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* October 1 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626030323/http://forums.somethingawful.com:80/showthread.php?threadid=724028 4chan is founded by moot, a member of the Something Awful forums,] intended to be used as an English version of 2chan, a Japanese imageboard created in 2001 out of an extremely popular Japanese BBS called 2channel. moot creates '''/b/''' (Anime/Random) and makes a topic at Something Awful and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200314123218/http://world2ch.org/dramabomb.html world2ch about the website], which is received extremely well. moot also holds a contest to decide what 4chan's logo should be. Within three hours of creating the contest, around 50 banners are submitted, after which moot decides to simply make it so that it would cycle through the best banners randomly every time a page was loaded. | * October 1 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626030323/http://forums.somethingawful.com:80/showthread.php?threadid=724028 4chan is founded by moot, a member of the Something Awful forums,] intended to be used as an English version of 2chan, a Japanese imageboard created in 2001 out of an extremely popular Japanese BBS called 2channel. moot creates '''/b/''' (Anime/Random) and makes a topic at Something Awful and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200314123218/http://world2ch.org/dramabomb.html world2ch about the website], which is received extremely well. moot also holds a contest to decide what 4chan's logo should be. Within three hours of creating the contest, around 50 banners are submitted, after which moot decides to simply make it so that it would cycle through the best banners randomly every time a page was loaded. | ||
* October 2 - 4chan's hosting company receives an e-mail complaining about "lolikon and guro posted in /b/, to which moot writes back that neither of the two is illegal. Later in the day, moot creates a second board, '''/h/''' (Hentai). The email was sent by Shii/Menchi because the people of world2ch felt 4chan ripped them off (Which is inaccurate, since world2ch was a sister site to 2ch and 4chan was a sister site to Futaba/2chan) moot later befriended them. The rules page describes /b/ as a test board which will later become an anime board. moot describes /b/ in a news post as "a retard bin". | * October 2 - 4chan's hosting company receives an e-mail complaining about "lolikon and guro posted in /b/, to which moot writes back that neither of the two is illegal. Later in the day, moot creates a second board, '''/h/''' (Hentai). The email was sent by Shii/Menchi because the people of world2ch felt 4chan ripped them off (Which is inaccurate, since world2ch was a sister site to 2ch and 4chan was a sister site to Futaba/2chan) moot later befriended them. The rules page describes /b/ as a test board which will later become an anime board. moot describes /b/ in a news post as "a retard bin". | ||
* October 6 - moot creates four new imageboards: '''/c/''' (Anime/Cute), '''/d/''' (Hentai/Alternative), '''/w/''' (Wallpapers/Anime), and '''/y/''' (Yaoi), along with an oekaki BBS board ('''/i/'''). The /y/ board is unique in that (at the time) it was | * October 6 - moot creates four new imageboards: '''/c/''' (Anime/Cute), '''/d/''' (Hentai/Alternative), '''/w/''' (Wallpapers/Anime), and '''/y/''' (Yaoi), along with an oekaki BBS board ('''/i/'''). The /y/ board is unique in that (at the time) it was user-moderated. moot also fixes a retention bug that cause posts to be deleted too quickly and raised the maximum number of log entries for each board from 500 to 5000 (2000 for /b/). | ||
* October 9 - Two new imageboards are created: '''/g/''' (Guro), to clean the nastiest imagery on /h/, and '''/s/''' (Sexy Beautiful Women), both of which are user-moderated. moot announces that 4chan received over one million hits in the past six days and may be looking for sponsors to help pay the bills. /s/ is managed by Boco_T and PotatoSan. Boco_T also drew two of 4chan's title images: one of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, and one of Cardcaptor Sakura drawn in the style of Fist of the North Star. | * October 9 - Two new imageboards are created: '''/g/''' (Guro), to clean the nastiest imagery on /h/, and '''/s/''' (Sexy Beautiful Women), both of which are user-moderated. moot announces that 4chan received over one million hits in the past six days and may be looking for sponsors to help pay the bills. /s/ is managed by Boco_T and PotatoSan. Boco_T also drew two of 4chan's title images: one of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, and one of Cardcaptor Sakura drawn in the style of Fist of the North Star. | ||
* October 16 - 4chan is announced to 2chan, resulting in a massive amount of Japanese users coming to the site, at least doubling the traffic of all boards and decoupling the traffic of /c/. The onslaught of unexpected traffic causes /b/ to crash for two days, killing it for the first time. | * October 16 - 4chan is announced to 2chan, resulting in a massive amount of Japanese users coming to the site, at least doubling the traffic of all boards and decoupling the traffic of /c/. The onslaught of unexpected traffic causes /b/ to crash for two days, killing it for the first time. | ||
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* February 3 - moot and 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 3 - moot and 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 5 - The Cracky-chan obsession becomes so big W. T. Snacks wordfiltered her name with similarly sounding names (Creaky-chan, fappy-chan, etc). Many stalkers created fansites. | * February 5 - The Cracky-chan obsession becomes so big W. T. Snacks wordfiltered her name with similarly sounding names (Creaky-chan, fappy-chan, etc). Many stalkers created fansites. | ||
* February 13 - | * February 13 - 700K GET is fixed by the mods, with the word "ZERO HOUR" written in extremely large letters and the post count reset to 1, and the message, "ONLY 699999 TO GO GUYS!!". However, the post count is restored within the day. | ||
* February 20 - The last known time that '''/tl/''' - Torrents/Loli existed. | * February 20 - The last known time that '''/tl/''' - Torrents/Loli existed. | ||
* February 26 - Following a IRC townhall, moot creates three more boards: '''/gif/''' (Animated GIF), '''/hr/''' (High Resolution), '''/wg/''' (Wallpapers/General), and removes /x/. | * February 26 - Following a IRC townhall, moot creates three more boards: '''/gif/''' (Animated GIF), '''/hr/''' (High Resolution), '''/wg/''' (Wallpapers/General), and removes /x/. | ||
* March 29 - A Livejournal from Cracky, freakygirl, is found. The owner of a Cracky-chan website, Creacky-chan.com claims it’s fake, though it may have been a move to protect her identity. Another Livejournal, kittykat soon gets found, whether fake or real. | * March 29 - A Livejournal from Cracky, freakygirl, is found. The owner of a Cracky-chan website, Creacky-chan.com claims it’s fake, though it may have been a move to protect her identity. Another Livejournal, kittykat soon gets found, whether fake or real. | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
* April 1 - | * April 1 - Aprils Fur’s Day - For April Fools' Day, moot makes a front-page newspost containing a picture of Robert Bopkins (thought to be moot at the time) in graduation gear shortly after graduating from Stanford University, along with the message "GREETINGS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL!". moot also creates a new board, /fur/ (Furry), 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 (including /b/tards who posted on /fur/ to denounce furries), following which 4chan was almost rid of furfags. This event has remained embedded in the mind of every furry in hopes of moot ever making a new, permanent version of /fur/. | ||
* April 3 - Shii cracks Cracky-chan’s tripcode. Since the password was “sweet”, the theory of a fake tripfag gains solidity. | * April 3 - Shii cracks Cracky-chan’s tripcode. Since the password was “sweet”, the theory of a fake tripfag gains solidity. | ||
* April 6 - Another of Cracky-chan’s Livejournal get known under the name of “scarecrownmaiden”. It contained many more artsy pictures, even nudes. The journal gets deleted quickly by the owner. | * April 6 - Another of Cracky-chan’s Livejournal get known under the name of “scarecrownmaiden”. It contained many more artsy pictures, even nudes. The journal gets deleted quickly by the owner. | ||
* April 7 - | * April 7 - 1M GET is reached on /b/. It was considered an "alright" GET, neither fail nor win. 1M GET was posted by a namefag under the handle Senator Rodden Clitoris, who posted picture of Sae Sawanoguchi from Magic Users Club having an orgasm, with the text/copypasta "Female Orgasm", which was deleted within a few seconds. The mods instead chose another thread with a picture of a budgie in a jar and changed its posted number to 1000000 and stickied it, fooling many into believing that it was the true 1M GET. | ||
* May 12 to June 6 - '''/3/''' - 3DCG was probably deleted somewhere in this period, according to ancient 4chan screenshots. | * May 12 to June 6 - '''/3/''' - 3DCG 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. | * 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 - /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. | * 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. | ||
* July 29 - | * July 29 - /b/ reaches 2M GET, a picture of someone holding up a notepad with "2000000 GET?" written on it, and the text "HAY GUYS! 2MIL GET! -Delcious Ironing" [sic]. This was (badly) photoshopped with a smiling ugly man and the text, "HAY GUYEZ WOULD YOU BE UP FOR SOME ADULT FUN AT MY COUNTRY CLUB SOMETIME -Delcious ron", which spawned a whole series of other shopped GETs. | ||
* August 12 - Saturgay, /b/ gets spammed with images of Seizure 5, Hard Gay and Sageman | * August 12 - Saturgay, /b/ gets spammed with images of Seizure 5, Hard Gay and Sageman | ||
* August 13 - 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 13 - 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. | ||
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* November 4 - Shortly after midnight, /b/'s layout was changed again to a pink McDonald's-themed background, with "moving JavaScript Golden Arches" as Lurkmore put it, along with a 1980s McDonald's jingle added as background music. This hack lasted for three days and was hated by almost everybody. During this time, Xenon released the chatlogs from moot and Snacks' fight, causing massive outrage on /b/. | * November 4 - Shortly after midnight, /b/'s layout was changed again to a pink McDonald's-themed background, with "moving JavaScript Golden Arches" as Lurkmore put it, along with a 1980s McDonald's jingle added as background music. This hack lasted for three days and was hated by almost everybody. During this time, Xenon released the chatlogs from moot and Snacks' fight, causing massive outrage on /b/. | ||
* December 19 - moot posts a thread in /v/ asking for applications to be a janitor (person who can delete posts but not ban), which was up to that point unheard of. News of this spread to /b/, and many applications were received, and the janitors were implemented within the month. | * December 19 - moot posts a thread in /v/ asking for applications to be a janitor (person who can delete posts but not ban), which was up to that point unheard of. News of this spread to /b/, and many applications were received, and the janitors were implemented within the month. | ||
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* 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 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. | ||
* March 14 - /a/ was still titled Anime at this time. | * March 14 - /a/ was still titled Anime at this time. | ||
* March 23 - | * March 23 - 6M GET was achieved on /b/, with a picture of Senator Bill Frist holding up a card and the text "In after 6M GET". It was mostly considered a winGET due to the potential for epic shoops. | ||
* April 1 - /b/'s CSS is fucked with yet again, with the page layout being changed to tanasinn.org's layout, with a looping voice saying "Don't think. Feel and you'll be Tanasinn." Letters were randomly changed to the three-dot triangle symbol. | * April 1 - /b/'s CSS is fucked with yet again, with the page layout being changed to tanasinn.org's layout, with a looping voice saying "Don't think. Feel and you'll be Tanasinn." Letters were randomly changed to the three-dot triangle symbol. | ||
* April 6 - Three new trial boards are added: '''/co/''' (Comics & Cartoons), '''/po/''' (Papercraft & Origami), and /sp/ (Sports). | * April 6 - Three new trial boards are added: '''/co/''' (Comics & Cartoons), '''/po/''' (Papercraft & Origami), and /sp/ (Sports). | ||
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* May 11 - Eight threads are stickied, all consisting of modified versions of a picture from some Japanese show with a puppet riding on a motorcycle and the text "DSFARGEG". All posts were followed by (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) and DSFARGEG almost always resulted in a ban or a sticky. | * May 11 - Eight threads are stickied, all consisting of modified versions of a picture from some Japanese show with a puppet riding on a motorcycle and the text "DSFARGEG". All posts were followed by (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) and DSFARGEG almost always resulted in a ban or a sticky. | ||
* May 18 - [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/8000000/ /b/ reaches 8M GET], one of the first GETs to be auto-stickied. It was considered a WinGET, due to the fact that it was a picture of George Zimmer and the text "HI, I'M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE. THIS ISN'T FAKEGET GET. I GUARANTEE IT." | * May 18 - [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/8000000/ /b/ reaches 8M GET], one of the first GETs to be auto-stickied. It was considered a WinGET, due to the fact that it was a picture of George Zimmer and the text "HI, I'M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE. THIS ISN'T FAKEGET GET. I GUARANTEE IT." | ||
* June 15 - Comedian Tom Green starts his own late-night call-in talk show hosted from his own living room, hosted every night at 11 PM EST. Over the next three months, /b/ trolls his show, with around 10% of all calls on the show being prank calls from 4chan. /b/ also focused on a section of his show, "Girl Talk", which featured five stereotypical "dumb chicks" giving advice on relationships. The trolling of Girl Talk was so intense that it was canceled on August 19th because of it, combined with bad response from viewers. It would eventually become a tradition to raid Tom Green whenever he went. | * June 15 - Comedian Tom Green starts his own late-night call-in talk show hosted from his own living room, hosted every night at 11 PM EST. Over the next three months, /b/ trolls his show, with around 10% of all calls on the show being prank calls from 4chan. /b/ also focused on a section of his show, "Girl Talk", which featured five stereotypical "dumb chicks" giving advice on relationships. The trolling of Girl Talk was so intense that it was canceled on August 19th because of it, combined with bad response from viewers. It would eventually become a tradition to raid Tom Green whenever he went. | ||
* June 17 - A group of anons crapflood the Zelda Guide Forums for fun, after which a member threatens to "hack" 4chan. This prompts their leader, known as "Captain Cornflake" (the name of his raid account on Zelda Guide Forums, he was anonymous on /b/) to post this information to /b/. Many Anonymous joined the raid following this post and crapflooded the forums nearly into oblivion during the night while the moderating team was asleep. As the moderators were surveying the carnage the next morning, one mod actually pleaded for /b/ to stop and said he would give them their own board to spam, which just increased the raid. The forums now require manual admin verification, which keeps out many legit users, resulting in an anon victory. | * June 17 - A group of anons crapflood the Zelda Guide Forums for fun, after which a member threatens to "hack" 4chan. This prompts their leader, known as "Captain Cornflake" (the name of his raid account on Zelda Guide Forums, he was anonymous on /b/) to post this information to /b/. Many Anonymous joined the raid following this post and crapflooded the forums nearly into oblivion during the night while the moderating team was asleep. As the moderators were surveying the carnage the next morning, one mod actually pleaded for /b/ to stop and said he would give them their own board to spam, which just increased the raid. The forums now require manual admin verification, which keeps out many legit users, resulting in an anon victory. | ||
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* July 4 - The first of many in a series of /b/ CSS hacks in July as the background was turned red and the text yellow. | * July 4 - The first of many in a series of /b/ CSS hacks in July as the background was turned red and the text yellow. | ||
* July 6 - Crackypedia closes per (alleged again) Cracky-chan’s request. The owner posts a macro with the date of closure, viewcount (17464) and the message "Hope you enjoyed it folks, I told you it wouldn't last forever." | * July 6 - Crackypedia closes per (alleged again) Cracky-chan’s request. The owner posts a macro with the date of closure, viewcount (17464) and the message "Hope you enjoyed it folks, I told you it wouldn't last forever." | ||
* July 7 - [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/10000000/ 10M GET is reached, | * July 7 - [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/10000000/ 10M GET is reached], considered the most failed GET of all time, simply a picture of Hazuki from the anime Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- on a merry-go-round, with the text "hazukiget". Ironically, it was much later revealed to be a modGET, but with no trickery involved; Shii (4chan admin; coder of discussion boards) got the GET out of pure luck, proving that all modGETs, staged or not, will always be fail. | ||
* July 10 - The theme song from "Bill Nye the Science Guy" was embedded into the background of /b/ (no layout changes however). | * July 10 - The theme song from "Bill Nye the Science Guy" was embedded into the background of /b/ (no layout changes however). | ||
* July 12 - The great Habbo raid of July 2006 - 4chan (along with Encyclopedia Dramatica, YTMND, GNAA, Bantown, and myg0t) storm Habbo Hotel. A virtual online role playing game where, among other things, people pay real-life money for online money. Thousands of "nigras" (black characters with afros wearing business suits, the official raid costume) filled nearly every room on the site, especially the Pool Deck, during which the pool was blocked for hours because the pool had AIDS. The sheer number of Anonymous was so great that the Habbo mods could not ban the nigras faster than the accounts were being created, resulting in the mods having no choice but to reset their server, after which the raid continued for a few more hours on Habbo servers in other countries, particularly the German Habbo Hotel (where the nigras would form in swastika patterns). The Habbo raid is often considered /b/'s best and spawned the "Nigra" meme and the "Pool's closed" meme. The word "AIDS" was later wordfiltered on Habbo as a result of the raid. | * July 12 - The great Habbo raid of July 2006 - 4chan (along with Encyclopedia Dramatica, YTMND, GNAA, Bantown, and myg0t) storm Habbo Hotel. A virtual online role playing game where, among other things, people pay real-life money for online money. Thousands of "nigras" (black characters with afros wearing business suits, the official raid costume) filled nearly every room on the site, especially the Pool Deck, during which the pool was blocked for hours because the pool had AIDS. The sheer number of Anonymous was so great that the Habbo mods could not ban the nigras faster than the accounts were being created, resulting in the mods having no choice but to reset their server, after which the raid continued for a few more hours on Habbo servers in other countries, particularly the German Habbo Hotel (where the nigras would form in swastika patterns). The Habbo raid is often considered /b/'s best and spawned the "Nigra" meme and the "Pool's closed" meme. The word "AIDS" was later wordfiltered on Habbo as a result of the raid. | ||
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* September 25-26 - Epic Fail Guy, in its original incarnation, is [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13358472/ first posted to /b/] [https://i.imgur.com/TBecZBc.jpeg]. [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13358472/#13359738 Rule 34] and the [https://i.imgur.com/sxYDouM.gif Guy Fawkes mask] were posted, creating a well-received thread with only a few describing it as a forced meme. The original name of the character in the thread was [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13358472/#13359497 "Epic Failure Man"]. In another one of these threads, the first instance of "Epic Fail Guy" [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13386715/#13388797 was posted]. This name was mostly cemented by the [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13422498/#13422628 next day]. Somewhat ironically, some stated that EFG was the first "win" meme in a while. Part of the appeal was that it was, essentially, a forced meme, that "tries as hard as he fails". | * September 25-26 - Epic Fail Guy, in its original incarnation, is [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13358472/ first posted to /b/] [https://i.imgur.com/TBecZBc.jpeg]. [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13358472/#13359738 Rule 34] and the [https://i.imgur.com/sxYDouM.gif Guy Fawkes mask] were posted, creating a well-received thread with only a few describing it as a forced meme. The original name of the character in the thread was [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13358472/#13359497 "Epic Failure Man"]. In another one of these threads, the first instance of "Epic Fail Guy" [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13386715/#13388797 was posted]. This name was mostly cemented by the [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13422498/#13422628 next day]. Somewhat ironically, some stated that EFG was the first "win" meme in a while. Part of the appeal was that it was, essentially, a forced meme, that "tries as hard as he fails". | ||
* October 1 - /b/ celebrates its third anniversary, and places blue-and-pink striped party hats 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. | * October 1 - /b/ celebrates its third anniversary, and places blue-and-pink striped party hats 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. | ||
* October 20 - Jake Brahm turns himself in to authorities following a now-infamous copypasta that he had written, reposting it around 40 times within the previous 30 days, in which he warned of simultaneous terrorist attacks against seven football stadiums across the United States on October 22nd. Two days before this, on October 18, the Department of Homeland Security was notified about the copypasta and attempted to track down and arrest the creator of it; when the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin police department (Brahm's town of residence) received a tip on October 20, he turned himself in and faces up to 20 years imprisonment, thus making him the only person to have been party v& for his actions as of 2007. The phrase "DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL", uttered by FBI agent Les Wiser during a news report on Brahm's arrest, has since become a meme, and was briefly added to teh rules for /b/. | * October 20 - Jake Brahm turns himself in to authorities following a now-infamous copypasta that he had written, reposting it around 40 times within the previous 30 days, in which he warned of simultaneous terrorist attacks against seven football stadiums across the United States on October 22nd. Two days before this, on October 18, the Department of Homeland Security was notified about the copypasta and attempted to track down and arrest the creator of it; when the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin police department (Brahm's town of residence) received a tip on October 20, he turned himself in and faces up to 20 years imprisonment, thus making him the only person to have been party v& for his actions as of 2007. The phrase "DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL", uttered by FBI agent Les Wiser during a news report on Brahm's arrest, has since become a meme, and was briefly added to teh rules for /b/. | ||
* October 30 - Habbo, Revisited 2 or the Habbo fail raid - Somewhere around 100 nigras gather around Habbo Hotel, but are banned quickly. | * October 30 - Habbo, Revisited 2 or the Habbo fail raid - Somewhere around 100 nigras gather around Habbo Hotel, but are banned quickly. | ||
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* December 9 - /sp/ is deleted. Pissed off users flock to /b/ to demand /sp/'s release to no avail. | * December 9 - /sp/ is deleted. Pissed off users flock to /b/ to demand /sp/'s release to no avail. | ||
* December 20 - Hal Turner, a white supremacist talk show host from New Jersey, plans his final radio show due to lack of funding, in which he takes calls for three hours straight. However, a combined surprise raid from 4chan, 7chan, YTMND, Something Awful, and Bantown destroyed Hal's show, with 150 prank calls being made in three hours, with almost none of his real listeners being able to call in due to clogged lines. Hal then posts the phone numbers of the callers on his website (some of which were minors), sparking a huge outrage among /b/. Bantown then uncovered his personal information, including his real phone number, after which ~160 calls were made to his house. Hal gave in and removed the phone numbers from his site, but as we all know, Anonymous does not forgive. [http://turnerchan.blogspot.com/] | * December 20 - Hal Turner, a white supremacist talk show host from New Jersey, plans his final radio show due to lack of funding, in which he takes calls for three hours straight. However, a combined surprise raid from 4chan, 7chan, YTMND, Something Awful, and Bantown destroyed Hal's show, with 150 prank calls being made in three hours, with almost none of his real listeners being able to call in due to clogged lines. Hal then posts the phone numbers of the callers on his website (some of which were minors), sparking a huge outrage among /b/. Bantown then uncovered his personal information, including his real phone number, after which ~160 calls were made to his house. Hal gave in and removed the phone numbers from his site, but as we all know, Anonymous does not forgive. [http://turnerchan.blogspot.com/] | ||
* December 25 - Hal Turner spends Christmas with his family over at his father's house; news of this spread, and Bantown quickly found his father's number, leading to a massive amount of calls and Hal supposedly being kicked out of the house. After this, Hal claimed that the FBI was investigating 4chan (an Anonymous later called in to Hal's show claiming that he had contacted the FBI and that they had said that no such investigation was taking place) and redirected his website to the FBI page | * December 25 - Hal Turner spends Christmas with his family over at his father's house; news of this spread, and Bantown quickly found his father's number, leading to a massive amount of calls and Hal supposedly being kicked out of the house. After this, Hal claimed that the FBI was investigating 4chan (an Anonymous later called in to Hal's show claiming that he had contacted the FBI and that they had said that no such investigation was taking place) and redirected his website to the FBI page. | ||
* December 31 - A happy ending for 2006 after Hal Turner surrenders to 4chan after much raiding and lulz, and announces that he is almost off of the internet completely. He announces, "I am not certain where to go from here. My entire existence - short of my physical presence on this planet - has been utterly wrecked, by people I never met from places I've never been." Anonymous knocks back a cold one and lols heartily. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070107054433fw_/http://poolsclosed.nexisonline.net/news.php] | * December 31 - A happy ending for 2006 after Hal Turner surrenders to 4chan after much raiding and lulz, and announces that he is almost off of the internet completely. He announces, "I am not certain where to go from here. My entire existence - short of my physical presence on this planet - has been utterly wrecked, by people I never met from places I've never been." Anonymous knocks back a cold one and lols heartily. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070107054433fw_/http://poolsclosed.nexisonline.net/news.php] | ||
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*May 27 - /v/ steals [https://web.archive.org/web/20220112111030/https://iili.io/ad9bHB.png /a/'s 12000000 GET] with a picture of corey in the house for nintendo DS. The image might really have been something else put as "image deleted" and replaced with the Cory cover by a mod after the fact. | *May 27 - /v/ steals [https://web.archive.org/web/20220112111030/https://iili.io/ad9bHB.png /a/'s 12000000 GET] with a picture of corey in the house for nintendo DS. The image might really have been something else put as "image deleted" and replaced with the Cory cover by a mod after the fact. | ||
* June 13 - 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 botnet. The server is almost fucked by the load of hundreds of botnets until the mods manage to filter the text and delete all threads containing the instructions. | * June 13 - 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 botnet. The server is almost fucked by the load of hundreds of botnets until the mods manage to filter the text and delete all threads containing the instructions. | ||
* June 14 - The 4chan.js script from the previous day is modified to dodge the filter, and spam starts anew | * June 14 - The 4chan.js script from the previous day is modified to dodge the filter, and spam starts anew. | ||
* June 15 - moot steps in to crack down on the 4chan.js scriptfags. The text string "eval(" is automatically filtered and users who post it are handed a 15 day ban. 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 15 - moot steps in to crack down on the 4chan.js scriptfags. The text string "eval(" is automatically filtered and users who post it are handed a 15 day ban. 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 - The old /b/ day and the 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. Before, the title/ has already been renamed /vaporeon/," "/tom/" and "/b/oston." The board was later locked, and unlocked with two 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 other vowed to delete their /b/ folder. However, on other boards, a small text appeared: "today, 6/18. Boston common. park street. 7pm.". By 7PM, a link to an USTREAM video was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see. | * June 18 - The old /b/ day and the 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. Before, the title/ has already been renamed /vaporeon/," "/tom/" and "/b/oston." The board was later locked, and unlocked with two 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 other vowed to delete their /b/ folder. However, on other boards, a small text appeared: "today, 6/18. Boston common. park street. 7pm.". By 7PM, a link to an USTREAM video was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see. | ||
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* July 27 - CAPTCHA wars - moot adds reCAPTCHA to quell the enormous waves of spam they have been suffering for years. Everyone shitstorms, but eventually they conclude that CAPTCHA is for the better. | * July 27 - CAPTCHA wars - moot adds reCAPTCHA to quell the enormous waves of spam they have been suffering for years. Everyone shitstorms, but eventually they conclude that CAPTCHA is for the better. | ||
* August 7 - The Boxxy videos are back up. | * August 7 - The Boxxy videos are back up. | ||
* September 17 - AnonTalk dies, after being spammed endlessly by Minichan, their clone site, since April 13. | * 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 22 - AnonTalk returns. To everyone’s dismay. | ||
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* 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; moot pretty much gave up on the board. | * 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; 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, thus starting the 4chan 9gag war. | * December 20 - 4chan, along with reddit and tumblr, invade 9gag after they stole their memes and claimed it as theirs, thus starting the 4chan 9gag war. | ||
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* February 4 - /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 4 - /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 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 - Three boards added: Since the cartoon series My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic becomes massively popular, surpassing its /co/ boundaries and adopting a pseudo culture under the name of bronies. moot creates '''/mlp/ - My Little Pony''' in order to stop the massive flood of My Little Pony threads on 4chan. Some bronies would rather create /b/reads: Threads outside /mlp/ that are essentially a circlejerk between trolls and tripfags, to the point of sharing contacts. Secondly, | * February 16 - Three boards added: Since the cartoon series My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic becomes massively popular, surpassing its /co/ boundaries and adopting a pseudo culture under the name of bronies. moot creates '''/mlp/ - My Little Pony''' in order to stop the massive flood of My Little Pony threads on 4chan. Some bronies would rather create /b/reads: Threads outside /mlp/ that are essentially a circlejerk between trolls and tripfags, to the point of sharing contacts. Secondly, /v/ is split into /v/ and '''/vg/ - Video Game Generals'''.<ref>https://archived.moe/v/thread/129777358/#129779334</ref> It is now impossible to get repeating digits on /v/, other than 00s. Finally, moot quietly opens '''/hm/ - Handsome Men''' to the public after enough requests. | ||
* February 21 - Legendary spammer [https://wiki.bibanon.org/Barneyfag_(Lee_Goldson) Barneyfag] [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/99464/#108046 makes his first appearance]. | * 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]. | * March 21 - Noboru Ishiguro, director of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, dies. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/63080409/ /a/ gets a sticky]. | ||
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* December 25 - Christmas faggot hat day | * December 25 - Christmas faggot hat day | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
* December 30 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/ sticky created by mods] to clarify certain moderation policies | * December 30 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/ sticky created by mods] to clarify certain moderation policies/address the problems of /a/ for the coming year and as a general town hall. The mods began by acknowledging the /a/ did not actually have any major problems, and those facing them currently were trivial compared to those of the past. However, mods labeled the largest problem to be the "“us vs. them” mentality," a term used to describe clique/fanbase warfare. They claimed that much of the posts exemplifying this mentality were bannable shitposts. They then made some points about self-moderation being the best moderation, that users need to use the reports system, and that NSFW content is not allowed (with some exceptions, such as nudity that occurs in non-pornographic anime/manga). The thread itself (after the initial hoard of shitposters) was relatively straightforward, posters made suggestions/complaints, mods sometimes responding. After just over an hour, mods decided to [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77392834 lock the thread]. It would be almost two hours later that the thread would [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77397556 be unlocked], and most /a/nons were very harsh and had more vitriol directed at mods than usual, as the locking was seen to be mods getting tired after reading posts for an hour and generally being lazy. Something interesting one mod later posted in the thread was that there were [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77398537 "no shitposting mods"], which was quickly met with several counter-examples. A clear highlight of the thread occurred later on, when a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77399054 mod responded to one anon] who posted "Group hug the mods?" with "*hug* I don't have an appropriate anime-related hugging image to accompany this post because I don't watch anime, but I do help /a/ with blatant shitposting and wanted to offer my support in this thread". The backlash to this was so immense that the post got the (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) tag applied, although it's unlikely that the mod was actually banned. Just over 40 minutes after the thread had been unlocked, the thread 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". This would be the final time the thread would be locked, and presumably the thread itself would be removed by mods sometime on the 31st as the mods could see it was a failure. | ||
* December 31 - /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] | * December 31 - /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]. The sticky was seen as an official mod approval of r/a/dio threads, a topic discussed during the previous mod sticky as it was "not related to anime or manga and do not promote discussion thereof" and a "topicality". There were gifs playing in the background (changing everytime you refresh. However, there seemed to be problems for Firefox and 4chanX users. The first post made after new years was not actually in the thread, but was instead [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77448600/#77471202 a picture of Yukikaze Panettone] from Dog Days in a boobs thread. There were over 750 listeners on the r/a/dio at the time of new years. When new years came for CST, Trainroll was playing. Komm, susser tod played shortly after, as well as Bohemian Rhapsody. The thread died about 35 minutes after the CST new years, and immediately after a second sticky was created the continue the celebration. All in all, in less than two hours the thread reached over 4300 replies, extremely quick compared to other stickies. The song that was playing when New Years did come was Feel So Moon, by Unicorn. After this, probably in a state of sleep-deprived delirium, the thread again got very emotional and began "grouphugging," as some people were just hugging their monitor. Thread died soon after with 3500 posts, about 800 less posts than the previous thread. 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. The stream had dropped to about 680 listeners as it was already 8-10 a.m. for the Europeans and many had gone to bed. There were some complaints over the song choices directed at Eku (the DJ), many saying that they wanted less remixes and more "real songs," and Eku promised to end the electronic music "soon". 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 the /a/nons in the thread began freaking out (there were many however that were happy to finally be free and were now able 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 in the thread 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; It was essentially a wrap-up thread, and activities like 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. There was some celebration in the thread 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 actually come back in March of 2013). Exactly an hour after the previous major stream outage, at 4:48:27 EST Eku [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77485545/#77489835 made a post] explaining how Hanyuu broke after he restarted foobar and now he can't get the stream back, however, he soon moved the audio stream to Mixxx in order to "fix all issues". After a few goodnights and final /r/'s, the thread was locked and then deleted. The last post of the thread, marking the end of the new years and of the stickies, was the thread-defining "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 was estimated that they accounted for 1/5 of all posts on /a/ that day. Hiroto [https://i.imgur.com/YuiWv8o.png posted a message to the r/a/dio site] with some stats the next day. | ||
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* 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 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 15 - A thread is posted on /b/ with a link to a contest where you can have a chance to meet Taylor Swift by writing an essay about why you should be considered her biggest fan. The OP urges everyone to vote for a "Charles Z". "Charles" quickly reached 1st place, and on the 19th, the radio station shut down the content for "being compromised". This was followed by other attempts to make "Charles" meet a pop star - rigging a contest by New York City's Z100 to meet Selena Gomez on the 21st, and being followed the next day by another raid on a contest by the same station to meet the Jonas Brothers. | * July 15 - A thread is posted on /b/ with a link to a contest where you can have a chance to meet Taylor Swift by writing an essay about why you should be considered her biggest fan. The OP urges everyone to vote for a "Charles Z". "Charles" quickly reached 1st place, and on the 19th, the radio station shut down the content for "being compromised". This was followed by other attempts to make "Charles" meet a pop star - rigging a contest by New York City's Z100 to meet Selena Gomez on the 21st, and being followed the next day by another raid on a contest by the same station to meet the Jonas Brothers. | ||
* July 19 - /b/ | * July 19 - /b/ twitter-bombs UFC fighter "War Machine." Raiders insult his family, send him pizzas, post him in the gay section of Craigslist, and almost fool him into deleting system 32. As a result War Machine became enraged and repeatedly punched himself in the head. | ||
* 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. | * 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 finally renames /soc/ to Cam & Meetups, /q/ to 4chan Feedback and /fit/ to just Fitness. | * August 11 - moot finally renames /soc/ to Cam & Meetups, /q/ to 4chan Feedback and /fit/ to just Fitness. | ||
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*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.] | *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 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 - 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 [ | *September 21 - 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 [http://pastebin.com/CJPHJSmC/ as some claim he once did with the latter]. | ||
*September 22 - Hiroyuki Nishimura (posting as hiroyuki ## Admin) hosts his first Q&A on the /qa/ board. 12,850 posts are made across five [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183963 "Question" threads]. Hiroyuki, [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183913/ posting answers in a separate "Answer" thread], 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 [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/185655/ highly entertained by his 'Engrish.'] 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/]. 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. Nine hours after the Q&A began, the site begins to break, and then completely freezes. It remains down for about six hours. | *September 22 - Hiroyuki Nishimura (posting as hiroyuki ## Admin) hosts his first Q&A on the /qa/ board. 12,850 posts are made across five [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183963 "Question" threads]. Hiroyuki, [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183913/ posting answers in a separate "Answer" thread], 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 [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/185655/ highly entertained by his 'Engrish.'] 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/]. 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. Nine hours after the Q&A began, the site begins to break, and then completely freezes. It remains down for about six hours. | ||
*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 - 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. | ||
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*October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 12th birthday. '''/aco/ - Adult Cartoons''' is added. 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. /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 1 - 4chan celebrates its 12th birthday. '''/aco/ - Adult Cartoons''' is added. 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. /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 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 - Janitor applications are re-opened, and the requirement to send proof of identification is dropped | *October 9 - Janitor applications are re-opened, and the requirement to send proof of identification is dropped. | ||
*October 13 - /jp/ gets [sjis] tags, allowing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art SJIS art] to be posted. | *October 13 - /jp/ gets [sjis] tags, allowing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art SJIS art] to be posted. | ||
*October 24 - The robot on /r9k/ is enabled again. | *October 24 - The robot on /r9k/ is enabled again. | ||
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*February 2 - /b/ gets Satan³ 666666666. The GET was Pokeporn of ORAS May, which additionally made /vp/ shit brix. [http://archived.moe/b/thread/666651461/#666666666 Source] | *February 2 - /b/ gets Satan³ 666666666. The GET was Pokeporn of ORAS May, which additionally made /vp/ shit brix. [http://archived.moe/b/thread/666651461/#666666666 Source] | ||
*February 13 - Caco makes a group-chat on FaceBook for /b/, which is a start of a small community of /b/tards. (Room Invite Link[not a virus]): ) | *February 13 - Caco makes a group-chat on FaceBook for /b/, which is a start of a small community of /b/tards. (Room Invite Link[not a virus]): ) | ||
*February 14 - Several anons from 4chan and 8chan (Consisting mainly of /b/tards, /pol/acks and a few guys from /k/ and /g/ too) form up and raid Tumblr on valentines day, dubbed the [https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre Valentine's Day Massacre.] The reaction from Tumblr's userbase was briefly noticeable, even on places like Youtube. | *February 14 - Several anons from 4chan and 8chan (Consisting mainly of /b/tards, /pol/acks and a few guys from /k/ and /g/ too) form up and raid Tumblr on valentines day, dubbed the [https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre Valentine's Day Massacre.] The reaction from Tumblr's userbase was briefly noticeable, even on places like Youtube. | ||
*February 15 - In attempt to protest against the current state of /b/, [https://archive.is/4elVh a thread] on the board is created to exceed the bump limit of 300 posts, by rallying up enough /b/tards to post in the thread after the reply count had reached 300 posts, to bring it to 500 posts. The thread reached nearly 800 posts before death and was revered as the first collaborative win on /b/ in a long while. | *February 15 - In attempt to protest against the current state of /b/, [https://archive.is/4elVh a thread] on the board is created to exceed the bump limit of 300 posts, by rallying up enough /b/tards to post in the thread after the reply count had reached 300 posts, to bring it to 500 posts. The thread reached nearly 800 posts before death and was revered as the first collaborative win on /b/ in a long while. | ||
*February 16 - /vr/'s 3000000 GET is claimed by a [s4s] namefig posting doge. [http://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/2997624/#3000000 Awoo!] | *February 16 - /vr/'s 3000000 GET is claimed by a [s4s] namefig posting doge. [http://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/2997624/#3000000 Awoo!] | ||
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*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 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. | *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:// | *March 2 - Notch visits [https://archived.moe/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 3 - Some downtime happens. Hiro tells anons through the global messaging system to wait warmly. | ||
*March 7 - [http://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. 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. | *March 7 - [http://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. 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. | ||
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*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 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 - /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 8-17 - /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 17 - Mods make a sticky for the upcoming American solar eclipse on /sci/. | *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 18 - One of the mods on /tv/ goes on a rampage and spends five hours deleting Sneedposts. | ||
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*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 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 - 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 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. | *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. The brainlet keeps streaming for hours while anons laugh out the game for being too empty and bland. Meanwhile 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 gets 404's at least 3 times. A sticky 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.” gets made on /v/ to move the NeoGAF discussion elsewhere, linking to /pol/, with a picture of moot with a quote "It has the most basic fucking rules: Talk about video games!".[https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/10/4chan-v-bans-discussion-neogaf-sexual-misconduct-scandal/42448/] Faggot mods start censoring hard on NeoGaf threads, which result in /v/ finding out that one of the mods named 'Beam' is female single mother roastie who most likely frequents NeoGaf. /v/ users get confused about the censoring, since NeoGaf is a big video game board, which resulted in /v/ migrating to /pol/ to talk about NeoGaf. Due to the overwhelming shitposting about NeoGaf on /pol/, /pol/ users get mad and help /v/ users who want to celebrate NeoGAF's death start shitposting on /v/. Shitposting commenced, with either /v/ posting John Morris "He does it for free" meme to piss off mods, and just straight up NeoGAF posting, which of course resulted in bans. The event would result in half of the United Kingdom and parts of Canada to get temporarily ISP banned. Canada should have stayed banned. /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 comes on /qa/ and gets asked if he can allow NeoGaf threads on /v/. Hiro than | *October 23 - Hiro comes on /qa/ and gets asked if he can allow NeoGaf threads on /v/. Hiro than eternally BTFO /v/ mods by letting a single, stickied thread about the NeoGAF question to be allowed on /v/, which resulted in the thread to be more about /v/ laughing at the mods more than laughing/discussing the NeoGAF situation. Later, after more than two years, /qa/ becomes a listed board. [s4s], /r9k/, /vip/ and /qa/, much like /cm/, /hm/, /lgbt/ and /y/, are merged into their own section on the board list. | ||
*October 24 - [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171223/https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/subject/welcome%20to%20%2Fqa%2F/type/sticky/ After struggling for a bit,] Hiro makes [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171106/https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/ a locked "welcome to /qa/" sticky] saying that other than meta topics the board has "no specific theme". This is accompanied by [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171502/https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1508/81/1508819394828.png a sitewide message stating that from now meta threads on other boards will be moved to /qa/.] | *October 24 - [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171223/https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/subject/welcome%20to%20%2Fqa%2F/type/sticky/ After struggling for a bit,] Hiro makes [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171106/https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/ a locked "welcome to /qa/" sticky] saying that other than meta topics the board has "no specific theme". This is accompanied by [http://web.archive.org/web/20220311171502/https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1508/81/1508819394828.png a sitewide message stating that from now meta threads on other boards will be moved to /qa/.] | ||
*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 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/. | ||
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*March 23 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324041833/https://thebarchive.com/data/b/image/1553/39/1553394938534.png /b/'s CSS layout was changed to a gif of Nyan Cat with the Nyan Cat theme playing in the background] in honor of caturday, along with an [https://archived.moe/b/thread/795730390 official caturday thread] where mods public banned furfags and ponyposters, embedded large images without thumbnails and /b/tards either posted old memes they found on Encyclopedia Dramatica or made typical "old meme cringe new meme good" posts. This thread strangely wasn't stickied. (This might of had something to do with Twitter, a social media website famous for popularizing the word "yikes" on the internet and also housing a userbase packed full of people blaming 4chan for the recent NZ shooting, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324040014/https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=Caturday&src=spxr making "caturday" a trending hashtag on the same day.]) | *March 23 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324041833/https://thebarchive.com/data/b/image/1553/39/1553394938534.png /b/'s CSS layout was changed to a gif of Nyan Cat with the Nyan Cat theme playing in the background] in honor of caturday, along with an [https://archived.moe/b/thread/795730390 official caturday thread] where mods public banned furfags and ponyposters, embedded large images without thumbnails and /b/tards either posted old memes they found on Encyclopedia Dramatica or made typical "old meme cringe new meme good" posts. This thread strangely wasn't stickied. (This might of had something to do with Twitter, a social media website famous for popularizing the word "yikes" on the internet and also housing a userbase packed full of people blaming 4chan for the recent NZ shooting, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324040014/https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=Caturday&src=spxr making "caturday" a trending hashtag on the same day.]) | ||
*March 31 - Australian ISPs unblock all websites, including 4chan and 8chan. The Aussie shitposters return. [https://archive.is/bUIdf A 22222222 GET on /trash/ gets stickied.] | *March 31 - Australian ISPs unblock all websites, including 4chan and 8chan. The Aussie shitposters return. [https://archive.is/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.is/knpI2 two] [https:// | *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.is/knpI2 two] [https://archive.is/https://archived.moe/nel/thread/33679515 stickies], [https://archive.is/5Kn6e /vp/ gets one sticky], [https://archive.is/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.is/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.is/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 2 - [https://archive.is/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 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. | ||
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*May 15 - YTMND is shut down; [https://archive.is/yDkhh /f/ gets a sticky in memorial]. Italy decided to air the next month of MLP:FiM ahead of schedule; [https://archive.is/V1hg9 /mlp/ gets a sticky] | *May 15 - YTMND is shut down; [https://archive.is/yDkhh /f/ gets a sticky in memorial]. Italy decided to air the next month of MLP:FiM ahead of schedule; [https://archive.is/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 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 - /b/ reaches its 800m GET | *May 17 - /b/ reaches its 800m GET. | ||
*May 20 - [https://archive.is/cNtXH /tv/ gets a sticky] for the Game of Thrones finale | *May 20 - [https://archive.is/cNtXH /tv/ gets a sticky] for the Game of Thrones finale | ||
*May 24 - Theresa May confirms resignation; [https://archive.is/fhApW /pol/ gets a sticky]. | *May 24 - Theresa May confirms resignation; [https://archive.is/fhApW /pol/ gets a sticky]. | ||
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*December 10 - /b/ gets three stickies, "Hip To Be Square" by Huey Lewis And The News embedded in the background and mods ban porn for a day. Two [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815883666 DSFARGEG] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815887780 threads] and [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877806 three] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877818 obvious] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877950 troll]-porn threads get public banned. Yellowfags rejoice and spam yellow threads and upper text lower text memes while ironically saying /b/ will "now be free of spam and uncreative threads". Mods remove the stickies and unban porn the next day | *December 10 - /b/ gets three stickies, "Hip To Be Square" by Huey Lewis And The News embedded in the background and mods ban porn for a day. Two [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815883666 DSFARGEG] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815887780 threads] and [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877806 three] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877818 obvious] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877950 troll]-porn threads get public banned. Yellowfags rejoice and spam yellow threads and upper text lower text memes while ironically saying /b/ will "now be free of spam and uncreative threads". Mods remove the stickies and unban porn the next day | ||
([http://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3411327 Note: an anon on /f/ archived the front page in the form of a .swf file]) | ([http://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3411327 Note: an anon on /f/ archived the front page in the form of a .swf file]) | ||
*December 25 - Christmas hats are added. | *December 25 - Christmas hats are added. | ||
*December 31 - /v/ [http://archive.is/lu9je stickies] International Wrestling Festival's 2019 gachimuchi collab | *December 31 - /v/ [http://archive.is/lu9je stickies] International Wrestling Festival's 2019 gachimuchi collab | ||
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*May 31 - /pol/ gets a new [https://archive.is/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""". | *May 31 - /pol/ gets a new [https://archive.is/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://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/15781584 pride month sticky.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220128181232/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 1 - /lgbt/ gets a [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/15781584 pride month sticky.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220128181232/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.is/WPURg#selection-3115.0-3118.0 /v/ blows up] with threads about the game, but doesn't get a sticky. /trash/ got a [http://archive.is/ZkuSu sticky] instead | *June 12 - Volcano High, a furry dinosaur visual novel, was announced at the big PlayStation 5 reveal press conference; [https://archive.is/WPURg#selection-3115.0-3118.0 /v/ blows up] with threads about the game, but doesn't get a sticky. '''/trash/''' got a [http://archive.is/ZkuSu sticky] instead. | ||
*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.co/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 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.co/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.is/OTik0 sticky]. | *June 25 - It is announced that Studio Trigger will be producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/OTik0 sticky]. | ||
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*September 17 - /g/entooman got the [https://archive.vn/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.vn/8Fi9K#p77778448 roll] trips for the DE/WM. | *September 17 - /g/entooman got the [https://archive.vn/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.vn/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 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.ph/fiuRW Soot] creates [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3484141 soyjak.party,] | *September 19 - A /qa/ user who goes by the name [https://archive.ph/fiuRW Soot] creates [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3484141 soyjak.party,] a 4chan syle imageboard centered around soyjak posting and /qa/ culture. | ||
*September 20 - 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.is/7FjWs /b/], [https://archive.is/1MZ4g /an/], [https://archive.is/JL4rG /f/] and [https://archive.is/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. | *September 20 - 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.is/7FjWs /b/], [https://archive.is/1MZ4g /an/], [https://archive.is/JL4rG /f/] and [https://archive.is/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. | ||
*September 21 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax, including Bethesda, iD, Obsidian Software and more. An anon makes a post that gets [https://archive.is/Ppi80 stickied] and /v/ goes absolutely apeshit. The consolewar is on. | *September 21 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax, including Bethesda, iD, Obsidian Software and more. An anon makes a post that gets [https://archive.is/Ppi80 stickied] and /v/ goes absolutely apeshit. The consolewar is on. | ||
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*April 22 - Out of nowhere, [https://archive.is/u93DR moot leaves his position at Google.] Threads across the entire site pop up ([https://archive.is/btYej /qa/], [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/220906502/#220906502 /a/], [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/552896541/#552896541 /v/], [https://archive.is/GkBG8 /pol/]) to discuss it, and anons wonder if he'll ever come back, let alone do a Q&A. | *April 22 - Out of nowhere, [https://archive.is/u93DR moot leaves his position at Google.] Threads across the entire site pop up ([https://archive.is/btYej /qa/], [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/220906502/#220906502 /a/], [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/552896541/#552896541 /v/], [https://archive.is/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 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 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. | *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.ph/jXLye Self-fellating thread that mods stickied.] Also on the same day, [https://archive.is/ekaD1 /vm/ gets an "Official Vidya Night"] with Alien Swarm Reactive drop being played. | *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.ph/jXLye Self-fellating thread that mods stickied.] Also on the same day, [https://archive.is/ekaD1 /vm/ gets an "Official Vidya Night"] with Alien Swarm Reactive drop being played. | ||
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*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). [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/343006728 A fake Southwest tweet blaming the far-right circulates.] The forums then get taken down for maintenance. | *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). [http://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 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 23 - The 9th /v/ the Musical [https://archive.md/H9f6I releases] for the year with 160 parodies in total. | *October 23 - The 9th /v/ the Musical [https://archive.md/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.ph/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.md/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 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.ph/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.md/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.md/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 | *November 4-5 - /qa/ is [https://archive.md/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.ph/GnVGS culturally enrich /bant/] with 'jaks and try to make it their new home on 4chan, causing the board to [https://archive.ph/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 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.md/ySzU3 is confirmed dead.] A sitewide message is displayed: '''🙏 RIP Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka 🙏 Our dad who disowned us''' | *November 10 - Richard Kyanka, AKA Lowtax, the founder of Something Awful, [https://archive.md/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.ph/Dx382 CSS fuckery in a lain thread on /g/,] confirming lain is still the queen. | *November 12 - The mods do some [https://archive.ph/Dx382 CSS fuckery in a lain thread on /g/,] confirming lain is still the queen. | ||
*November 16 - [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/578279059 Recette] is elected Queen of /v/ for 2021 | *November 16 - [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/578279059 Recette] is elected Queen of /v/ for 2021. | ||
*November 18 - [s4s]'s memetable is finally finished and the result is [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9993499 stickied.] | *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.md/HLTci /pol/ gets a sticky with music.] | *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.md/HLTci /pol/ gets a sticky with music.] | ||
*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 | *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 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!). | *November 27 - /d/ finally reaches the 10 million mark (and it only took 18 years!). soyjak.party tries to [https://archive.ph/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.ph/SVtVc sticky on /fa/.] Norwegian youtuber Tor Eckhoff dies after falling through thin ice and gets a [https://archive.ph/N6Tq5 sticky on /bant/.] | *November 28 - Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer and gets a [https://archive.ph/SVtVc sticky on /fa/.] Norwegian youtuber Tor Eckhoff dies after falling through thin ice and gets a [https://archive.ph/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.ph/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 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.ph/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.co/v/thread/580588660 voted for king of /v/ 2021] | *December 7 - The Batter gets [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/580588660 voted for king of /v/ 2021]. | ||
*December 8 - Barry Harris dies at age 91 and gets a [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/107498759 sticky on /mu/]. | *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.co/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.ph/aXUMd shitpost about it in the Genshin Impact general on /vg/.] | *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.co/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.ph/aXUMd shitpost about it in the Genshin Impact general on /vg/.] | ||
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*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.] | *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 2 - A thread that is solely an embedded Sneed's Feed and Seed video clip gets [https://archive.fo/vrQqK stickied] on /b/. | *February 2 - A thread that is solely an embedded Sneed's Feed and Seed video clip gets [https://archive.fo/vrQqK stickied] on /b/. | ||
*February 4 - [https://archive. | *February 4 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20220204212423/https://iili.io/0HeRhG.png /his/ gets raided by soyjak.party and 8 pages are wiped,] the mods restored the archived threads to repopulate the catalog. The party also tried to steal the [https://archive.alice.al/news/thread/1000000/#1000000 1000000] GET on /news/ but it's taken by an anti Trump news post, the [https://archive.alice.al/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 - Kiwifarms 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, kiwifarms 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://archive.alice.al/bant/thread/14487267/][https://archive.alice.al/bant/thread/14487568/][https://archive.alice.al/bant/thread/14490001/]. | *Feburary 13 - Kiwifarms 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, kiwifarms 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://archive.alice.al/bant/thread/14487267/][https://archive.alice.al/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 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 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.is/jp6zr a sticky saying "SOVIET INVASION CONFIRMED " and with Hell March from Command & Conquer Red Alert embedded] | *February 23 - Russia invades Ukraine, /pol/ goes apeshit and gets [https://archive.is/jp6zr a sticky saying "SOVIET INVASION CONFIRMED " and with Hell March from Command & Conquer Red Alert embedded]. | ||
*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 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 26 - The soviet invasion sticky on /pol/ is unstickied after 88034 posts, making it the second largest ever thread in 4chan history. | ||
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*March 28 - Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars. [https://archive.ph/gq2nu /tv/] and [https://archive.ph/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 28 - Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars. [https://archive.ph/gq2nu /tv/] and [https://archive.ph/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.ph/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, [http://web.archive.org/web/20220402100050/https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/370195796/#370203543 makes a post on /pol/.] | *March 30 - [https://archive.ph/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, [http://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.ph/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.co/v/thread/594007980 a repeat of its sticky from April Fools 2019], [https://archive.ph/63S17 /lgbt/ gets one about Discord trannies], [https://archive.ph/hvU4i gets a dance thread with Dr. Dick embedded], [https://archive.ph/3M4Ey /int/ gets one that just says "Slovak cat"], and [https://archive.ph/O1zd7 <nowiki>[s4s]</nowiki> gets one celebrating its 9th birthday]. [https://archive.ph/3CPnP /vp/ asks if u liek mudkips] and /v/ gets [https://archive.ph/1xfH2 a modpost thread about Longcat]. Abnormalities start appearing in the /v/ sticky before breaking containment, spreading to [https://archive.ph/EGA4k /v/], [https://archive.ph/HlBLk /vg/], [https://archive.ph/OyAS2 /vst/] and [https://archive.ph/bWl0h /tg/]. A | *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.ph/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.co/v/thread/594007980 a repeat of its sticky from April Fools 2019], [https://archive.ph/63S17 /lgbt/ gets one about Discord trannies], [https://archive.ph/hvU4i gets a dance thread with Dr. Dick embedded], [https://archive.ph/3M4Ey /int/ gets one that just says "Slovak cat"], and [https://archive.ph/O1zd7 <nowiki>[s4s]</nowiki> gets one celebrating its 9th birthday]. [https://archive.ph/3CPnP /vp/ asks if u liek mudkips] and /v/ gets [https://archive.ph/1xfH2 a modpost thread about Longcat]. Abnormalities start appearing in the /v/ sticky before breaking containment, spreading to [https://archive.ph/EGA4k /v/], [https://archive.ph/HlBLk /vg/], [https://archive.ph/OyAS2 /vst/] and [https://archive.ph/bWl0h /tg/]. A soyjak thread is [https://archive.ph/Heck5 moved from /s4s/] [https://archive.ph/wb75r to /qa/,] then quickly deleted, presumably the mods were just trolling /qa/ diaspora[https://web.archive.org/web/20220403045831/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/429969.html][https://archive.ph/8BhQZ] 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://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tv2lb6/mod_caught_cheating_previous_thread_locked_and/ and get caught cheating]) 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.[http://web.archive.org/web/20220405072615/https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/370541631] | ||
*April 2 - The abnormalities spread further to [https://archive.ph/ux0V2 /pol/] and [https://archive.ph/T054F /trash/], before culminating in [https://archive.ph/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.ph/pOnjm][https://archive.ph/hUh5N][https://archive.ph/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.ph/QF2Zd][https://archive.ph/G7QCf][https://archive.ph/MtDtl] | *April 2 - The abnormalities spread further to [https://archive.ph/ux0V2 /pol/] and [https://archive.ph/T054F /trash/], before culminating in [https://archive.ph/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.ph/pOnjm][https://archive.ph/hUh5N][https://archive.ph/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.ph/QF2Zd][https://archive.ph/G7QCf][https://archive.ph/MtDtl] | ||
*April 3 - /b/ begins constructing sneed's feed and seed and a 404 Yotsuba on r/place, finishing both by the end of the day, only for xqc (some faggot streamer) to nuke everything in sneed's general area, Yotsuba is taken by another streamer while sneed is reconstructed.[https://archive.ph/bOeOl][https://archive.ph/mnkIU] | *April 3 - /b/ begins constructing sneed's feed and seed and a 404 Yotsuba on r/place, finishing both by the end of the day, only for xqc (some faggot streamer) to nuke everything in sneed's general area, Yotsuba is taken by another streamer while sneed is reconstructed.[https://archive.ph/bOeOl][https://archive.ph/mnkIU] | ||
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* June 15 - [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/111110812/#111111111 /mu/ GET number 111111111] gets stolen by a K-POP post. | * 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.co/v/chunk/602701707/ sticky]. Tim Sale dies. /co/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/131313864/#131313864 sticky]. | *June 16 - ''Dragon's Dogma II'' gets announced. /v/ gets a [https://arch.b4k.co/v/chunk/602701707/ sticky]. Tim Sale dies. /co/ gets a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/131313864/#131313864 sticky]. | ||
*June 24 - | *June 24 - '''HOLY SHIT, ROE V. WADE GOT OVERTURNED!''' [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/383677565/ /pol/ gets sticky on thy 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 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 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. | ||
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*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 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 22 - Vince MacMahon retires. /pw/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pw/thread/6490689/ sticky]. | ||
*July 26 - Names, thread titles, fortunes, and rolls get readded to /b/. A [https://archived.moe/b/thread/882732822/ sticky] gets made | *July 26 - Names, thread titles, fortunes, and rolls get readded to /b/. A [https://archived.moe/b/thread/882732822/ sticky] gets made. | ||
*July 31 - It's the supposed birthdate of George Jetson from ''The Jetsons''. /co/ celebrates with a [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/132129284 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 18 - The minimum time between posting and deleting one's post is raised from 1 to 10 minutes. This is reverted within hours. | |||
*August 18 - The minimum time between posting and deleting one's post is raised from 1 to 10 minutes. This is reverted within hours. | *August 19 - A brazillian 4chan janitor [https://archive.ph/m43ds leaks information] about /j/ on soyjak.party, including screenshots of threads, userscripts made for the janitors, and [https://archive.ph/dD1Ga proof of a discord] for jannies. The event is discussed in the happenings thread. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50284202/] [https://soyjak.wiki/J] | ||
*August 19 - A brazillian 4chan janitor [https://archive.ph/m43ds leaks information] about /j/ on | |||
*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]. | *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]. | ||
*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 6 - /r9k/ [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/50712537/#50743849 reported to be playing music] in the background. Song is ''Mr.Roboto'' by Styx. | ||
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*October 19 - After nearly two years, the @4chan Twitter account [https://archive.ph/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 19 - After nearly two years, the @4chan Twitter account [https://archive.ph/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.ph/zpyTV /x/ got a sticky] with sp00ky pumpkin. | *October 31 - Halloween as always. [https://archive.ph/zpyTV /x/ got a sticky] with sp00ky pumpkin. | ||
*November 3 - | *November 3 - United States Federal Beauru of Investigations (FBI) seized all domains for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library Z-Library.] By accident, its announce that the US Postal Inspection Service originally seized the domains.[https://archive.ph/ZB2Wg] Discussion ensues [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21209720 in /lit/] for the fate of other, so called, ''shadow libraries'' & the true conspiracy of this debacle... | ||
*November 4 - [https://archive.ph/d8Tha "Request recomendations thread" on /a/] gets banned text and repliers get warned text. | *November 4 - [https://archive.ph/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.ph/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.ph/E7BLz#7.84% Anon gets labled a Redditor] by mods for trying to blend in with zoomer hate thread. [https://archive.ph/H1rGU A /vp/ anon leaks shitloads of Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet screenshots.] | *November 6 - 2022 League of Legends World Championship finish with first timers ''<s>Asians</s>'' DRX winning against ''<s>Asians</s>'' T1. [https://archive.ph/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.ph/E7BLz#7.84% Anon gets labled a Redditor] by mods for trying to blend in with zoomer hate thread. [https://archive.ph/H1rGU A /vp/ anon leaks shitloads of Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet screenshots.] | ||
*November 7 - [https://archive.ph/eKphn#81.85% /wsg/ user gets banned] for asking if the Grey Cat wipping is real | *November 7 - [https://archive.ph/eKphn#81.85% /wsg/ user gets banned] for asking if the Grey Cat wipping is real. | ||
*November 8 - Anon on /v/ leaks prototype game builds from Eurocom, THQ, and maybe others, including some Wii firmware & dev testers.[https://archive.ph/zs9HC][https://archive.ph/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:// | *November 8 - Anon on /v/ leaks prototype game builds from Eurocom, THQ, and maybe others, including some Wii firmware & dev testers.[https://archive.ph/zs9HC][https://archive.ph/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. | ||
*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. | |||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
*[https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki Bibliotheca Anonoma] - [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/4chan-Chronicle 4chan Chronicle] | * [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/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. | * [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. | ||
* | * <s>"http://www.wikichan.org/index.php/The_Complete_History_of_4chan" Article source</s> [http://web.archive.org/web/20080511013508/http://www.wikichan.org/index.php/The_Complete_History_of_4chan archived version]. | ||
* | * "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" - Giant picture archive. | ||
* | * "http://web.archive.org/web/20140426002232/https://archive.thedarkcave.org/int/thread/23490553/" - Archived thread of the April 23 hack. <s>Gallery - "https://imgur.com/a/hkCdH"</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 | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20220818041359/https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php Everything Rumia Knows] (archived) - A personal wiki, home to many pages on 2ch boards/AA art and imageboards. | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion Jason Scott's archive] - A text-only archive of | *[https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion Jason Scott's archive] - A text-only archive of all(?) 4chan posts from 2006 to 2008. | ||
*[https://4museum.neocities.org/ 4museum] - A text-only archive of | *[https://4museum.neocities.org/ 4museum] - A text-only archive of posts from 2006 to 2008. | ||
*[https://old.sage.moe/ Oldfriend Archive] - A text-only archive of posts from | *[https://old.sage.moe/ Oldfriend Archive] - A text-only archive of posts from 2005 to 2008. | ||
*A [https://boards.3chan.co/www/thread/189 3chan thread] about rare messageboard screenshots, containing download links for archived 4chan threads from 2004. | |||
*A [https://web.archive.org/web/20190116124204/http://rx.vyrd.net/ collection] of manually archived threads from 2004 to 2013. | |||
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