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* September 30: moot announces 4chan.net in Something Awful's ADTRW forum. Thread is titled "4chan.net - English 2chan.net!" | * September 30: moot announces 4chan.net in Something Awful's ADTRW forum. Thread is titled "4chan.net - English 2chan.net!" | ||
* October 1 - | * October 1 - 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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* October 1 - 4chan turns two years old. Dan makes a commemorative picture. | * October 1 - 4chan turns two years old. Dan makes a commemorative picture. | ||
* October 16 - 3M GET on /b/, with a picture of Waha and Pedobear and how they would be seen in America. The post linked to itself, prefixed by ">>3000000" and "TIME PARADOX/what a lame GET/Surely you jest!". It was, unfortunately, a tripfag get, posted by 4chan mod Pixel Hotness !Ol2RiO/0Ro. The GET was considered "meh" and was suspected to have been a modGET. | * October 16 - 3M GET on /b/, with a picture of Waha and Pedobear and how they would be seen in America. The post linked to itself, prefixed by ">>3000000" and "TIME PARADOX/what a lame GET/Surely you jest!". It was, unfortunately, a tripfag get, posted by 4chan mod Pixel Hotness !Ol2RiO/0Ro. The GET was considered "meh" and was suspected to have been a modGET. | ||
* October 25 - moot announces that "things are looking up" and announces that many new features will be added to 4chan, including the DevBlog. He also begs for people to advertise because he needs money to construct additional pylons. | * October 25 - moot announces that "things are looking up" and announces that many new features will be added to 4chan, including the DevBlog. He also begs for people to advertise because he needs money to construct additional pylons. | ||
* October 30 - moot and Snacks have a long fight over IRC as moot takes the site down for a few hours to fix some problems. moot rages against Snacks for being a lazy coder and threatens to take away his server access, and generally being very arrogant towards Snacks. They both go to sleep, and continue in the afternoon the next day for about three hours, until moot tells Snacks that he will remove his server access (along with his moderator powers), which he does shortly afterwards, making him unable to moderate or code. Snacks then "leaves" 4chan for good. | * October 30 - moot and Snacks have a long fight over IRC as moot takes the site down for a few hours to fix some problems. moot rages against Snacks for being a lazy coder and threatens to take away his server access, and generally being very arrogant towards Snacks. They both go to sleep, and continue in the afternoon the next day for about three hours, until moot tells Snacks that he will remove his server access (along with his moderator powers), which he does shortly afterwards, making him unable to moderate or code. Snacks then "leaves" 4chan for good. | ||
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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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* April 20 - 7M GET is reached, but due to the high strain on the server, the file was deleted, and the post had no text. However, mods retrieved the MD5 data from the picture from their database and found that it was the popular image macro of Chopper Dave from Sealab 2021 shouting "UH OHHHHHHH". Also, 13-year-old Mitchell Henderson kills himself, after which /b/ raids his memorial MySpace and the "an hero" meme is born after a classmate of his posted a poem she written on his memorial account in which she constantly referred to him as "an hero". | * April 20 - 7M GET is reached, but due to the high strain on the server, the file was deleted, and the post had no text. However, mods retrieved the MD5 data from the picture from their database and found that it was the popular image macro of Chopper Dave from Sealab 2021 shouting "UH OHHHHHHH". Also, 13-year-old Mitchell Henderson kills himself, after which /b/ raids his memorial MySpace and the "an hero" meme is born after a classmate of his posted a poem she written on his memorial account in which she constantly referred to him as "an hero". | ||
* May 11 - Eight threads are stickied, all consisting of modified versions of a picture from some Japanese show with a puppet riding on a motorcycle and the text "DSFARGEG". All posts were followed by (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) and DSFARGEG almost always resulted in a ban or a sticky. | * May 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 - | * May 18 - /b/ reaches 8M GET, one of the first GETs to be auto-stickied. It was considered a WinGET, due to the fact that it was a picture of George Zimmer and the text "HI, I'M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF MEN'S WAREHOUSE. THIS IS 8000000 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 - | * July 7 - 10M GET is reached, considered the most failed GET of all time, simply a picture of Hazuki from the anime Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- on a merry-go-round, with the text "hazukiget". Ironically, it was much later revealed to be a modGET, but with no trickery involved; Shii (4chan admin; coder of discussion boards) got the GET out of pure luck, proving that all modGETs, staged or not, will always be fail. | ||
* July 10 - The theme song from "Bill Nye the Science Guy" was embedded into the background of /b/ (no layout changes however). | * July 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. | ||
* July 15 - A sticky is made on /b/ in which "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by composer Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey theme song) was embedded. | * July 15 - A sticky is made on /b/ in which "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by composer Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey theme song) was embedded. | ||
* July 20 - moot announces that they will have a panel at Otakon 2006 from August 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland, with enough seating capacity to allow 680 people compared to the 230 from Otakon 2005. | * July 20 - moot announces that they will have a panel at Otakon 2006 from August 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland, with enough seating capacity to allow 680 people compared to the 230 from Otakon 2005. | ||
* July 22 - | * July 22 - /v/ reaches 1M GET, considered to be one of the greatest non-/b/ gets of all time. The GET was a picture of PONG, the first-ever video game, thus a very fitting get for /v/. | ||
* July 26 - /b/ receives a picture of a post on the Zelda Universe Forums, claiming that administrator StonyLonesome planned to launch a counterattack on 4chan with Habbo Hotel. Even though the post itself was found to have been fake, /b/ wasted no time in obliterating the forums until the admins had to shut it all down. Later, it was revealed that Captain Cornflake had started the raid, just like he did with the Zelda Guide Forums raid. | * July 26 - /b/ receives a picture of a post on the Zelda Universe Forums, claiming that administrator StonyLonesome planned to launch a counterattack on 4chan with Habbo Hotel. Even though the post itself was found to have been fake, /b/ wasted no time in obliterating the forums until the admins had to shut it all down. Later, it was revealed that Captain Cornflake had started the raid, just like he did with the Zelda Guide Forums raid. | ||
* July 27 - One of the Zelda Universe mods taunts /b/ and unintentionally revitalizes their interest in fucking up Zelda Universe. The ZU Media Wiki is targeted, mostly by one Anon using an AutoHotKey script. Six hundred wiki pages are defaced. A second raid on the forum is planned for August 2, but ends up never happening despite many accounts being prepared. | * July 27 - One of the Zelda Universe mods taunts /b/ and unintentionally revitalizes their interest in fucking up Zelda Universe. The ZU Media Wiki is targeted, mostly by one Anon using an AutoHotKey script. Six hundred wiki pages are defaced. A second raid on the forum is planned for August 2, but ends up never happening despite many accounts being prepared. | ||
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* September 11 - Habbo, Revisited - In response to Steve Irwin's death, the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and hatred for Habbo Hotel, /b/, led by AFRODUCK, starts another massive raid on Habbo, with around 5,000 Anonymous partaking in the raid (~600 nigras on the Pool Deck alone). They blocked every single room, announcing that not only did the pool have AIDS, but also had stingrays as well. The raid continued for 3 days until September 14. | * September 11 - Habbo, Revisited - In response to Steve Irwin's death, the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and hatred for Habbo Hotel, /b/, led by AFRODUCK, starts another massive raid on Habbo, with around 5,000 Anonymous partaking in the raid (~600 nigras on the Pool Deck alone). They blocked every single room, announcing that not only did the pool have AIDS, but also had stingrays as well. The raid continued for 3 days until September 14. | ||
* September 18 - The first instance of the infamous "Dirty Bomb" copypasta is [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13046676/#13046676 posted to /b/]. | * September 18 - The first instance of the infamous "Dirty Bomb" copypasta is [https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/13046676/#13046676 posted to /b/]. | ||
* 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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* November 30 - moot announces that more banner ads from AdBrite will be added to 4chan in December due to the fact that donations are no longer possible. As a result of the extra money, 4chan becomes faster after moot uses the money for extra bandwidth capacity. | * November 30 - moot announces that more banner ads from AdBrite will be added to 4chan in December due to the fact that donations are no longer possible. As a result of the extra money, 4chan becomes faster after moot uses the money for extra bandwidth capacity. | ||
* December 9 - /sp/ is deleted. Pissed off users flock to /b/ to demand /sp/'s release to no avail. | * 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. | * 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. | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
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* March 7 - Hal makes another radio show, anonymous raids him again. He dedicated the show about the 21/4 raid. | * March 7 - Hal makes another radio show, anonymous raids him again. He dedicated the show about the 21/4 raid. | ||
* March 21 - Anonymous discovers photos of 16-year-old Kelly Isenhower of Georgia sucking off her dog, as well as her phone number and address. Needless to say, Anon went batshit, raiding her DeviantArt and MySpace, calling her parents and telling them about the incident, and even e-mailing the photographs to her school principal, although she was adamant that the photos were shopped (which they obviously weren't). She was suspended from school indefinitely, her dog was taken away, and everyone now hates her, including all her former friends and her parents. Anonymous rejoices. | * March 21 - Anonymous discovers photos of 16-year-old Kelly Isenhower of Georgia sucking off her dog, as well as her phone number and address. Needless to say, Anon went batshit, raiding her DeviantArt and MySpace, calling her parents and telling them about the incident, and even e-mailing the photographs to her school principal, although she was adamant that the photos were shopped (which they obviously weren't). She was suspended from school indefinitely, her dog was taken away, and everyone now hates her, including all her former friends and her parents. Anonymous rejoices. | ||
* March 26 - The Great re/b/oot - moot announces a re/b/oot and aims to restore /b/ to its former glory. Two stickies are created, one being a letter moot received that inspired him to start the re/b/oot, and another sticky being his formal apology for "letting /b/ turn to shit". /b/'s background changed to a seizure-inducing flashing yellow and white background with the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" embedded in the background. The Name and Subject fields return to /b/, effectively ending forced anonymous and allowing tripcodes. Many people were banned by moot in both stickies for comments such as "/b/ sucks", and in many other threads as well. Later, a third sticky was made which was a locked thread with only two posts, with the OP announcing that he was "afraid of being banned by the crazy bitch-ass mods" and also said, "You might as well make rules for /b/ now faggots", followed by which the poster was banned. Later in the day, | * March 26 - The Great re/b/oot - moot announces a re/b/oot and aims to restore /b/ to its former glory. Two stickies are created, one being a letter moot received that inspired him to start the re/b/oot, and another sticky being his formal apology for "letting /b/ turn to shit". /b/'s background changed to a seizure-inducing flashing yellow and white background with the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" embedded in the background. The Name and Subject fields return to /b/, effectively ending forced anonymous and allowing tripcodes. Many people were banned by moot in both stickies for comments such as "/b/ sucks", and in many other threads as well. Later, a third sticky was made which was a locked thread with only two posts, with the OP announcing that he was "afraid of being banned by the crazy bitch-ass mods" and also said, "You might as well make rules for /b/ now faggots", followed by which the poster was banned. Later in the day, 23M GET was achieved, which was a picture of a Pokemon with text InfernalRape with the post consisting of INFERAPEGET. Considering this to be an extreme failGET (as did all of /b/), moot banned the poster, instantly transforming it into a winGET. | ||
* March 27 - Transmission - The next day, /b/'s title changes to “Transmission” with Trans italicized and the background turned /b/lack, and techno music was played, specifically “You could easily have me” by Motronomy. A sticky was posted containing a picture of Diglet and said, "/b/ is /b/ again". Many users were banned in the thread for suggesting otherwise. | * March 27 - Transmission - The next day, /b/'s title changes to “Transmission” with Trans italicized and the background turned /b/lack, and techno music was played, specifically “You could easily have me” by Motronomy. A sticky was posted containing a picture of Diglet and said, "/b/ is /b/ again". Many users were banned in the thread for suggesting otherwise. | ||
* March 28 - Revolution - /b/'s title changed to “Revolution” and the background was changed yet again to gray with red tripcodes (allowing users to impersonate moot every easily), techno music was added with the prominent line, "I am the creator". A sticky was posted in which a user was banned for posting DSFARGEG. | * March 28 - Revolution - /b/'s title changed to “Revolution” and the background was changed yet again to gray with red tripcodes (allowing users to impersonate moot every easily), techno music was added with the prominent line, "I am the creator". A sticky was posted in which a user was banned for posting DSFARGEG. | ||
* March 29 - Showdown - The day after that, the title was Showdown and the background was changed to a rapidly flashing rainbow background, as well as the posts. A techno version of the song "Eye of the Tiger” with elements from “Let Your Backbone Slide”, called “Tiger Said Knock You Out” by Neon Kobra, was added as background music. Four stickies were created, each with a GIF of a rainbow-flashing number 5 and the four stickies contained one line each of the song's opening verse (This is a showdown/A throwdown/Hell no, I can't slow down/It's gonna go). Also, | * March 29 - Showdown - The day after that, the title was Showdown and the background was changed to a rapidly flashing rainbow background, as well as the posts. A techno version of the song "Eye of the Tiger” with elements from “Let Your Backbone Slide”, called “Tiger Said Knock You Out” by Neon Kobra, was added as background music. Four stickies were created, each with a GIF of a rainbow-flashing number 5 and the four stickies contained one line each of the song's opening verse (This is a showdown/A throwdown/Hell no, I can't slow down/It's gonna go). Also, the first known instance of a Rickroll occurs on this day, on /v/. Related to Grand Theft Auto. | ||
* March 30 - Intermission - The next day, /b/ returned to normal, with a normal layout and no background music, during which /b/'s title was changed to "Intermission". | * March 30 - Intermission - The next day, /b/ returned to normal, with a normal layout and no background music, during which /b/'s title was changed to "Intermission". | ||
* April 1 - Following two days of normal /b/, techno music was again added as background music, but the CSS remained unchanged, signaling the end of the re/b/oot. | * April 1 - Following two days of normal /b/, techno music was again added as background music, but the CSS remained unchanged, signaling the end of the re/b/oot. | ||
* April 20 - 4chan administrators are forced to temporarily shut down img.4chan.org after a thread containing four uncensored images of child pornography became stuck on the front page for over an hour (during which nobody could post) and could not be deleted due to MySQL problems. Rather than getting v&, the plug was pulled on img.4chan.org and was restored around 12-15 hours later. During the downtime, since 7chan was down as well, a massive amount of /b/tards flocked to 420chan, thus ruining 420chan's most special day, 4/20. | * April 20 - 4chan administrators are forced to temporarily shut down img.4chan.org after a thread containing four uncensored images of child pornography became stuck on the front page for over an hour (during which nobody could post) and could not be deleted due to MySQL problems. Rather than getting v&, the plug was pulled on img.4chan.org and was restored around 12-15 hours later. During the downtime, since 7chan was down as well, a massive amount of /b/tards flocked to 420chan, thus ruining 420chan's most special day, 4/20. | ||
* April 21 - Hal Turner fail IRL raid - Hal Turned hyped the shit out of a supposed IRL raid, called two cop units, and ambulance and various friends. Only four channers, two anons and two girls (Or traps?) came in. | * April 21 - Hal Turner fail IRL raid - Hal Turned hyped the shit out of a supposed IRL raid, called two cop units, and ambulance and various friends. Only four channers, two anons and two girls (Or traps?) came in. | ||
* April 27 - "Fortunes" are introduced to /b/, a feature that moot had implemented from the very beginning but had | * April 27 - "Fortunes" are introduced to /b/, a feature that moot had implemented from the very beginning but had never told anyone about. Basically, if you put your name as "#fortune", you will get a random fortune at the top of your post, chosen at random. moot announced it to the public after another mod told him to reveal it, causing mass spamming of fortunes. A thread in which someone guessed their own fortune was stickied and became the most replied-to thread in /b/ history up to that point, beating the Steve Irwin thread in just 19 hours with 5,336 posts. | ||
* April 28 - Subeta raids - 4chan, 7chan, and especially 420chan combine forces to attack Subeta, a faggot role-playing website similar to Gaia who stole Longcat and turned him into an item for their faggoty site. When the chans complained, Subeta DDoSed 420chan, leaving it in ruins and sticking Kirtaner (420chan's owner) with a $6,000 server bill. The *chans then DDoS Subeta, which they find hard to do due to lack of effort, as well as Subeta's 2000 GB monthly bandwidth and lack of large images. Nevertheless, two major Subeta fansites were shut down permanently and Subeta was down for two days. Keith (Subeta's owner) eventually apologized and removed Longcat from his site after a long and bloody battle, at which many Anonymous rejoiced. On this same day, Encyclopedia Dramatica, one of /b/'s most famous recruiting posts, encountered a severe hard disk failure and does not return until June 8. | * April 28 - Subeta raids - 4chan, 7chan, and especially 420chan combine forces to attack Subeta, a faggot role-playing website similar to Gaia who stole Longcat and turned him into an item for their faggoty site. When the chans complained, Subeta DDoSed 420chan, leaving it in ruins and sticking Kirtaner (420chan's owner) with a $6,000 server bill. The *chans then DDoS Subeta, which they find hard to do due to lack of effort, as well as Subeta's 2000 GB monthly bandwidth and lack of large images. Nevertheless, two major Subeta fansites were shut down permanently and Subeta was down for two days. Keith (Subeta's owner) eventually apologized and removed Longcat from his site after a long and bloody battle, at which many Anonymous rejoiced. On this same day, Encyclopedia Dramatica, one of /b/'s most famous recruiting posts, encountered a severe hard disk failure and does not return until June 8. | ||
* May 13 - moot changes /b/'s layout so that everything is the same color (excluding checkboxes and fortunes), meaning that users will have to press Ctrl+A (Select All) or disable CSS in order to view text. A sticky is posted in which moot explains that the color change is to keep stupid people out, which moot closed a few hours later at around 1,900 posts. moot | * May 13 - moot changes /b/'s layout so that everything is the same color (excluding checkboxes and fortunes), meaning that users will have to press Ctrl+A (Select All) or disable CSS in order to view text. A sticky is posted in which moot explains that the color change is to keep stupid people out, which moot closed a few hours later at around 1,900 posts. moot also announced that threads would go back to the limit of 250 posts and 100 images instead of 1000 posts and 500 images, so that topics can be pruned easier and that the directory dumper would be harder to abuse. The color change lasted a week (during which posting rates decreased by 10%) after which it was disabled, triggering some anger from some /b/tards who wished that the cancer could have been kept out longer. | ||
* June 5 - | * June 5 - /co/ reaches 1M GET; the thread disappears within five seconds or so, and due to the strain on the server, the file was deleted as soon as it was uploaded. The post also had the text, "reducto get", referring to Reducto from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, meaning that the picture was most likely one of him. | ||
* June 6 - | * June 6 - /b/ reaches 29M GET, which the original poster deletes after three hours after being persuaded to do so in another thread. | ||
* June 16 - | * June 16 - 30M GET is achieved one hour after midnight, when many /b/tards are asleep. It was an extreme failGET, as was 10M GET and 20M GET. Consisting of the text "Shit. Getting closer" and a picture from some anime, it received around 2400 replies before being deleted 15 hours later. | ||
* June 18 - moot brings back forced Anonymous on /b/ after someone insults him. Many think it is merely a temporary change, and they were right. The forced Anonymous remains in place for just over a month. | * June 18 - moot brings back forced Anonymous on /b/ after someone insults him. Many think it is merely a temporary change, and they were right. The forced Anonymous remains in place for just over a month. | ||
* June 22 - On /x/, the [https://archive.is/QD9UF first SCP thread] is posted, quickly becoming a phenomenon on the board and | * June 22 - On /x/, the [https://archive.is/QD9UF first SCP thread] is posted, quickly becoming a phenomenon on the board and an entire sub-culture outside of 4chan. | ||
* July 12 - The Great Habbo Raid of July 2007 - Commemorating one year of the most epic raid ever done, /b/ sets out to raid Habbo hotel once again. This time, the mods decide that “If you can’t beat them, join then” via declaring international Afro day. However this resulted in racist implications. There were many complains about the raid, mainly coming from lack of organization, but everyone agrees it was just as funny as the last year. At the same time, Tom Green makes a midnight show, completely drunk, and gets one single prank call from the anons. He spends the rest of the show shouting BARREL ROLL and MUDLIFFS at every caller, ended up closing the show half an hour earlier. | * July 12 - The Great Habbo Raid of July 2007 - Commemorating one year of the most epic raid ever done, /b/ sets out to raid Habbo hotel once again. This time, the mods decide that “If you can’t beat them, join then” via declaring international Afro day. However this resulted in racist implications. There were many complains about the raid, mainly coming from lack of organization, but everyone agrees it was just as funny as the last year. At the same time, Tom Green makes a midnight show, completely drunk, and gets one single prank call from the anons. He spends the rest of the show shouting BARREL ROLL and MUDLIFFS at every caller, ended up closing the show half an hour earlier. | ||
* July 17 - Anonymous raids potterforums.com via spam bots with the spoilers for Harry Potter’s seventh book. They manage to close the site down temporarily. | * July 17 - Anonymous raids potterforums.com via spam bots with the spoilers for Harry Potter’s seventh book. They manage to close the site down temporarily. | ||
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* October 29 - Two hours before Zelda Universe has its weekly backup, anons raid the site, take over a few admin accounts, sending admin access to anybody who asked, renaming the site to Desu Universe, and obliterating the forums once more. When one of the main admins tries to counter the raid, the anons responding by wiping the SQL database again, meaning that the ZU team had to restore week-old backups of the forums. | * October 29 - Two hours before Zelda Universe has its weekly backup, anons raid the site, take over a few admin accounts, sending admin access to anybody who asked, renaming the site to Desu Universe, and obliterating the forums once more. When one of the main admins tries to counter the raid, the anons responding by wiping the SQL database again, meaning that the ZU team had to restore week-old backups of the forums. | ||
* November 5 - The EFG Day Raid - Commemorating the anniversary of V for Vendetta, anon change the classical nigras for a new model resembling the V for Vendetta character. Though extremely unorganized and failing most of its activities, the raid of notorious for managing huge swastigets and other forms of /b/lockade. | * November 5 - The EFG Day Raid - Commemorating the anniversary of V for Vendetta, anon change the classical nigras for a new model resembling the V for Vendetta character. Though extremely unorganized and failing most of its activities, the raid of notorious for managing huge swastigets and other forms of /b/lockade. | ||
* December - moot changes the front page | * December - moot changes the front page | ||
* December 14 - BRB, compromised - IDIDITFORTHELULZ.net obtains moot’s domain password, hereby taking control of 4chan by having CeLe, owner of Glexia.com, 4chan’s hosting, hand them over. CeLe was a good friend of DIDITFORTHELULZ’s admin, XyriX. Together with his team [Lulz] and his girlfriend Angyl they tried to make a “4chan for the people”. There is a | * December 14 - BRB, compromised - IDIDITFORTHELULZ.net obtains moot’s domain password, hereby taking control of 4chan by having CeLe, owner of Glexia.com, 4chan’s hosting, hand them over. CeLe was a good friend of DIDITFORTHELULZ’s admin, XyriX. Together with his team [Lulz] and his girlfriend Angyl they tried to make a “4chan for the people”. There is a recorded phone conversation where Angyl tries to get a fansign picture of a very angry moot in exchange for giving them the site back. Glexia suspended 4chan’s and teamdouche’s (Angyl’s former team) accounts after they Dox’d Angyl together with Anonymous Borg (Locutus_of_loli, actor in the Caturday Nap). Why they helped, its unknown. moot got the site back after he gave the ransom. I wonder where the pictures are. | ||
* December 21 - The FBI makes reports the arrest of Trey Burba in their website, showing that they really don’t have any idea of how /b/ works. | * December 21 - The FBI makes reports the arrest of Trey Burba in their website, showing that they really don’t have any idea of how /b/ works. | ||
* December 30 - Hal Turner announces that he is closing his site. In a last moment, 7channers and anons from #insurgency tell the g00ns, who used their actual hacker skills to steal all the data regarding donations and subscribers. It turns out Hal made more money from the former than the latter. Plus that bandwidth totaled way less than he told. | * December 30 - Hal Turner announces that he is closing his site. In a last moment, 7channers and anons from #insurgency tell the g00ns, who used their actual hacker skills to steal all the data regarding donations and subscribers. It turns out Hal made more money from the former than the latter. Plus that bandwidth totaled way less than he told. | ||
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* January 10 - The exchange is discussed on a neo nazi site (Stormfront?), Hal Turner officially breaks off the neo nazi movement and vowed to end his show immediately. On his site, after a long streak of messages, he officially ends the Hal Turner show. | * January 10 - The exchange is discussed on a neo nazi site (Stormfront?), Hal Turner officially breaks off the neo nazi movement and vowed to end his show immediately. On his site, after a long streak of messages, he officially ends the Hal Turner show. | ||
* January 29 - Hal Turner makes an official announcement on his dead site that he has no relation whatsoever with the FBI. | * January 29 - Hal Turner makes an official announcement on his dead site that he has no relation whatsoever with the FBI. | ||
* February 12 - moot posted on the news page basically talking about imminent changes on 4chan (new trial boards, more janitors, etc). | * February 12 - moot posted on the news page basically talking about imminent changes on 4chan (new trial boards, more janitors, etc). | ||
* February 19 - The following boards were added: '''/fa/ - Fashion''', '''/fit/ - Health & Fitness''', /hc/ - Hardcore, '''/n/ - Transportation''' (Replacing /n/ - News), '''/sp/ - Sports''', '''/toy/ - Toys''', and '''/trv/ - Travel'''. | * February 19 - The following boards were added: '''/fa/ - Fashion''', '''/fit/ - Health & Fitness''', /hc/ - Hardcore, '''/n/ - Transportation''' (Replacing /n/ - News), '''/sp/ - Sports''', '''/toy/ - Toys''', and '''/trv/ - Travel'''. | ||
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* May 2 - /b/-day 2 - Out of curiosity, moot decides to turn /b/ off for one day. The ensuing wave of adrift /b/tards, with no place to go since 7chan was pretending to be bought by 4chan, redirecting to the site, they flocked at /r9k/. There, they discovered that they could impersonate moot, and decided to flood the shit out of everything. As the day progressed more and more /b/tards drifted towards the other boards, mainly /r9k/, /k/, /s/ and /x/. | * May 2 - /b/-day 2 - Out of curiosity, moot decides to turn /b/ off for one day. The ensuing wave of adrift /b/tards, with no place to go since 7chan was pretending to be bought by 4chan, redirecting to the site, they flocked at /r9k/. There, they discovered that they could impersonate moot, and decided to flood the shit out of everything. As the day progressed more and more /b/tards drifted towards the other boards, mainly /r9k/, /k/, /s/ and /x/. | ||
* May 22 - Operation Jewtube - In response to protests from My Chemical Romance fans regarding criticism of the band, /i/nsurgents from Britchan troll the media by making videos about the protest, adding a final note telling that they were going to kill themselves at the end. | * May 22 - Operation Jewtube - In response to protests from My Chemical Romance fans regarding criticism of the band, /i/nsurgents from Britchan troll the media by making videos about the protest, adding a final note telling that they were going to kill themselves at the end. | ||
* 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 12 - /b/tards all over the *chans joined in Habbo Canada to raid. The zerg rush was absolute and very unorganized, even though the veteran nigras made tools for the newfags. The Canadian moderation was more reactionary than the American and banned nigras back and forth. At the same time, in an effort against | * July 12 - /b/tards all over the *chans joined in Habbo Canada to raid. The zerg rush was absolute and very unorganized, even though the veteran nigras made tools for the newfags. The Canadian moderation was more reactionary than the American and banned nigras back and forth. At the same time, in an effort against | ||
* July 13 - In an effort against scientology, /b/tard search bomb Google to make “scientology is a cult” top Google Trends. Later they change it to an Upside-down “fuck you Google” | * July 13 - In an effort against scientology, /b/tard search bomb Google to make “scientology is a cult” top Google Trends. Later they change it to an Upside-down “fuck you Google” | ||
* July 21 - The Chanopocalypse - Three users from Raidchan, Pacifico, ViraL and f have the idea to start an imageboard civil war; their attempts fail as they were discovered, so they decide to go nuts and DDOS every major imageboard on the net. | * July 21 - The Chanopocalypse - Three users from Raidchan, Pacifico, ViraL and f have the idea to start an imageboard civil war; their attempts fail as they were discovered, so they decide to go nuts and DDOS every major imageboard on the net. | ||
* July 26 - Two-year anniversary of the Zelda Universe raids. Anon comes back to fuck up the site for ninety minutes, leaving behind Marty Chang's gardening tips. | * July 26 - Two-year anniversary of the Zelda Universe raids. Anon comes back to fuck up the site for ninety minutes, leaving behind Marty Chang's gardening tips. | ||
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* March 24 - A Legendary thread is [http://web.archive.org/web/20120311073656/http://archives.yotsubasociety.org/4chan/b/126031778.html stickied on /b/] full of copypasta based on a Batman Begins quote of the Joker saying "My Father...was a baker...and a friend". | * March 24 - A Legendary thread is [http://web.archive.org/web/20120311073656/http://archives.yotsubasociety.org/4chan/b/126031778.html stickied on /b/] full of copypasta based on a Batman Begins quote of the Joker saying "My Father...was a baker...and a friend". | ||
* March 30 - Tom Green finally snaps, he played an atonal saxophone during the whole show, keeping the audience watching with the expectation that he would eventually stop and take calls. | * March 30 - Tom Green finally snaps, he played an atonal saxophone during the whole show, keeping the audience watching with the expectation that he would eventually stop and take calls. | ||
* April 1 - He continues the act the next day and closes the show shouting obscenities followed by “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK” | * April 1 - He continues the act the next day and closes the show shouting obscenities followed by “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK”. | ||
* April 11 - Once again, /b/ decides to raid AnonTalk for a third tame, continuing the operation. | * April 11 - Once again, /b/ decides to raid AnonTalk for a third tame, continuing the operation. | ||
* April 14 - 4chan.js returns, telling /b/ users to take a break from DESU DESU DESU spamming and copypastas. Surprise surprise, /b/ falls for it again and the board is assfucked by the colorful squares. | * April 14 - 4chan.js returns, telling /b/ users to take a break from DESU DESU DESU spamming and copypastas. Surprise surprise, /b/ falls for it again and the board is assfucked by the colorful squares. | ||
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* June 18 - A year after the events of the old /b/ day, /b/’s title changed to "you forgot - it was your final mission nothing will save you now." On the other boards, the meet up was scheduled at Washington Square, and this time, moot was there. | * June 18 - A year after the events of the old /b/ day, /b/’s title changed to "you forgot - it was your final mission nothing will save you now." On the other boards, the meet up was scheduled at Washington Square, and this time, moot was there. | ||
* June 19 - /b/ title changed to "tur/b/idity" | * June 19 - /b/ title changed to "tur/b/idity" | ||
* June 25 - /b/ title changed to "Goodnight Sweet Prince - RIP" in memoriam of Michel Jackson's Death. | * June 25 - /b/ title changed to "Goodnight Sweet Prince - RIP" in memoriam of Michel Jackson's Death. | ||
* July 5 - /b/ DDOS’s itself 2: Electric Bogaloo - /b/ starts to be spammed as if there is no tomorrow. At first the suspected culprit was Blackhatworld.com, but eventually they concluded that the /b/tards where downloading infected images again. The script uploads a rainbow of coloured images of the main character of A Clockwork Orange. The attack spread to every damn board and lasted until July 8. | * July 5 - /b/ DDOS’s itself 2: Electric Bogaloo - /b/ starts to be spammed as if there is no tomorrow. At first the suspected culprit was Blackhatworld.com, but eventually they concluded that the /b/tards where downloading infected images again. The script uploads a rainbow of coloured images of the main character of A Clockwork Orange. The attack spread to every damn board and lasted until July 8. | ||
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* July 25 - Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2094 suddenly decides] he will not be uploading his 4chan archive "anytime soon". It will not be uploaded until October 8, 2018. BoxxPeace - Sequel to BoxxMeet. A group of anonymous stalkers use her d0x to meet up at her neighborhood and bring her gifts. Given that this is the second time it happens, they found a chair on her front gates. They rang the bell but no one answered. They left some flowers in front of the gates with the word “Anon”. They later found her ex-boyfriend, Dan Birlen, though Boxxy never appeared. Over the months a new wave of pictures would appear, obtained by “Calif4nia”, an user of Killwebs.com, who got them by flirting with a friend of Boxxy, Niki, for months. He watermarked them with his site’s logo and blurred them. However, anonymous managed to fix the pictures and doxed callif4nia, whose team later shut down Killwebs.com. | * July 25 - Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2094 suddenly decides] he will not be uploading his 4chan archive "anytime soon". It will not be uploaded until October 8, 2018. BoxxPeace - Sequel to BoxxMeet. A group of anonymous stalkers use her d0x to meet up at her neighborhood and bring her gifts. Given that this is the second time it happens, they found a chair on her front gates. They rang the bell but no one answered. They left some flowers in front of the gates with the word “Anon”. They later found her ex-boyfriend, Dan Birlen, though Boxxy never appeared. Over the months a new wave of pictures would appear, obtained by “Calif4nia”, an user of Killwebs.com, who got them by flirting with a friend of Boxxy, Niki, for months. He watermarked them with his site’s logo and blurred them. However, anonymous managed to fix the pictures and doxed callif4nia, whose team later shut down Killwebs.com. | ||
* July 27 - AT&T blocks 4chan - moot attempts to reduce damage from having AnonTalk DDOS them with dire consequences: AT&T blocks 4chan's /r9k/ and /b/ more specifically the img.4chan.org sub domain was blocked. The entire site rises in arm in retaliation, but the matter is soon cleared and the block lifted. moot used the opportunity to talk about Internet censorship. The blotter is removed. | * July 27 - AT&T blocks 4chan - moot attempts to reduce damage from having AnonTalk DDOS them with dire consequences: AT&T blocks 4chan's /r9k/ and /b/ more specifically the img.4chan.org sub domain was blocked. The entire site rises in arm in retaliation, but the matter is soon cleared and the block lifted. moot used the opportunity to talk about Internet censorship. The blotter is removed. | ||
* August 20 - Tom Green runs another Skype show, with an anon offering to sings the FAT NIGGER song, the second anon puts on a charade for five minutes until finally fapping on camera, and the third anon gurgles cum on the air. | * August 20 - Tom Green runs another Skype show, with an anon offering to sings the FAT NIGGER song, the second anon puts on a charade for five minutes until finally fapping on camera, and the third anon gurgles cum on the air. | ||
* September - Gamespot.com hosted a tournament, where its users voted to decide who the greatest video game character of all time is. 4chan decided to trash this party. Anonymous decided to have Duke Nukem, Little mac and /b/ubble & /b/bobble come out at the top. Especially /b/u/b/ & /b/o/b/. At the first round of the tournament, bub & bob were against the mighty master chief. Master Chief was no match for bub & bob, since the Gamespot community wasn't prepared for a raid such as this. Much lulz was had, as bub & bob, a game that most people haven't heard of defeated master chief. bub & bob defeated sonic easily in the next round, and faced Samus in round 3. It was an incredibly tight match. Hackers from both sides pulled all-nighters. As a result, bub & bob won with 53% of the votes. Sadly, the Gamespot admins disqualified bub & bob because they caught 5 specific people who submitted 16K votes. bub & bob won the battle, but Samus had won the war. Due to the raid, the word 4chan was banned from the Gamespot forums. The Gamespot community now refers to 4chan as mordor. | * September - Gamespot.com hosted a tournament, where its users voted to decide who the greatest video game character of all time is. 4chan decided to trash this party. Anonymous decided to have Duke Nukem, Little mac and /b/ubble & /b/bobble come out at the top. Especially /b/u/b/ & /b/o/b/. At the first round of the tournament, bub & bob were against the mighty master chief. Master Chief was no match for bub & bob, since the Gamespot community wasn't prepared for a raid such as this. Much lulz was had, as bub & bob, a game that most people haven't heard of defeated master chief. bub & bob defeated sonic easily in the next round, and faced Samus in round 3. It was an incredibly tight match. Hackers from both sides pulled all-nighters. As a result, bub & bob won with 53% of the votes. Sadly, the Gamespot admins disqualified bub & bob because they caught 5 specific people who submitted 16K votes. bub & bob won the battle, but Samus had won the war. Due to the raid, the word 4chan was banned from the Gamespot forums. The Gamespot community now refers to 4chan as mordor. | ||
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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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* August 21 - Boxxy upload yet another video, she commercialized her own image so hard that by this time nobody on /b/ really cares about her. | * August 21 - Boxxy upload yet another video, she commercialized her own image so hard that by this time nobody on /b/ really cares about her. | ||
* October 1 - 4chan turns eight years old. Mac makes another commemoration. | * October 1 - 4chan turns eight years old. Mac makes another commemoration. | ||
* October 23 - Several new [old] boards are added: '''/r9k/ - ROBOT9001''', '''/pol/ - Politically Incorrect''', and '''/hc/ - Hardcore''' (which celebrates with [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219041049/http://chanarchive.org/4chan/hc/25437/in-this-itt-we-will-be-of-posting-blowjobs blowjobs]). '''/diy/ - Do It Yourself''' was also introduced. | * October 23 - Several new [old] boards are added: '''/r9k/ - ROBOT9001''', '''/pol/ - Politically Incorrect''', and '''/hc/ - Hardcore''' (which celebrates with [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219041049/http://chanarchive.org/4chan/hc/25437/in-this-itt-we-will-be-of-posting-blowjobs blowjobs]). '''/diy/ - Do It Yourself''' was also introduced. | ||
* October 25 - Brodyquest is stickied on /b/, a mirror thread is made by a troll mod. A lot of blinking text is involved and people that post timestamped sink pics are given false bans | * October 25 - Brodyquest is stickied on /b/, a mirror thread is made by a troll mod. A lot of blinking text is involved and people that post timestamped sink pics are given false bans | ||
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* November 4 - moot responds to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement by hacking the shit out of /b/’s CSS. | * November 4 - moot responds to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement by hacking the shit out of /b/’s CSS. | ||
* November 8 - /new/ is (accidentally?) revived. No news posts are made, rules given, or mods on it. Title is "Yotsuba Image Board," the default title given to new boards; seems to be a mix of /co/ and /sp/ users with a healthy blend of racism thrown in. Posts from January still made up over half the board. Deadmau5 appears on /mu/ in two sticky threads. The off-topic posts in /mu/ intensify. | * November 8 - /new/ is (accidentally?) revived. No news posts are made, rules given, or mods on it. Title is "Yotsuba Image Board," the default title given to new boards; seems to be a mix of /co/ and /sp/ users with a healthy blend of racism thrown in. Posts from January still made up over half the board. Deadmau5 appears on /mu/ in two sticky threads. The off-topic posts in /mu/ intensify. | ||
* November 12 - Official Chrome extension released and Firefox extension updated. | * November 12 - Official Chrome extension released and Firefox extension updated. | ||
* November 13 - 4chan suffered a sustained DDoS onslaught by an unknown person or entity. After the onslaught moot installed Cloudflare Tumblr suspected. | * November 13 - 4chan suffered a sustained DDoS onslaught by an unknown person or entity. After the onslaught moot installed Cloudflare Tumblr suspected. | ||
* November 16 - DDOS dies down | * November 16 - DDOS dies down | ||
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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. | ||
==2012== | ==2012== | ||
* 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'''. It is now impossible to get dubs on /v/. Finally, moot quietly opens '''/hm/ - Handsome Men''' to the public after enough requests. | ||
* February 21 - Legendary spammer | * February 21 - Legendary spammer 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]. | ||
* April 1 - moot hacked /pol/'s CSS to a [https://userstyles.org/styles/120270/communist-4chan-css communist theme]. The Russian anthem plays. | * April 1 - moot hacked /pol/'s CSS to a [https://userstyles.org/styles/120270/communist-4chan-css communist theme]. The Russian anthem plays. | ||
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* June 8 - The anime series Chihayafuru gets a second season. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/66874559/ /a/ gets a sticky] | * June 8 - The anime series Chihayafuru gets a second season. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/66874559/ /a/ gets a sticky] | ||
* July 6 - moot writes a note talking about bandwidth usage, extensions and asks both add-on developers and users to be reasonable with update intervals. | * July 6 - moot writes a note talking about bandwidth usage, extensions and asks both add-on developers and users to be reasonable with update intervals. | ||
* August - With 4chan’s one billionth post looming in, moot replies to two threads on /b/ with his admin tag on. The threads quickly turn into a Questions and answers session between the long forsaken /b/tards and their admin years after the last news post and contact with the staff. Many tears were shed. | * August - With 4chan’s one billionth post looming in, moot replies to two threads on /b/ with his admin tag on. The threads quickly turn into a Questions and answers session between the long forsaken /b/tards and their admin years after the last news post and contact with the staff. Many tears were shed. | ||
* August 8 - After 4chan’s billionth post, moot posts the first news post in four years. He reopens /q/ as /q/ - 4chan Discussion and states that he plans to start a series of Prime ministers Q/A threads, because he feels he lost touch with the community. Following some suggestions on /q/, avatarfagging becomes a banned offense. There was also a failed attempt at allowing minors to browse 4chan, but was quickly replaced with MINERS because of the huge negative backslash from the community. With time /q/ is flooded by users from /a/ and /v/, the two boards with the most traffic after /b/, known to be notoriously reactionary. Not long after that, most mods are taken to /v/ to deal with the recent wave of shitposting and the deprecation of /v/ culture. /a/ users keep complaining about undesirable anime threads like Naruto, and how they shouldn’t be on /a/. The staff seems to have divided opinions and shift between deleting threads and leaving them be. The following debates backslash when trolls begin to crapflood /a/ with Naruto threads, whilst the rest of /a/ bandwagoned against them. Eventually moot stepped in and clarified that Naruto is /a/ content. | * August 8 - After 4chan’s billionth post, moot posts the first news post in four years. He reopens /q/ as /q/ - 4chan Discussion and states that he plans to start a series of Prime ministers Q/A threads, because he feels he lost touch with the community. Following some suggestions on /q/, avatarfagging becomes a banned offense. There was also a failed attempt at allowing minors to browse 4chan, but was quickly replaced with MINERS because of the huge negative backslash from the community. With time /q/ is flooded by users from /a/ and /v/, the two boards with the most traffic after /b/, known to be notoriously reactionary. Not long after that, most mods are taken to /v/ to deal with the recent wave of shitposting and the deprecation of /v/ culture. /a/ users keep complaining about undesirable anime threads like Naruto, and how they shouldn’t be on /a/. The staff seems to have divided opinions and shift between deleting threads and leaving them be. The following debates backslash when trolls begin to crapflood /a/ with Naruto threads, whilst the rest of /a/ bandwagoned against them. Eventually moot stepped in and clarified that Naruto is /a/ content. | ||
* August 10 - moot hacks /a/’s CSS and wordfilters every post to JIBUN WOOOOOOO. He embedded the first opening of Code Geass on the first page. | * August 10 - moot hacks /a/’s CSS and wordfilters every post to JIBUN WOOOOOOO. He embedded the first opening of Code Geass on the first page. | ||
* August 12 - Mods flip /b/ [https:// | * August 12 - Mods flip /b/ [https://i.imgur.com/vFk33PV.png upside down and replace the background] with Australian flags. | ||
* August 13 - Dub the Dew - 4chan gets hold of Mountain Dew’s new naming contest, and together with Reddit hijacks it, making names like “Fapple”, “Diabeetus” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” appear on the top. Bronies also join the game, attempting to get Applejack to the top, but they only manage to appear in second place. Later, the site was hacked and the banner “Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!” appeared, together with a rickroll and a pop up of “le 9gga ''[sic]'' are legion”. Mountain Dew later admits defeat and suspends the contest. | * August 13 - Dub the Dew - 4chan gets hold of Mountain Dew’s new naming contest, and together with Reddit hijacks it, making names like “Fapple”, “Diabeetus” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” appear on the top. Bronies also join the game, attempting to get Applejack to the top, but they only manage to appear in second place. Later, the site was hacked and the banner “Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!” appeared, together with a rickroll and a pop up of “le 9gga ''[sic]'' are legion”. Mountain Dew later admits defeat and suspends the contest. | ||
* August 30 - 4chan attempts to get Taylor Swift to play on a deaf school my hijacking the Taylor Swift on Campus promotion, where the winner gets $10,000 in prizes and Taylor Swift playing a gig at their place. 4chan votes the Horace Mann School for the deaf for first place, with an overwhelming 10,000. Many anons joined the cause because they knew it’s actually possible to play music for the deaf. Taylor Swift, however, had other plans. She convinces the sponsors to disqualify the school and donates the $10,000 herself. And it doesn’t stop there, she also gets the sponsors to donate themselves, along with three other non-profit companies, and gives tickets for her next gig to all the members of the school. Ending with a whopping $60,000 in donations. | * August 30 - 4chan attempts to get Taylor Swift to play on a deaf school my hijacking the Taylor Swift on Campus promotion, where the winner gets $10,000 in prizes and Taylor Swift playing a gig at their place. 4chan votes the Horace Mann School for the deaf for first place, with an overwhelming 10,000. Many anons joined the cause because they knew it’s actually possible to play music for the deaf. Taylor Swift, however, had other plans. She convinces the sponsors to disqualify the school and donates the $10,000 herself. And it doesn’t stop there, she also gets the sponsors to donate themselves, along with three other non-profit companies, and gives tickets for her next gig to all the members of the school. Ending with a whopping $60,000 in donations. | ||
* September 3 - moot announces on a news post that he will start working where he left off on the last news post of 2008. He announces that on 09/09 Janitor applications will open again. | * September 3 - moot announces on a news post that he will start working where he left off on the last news post of 2008. He announces that on 09/09 Janitor applications will open again. | ||
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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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* February 21 - For a while, all posts quoting another bug out and are hidden from the thread. | * February 21 - For a while, all posts quoting another bug out and are hidden from the thread. | ||
* March - With the sticky finished, the improved catalog gets released. | * March - With the sticky finished, the improved catalog gets released. | ||
* March 18 - moot adds '''/asp/ - Alternative Sports''', '''/gd/ - Graphic Design''', '''/out/ - Outdoors''', '''/lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender''' - Oh God - and '''/vr/ - Retro Games'''. However, there seems to be no /his/ - History nor /quest/ - Quest Games on sight, which were the two most requested boards | * March 18 - moot adds '''/asp/ - Alternative Sports''', '''/gd/ - Graphic Design''', '''/out/ - Outdoors''', '''/lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender''' - Oh God - and '''/vr/ - Retro Games'''. However, there seems to be no /his/ - History nor /quest/ - Quest Games on sight, which were the two most requested boards. | ||
* March 31 - moot confirms /s4s/ is here to stay. | * March 31 - moot confirms /s4s/ is here to stay. | ||
* April 1 - moot adds '''/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says''' under the header of “Unlike the other new boards, this is being added on a permanent basis. If it doesn't pan out or goes unused, you should probably check your privilege.” The board gets two stickies - a 5555 dubs GET and another saying “Post in this thread to have your privilege checked” Later the full joke kick’s in and moot changes the format and CSS to make it look like Reddit. On both /s4s/ and /b/ a popup about AdultCatFinder appears. A mod checks everyone’s privilege on the second sticky and an empty thread is stickied on /b/. | * April 1 - moot adds '''/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says''' under the header of “Unlike the other new boards, this is being added on a permanent basis. If it doesn't pan out or goes unused, you should probably check your privilege.” The board gets two stickies - a 5555 dubs GET and another saying “Post in this thread to have your privilege checked” Later the full joke kick’s in and moot changes the format and CSS to make it look like Reddit. On both /s4s/ and /b/ a popup about AdultCatFinder appears. A mod checks everyone’s privilege on the second sticky and an empty thread is stickied on /b/. | ||
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* April 10 - /s4s/ gets renamed to Shit 4chan Says. | * April 10 - /s4s/ gets renamed to Shit 4chan Says. | ||
* April 15 - moot makes a public announcement telling he’ll log in AIM as moot chat and try to answer emails. | * April 15 - moot makes a public announcement telling he’ll log in AIM as moot chat and try to answer emails. | ||
* April 20 - /mlp/ reaches their | * April 20 - /mlp/ reaches their 10M GET, and breaks the record of the most replied post of 4chan with 2046 replies. | ||
* May - Recent crackdowns on the shitposting of /sp/ and /tv/ (Two long-forgotten, but still alive, boards) lead to many users outright rebelling against the moderation team. On one side, users form /tv/ have long been complaining about constantly celebrity waifu threads, which could take as much as half the board. /sp/’s off-topic posting has been increasing exponentially since 2010. The upset and banned users started spreading images and signing their posts with a hashtag #freesp or #freetv. Though it’s agreed that /tv/ has no holding ground to claim celebrity threads to be allowed, moot has agree that he would consider allowing certain classic /sp/ threads such as power level and current even threads. | * May - Recent crackdowns on the shitposting of /sp/ and /tv/ (Two long-forgotten, but still alive, boards) lead to many users outright rebelling against the moderation team. On one side, users form /tv/ have long been complaining about constantly celebrity waifu threads, which could take as much as half the board. /sp/’s off-topic posting has been increasing exponentially since 2010. The upset and banned users started spreading images and signing their posts with a hashtag #freesp or #freetv. Though it’s agreed that /tv/ has no holding ground to claim celebrity threads to be allowed, moot has agree that he would consider allowing certain classic /sp/ threads such as power level and current even threads. | ||
* May 12 - moot opens the third Q/A, fucks with the CSS by forgetting a “ and jokes with /s4s/ by giving it Comic Sans. | * May 12 - moot opens the third Q/A, fucks with the CSS by forgetting a “ and jokes with /s4s/ by giving it Comic Sans. | ||
* May 13 - Anamanaguchi, whose members are friends of moot, make a Q/A session on /mu/. Luke becomes a fan favorite. | * May 13 - Anamanaguchi, whose members are friends of moot, make a Q/A session on /mu/. Luke becomes a fan favorite. | ||
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* May 27 - Lauren Faust makes an AMA on /mlp/ and the entire board collectively lose their shit. moot renames /mlp/ to "IT'S HAPPENING". | * May 27 - Lauren Faust makes an AMA on /mlp/ and the entire board collectively lose their shit. moot renames /mlp/ to "IT'S HAPPENING". | ||
* June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day. This time, however, instead of a meet up on the other board, he starts two contests on /q/, one about rotating banners (Those things you see on the top page that always have the 4chan title) and house ads (Replacements for the adspace when there are no current adds running). | * June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day. This time, however, instead of a meet up on the other board, he starts two contests on /q/, one about rotating banners (Those things you see on the top page that always have the 4chan title) and house ads (Replacements for the adspace when there are no current adds running). | ||
* July 14 - /v/ achieves its 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 | |||
* 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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* January 21 - moot’s startup, the one in charge of Canv.as and DrawQuest, finally closes after the venture is confirmed to be unprofitable. moot makes the news public on 4chan. | * January 21 - moot’s startup, the one in charge of Canv.as and DrawQuest, finally closes after the venture is confirmed to be unprofitable. moot makes the news public on 4chan. | ||
* January 23 - A stickied thread on /s4s/ becomes the first thread in 4chan history to reach ten thousand replies. The thread, which was posted by a namefag called 'Getter Robo' with the text 'LETS BREAK THE REPLY RECORD' and a picture of said robot exclaiming 'UOOH!', is nearly impossible to view without crashing the computer. The OP of the post received ten thousand replies, doubling the previous record set by a namefag called 'eternal samefig' on the same board, who vowed to reply to his post until 4chan died. The thread dies on February 18. | * January 23 - A stickied thread on /s4s/ becomes the first thread in 4chan history to reach ten thousand replies. The thread, which was posted by a namefag called 'Getter Robo' with the text 'LETS BREAK THE REPLY RECORD' and a picture of said robot exclaiming 'UOOH!', is nearly impossible to view without crashing the computer. The OP of the post received ten thousand replies, doubling the previous record set by a namefag called 'eternal samefig' on the same board, who vowed to reply to his post until 4chan died. The thread dies on February 18. | ||
* February - The abomination version of 4chan; Masterchan is created, where all the mentally sick people who are banned from 4chan and 8chan go, Masterchan is found on the dark web. | * February - The abomination version of 4chan; Masterchan is created, where all the mentally sick people who are banned from 4chan and 8chan go, Masterchan is found on the dark web. | ||
* February 9 - moot modifies captchas so they only appear when you type something in the comment field because Google raises the difficulty of captchas as a punishment for sending too many unanswered requests. He also brings IDs back to /b/. | * February 9 - moot modifies captchas so they only appear when you type something in the comment field because Google raises the difficulty of captchas as a punishment for sending too many unanswered requests. He also brings IDs back to /b/. | ||
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* February 18 - [s4s] goes completely out of control after the aforementioned "Reply record" thread is un-stickied, resulting in a glitch in the system. This includes up to 26 pages being added one by one, resulting in threads linking to 404's, or 504 gateway errors, and multiple threads being made to "keep" the pages once the bug is fixed... only to be reverted later. The ongoing kek thread gets deleted as well. | * February 18 - [s4s] goes completely out of control after the aforementioned "Reply record" thread is un-stickied, resulting in a glitch in the system. This includes up to 26 pages being added one by one, resulting in threads linking to 404's, or 504 gateway errors, and multiple threads being made to "keep" the pages once the bug is fixed... only to be reverted later. The ongoing kek thread gets deleted as well. | ||
* February 23 - moot opens janitor applications. States that he will open them once every 1/1.5 years and that’s he’s feeling like doing a new Q&A. At the same, he adds IDs to /biz/, to curb the tripfag population. | * February 23 - moot opens janitor applications. States that he will open them once every 1/1.5 years and that’s he’s feeling like doing a new Q&A. At the same, he adds IDs to /biz/, to curb the tripfag population. | ||
* February 25 - Start of the Crimean Crisis, which would eventually lead to the annexation of the Crimean | * February 25 - Start of the Crimean Crisis, which would eventually lead to the annexation of the Crimean penninsula by Vladimir Putin's Russia. On /pol/, threads about it [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/26948796/#26948796 devolve into a shitshow], with lots of WW3 doomsayers, people accusing each other of being Russian/EU shills and people waifufagging around prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya. | ||
* February 26 - An exploit is discovered where pasting a large amount of text into the captcha field allows the poster to bypass it. | * February 26 - An exploit is discovered where pasting a large amount of text into the captcha field allows the poster to bypass it. | ||
* March 13 - 4chan goes on yet another outage where if one attempts to post, he will be redirected to a page saying "Posting temporarily disabled. Come back later!" moot makes a sticky on /biz/ stating you can now target /biz/ with self-serve ads. The page numbers bar is also added to the top of the page. "Settings" is organized into several categories which can be hidden; Quotes & Replying, Monitoring, Filters & Post Hiding, Navigation, Images & Media, and Miscellaneous. Brief descriptions of the options are added underneath. A new option, "Snippets in page title" is added, which allows you to show/hide post subjects or comment snippets in the page (tab) title. | * March 13 - 4chan goes on yet another outage where if one attempts to post, he will be redirected to a page saying "Posting temporarily disabled. Come back later!" moot makes a sticky on /biz/ stating you can now target /biz/ with self-serve ads. The page numbers bar is also added to the top of the page. "Settings" is organized into several categories which can be hidden; Quotes & Replying, Monitoring, Filters & Post Hiding, Navigation, Images & Media, and Miscellaneous. Brief descriptions of the options are added underneath. A new option, "Snippets in page title" is added, which allows you to show/hide post subjects or comment snippets in the page (tab) title. | ||
* March 25 - All hell breaks loose when it is announced that Facebook has purchased the gaming device Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars. /v/ and other boards outrage, with /v/ getting the title, changed to "Where were you when gaming died?", embedded music with the song "Komm, süsser Tod", and a sticky. | * March 25 - All hell breaks loose when it is announced that Facebook has purchased the gaming device Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars. /v/ and other boards outrage, with /v/ getting the title, changed to "Where were you when gaming died?", embedded music with the song "Komm, süsser Tod", and a sticky. | ||
* April 1 - For April Fool's Day, captchas are substituted with fake Japanese character captchas. To get the actual captcha, you must scroll over the fake captcha. | * April 1 - For April Fool's Day, captchas are substituted with fake Japanese character captchas. To get the actual captcha, you must scroll over the fake captcha. | ||
* April 2 - A new file type named "WebM" is introduced to /g/ and /jp/, with | * April 2 - A new file type named "WebM" is introduced to /g/ and /jp/, with a sticky in the former. A few days later, it is now available on all boards. | ||
* April 6 - The blotter and the blog | * April 6 - The blotter and the blog is reintroduced. | ||
* April 7 - moot uses the blog to announce that discussion (text) boards will be frozen but not deleted, but /rs/, the fileshare board, will be deleted to focus on the image boards. | * April 7 - moot uses the blog to announce that discussion (text) boards will be frozen but not deleted, but /rs/, the fileshare board, will be deleted to focus on the image boards. | ||
* April 8 - 4chan raids omegle (or possibly shamchat, reports unclear), setting interests to tumblr and telling all users that their name is "dan". | * April 8 - 4chan raids omegle (or possibly shamchat, reports unclear), setting interests to tumblr and telling all users that their name is "dan". | ||
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* November 5 - A murderer who strangled his girlfriend and uploaded pictures of her corpse on 4chan is apprehended. Judging by the media coverage, being associated with 4chan trumps the fact that an innocent girl died. | * November 5 - A murderer who strangled his girlfriend and uploaded pictures of her corpse on 4chan is apprehended. Judging by the media coverage, being associated with 4chan trumps the fact that an innocent girl died. | ||
* November 9 - moot announces that the number of unique posters in a thread will now be listed, and that the thread watcher can now auto-watch and highlight threads based on custom filters. | * November 9 - moot announces that the number of unique posters in a thread will now be listed, and that the thread watcher can now auto-watch and highlight threads based on custom filters. | ||
* November 12 - The admin of archive.heinessen.com, the main archiver for /mlp/, /fit/, /k/, and /x/ (among others) [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/20608656/ announces on /mlp/] that the site will close due to personal reasons. /mlp/ | * November 12 - The admin of archive.heinessen.com, the main archiver for /mlp/, /fit/, /k/, and /x/ (among others) [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/20608656/ announces on /mlp/] that the site will close due to personal reasons. /mlp/ paniced as there was no other archiver that had archived /mlp/ from birth and many requested a torrent be provided. Some even offered to pay for the archive to continue while others asked to mail him a HDD to save full images. Other threads discussing this were made on /r9k/, /toy/, and /k/. In the end, /k/, /mlp/, and /r9k/ were made available for torrenting (/fit/ was given to other archives as well) while /x/, /int/, /an/, /toy/, and /gif/ were deleted. | ||
* November 14 - /b/ title is changed to "STOP to my /b/eat". A YouTube video gets embedded on the board page. The uploader changes its title to "go away 4chan" and disables the comments. | * November 14 - /b/ title is changed to "STOP to my /b/eat". A YouTube video gets embedded on the board page. The uploader changes its title to "go away 4chan" and disables the comments. | ||
* November 17 - /b/ is back to normal. | * November 17 - /b/ is back to normal. | ||
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* November 23 - A new sticky on /co/ explicitly stating that ''"The posting of non-worksafe content under spoiler tags is not permitted, and will result in a ban. Furry content is also not permitted"'' causes furries in the board to protest in outrage. | * November 23 - A new sticky on /co/ explicitly stating that ''"The posting of non-worksafe content under spoiler tags is not permitted, and will result in a ban. Furry content is also not permitted"'' causes furries in the board to protest in outrage. | ||
* December 4 - Asuka's Birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0 is embedded into every board along with Chen pictures and signs stating "No honk allowed". /a/ gets renamed to "USAKA" with the subtitle "USAKA IS LUUV USAKA IS LUUF". moot posts on /a/ sending the board into chaos, and he also makes a post stating "ayy lmao" in a BANE? thread on /pol/. | * December 4 - Asuka's Birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0 is embedded into every board along with Chen pictures and signs stating "No honk allowed". /a/ gets renamed to "USAKA" with the subtitle "USAKA IS LUUV USAKA IS LUUF". moot posts on /a/ sending the board into chaos, and he also makes a post stating "ayy lmao" in a BANE? thread on /pol/. | ||
* December 7 - The /pol/ocaust | * December 7 - The /pol/ocaust. moot goes nuts and transforms /pol/ into a shitpost board - It starts with the addition of multiple wordfilters, e.g. "moot" becomes "the CEO of Troll, Inc.", and "cuck" becomes "cluck". More word filters are added as the day progresses. 4chan temporarily goes down for maintenance, and comes back a few hours later. Several threads are stickied - the first is a locked "FOR FREE" thread mocking janitors, and the second is a picture of moot getting fucked by Anita and Zoe. Captcha and flags are removed, and moot adds a global announcement urging people to go and test /pol/'s new captcha-less posting. Another sticky is added, this time saying "POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE". The post timer is later reduced to 15 seconds, and the global announcement is edited to say "Now with legacy timers!". The timer for creating threads is reduced to 1 minute. All posts are turned into dubs by adding an extra digit identical to the last digit at the end of the post number, which causes chaos as people are unable to link to previous posts. At the request of an Anon on [s4s], moderator swaglord stickies a thread that repeats the phrase "wew lad" over and over. Furry porn, guro, loli and ponies are posted with little retaliation from the mods, although some threads are deleted. The board goes apeshit as the users try to flee to /mlp/, /int/, [s4s], and other boards to no avail. After a couple of hours the "wew lad" and "POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE" stickies are removed, but the cuck sticky and janitor sticky remain. The audio from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPM6LKIaopk is embedded into the front page and the board is renamed '''The 8 Steps of Cuckolding''' with subtitle ''>she does it for fun''. A feature is added which makes every post be preceded by "[trigger warning]", which is given a marquee animation soon after. The fortune function is added, and is later changed to say "Your privilege:" instead of "your fortune:" and "Cuck" instead of "Luck". People had been typing "moot ## Admin ⌘" in the subject field to impersonate moot, so the subject field is renamed "moot ## Admin ⌘" as a joke. Two threads are stickied; one is unicode art of an anime girl, the other is a sticky request. They are both locked and unstickied later on. Many believe these happenings mean moot is going to delete /pol/. Antisemitic cartoonist Ben Garrison made a cartoon threatening moot prior to this happening, which referred to moot as "the CEO of Troll, Inc." (which is what the word filter is referencing). The cartoon was deleted shortly after. | ||
* December 8 - ReCAPTCHA 2 is implemented, replacing the CAPTCHA box with a button that says "I'm not a robot". Publishers breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to worry about the word nigger getting into their books. moot posts on /b/ for the first time in half a decade, and publicly fires a janitor. Screencap: https://i.imgur.com/z5lfv0Q.png | * December 8 - ReCAPTCHA 2 is implemented, replacing the CAPTCHA box with a button that says "I'm not a robot". Publishers breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to worry about the word nigger getting into their books. moot posts on /b/ for the first time in half a decade, and publicly fires a janitor. Screencap: https://i.imgur.com/z5lfv0Q.png | ||
* December 10 - /pol/'s 39999999 GET, containing a naruto page edited to be a dubs pic, is stickied & locked, while the 40M GET, simply consisting of "HITLER WAS RIGHT!", happens in a GET thread and quickly goes 404. /pol/'s title is changed back to "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect", and the embedded audio is removed, but the stickies and the other effects still remain. [s4s]'s font is changed to Comic Sans. | * December 10 - /pol/'s 39999999 GET, containing a naruto page edited to be a dubs pic, is stickied & locked, while the 40M GET, simply consisting of "HITLER WAS RIGHT!", happens in a GET thread and quickly goes 404. /pol/'s title is changed back to "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect", and the embedded audio is removed, but the stickies and the other effects still remain. [s4s]'s font is changed to Comic Sans. | ||
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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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*November 12 - /asp/ is renamed "Alternative Sports & Wrestling". Hiroyuki makes a sticky on /sp/ stating that wrestling and WWE threads should be made on /asp/ from now on. | *November 12 - /asp/ is renamed "Alternative Sports & Wrestling". Hiroyuki makes a sticky on /sp/ stating that wrestling and WWE threads should be made on /asp/ from now on. | ||
*November 14 - '''/news/ - Current news''' is added, though posting is disabled, being revived as a SFW board. OPs should require news links that aren't older than 48 hours, as stated in the first sticky. | *November 14 - '''/news/ - Current news''' is added, though posting is disabled, being revived as a SFW board. OPs should require news links that aren't older than 48 hours, as stated in the first sticky. | ||
*November 26 - /vg/ reaches its [https://i.imgur.com/8ixAhaF.png 123456789th GET] which is taken by /4ccg/, demanding BorisxKeksandra porn where Boris is buttfucking Keksandra and saying "This is how I made /mlp/ win Summer you know". | *November 26 - /vg/ reaches its [https://i.imgur.com/8ixAhaF.png 123456789th GET] which is taken by /4ccg/, demanding BorisxKeksandra porn where Boris is buttfucking Keksandra and saying "This is how I made /mlp/ win Summer you know". | ||
*November 27 - The stickies in /news/ have been deleted and were replaced with another generic sticky, stating the board is a ''text board'', although it is in imageboard format. The "File" field in the submission box has been removed. Additionally, the rules page was updated with /news/' rules. The board hasn't been opened yet. | *November 27 - The stickies in /news/ have been deleted and were replaced with another generic sticky, stating the board is a ''text board'', although it is in imageboard format. The "File" field in the submission box has been removed. Additionally, the rules page was updated with /news/' rules. The board hasn't been opened yet. | ||
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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!] | ||
*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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*September 26 - The banner contest for /aco/, /int/ and /tg/ begins its voting phase. | *September 26 - The banner contest for /aco/, /int/ and /tg/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*October 1 - 4chan turns 13, and pedos lament that it's too old now. 4chan Pass users have their post cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, and gain an option to showcase how long they've had their pass by putting "since4pass" in the option field. The latter creates a shitstorm and is removed an hour later only to be reactivated a few minutes after that. A number of changes are made to 4chan's boards.json as well. The in-thread reply and image reply cooldowns are removed from most boards, with reply cooldowns being increased from 30 to 60 seconds (if not already), while image reply cooldowns remain at 60 seconds. A number of exceptions exist for other boards: The image reply cooldowns on /aco/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /hr/, /i/, /ic/, /r/, /r9k/, /s/, [s4s], /soc/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /wg/ and /y/ are decreased to 30 seconds. /b/'s maximum .webm filesize is dropped from 3MB to slightly over 2MB. /vg/'s reply cooldown is increased from 30 to 90 seconds, and its image cooldown is increased from 60 to 120 seconds, likely to enable longer-lasting generals. | *October 1 - 4chan turns 13, and pedos lament that it's too old now. 4chan Pass users have their post cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, and gain an option to showcase how long they've had their pass by putting "since4pass" in the option field. The latter creates a shitstorm and is removed an hour later only to be reactivated a few minutes after that. A number of changes are made to 4chan's boards.json as well. The in-thread reply and image reply cooldowns are removed from most boards, with reply cooldowns being increased from 30 to 60 seconds (if not already), while image reply cooldowns remain at 60 seconds. A number of exceptions exist for other boards: The image reply cooldowns on /aco/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /hr/, /i/, /ic/, /r/, /r9k/, /s/, [s4s], /soc/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /wg/ and /y/ are decreased to 30 seconds. /b/'s maximum .webm filesize is dropped from 3MB to slightly over 2MB. /vg/'s reply cooldown is increased from 30 to 90 seconds, and its image cooldown is increased from 60 to 120 seconds, likely to enable longer-lasting generals. | ||
*October 2 - Hiroyuki | *October 2 - Hiroyuki announces that 4chan can no longer pay its server bill, mainly due to advertising no longer covering the server costs. He then says that if 4chan should stay afloat, one of three things has to happen, reduce traffic by lowing filesize limits and deleting boards, introduce pop-ups and malicious ads, or have enough people buy 4chan passes to cover the server costs. /qa/ is flooded with people saying that /pol/ should be deleted. The banner contest for /fit/, /mu/ and /vg/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*October 3 - Notch, billionaire, and creator of Minecraft, says he would consider buying 4chan on twitter but in the end, it turns out he was merely baiting. Swaglord makes an appearance and exchanges a bit of banter. Notch later deletes his past 4 months of tweets. | *October 3 - Notch, billionaire, and creator of Minecraft, says he would consider buying 4chan on twitter but in the end, it turns out he was merely baiting. Swaglord makes an appearance and exchanges a bit of banter. Notch later deletes his past 4 months of tweets. | ||
*October 4 - '''/vip/''' is brought back, this time as an imageboard. Everyone can view it, but only 4chan pass users are allowed to post. | *October 4 - '''/vip/''' is brought back, this time as an imageboard. Everyone can view it, but only 4chan pass users are allowed to post. | ||
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*November 4 - Hiro takes a modified 4chan logo (now featuring a picture of Keksandra, [s4s]'s board-tan, checking 'em) from a malicious ad-reporting thread on /qa/ and makes it the new homepage image, as suggested by a user. [s4s] celebrates, while some /a/ and /qa/ members complain that Keksandra is replacing Yotsuba. A few hours later on /b/, Keksandra gets sexts and declares herself the new mascot of 4chan, causing a slight meltdown. The thread is filled with dubs checking and Keksandra porn. | *November 4 - Hiro takes a modified 4chan logo (now featuring a picture of Keksandra, [s4s]'s board-tan, checking 'em) from a malicious ad-reporting thread on /qa/ and makes it the new homepage image, as suggested by a user. [s4s] celebrates, while some /a/ and /qa/ members complain that Keksandra is replacing Yotsuba. A few hours later on /b/, Keksandra gets sexts and declares herself the new mascot of 4chan, causing a slight meltdown. The thread is filled with dubs checking and Keksandra porn. | ||
*November 6 - The banner contest finally ends. Every board except /b/, /gif/, /pol/, /qa/, /qst/ and /trash/ has one at this point. /mlp/ also doesn't have one due to the previous controversy. | *November 6 - The banner contest finally ends. Every board except /b/, /gif/, /pol/, /qa/, /qst/ and /trash/ has one at this point. /mlp/ also doesn't have one due to the previous controversy. | ||
*November 7 - An anon on /vp/ gets his hands on the full version of the upcoming game, Pokémon Moon, and [https://archive. | *November 7 - An anon on /vp/ gets his hands on the full version of the upcoming game, Pokémon Moon, and [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/search/tripcode/%21%21fFO0IgPFrv8/order/asc/ leaks a large amount of information before uploading a playable copy the next day], 10 days before the official release date. | ||
*November 8 - Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America. /pol/ goes completely apeshit and celebrates his victory. Two stickies get placed too, with one being the results of the election... | *November 8 - Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America. /pol/ goes completely apeshit and celebrates his victory. Two stickies get placed too, with one being the results of the election... | ||
*November 9 - ...and the other being an embed video of Trump's victory dance. Meme magic is real once again! Meanwhile, Hiro removes Keksandra from the front page after five days. /pol/'s rolling 2016 Presidential election results sticky breaks the record for most posts in one thread again, receiving 73171 posts in its 23 hours and 53 minutes. This surpassed the Brexit sticky by nearly 15000 posts. | *November 9 - ...and the other being an embed video of Trump's victory dance. Meme magic is real once again! Meanwhile, Hiro removes Keksandra from the front page after five days. /pol/'s rolling 2016 Presidential election results sticky breaks the record for most posts in one thread again, receiving 73171 posts in its 23 hours and 53 minutes. This surpassed the Brexit sticky by nearly 15000 posts. | ||
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*November 26 - /g/'s /ptg/ general hacks into the admin account of a private BitTorrent tracker, and the login info is posted. Many lulz were had before the staff shuts the site down. | *November 26 - /g/'s /ptg/ general hacks into the admin account of a private BitTorrent tracker, and the login info is posted. Many lulz were had before the staff shuts the site down. | ||
*November 27 - Code Geass gets a third season announced. /a/ loses its collective shit, the announcement thread is stickied and receives over 4000 replies. [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150244109/] JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! | *November 27 - Code Geass gets a third season announced. /a/ loses its collective shit, the announcement thread is stickied and receives over 4000 replies. [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150244109/] JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! | ||
*December 12 - Might not be worth mentioning, but [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/102746387/#102756099 /pol/ issued a "Deceleration" of War on the island nation of Tuvalu.] | *December 12 - Might not be worth mentioning, but [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/102746387/#102756099 /pol/ issued a "Deceleration" of War on the island nation of Tuvalu.] | ||
*December 15 - Apparently Lanzer returns to Gaia, /v/ has a thread about it which housed nostalgiafags and the like. | *December 15 - Apparently Lanzer returns to Gaia, /v/ has a thread about it which housed nostalgiafags and the like. | ||
*December 16/17 (Midnight) - /pol/ gets into conflict with either the manager or a mod who wants to delete the /diy/ threads, Hiro had greenlighted the threads however so it put /pol/ against the mod and /qa/. Again. | *December 16/17 (Midnight) - /pol/ gets into conflict with either the manager or a mod who wants to delete the /diy/ threads, Hiro had greenlighted the threads however so it put /pol/ against the mod and /qa/. Again. | ||
*December 18 - Cirno visits /pol/ and promises a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/103333333/ frosty inauguration.] She was blushing too, well, at least according to her filename. | *December 18 - Cirno visits /pol/ and promises a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/103333333/ frosty inauguration.] She was blushing too, well, at least according to her filename. | ||
*December 19 - The manager | *December 19 - The manager makes a sticky on /qa/ detailing the firing of a mod (later confirmed for being modcat through IRC) for obeying his own feelings rather then the rules, also explaining that the right wing safety squad (a /pol/ general named /diy/, named after the venues they look into, not the board) threads are not valid for the board. Also /pol/ is NEVER EVER getting deleted. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/894474/ /thread]. /pol/ entered HAPPENING status about an hour after as some Russian dude got assassinated and a couple of attacks happened in Europe. | ||
*December 22 - Mirroring the events of November 4, Hiro puts the modified logo featuring Keksandra back on the front page of the website, at the request of a user. Only this time, Keksandra is wearing Santa's hat. 'tis the season to be dank. | *December 22 - Mirroring the events of November 4, Hiro puts the modified logo featuring Keksandra back on the front page of the website, at the request of a user. Only this time, Keksandra is wearing Santa's hat. 'tis the season to be dank. | ||
*December 25 - Christmas hats are added again. | *December 25 - Christmas hats are added again. | ||
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*March 29 - Shia LaBeouf, after getting BTFO for the fourth time by /pol/, moves his project to Finland and changes the name of his project from HWNDU to AloneTogether. This project consists of him, Rönkkö (the Finnish semen demon) and Turner living in separate wood cabins on the isolated island of Lapland. During this time, Shia and Co. will have no access to phones, computers etc. The only way they can communicate with the outside world is through a small video chat that is linked with the Kiasma Museum from Helsinki, where visitors can talk with them. This project is planning to start on 12 April and last for about a month. | *March 29 - Shia LaBeouf, after getting BTFO for the fourth time by /pol/, moves his project to Finland and changes the name of his project from HWNDU to AloneTogether. This project consists of him, Rönkkö (the Finnish semen demon) and Turner living in separate wood cabins on the isolated island of Lapland. During this time, Shia and Co. will have no access to phones, computers etc. The only way they can communicate with the outside world is through a small video chat that is linked with the Kiasma Museum from Helsinki, where visitors can talk with them. This project is planning to start on 12 April and last for about a month. | ||
*March 29, 30 - Club Penguin shuts down, /v/ has one final raid for the purple republic before it shuts down and then looks back on it all. | *March 29, 30 - Club Penguin shuts down, /v/ has one final raid for the purple republic before it shuts down and then looks back on it all. | ||
*April 1 - Reddit adds a new subreddit called /r/Place | *April 1 - Reddit adds a new subreddit called /r/Place. /pol/, upon hearing about it, begins to raid it and spam Pepes and Tranny Flags. [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/119148066/rpg-rplace-general-assault-edition The inaugural thread] ([https://archived.moe/pol/thread/119148066/ and an archived version]). Boards are merged as an April Fools joke, resulting in: /can/ - Animals/Cute, /cock/ - Comics & Cartoons & Cooking, /fap/ - Fashion & Photography, /fitlit/ - Well-Rounded Citizens, /mo/ - Mecha & Auto, /mtv/ - Video Killed The Radio Star, /mlpol/ - My Little Politics, /outsoc/ - Outdoor Socialization, /spa/ - Tanoshii Sports and /vint/ - International Vidya. [s4s] celebrates its 4th birthday, with good wishes from all boards [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5268144/official-s4s-foreth-birthday-discussion], but the thread is deleted for an unknown reason just as the day began. Swaglord also pulls of the greatest ruse in history, stickying what seemed to be a link to a future get, but when clicked leads to a secret duckroll thread [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5273416#p5273416]. Barneyfag gets banned on [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1194185/#1195824 /qa/, twice]. An idiot on /b/ also got banned [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/727637878 thrice for using 8cuck]. /cock/ got a [https://archived.moe/cock/thread/22398 McChicken sticky] and also [https://my.mixtape.moe/vqziez.png this entertaining thread]. /fitlit/ had a thread stickied. /vint/ celebrated getting its dubs back. Flags on /spa/ revealed that a large number of /a/ users were from South America. For first few hours, /mlpol/ was in a bloody civil war, but soon /pol/ realized /mlp/'s horse porn have chased away many low effort threads and actual discussion starts to take place amongst floods of pony porn. /mlp/ and /pol/ both share their interests and autism, and become best friends | ||
*April 2 - After the merge was undone, /pol/ goes back to full shitpost mode. Quality in discussions suffer in /a/ as a result of the flags, posters are accused of being Canadian or South American when they state an unpopular opinion; /a/ risks devolving into /pol/. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5277777 The 5277777 GET (which is a reply to swaglord's April Fools Peek) actually occurs and is stickied on s4s]. The link in the OP of swaglord's peek sticky is changed to point to the GET. | *April 2 - After the merge was undone, /pol/ goes back to full shitpost mode. Quality in discussions suffer in /a/ as a result of the flags, posters are accused of being Canadian or South American when they state an unpopular opinion; /a/ risks devolving into /pol/. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5277777 The 5277777 GET (which is a reply to swaglord's April Fools Peek) actually occurs and is stickied on s4s]. The link in the OP of swaglord's peek sticky is changed to point to the GET. | ||
*April 3 - A legendary get thread on esfores is posted, getting ~1500 replies and an insane number of dubs [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5279555/get-thread]. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279535 A necc thread] is stickied on s4s. The April Fools Peek and the 5277777 GET are unstickied. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279555/ A get thread] is stickied. | *April 3 - A legendary get thread on esfores is posted, getting ~1500 replies and an insane number of dubs [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5279555/get-thread]. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279535 A necc thread] is stickied on s4s. The April Fools Peek and the 5277777 GET are unstickied. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279555/ A get thread] is stickied. | ||
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*May 18 - A guy on /x/ made a thread about how he saved his family by imitating the sound of a shotgun reload with his mouth. A new copypasta was shortly born. [https://archived.moe/x/thread/19020571] | *May 18 - A guy on /x/ made a thread about how he saved his family by imitating the sound of a shotgun reload with his mouth. A new copypasta was shortly born. [https://archived.moe/x/thread/19020571] | ||
*May 19 - Janitor applications are open for the next 48 hours. | *May 19 - Janitor applications are open for the next 48 hours. | ||
*May 21 - /bant/ raids itself with the same picture of an old man with Alzheimers and edits thereof. An Argentinian starts a thread posting a picture of an old man with the comment 'ask someone with Alzheimer anything' [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/641416/], other anons catch on and follow suit, it avalanches from there until the entire catalog is filled with lost old men. [https:// | *May 21 - /bant/ raids itself with the same picture of an old man with Alzheimers and edits thereof. An Argentinian starts a thread posting a picture of an old man with the comment 'ask someone with Alzheimer anything' [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/641416/], other anons catch on and follow suit, it avalanches from there until the entire catalog is filled with lost old men. [https://archive-media-0.nyafuu.org/bant/image/1495/42/1495420980534.jpg] This goes on for a few hours until a mod deletes all threads with pictures of the old man. | ||
*May 23 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5423420 A thread asking whether swaglord would sticky Jay Irwin] is stickied. The thread features a pic of swaglord wearing a kek shirt and holding a bury pink hammer. | *May 23 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5423420 A thread asking whether swaglord would sticky Jay Irwin] is stickied. The thread features a pic of swaglord wearing a kek shirt and holding a bury pink hammer. | ||
*May 27 - Captcha is broken for non-pass users for some hours, the pass users mock the poorfags as a result. The post quality increased on several boards. | *May 27 - Captcha is broken for non-pass users for some hours, the pass users mock the poorfags as a result. The post quality increased on several boards. | ||
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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. | ||
*August 19 - A Dutch /bant/er steals the 33333333 GET from /vp/ with a picture of Kagari. A butthurt mod who tried to take the GET for himself immediately bans him for a day [https://thebarchive.com/data/bant/image/1503/15/1503157131020.png] and deletes the thread before anyone can reply. [https://archive. | *August 19 - A Dutch /bant/er steals the 33333333 GET from /vp/ with a picture of Kagari. A butthurt mod who tried to take the GET for himself immediately bans him for a day [https://thebarchive.com/data/bant/image/1503/15/1503157131020.png] and deletes the thread before anyone can reply. [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/33333333/ Archive of the thread] | ||
*August 21 - The /sci/ sticky explodes as the eclipse proceeds travelling over America. | *August 21 - The /sci/ sticky explodes as the eclipse proceeds travelling over America. | ||
*August 25 - The plot to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 gets leaked by the former lead writer onto the Internet. /v/ gets a sticky with a link to the leak and "It's dead, jim." written underneath it, and [https://youtu.be/iy61r3Qkm6o this song] on autoplay. | *August 25 - The plot to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 gets leaked by the former lead writer onto the Internet. /v/ gets a sticky with a link to the leak and "It's dead, jim." written underneath it, and [https://youtu.be/iy61r3Qkm6o this song] on autoplay. | ||
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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 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/. | ||
*October 30 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again. In addition, pass users can also type "tricks" into the options field which attaches a pumpkin to the name field that tracks how many replies they've gotten. | *October 30 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again. In addition, pass users can also type "tricks" into the options field which attaches a pumpkin to the name field that tracks how many replies they've gotten. | ||
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*December 18 - /g/ discovers something major. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63894609 Three shady new domains, two of which were registered earlier in the month and one of which isn't registered, now show up in ad-blocking extensions.] Two of the domains belong to a suspicious Ukrainian company, and filtering out the domains ruins 4chan's CSS. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1794456 Later investigation of the malware-ridden advertisements] shows that the Ukrainian domains host a variant of the Nemucod ransomware. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63922522 Word is passed around that Hiro was hired by MGID] to put these ads on 4chan, and that the payload added to 4chan is being used to data-mine or mine crypto. | *December 18 - /g/ discovers something major. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63894609 Three shady new domains, two of which were registered earlier in the month and one of which isn't registered, now show up in ad-blocking extensions.] Two of the domains belong to a suspicious Ukrainian company, and filtering out the domains ruins 4chan's CSS. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1794456 Later investigation of the malware-ridden advertisements] shows that the Ukrainian domains host a variant of the Nemucod ransomware. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63922522 Word is passed around that Hiro was hired by MGID] to put these ads on 4chan, and that the payload added to 4chan is being used to data-mine or mine crypto. | ||
*December 20 - Hiro (presumably) blocks Desuarchive's IP address from both the a.4cdn.org and i.4cdn.org servers, rendering it unable to archive. [https://desuarchive.org/desu/thread/2700/ rbt.asia and yuki.la also appear to be showing similar issues.] | *December 20 - Hiro (presumably) blocks Desuarchive's IP address from both the a.4cdn.org and i.4cdn.org servers, rendering it unable to archive. [https://desuarchive.org/desu/thread/2700/ rbt.asia and yuki.la also appear to be showing similar issues.] | ||
*December 29 - William Shatner makes a post on /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/92355705/] | *December 29 - William Shatner makes a post on /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/92355705/] | ||
==2018== | ==2018== | ||
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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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*August 2 - Psyche. The Panda returns, this time hosted in Moldova, "hopefully permanently". Many /h/ residents thank [https://archiveofsins.com/h/thread/5495996/#5496208 the Moldovan Spurdo] for his help, while remaining wary and making sure to archive more content. The immediate traffic to Exhentai causes 503 errors to return. A mod posts on a [http://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/2972574#p2975266 /wsg/ thread for bigger webms thanks to the recent filesize limit increase] and ups the limit from 5MB to 6MB. /v/'s new buzzword, "cumbrain", is given a word filter on the board ("cumbrain" becomes "gamer"). | *August 2 - Psyche. The Panda returns, this time hosted in Moldova, "hopefully permanently". Many /h/ residents thank [https://archiveofsins.com/h/thread/5495996/#5496208 the Moldovan Spurdo] for his help, while remaining wary and making sure to archive more content. The immediate traffic to Exhentai causes 503 errors to return. A mod posts on a [http://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/2972574#p2975266 /wsg/ thread for bigger webms thanks to the recent filesize limit increase] and ups the limit from 5MB to 6MB. /v/'s new buzzword, "cumbrain", is given a word filter on the board ("cumbrain" becomes "gamer"). | ||
*August 3 - An /mlp/ anon [https://archive.is/hXkbK gives Lauren Faust a letter written by the board]. The thread proceeds past the bump limit. /a/, /aco/, /co/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /i/, /ic/, /mlp/, /news/, /pol/, /r/, /s4s/, /soc/, /sp/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, /w/, /wg/ and /y/ all have their image limits increased from 250 to 300, while /qst/'s image limit is increased from 250 to 375. Two mass shooters kill a combined total of roughly 30 civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, the former of whom reportedly posted a manifesto on 8chan and claimed to approve of the shooter's actions. Like all mass shootings, politicians and the media in the USA blame 4chan and Trump, stand on the victim's dead bodies to promote gun control, and launch racist attacks against white men. Infamous commie politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets about 4chan and claims it's the place where radicalized young men go to after radicalization. | *August 3 - An /mlp/ anon [https://archive.is/hXkbK gives Lauren Faust a letter written by the board]. The thread proceeds past the bump limit. /a/, /aco/, /co/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /i/, /ic/, /mlp/, /news/, /pol/, /r/, /s4s/, /soc/, /sp/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, /w/, /wg/ and /y/ all have their image limits increased from 250 to 300, while /qst/'s image limit is increased from 250 to 375. Two mass shooters kill a combined total of roughly 30 civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, the former of whom reportedly posted a manifesto on 8chan and claimed to approve of the shooter's actions. Like all mass shootings, politicians and the media in the USA blame 4chan and Trump, stand on the victim's dead bodies to promote gun control, and launch racist attacks against white men. Infamous commie politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets about 4chan and claims it's the place where radicalized young men go to after radicalization. | ||
*August 4 - The SadPanda backup sticky on /h/ passes 73000 posts and officially becomes | *August 4 - The SadPanda backup sticky on /h/ passes 73000 posts and officially becomes the largest thread in the history of 4chan, taking the crown from /pol/'s 2016 election sticky. Shortly afterwards, the thread is unstickied and later gets archived. Many begin to pay respects and repeat the iconic statement "through dick, unity." The thread's final post count is of uncertainty. Archived.moe gives a count of [https://archived.moe/h/statistics/largest-threads/ 73274], while Archive of Sins reports a count of [https://archiveofsins.com/h/statistics/largest-threads/ 74553]. | ||
*August 5 - Cloudflare reverses its policy and cuts off protection to 8chan, because apparently white supremacy will stop existing once 8chan dies. 8chan struggles to find an alternative and floods to 4chan for the time being. Even Hotwheels himself (the former owner) has had enough of 8chan and demands the current owner to shut the site down, stating that he's sick of dealing with calls from the media every time shit happens and that the site is a "megaphone" for shooters. | *August 5 - Cloudflare reverses its policy and cuts off protection to 8chan, because apparently white supremacy will stop existing once 8chan dies. 8chan struggles to find an alternative and floods to 4chan for the time being. Even Hotwheels himself (the former owner) has had enough of 8chan and demands the current owner to shut the site down, stating that he's sick of dealing with calls from the media every time shit happens and that the site is a "megaphone" for shooters. | ||
*August 6 - [https://archive.fo/v6FZU Duplicate file bug occurs on /v/]. [https://archive.is/dXZpe /b/ gets a furry sticky/CSS]; 7 posts in and there's already a public ban | *August 6 - [https://archive.fo/v6FZU Duplicate file bug occurs on /v/]. [https://archive.is/dXZpe /b/ gets a furry sticky/CSS]; 7 posts in and there's already a public ban | ||
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*October 10 - 4chan is mentioned on [https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/anschlag-in-halle-toedlicher-judenhass-in-deutschland-sendung-vom-10-oktober-2019-100.html German TV] and other media. Just in time for its ninth anniversary /mlp/ gets a sticky after a Russian hacker once again leaks production files, resulting in a total of 434GB leaked and [https://s1.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1570/82/1570824573538.png three simultaneous rolling stickies] being up at the same time, the other two about the anniversary itself and the previous dutch leaks. | *October 10 - 4chan is mentioned on [https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/anschlag-in-halle-toedlicher-judenhass-in-deutschland-sendung-vom-10-oktober-2019-100.html German TV] and other media. Just in time for its ninth anniversary /mlp/ gets a sticky after a Russian hacker once again leaks production files, resulting in a total of 434GB leaked and [https://s1.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1570/82/1570824573538.png three simultaneous rolling stickies] being up at the same time, the other two about the anniversary itself and the previous dutch leaks. | ||
*October 12 - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's last three episodes air. [https://archive.is/ZrN0s The event is stickied on /mlp/], and /mlp/'s activity is more than 500% above normal. | *October 12 - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's last three episodes air. [https://archive.is/ZrN0s The event is stickied on /mlp/], and /mlp/'s activity is more than 500% above normal. | ||
*October 31 - Annual [https://archive.is/oA2Hh spooky skeletons CSS] arrives | *October 31 - Annual [https://archive.is/oA2Hh spooky skeletons CSS] arrives | ||
*November 4 - /vp/ gets a [https://archive.is/3zZh1 sticky] | *November 4 - /vp/ gets a [https://archive.is/3zZh1 sticky] | ||
*November 13 - /pol/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/233047285 sticky] | *November 13 - /pol/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/233047285 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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*January 26 - Kobe Bryant fucking dies in a helicopter crash, likely caused by the pilot's spatial disorientation from transitioning from VFR to IFR (translation: if you fly into low visibility you'll lose your bearings). [http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/chunk/98445212/ /sp/ gets a sticky.] | *January 26 - Kobe Bryant fucking dies in a helicopter crash, likely caused by the pilot's spatial disorientation from transitioning from VFR to IFR (translation: if you fly into low visibility you'll lose your bearings). [http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/chunk/98445212/ /sp/ gets a sticky.] | ||
*January 28 - A shitposter on /qa/ makes a thread saying /vr/'s board name is misleading because the board isn't related to virtual reality games. Hiro comes back from the grave (his last post being a reply to the "test p4" thread on February 2, 2019) and [https://archive.is/Ye1kp asks] "Should we have Virtual Reality board?" Mostly everyone says no and he agrees. Most of the thread is just desperate anons suggesting dumb board ideas and someone who asks hiro to enable noscript captcha, and which he then tells them to buy a pass. | *January 28 - A shitposter on /qa/ makes a thread saying /vr/'s board name is misleading because the board isn't related to virtual reality games. Hiro comes back from the grave (his last post being a reply to the "test p4" thread on February 2, 2019) and [https://archive.is/Ye1kp asks] "Should we have Virtual Reality board?" Mostly everyone says no and he agrees. Most of the thread is just desperate anons suggesting dumb board ideas and someone who asks hiro to enable noscript captcha, and which he then tells them to buy a pass. | ||
*February 2 - /v/ [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/494776448/ releases] Super Mario /v/orld, a collaborative ROM hack of Super Mario World inspired by | *February 2 - /v/ [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/494776448/ releases] Super Mario /v/orld, a collaborative ROM hack of Super Mario World inspired by 2chan's VIP hacks. The organizer attempts to submit it to Super Mario World Central, but the hack is [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/519478486/#519490765 rejected] because of its loli joke. The hack receives a very positive reception. | ||
*February 3 - /qa/ mods embed loud nigra on the index of /qa/ for roughly two hours, then remove it. (Note: the only evidence of this happening existing is [https://archive.is/eevNv this thread], which people responded to presumably after the YT embed was removed and just thought it was another nonsense thread with an anime girl thumbnail) | *February 3 - /qa/ mods embed loud nigra on the index of /qa/ for roughly two hours, then remove it. (Note: the only evidence of this happening existing is [https://archive.is/eevNv this thread], which people responded to presumably after the YT embed was removed and just thought it was another nonsense thread with an anime girl thumbnail) | ||
*February 5 - /tv/ gets a [https://archive.is/EUuxz sticky] in honor of Kirk Douglas, who had previously been memed for living so long. | *February 5 - /tv/ gets a [https://archive.is/EUuxz sticky] in honor of Kirk Douglas, who had previously been memed for living so long. | ||
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*May 29 - 4chan reaches a daily total of one million posts owing to the increase in /pol/ traffic due to riots across the United States. It is the first time since April Fools Day 2020 that 4chan has had one million daily posts. | *May 29 - 4chan reaches a daily total of one million posts owing to the increase in /pol/ traffic due to riots across the United States. It is the first time since April Fools Day 2020 that 4chan has had one million daily posts. | ||
*May 31 - /pol/ gets a new [https://archive.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. | *June 1 - /lgbt/ gets a [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/15781584 pride month sticky.] | ||
*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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*August 28 - "New Vidya Board Friday" appears to have ended, but change comes to /vr/. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/6770545 Mods officially announce] that sixth generation consoles launched between 1999 and 2001, such as the Xbox, PS2, Game Boy Advance and GameCube, are now "retro" enough for /vr/. Vidya on these consoles released before 2008 is also allowed. Users on the board are divided, with a two-thirds majority (approximately 63% according to an informal straw poll) standing against the change and preferring the creation of /v2k/ instead. Trolls flood the board with shitty 6th gen content, both as a form of protest and for the lulz. [https://archive.is/nIyG1 The new sticky] incorporates this update, as well as allowing homebrew console games made in 2008 and beyond on the sixth generation consoles. A mod on /qst/ announces that the board would be getting a new banner, [https://archive.vn/knMBW and is open to submissions]. | *August 28 - "New Vidya Board Friday" appears to have ended, but change comes to /vr/. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/6770545 Mods officially announce] that sixth generation consoles launched between 1999 and 2001, such as the Xbox, PS2, Game Boy Advance and GameCube, are now "retro" enough for /vr/. Vidya on these consoles released before 2008 is also allowed. Users on the board are divided, with a two-thirds majority (approximately 63% according to an informal straw poll) standing against the change and preferring the creation of /v2k/ instead. Trolls flood the board with shitty 6th gen content, both as a form of protest and for the lulz. [https://archive.is/nIyG1 The new sticky] incorporates this update, as well as allowing homebrew console games made in 2008 and beyond on the sixth generation consoles. A mod on /qst/ announces that the board would be getting a new banner, [https://archive.vn/knMBW and is open to submissions]. | ||
*August 29 - A mod on /qst/ makes and stickies a thread for voting on banners submitted in the previous thread, [https://archive.vn/VM7dh and one is chosen almost unanimously]. | *August 29 - A mod on /qst/ makes and stickies a thread for voting on banners submitted in the previous thread, [https://archive.vn/VM7dh and one is chosen almost unanimously]. | ||
*August 31 - ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan (The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya)'' is announced; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/XSQga sticky] with embedded Haruhi music | *August 31 - ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan (The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya)'' is announced; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/XSQga sticky] with embedded Haruhi music. | ||
*September 4 - On the 30th of August, /pol/ denizens [https://archive.is/Koojr doxxed] a man called Michael Reinoehl who in popular consensus seemed to have murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, painting a target on him all over the web. After an interview with VICE, the [https://archive.is/WPI8b man is killed] by law enforcement trying to arrest him on Sep 4. | *September 4 - On the 30th of August, /pol/ denizens [https://archive.is/Koojr doxxed] a man called Michael Reinoehl who in popular consensus seemed to have murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, painting a target on him all over the web. After an interview with VICE, the [https://archive.is/WPI8b man is killed] by law enforcement trying to arrest him on Sep 4. | ||
*September 5 - A random [s4s] anon makes a thread and received the 9000000 GET; thread is [https://archive.is/7SqjU stickied]. | *September 5 - A random [s4s] anon makes a thread and received the 9000000 GET; thread is [https://archive.is/7SqjU stickied]. | ||
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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 | *September 19 - A /qa/ user who goes by the name [https://archive.ph/fiuRW Soot] creates 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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*October 10 - /mlp/ gets another [https://archive.is/UpWYc sticky] in honor of the actual 10th anniversary of Friendship is Magic. Later that day, after teasing it on his [https://archive.is/yRmZ4 Twitter], M.A. Larson, one of the show's script writers, also [https://archive.is/Y5rMr visits] the [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/5/#35979038 anniversary sticky], answering questions, showing unused scripts, and bidding farewell with his favorite [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/6/#35979809 mantra.] The stickied thread becomes the largest thread in /mlp/'s history. | *October 10 - /mlp/ gets another [https://archive.is/UpWYc sticky] in honor of the actual 10th anniversary of Friendship is Magic. Later that day, after teasing it on his [https://archive.is/yRmZ4 Twitter], M.A. Larson, one of the show's script writers, also [https://archive.is/Y5rMr visits] the [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/5/#35979038 anniversary sticky], answering questions, showing unused scripts, and bidding farewell with his favorite [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/6/#35979809 mantra.] The stickied thread becomes the largest thread in /mlp/'s history. | ||
*October 11 - A /b/ mod breaks GR15. The mod [https://archive.is/FESi5 stickies a pony shitpost], presumably in honor of FiM's 10th anniversary, and /b/ reacts with confusion, pony porn, and image macros unrelated to the thread. As the thread progresses, the OP gets [https://archive.is/tpzXZ updated] three times, referencing Lee Goldson, aka Barneyfag. After being unstickied, it finally falls off the board with [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/837673649/ 3197 posts], making it the [https://archived.moe/b/statistics/largest-threads/ 4th largest thread] in /b/'s history. | *October 11 - A /b/ mod breaks GR15. The mod [https://archive.is/FESi5 stickies a pony shitpost], presumably in honor of FiM's 10th anniversary, and /b/ reacts with confusion, pony porn, and image macros unrelated to the thread. As the thread progresses, the OP gets [https://archive.is/tpzXZ updated] three times, referencing Lee Goldson, aka Barneyfag. After being unstickied, it finally falls off the board with [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/837673649/ 3197 posts], making it the [https://archived.moe/b/statistics/largest-threads/ 4th largest thread] in /b/'s history. | ||
*October 15 - [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/45099200/#45099549 An autistic /vp/oreon shows his dead grandma his Shiny Dusknoir.] Needless to say, /vp/ fucking breaks. The shitstorm is so large that the thread reaches beyond 3000 posts without ever being stickied. It even reaches Twitter and [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/showing-grandma-my-shiny-dusknoir gets a KnowYourMeme entry.] | *October 15 - [https://archived.moe/vp/thread/45099200/#45099549 An autistic /vp/oreon shows his dead grandma his Shiny Dusknoir.] Needless to say, /vp/ fucking breaks. The shitstorm is so large that the thread reaches beyond 3000 posts without ever being stickied. It even reaches Twitter and [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/showing-grandma-my-shiny-dusknoir gets a KnowYourMeme entry.] | ||
*October 16 - The 8th /v/ the musical ends at 152 songs. /pol/ debunks itself into oblivion with its new "debunked" meme, mocking how the media dismissed leaks from Hunter Biden's laptop as false. | *October 16 - The 8th /v/ the musical ends at 152 songs. /pol/ debunks itself into oblivion with its new "debunked" meme, mocking how the media dismissed leaks from Hunter Biden's laptop as false. | ||
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*November 3 - /pol/ gets an election results [https://archive.is/ZBj0X sticky]. There's so much traffic 4chan gets repeated SSL errors, and /pol/'s sheer traffic surpasses that which it had during 2016's election day. | *November 3 - /pol/ gets an election results [https://archive.is/ZBj0X sticky]. There's so much traffic 4chan gets repeated SSL errors, and /pol/'s sheer traffic surpasses that which it had during 2016's election day. | ||
*November 4 - Due to strange circumstances, it takes forever for the votes to get counted. Arizona goes blue, and soon Wisconsin and Michigan follow, putting Biden ever so close to victory. With less enthusiasm, /pol/ turns into a shitshow about election fraud, coping, OHNONONOs and the like. A bunch of crappy Pepe Joe Biden memes get posted (expect /pol/ to hijack it for their own gain). The rest of 4chan wonders if this will finally kill the election tourists off. | *November 4 - Due to strange circumstances, it takes forever for the votes to get counted. Arizona goes blue, and soon Wisconsin and Michigan follow, putting Biden ever so close to victory. With less enthusiasm, /pol/ turns into a shitshow about election fraud, coping, OHNONONOs and the like. A bunch of crappy Pepe Joe Biden memes get posted (expect /pol/ to hijack it for their own gain). The rest of 4chan wonders if this will finally kill the election tourists off. | ||
*November 5 - The [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/286876906/ election sticky] is unstickied. It has shattered the record for | *November 5 - The [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/286876906/ election sticky] is unstickied. It has shattered the record for the largest thread in history, breaking the 100000 post barrier for the first time and ending with a lower estimate of 103567 posts, shattering the SadPanda /h/ sticky by about thirty thousand posts. | ||
*November 7 - After a ton of waiting, the Media declares Joe Biden to be the new President of the USA. /pol/ explodes again, this time in /leftypol/ or bunkerchan invaders, crossboarders and many more tourists all either making fun of /pol/, shitposting or having serious threads. This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg song] is put on autoplay with a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/288562771/#288562771 sticky that has a picture of Joe Biden]. | *November 7 - After a ton of waiting, the Media declares Joe Biden to be the new President of the USA. /pol/ explodes again, this time in /leftypol/ or bunkerchan invaders, crossboarders and many more tourists all either making fun of /pol/, shitposting or having serious threads. This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg song] is put on autoplay with a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/288562771/#288562771 sticky that has a picture of Joe Biden]. | ||
*November 11 - 4chan randomly goes down for about fifty minutes. When posting finally works again, a message "〜 sorry 4 the downtime 〜" is added underneath the self-serve ads announcement. | *November 11 - 4chan randomly goes down for about fifty minutes. When posting finally works again, a message "〜 sorry 4 the downtime 〜" is added underneath the self-serve ads announcement. | ||
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*December 5 - /mu/ becomes the tenth board to join the one hundred million post club. Despite the K-Pop general's overconfidence, they [http://archived.moe/mu/thread/99999999 miss] both [https://archived.moe/mu/thread/100000000 gets] and get laughed off the board. | *December 5 - /mu/ becomes the tenth board to join the one hundred million post club. Despite the K-Pop general's overconfidence, they [http://archived.moe/mu/thread/99999999 miss] both [https://archived.moe/mu/thread/100000000 gets] and get laughed off the board. | ||
*December 7 - Barneyfag experiences the most epic BTFOing ever as a /qa/ anon pays the actual Barney voice actor to record a message directed at Lee, who obliviously mocks him for his incessant spamming, love of cheese, and Barney hatred. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3683720 thread] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7bkr_ygSQ video] | *December 7 - Barneyfag experiences the most epic BTFOing ever as a /qa/ anon pays the actual Barney voice actor to record a message directed at Lee, who obliviously mocks him for his incessant spamming, love of cheese, and Barney hatred. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3683720 thread] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7bkr_ygSQ video] | ||
*December 10 - Cyberpunk 2077 is finally released and /v/ is absolutely flooded with threads about the game. Hilarity ensues as the hype bubble bursts and the game is revealed to be a buggy piece of shit. | *December 10 - Cyberpunk 2077 is finally released and /v/ is absolutely flooded with threads about the game. Hilarity ensues as the hype bubble bursts and the game is revealed to be a buggy piece of shit. | ||
*December 16 - [http://archived.moe/biz/thread/24850475/hol-fukc-we-did-it /biz/ gets a sticky] as Bitcoin finally breaks the 20000 USD/BTC barrier with a glorious pump at 1:42pm UTC. | *December 16 - [http://archived.moe/biz/thread/24850475/hol-fukc-we-did-it /biz/ gets a sticky] as Bitcoin finally breaks the 20000 USD/BTC barrier with a glorious pump at 1:42pm UTC. | ||
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*January 29 - '''/vt/ - Virtual YouTubers''' is added, finally freeing /jp/ from the endless cycle of VTuber cancer. The anime VTuber virgins do battle with the Annoying Orange OG VTuber chad's but the mods delete the Orange threads. /vt/ initially does not appear on any offsite archival websites, leading some to believe many early threads are lost to time. However, the [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/ Nyafuu] and [https://warosu.org/vt/ Warosu] archives began archiving a few days later, having archived mostly everything. | *January 29 - '''/vt/ - Virtual YouTubers''' is added, finally freeing /jp/ from the endless cycle of VTuber cancer. The anime VTuber virgins do battle with the Annoying Orange OG VTuber chad's but the mods delete the Orange threads. /vt/ initially does not appear on any offsite archival websites, leading some to believe many early threads are lost to time. However, the [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/ Nyafuu] and [https://warosu.org/vt/ Warosu] archives began archiving a few days later, having archived mostly everything. | ||
*January 30 - PhilosophyTube, a popular leftist youtuber and one of /lgbt/'s favorite lolcows, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITRzvm0Xtg&ab_channel=PhilosophyTube comes out as transgender] and the board is [https://archive.ph/4C5El flooded with threads about it.] Many posters feel like PT's coming out is illegitimate, partly because of /lgbt/'s meme/conspiracy theory that he raped contrapoints (another trans youtuber and /lgbt/ lolcow), which has now been [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/18841274 resparked.] | *January 30 - PhilosophyTube, a popular leftist youtuber and one of /lgbt/'s favorite lolcows, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AITRzvm0Xtg&ab_channel=PhilosophyTube comes out as transgender] and the board is [https://archive.ph/4C5El flooded with threads about it.] Many posters feel like PT's coming out is illegitimate, partly because of /lgbt/'s meme/conspiracy theory that he raped contrapoints (another trans youtuber and /lgbt/ lolcow), which has now been [https://archiveofsins.com/lgbt/thread/18841274 resparked.] | ||
*January 31 - Hiro makes his first appearance in a year in a [https://archive. | *January 31 - Hiro makes his first appearance in a year in a [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/thread/132025/ /vt/ thread asking what happened to the 4chan VTuber.] He confirms that the project was cancelled, and that all of the new boards added recently have been the mods' idea and not his. | ||
*February 2 - Phoneposters are temporarily cucked as loading a blue board covers the entire page with an impossible-to-remove ad. The problem is fixed a few hours later. | *February 2 - Phoneposters are temporarily cucked as loading a blue board covers the entire page with an impossible-to-remove ad. The problem is fixed a few hours later. | ||
*February 2-3 - /tv/ had a long car chaseb owl thread series when some schizo in South LA leads the cops on a retarded 15mph freeway chase over the course of like five and a half hours. Police spikes stripped the leather off of two tires and eventually one of the rims blew out and ended the chase. A couple of drivers beside the vehicle livestreamed it all. After the rim got destroyed, the anons who wanted to see suicide by cop [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146031031 were disappointed to see him bitch out and cooperate after ten minutes of standing still.] ReviewBrah himself even appeared in the YouTube stream chat. The [https:// | *February 2-3 - /tv/ had a long car chaseb owl thread series when some schizo in South LA leads the cops on a retarded 15mph freeway chase over the course of like five and a half hours. Police spikes stripped the leather off of two tires and eventually one of the rims blew out and ended the chase. A couple of drivers beside the vehicle livestreamed it all. After the rim got destroyed, the anons who wanted to see suicide by cop [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146031031 were disappointed to see him bitch out and cooperate after ten minutes of standing still.] ReviewBrah himself even appeared in the YouTube stream chat. The [https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/lgbt/thread/18888888/ 18888888 GET] on /lgbt/ is taken by (probably) a scriptfag and the mods lock the thread. | ||
*February 5 - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3881520 /qa/ gets a rare Developer post.] Anon Dev clarifies it was him, not Hiro, who posted the RIP Longcat sticky in /b/ on September the 20th. Christopher Plummer dies. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146144533 /tv/ gets a sticky.] | *February 5 - [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3881520 /qa/ gets a rare Developer post.] Anon Dev clarifies it was him, not Hiro, who posted the RIP Longcat sticky in /b/ on September the 20th. Christopher Plummer dies. [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146144533 /tv/ gets a sticky.] | ||
*February 7 - /sp/ gets an annual [https://archive.is/G6TKt Super Bowl sticky.] | *February 7 - /sp/ gets an annual [https://archive.is/G6TKt Super Bowl sticky.] | ||
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*February 28 - /mlp/'s mods (headed by Twimod) host a [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36641353/ town hall sticky] to ask for improvements and ideas for the board going into the new MLP G5 series. | *February 28 - /mlp/'s mods (headed by Twimod) host a [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36641353/ town hall sticky] to ask for improvements and ideas for the board going into the new MLP G5 series. | ||
*March 2 - The /mlp/ town hall concludes. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656144/ Twimod officially announces new changes to /mlp/:] An increased character limit from 2000 to 3000 for writers, the dice roll feature used on /tg/ and /qst/, pony meme flags like the ones found on /pol/, and after a long time since the banner contest, the board is also getting a banner. Twimod also unbans Anonfilly threads on the condition that degenerate erotic roleplayers fuck off, while other threads such as diaper ponies and Milky Way threads remain banned on the grounds that they're based on fetish content. Equestria Girls content is also confirmed /mlp/. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656404/ An /mlp/ banner suggestion thread is also stickied.] | *March 2 - The /mlp/ town hall concludes. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656144/ Twimod officially announces new changes to /mlp/:] An increased character limit from 2000 to 3000 for writers, the dice roll feature used on /tg/ and /qst/, pony meme flags like the ones found on /pol/, and after a long time since the banner contest, the board is also getting a banner. Twimod also unbans Anonfilly threads on the condition that degenerate erotic roleplayers fuck off, while other threads such as diaper ponies and Milky Way threads remain banned on the grounds that they're based on fetish content. Equestria Girls content is also confirmed /mlp/. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656404/ An /mlp/ banner suggestion thread is also stickied.] | ||
*March 4 - [https://archive.is/nvE6v Someone on Futaba Channel] decided to post places where Hololive was discussed internationally. Discussion soon shifted to 4chan, as it was the opening image. This drew the attention of /vt/ and resulted in a [https://archive. | *March 4 - [https://archive.is/nvE6v Someone on Futaba Channel] decided to post places where Hololive was discussed internationally. Discussion soon shifted to 4chan, as it was the opening image. This drew the attention of /vt/ and resulted in a [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/thread/1191041/ thread that reached post limit] where Nameless and Anonymous people mingled. | ||
*March 7 - /a/ mods [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/217766474 sticky and lock a reminder] to use spoiler tags in the wake of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time's release. | *March 7 - /a/ mods [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/217766474 sticky and lock a reminder] to use spoiler tags in the wake of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time's release. | ||
*March 8 - [https://archive.is/PX5qv /g/'s daily programming general] turns into the Rozen Maiden general, accompanied by an embedded Suiseiseki as well. Odd for a board concerned with Junk. | *March 8 - [https://archive.is/PX5qv /g/'s daily programming general] turns into the Rozen Maiden general, accompanied by an embedded Suiseiseki as well. Odd for a board concerned with Junk. | ||
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*March 23 - The cargo ship "EverGreen" [https://archive.ph/AGpGo gets stuck in the Suez Canal,] pausing international trade. General threads made in [https://archive.is/m9z0t /pol/] later leading to tourists arriving and [https://archive.ph/L1c0o discussing] on [https://archive.ph/mfoNp /n/.] An open letter against Richard M. Stallman of GNU fame is brought forth, and /g/ doesn't like it. They [https://archive.is/oTrok create their own letter in support of him.] It eventually surpasses the original in signatures, and gets support from all over the world. | *March 23 - The cargo ship "EverGreen" [https://archive.ph/AGpGo gets stuck in the Suez Canal,] pausing international trade. General threads made in [https://archive.is/m9z0t /pol/] later leading to tourists arriving and [https://archive.ph/L1c0o discussing] on [https://archive.ph/mfoNp /n/.] An open letter against Richard M. Stallman of GNU fame is brought forth, and /g/ doesn't like it. They [https://archive.is/oTrok create their own letter in support of him.] It eventually surpasses the original in signatures, and gets support from all over the world. | ||
*March 24 - The expansive archive of yuki.la mysteriously dies without a clue as to what happened to it. | *March 24 - The expansive archive of yuki.la mysteriously dies without a clue as to what happened to it. | ||
*March 27 - [https://archive.is/LPySg An anon from /g/] appears and declares to have scraped the text, URLs, and MD5 hashes from yuki.la in its entirety, rescuing mountains of posts that were briefly lost to time. No thumbnails or full res images appear to have been saved however | *March 27 - [https://archive.is/LPySg An anon from /g/] appears and declares to have scraped the text, URLs, and MD5 hashes from yuki.la in its entirety, rescuing mountains of posts that were briefly lost to time. No thumbnails or full res images appear to have been saved however. | ||
*April 1 - Jannies finally ask for assistance against the leaf menace. Flags are removed from all boards. A live tracker count of Canadians in added to each board. A rake icon appears next to each post, where users can report posters suspected of being Canadians. Caught leafs are sent to '''/qb/ - Quebec''' for the time being, as well as anons who make too many false reports. A number of word filters are also added: "Sorry" becomes "based", "tranny" becomes "hoser", "out" becomes "oot", "about" becomes "aboot", "house" becomes "igloo", and "football" becomes "hockey". The board quickly becomes a slower /b/ due to a lack of rules, with various /mlp/ users willingly raking themselves in order to post more pony. Around 1PM EST posting site-wide is disabled for an unknown reason and returns a connection error when attempted. The website returned around 2:30PM. Later, /qb/ gets the Canadian flag as its background and gets songs like "O Canada", "Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback, "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber autoplaying as well. | *April 1 - Jannies finally ask for assistance against the leaf menace. Flags are removed from all boards. A live tracker count of Canadians in added to each board. A rake icon appears next to each post, where users can report posters suspected of being Canadians. Caught leafs are sent to '''/qb/ - Quebec''' for the time being, as well as anons who make too many false reports. A number of word filters are also added: "Sorry" becomes "based", "tranny" becomes "hoser", "out" becomes "oot", "about" becomes "aboot", "house" becomes "igloo", and "football" becomes "hockey". The board quickly becomes a slower /b/ due to a lack of rules, with various /mlp/ users willingly raking themselves in order to post more pony. Around 1PM EST posting site-wide is disabled for an unknown reason and returns a connection error when attempted. The website returned around 2:30PM. Later, /qb/ gets the Canadian flag as its background and gets songs like "O Canada", "Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback, "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber autoplaying as well. | ||
*April 2 - /qb/ is frozen at 2:19am local time after 16289 posts and a shitload of ponies, leafs, and shitposting. The last post on the board was [https://archive.is/N67VU a screencap of a vore fetish green featuring Lyra from MLP.] A fitting end. | *April 2 - /qb/ is frozen at 2:19am local time after 16289 posts and a shitload of ponies, leafs, and shitposting. The last post on the board was [https://archive.is/N67VU a screencap of a vore fetish green featuring Lyra from MLP.] A fitting end. | ||
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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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*June 5-10 - Anons [https://archive.is/wip/PcyNX complete a parody of Goodbye Volcano High] called "snoot game" before the game is even released, just so they could [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/558234035/#558254721 showcase it for /v/3.] The game quickly grows popular on /v/, and then the mods start deleting all threads about it. Someone [https://archive.ph/6UPq3 confronts them about this] on 4chan's IRC and receives unsatisfying answers. The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, and particularly of the moderator "I AM ABIB". | *June 5-10 - Anons [https://archive.is/wip/PcyNX complete a parody of Goodbye Volcano High] called "snoot game" before the game is even released, just so they could [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/558234035/#558254721 showcase it for /v/3.] The game quickly grows popular on /v/, and then the mods start deleting all threads about it. Someone [https://archive.ph/6UPq3 confronts them about this] on 4chan's IRC and receives unsatisfying answers. The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, and particularly of the moderator "I AM ABIB". | ||
*June 6 - /tv/ learns about Tariq Nasheed's (black Alex Jones) documentary "Buck Breaking", which claims that gay white slaveholders would rape black male slaves (this literally did not happen). By the end of the next day, [https://archive.is/WpmOK almost 80% of /tv/ threads are memes about the documentary.] | *June 6 - /tv/ learns about Tariq Nasheed's (black Alex Jones) documentary "Buck Breaking", which claims that gay white slaveholders would rape black male slaves (this literally did not happen). By the end of the next day, [https://archive.is/WpmOK almost 80% of /tv/ threads are memes about the documentary.] | ||
*June 9 - A snoot game thread gets [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/39271068 stickied on /trash/]. It's quickly unstickied and replaced with a [https://desuarchive.org/trash/chunk/39297776/ new snoot game sticky made by a mod] ([https://archive.ph/TWCiC alternate archive]). This thread remains stickied on /trash/ for nearly two months, | *June 9 - A snoot game thread gets [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/39271068 stickied on /trash/]. It's quickly unstickied and replaced with a [https://desuarchive.org/trash/chunk/39297776/ new snoot game sticky made by a mod] ([https://archive.ph/TWCiC alternate archive]). This thread remains stickied on /trash/ for nearly two months, promting a ton of [https://booru.snootgame.xyz/ fanart], fanfiction and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncQoXSJJhgg&ab_channel=examanon 4chan sings project]. | ||
*June 10 - A /biz/raeli buys the www.battlefield2042.com domain name and [https://archive.is/BjkOe after EA doesn't reach out to him] makes it [https://archive.is/iD8Wh redirect to /pol/.] | *June 10 - A /biz/raeli buys the www.battlefield2042.com domain name and [https://archive.is/BjkOe after EA doesn't reach out to him] makes it [https://archive.is/iD8Wh redirect to /pol/.] | ||
*June 17 - The oldest living thread (non-stickied) on 4chan, [https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/po/thread/535361 a Pepakura thread on /po/], dies after 1990 days as a result of the soyjak.party faggots who spammed new threads and bumped existing ones to kill ancient /po/ threads. [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/109567945 Flag icons for England, Scotland, and Wales get added to /sp/], conveniently before England and Scotland are due to play each other in the Euro tournament. Northern Ireland users are stuck with the UK flag. /pol/, /bant/, and /int/ do not get the new flags (yet). | *June 17 - The oldest living thread (non-stickied) on 4chan, [https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/po/thread/535361 a Pepakura thread on /po/], dies after 1990 days as a result of the soyjak.party faggots who spammed new threads and bumped existing ones to kill ancient /po/ threads. [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/109567945 Flag icons for England, Scotland, and Wales get added to /sp/], conveniently before England and Scotland are due to play each other in the Euro tournament. Northern Ireland users are stuck with the UK flag. /pol/, /bant/, and /int/ do not get the new flags (yet). | ||
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*August 6 - The /funkg/ general of /vg/ [https://archive.is/dsTYt releases a long awaited mod of Friday Night Funkin'] featuring the classic /v/-tan and Cancer Lord from 3 Angled Blue's original comic about the Positron Uprising (2008, 10th of September) and [https://archive.is/5r6qn is received] with the [https://archive.is/3mMoZ closest thing to critical acclaim] such a thing could get on 4chan. | *August 6 - The /funkg/ general of /vg/ [https://archive.is/dsTYt releases a long awaited mod of Friday Night Funkin'] featuring the classic /v/-tan and Cancer Lord from 3 Angled Blue's original comic about the Positron Uprising (2008, 10th of September) and [https://archive.is/5r6qn is received] with the [https://archive.is/3mMoZ closest thing to critical acclaim] such a thing could get on 4chan. | ||
*August 7 - A deranged Aussie shitposter [https://archive.is/JZp3N dumps his screencaps on /qa/] after slowly making one new Hololive thread on /jp/ each day to piss everyone off. Eventually they flood the catalog and the Meido shows too little intellect to delete the faux on-topic threads. /jp/ is ruined! | *August 7 - A deranged Aussie shitposter [https://archive.is/JZp3N dumps his screencaps on /qa/] after slowly making one new Hololive thread on /jp/ each day to piss everyone off. Eventually they flood the catalog and the Meido shows too little intellect to delete the faux on-topic threads. /jp/ is ruined! | ||
*August 8 - Isabella Loretta Janke, the person Chris was talking to when he admitted to fucking his mother, is exposed. She is revealed to have boiled a hamster alive, driven a transgender student to suicide | *August 8 - Isabella Loretta Janke, the person Chris was talking to when he admitted to fucking his mother, is exposed. She is revealed to have boiled a hamster alive, driven a transgender student to suicide, and lied to prevent the recording from being disclosed, among many other horrifying acts. [https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Isabella_Loretta_Janke She almost makes Chris look like a goody two shoes.] | ||
*August 12 - The trailer for the upcoming G5 movie "My Little Pony: A New Generation" is released, and /mlp/ gets a [https://archive.ph/JblGS sticky.] The reaction to the trailer is a resounding "meh", much to the dismay of doominggers and hopefags alike, although a book detailing the movie's whole plot was leaked a week early just a few hours later. | *August 12 - The trailer for the upcoming G5 movie "My Little Pony: A New Generation" is released, and /mlp/ gets a [https://archive.ph/JblGS sticky.] The reaction to the trailer is a resounding "meh", much to the dismay of doominggers and hopefags alike, although a book detailing the movie's whole plot was leaked a week early just a few hours later. | ||
*August 13 - A Britbong /trv/eler named Miles Routledge [http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2075339 posts from Kabul, Afghanistan] as the country is caught up in the Taliban resurgence. [http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2076699 Miles continues] posting [http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2078614 subsequent threads] that become the most popular in /trv/ history. [https://archive.is/UjRgG Routledge gets recognition in the media over his Facebook updates.] With flights out of Kabul stopped, | *August 13 - A Britbong /trv/eler named Miles Routledge [http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2075339 posts from Kabul, Afghanistan] as the country is caught up in the Taliban resurgence. [http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2076699 Miles continues] posting [http://archive.4plebs.org/trv/thread/2078614 subsequent threads] that become the most popular in /trv/ history. [https://archive.is/UjRgG Routledge gets recognition in the media over his Facebook updates.] With flights out of Kabul stopped, Lord Miles is trapped. | ||
*August 14 - The Friday Night Funkin' vs. /v/ mod gets canned after the alternate ending to "/v/ goes to the cinemas" is found in the files. Twittertards apparently think they've downloaded CP. The mod remains downloadable through MEGA links. Later, the original creator of the comic draws an official response to the drama which ends just like the alternate ending to the infamous comic. | *August 14 - The Friday Night Funkin' vs. /v/ mod gets canned after the alternate ending to "/v/ goes to the cinemas" is found in the files. Twittertards apparently think they've downloaded CP. The mod remains downloadable through MEGA links. Later, the original creator of the comic draws an official response to the drama which ends just like the alternate ending to the infamous comic. | ||
*August 15 - The tenth anniversary 4chan World Cup ends with /s4s/ going on an insane run to beat /b/ 3-1 in the final. [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9843882 The board gets a sticky with Hip To Be Square embedded.] | *August 15 - The tenth anniversary 4chan World Cup ends with /s4s/ going on an insane run to beat /b/ 3-1 in the final. [https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/9843882 The board gets a sticky with Hip To Be Square embedded.] | ||
*August 17 - Lord Miles is successfully evacuated out of Kabul and lands safely in Dubai. | *August 17 - Lord Miles is successfully evacuated out of Kabul and lands safely in Dubai. | ||
*August 20 - [https://archive.is/zr414 /vt/ engages] in a shitposting [https://archive.is/25PXi skirmish with a 5ch thread] over a [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/cookie%E2%98%86-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E2%98%86 "Cookie"]-derived Vtuber, which is the only interesting thing /vt/ can do. | *August 20 - [https://archive.is/zr414 /vt/ engages] in a shitposting [https://archive.is/25PXi skirmish with a 5ch thread] over a [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/cookie%E2%98%86-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E2%98%86 "Cookie"]-derived Vtuber, which is the only interesting thing /vt/ can do. | ||
*September 9 - It's Cirno day! The mods sticky a [https://archive.is/JU5JD Cirno thread] on /bant/. The song Chirumiru is also reportedly played on [s4s]'s catalog. | *September 9 - It's Cirno day! The mods sticky a [https://archive.is/JU5JD Cirno thread] on /bant/. The song Chirumiru is also reportedly played on [s4s]'s catalog. | ||
*September 10 - Ms. /co/ begins but due to heavy moderation of "hype" threads a feud [https://archive.is/K7Z03 results between the mods and anons.] Dozens upon dozens of anons flood into the IRC to complain, and eventually they manage to settle things with some talk. Ms. /co/ is saved! | *September 10 - Ms. /co/ begins but due to heavy moderation of "hype" threads a feud [https://archive.is/K7Z03 results between the mods and anons.] Dozens upon dozens of anons flood into the IRC to complain, and eventually they manage to settle things with some talk. Ms. /co/ is saved! | ||
*September 16 - Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum dies at age 81. /vr/ gets a [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/8144197 sticky.] | *September 16 - Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum dies at age 81. /vr/ gets a [https://warosu.org/vr/thread/8144197 sticky.] | ||
*September 17 - Simu Liu (the lead actor in Marvel's new Asian capeshit movie) gets exposed as a r/aznidentity (racist Asian incels) user called "nippedinthebud" who also [https://archive.is/qGeDL helped start a war against 4chan by...crowdfunding and making an AM/WF porno?] ...and also defended "non-offending pedophiles". | *September 17 - Simu Liu (the lead actor in Marvel's new Asian capeshit movie) gets exposed as a r/aznidentity (racist Asian incels) user called "nippedinthebud" who also [https://archive.is/qGeDL helped start a war against 4chan by...crowdfunding and making an AM/WF porno?] ...and also defended "non-offending pedophiles". | ||
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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 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 | *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.] | ||
*December 10 - Mike Nesmith dies at age 78. [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/107535730/ /mu/ gets a sticky.] | *December 10 - Mike Nesmith dies at age 78. [https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/107535730/ /mu/ gets a sticky.] | ||
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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. | * [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. Currently a moderator 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 | *[https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php Everything Rumia Knows] - 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. | ||
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