the raid. It is also spotted on /trash/, /vg/, and /tg/.
* August 5 - 4chan grinds to a halt a couple minutes before 4pm Eastern Time. Pages began to load around 9:50PM EST, but posting and reporting were still broken. Things came back around 11:08PM but images are loading slowly and the front page is still down. (it was up for a while during the outage) Trying to load boards by typing <code>4chan.org/a/</code> doesn't work, you have to write out <code>boards.4channel.org/a/</code>. /pw/'s Arabic name is also reverted back to Professional Wrestling.
* August 6 - Until shortly after 5PM EST only the <code>boards</code> and <code>sys</code> subdomains were working. Images would sometimes load slowly. A Deku from the Nintendo 64 Zelda games gets [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/646464343/#646464646 repeating 64s on /v/].
* August 7 - William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and many other classic films, dies. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/188485941 /tv/ gets a sticky].
* August 8 - /vt/'s [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/55435420/#55555555 55555555 GET] is a link to a vtuber stream, muh [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/55555597/ failed] [[soyjak.party|shartee]] raid, etc.
* August 10 - /pw/'s [https://archived.moe/pw/thread/11111111/ 11111111 GET] is an Inoki-san win.
* August 11 - [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] finally steals a get, this one being /m/'s [https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/21998803/#22000000 22M GET]. The first episode of the show where Hiroyuki travels through Africa airs, naturally most of [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/188639086 the /tv/ thread] turns into meta discussion about 4chan and moot.
* August 13 - A mod makes a [https://archive.today/zDHad Diablo 2 themed sticky] on /v/. Cirno steals the [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/255997594/#256000000 256M /a/ GET] in the Dragon Ball Super general.
* August 14 - Yandex is added to the reverse image search buttons on some boards. A nor/mlp/erson [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/40222785 makes a hayburger IRL] and throws up. [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] was [https://archive.today/heEax  temporarily shut down] after Doll, the  administrator of [[soyjak.party|sharty]] at the time, failed to raise money to keep the site online there also was a massive IP and chatlog leak. The 'teens are scattered away seeking new place to replace the [[soyjak.party|sharty]].
* August 15 - Author and artist Nami Sano passed away, [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/256103127 /a/ sticky].
* August 16 - An Anon on /vr/ [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/10161318 posts proof] that he found an ultra rare version of Starfox at a garage sale. The thread is deleted because he's calling anyone who isn't sucking him off seething. His [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/10156208 first thread] wasn't.
* August 17 - A Thursday Asuka thread is [https://archive.today/xBwvd sticked on /a/]. Complete with mod embeds.
* August 18 - An Oppenheimer "le X... Y???" gets [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/188888254/#188888888 188888888 on /tv/]. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/438350020/#438350148 Funny ID] on /pol/.
* August 19 - A thread on /a/ is [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/256220872 locked and publicly banned], along with two replies.
* August 24 - The is2.4chan.org image server is [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/95580180 briefly down] in some European countries. It will continue to load slowly and crash worldwide for several weeks.
* August 22 - /pol/ discovers that on the 19th Laseranon, a ban evader known for posting about his collection of lasers and advocation for using them on government employees, murdered two people in Dillingham, Alaska. Instead of using his beloved lasers he shot them. Cirno steals the [https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/89938757/#90000000 90M GET on /tg/].
* August 23 - Eventful day. Prigozhin dies, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.today/mMtYR sticky with mod embeds.] The first American Republican Party Presidential Debate also [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/438974934 gets a /pol/ sticky]. Pro wrestler Terry Funk died, [https://archive.palanq.win/pw/thread/11259505 /pw/ sticky]. [[soyjak.party|The sharty]] returns and immediately steals some GETs on [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/59000000/ /trash/], [https://files.catbox.moe/h1qmpe.png /s4s/], [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/438888279/#q438888888 /pol/] and [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/95543744#q95555555 /g/] with the help of babybot. 
* August 26 - Bob Barker dies, [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/189182703 /tv/ sticky]. Babybot steals [https://warosu.org/vt/thread/56950512#p57000000 /vt/'s 57M GET]. The Washington Post runs [https://archive.today/f16Gg an article] about a cyberstalker who posted nude photos of his ex-girlfriends on /b/ thousands of times.
* August 27 - /jp/'s [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/44372921#p44444444 44444444 GET] is stolen by babybot.
* August 29 - A /biz/raeli opens a [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/55971046 300k short] on BTC and [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/55971046#p55972013 loses it all].
* August 30 - Nude videos of a kpop idol are [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/118035254/#118035374 leaked on /mu/].
* August 31 - /a/'s [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/256659060/#256666666 256666666 GET] is claimed by a Bejitabro.
* September 1 - The [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/439999639/#440000000 440M GET on /pol/] is by someone who isn't keen on getting drafted.
* September 2 - /pw/ celebrates an eventful 9/2 when some anons manage to sneak an image of [https://archive.palanq.win/pw/thread/11407134/ legendary wrestler Kevin Nash being brutally raped by a pack of wild bulbasaurs] past TSX moderation and onto a giant digital billboard in New York City's very own Times Square. Jimmy Buffet passed away, [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/118078645 /mu/ gets a sticky].
* September 4 - A [https://archived.moe/diy/thread/2677024 new sticky] is posted to /diy/, asking for user input on new changes for the current /diy/ sticky. The years didn't stop coming for Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash Mouth. [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/118113232 /mu/ sticky].
* September 6 - A [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/189555479 /tv/ thread] gets 26 dubs and 8 trips. Probably not statistically unusual though.
* September 7 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/649999252/#650000000 650M on /v/] BTFOs Battlefield.
* September 8 - /diy/'s new sticky is posted, now including many more links on a variety of topics. The old sticky was just over 9 years old when it was deleted, possibly making it the oldest post to be deleted by a mod. A thread is [https://archive.today/Zd4sI publicly banned and locked] on /k/. Images saved from 4chan were briefly [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/95875634 formatted as WebP]. Although it was not known at the time, there was [https://blog.cloudflare.com/uncovering-the-hidden-webp-vulnerability-cve-2023-4863 major security flaw in WebP image viewers]. Coincidentally, 4chan's unexplained stint with WebP happened just days before the security hole became known to the world (Or should we say to the ''whole'' world?). Draw your own conclusions. In other news, janitor applications are now being [https://archive.today/oU6fc accepted] for the next ~72 hours. As usual, /b/, /bant/, [s4s], and /trash/ and not available to apply for, and neither are any of the locked boards. /vip/ is an option, interestingly enough.
* September 9 - It's Cirno Day! Threads are sticked with embeds on [https://archive.today/ghzkg /bant/] and [https://archive.today/hMPom <nowiki>[s4s]</nowiki>]. [https://archive.today/AdRLI Three] [https://archive.today/Qav0t threads] are [https://archive.today/6pTjA publicly banned], along with one [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/18649709/#18655999 post in the sticky]. There's also a [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/58115172 Hololive sticky on /vt/] [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/44568874 and /jp/]. [https://archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/26999918/#27000000 27M on /o/] is a pic of someone's motorbike tires.
* September 10 - In response to the horsefucker IRL hayburger last month, an actual scientist or chemist is now [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/40304271 using enzymes to create a human-digestible hayburger], which he wants to be served at Mare Fair.
* September 11 - Manga artist Buichi Terasawa passed away, gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/257076700 /a/ sticky]. The [https://desuarchive.org/fit/thread/72221482/#72222222 /fit/ 72222222 GET] is a sign from the Lord. A [https://archive.today/E35pF 9/11 meme thread on /vt/] gets a mod embed and permasaged.
* September 12 - Apple event gets a [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/95957596 /g/ sticky].
* September 13 - Janitor applications are now closed. 
* September 14 - A busy day in vidya. Nintendo Direct at 10AM ([https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/650750829/ sticky]), followed by Sony's State of Play in the evening ([https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/650796136/ sticky]). A CRTChad got [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/95996573/#96000000 96M on /g/].
* September 15 - In response to the news that Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov is in critical condition, a mod funposts in [https://archive.today/fFySG#p441386625 /uhg/] and [https://archive.today/F2zzY#p441386642 /chug/], embedding an [https://files.catbox.moe/gtp3jy.webm Islamic Goku] edit. In /uhg/ they set the video to not be visible, so only the music could be heard.
* September 16 - A /pol/ post talking about Danny Masterson gets the ID [https://archive.today/Hwhpz#p441481806 DannyFun].
* September 18 - The [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/189999616/#190000000 190M GET on /tv/] is a reply to a BBC fetishist calling his dick small. The [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/189996650/#189999999 runner-up] is babybot, now posting flartson. A poster in the 4chan Happenings Thread [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/59612765/#59652906 explains] [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/59612765/#59654101 how] he believes the GET was injected. A [https://archive.today/rRNaA Dead Rising thread] on /v/ gets a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atKUCxXanXA Gone Guru] embedded.
* September 19 - A Latvian anon [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/441813156 makes a /pol/ thread] about a guy who takes creepshots of his coworkers at a medical center. The creepshots, posted to imagefap and reddit, included extra-disturbing captions, and he even alleged that he broke into someone's house and came on her bras. /pol/ "doxes" him (he left the EXIF data in his posts) and has a fun time before the jannies catch wind and shut it down. Quincy took down his accounts, but his workplace and the local news were notified. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/441908786 Thread that links to all the others.]
* September 20 - A Congolese anon [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/135118716 posts on /sp/] and talks about what it's like to live in the DRC. Two second-gen Congolese living in Europe show up too, along with a Kenyan and they confirm he's legit. An anon on /fit/ [https://desuarchive.org/fit/thread/72309496/#72311210 moves on].
* September 21 - An Iraqi anon on /bant/ [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/18743566 explores Saddam Hussein's now-abandoned palace]. Babybot steals the [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/58859865/#59000000 59M GET on /vt/].
* September 23 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/442218911/#442222222 Septs on /pol/] are discussing the political implications of muscular cats.
* September 24 - Mod embed in a [https://archive.today/9f265 /v/ thread] about Team Fortress 2. The sound was a now-removed YouTube video where Spy uncloaked & insulted the player. The OP image was deleted shortly before or after the thread archived. Cirno gets [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/187774417/#187777777 Lucky septs on /int/] while insulting frogposters.
* September 25 - The [https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/35995409/#36000000 36M GET on /x/] is appropriately schizo.
* September 28 - It is announced that video game artist Yoshitaka Tamaki passed away in July. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10283773 /vr/ sticky].
* September 29 - Slytherin [https://archive.palanq.win/qst/thread/5744433/#5777777 claims lucky sexts] on /qst/.
* September 29-October 1 - The dates for Mare Fair come around and, despite doomposters and the everpresent fear that it'll be Dashcon 2.0, it surprisingly goes off without a hitch. Much [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1696/11/1696114649179.jpg excitement] [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1696/29/1696297419584.jpg and] [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1697/60/1697603038856.jpg mare-iment] is had at the laundry list of pony-centric [https://web.archive.org/web/20230928173540/https://marefair.horse/schedule/ panels,] [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1696/02/1696022483922.jpg room parties,] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1lY98Ko38 an amazing concert.] On top of that, [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1696/19/1696190191948.jpg over $50,000] was raised at the charity auction for a local horse rescue, with the donation grand total coming to [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/40436025/#40436025 $60,372] <s>before fees</s> over the course of the weekend. [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1696/19/1696193951254.png Praise be to the Mare Aficionado, the true Pony Jesus!]
* September 30 - /his/ gets the only sticky since the board's creation in 2015. A thematic sticky about the year 1437, while having some detractors, it is well received and reaches 350~ posts.<ref>/his/ Sticky. 15678043. [https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/15678043/]</ref> 
* October 1 - '''20 FUCKING YEARS.''' Special green and red party hats with the number 20 appear on all threads, and a [https://archive.today/FuUY1 new birthday draw gets posted in the news section]. Someone from /f/ makes a [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/900661 celebratory flash], [https://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3499970 thread]. (He actually finished it a few days before the first but whatever) A bunch of [s4s] anons [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/11082454 draw a nice picture]. /f/'s [https://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3500000 3.5M GET] also happened, reminding (You) to take your daily dose. RMS [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/96301744/#96352475 replies] to /g/'s [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/g/image/1696/29/1696298293846.png get well card]. Suiseiseki gets [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/135434565/#135444444 sexts on /sp/]. A shitposter is [https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/4628679/#4631784 publicly b& on /an/].
* October 3 - A [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/652946335/#652949074 mod posts in an AI slop thread] on /v/ - "Keep the furshit on /b/ or /trash/." [[soyjak.party|The Sharty]] breaks important news via [https://archive.palanq.win/news/thread/1222222 sexts on /news/].
* October 4 - Someone who waifus Chino-chan [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/257923194/#258000000 GETs 258M on /a/].
* October 7 - 13th anniversary of MLP:FiM, /mlp/'s [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/40392131/ yearly anni stream thread] is stickied as usual. Due to scheduling "mishaps", this anni is the longest yet, with the thread finally being unstickied on the 19th. Also, /his/ is [https://archive.today/1mjIy transported to 1692 for the weekend!] A mod posts in [https://archive.today/mOZ48#p135620830 giant red text] on /sp/. Teh shartee steals the [https://archived.moe/gif/thread/25988230/#26000000 26M GET on /gif/]. Flartbot (formerly babybot) steals [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/59946690#60000000 60M on /vt/].
* October 7 - /his/ gets a second thematic sticky, this time for the year 1692. The sticky lasts two days and only makes 200~ posts but it arguably led to discussions than the first.<ref>/his/ Sticky. 15708907 [https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/15708907/]</ref>
* October 10 - 5ch is down due to scripters and DDOS. A [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/188458178/ refugee thread] is made on /int/. The Japanons are incredibly polite and comment on how nice 4chan is compared to Japanese imageboards. On /g/ a female (maybe) YouTuber [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/96580551/#96582489 posts her face] reacting to an AI card that calls her trans.
* October 11 - RIP Keith Giffen, [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/139946824 /co/ sticky].
* October 12 - An Anon from /hoc/ steals [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/444442992/#444444444 444444444 on /pol/].
* October 13 - Cirno steals [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/449500876/#450000000 450M on /vg/]. Music is embedded in the [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/444669239/#444671141 /chigi/ general on /pol/].
* October 14 - [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/139992301/#140000000 140M on /co/] is a shitpost in the Mr. /co/ thread. A /v/irgin claims to have [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/653939941/#653951652 stolen a copy of Mario Wonder from his job]. The Nintendo Ninjas get him before he can dump it, but /v/ manages to get a leaked copy from some Discord server. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/654105846 First thread once the leak goes live]. Flartbot steals [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/96651572/#96666666 96666666 on /g/].
* October 15 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/190999919/#191000000 191M on /tv/] is got by Kermit checking those digits.
* October 16 - It's day 600 of the Ukrainian war, mods celebrate by embedding dancing pigs and music in [https://archive.today/Cb31j /uhg/] and [https://archive.today/uGVhG /chug/].
* October 19 - [https://archive.today/6Z5f6 Ban&lock on /a/]. The /mlp/ anniversary thread is finally unstickied.
* October 20 - /int/'s [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/188886425/#188888888 188888888 get] is gotten by some retard who wastes it. The DOTA international championships start, the general on /vg/ would be stickied six times from the 20th to the 29th. [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/450935802/#450935802 First] [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/451050278/#451050278 Second] [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/451183130/#451183130 Third] [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/451762447/#451762447 Fourth] [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/451950459/#451950459 Fifth] [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/452076859/#452076859 Sixth].
* October 21 - A fat fuck [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/60995129/#61000000 GETs 61M on /vt/].
* October 23 - [https://archived.moe/biz/thread/56444273/#56444444 Sexts on /biz/] confirm an incoming black swan. An Indianon on /pol/ gets an [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/446000559/#446000791 appropriate ID]. A shitpost on /a/ is [https://archive.today/nnvjo banned&locked].
* October 24 - Ban&lock for [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/258762900 an /r/ thread on /a/].
* October 25 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/446298008/#446300145 Mod embedded music] is heard in a /pol/ thread.
* October 27 - /m/'s [https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/22222222 22222222 GET] is a Gurren Lagann post. Mostly agreed to be a fairly good GET. [https://desuarchive.org/m/thread/22220745/#22222221 Sharty loses yet again in one of it's greatest FAILS] by literally a single post, serving as somewhat of a revenge for the 22M GET caca steal back in August. Mod-made thread on /pol/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/446532907/ contains music].
* October 28 - Actor Matthew Perry dies, [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/chunk/191488947 /tv/ sticky]. Shino [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/258888888 GETs septs] on /a/. Very bizzare spam [https://desuarchive.org/fit/thread/72651897/ floods a /fit/ thread]. Someone does their Ph.D thesis [https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/29134/3/Kasimov_Andrey_finalsubmission202309_PhD.pdf on /pol/].
* October 29 - /sci/ [https://warosu.org/sci/thread/15828599 gets a sticky] requesting links for a new permasticky. Flartbot steals [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/33319192/#33333333 33333333 on /lgbt/].
* October 30 - /g/ [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/97010833 gets a sticky] for the Apple Event. /x/ gets its [https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/36313260 yearly spoopy Halloween sticky]. Flartbot steals the [https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/59974058/#60000000 60M GET on /k/].
* October 31 - Flartbot steals [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/18984444/#19000000 19M on /bant/].
* November 1 - /sci/'s [https://warosu.org/sci/thread/15833831 new permasticky] goes live. /hap/persons [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/97054762/ discover a new bug]: if you use a ton of & symbols as a name and tripcode, a <code><nowiki><span></nowiki></code> tag breaks, completely crashing the inline extension. If you're using the vanilla site and someone posts with that name, the thread will appear closed, not letting you reply and not auto-updating. It's [https://desuarchive.org/_/search/username/%2Aspan%20class%2A/ used] on [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259050197/#259056364 various] [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/656087618/#656113182 boards] to limited effect. The archives even scrape the broken HTML, thinking it's part of the name. Within 12 hours this is patched.
* November 2 - A box of Futos [https://archive.today/arwx1#bottom appears in the background] of a /jp/ thread. (The mod [https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/trash/image/1698/97/1698974745647.png tested it in /nah/] but deleted the post before it could be archived)
* November 3 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/656263095/ /v/ sticky] for Blizzcon 2023. A mod stickies a [https://archive.today/4dhaf Ricardo thread on /wsg/], embedding a gif as well as [https://archive.today/4dhaf#p5338950 publically banning] someone (and [https://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/5324380/#5338976 replying with their capcode on]) An Anon from /t/ who had once promised to make a JAV starring himself and a cosplayer [https://archiveofsins.com/t/thread/1267160/#1270032 pussies out] because he's worried he'll get fired if someone identifies him.
* November 5 - A [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/656524575 Glegle thread] is moved from /v/ to /trash/ [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/60907102/ and stickied]. It would be stickied for 12 days, generating lots of new Gles. A [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/33423481/#33425416 modpost on /lgbt/] is made telling users that camwhoring is against the rules. A non-stickied [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/447582901 /pol/ thread about pro-Palestinian protests] in D.C. breaks the image limit and surpasses 1000 replies.
* November 6 - [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/447775734/#447777777 Lucky septs] are wasted on /pol/. Also, someone with an Israeli proxy is [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/447738213 spamming]. A user is [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259217942 publicly banned for posting eceleb shit] on /a/.
* November 8 - [https://archive.li/QbYYE#p26183074 Public warning] for a post on /gif/ misinterpreting the "no evading filters" rule.
* November 9 - The [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/60982059/#61000000 61M GET on /trash/] is giving sympathy to someone who just lost their cats.
* November 10 - [https://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/5329692/#5333333 5333333 on /wsg/] is a vtuber loli webm, idk it was removed from the archive
* November 14 - 4chan was down for 7 hours (Around 01:30 - 08:30 EST), prompting fears that Cloudflare has terminated 4chan.
* November 15 - Cirno gets [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/189999178/#190000000 190M on /int/].
* November 16 - A /co/ Anon [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/140644354 goes to an advance screening] of the latest Disney movie, Wish. He recorded the entire movie's audio and [https://files.catbox.moe/iuro3u.m4a posted it].
* November 17 - A /sci/ Anon [https://eientei.xyz/sci/thread/15864259#p15865425 brings a printout of his waifu to the SpaceX Starbase]. The /trash/ Glegle thread is unstickied.
* November 18 - [https://eientei.xyz/sci/thread/15866673 /sci/ sticky] for the SpaceX Starship IFT-2. Spoiler alert: it blew up.
* November 19 - Someone who played Uncharted 2 [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/657997934/#658000000 gets 658M on /v/]. /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/449287524 sticky for the Argentinian election results].
* November 20 - The [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/62985617/#63000000 63M GET on /vt/] is someone who wants sex with Purin. A [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259766790 request thread] on /a/ is banned & locked, a replier is b& too. [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/454971776/#455000000 445M on /vg/] is an OSRS player lamenting about his past.
* November 21 - A [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/454585201/ weird glitch on /vg/] is observed when every post in a thread is [https://archive.today/koJhn deleted] after it archives.
* November 22 - A [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259842333 request thread] on /a/ is banned & locked, some repliers are b& too.
* November 23 - A [https://archive.today/UsOSD Thanksgiving thread] on /hm/ is banned & locked. A reply calling rules reddit is b& too. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259876094 Two] [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259876257 threads] on /a/ are banned & locked too.
* November 24 - A [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/75526419 janny impersonator] is banned on /r9k/.
* November 25 - The voice actress for the Princess from Slay the Princess [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/658637379/#658656460 shows up on /v/] and makes a vocaroo calling (You) a good little Anon.
* November 26 - The [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/450000000 450M GET on /pol/] calls for total Ukrainian death. [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/75555302/#75555555 Septs on /r9k/] wish for a blue /r9k/. Another [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259977884 two] [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259955511 ban & locks] on /a/.
* November 27 - The [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/259994051/#260000000 260M GET on /a/] is a Miku figure in a buyfag thread.
* November 28 - Charlie Munger dies, gets a [https://archived.moe/biz/thread/56802305 /biz sticky]. A femanon on /co/ [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/140867121 follows the rules] in an Amazing Digital Circus thread.
* November 29 - Henry Kissinger dies, gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/450393995 /pol/ sticky]. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/658998485/#659000000 659M on /v/] is about how everything is biodegradable (in a game)
* November 30 - [https://archived.moe/lit/thread/22777292/#22777777 Lucky sexts on /lit/] announce we're all gonna make it. RIP Shane MacGowan, [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/119426267 /mu/ sticky].
* December 1 - An unused Nintendo character, Wapeach, is revealed by the creator of Wario. /v/ and the rule34 community [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/659202254/#659215109 rejoice].
* December 2 - Two posts saying "gimi" posted at the exact same second in the same thread on /sp/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/137199859/#137199999 get quints]. [https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/91043395/#91111111 Septs on /tg/] are wasted on a random post.
* December 4 - 4chan [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/97704739 blocks uploading files via Incognito mode], BTFO'ing IP hopping phoneposter and ban-evaders. /pol/ proclaims [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/450974634 "4chan is official Mossad-occupied <nowiki>[sic]</nowiki>]" The GTA VI trailer is released, [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/659563129/ /v/ has a sticky] with over 9000 replies. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/659562989 Another sticky] was made and force-archived after several minutes, presumably made on accident by another mod. A shitpost is [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/19175691/ stickied on /bant/].
* December 7 - /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/659912585/ gets a sticky] for the Game Awards. [https://desuarchive.org/fit/thread/72997746/#73000000 73M on /fit/] is an epic BTFO'ing of chuds.
* December 8 - On /v/, the [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/659936630/#660000000 660M GET] is a spoopy skeleton coming for (You). The [https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/54985752/#55000000 55M GET on /vp/] is a fujo win. [[soyjak.party|The soyboy woahjack boogieteens]] failed to steal it. [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/97777263/#97777777 Lucky septs on /g/] are wasted on a nerd talking about a Python thing.
* December 9 - The [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/193000000 193M GET on /tv/] is a pedopost. A mod [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/660219906/#660220318 embeds the Dragon's Dogma OST] in a thread about the game.
* December 10 - Doom turns 30. [https://archive.today/wHsyx /v/] and [https://archive.today/Pq76N /vr/] get stickies, including CSS with the classic Doom theme playing. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/660309892/#660312919 Grimm is /v/oted] as King of /v/ 2023. The guy who posted about killing Chitwood ""in Minecraft"" on /pol/ is sentenced to one year in prison.
* December 11 - [https://archive.today/ks3tU Spoopy spider mod embed] in the latest /v/ arachnophobia thread. /hoc/ on /sp/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/137443348/#137444444 GETs septs]. Someone doing a storytime in a /co/ Christmas Cheer thread [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/141088395/#141111111 GETs septs].
* December 12 - (USER WAS BANNED FOR POSTING X SHIT) [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/260532422/ on /a/]. The [https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/16000000 16M GET on /his/] is seething about trannies posting soyjaks on /lgbt/.
* December 13 - The [https://warosu.org/ck/thread/19999635#p20000000 20M GET on /ck/] is stolen by Cirno once again BTFO'ing frogposters. On or a little before this day, all boards are now each available under both the 4chan and 4channel domains. The API returns to 4chan by default. Probably a plan to re-merge the site given that all ads run off Hiro's Danbo service now and the syncframe is already broken on most browsers as part of phasing out third-party cookies.
* December 15 - A mod [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/452015600/#452040794 embeds Ram Ranch] in a thread about gay sex in the Senate.
* December 16 - Starting around 10:30AM EST, '''4channel.org''' boards now always redirect to '''4chan.org'''.
* December 17 - /v/, /vg/, /vt/, and /pol/ now have 200 thread slots instead of 150.

===2024===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2023 | ◄]] [[#2025 | ►]]
* January 1 - Mickey Mouse enters the public domain in the US, as the copyrights on his first three theatrical shorts expire. Mods do some CSS fuckery to a [https://archive.today/b5Fkz /co/ drawthread], adding a picture of Mickey ''(albeit in his still-copyrighted modern design)'' with the text <span style="color:red">PUBLIC DOMAIN</span> over his eyes and the song "Steamboat Bill" playing.
* January 10 - [https://archive.today/2ukgh The /int/ sticky] is updated with new links.
* January 22 - First report of a change in the captcha, at the time reported [https://archive.today/2mNYr on] [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98601695/ /g/] [https://archive.today/yHjjW#selection-17809.0-17809.48 &] [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/62773209/#62789167 /trash/]. Now the captcha is cut in half horizontally in the middle and one uses the slider to slide the bottom half portion to decipher it. Not site wide yet as of January 24.
* February 4 - The 666M GET on /v/ is a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/665971610/#666000000 post about video games]. A WFH NEET gets a [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98831681/#98832754 custom ban]. 
* February 5 - There is now a 60 second wait between the Cloudflare check and the CAPTCHA appearing. Currently noticed on some boards.
* February 10 - /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/666639156/ makes some vidya creepypasta], with it mostly being one letter posts. A new ''"bot"'' for vidya butts appears on /v/, and a barneyfag-like anon "owns" the spammer by posting under every single thread saying: "[https://arch.b4k.dev/_/search/boards/v.meta/text/Indian%20zoophile/ ''indian zoophile bot spam thread'']"
* February 11 - Kansas wins the Superb Owl, so a mod puts Taylor Swift's face [https://archive.today/0Li17 appears on top of the sticky].
* February 12 - [https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1756888470599967000 Dark Brandon Rises] on twitter [https://archive.today/RqbMm and] [https://archive.today/5QQ7u /pol/]. [https://files.catbox.moe/1gia06.mp3 Thread theme]. A cartoon pilot that was only screened at film festivals [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/142206261/#142211178 is leaked on /co/].
* February 13 - [https://archive.today/6RNsK /vt/ Erupts as Nijisanji, a Vtubing company, loses 100,000 subscribers in less than 24 hours, This happens as a result of] [https://files.catbox.moe/xed5se.png Nijisanji abusing their Nijiwhores]
* February 14 - A /k/ thread about Russian ships sinking [https://archive.today/xsNBy is sent underwater]. The same happens to multiple [https://archive.today/Cd8xH /chug/] and [https://archive.today/x3uuV /ugh/] threads on /pol/. (In total, /uhg/ #13,156-13,158 and /chug/ #14,919-14,923 had the embeds)
* February 26 - The [https://desuarchive.org/aco/thread/7955132/#8000000 8M GET on /aco/] is a sharty win (even though its a pic of their character cross-dressing)
* March 3 - [[4chan Pass|4chan Passes]] are [https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0/commit/d32062b3134fc85dc84c4a4deb20c0854297872b#diff-c7d33be524f0f252d9e9f5096e3f5b463163cceb64c1ccabfb449d7a53cf099eR863 quietly] [https://archive.today/MDwvl able to be bought and renewed with credit/debit cards again]. There is no global announcement or news post, only the pass page itself mentions it. Payment is via a service called [https://owo.to owo.to], which just has a generic Stripe checkout widget. Currently owo.to's [https://archive.today/OAIgX homepage] claims it is under construction. On or before this date, all static pages on '''4channel.org''' (like 4channel.org/rules) now redirect to their equivalent on '''4chan.org'''.
* March 4 - A Glover prototype gets [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/669096614/#669096614 posted] to /v/, complete with source code.
* March 8 - /vp/'s [https://arch.b4k.dev/vp/thread/55555555 55555555 GET] is stolen by [[soyjak.party|the Sharty]], wow who could have guessed? /a/ gets two death stickies: [https://archive.today/I1IFn one for Akira Toriyama], (creator of the Dragon Ball franchise), [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/263859318 the other for TARAKO] (voice of the title character of Chibi Maruko-chan).
* March 11 - Threads made after ~9:00AM EST don't have a working counter of unique IPs, [https://archive.today/cmRRo after it is inexplicably removed]. Threads are made on most boards, and many are deleted except on /g/ and /pol/ (and the off-topic boards). Shitposters sitewide rejoice and celebrate by replying to every post in many threads with "all me btw" while others wish the mods would communicate with the userbase for once. [[4chan/Staff|Moderator]] I_AM_ABIB [https://archive.today/d3oRF confirms over IRC] that the change is permanent. When asked why, yournamehere simply responds with "[https://archive.today/3VvO5  '''<u>BIG CHEESE</u>''']".
* March 19 - The 4chan Happenings Thread currently on /trash/ is [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/64171568/#64177660 swapped] with the thread on [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/19816270/#19841803 /bant/]. The thread was posted to /r9k/, [s4s], /bant/, and /b/ earlier in the week, with anons saying they should [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/64068571/#64077794 all be moved to /trash/] or [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/64068571/#64077959 shuffled]. An anon in one of the moved threads [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/64177512/#64178616 suggests] that it be swapped with the thread on [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5363899 /qa/], and it's [https://archive.today/Fvm5n moved there] minutes later. The old thread on /qa/ is left untouched.
* March 20 - An off-topic thread [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/670739143/ on /v/] is accidentally moved [https://archive.palanq.win/news/thread/1279424/ to /news/]. It took the mod 12 hours to realize this and delete the moved thread.
* March 21 - [https://archive.palanq.win/i/thread/756942/#777777 777777 on /i/] is in a soyjak thread. The thread, which was posted in September 2023, is deleted on March 28th shortly after the GET was posted in the 4chan Happenings Thread. The soyim [https://archive.palanq.win/i/thread/778468 weren't happy].
* March 25 - [https://twitter.com/LordWhiteSGW/status/1772174453125861517 Lord White], an amateur pro wrestler, posts a [https://archive.palanq.win/pw/thread/13900329/#13907548 selfie with timestamp] on /pw/.
* March 26 - A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dinyOvO2EEo&list=TLGGllXRkQ4qotQxNDA0MjAyNA sound effect] from Hell's Kitchen is [https://archive.today/vKl1j#p64344135 embedded] in [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/64337052/#64344135 the Happenings Thread]. Also, a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=TLGGt3CzpNEkKlQxNDA0MjAyNA&v=JyKYt6A8xew youtube video] is [https://archive.today/CYuDc embedded on] [s4s].
* March 30 - A Sneedposter GETs [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/197777234/#197777777 lucky septs on /tv/].
* March 31 - [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/671985936/#672000000 672M on /v/] really wants to be banned for a week.
* April 1 - April Fools Days arrives and the joke is actually fucking good this time. The [https://archive.today/uAH3z Yotsuba Stock Exchange] opens and Anons are given $1000 to invest in these memecoins: PEPE, WOJK, ANIME, CHAD, CLOWN, LOL, SICP, AUTSM, BANE, CIA, BOOB, RDDT, DESU, JANNY, GME, CHUCK, YTSB and GACHI. Retarded anons buy small dips and cash out for only hundreds in profit while the wisest investors wait until a memecoin crashes to single digits before going all in and becoming multi-millionaire moguls and magnates. Most traders hang out in the [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/58214254 /biz/ megasticky]. A [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/99781130 relevant thread] is moved from /g/ to [https://archive.today/v4llG /qa/ and stickied]. At the end of the day, [https://archive.today/Sk0zA all the stock prices drop to $1, with the graph staying completely flat.] A native isekai shitposter gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/264869269 publicly banned & locked] on /a/.
* April 3 - One of /vg/'s janitors accidentally reveals himself in ''/gig/ - Genshin Impact General'' while doing an unboxing. He has a custom extension with the report queue and an ''messages'' inbox.<ref>
Post. [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/472095993/#472105882]
</ref>. The day prior a Norwegian shitposter on /int/ [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/195562009/#195566971 glowposts about shooting up Parliament], causing it to be [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/195598801 evacuated and searched]. The [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/76999618#p77000000 77M GET on /r9k/] is someone who wants to abuse women.
* April 4 - The [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/72999892/#73000000 73M GET on /vt/] is someone calling a vtuber cute.
* April 5 - "The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem", a Netflix documentary about 4chan is released. It features W.T. Snacks, kirtaner, hotwheels, and some other faggots. The first half is about the early days but eventually it just turns into seething about how /pol/ planned a government insurrection and sent a plague unto our houses.
* April 8 - A total solar eclipse casts a shadow across North America for a couple hours. /pol/ says an eclipse-induced apocalypse will happen, nothing happens, and mods attempt humor by [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/464352828 stickying a locked thread] with a [https://imgur.com/a/aJtUYmd picture of a nothingburger bun], before unstickying, unlocking and autosaging it shortly after. /sci/ also gets a [https://archived.moe/sci/thread/16113150 sticky].
* April 9 - An Israelite with [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/464440415/#464444444 repeating numbers] claims Iran won't do shit (this aged poorly lol) <--- this aged poorly double lol
* April 10 - Cirno steals [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/19680360/#19999999 some 9s on /bant/], the [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/19998201/#20000000 20M GET] is nah (not a happening)
* April 11 - O.J. Simpson dies, [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/140019624/ /sp/ gets a sticky.]
* April 13 - '''A [https://archive.today/8oHOl sticky] is made on /biz/ announcing that users will soon need to [https://sys.4chan.org/signin verify an email address] to post,''' due to the massive shitcoin spam /biz/ has seen as of late. Only major email providers are accepted, and users will have to re-verify every 24 hours. Verification won't be required for [[4chan/Pass|passfags]]. The wording on the signin page (A verified email address is required to post on ''some boards'' like /biz/) implies that this may become a requirement on other boards. Most anons [https://warosu.org/biz/thread/58388635 aren't happy], begging the mods to simply turn on flags and rangeban India. This is the biggest change to posting since the CAPTCHA was added in 2010.
* April 14 - /g/ reaches 100 million posts, being a seventh board to do so. The [https://desuarchive.org/g/post/100000000 GET] is simply the word "sir".
* May 13 - Good news for /biz/bros! [https://archive.today/DMQQY The email verification system is loosened] by the admins. Now, new anons only need to wait 15 minutes before they can post on /biz/, or they can verify their email to start using it immediately.
* June 7 - The source code for the New York Times’ digital assets [https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/100843783 leaks on /g/]. Quoted as being “270 GB… There are around 5 thousand repos (out of them less than 30 are additionally encrypted I think), 3.6 million files total, uncompressed tar.” [https://archive.today/1z7TD Archived here.] [https://files.catbox.moe/jsowk8.txt Magnet here.] [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ce86d0f38b658eabd51e6afd3a7cf52a116d4343&xt=urn:btmh:12201238db0dc61a26f16419414ad58ebcbc388d8239de5e2b66a8b65c55798353cf&dn=nytimes_src&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.tracker.cl%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.io%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tamersunion.org%3A443%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker1.myporn.club%3A9337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dump.cl%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bittor.pw%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fryjer.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fp4p.arenabg.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.free-tracker.ga%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fnew-line.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt.ktrackers.com%3A6666%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.renfei.net%3A443%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.loligirl.cn%3A443%2Fannounce Magnet link.]
* June 9 & 10 - /vt/ and /r9k/ both had a 77M GET, with the /r9k/ one being about a [https://archive.today/S7Xqt cute duck]and the /vt/ GET calling [https://archive.today/SkctJ calling gura cute.] Sharty BTFO yet again.
* June 11 -  The /tv/ 200M GET is someone that said "Star wars sucks". 
* July 13 - Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt. A mod makes a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/473978315/ sticky] on /pol/.
* July 17 - Goutokuji Mike [https://archive.today/Q5xFq#bottom appears in the background] of a /jp/ [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/47252757 thread]. The image was hosted from a /vip/ thread that got purged on August 25, causing her to [https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0472/52/1725648747364177.png disappear] if it wasn't cached by the browser. A mod put her back by reuploading the image in /vip/ and [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/47252757#p47737332 posted HTML code] and now there are two (2) Mikes for some anons whose browser cached the old image. Hovering over said post would render another Mike, making it possible to [https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0472/52/1725731084035062.png see 3 Mikes].
* July 18 - Promotional reference guides for the upcoming Jack Black Minecraft movie are [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/683060313 leaked on /v/.] They were later [https://www.eurogamer.net/jack-black-minecraft-movie-images-leak-days-after-tenacious-d-controversy reposted on Twitter] and removed in a copyright takedown by Microsoft. The character designs look so ugly that the /v/ thread derailed into shitflinging about Tenacious D splitting up over the Trump assassination attempt instead.
* July 21 - IT'S JOEVER, Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the election. A mod makes a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/475079739/ sticky] on /pol/.
* August 5 - Ongoing escalation of conflicts in the Middle East coupled with fears of US recession as the FED promised rate cuts, Japan raising rates and poor earnings report for the tech sector which fueled the rally destroyed Crypto. Many /biz/raelis killed themselves as they lost it all when Alts nosedived. Bitcoin dropped $20,000 in value in a span of a week as the ongoing sell off picks up speed. Many bulls were liquidated or had their life-savings obliterated. The pink fields return. 
* August 9 - Without prior notice, the mods at FANDOM shut down [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23675760 the /lit/ wiki] and announced that the site would no longer host any content related to 4chan. They slowly began to nuke 4chan wikis over the coming weeks, including the /s4s/, /v/, and /mu/ wikis.
* August 15 - Not an April Fools joke, 12 years after it's release, Katawa Shoujo is now on Steam. Some threads are made on /v/, some having nostalgia for the game, others worrying about normalfags, and many wondering how the hell is /ksg/ still a thing.
* August 20 - Voice actress Atsuko Tanaka, best known as the voice of "The Major" Motoko Kusanagi from ''Ghost in the Shell'', passes away. [https://archive.today/bRkXo /a/ gets a sticky.]
* August 25 - At about 10:30pm EST, 4chan has sporadic unresponsive periods. Half an hour later, 20 boards have their catalogs completely wiped. The affected boards were /a/, /b/, /c/, /d/, /h/, /vip/, /cm/, /3/, /aco/, /an/, /bant/, /biz/, /ck/, /co/, /diy/, /fit/, /int/, /lit/, /mlp/ and /trash/. The purge kills many, many old threads, including some of the earliest surviving threads on /vip/. Mods plead oopsy-daisy on [https://archive.today/FGBpm /a/], [https://archive.today/Htcmo /c/], [https://warosu.org/ck/thread/20782545 /ck/], [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/145128460/ /co/], [https://boards.fireden.net/cm/thread/3912881/ /cm/], [https://warosu.org/diy/thread/2841949 /diy/], [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23736438 /lit/], [https://warosu.org/3/thread/992846 /3/]...most boards that were purged receive the same public mod apology of "Mods made a mistake. We're sorry.". On /co/, one mod chalks up the purge to [https://archive.today/pVgOI#p145129786 "mods being dumb."] Nothing is confirmed about why the purge happened yet. Random rumors from an exposed glowie to a credible threat to being related to the Telegram arrest are floated around.
* August 30~ - 4chan starts giving out 3-year passes for $45.(Can't find the announcement on archived pages of the time (https://archive.today/vXc7h) but I remember seeing it. It was also talked about in [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/78640152/#78651912 this thread])
* September 3 - [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/270622269 /a/ loves cutting boards]
* September 6 - The Prismriver Sisters appears at the bottom of a /jp/ thread, [https://okuu.pages.dev/threads/jp/47474046 this is how it appears]; [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/47474046 archive link]. Anon discovers the post containing HTML code responsible for their appearance  [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/47474046#p47735106 here] and the image referenced is from a /vip/ [https://archived.moe/vip/thread/129352/#129692 thread].
* September 23 - [https://archive.today/9XcBR The /g/ sticky] is updated with a new wiki link after the Fandom wiki was nuked.
* October 1 - 4chan celebrates its [https://archive.today/PStnN 21st birthday]. Party hats on all boards as usual, but also two birthday presents. The first present, for some fucking reason, is permastickies for [https://archive.today/AH8Tl /vrpg/], [https://archive.today/DHD7N /vmg/], [https://archive.today/xpUAx /vst/] and [https://archive.today/UytzC /vm/]. The second and more widely-NOOTICED present is a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/483400670 surprise site-wide word filter]. Users can no longer type nigger, faggot, and/or tranny more than 3 times in a single non-spam post. This filter tracks the words cumulatively and it does not matter if the words are posted one after another, so posting niggerfaggot twice in a row, or posting a regular post with nigger/faggot/tranny spread throughout, will give a "Post successful!" message, but the post will not actually show up. Both regular users and shitposters were expectedly not happy, and due to the user backlash and lack of effectiveness, the mods would quietly remove the filter in the new few days after. 
* October 7 - [https://archive.today/LXjCa The /lit/ sticky] is reposted with updated wikis and links after the Fandom wiki was nuked.
* October 10 - '''[https://archive.today/Zn9vU Three new rules to post]''' are introduced to /vg/ to prevent spam. The email verification system previously used on /biz/ is brought back as one option, the second option is to buy a pass, the third option for a "new user of 4chan" is to wait 15 minutes only once before posting. You only have to do one of the three options and accept 4chan cookies to be able to post, but [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/497792560 shitposters are pissed] because the rules inconvenience ban-evading, apply best to spambots, and does not stop bots or organic users on /vg/ from using a throwaway email account to post schizophrenic shit, Discord tags and ritualposts when the thread doesn't have fresh content and poster turnover.
* October 18 - The new anti-spam rules spread to [https://archive.today/WUjbE /pol/], then to [https://archive.today/MayiS /v/] the following day, and lastly to [https://archive.today/b0quG /a/] on October 21. The sticky announcing the new rules on /pol/ forced the SLOW THE FUCK DOWN sticky to be purged and [https://archive.today/gt8hh reposted as a reply in the /pol/ sticky].
* October 23 - The anti-spam rules are applied to all remaining boards, except of course /f/, which still uses the Google CAPTCHA, and the [https://archive.today/YUM0L FAQ] is updated to include them.
* October 27 - The [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/500000000/ /vg/ 500M GET] is a Touhou General OP.
* October 29 - [https://archive.today/o86tq A sticky on /mu/] is created to discuss alternatives for hosting the /mu/ wiki after it was nuked by Fandom, but is instead derailed by discussion about /mu/ being dead for the past few years and barely any suggestions for what alternatives to use, because mods only bothered to make this thread two months after /mu/ stopped caring about the wiki dying. Eventually the admin of the Fandom wiki posts in the thread with a [https://4chanmusic.miraheze.org/wiki/4chanmusic_Wiki Miraheze clone] of it, and the old sticky is [https://archive.today/MVHva replaced with a new one] three days later.
* October 31 - [https://archive.today/qH6Ij /v/ got a Halloween sticky] themed around the Pumpkin Hill stage from Sonic Adventure 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0sBxBAi_8 A fan remix] of the stage music played in the background, and every time the thread was refreshed it would [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPztK5sV9d8 ask you guys if you were going trick or treating]. [https://archive.today/s2g7B /trash/ got a sticky] for the Halloween Google Doodle "Magic Cat Academy 3" and remained stickied for 12 days.
* November 4 - /biz/ is battered and bruised as alt dominance declines day by day and money exits. The calm before the storm as polling day hits, depending on the result, one of either the bears or the bull will be completely destroyed. /pol/ meanwhile has been completely overrun with slide threads proclaiming Trump to be a Jewish agent and Kamala being the bringer of hope and joy. Much seething from the loser and gloating from the winner is coming.
* November 5 - /pol/ and /biz/ celebrate the results of the presidential election as Trump wins the presidency. $218 billion American dollars enter the Cyrpto Market during the lead-up to 270 electors. [https://archive.today/dqRdW /pol/ gets a sticky].
* November 7 - /gif/ is reduced from 10 to 5 pages and the archive is removed.
* November 17 - /tv/ mod tries and fails to be funny by giving a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/205866925 sticky] to the dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz, a dog that has been dead for almost 80 years. An anon presents the mod with the "Attention Whoring Nigger Award", mod immediately embeds the image into one of his next posts, and then deletes the thread at 96 replies when people start complaining about Fishtank Live.
* November 19 - mp4 support is added to all boards, but has the same restrictions as webm files when posted outside of /gif/ and /wsg/.
* December 2 - The /v/ catalog is swarmed with threads that all have a recolor of the ninja characters from Mortal Kombat with the text "ITT post them [color] characters".
* December 5 - Bitcoin hits 100,000 USD per. /biz/ rejoices. It snaps back down to 90k 14 hours later, liquidating everyone.
* December 14 - /vip/ gets an early Merry Christmas [https://archive.today/PfAcc sticky.]
* December 20 - The seventh and final main issue of the Team Fortress 2 comic series is surprise released after a seven-year hiatus. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/697888191 /v/ gets a sticky].
* December 25 - Halo prototypes get [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/11468597 leaked onto /vr/.] The source code for Saints Row 4 gets [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/103640790 leaked onto /g/.]
* December 29 - Jimmy Carter dies, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/492730049 sticky].

===2025===
[[#top | ▲]] [[#2024 | ◄]]
* January 1 - Some retard tripfagging as Adrian Dittmann, a Twitter/X user with fanboy connections so close to Elon Musk that he's widely speculated to be the man himself, posts on /pol/'s /emg/ general. He talks like a leftist faggot trying to bait people on 4chan by calling them incels, complaining about negativity, and overusing 4chan buzzwords in a different manner from the pretentious conservative tone he normally tweets in, but /pol/ fell for it anyway. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/493045390/#q493057242 He eventually posts a cropped screencap] of a Musk tweet that conveniently shows buttons for the admin portal, bans, and viewing post engagements, the latter of which can normally only be seen on your own tweets. The tripfag immediately deletes this when people notice and laugh. The screencap spread like wildfire on X with claims it was Musk, but this isn't guaranteed because, assuming it isn't fake, it's possible that X admins can also access post engagements in the first place. Two days later [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/493145966/#q493176247 the retard dumps the tripcode] in a different thread, claims it was all a larp and that the screencap was edited, and news sites also [https://archive.today/pq034 reported it didn't resemble the actual X admin interface].
* January 6 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns after a long period of instability in leafland. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/493490449/#q493490449 /pol/ gets a sticky]. Leafanon claims he's first, except he isn't.
* January 12 - /v/'s 700M GET is [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/699995409/#700000000 "I'm not seeing the difference"], in response to RTX Hair, BTFO'ing Nvidia shills.
* January 14 - The full source codes for Glover 1 and 2 (plus assets and documents) [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/11511395 get posted to /vr/.]
* January 15 - A site-wide message appears announcing that 4chan Passes will increase in price starting February 1st, one year is $30, three years is $60.
* January 16 - David Lynch dies, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/207933210 sticky].
* January 17 - On Friday night, Trump's X and TruthSocial announced the launch of the official TRUMP memecoin. /biz/ speculates whether Trump was hacked or not and whether this was an elaborate Jeet scam. After a few hours of no information pointing to it being a scam, /biz/ goes all in. Posting speed accelerates and threads start hitting bump limits after a mere 30 minutes. The entire alt market dumps to funnel money into TRUMP and it skyrockets in value, doing a 100x. Many /biz/realis make it.
* January 20 - TRUMP memecoin rugs hard and many /biz/raelis become bagholders.
* January 23 - Trump signs an executive order mandating a plan for the declassification and release of any remaining documents about the assassination of John F. Kennedy be submitted within 15 days, and the same for the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. within 45 days. /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/495187082 sticky].
* February 2 - Grammy Awards, /mu/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/125356874 sticky] for the show for the first time since 2020.
* February 8 - 4chan replaces Cloudflare Turnstile with [https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0/commit/3136277971ec57b577d82cd780fcc8520da1f553 hCaptcha] for the initial captcha when posting/reporting.
* February 16 - Half-Life 2's art director Viktor Antonov dies, /v/ gets a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/703199653 sticky].
* February 25 - Osaka from Azumanga Daioh is revealed to have grown up to become one of Ena Ayase's teachers in a new chapter in Volume 16 of Yotsuba&!, triggering a crossover for the ages when Yotsuba meets Osaka. This reveal was first teased a decade prior in Chapter 88, a plot twist to rival M. Night Shyamalan. /a/ oldfags go apeshit and the board gets a [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/276549467 sticky].
* February 26 - Michelle Trachtenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl dies, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/chunk/208961172/ sticky].
* February 27 - The annual /v/ [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/704093330  HARMONY Day] sticky. The US Department of Justice starts to publicly release more files on Jeffery Epstein, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/498809880 sticky]. Because some of the first files they released were already leaked before and it took six fucking hours for the DoJ to upload them after giving binder copies to Shabbos e-celebs and podcasters, mods once again posted the [https://imgur.com/a/7mLL3dV nothingburger bun], this time embedding it through CSS magic. While the Michelle Trachtenberg sticky is still up, Gene Hackman, his wife, and one of their dogs were found dead in their home, /tv/ gets another [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/208981866 sticky].
* March 1 - SpongeBob game prototypes get [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/704318553/ leaked on /v/.] Claude AI, a ChatGPT bot hooked up to play Pokémon Red, gets past Mt. Moon after an 80 hour slump. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/704305912#p704309628 /v/ celebrates] and a mod embeds [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeIk_toiDms Victory Road].
* March 2 - The Oscars, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/209079510 sticky].
* March 4 - George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, dies, /co/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/147740223 sticky].
* March 5 - sys.4chan.org goes down for 10 hours because of "horseplay in the server room". The last posts were made at 00:34:28 EST. The banner on IRC simply reads: "SITE IS DOWN - Please wait warmly~". Millions are forced to leave their houses and touch grass. Posting begins working again around 11:10 EST.
* March 6 - /pol/ discovers that [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/499570364 a retarded namefag] in the /chug/ and /uhg/ generals [https://archive.today/vzYMm  got himself killed a week ago] trying to ransom a military base in Oregon.
* March 10 - /pol/'s [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/500000000/ 500 million GET] is a Christian win.
* March 16 - 2024 /v/GAs, /v/ gets a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/705413130 sticky].
* March 18 - Some 4chan outages reportedly happened in the UK at 12am and 2pm GMT, less than two days after the UK started enforcing the 2023 Online Safety Act.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/104704219/#104753881</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/208976824/#208977475</ref> The Trump Administration begins releasing more JFK assassination files, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/500851543 sticky].
* March 20 - /v/ mod appears to unironically shill for Assassin's Creed Shadows by adding the ban text [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/705870089 "(We lost. The game is a major success.)"] to a player count thread. 
* March 21 - George Foreman dies, /sp/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/147765076 sticky].
* March 30 - 4chan passes [https://archive.today/wgaky 5 billion total posts].
* April 1 - The Department of 4chan Efficiency is established to "maximize productivity and eliminate abuse". Starting at 4am UTC, several boards are shut every hour, starting with the slowest, including the hidden boards /asp/ (despite already being closed), /qa/ (the index wasn't updated but the maintenance error message was [https://archive.today/Z4FPj changed] to match the other closed boards) and /test/. /mlp/'s [https://imgur.com/a/Qc4MlXr current posting activity on 4stats.io] soars to over 1285% within the first two hours in a coordinated effort to prevent the closure of the board, but still gets shut down. By the end of the day, the only boards left standing are /b/, /bant/, /f/, /r9k/, [s4s], /trash/, and /vip/. Individual threads on closed boards can still be accessed, but posting is blocked. The board's index pages and catalogs redirect to a [https://archive.today/WULW2 page] with the message "This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency" and a picture of the [https://imgur.com/a/yJymiGh Do4E seal] (the exception being /j/, which leads to a 404). Eventually, /b/ gets a [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/933256781  sticky] saying "To achieve greater efficiency, redundant ASCII characters are being phased out", forcing everyone to start posting in leetspeak. /b/ temporarily cures itself of its cancer, with actual random threads instead of just porn dumps, and pretty much everyone agrees that it's the best /b/'s been in a long time. Mods also [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/706950539 interviewed /v/]. /b/tards dressed as nigras storm the Habbo Hotel coffeehouse and successfully form a swastika.
* April 2 - Val Kilmer dies just before midnight, a tribute thread on /b/ gets a [https://archived.moe/b/thread/933342424/#933344737 modpost] while the site is restored to normal, then a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/209836035 sticky] gets made on /tv/ a bit later. Several /tv/ threads announcing his death were deleted before the sticky was made, possibly because mods thought it was a late April Fool's Day joke.
* April 7 - A cancelled Retro Studios game called Harmony gets [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/707605567/ leaked on /v/] from a Switch devkit. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/707661630/ Other prototypes] including cancelled Ridge Racer and Lego Civilization games also get leaked.
* April 9 - A Chudjak in Buddhist clothing is [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/502813617 stickied on /pol/] to show that "nothing ever happens".
* April 15 - Around 2am UTC, '''4chan is [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368448 hacked] by a user of Soyjak.party''', with a sitewide announcement of "/QA/ RETURNS SOYJAK[.]PARTY WON #PACKWATCH" alongside three dancing [https://myfigurecollection.net/picture/4051639 Hatsune Mikus] and embedded [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TTuH9BPwjI Touhou music] ("Night of Nights" by beatMARIO/COOL&CREATE). All boards are renamed to "/QA/ FUCKING WON". With Hiroyuki's cloak, he reopens /qa/ and makes [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368448 two] [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368374 stickies] there. He also makes a [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/708291424 stickied /v/ thread] ([https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rtSUO alternate archive]) and spams "I RAPE NIGGERS WITH PICKAXES", and [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/209970921 posts on /int/]. The sharty [https://archive.today/DIOmK actively stickies] the infiltrator's threads, dumps the [https://files.catbox.moe/d56ws8.7z Yotsuba] [https://archive.vn/o/8J1Ya/https://files.catbox.moe/d56ws8.7z source code] (revealing that it basically hasn't been updated since Hiro took over),  [https://files.catbox.moe/czivhs.7z dumps the] [https://files.catbox.moe/czivhs.7z complete /j/ archive] validating many anons' suspicions over the past decade, and [https://files.catbox.moe/ys4s5k.txt dumps all of] [https://archive.vn/o/8J1Ya/https://files.catbox.moe/ys4s5k.txt the jannies/mods/admins' emails], [https://files.catbox.moe/639lxc.txt hashed] [https://archive.vn/o/8J1Ya/https://files.catbox.moe/639lxc.txt passwords], [https://files.catbox.moe/57t745.txt last login] [https://archive.vn/o/8J1Ya/https://files.catbox.moe/57t745.txt IP addresses] and [https://wiki.soyjak.st/Great_Cuckset even more] [https://archive.vn/8J1Ya stuff]. The hack goes on for roughly 20 minutes until 4chan's MySQL servers are taken offline by moderator and web developer Desuwa. For six hours, no posts can be made, the site loaded very slowly, all previous Hiro posts outside /qa/ were pruned, while /qa/ was left as is. Many had no choice but to take refuge on the IRC channel. Contrary to popular belief, the last known post on 4chan before this happened was not a [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5368446/#q5368446 Chicken Jockey shitpost] on /qa/, but a [https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/a.aco.an.c.cgl.co.d.fit.g.his.int.k.m.mlp.mu.q.qa.r9k.tg.trash.vr.wsg/ghost/none/ Brazilian complaining about the price of white prostitutes] on /int/ 19 seconds later. A little after 8am UTC, the site's web servers were pulled and displayed a connection time-out on the front page. Hours later, 4chan's Twitter account posts for the first time in three years, confirming they're working on fixing their shit.<ref>https://x.com/4chan/status/1912242601102844078 https://archive.today/7BZkI</ref> <ref>https://x.com/4chan/status/1912246563294044662 https://archive.today/X6Yl5</ref> RapeApe allegedly sends an email to all the jannies and mods recommending they change their usernames, passwords, email addresses, and IP addresses, while detailing that the mods had bought new servers and were too slow to move 4chan to them, and that the website will be back Soon™.<ref>[https://archive.today/MIllH]</ref> In the meantime, anons become dispossessed exiles, becoming refugees, scattering to and settling in various altchans.
* April 16 - [https://x.com/hirox246/status/1912603340292448258 Hiro] says on Twitter that 4chan will be back up "Later!"™
* April 17 - [https://files.catbox.moe/aee3d7.7z More source code] is leaked onto the sharty including the following: www.4chan.org source code, reports.4chan.org source code, team.4chan.org source code, Twister captcha source code, Nginx and PHP configuration files for sys.4chan.org, and a bunch of scripts. [https://archive.today/AfUNB Parodies of RapeApe's mail] start getting posted. On a [https://web.archive.org/web/20250423105411/https://github.com/AlexDev404/4chan-main/ Github upload of the leaked source code], [https://web.archive.org/web/20250423105917/https://github.com/AlexDev404/4chan-main/commits?author=desuwa Desuwa appears as a contributor] authoring a ''non-verified'' commit that declares the leaked code is under a [https://web.archive.org/web/20250423110129/https://github.com/AlexDev404/4chan-main/blob/main/LICENSE.md WTFPL license]. Verified commits on Github are known to be [https://infosecwriteups.com/the-curious-case-of-github-commit-spoofing-a-lighthearted-exploration-54ddbaaaf40a the only protection] against a form of identity spoofing that simply needs a target user's email address to be added to any local git configuration's <code>user.email</code>, and such addresses are public information, even before the leak days prior of staff email addresses. In lack of any other announcement there's still no indication they're publicly releasing the source code.
* April 21 - [https://x.com/GrapeApe9k/status/1914398565797126528 RapeApe] reasserts on Twitter that he is working on fixing 4chan and [https://x.com/GrapeApe9k/status/1914401656764272970 says] "We get there when we get there."
* April 23 - [https://x.com/4chan/status/1915075522536870068 New post] from the official 4chan Xitter account questions Wired's article about <s>gamers</s> 4chan being dead. 4chan's official blog also gets a [https://blog.4chan.org/post/781675852639387648/testing-testing-123-123 new test post] for the first time in 8 years, possibly hinting that they could use it again to share updates about the situation.
* April 24 - 4chan.org, boards.4chan.org and other subdomains change their default connection timed out errors to a simple HTML forbidden error stating [https://archive.today/ZWMeS "Come back later!"] shortly before 2AM EDT. A few minutes later, it is changed to [https://archive.today/LmV0p "See you soon!"]. 4chan's [https://archive.today/vaJ5D CDN] and [https://archive.today/yPeoZ API] also start working again for a few hours, before going down again with a 403 [https://archive.today/d1256 Forbidden] [https://web.archive.org/web/20250424173451/https://i.4cdn.org/qa/1744682610947324.jpg message]. In that time frame, p.4chan.org is [https://archive.today/oYiXF back up] as a result, and [https://files.catbox.moe/rd0c1g.png sending verification emails] [https://archive.today/xWDx6 on request], but trying to authenticate a pass to post [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/278106615/#278108417_57679 doesn't work]. What appears to be a [https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/4402036/#4405171 test post] simply saying "1" is also sent at 5:28AM EDT on the /c/ board, and deleted minutes later. It is the first post to be archived since the website went down. At around 10AM EDT, RapeApe sends [https://archive.today/XH2JA another email] to the staff, once again confirming 4chan is coming back, with a first ETA given for Sunday (April 27) night or Monday (April 28) morning for a read-only version of the site. He also states the secure tripcode salt was changed, /f/ was deleted, all passwords were reset, two old servers (second-hand dells bought in 2010) were retired, PDF uploading was disabled temporarily, and operating systems were updated. A mod in the 4chan IRC confirms both this [https://archive.today/ZrPzX ETA] and [https://archive.today/GQaEc the deletion of /f/.]
* April 25 - RapeApe [https://x.com/GrapeApe9k/status/1915797981040902218 tweets] "brace for faggotry" in preparation for 4chan's relaunch. At around 12PM EDT, the [https://archive.today/MKfjv CDN] and [https://archive.today/gnYuU API] go up again, and [https://archive.today/CloFF p.4chan.org too] as a result. While it is still listed in [https://archive.today/HWnEV boards.json], /qa/ is not accessible, and trying to access it manually by changing the URL simply redirects to [https://archive.today/xeNWJ boards.4chan.org/blank.html] with the same "See you soon!" message. [https://archive.today/tw8e2 /f/, however, is still present.] At 1PM EDT, '''[https://archive.today/AuWYp 4chan is back] after 10 days and 15 hours of downtime''', and users are able to post directly. The first post timer is changed to 120 seconds and the 15min timer associated with email verification is gone now. /f/ is also still accessible, but trying to post in the board results in [https://archive.today/NZj5w an error page saying "Performing site maintenance. Try again in a little while."]. The amount of active content shown on the site's front page is [https://archive.today/AuWYp much lower] than [https://archive.today/uipce what it normally is], with over 800GB of content supposedly pruned. /a/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/278108430 sticky], but the thread is locked after about 40min, and only reopens several hours later at 7:20PM EDT. Meanwhile, threads are moved around erratically between boards, with /a/ getting most of its catalog [https://archive.today/2tuC1 moved to /g/], while lots of Captcha issues are encountered. [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/708292163#p708293458 A mod moves a /v/ thread] [https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/521689190/#521833714 and /vg/ thread to /test/], along with other threads, meaning they are testing shit in real-time. /tv/ board is filled with threads from [https://archive.today/wWr93 /lgbt/], then from [https://archive.today/MhEf6 /po/.] Around 2:20PM EDT, the Captcha challenge is replaced with a [https://archive.today/0ts0V "See you soon!" text], essentially making posting impossible for a few minutes before it comes back to normal. Due to the back and forth moves, some threads get duplicated within their boards or even across boards, such as [https://boards.4chan.org/a/thread/278108430 the /a/ sticky] that also appears on [https://desuarchive.org/c/thread/4405616/ /c/ unstickied.] Some other threads [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/278128385/ look broken.] The /a/ threads that moved to /g/ are progressively moved back to their original board, as /tv/ and /g/'s catalogs get truncated down to 2 pages. After 1-2 hours of chaos, the site seems mostly stable again, and the general info stickies for [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/105076684/ some] [https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/80987188/ boards] are remade. The tripcode salt was also changed. [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/278106615/500/ The Dragon Ball Z thread in /a/ that was turned into /ghost/] as many anons from different boards took refuge during the downtime to post on Desuarchive reaches [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/278106615/500/109/#q278108417_62298 62,298 ghost posts] before the count is reset with the [https://desuarchive.org/a/chunk/278106615/500/109/#q278108431 first real post in the thread since the outage.] A [https://archive.today/keV3e long post] is made on the official blog around 8PM EDT, finally addressing the situation publicly for the first time and confirming that 4chan is back. They re-explain the exploit the hacker used and blame their lack of security on insufficient staff working on updating code and infrastructure, and financial difficulties (despite Hiro being a millionaire). This post also gives more credit to the 2 [https://archive.today/MIllH leaked] [https://archive.today/XH2JA emails] from RapeApe, as the elements mentioned in them are also restated here, such as the fact they were planning on moving to new servers, that the OS have been updated, PDF uploading temporarily disabled, and /f/ disabled permanently to prevent exploits from .swf files. Despite the last statement, the board is still accessible, and only uploading is disabled. The official 4chan Twitter account also makes 2 posts in a smug tone, [https://x.com/4chan/status/1915920649371193734 one questioning the "4chan is dead"] claim from the media again, and [https://x.com/4chan/status/1915922484991562221 another linking the blog post.] /biz/raelis who fled to sharty declare that they shall never return as flags were not implemented and jeets were not rangebanned as they are on sharty.
* April 26 - Pope Francis' funeral is held, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/503312585#p503312585 sticky]. Around 9:20PM EDT popular threads and stats [https://archive.today/NNpC0 aren't being shown] on the front page, the pass page displays "[https://archive.today/A8D9c Service Temporarily Unavailable]" and the form on the Feedback page is [https://archive.today/99VEN hidden via CSS]. The front page returns to normal about 30 minutes later while /pass and /feedback are still down. 4stats data indicates that traffic on 4chan has dropped between 20-25% from before the hack.
* April 27 - 4chan.org/pass returns, the feedback page is still down.
* April 28 - 2025 Canadian Federal Election, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/503478079 sticky].
* April 30 - Gawr Gura Graduation, /vt/ gets a [https://archive.palanq.win/vt/thread/99611194 thread by the mods].
* May 6 - India launches missiles on Pakistan, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/504060480/ sticky].
* May 9 - 4chan.org/feedback returns, with only "Bug Report" and "IP Range Ban Issue" categories to select from. Instead of "Subject" and "Message" fields each category now has custom fields for specific, relevant information. Additionally, reCAPTCHA verification on the form has been replaced with hCaptcha.
* May 18 - Joe Biden is diagnosed with prostate cancer, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/505029402 sticky].
* May 30 - 4chan's pass Stripe account gets [https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0/commit/bce6024e5cae909ea76d599160cedd1aaaeba821 martyred]. RapeApe talks about [https://x.com/GrapeApe9k/status/1947458566224548106 "bending over backwards"] but that being in vain.
* May 31 - Anon from /brit/ confesses to have acted out a fake meetup on /mlp/ for England bronies. To his surprise, [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/42236574/#42238057 they actually] [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/211253506/#211258586 link up], making it technically the first successful meetup in /brit/'s history.
* June 2 - Jonathan Joss, the voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, was killed by his neighbor, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/211107836/ sticky].
* June 4 - Modpost on /v/ saying [https://arch.b4k.dev/v/chunk/711557701/500/2/#q711559317 "GOD DAMN IT"] when Pragmata is broadcasted on the State of Play 2025.
* June 9 - /an/'s 5 million GET is [https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/4998622/#5000000 stolen] by an alt-chan
* June 11 - Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys dies, ruining /mu/'s longstanding predictions that he would die on Christmas day by dying almost as far away from it as possible. /mu/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/126679261 sticky].
* June 13 - Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities and assassinates many Iranian generals and nuclear physicists, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/507147249/ sticky]. Financial markets crashes as oil prices surge, altcoins dump hard against BTC and many /biz/raelis lose hope.
* June 14 - America holds a parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Trump. /pol/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/507394264/ sticky]. Many anons mock Americans for having a sponsored parade and dog shit drills.
* June 17 - 4chan.org/bans is [https://archive.today/I2kcG updated] to remove the columns with recent banned posts and how long ago the bans were issued.
* June 21 - US strikes Iranian nuclear facilities, /pol/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/508243535 sticky].
* June 26 - Me and My Friends, the lost live-action pilot for The Backyardigans which had been autistically hoarded for years, [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/149175198/ gets posted to /co/.]
* June 30 - Former Marvel Comics editor Jim Shooter dies, /co/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/149222920 sticky].
* July 3 - Michael Madsen dies, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/212304098 sticky].
* July 4 - Julian McMahon dies, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/212351176 sticky].
* July 11 - Google starts [https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/105867447 removing support] for Chrome Web Store extensions that could not or refused to update to comply with (((Manifest V3))); the deprecated [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/4chan-x/ohnjgmpcibpbafdlkimncjhflgedgpam 4chanX] extension stops working normally and is made unavailable. Users who already have it installed can reactivate it through the browser's //flags page or switch to Tampermonkey + the 4chan-xt userscript.
* July 19 - Public mod ban text for [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/510771540/#510777777 /pol/ post 510777777], saying "(meds now)".
* July 20 - "Brief downtime for updates, don't worry!" was globally announced. It was probably backend "updates".<ref>https://archive-media.palanq.win/bant/image/1752/99/1752991200761.png</ref>
* July 22 - Ozzy Osbourne dies, /mu/ mod creates a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/127131098 sticky with a picture of Ozzy eating fried bat wings and an embedded instrumental song (on a sticky for a singer)], but there were offended bat jannies modding the board as it was unstickied minutes later and replaced with a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/127130217 different generic sticky].
* July 23 - Minimal SEO work is done with the noarchive tag (search engine's) being removed from static pages and the Wayback Machine being [https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0/commit/8296de75cd56effd46c69fd163f3fc9ce907f9f2 unbanned] from robots.txt.
* July 24 - Hulk Hogan dies, /pw/ gets a [https://archive.palanq.win/pw/thread/18340428 sticky].
* July 25 - Some anon figures out that Tea (a women-only whistleblower app intended to prevent rape and abuse that was used by retards to gossip and mudsling exes over things that aren't rape and abuse) doesn't delete their user identity proofs after verification and stores all their user data publicly on [https://archive.today/sBwD7 unsecured Google Firebase cloud storage]. Anon finds the database ID, requests a JSON pull, and receives over 13K driver's licenses, selfies, names and/or addresses, and [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/511313558 dumps] them all to [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/511317913 /pol/]. The "hack" which required no fucking hacking makes [https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/tea-app-hacked-13000-photos-leaked-4chan-call-action-rcna221139 the news] and gets [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(app)#4chan_database_leak a dedicated Wikipedia section]. Everyone debates whether the app was coded by incompetent jeets or incompetent AI.
* July 26 - 4chan begins to comply with [https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0/commit/ee13b2353d2b35f54de444c8984e71348ed7b7be Take It Down Act notices]. There goes deepfake porn threads.
* August 15 - [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/23114649/#q23114794 Modpost on /bant/] telling Netherlanders to speak in English.
* August 17 - Terence Stamp dies, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/213761449 sticky].
* August 27 - '''4chan Community Support and Kiwi Farms file a joint [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26076733-govuscourtsdcd28421810-1/ lawsuit] against the UK OFCOM over the Online Safety Act'''. OFCOM gave 4chan a [https://x.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1960772086189973920 deadline] of August 26 to respond to letters sent over their [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o refusal to comply with the act] or gib moneys to Great Shitannia.
* September 1 - "Harmful online content monitor" group Open Measures found that after 4chan came back from the hack [https://openmeasures.io/4chan-returns that posting rates returned to normal, quickly].
* September 4 - Hollow Knight: Silksong finally fucking releases, /v/ mod posts a [https://archive.today/2GEyU Hornet thread].
* September 9 - Janitor applications are [https://archive.today/rVc0Z opened up]. This one requires a verified email and a desktop to even view the application form. it's possible to apply for /f/, despite the board being locked.
* September 10 - Charlie Kirk got assassinated at a college rally, /pol/ gets [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/515341242 two] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/515357090/ stickies]. /int/ mod [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/214729392 stickies go back to /pol/.] Anon notices [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/23249638/#23281579 a developer's new  message] under "Proxy/VPN" bans (telling you to remove "free" botnet apps).
* September 12 - /jp/'s 50M GET is [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/49999790#p50000000 a picture of Cirno with "please respond"], BTFOing [https://i.warosu.org/data/jp/img/0499/99/1757706356882570.png attempts by the sharty to steal it].
* September 16 - Robert Redford dies, /tv/ gets a [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/214555778 sticky].
* September 17 - Jimmy Kimmel Live's opening monologue two nights prior has a retarded comment about the Charlie Kirk shooter's political affiliation in it. This prompted a large station owner to pre-empt the show in most of the US and the FCC spitballing the idea of revoking ABC's broadcasting license; ABC realizes they finally have a convenient excuse to bin the unfunny dogshit and pulls the show "indefinitely" (it went back on the air six days later).  [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/214591012 /tv/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/516382879 /pol/] get stickies. Shortly afterwards Trump announces plans to designate Antifa as terrorists, /pol/ gets a second [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/516393555 sticky]. Continuous modposts (very likely RapeApe) ([https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/516393555/#516398997 first] & [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/516393555/#q516409994 second]).
* September 21 - A mod [https://archive.palanq.win/bant/thread/23338353/ embeds Earth, Wind & Fire's September] on /bant/. ([https://archive.is/K7MD1 Thread screencap])
* September 23 - Janitor applications are closed after it was open for a unprecedented [https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0/commit/b669703cff9956ed79fa4a6b7f7c255c86739543 2 weeks].
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==Secondary & Primary Sources==
*[https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki Bibliotheca Anonoma] - [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/4chan-Chronicle 4chan Chronicle]
*[https://shii.bibanon.org/www.jonnydigital.com/4chan-history.html Jonnydigital.com's 4chan-history] (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A page dealing with 4chan's earliest history, written by a former admin.
*[https://shii.bibanon.org Everything Shii Knows] (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A personal wiki created by Shii, an important primary source for World2ch, most anonymous textboards before 2006, and 4chan before 2006. Previously an administrator at Wikipedia. 
*The [http://web.archive.org/web/20080511013508/http://www.wikichan.org/index.php/The_Complete_History_of_4chan earliest version] of this article, originally hosted on Wikichan.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200314123218/http://world2ch.org/dramabomb.html Early world2ch post] about 4chan.
*[http://imgur.com/a/Rqkc9 Screencaps] of December 22, 2013 raid.
*[http://macrochan.org/index.php Macrochan] - Giant picture archive.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20140426002232/https://archive.thedarkcave.org/int/thread/23490553/ Archived thread] of the April 23 hack. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331020628/http://www.squarekiwi.net/ Archived blog] of the hacker detailing his attempts at hacking 4chan over a year before he pulled it off. <s>[https://imgur.com/a/hkCdH Gallery]</s> (The gallery has been expunged.)
*[http://plus4chan.org/boards/pkmn/ Plus4chan's archived /pkmn/ board], giving an idea how /vp/ was in its early days.
*[https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php Nameless Rumia's Wiki (Formerly known as Everything Rumia Knows)] - A personal wiki, home to many pages on 2ch boards, AA art, Touhou, and imageboards.
*[https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion Jason Scott's archive] - A text-only archive of ~90% of 4chan posts from October 2006 to November 2008.
*[https://4museum.neocities.org/ 4museum] - A text-only archive of the above posts from 2006 to 2008.
*[https://old.sage.moe/ Oldfriend Archive] - A text-only archive of posts from 2004 to 2014. Currently hosts Jason Scott's dataset, the progscrape textboard archives, and threads from [https://web.archive.org/web/*/chanarchive.org* chanarchive]/[https://web.archive.org/web/*/4chanarchive.org* 4chanarchive].
*[https://archive.org/details/@ghonsonb3120 The progscrape dump] - A scrape of the world4ch/dis.4chan textboards from 2014. Contains threads going back to 2004.
*Tinychan's [https://archive.tinychan.net/ world4ch archive].
*A [https://web.archive.org/web/20221006055427/https://boards.3chan.co/www/thread/189 3chan thread] about rare messageboard screenshots, containing download links for archived 4chan threads from 2004.
*A [https://vyrd.bibanon.org/rx/ collection] of manually archived threads from 2004 to 2013.
*[https://4chansociety.neocities.org/ 4chansociety] - A 4chan history site run by [[User:Toad|Toad]]. "CLOSED", an [https://archive.org/download/neocities-4chansociety archive]
*[https://vyrd.bibanon.org/per/ 4chan Historical Resources] - very outdated but lots of useful links. Some are dead, unfortunately.
*Bibanon's [https://vyrd.bibanon.org/ archive] of Vyrd's site.
*An [https://data.not4chan.org/ open directory] of 4chan-related files, run by [[User:Maggot|Maggot]]. Currently under construction.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240310043419/https://files.soyjak.wiki/Janon_4chan_Janitor_Leaks_(WWG1WGA)/ JAnon Leaks] - A compilation of leaks by a teenager that signed up to be a Janitor, originally posted to rival imageboard [[Soyjak.party]]. Includes Discord profiles, ban evaders, the entire /j/ board, and more.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060902092221/http://www.wikiworld.com:80/wiki/index.php/4chan Archived WikiWorld article]
*[https://museum.heyuri.net/4chan2004/1.htm Archived 4chan threads from 2004]
*[https://randomcrapmuseum.neocities.org/ The Random Crap Museum]

==Citations==
<references>
<ref name="adtrw"> '''ADTRW'''
* 2003, February. ADTRW mod and Studio ADTRW member ricequeen on pedophilic content in the subforum.</br>''"Now a large portion of the SA population, or the entire world for that matter, exist in the aforementioned camp. These people are not necessarily bad people, and they may have something meaningful to contribute to the forum. Only their fear of being associated with people who flagrantly declare that they are pedophiles stands in the way. Am I somehow oppressing pedophiles by banning child porn? Perhaps, but until the Supreme Court tells me that pedophiles are obligated to equal rights, until Lowtax personally tells me its okay to lift the ban, I see no reason why I should cater to a minority.''</br>''The long and short of it is that, at least in my opinion, the benefits of banning pedo outweigh whatever inconvenience it might cause. I closed maybe three threads and once in a blue moon edit a post. CV and Uziga, the two loudest pedos I have ever met, have contributed plenty of posts that are child-sex-free. ADTRW has done remarkably well despite the prophecied gloom-and-doom that banning pedo would supposedly bring."''Wayback Machine. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030228204454/http://www.adtrw.org/blogs/ricequeen/]</br>
* 2015. ''"A lot of ADTRW moved because SA had draconian policies against so much as discussing stuff like piracy, sexy anime babes, etc, except to condemn it and talk about how you're totally not into all that stuff."'' [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135530] archive.is [https://archive.is/1KZ5r]</br>
* 2015. MVB (Alexander Strange) on Lowtax's relationship with ADTRW and RH founder Hannibal getting banned: ''"It was pretty puritanical in the American sense, so nearly all the long time anime posters got banned for being "probably a pedophile". One person I knew was banned for a slightly too sexy image posted 10 years before and had since become the pilot of Marine One. It's a little surprising they were never sued for libel."'' [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141374] archive.is [https://archive.is/1KZ5r]
</ref>
<ref name="studioadtrw"> '''Studio ADTRW'''
* Forum memberlist (exact date the site went up). [https://web.archive.org/web/20021208195830/http://forums.adtrw.org/memberlist.php]</br>
* Main page on Dec. 2002. [https://web.archive.org/web/20021208061739/http://www.adtrw.org/]</br>
* Main page v2, via e107. June 17, 2003. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040214224624if_/http://adtrw.org/news.php?40]</br>
* Main page v3, via wordpress. Oct 10, 2005. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051029095754/http://www.adtrw.org/]</br>
* Staff page on Aug. 2003. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030804030220if_/http://adtrw.org:80/staff.php]</br>
* Staff page on Dec. 2004 [https://web.archive.org/web/20041204105721if_/http://www.adtrw.org/staff.php]</br>
* Releases hosted on raspberryheaven.net [https://web.archive.org/web/20030715164743/https://adtrw.raspberryheaven.net/releases.html]</br>
</ref>
<ref name="raspberryheaven"> '''Raspberry Heaven'''
* Rasperry Heaven, according to Raspberry Heaven wiki. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220315202007/http://raspberryheaven.net/wiki/index.php?title=Raspberry_Heaven]</br>
* Raspberryheaven quotes page, 2003 to ~2010. [https://archive.is/OOcU5]</br>
* obso was an ADTRW regular and the owner of the Something Awful Direct Connect Hub (SADCHUB), created mid 2002. RH describes itself as an anime-only spinoff from SADCHUB, obso helped hannibal set RH up and both idled at each other's hubs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030727091649/http://www.raspberryheaven.net:80/~hannibal/sadchub/chatstats-daily.html]</br>
* Citations on SADCHUB: [https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3738207] archive.is [https://archive.is/Bp53g]</br>''"Posted by MotherTrucker on February 14, 2004 - The SADCHUB is also home to many banned and disillusioned ex-forum members, who like to bitch about how lovely the forums are."''</br>''"Posted by Evil Canadian on February 18, 2004 - The SADCHUB has a very fyad-esque community and tomfoolery is often the norm. Myself and the other admins do not tolerate drama and all offenders creating such are pretty much banned on site.</br>The hub is semi-public, there are people on the hub who are not from SA, but in general most of its users are from here.''
* Raspberry Heaven announcement thread on ADTRW. [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=240650]</br>
* Hannibal's filehost at dc.obso.net. RH launched at Nov. 16, 2002. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030221023904/http://dc.obso.net/~hannibal/]</br>
* Hannibal's filehost at factorygaming.com. Feb 20, 2003 [https://web.archive.org/web/20030307055457/http://www.factorygaming.com/~hannibal/raspberry/]</br>
* #raspberryheaven daily stats on May 21, 2003. note: no moot yet. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030811100833/http://www.raspberryheaven.net:80/stats/20030521.html]</br>
* #raspberryheaven 70-day stats on December 17, 2003. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031217094212/http://www.raspberryheaven.net/stats/stats.html]</br>
</ref>
<ref name="4chansathread"> '''4chan's Start'''
* 2010. Jonny Digital on Raspberry Heaven and 4chan.</br>''"4chan drew many of its initial users from Raspberry Heaven and Something Awful's ADTRW board. [...] The original 4chan staff and moderators were drawn from ADTRW. The spinning head title image is an Australian ADTRW member called Roobar. The "Dot net fo'shizzle!" title image is by ADTRW poster Rick_Feynman<sup>[note: xylphos]</sup>, who coined the term "ZOMG!" (we pronounce it "Zoh my god!") in an ICQ conversation with fellow SA goon Hannibal (see also this 2003 USENET posting); although they admit the term was used before then, it wasn't widely used until popularized by Something Awful and 4chan."'' bibanon archive [https://shii.bibanon.org/www.jonnydigital.com/4chan-history] archive.is [https://archive.is/2KmV]</br>
* 2015. Single use account "justtopostthis2" on Hacker news.</br>''"moot was active on Raspberry Heaven, SA's anime forum IRC chat/DC hub, when 2chan.net was really popular there. He didn't start it in isolation and decide to post on SA - most or all of the original mods and users were from RH.''</br>''I don't have logs from when it was first started but here's a fun quote from a few weeks after: [2003-10-14 02:51] <rizzou> hey moot - there's this cool website at http://www.4chan.net/ you should check it out. it's really looking like the next big thing, you know?''</br>''A few days later 4chan started killing the shared server it was hosted on by fellow SA forums member nem (I remember seeing load averages of like 80000), and had to find its own home."'' [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135759] archive.is [https://archive.is/1KZ5r]</br>
* Note: SA through the wayback bachine gives Oct. 1 5:00 AM, likely the wrong timezone.</br>
* Wayback Machine. 4chan's announcement thread, first page only.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626030323/http://forums.somethingawful.com:80/showthread.php?threadid=724028] </br>
* [NPH] offers to help with the PHP frontpage. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070325000032/http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=724028#post280722361]</br>
</ref>
<ref name="4channet"> '''4chan.net''' on archive.org.
* 2003-10-06. archive.org's Wayback Machine on 4chan.net,  [https://web.archive.org/web/20031010203044/http://img.4chan.net/b/20.htm]</br>
* 2003-10-10. archive.org's Wayback Machine for 4chan.net/rules.php. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031010154851/http://www.4chan.net/rules.php]</br>
* 2003-10-16. archive.org's Wayback Machine. 4chan.net Frontpage / Newspage and sidebar disclaimer (index.html). [https://web.archive.org/web/20031016050514/http://www.4chan.net/index.php]</br>
* 2003-10-16. archive.org's Wayback Machine. 4chan.net Frontpage / Newspage and sidebar (index2.html) [https://web.archive.org/web/20031016051109/http://www.4chan.net/index2.php]</br>
* 2003-10-16. archive.org's Wayback Machine. Contest winners page. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031016050325/http://www.4chan.net/bannerwin.php]</br>
* 2003-10-16. archive.org's Wayback Machine. Japanese explanation page. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031016050737/http://www.4chan.net/japanese.php]</br>
* 2003-10-16. archive.org's Wayback Machine. FAQ page. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031016051547/http://www.4chan.net/faq.php]</br>
* 2003-11-22. archive.org's Wayback Machine. 4chan.net Frontpage / Newspage. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031122004728/http://www.4chan.net/]</br>
</ref>
<ref name="screenshotb20050214">
* 2005/02/14 screenshot of /b/. Showing: IRC section on the frames, trial boards global announcement [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-02-14-b-frontpage.jpg]
</ref>
<ref name="screenshotl20050418">
* 2005/04/18 Full page screenshot of a thread on /l/ - Lolikon. [https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:2005-04-18-l-thread.png]</br>
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</references>

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