4chan/Chronicle/qa

History of 4chan's /qa/ - Question & Answer board

>what is this

An intensely autistic personal project. If you are reading this, it's a WIP more closely resembling a collection of notes than any authoritative statement. nothing so far is guaranteed fact, all is liable to be corrected out. The other half this project, a timeline with dates on important events can be found here.

>why am I writing this

Personal endearment.

>but why?

Arguably the most revised (revisioned?) board history on the site, with years worth of accumulated misinformation and disinformation. I'd rather have this not continue.

>well then, what is it?

A series of offtopic & meta communities composed of posters from disparate origins that died prematurely due to unfortunate events and aggression from off-site cliques. Then it became something reminiscent of old /b/ if it really, really liked wojak comics.

>status?

Evidence gathering FUCKING DONE. The essay is FUCKING DONE. Clean up is FUCKING DONE. Really needs some images.

>hey why is this page locked

If only you knew how bad things really were. It will be unlocked after I've finished the project and I'm confident nobody will kill me over it.

/qa/ Historiographic Summary

Meta Period

Jan. 2015 to Oct. 2016

A community without culture but with an unending curiosity seeks a way to express their love and hate for the Yotsuba imageboard.

Incidental Board

"See you later, space cowboy" - moot

/qa/ is created on the first hours January 23 during team4chan's preparation for moot's farewell stream. The board was to serve as little more than a controlled environment where shitposters and GR1 violators could be spotted before they caused any trouble. In 2015, 4chan was arguably at it's peak of engagement if not influence and very few anons imagined the New Yorker at the heart of site would ever leave, not even those in open rebellion over the dual implosion of Gamergate and /pol/. Grievances are set aside in favour of sheer emotion. Common anons and bewildered personalities from every corner of the old chanverse come witness the passing of the giant while diehard contrarians at 8chan attribute the cause to themselves. Despite everything the mood for 4chan's future was fiercely optimistic and as the day goes by, nostalgic. When /qa/ opens to posts it was too chaotic to get any coherent conversation - Intervals between threads measure in minutes as all the Yotsuba community posts in a single board. It takes a couple hours after moot leaves for attention to turn towards anon threads. These come by the hand of emotional posters reminiscing personal core memories, uploading their old folders and reinforcing site traditions while new posters seize the chance to learn the website's mysterious and mostly oral history.

Honeymoon

"I feel like /qa/ has become the UN of 4Chan with ambassadors from each board coming here to post."

The next day is marked by one question. What now? /qa/ was still open - presumed to be kept around to host the stickies and link the stream for those who couldn't be there. A week passes yet it hasn't been locked as expected, anons were free to mingle. Seizing the opportunity many took to crafting /qa/'s identity into an unique culture. /qa/'s board-tan was already designed and achieved almost a hundred illustrations in a day. The topic of now was determining what *exactly* /qa/ represented - As the last stragglers finished up yesterday's nostalgia threads, these culture crafters took inspiration and set their mind on a /qa/ oriented towards 4chan itself - both it's past and it's present, yet refusing to become the successor of the recently gone /q/ - 4chan Feedback. The Declaration of /qa/ gets written in a thread that represents the starting point of Question & Answer's culture. What follows is a period of heightened activity where posters revel in the idea of having a direct rapport to the old guard and the ability to share site trivia and anecdotes undisturbed by the dreaded Off-Topic Ban Template. At the same time, gathering content creators led a spur of off-topic threads and Original Content that cements /qa/'s potential as a community in the mind of anon. Forum games, quests, image folder dumps and embassies from other boards and communities landscape the catalog as the global announcement solemnly promotes the secret board.

A Community of Stragglers

"Come back, /qa/-tan. The board hasn't been the same since you left."

By the end of March, the inertia of the proto-community is over and only a fraction of culture creators remain. By March, /qa/ had stabilized as one of the slowest boards on the site with little activity to call it's own. Thread participation is divided in strong lines - Some threads last weeks engaged in hundred post long debates held by a small groups of anons, at times just a couple, while others linger for days with a mere handful replies. This division in activity was drawn along the lines of meta discussion vs off-topic threads and nostalgic meme references: The former fed by hotly contested differences in opinion; The latter having few if any replies except the occasional bout of support by community makers on the off-chance it may result in more Original Content - a precious resource. Rarely did either result in flamewars, a lucky thing in hindsight as post-level rulebreaking was going unmoderated. In the spirit of meta, /qa/ gets it's second general, the 4chan Happenings Thread. It's usual life expectancy is measure in months, dedicated to the imageboard equivalent of birdwatching - spotting GETs and the rare modpost.

So gestates the cycle that defines /qa/ from start to end: Stragglers from all corners of the site visit Question & Answer hoping to sate their curiosity regarding site trivia or their regular board's various communities, assisted by a small retinue of regulars with a hunger for news and context. These stragglers, once sated in an oft-positive exchange and sometimes an intense debate, leave to never return. This represent the constant, immutable basal culture - or perhaps lack of culture - that defines /qa/ not only as 4chan's meta board but also one of the comfiest boards.

On the topic of moderation, while /qa/ is perceived by anon to be a laizzes faire "anything goes" place, moderation staff operated in a lowkey manner by way of deleting raids and overt /q/ threads but also killing then-mainstream jokes such as frogs or baneposting. During this period, memes imported from another boards find themselves in the bin in what seemed to be a low effort scheme to shape, or maybe protect local board culture. On February there's a sitewide call for janitor applications that excludes /qa/ as an eligible board, confirming all moderation was done at mod-level and at-will, explaining the visible gaps between deleted threads - mods were limiting themselves purging the catalog whenever they happen to come by.

Enter Nishimura

"i am happy there is no stupid 4chan users" - Hiroyuki

On September 4chan gawks at the most unexpected announcement in the history of the site: The living legend Hiroyuki Nishimura, former face of NicoNicoDouga and creator of the ancestor of modern textboards and imageboards, 2channel, was now the owner of 4chan. And on September 22 he was going to do a Q&A session on the forgotten /qa/. The board springs back to life with a veneer of excitement. This also means that /qa/ is now on the map of the entire site, leading a short retread of the events of January - nostalgic old guards share stories with curious new posters. The one difference is Hiroyuki. After his hilarious - and possibly falsely - inept exchange with 4chan, hiro goes on a site wide posting rampage ignoring 4chan's fundamental moderation rule: Do not engage the posters in public. This has an indirect effect on /qa/ as his activity convinces a chunk of the site that their personal 4chan grievances can be handled by the Admin himself - and sometimes he actually did, /his/ exists because of him. This brings /q/ threads back in force - now everyone and their mother showcases their most deranged fantasies on /qa/ explaining how the site should work so the engrish speaking idiot king would blind-enact them.

Forming a Culture

"Did you have a question?"

After a couple months, the revived /qa/ coalesces into a small collection of meta aficionados, karens crying to the staff and anons looking for an off-topic board that wouldn't get swarmed with weirdos and porn, often interrupted by the spur of activity caused by Hiro's posts. While first interpreted as a disaster, the speed increase did not prove fatal, arguably, it led to a more diverse and entertaining Questions board.

This change also provides reprieve to the off-topic side of /qa/, long afflicted with a chronic lack of attention. The community sees the return of forum games like Quests and the development of ideas such as Nametag factions. A slew of ritual threads and catchphrases - Some good such as the test thread, some strange such as NO. and some just idiotic spam such as Remove (you) and Remove GR15 now mark the frontpage. Threads too non-sensical to be discussed get witty retorts and new catchphrases such as household Do you have a question? join the age old /q/ import /deletepol/ spam. All in all, /qa/ becomes a tad more quirky and depending on who you ask, more engaging.

This community is not without drama. By the second quarter of 2016 /qa/ had developed a full clique of personalities -shitposters, avatarfags and drawfags- that spent their day waging flamewars and hijacking other people's threads. This arrived from -or ended up gathering at- off-site chatrooms due to the sheer schadenfreude of interacting with one poster: Known as Catholic Anon, this terminally online shitposter, if prodded the right way, could take threads almost to a 1000 posts on board whose bump limit is 310 replies. It is probable that some participants followed him to /qa/ from previous mutual hangouts, either way, the harassment of Andy went on for months at end and grew to become a local attraction. This showcases an interesting development: Despite incompatible posting habits, there was enough space to house both metaposters and this circlejerk undisturbed, both aware of each other but never crossing paths, letting the CA crew go run their course unreported and unbanned.

In fact, moderator interest seemed to have waned and no attempts at keeping bad actors out could be found, thus, off-topic threads on /qa/ both thrived and festered. The situation reached a low point when some ritual threads - such as the Remove GR15 spammer's, caused the infamous barneyfag to visit /qa/ and attack his threads, keeping alive for months. One passionate poster did try to contact the staff for help - only to be told to kick rocks with the infamous statement that /qa/ does not get moderated. Rebuked, this poster took justice to his own hands, scriptspamming the Remove GR15 with gibberish and pictures of his waifu Pikari. Becoming /qa/'s first avatarfag and spammer. This, however, set a very dangerous precedent.

Off-Topic Colonies

"Daily reminder that /qa/ is property of [s4s]."

/qa/'s technicality of being 4chan's only Safe For Work Off-Topic board is noticed by some who attempt (successful and not) to export their board culture.

The first group was an [s4s] at the nadir of it's influence. By the end of 2014, they had become protegees of prominent mod invisibro aka swaglord and evolving tastes (and demographics) were ditching the irony culture in favour of a heavy /jp/esque, somewhat erotic vibe spearheaded by local general [a/jp]. [s4s] posters -on occasion encouraged by swaglord himself- alternated between spamming and contributing on equal measure, and esfores' own platoon of content creators left their mark on the Question board. [s4s] lingo was common place and many namefigs such as punky brewster and milkless cereal made /qa/ their primary stomping grounds. Reception from other posters was ambivalent, many were not too happy about the prospect of being visited by the board infamous for it's raids. This detraction doesn't pick up in a noticeable manner until mid 2016 when the swaglord hatefandom reached an all time high, and every [s4s] post gets attributed to his "cultural enrichment" threads. All in all, [s4s], one of last boards with a culture of their own, was the first to extend the budding /qa/ culture the branch of friendship.

Other first-year colonies were the greater drawfag community. Two loosely connected collectives of 4chan fanartists and writers: The older one had organized on /co/sphere drawthreads (/co/, plus4chan, /tg/ among other boards' threads) out of the venerable 4chan House project, a sometimes-not-sometimes-yes general about board-tans. The younger came from the /v/ermin boards (then limited to /v/, /vg/, /vr/ & /vp/ with some connection to /pol/'s own drawthread) and last year, had come up with the 4chan Harvest Festival AKA The Winter Ball event. These anons used /qa/ as a bunker and soon a hub to discuss their communities, resulting in /qa/'s first general, the eponymous Board-tans thread. For a time, it saw itself gathering artists from every drawthread on the site, and had it's day in the spotlight by organizing the site-wide Winter Ball events of 2015 and 2016. Existing in sharp contrast with /qa/'s stragglers - who just disregarded them - they were an overlooked but pivotal element to /qa/'s identity, being responsible for the vast majority of the board's early OC. Content that took form not just in board-tan drawings (much cherished nonetheless) but also illustrations of various events and memes that pockmarked the catalog from time to time.

After Nishimura opened the floodgates to the return of /q/ threads, various metaposters formed pseudo-colonies in recurring threads. Of note: /a/ posters were a permanent presence in what could be best described as an /a/ meta general. Stomping grounds of local figures such as Fun Things are Fun who partook with the ensemble of /a/nons in weeks long debates about the merit of /a/'s diminished elitism culture. /jp/ and it's long, storied history of drama were often a permanent spot on the frontpage, leading to some of the most interesting metadiscussions /qa/ had and often, requests of a 2D/Random Niijiura styled board. The /a/+/jp/sphere often exported their own board injokes, well received by the local anime enthusiasts. Other boards also visited /qa/ in some numbers; Stragglers, the glut of them from /lit/, /pol/ and... /vg/'s /gsg/ - Grand Strategy General, all squatted the place begging for an /his/ - History board for months, up to trying to simulate a /his/ general. By miracle, Hiro noticed them and actually gave them what they wanted.

Off-Topic Period

Oct. 2016 to Apr. 2017

Hiroyuki accidentally /qa/'s entire ecosystem. The board is permanently changed as it gets raided non stop for several months.

October's Chaos

"winter is coming" - Hiroyuki

On October 1 & 2 Hiroyuki surprises the site with the introduction of new monetization changes and what can only be described as a fearmongering campaign to distract people from the fact he was introducing malicious ads to 4chan. His thread while unannounced causes ripples across the entire IB scene, and even makes noise on news sites with an celebratory article written by notorious anti-4chan activist Brianna Wu. Links to /qa/ get shared everywhere, with many people surprised the board still existed at all. In a day, /qa/'s board speed duplicates then duplicates again within a couple months as the 2016 US elections loom and /pol/ -now the site's dominant board- has somehow convinced itself that /qa/ was an astroturfing front for 8chan's /leftypol/ to get /pol/ deleted and spends the entire third quarter of 2016 raiding the place. At it's peak during the first weeks of November the time between new threads could be measured in minutes. For the fist time, threads on /qa/ require bumps to not fall of the catalog mid-conversation.

October's fearmongering was just the beginning. All the way to the end of the year would see high profile events occurring in /qa/: In December, Anonymous-San -modcat to /a/- legendary old guard moderator had returned to team4chan on November only to be fired less than a month later due to a custom warning on /qa/. It's unknown if Hiro ordered it over twitter harassment or - according to Asan - RapeApe didn't like him from the get-go. His firing wasn't just unusual, it came with fanfare and spectacle, causing site-wide outrage even within moderation itself. Days later hiroyuki posts again and pushes questionable UI changes, in a scheme to get people to buy 4chan passes to vote on a referendum on whether they should keep it or revert it, all announced on /qa/. Two things were clear: First, Hiroyuki saw /qa/ has his personal rapport to the userbase, second, his presence was had a visible disruptive effect on the catalog.

It should be noted that the board was already working with a booming off-topic environment before October, the /qa/ circlejerk having formed a few months ago, several daily threads and meme imports such as /a/'s Pocari Sweat were posted all over by a troupe of funposters. These anons go on overdrive with the increased board speed. New local figures surface such as the asukaspammer, an avatar spammer that would wipe the catalog every week or GR15 Defense Force, notorious tripcode user fighting a war with imaginary bronies. The chaos brought on by both pro-/pol/ and anti-/pol/ threads served as a primordial soup where /qa/'s culture would reform. One question remained: What form would it take?

Asking this question comes side by side with the realization of how fragile the original Question & Answer ecosystem was and the remnants of /qa/'s original posterbase split: On one hand metaposters long established and upset their week long debates and history threads were not possible anymore begin powerlessly pushing back against the tide. On the other funposters excited of having a whole playground for themselves tag along for the wild ride and contribute to the chaos. One thing was certain: However this went, /qa/ was not going to be the same again.

The /jp/ Spinoff Plot

"Would an /ar/ - Anime/Random work?"

"You are posting in it."

Within the /jp/sphere, an unexpected development occurs. One group of friends hanging out in private chatrooms had members who knew of /qa/ before October and they realized that the Question board was on paper, a seemingly unmoderated off-topic SFW IB. One that -if you ignore the raids- was in essence empty and open to colonization. Composed of new guard /jp/sies who didn't fit in within the veteran closed communities that inhabited the /jp/ bunkers, they saw the chance to make a name for themselves without going through the hassle of making another dead-on-arrival spinoff - and what better place to do so than the homeland? Well, not the homeland. /jp/ had lost the board culture that made it special, replaced by an array of micro-communities residing in generals and pre-emptive moderation killing all creativity - but a second homeland could be created. Of course, the /q/ spam from /pol/ would need to be gotten rid off first.

The exact origin of this posse is unknown, it's possible they were recent discoverers of warosu.org, the /jp/ archiver and inheritor of foolz' /g/ - ghost board. There they fell in love with /jp/'s old guard culture but weren't made to feel at home by locals at the spinoff sites. It's been also hinted that the 8chan side of the /jp/sphere was involved, in particular the people behind /jp/ Radio or chiru.no whose admin had heavy overlap with 8ch and with the clique's organizers (evidenced by a presence of 8ch filename hashes in 2017). What is known is that they arrived /qa/ with the news of A-san's firing and within the month began operating on /qa/ by waging a campaign of agression against meta threads and anything related to other boards' jokes or /q/'s age old delete /pol/ meme. It isn't until January 2017 that the true extent of their intentions became apparent: Then practically unnoticed, threads stating that /qa/ should be a random board start appearing, pushing back people trying to reorder it around meta and pushing for animesque aesthetics in OPs. This was a bit of genius - shaping the terrain so local funposters, already quite accustomed to anime, wouldn't suspect a thing when phase 1 of the plan started.

Are we sounding too conspiranoid? Hold on to your seatbelts then. Phase 1 was a month long advertising campaign spread through all the /jp/sphere. IRC, textboard or IB alike. Within these invitations they declared /qa/ the unofficial new /jp/, a jaypee without /jp/'s anal moderation - one very attractive prospect for some shitposters. This however was only a ruse: Bringing all these raiders to pick fights with the other raiders and locals served as a tool distract anons from the real operation. Phase 2: Starting in February 10 - the date the first Spinoff aligned threads start popping out, an unknown number of bash script bots were brought into play, crapflooding unapproved threads with random words, posts copied from /pol/ or markov chains while ghostbumping a whitelist of threads created by this unknown clique (that we will refer to as the Warosu clique for brevity's sake). The soon to be dreaded bumpbot coupled up with both the clique's own spam and the antics of anime-inclined posters such as the asukaspammer were ad-hoc coordinated to cycle out threads they didn't like, in effect purging /qa/ of all threads without an anime OP. That was only the beginning, enter Phase 3: Under the veil of confusion they astroturf /qa/ to hell and back, gathering under the flag of one Sachiko Idol and one Kemono Musume Serval, several threads were made side by side by /ota/'s raid threads declaring /qa/ as the new 2D/Random, communicating and encouraging anons through Desuarchive's ghostposting feature, bringing back years old /jp/ memes and new original content made on the spot. They proceeded to roam the board attacking every disapproved-of thread, telling them to go back there and even bringing back an adapted version of the age old Get Out of /jp/ Marisa. Warosus singled out /pol/-related threads as targets of vitriol, which they saw as responsible for A-San's misfortune, any thread identified as such would see itself flooded by demands that "/pol9k/" leave /qa/ - yet in their judgement any meta thread appeared made by /pol/. The battery of aggression, gaslighting and OC was enough at a glance to convince any onlooker that /qa/ was always an anime board.

The plan was a massive success. By the end of February the catalog of /qa/ was unrecognizable, no one was any wiser and the hot dozen regulars of old /qa/ were completely powerless to do anything besides complain in one of the last meta threads, the Happenings thread, the botters having decided to whitelist it in order to maintain the veneer of an organic demographic shift - another of their gaslighting tools. The more anime-inclined Off-topic posters were, without knowing, press-ganged into the posse due to their eagerness to help bump their threads. Moderation while assumed to be inexistent, failed to pick out the signs something was happening in the sea of /pol/shit, raids, frogs and /q/. The clique took over the Happenings thread as their personal general for a time, but left when the outraged locals started calling their tricks, making their own not!general the 4chan Discussion thread. There they spent months bragging about their terraforming of /qa/ while a somewhat weirded out retinue of new arrivals laughed with them.

Reorganization

"Don't mind me just killing a thread!"

The clique's efforts in expelling everyone not /jp/ related were successful. The old catalog was now replaced with blogposting, the old ritual threads were replaced with Tenshi eating corndogs, Saber Riding a Banana, Who /homu/ here, many brands of touhou posts, Rumi anon's poetry, Kemono Musume and more. [a/jp] memes such as teeth girl and older generals like the CSS thread were seamlessly assimilated. New avatars such as hibikid and satania surfaced and the asukaspammer was elevated to meme status. Catchphrase memes -original and imported- such as the /qa/ meetup, dat /qa/ dream and My Friends are Here become the new language of Question & Answer. At one point, they even managed to convince Hiroyuki to change the frontpage mascot, [s4s]'s Keksandra at the time, to Sachiko Koshimizu from The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls. Already established off-topic posters such as GRXVDF became one of their fiercest supporters, while other avatars from the local circlejerk such as Pikari and Luluco eyed them with suspicion, and ultimately left. The /pol/ bandwagon has ran out of steam after the first chapters of the HWNDU saga ended while other raid groups couldn't complete with liberal (no pun intended) application of bots: Anyone who wasn't ran out by the initial replies insisted on their thread saw themselves crapflooded to bump limit.

In their efforts at time too successful: On April 7 they accidentally got /qa/ frozen after botspamming the report queue in an effort to get rid of the latest set of raiders. This would have spelled the end of it, but what the Warosu crew wanted -forming a /jp/ oriented community- was achieved for the most part. All the spinoffs knew /qa/ was in their sphere, the backchannels knew who orchestrated the whole thing, they had their claim to fame if not their homeboard. Getting attention from the spinoffs, the touhou posters, the october newbies and in essence the rest of /qa/ served as a recruiting tool for their community, which got also an official hub by being invited to sageru's anonymous IRC, a super hacked server running anonIRCd at irc.sageru.org. There at #qa the rookies got to rub shoulders with some spinoff legends, mingled with textboard culture, and grew larger.

Getting Noticed

The Warosus weren't the only group with an interest in 4chan's meta board. Being noticed by /pol/ also implies being noticed by the /pol/sphere, a growing network of altchans (as the term chanverse fell out of vogue) that developed out of the communities of 4chan/pol/ and 8chan/pol/ - a wide assortment of cliques & circlejerks spread over several sister boards, spin off sites & chatrooms, some of which became notorious troll groups. At the same time, the unexpected appearance -and immediate firing- of Anonymous-San, one of the foundational members of team4chan, put the board on the sights of the /jp/ spinoffs, a different collection of IBs that sprouted out of /jp/ circa 2013 and by 2017 were reduced to gated bunkers that had penchant for aggressive pranks. Within the following months, like the aftershocks of an earthquake, several off-site cliques took to raiding /qa/ for various reasons if not for the sake of it.

First, an unknown number of anti-/pol/ groups were the earliest outsiders to make noise. All grouped together as /leftypol/ -MAGA era biggest boogeyman- /pol/ haters came and went. The most active group in /qa/ became notable during the He Will Not Divide Us saga. Thinking /qa/ was pretty much /q/, they started using the board to call out /pol/ threads in the hopes they could somehow convince the mods into shutting down HWNDU and /diy/-like threads; the icemen encouraged other posters to "ice" these threads by submitting false global rule one (illegal in the US) reports. Since they were still rulebreaking posts, the thread would get immediate attention even if the reporting anon was banned. One dense member, oblivious to /qa/'s nature or 4chan in general, kept insisting in the dox call out threads until he got nicknamed Chris and later Icefag by annoyed /qa/cks. Despite several bans and both HWNDU and the icemen having been ran out of the site by February, he continued making threads to the point he got a sizeable chunk of the board screaming about him before getting the hint.

The /jp/ spinoff boards invited by the Warosu raiders were almost all with a still active population - ota-ch, himasugi, merorin.org, 4taba, the sageru.org IRC (tied at the hip to warosu.org after all), what.ch, kakashi nempo, GNFOS.org (soon no-you.org), chiru.no and possibly others. Of these, /ota/ was the largest by an order of magnitude while hima, chiru, GNFOS and sageru had minimal presence, the latter extending well into first days of /qa/ due to overlap in meta interests. When it came to the advertisement campaign, by far the greatest victories of the Warosu clique was bringing one of the living legends of the /jp/ janny wars, Trevor, legendary shitposter and then admin of GNFOS who would proceed to spend years... comfyposting and playing forum games without taking part in any fights - However his ever present groupies proved an excellent recruiting pool. Others who answered the invitation were ccd0, maintainer of the 4chanX app, who would become a fierce supporter of the colonization effort, plus almost the entire userbase of chiru.no who went on to create a Cirno general on March. Chiru had a direct line to the inner circle of the Warosu posse, but differences in attitude led to a public fall out as one of the lynchpins called them out for "not helping". Nevertheless cirnoposters grew truly large as, by sheer luck, they had the major announcement of a new Touhou Project mainline title starring the Ice Fairy herself. For a while they became the largest demographic on /qa/ and even brought in multiple drawfags and OC makers. Yet by May they left for a new board, /bant/ - International/Random, where they became one of the cornerstones of that community's culture.

Far more hostile were the Infinity cliques. 8chan's /pol/sphere was inconspicuously large, divided into several groups with a common language but differing, and sometimes opposing, philosophies, all of which in turn having heavy overlap with other boards such as 8chan's /b/ or private Discord groups. 8/b/ started reposting /qa/ links the same time the /jp/ spinoffs appeared, as the board had heavy crossposting with both the /pol/sphere and the /jp/sphere. The /b/ personality to show the most interest was avatar, drawartist and short-lived board moderator fugthelug. fug started trolling on there with her personal simp posse in February, coining the term /qa/mblr, months later she has a fallout with /b/ and moved her group onto /srz/ to try a board culture experiment. The experiment fails and the group migrates to another /pol/sphere altchan 8ch.pl, creating an unlisted board with a gibberish name they refer to as [BOARD REDACTED], where they develop into an intense trollgroup roleplaying an ancap-leaning right wing death squad. Fug's posse organized from a secretive Discord - The name was never leaked, but the terms Anti-Goon and Goon Killers were thrown around - with their general chatroom known as Non Agression Pact Violating Lewd Voyeurs (napvlv). The latter is the name /qa/ came to know them as when [BR] came knocking. However, it seems the community choosed to implode just as fugs prepares to raid the Question board. in June /qa/ becomes the war zone of two separate groups: fug's [BR] working a well planned assault to take down the subversives and schizos banned from BR's whom fug comes to name the [BR] revolt trying to sabotage [BR] and fug whose posters she derided as "IB Mike" and the "night autist". Both groups wing their tactics which include passing off nudes of old 8/b/ namefag spiderchan as fugs', going on multi-post long rants they pass-off as hers, sabotaging each other's threads and partially doxing fug, all while generating within the local clique a growing sense of frustration, being unable to either figure out what's happening or even distinguish them from previous raiders, except for hibikid who knew one or two thinks about 8chan. The raid puttered out by itself after n very embarrassed fug came clean on (some) things.

A second /pol/sphere group was an /int/ off-shoot with heavy /pol/ leaning called /intl/, in turn part of their own network of shitpost oriented boards called /int*/, famous for being master astroturfers and an 8chan boogeyman. The /int*/ network, by April 2017, was in practice dead as their ideology was firmly rooted in not having any moderation whatsoever. This led to the obvious conclusion where the original board and all its spinoffs getting botspammed to the point of unusability. Those who still engaged the culture were reduced to shrinking, closed communities. One such group, organized within a 200 strong discord, used 4chan's April's Fools event for 2017, which merged several boards one of them /mlpol/ - My Little Politics, as a pretense to raid /qa/ under the mask of /mlp/. This specific combo seems to originate from overlap with 8chan's /b/ which always had an open door for ponies. Disguised, they "demanded" a return of the board, a mere excuse to have a shitpost contest with each other. True to /int*/ culture as soon as they activities leaked they switched blame to the first thing they got named as, which was for some reason the mythical steamgroup of /gsg/ - Grand Strategy General fame. However, by pure probabilistic miracle, an actual willy waggler and founding member of turkslayer's original Skype group just happened to be browsing /qa/ that day and refutes them. As a second option the group pretends to be freech.net's /intg/ which was at the time nothing but 0-replies botspam threads courtesy of the infamous bui the spammer. /intl/'s entry into the fray threw /qa/ into a "four days war" and one of the most intense flamewars of the board's history. In an ironic twist the Ruffalos and 8bronies turned out to be prolific content creators and produced several dozen pictures "bronyfying" the Warosus' precious /jp/ heritage and even getting the Cirno general to draw art with them. The Warosus were incensed to the point they almost killed /qa/, replying with their own spam causing a score of threads to hit bump limit from shitposting alone - it didn't help matters when the raiders realized they could just post a couple pastel horses and cause an assblasted teen to scriptspam the entire thing. This almost kills /qa/, the board gets frozen on April 7 as Warosus resorted to botspamming the report queue with illegal reports. Question & Answer remained frozen for the better part of April which saw the /int*/ discord and it's brony complement split apart, the latter creating the spinoff mlpol.net. In April 22 with an unfrozen board mlpol.net tried to reignite the raid but they were counter-gorespammed and ran out by an even more organized clique, now popularly known as the /qa/ cabal or the weeb mafia.

Great Spam War

Apr. 2017 to Aug. 2019

Off-topic posters play on the corpse of a /qa/ killed in a secret war between a botspamming manchild and literally everyone else.

Mounting Opposition

"this recent "/qa/ is le old /jp/" is either the gayest goddamn tryhard /b/ shit since forever, or an indication that my ironic funposting wavelength got desynched."

"They got here in February and they won't leave."

During the freeze, half-convinced the Questions board was gone for good, the Warosus first regrouped at [s4s] and desuarchive's /qa/ghost, prompting desumin (also known as this wiki's dear leader) to create the /meta/ - Meta board. The inner circle and the new recruits gathered at a new #qa channel in sageru.org's super-hacked Anonymous IRC. In the meantime, !tEEnBROyBk wrote a 2000 words long revisionist History of /qa/ pic while the rest joke that the QA-12 had killed the thing after a meta strawpoll threw a mere twelve results. It's here where the recently revealed originator of the plot, Yotgo, links up with Hibikid who'd go on to become his closest partner.

On April 22, /qa/ just unfreezes without fanfare. The flamewars and regulars reappear as if nothing happened. The clique, now larger, determined to own the place. They handed out their spamscripts to the new /qa/ friends and worked a series of infopics telling posters to go to IRC or Feedback instead of making meta threads. After the mlpol.net and [BR] raids puttered out - the former thanks to spam courtesy of one GR15DF and one hibikid, the board was by all intent and purposes theirs. The lynchpins behind the raid felt comfortable enough to make themselves known, in particularYotgo, who had been OP of several 2D/Random threads and adopted the CSS thread, started donning the tripcode !QAJP/YOtGo since March for his stream threads and updates to the filter megalist. His status as head honcho went unnoticed as, aside of crashing out on chiru.no and the cirnoposters over ignoring the /intl/ pony raid, he kept his trip to the sidelines, only making stream threads from time to time. Nobody yet noticed that, sometimes, his posts would disappear because he kept botspamming and harassing others without the trip, calling random people instigators, concernbros, 8ggagers and all sorts of other names.

It was inevitable that the level of vitriol #qa anons operated on would lead to tensions with other posters. The first major case happens in March: An incensed anon decides to try and bully the weeb mafia out, following them to their threads calling them out at any opportunity, interjecting meta discussions (the poor Happenings thread got the most from it) with incessant references to posts he decided were 'proof' of an hostile takeover: The #999998 failed GET by GRXVDF demanding /qa/ be renamed to 2D/Random. February even took to astroturfing, making stealth callout threads with anime OPs and then explaining to himself that the board was getting raided. This harassment followed them into desuarchive's /qa/ghost and /meta/, earning him the nickname the freak (but we'll call him February Anon for readability's sake). February was however clueless about /jp/ much less what the spinoffs were, and in the end his posts added more noise than context whentaking into account that Question & Answer was now empty of posters except for pro or anti weeb anons. Mafiosos relentlessly mock him, making his statement "They came here in february and refused to leave" into a meme that persisted all the way to the end of /qa/. This harassment-counter-harassment continued for months, well into 2018 - While February anon was the most part harmless, his insistence did remark a trend: Interacting with the Cabal was guaranteed replies.

Little by little, the Clique's hostility begins to burn bridges with their new allies. By May many /jp/sphere posters, most actual /jp/ vets, started to complain that people were insisting too much on old /jp/ catchphrases, offended that teenbro mannerisms, the calling cards of old spinoff troll groups, was getting celebrated as "/jp/ heritage". This didn't sit well with the Warosus, with Yotgo taking to accusations of concern trolling and spamming stock images of "concern" at anons that incensed him. Anyone who interacted with unapproved posters such as /pol/lacks was also labeled an instigator. Non-stop backseat moderation causes many /jp/sies to ragequit after accusing the clique of being a /jp/ cargo cult. The biggest fallout by far was with the chiru.no spinoff, who had considerable crossover with the Cabal's inner circle. Too different on a cultural level to the /qa/ dream they engaged any poster who'd extend their hand in friendship, even joining forces with /int*/ bronies to create OC . Yotgo, who was a visage on the chiru.no chatroom and one of their contributors, working with them to make custom CSS hacks for their site and 4chan, had a public meltdown and almost ragequit himself. It's unfortunate he decided against it, limiting himself to cutting ties with the chiru.no crew. Yotgo's intolerance for dissent started to chip at his emotional stability, leading him to mix up different posters with wantom accusations of samefagging, confabulating a series of boogeymen, first of team4chan with accusations of persecution (just... pretend the botspam never happened) and later of imaginary personalities he named the freak -after february anon- and concernbro after he declared that any /jp/ post criticizing him was a troll.

Weebs and Frogs

Consider the universal rule of Internet Communities: Whoever gets angry, loses.

It became apparent that many posters in the "anime camp" were uncapable of not taking the bait. And if right buttons were pushed, they could even be goaded to destroy their own threads in frustration. After the bumpbot became common knowledge, /quay/ posters realized that the Cabal spent hours cycling out threads manually to "beatify" the catalog. This no-fun-allowed mindset is exquisite to any local troll: With the start of May, a growing troupe of anons took to troll the clique with ugly threads and mocking parodies of their ritual posts. Within weeks they found out that what infuriated the weeb mafia the most was posting the age old Pepe frog, prompting the clique to spam a dozen threads each time. By June this group had built a whole identity around roleplaying a war between frogs and weebs. One can argue it's a deserved response, yet a literal spam war could achieve nothing but weaken the fragile ecology of /qa/.

Before October, frogposting was moderated out by the few mods interested in /qa/. This changes as mods take leave of absence during the Chaos. The brand of Pepe that informs this posse could then be found on /tv/, /int/ and to a smaller degree on /pol/, representing a sort of "casual blogposting" where posting a specific Pepe serves as a call to make a commentary on anything going on in the board or community. With the realization that merely doing this could make the mafiosos pop a vein, frogposters come up with can be best described as a low effort guerrilla war where they make sure there is always a frog on the catalog while they put out comments on Warosu threads, parodying their OPs, their OC, and making a general nuisance. This was met with open outrage by the hands of specific posters already mentioned, in part because the confusion generated by multiple ongoing raids made identifying these organic trolls difficult. Frogposters came and went, none but a few sticking for longer a couple months. Of these, the most notable one was the Easter Frog, a flowery commenter whose calling card was an avatar if /int/'s latest meme, Easter the Frog. His unique, sarcastic yet amiable prose made him a popular target, involving him on flamewars and positive engagements with various members of the opposition. Being one of the more entertaining posters, copycats soon appeared, cementing his prose as the "standard" method for mocking the mafiosos.

While frogs claimed wanting to bring back meta as their goal, their posts betrayed no actual motivation beyond getting their fill of (you)s, becoming another pressure point on the already untenable /qa/ ecosystem. By now even the Board-tans general has been killed, other threads such as the CSS thread -now rechristened CSS/filter- had become venues for Warosus to show off how much they hated other posters, creating an "MD5 Filter Megalist" that included thousands of hashes of every 3D, frog and wojak image on /qa/. It even seemed that the mafia had moderation support, as the mods had the infamous /qa/ was never /q/ post and moved a Kemono Friends thread to /qa/, a favourite of the mafiosos. In fact, there was palpable bias for removing and even public banning frog posts - with moderators assuming from their choice of words that they were ranting against anime and not about a coordinated group of IRC raiders, despite previous ban evasion bans from the clique.

The drama intensifies with catalog wipes becoming a weekly thing (and I repeat, only due to 2-3 frog OPs that were just certain to get deleted by mods). In August ccd0 started using the venerable browser extension 4chanX to shill for the Warosu mafia. Forcing a popup telling anyone who opened Question & Answer that they should not make meta threads anymore, redirecting them to the infamous /qa/ Infographic made by the clique to dissuade metaposters, in all likeliness upset that a few weeks before Hiroyuki made waves again with a thread requesting /qa/ to test the new search function (causing many more catalog wipes). Weeks later, Hibikid (now as !HibikiZODI) programmed his own version of the bumpbot using Touhou spellcards for names while contributing interesting services such as an alternative 4chan banlogger. In October, ccd0 acts up again over the news of google's reCAPTCHA v1 getting disabled, trying to convince people to start an exodus from 4chan towards spinoffs. /qa/ became a bit famous for the never ending war, even inspiring a lurking drawartist to depict /qa/ as meidos playing with frog and bot muppets.

The first big upheaval of the "war" came not by the hand of either party or even the mods but by the hand of Hiroyuki's unwitting intervention. In October the disastrous banning of discussion about the NeoGAF forums on /v/ caused the board to rebel, with their protests making it to /qa/ and hiroyuki's twitter. By what seems to be sheer luck, Hiroyuki finds the /qa/ NeoGAF threads and decides to intervene by reversing team4chan's decision, upsetting the mods who were not used to being wrong. The next day he compromises with the mod's unspoken ban of meta threads by listing /qa/ as the Official 4chan Meta Board. Now they were able to put any meta thread through the humiliation ritual of having them sent to /qa/ to die in an instant from lack of attention, as not even OPs were willing to jump boards. The listing caused the Cabal to panic as their board lost it's secret club status - and therefore a lot of value in their eyes. The frogs celebrated, declaring this their victory (where they did absolutely nothing of note but maybe stress out one fat virgin). From here on, the joke has run it's course and the number of frogposters starts to shrink. The weebs accept their defeat and satisfy themselves by making a second #qa at irc.rizon.net in January 2018.

It's around this point that moderation realizes something was up. The lynchpin of the clique, Yotgo, had begun to catch too many IP wipes (like from having his browser fingerprinted) and his antics were at last linked to his tripcode, getting it banned till 2025. He insisted on his threads, his mask of goodwill getting chipped away as he kept getting wiped every time he mentioned CSS hacks. In December and January Warosu posters started getting stomped down by moderation, while Yotgo's user agent gets put on a list over his constant cries of persecution and complete insistence on not changing his posting habits. In the first week of December, in a thread making fun of him, both GRXVDF and Asuka ate public bans after they came in force insulting the mods. At some point Hibiki too got his trip banned and in January the Tenshi Eating Corndog ritual thread got a public ban - albeit it is not a surprise, already having history on /jp/. This moderation onslaught culminated when the bumpbot finally got detected. The solution was simple: On February, post deletion was disabled.

Depopulation

"A TOAST, TO EPIC POSTING AND SPAM"

The disabling of post deletion, while a morale hit to the Warosu posse, did little to change things. During March 2018 there is a bit of a lull in the spam as most first guard frogposters had gotten bored with /qa/ and with them went most unapproved threads. The Cabal's target shifted from other posters to the mods themselves, spearheaded by the increasingly resentful pair Yotgo and Hibiki. For a while, this is interrupted by the April's Fool 2018 event making /qa/ one of the hubs of the candy teams competition, a respite of positivity -and a surprising amount of staff interaction- within the gloom of the Questions board. Still, during this lull the war's effect on /qa/ becomes apparent: The board was pretty much dead with most threads either being dead-on-arrival meta posts moved from other boards or bot threads by the clique. The few organic threads - the majority of them composed of IRC injokes and blog threads - were being kept alive for months, first by anons simulating ghostbumping through manual lolicon scam, looking to get IP wiped, later by a modified bumpbot which in lieu of ghostbumping posted textless images, making the already cold board feel like a ghost town.

As summer comes around, new faces join the posse. lowercase-kun -oft confused an older sataniaposter- is the nickname of an unhinged mafioso who threw thousand-character-long rants that abuse the term subhuman at anyone who disagreed with him, also earning him the moniker schizoweeb. Somewhere in July, discovering the #qa hangout through their stream threads, a poster soon to be known as Atechan makes himself known. This Brazilian sociopath managed to worm his way into the sageru IRC, where he became friends with the admins Tokiko and Meltingwax - maybe friends is too strong a word - and convinced them to make him OP of #jp. He also learned to botspam IRC and spent months harassing just about anyone he could, including #4chan's official IRC. After a while most discussion outside the Happenings threads were reduced to chatroom phrases and memes, with Yotgo botspamming "boson" all over the board. February anon reappears in one last, desperate attempt to annoy the Cabal by posting "weebspam" on every bot thread, causing Yotgo to counterspam with "schizospam" and "weensperm" on every frog thread (confusing him once again for someone else). After this February anon has had it and ragequits, only appearing once or twice every quarter. Around August a new frogposter starts making threads with an odd awareness of the inner workings of the group, making it clear that Sageru had been infiltrated. This frog (who will refer to as the schizospammer for redability's sake) is just as terminally online as the Warosus and falls into a cycle of back & forth flamewars between him, lowercase-kun and Yotgo that last months. The schizospammer also popularized terms like weeaboid and a whole set of /pol/ inspired lingo to bother the weabs with. By this point /qa/'s should have slowed down from simple lack of posters, but the spam betweem these personalities was forcing the catalog to cycle out threads that should last over a wekk in mere days. Not everything was vitriol however, by the hands of peripherical groups such as the sageru crew, /qa/ got to play on the ancient 2ch-inspired Giko Cafe game, spurring a roaming drawartist catface !!5nDmZtvCOB7 to produce dozens of giko cat portraits and turn them into /qa/'s own image macro.

Of old /qa/, of the board before the raids, the only thread left was the Happenings thread. Kept alive by the clique during the height of the spam - out of self-interest more than desire to participate - it had more or less absorbed everyone who still posted and by now, it was able to float in the catalog without ghostbumps. /hap/ turned out to be blessed with one of the few evergreen topics on 4chan. It's at this point where it begins to rise to prominence, even getting attention from team4chan from time to time. Still it existed in a tortured state as board personalities used it as battleground for their flamewars; Whenever Yotgo, February anon or the schizospammer felt like starting shit did so every thread. Even worse, /qa/ had become the target of the infamous /u/ schizo ACK, who came here baited by tripfags !Akemi and Warosuhitter then stayed as he thought this was a direct rapport to the mods. This had the unexpected effect of causing him to head to 4chan's official IRC and wage a months long harassment campaign alternating between accusing people of being Troid/!Akemi and demanding the mods they fire Troid/!Akemi. Needless to say, it was certain the mods' opinion of /qa/ was not high.

By the end of the year the first fissures within the Clique materialize: ccd0 calls out the spammers for keeping threads living past their course when there's no community to actually use them, causing a bit of a stir. Worse still, Yotgo's most lolcowish habits start flaring up as he accuses everyone he disliked of being boogeymen and the mods of operating as anons trying to kill the "/qa/ community". In turn, there's tensions within the sageru community as Warosus complaing that #jp's 'anything goes' attitude is too crude for their taste - creating a rift between #jp and #qa, leading to textboard aficionados trolling the new blood over their no-fun absolutism - at one point, atechan was made owner of #qa so he proceeded to abuse just about everyone until he resorted botspamming both channels and ownership fell to a very upset yotgo, cementing the vitriol within the IRC.

Hiroyuki kept using /qa/ as his link to the site, deciding in August to get into the VTuber business by making a 4chan design contest. The even was quite hyped and received over a hundred entries, albeit by October it had puttered out in post-selection stage as hiro and anon realized just how labour intensive the VTuber business was. Mid-November, a series of rangebans of mobile ISPs - most image-only - sweep 4chan. It's revealed that soon 4chan was going to split in two: A NSFW 4chan.org and a SFW 4channel.org. The increased Hiro attention also brought back increased mod attention, a few days after the split announcement, /qa/'s maximum threads per IP get reduced from 5 to 3 to curtail manual thread spam and the occasional /q/ post from team4chan, even joining in on shitposting in /hap/, while a certain mafioso gets a public ban.

Upset at the recent /q/ posting and annoyed over rangebans affecting them, Yotgo and Hibiki -know renamed Verniy- have the idea of (finally) making their own spinoff, citing mod harassment making the board unfun. Announced in November and unveiled in December, kissu.moe - nicknamed pissu by /ota/, better than Yotgo's idea 12chan - becomes the newest member of the /jp/ spinoff family - and the first /qa/ spinoff.

Reductio ad Schitzo

"The tip is in and you're feeling the discomfort, but it's only the beginning of the 12 inch shaft. For years, you were told that you had no actual power in /qa/, but you fed into your own delusions, became overly invested in a board staff always had jurisdiction over and deprived yourself of building a half decent community somewhere else."

"They actually thought they had a community."

With the creation of Kissu most of the Warosu clique moves out of /qa/. At this point, Question & Answer had little to no posting activity outside the Happenings thread and the "war" was reduced to Yotgo and the schizoweeb screaming at a single troll whom they conflated into every antagonist the Cabal had, from the freak to all /pol/lacks and frogposter that ever posted (see why we have custom nicknames now?). While on occasion you could see posts from stragglers goading either side, by 2019 the bulk of all anti-#qa posts came from the aforementioned schizospammer, who spent his days /qa/ stalking mafia activity through weekly threads, an a strange attempt at simulating a "general". But there was no general or anti-#qa group. Everyone else had gotten bored or been turned away by Yotgo's worsening behaviour. The worst was yet to come: Around February, the inner circle realized Atechan's constant harassment on #qa was oddly similar to the schizospammer's threads. The matter comes to blows in March as Yotgo bans him from their IRCs and accuses him of being... the freak again, as other posters leak logs of him confessing to molesting his sister. This episode finishes all goodwill between Sageru IRC's locals and the Cabal as Yotgo calls them out for being in line with Atechan, unaware or not caring that Atechan was also spamming #jp. Sageru leadership refused to close #qa, but regulars had grown tired of his endless snide remarks and Yotgo puns had become a popular bullying tactic. Either way, the matter with Atechan spills onto /qa/ birthing multiple 100+ post threads consisting of at best 3 people flaming. At some point, frustration leads to apathy and apathy leads to hate: Everyone involved becomes much more spiteful and aggressive as the year goes by, abandoning all semblance of community activity just to take somewhat creative potshots at each other. /qa/'s fame as a schizo asylum is not helped when, at the same time as the fight club was going on, new personalities were setting up such as the dreaded leto aka unicodefag & foxe, a scourge of /bant/ known to spam zoophilia and wipe catalogs on whim. He took to squat on the Happenings thread knowing that /hap/ could sometimes be a direct rapport to team4chan, meaning he could mock the mods and brag about his ban evasion and harassment of /bant/, /v/ and later /trash/'s /gfur/ - Gay Furries General. At one point Leto tried to recruit the Warosu clique into waging a war with the mods, thinking the site had an automatic botspam service. When he was rejected he decided to wipe /qa/'s catalog in their name, thanking them for the "bumpbot" just to get back at them. On top of that, around the tail end of 2018 barneyfag began to get harassed by what seemed to be a coordinated group, making threads every month testing his image recognition capabilities. By late 2019, the bulk of these posts were located on /qa/, taking advantage of the lack of janitors to shoot out each other while mocking Lee.

Kissu's initial reception didn't feel too hot either. Verniy wasn't well suited to his admin role as newcomers soon find out how moody and ban happy he was, having frequent outbursts on #qa a channel he grew to resent. The site advertising on the (the last remaining) spinoffs was not well received, causing /ota/ to taunt them on both /qa/s from time to time. Dramas happen, Atechan took to harassing them in their turf, and later there was a fight with a discord server called /mahou/ regarding lolicon discussion getting banned that ended up spilling over to /qa/. Another drama involves 10gu of /japan/ - an otaku board exiled from 8chan's successors that took refuge on Kissu but got booted over a fight with it's leadership. Many posters resent Verniy - now nicknamed Vermin - over his explosive bouts of antagonization and liberal application of the banhammer. However the site keep strutting on, having a number of UI reworks and installing a cytu.be fork - which never got spamfiltered, but it was rare to see it posted without having a mod say hi.

The situation on Question & Answer kept deteriorating. April's Fool 2019 had some activity, but nowhere near the level the previous year had. In April ccd0 pushes 4chanX to change the board title to /qa/ - 2D/Random and in June makes it so threads moved to /qa/ have their "This thread was moved to..." modpost changed try and dissuade anons from posting. /qa/ was not immune to site fads either: By mid 2019 new forms of spam appear, little by little, new reaction faces and this-is-you posts such as the "soyboy" face started making themselves known and even the infamous logposters of /b/ paid a couple visits. Not all was gloom and doom. /hap/ was now one of the most active threads on the catalog and a source of some of the highest quality meta discussion on the site. With new players and a steady source of migrants, Both frogspam and animespam begins to take a sideline to general, or maybe generic threads - albeit nobody could outpost the schizo brigades yet. Speaking of schizos: lowercase-kun's longer and longer, seemingly intentional incomprehensible tirades started to weird out even the clique as he seemed unable to press the "off" button. The situation with Atechan boils over again in June with him getting his nudes posted, causing another wave of +100 post flamewars. Atechan didn't take this sitting and ups the ante with his manual frog spam, harassing the mafia non-stop 'til the end of the year. By now, there wasn't anyone left on Question & Answer - that is, /hap/ and no one else - that wasn't aware of these personalities and they no longer put up with their nuisance, calling them out whenever they showed themselves outside their threads. With relations with the few /qa/-related groups, sageru and /hap/, thoroughly fucked, the weeb mafia had turned the entire board against them. All 10 of them.

In September, a new wave of moderation attention sweeps by - an educated guess could attribute the cause to /hap/ getting somewhat popular within team4chan. This time it was short and direct: Tired of the bumpbots, mods impose a 7-day autosage on /qa/, ending all zombie blog threads and ritual posts the clique kept alive for months at a time. Hours later most remaining Cabal threads get force archived and draconic rangebans sweep the board, affecting yotgo, atechan and unrelated anime OPs. This ends the war, causing Yotgo to throw the towel and concede defeat, making a farewell thread where he posts the final version of his filter megalist and accuses everyone not him of "ruining" /qa/, resulting in a cathartic dogpile where every meta, off-topic and even kissu poster left came by to tell him what's what. When he turned off the spambot /qa/'s ppd falls down 1/3rd in a single day, astonishing everyone. Of course a graceful exit would be too dignified for the man who spent years whining about people not doing what he liked; and he and his buddy Verniy go on to spend months spam advertising kissu out of spite.

Lull Period

Sep. 2019 to Apr. 2020

With the great botspammer out of the way, /qa/ slows down and reaches a short lived state of serenity.

Modicum of Peace

Just because Yotgo turned off the bot doesn't mean problems end. But things do calm down. Anime spam threads go away, replaced by more inane but workable off-topic shitposts. The effects of kissu's years-long spat left the Questions board desolated and with a markedly different posting culture; It's now a SFW off-topic board where /qa/cks now prefer to "chat" through OPs since it's slow enough that one quick glance at the catalog lets you know everything that happened that day. On average organic threads can hope to get 5 replies at best unless something exceptional happens. Truth be, this lull period sees little real movement and a community for the post-Warosu era can only be described in the vaguest sense, albeit it never lacked anons who'd swear by /qa/ even now. This second generation off-topic posters still remember the board's history to some extent, all the classics of the /jp/sies - sachiko, nipa, touhous, bernkastle continue to get reposted from time to time together with frogs and other rarities, do you have a question remains the default catchphrase, albeit /qa/'s board-tan has been all but forgotten. Meta threads are a common but ignored sight, discussion leans less on 4chan history or meta topics and more towards commenting - often complaining - about trends on a 4chan that has once again began to change beyond recognition. Karens continue their cycle of screaming at the wall demanding the poor wall to do something, getting banned on occassion.

/qa/ was not immune to the rise of Discord cliques that dominated Yotsuba's off-topic communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, plague that coincided with April's Fools to breathe some renewed attention on /qa/. Strewn over the catalog you can see little pockmarks and ritualposts from groups were already present since 2019 and had gotten way more intense between February and March. Some are harmless such as the Trans Rights felix spammer (also known on /bant/ and other boards) while abrasive trends like nu-male / soyboy shitposting and to a much lesser degree sneedposting beach on /qa/ every once in a while. The former makes itself known around August, after a raid group forms around the spam one A24 Slow Burn cinema critic who has been trying to convince /tv/ that The Witch sucks since 2017 and had upped the ante in the last couple month, spamming /tv/ with soyboys every day, and his pupil Chad, a prolific spammer who crosposted on /qa/ and who by August had garnered a whole clique of copycats. Thus soyboy / Gigachad shitposting goes from a couple threads every other week to a permanent mark in the catalog. By April, Chad's influence starts importing soyduels - A bizarre game of greentext chicken he's been trying to force on /qa/ since May 2019 but only took root in /tv/ two quarters later. His success was such that other off-site groups (whose hangs out were never known) had begun to add soyjaks to their raid repertoire, hitting /qa/ with them a few time. Older /qa/ groups like the troupe of leebaiters (by now known as the leecord) had grown increasingly active as lee was growing increasingly inactive. Noticing his absences they developed a strange performance where they play-act both baiting barneyfag and posting as barneyfag, going as far as to program (borrow?) their own versions of the tools barneyfag uses to identify depibooru reposts, all this on top of baiting the scarcening appearances of the real Lee - At some point in first half of 2019 the lion's share of barneyfag posts where by this leebot. Atechan returned one last time to spat with the trans right spammer, causing other anime posting passerbys to troll him in turn, but by this time he was too far gone to even notice they were different people.

Meta Thread Neé Meta Board

"Just wanted to let you know you are a retard. I'll see on you on /qa/" - Moderator Cygnus

The 4chan Happenings thread is at it's peak of popularity - albeit still slow enough to hit the 7 day autosage. Having survived years of abuse from the all the mentioned kinds of groups, it arose from the ashes of /qa/ with a budding culture, injokes and even content creators of their own. By the end of 2019 it became apparent moderators were lurking as rulebreaking crosslinks get axed minutes from being posted. After anons point this out, the mask is off and multiple mods show their face to mock or help posters out through captionless modposts or their old trips. With such unique popularity come problems, moderator presence encourages the much derided practice of using /hap/ as a personal report button to experience a surge in activity, leading to stints of personalities causing no end of grief when they get punished for it. Dramas from /jp/, /vp/ and /trash/ spillover into /hap/. This is in turn made worse by the presence of certain mod stalkers such as leto, acting out and sniping OPs on a quest for attention from the staff. /hap/ experiences an unique phenomenon: A steady stream of new posters aligned with /trash/'s culture begin making it their home, blogposters escaping a board getting asphyxiated by personalities, to not say raging schizos. This is not well received by locals but little goes in the way of resistance beyond refusing to use threads by tripcodes such as ῏ᵩᵟŁἐἅϝἓὅἣᵟᵩ῏ !XndHGnsd42. As the months go by, blogposting becomes another face of /hap/.

/qa/ would have continued in this (mostly) peaceful direction if it weren't for the intervention of much higher force, higher than 4chan and the entire internet. The COVID-19 quarantine led to a site-wide increase in posting speed and affected posting habits in manners few imagined, it's ramifications leading the Question & Answer board to have a very particular outcome.

Age of the Soyteen

May. 2020 to Nov. 2021

The COVID pandemic gives birth to a young community of shitposters that quickly snatches site's most novel culture and turns it into their own thing.

Soyboy Wojaks

Starting March 2020, 4chan's posting rate - static since the last great migration of 2016 - accelerates when the Corona Virus pandemic turns every house into a bunker. The Questions board is affected and sees a perfect y=x lineal growth of its posts-per-hour starting April, even higher than the 4chan average. The cause can be discerned: In the third week of April a somewhat prophetic, massive soyjak crapflood wipes several pages of the board, marking the starting point of a funposter migration to /qa/. Prior, Soyboy Wojaks were posted by few anons since early 2019, with /qa/ being used as a lounge of sorts by the usual wojak trolls of /int/ who, inspired by the Swede, have been attempting to subvert their board (to no success whatsoever) by interjecting threads with soyjaks. Independent to these efforts were smaller cliques, one "Chad" of the Slow Burners, head honcho of a spam group that was wrecking /tv/ in late 2019 and a group of (presumably organized) promoters attempting to make soyjaks a "thing" by posting a MEGA collection in /qa/, /tv/ and /int/ to see if they could elevate the joke to the popularity of frogposting. Before, outside the confines of these boards they were known for nothing beyond being an extension of /pol/'s nu-male rhetoric. Now these movers managed to impose a sitewide Soyboy Wojak trend akin to /r9k/'s reinvention of the Feels Guy in 2014.

The impact of the Pandemic had an influence in this development. While 4chan was already having a bit of a troll problem in 2019, the quarantine put them on overdrive. By the second quarter of 2020 several raid groups roamed 4chan, from politically motivated thread killers to the simple funposter looking to get his kicks by dogpiling innocent threads - and they found an excellent weapon in the soyjak pushed by the aforementioned people. This prompts a reaction when spam becomes so frequent it can be seen even on slow boards like /his/, /ck/, /lit/ and more - mods respond with liberal deletions and even rangebans - In short, posting the soy face now gets you banned everywhere, except the oft-overlooked /qa/ which didn't even have a janitor to cull bad threads.

Consider: With 2020 /qa/ being a forum experienced through OPs with little in the form of replies, reporting rulebreaking posts is rare. Most Soyjak threads go undetected as they pile up in the bottom of the catalog. In the months following April they can fill as much as two pages from the sheer inertia of ritual threads. For an outside observer, it is as if the nu wojak is thriving, an unintended source of attraction for funposters who come to believe they found a haven. By May a critical mass occurs with the reinsertion of /tv/-brand soydueling and even a visit by it's creator Chad: Little by little, the joke was creating a community. Soyposters try to maintain their presence on /qa/ to the best of their ability (which is not much, as the board is still a post-wasteland and they could never quite cycle out other threads), several threads are taken to bump limit via Soyduels, Soyjak threads on /qa/ become the main source of new variants and anons start to judge each other according to the size of their collections. In June, the Soyjak Factory general is created, signaling the migration of the original swede copycats of /int/, who have been trying to make a /soy/ general there for months. This is confirmed when the actual creator of the soyjak, the swede, makes an AMA thread on /qa/ in July. By now the soyface glass-bottom populating the catalog combined with the growing intensity of the Discord Wars lends a notoriety to /qa/ in a time where an overpopulated Yotsuba looks for venues of venting excess anxiety. Thus a trickle of new posters turns into a linear, sustained growth that shows no sign of stopping.

Now established, Soyjak posters develop a distinct culture, taking bits, pieces and ideas from all the movers of 2019. The culture coalesces into one of image collectors with a penchant for assaulting threads and boards in a way not too different from 2012's ironic shitposting era - not just parodying the culture war they decoupled from, but parodying the idea of shitposting itself. They do not identify as anything more complex than run off the mill funposts until June, when one anon takes to blogging his antics uploading soyjaks on Know Your Meme until he got banned for being obnoxious, inspiring a posse of imitators to flood KYM by uploading every single variant they knew of - which at this point numbered easily on the four digits and had new ones posted every week. It's here where soyjak posters come to see themselves as distinct from the mere act of soy posting, their self-image focuses on two things: Collecting 'jaks and raiding. The success of the KYM raid further serves as a source of advertising both in-site and off-site for the tentative subculture, a peculiar synergy in this time of Quarantine where the Internet was getting used full-time by all demographics. Two months later, soyposting goes from mascara smear at the bottom of /qa/'s catalog to a solid third of it. By September anons had already made a soy oriented Imageboard, soyjak.party, and a Booru. Created on little more than a whim those sites become the safehouse of the now rechristened 'jakkers looking to repeat the glory of the KYM raid.

Their impact on /qa/ is palpable: Question & Answer becomes the fastest off-topic board by an order of magnitude not in posts but in sheer quantity of created threads - and one of the youngest boards in terms of actual age. From October onwards it grows beyond just posting 'jaks and becomes the hotspot of a new generation of anons who set their eyes on carving the abandoned board into a place of their liking - and have to take care to not take things too serious if don't wish to have their threads relentlessly mocked with (former) numale spam. Soy purists on the other hand divide their time between developing their culture in the Sharty's /soy/ board and testing it in 4chan, while local injokes that grow popular end up imported to their own /qa/ clone. By the time the now commonplace Cobson variant is introduced, Soyjak Party culture had distinguished itself from the Kway in full and goes on to evolve in a parallel direction with even the Swede expressing surprise at the forum's explosive growth. A curious development occurs in March 2021 with the creation of a Soyjak Wiki that sees the Sharty turn towards an overarching creative endeavor, documenting their own history and coming up with a shared mythos for all their OCs. A definite sign of the average age of the community being sub-16, but at the same time it managed to persist and become a cherished tradition within the soysphere. The interplay between 4chan and the Sharty forums doesn't stop: By the turn of 2020 the fledging website had popularized dozens of variants and "breeds" of wojak from the troonjak (and the Chud appropiated from /pol/) used by obsessive spammers to the whimsy fruitjak, providing a non-stop flow of soy macros that populate the catalog and remix with homegrown trends.

/qa/ - Question/Random

"There's Deinotherium Winkerbean! Over here, Deino!"

With the establishment of the 'jakkers comes renewed attention to /qa/ and once again to the fact that it's an empty SFW off-topic board just there for the taking. Summer 2020 Question & Answer sees the open season posts of the October Chaos make a comeback as the modern era's funpost mainstays take the reins. A carnival of Pepes, Sneed, Lees, Gigachads, Trans Rights Catgirls and more parade around the catalog challenging the (non-existent) jannies. In the third quarter of 2020 the forum sees a transformation in all possible directions, first and foremost seeing a return to form in terms of replies (when they are not taken to bump limit by soyduel spam) and a new batch of ritual posts. That trident of infamy - Discord Wars, Soyjak raids, the Pandemic - made "/qa/" a household name as anons, attracted first by widespread bouts of 'jak raids and later by high effort OC such as mysterious Soy grotesques (as the Party had turned to complex, high effort content reminiscent of /r9k/'s Princess Points and Scatological Pepes of 2015) discover the forum and become enamored with the freedom provided by the board's anything goes atmosphere. In short, it proves immensely attractive to a generation of young 4channers drowning in their own free time.

By mid 2021, Question & Answer had, by all intents and purposes become, a miniature version of old /b/ brimming with board culture. A new batch of ritual threads, homemade memes, community games, catchphrases and a growing catalogue of Original Content were redefining the Kway landscape. Word of mouth attracts new groups of posters such as an entire K-Pop general focused on a single woman,, memes imported from other boards and a repertoire of lolicon, trans and anime posting (you) farmers. By far, catchphrases are the most prevalent and beloved activity within the new culture, counting several dozen popular ones and twice as many attempts at creating and twisting new variations.

Unlike previous "/b/-lites" such as /pol/, [s4s] and /r9k/; /qa/ was much closer to /b/'s description as a "Lazy swamp of creativeness" than a modern cabal or identity dominated board. There was no such thing as approved or unapproved content, and anyone was free to post whatever they wanted albeit always side by side with the -again rechristened- soyteens who represented the lion's share of activity, who'd often reinvent or subvert jokes to screw with other locals. Other events helped the forum's growth, one such being the fact that all other off-topic boards and even some that weren't off-topic were being held hostage by chatroom cliques, little servers on Discord waging literal turf wars against each other as they try to dictate how their board's culture should look like.. Attempts by these groups to force themselves into the board generally failed, trying to force the culture to think a certain way just didn't work - like pissing in an ocean of piss. Around April 2021 traces of the Discord Wars on the Questions board can be seen through various groups - the largest being the resurrected leebaiter clique that had become adopted by locals as board culture - had social fights with other groups that spill over into the board. By the tail end of /qa/'s life, almost by Winter 2021, relations between soyteens and this somewhat waning 4chan discord sphere - in particular femboy / trans ritual posters - turn sour these Cabals start encroaching on the Sharty's websites, with the former growing convinced they were being subverted by "tranny pedos". The final months of /qa/ saw flashes of micro civil wars burn through several threads as these groups tried to bully each other out of the forum.

Sharty Raids

"There's a decent, I hope, guy left, the one who's made the trio edits (singing trio, etc.) but besides him, most of it is just some shitspam for attention, propaganda and even posts encouraging schizophrenic people to hurt themselves. Don't be surprised if soon it will be the only type of soijak posts left."

The seed planted by Chad's Slow Burners had germinated - Within the safety of the Sharty what can be best described as an horde of little kids determine to make a name of themselves through coordinated raiding. This leads to a sequence of, by the Party's own count, over 20 formal raids -announced and planned for in /raid/- between Sep. 2020 and Nov. 2021, spread not just on 4chan but on multiple Imageboards and social media sites, not counting ad-hoc threadbombings by soyteens spread throught /qa/ and 4chan. While at the start they are just pathetic - little more than children manual-spamming on their phone and declaring their bans an act worthy of history books, their notoriety - and some early successes - encourages larger and larger crapfloods. The /jp/ & 8chan spheres and their bloated, abandoned forums become the target of multiple catalog wipes. Sometimes raids are announced post-fact, performed by a single kid desperate to fit in with the crew at /soy/. Most successes, however, should not be attributed some sort of soyteen wit, but to the decrepit state of imageboards in an Internet that no longer has a need for independent decentralized hangouts; The tread of time and lack of activity saw these forums fossilize with even their owners forgetting about them - IBs that aren't hit by 'jakkers were bleeding to death either way as illegal content spambots tire the owners out. By summer 2021, the sharty starts accruing a tally of victims who closed their sits over their spam: Desuchan, ZoomerChan, voxpopuli, and to the shock of the 4chan old guard 1chan, the trains IB funded by one of the first 4chan devs thatdog. The teeming iconoclasm did not pass unnoticed, coupled with the prevalence of 4chan raid groups adopting soyboys, summer 2021 saw /qa/ become the "soyjak raid board" in the eyes of 4chan, with every subset of the site having more than one reason to despise them.

Moderator response occurs sooner than people imagine. By February 2021 even making a soyjak thread on /qa/ was motive for deletions and bans despite /qa/ never having any set direction beyond the global rules and meta discussion sticky. Soyteens who had no knowledge of the earlier 2020 wave of rangebans or why Wojak posts could end up deleted engage the staff for answers, who just argue it's because of spam bumping out meta threads. After the intial shock of moderation, the prospect of getting banned adds yet another veneer of excitement for 'teens who would just fall back behind the safety of their altchan. The new moderation effort putters out fast, compared to the purge of summer 2020, mod presence on /qa/ way less prevalent save for a couple formal capcode replies and the rare prank on /hap/. The culture cultivated by soyteens was left to grow ripe and soon every anon that could find entertainment in internet warfare was filling the ranks of the Party. With only a handful of mods, team4chan could scarcely afford the time and interest to rinse Kway culture.

Trying to stop it through mere thread deletion was no longer enough. While recent implementations of browser fingerprint bans and anti-flood detection - speculated by /hap/ to be product of harassment by a certain unicode-using furry spammer - never quite let the sharty wipe any 4chan boards, neither did it stop them from trying. Worse: At no point did /qa/ ever stop growing, in October it had reached an historical peak of around 8000 PPH, a speed that let it compete the lower rungs of on-topic the 4chan ecosystem. This state of affairs hasn't been sitting well with the upper echelons of team4chan at all; fixing a several pages worth of board wipe attempts requires restoring the board from archives by hand, translating into a notable increase in moderation workload. In the end, team4chan's refusal to acknowledge /qa/ as a potential off-topic board and delegate janitors played once again against them. Come Fall, management's patience had finally ran out. In November 3 the sharty raids and wipes half of /lgbt/, and with the real culprit out of reach, team4chan enacts collective punishment and freezes /qa/.

Freezing, Dispersal & Deletion

Nov. 2021 - Apr. 2025

/qa/ has finally achieved it's dream of having a board culture. At the ultimate price.

Stragglers Again

The death of /qa/ was a shock to the Sharty. An immediate attempt at colonizing /bant/ occurs while a payback raid is in the plans. Both buckle fast with the raid going the way every other 4chan crapflood by the sharty had gone: 3 pages of manual spam then banned. Soyteens swear revenge. While just empty words by teenaged shitposters, the November Massacre or Great Soyset as they took to name it became one of the cornerstones of the ever growing post-ironic mythos developed by 'teens. Outside the soysphere, Kway locals mourn. Threads lamenting the board surface all across the site, rebuked by anons still upset at the "raid board"'s laundry list of slights. In effect homeless and with no group in 4chan willing to tolerate them over their association with 'teens, the reformed /qa/ culture dies an early death - like all previous attempts - as most posters disperse and the more headstrong of the group bunker up in the Soyjak Party. There, it becomes apparent that having to share a site with all the off-topic posters of Question & Answer was not going to work. The site's old guard, already showing hints of a Purity Spiral after the debacle with the 'cord cabals, denounces all /qa/-tier ritual threads as NAS aka Not a Soyjak - a term used in the SoyBooru for determining what content was allowed - and convinces Soot to quarantine them to /qa/. This signals the beginning of a sharp division between off-topic and on-topic posts that becomes a staple of Sharty culture: /soy/ on one side and /qa/ on the other, roleplay camps who'd routinely try to wipe each other's catalog. Of course, with the former having homefield advantage, posters who choose the /qa/ side would often find themselves on the hard end of a janny hammer.

As for the on-topic posters of /qa/, that is, the Happenings Thread: As they have effectively been taken over by the /trash/ emigres of 2020, the thread first remade in /trash/ - which is also flooded with hapless soyteens and personalities. Other attempts at recreating the general were made at /bant/ and [s4s] which go unreplied and abandoned. Their sister general /nah/ is nowhere to be seen on /trash/ - the new local blogposters are now free to impose their habits on the poor metaposters who become hostages in their own thread. /hap/, having survived almost 7 years of non-stop raids, mod pranks, /q/ karens, and even the death of is own board, had somehow found itself in yet another rollercoaster of incomprehensible bullshit.

Epilogue: Where is Everybody now?

All of /qa/ is concentrated on the 4chan Happenings thread. The initial tenure on /trash/ is explosive, as having the entire board on one place was untenable. Months of funposting ensue until the new stragglers get bored and leave. Once a calmer environment, /hap/'s stay in the Off-Topic board adopts a cycle akin to a sine curve; Oscillating as slow periods of metaposting contrast with month long episodes of pure chaos. By the end of 2022, the influence of /trash/'s natural fauna starts affecting thread culture when the community attracts local board personalities who trip themselves trying to turn the general into their porn blog. The thread becomes dominated by an avatarfag and namefag circlejerk, including once again Leto who took to advertise his ban evasion service when not trying to get the mods' attention. In 2022 there's a leak of /j/ screenshots on the sharty, causing a massive flood of soyteens who raid the place as if possessed by some ancestral memory - however post-raid, the place appeals to them and some choose to stay as incessant dramas within the Party had tired them out. The turn of 2023 comes hang-by-hang with avatarfag blogs, soyteen funposters and Leto's discordian cabal, the influence of these groups sees the /hap/ community find itself much closer to the "underground" internet than actual 4chan meta. Conversation shifts towards Discord grooming gangs, deranged site personalities, kiwifarms lolcows and circus perfomance of accusing each other of being one of them. The situation implodes in the second quarter 2024 when metaposters tired of non-stop drama make a run for it, moving to /r9k/ and later /bant/. Despite some moderation interference, the move is successful. Attempts to turn trash/hap/ into /nah/ come by but blogposters are unable to keep a thread alive by themselves, dying in the first months of 2025. On /bant/ the Happenings thread gets much slower, but distinctly on-topic. It is to this day that /hap/ remains team4chan's favorite gossip grounds, with moderator pranks pockmarking every year of the post-/qa/ era.

Soyteens continue their meteoric increase in size and influence following a /b/-like evolution: Their culture becomes internet-famous and the sharty grows to be the second largest imageboard on the Internet. Soyteen culture moves up to Social Media and even real life with teenagers adopting the ironic cringe. However middle schoolers can be amused by internet pranks for so long - by the turn of 2023 turn the community goes through a lull and turns to private chatrooms (neé Discord and Telegram) to build personal connections which are... not the highest quality given the posterbase of the Party. Already showing signs of it before the freezing of /qa/, 'jakker culture is slowly encroached by the post-COVID Internet underground, one dominated by infamous larpercore groups that lure the hapless into blackmail situations, self-harm and even murder. One such Discord group, KolymaNET, ran by a collector of imageboards known as Kuz, forces soot to sell him the Party in mid 2022 and causes a period of open war where soyteens splinter into several spinoffs and private chats, all of which raid each other with illegal content and attempts at doxxing. Years of strife caused by abusive chatroom-linked administrators and CSAM spam turn the sharty into moral hardliners who direct their attention to whoever they deem degenerates, many having seen the effects of such groups on their own peers.

In 2023, an injoke of an injoke had developed within a soyjak spinoff called the Jakparty.soy into it's own webstite, The Frog Pond. Soysphere frogposting is heavily informed by a strange cultural memory of Atechan's brand of insanity and the long forgotten Kekistani mythos. Armed with this, the Pond roleplays a guerrilla war with the Sharty up to the point of CSAM flooding the imageboard and getting the .party domain taken down, forcing the Sharty to move to soyjak.st. Somewhere around the line this microculture slash forced meme is adopted by an intense poster who attaches even more references from old /qa/ history to the already obscure MAGAfrogs and rebrands it /qa2/, affirming that RapeApe was rebooting /qa/ with Trump's support. The culprit spends 2024 raiding /hap/, /r9k/, /a/, desuarchive, soyjak altchans and even Kissu, enough to gather a reputation and attract a small number of copycats - however they are not even a fraction of the total post count of the /qa2/triot. Things run their course and the last /qa2/ related forum dies on January 2025 - Trump's electoral victory killed the joke. On February 5 the spammer comes clean on /hap/ admitting to have been behind most /qa2/ posts, confusing more than one soyteen at the sharty who believed there was an entire community behind the act. While a minor sequence, this deranged frogposter is in effect the last great roleplayer of the Spam War. His retirement signals the end of the last link between soyteens and /qa/.

Despite the initial hiccups, kissu.moe manages to persist, becoming the spearhead of a new generation of /jp/ -or rather /a/jp/- spinoff sites. It's soon joined by others such as chen2, Heyuri, Wapchan, Hikari3 and more while still remaining the fastest within the group. The first years are slow and it's a chore to keep the site around, but as the time goes by this new guard overtakes the old guard of /jp/ as ota and hima age out of posting or simply close down. In order to prevent more dramas over bans Verniy is encouraged to adopt a council system - a ritual for the founding triumvirate to hold each other back should the push come to shove. Yotgo, now cool guy continued to be rarely harassed by Atechan - and an horde of atechan impersonators at Sageru - until his tragic death in 2024 - and kissu on occasion got raided by soyteens with distant memories of this site being /qa/ related. Time passes, as the /jp/sphere shrinks and 4chan's moderation policies banish off-topic posts out of all hobby boards, Kissu has taken a leadership role among the spinoffs, the home of a small but budding community. This also led to other troubles, as Kuz of Kolyma noticed them and attempted to acquire the site via harassment and CSAM spam, having acquired Heyuri prior through the same tactics. This war ended inconclusively when Kuz turned his attention to the Sharty, and Kissu was finally left alone.

Re/qa/iem

"/QA/ FUCKING WON"

In an unexpected turn of events, an actual bona fide hacker joins the ranks of the soyteens and manages to worm his way into 4chan by the hand of obsolete code libraries related to .PDF files, "legacy" code from before the time desuwa got hold of development, which together with /f/'s board code and other frameworks has remained untouched for a decade. Claiming to have gotten in since 2024, he announces his hack to 4chan in April 14 2025, opening /qa/ and redirecting the whole site there as he heads to the Sharty to dump screenshots of the admin toolkit and database, leaking the site sourcecode and emails and IPs of the entire staff. team4chan immediately shuts down the servers, causing mass panic and a exodus to other imageboards that crushes the poor altchans' servers in a sequence not too different from 4chan's downtimes in the 2000s, while a dozen out-of-touch journalists make headlines about an otherwise typical hack somehow marking the end of an era. Here's to hoping it doesn't result in actual harm to any staff member, who out of frank spite, have /qa/ deleted when the site returns on the 25th, with /f/ and /j/ frozen as additional casualties. As for the Party, every soy-not-so-teen comes back in awe that almost 5 years of non-stop writefaggotry have been validated and the website's founding myth avenged. Only to turn on the hacker because he never posted a soyjak. Some things never change.

Essays

Tidbits & lessons learned through the history of /qa/

Origin of the Soyteens

A pinch of /pol/, and a pinch of /v/, and a pinch of /int/

Consider that by 2020 "soyposting" was already ancient: The end product of a long-running sequence of injokes coined somewhere around 2013, that hot year when 4chan declared war on SJWs & news media and a meme -meme as in the proper Dawkinian definition of an idea that survives generations- comes to life. Soyboys and Soyjaks were, in essence, the latest development in the decade long process of mocking the emasculated male stereotype that's been plaguing the lower spheres of Internet culture and social media through the 2010s - Taken so far out of it's own context it became a subculture in and on itself.

The roots of this genealogic funpost tree stem from /v/ and /pol/ -boards then mingling together over the culture war's encroaching on the video games community- as they mocked infamous social media posts by men claiming to be "male allies" of the SJW feminist bandwagon, identifying themselves as new males and often ending up victims of cancellations - a source of great schadenfreude. The idea of the New Male was a fad that got it's few public defenders mocked relentlessly until the very term became a buzzword. From there on /v/ and /pol/ took this nu-male in different directions: On /v/'s side, they first relate it to what's according to them the most embarrassing ideas of vidya culture, remixing them with references to an ongoing Soy milk advertising campaign (as a vegan replacement for milk) that was making waves due to the stunts of one deranged speedrunner and one Soylent company's infamous scam advertising campaign that pandered to the New Male. The buzzword became widespread after being appended to the nintendo manchild, peaking right after the Nintendo Switch releases in 2017 and makes everyone cringe with embarrassing unboxing videos posted all across 4chan. Later that year, /pol/ starts digging up social media and streaming screenshots of the fake surprise face and takes to call such people soyboys, drawing dozens of MSPaint parodies in their drawthreads. Politically Incorrect anons proceed to spam these terms everywhere as a replacement of the wordfiltered cuck, to the point the word soy also gets filtered to onions by team4chan in 2018 and later based in 2019. Soyboy mockery is synonymous to this-is-you posts - typical 4chan fare where you quote another anon's post and attach a mocking reaction pic to it. The perception is now set in stone: Nu-males are emasculated, balding with poorly groomed facial hair and always trying to pass as harmless by taking selfies with the infamous fake surprise face we now call the soy face.

At the same time, wojakposting -a 4chan standard since 2011- had settled into regular board culture in a couple places. Past the obvious feelsguy capital of /r9k/, /int/ was also keen on remixing wojaks - oldheads fondly remember them as board heritage given it's origins as a Krautchan meme. Around the turn of 2018 the International board was having a renewed funposting streak, a period of cultural osmosis with /pol/ (specifically, brit/pol/) where they developed the amerimutt macro, resurrected the Gigachad meme and more. There a Swedish remixer who had been on a year long streak of making new content remixes the nintoddler meme with the soyboy face, posts it on int a couple times and forgets about it - moving on to his new idea of stapling ears on the poor twarz horrifying and amusing anons in equal measure. Within a day this soyak is already retouched and turned in a macro, finding itself spread on a couple dozen remixes around /v/, /tv/, /int/ and /pol/ as part of the ever evolving repertoire of anon reaction faces. A bit later, around the third quarter of 2018, it gets unburied and turned a popular meme on /int/ where anons roleplay conversations between one Gigachad and one soyjak via greentexting, which later gets refurbished as "soyquoting". In typical /int/ fashion they try to wipe the catalog with these shitposts and the notoriety spreads the soyjak macro everywhere, becoming a mainstay in 4chan remix culture. /int/ in particular becomes home to a group of content creators inspired by the Swede who spend a good half of 2019 churning out wojak remix after wojak remix.

2019 is also the year 4chan goes through an ironic shitposting revival, this is the point where our soyjak macro takes protagonism: All across the site anons take to post 'jaks in order to mock current trends and contrarian opinions alike. In /tv/, special anons take to quoting the soyjak posts mocking them and reply quoting the entire post and another soyjak. This soyduel is a less abrassive evolution of a previous habit of quoting the entire thread HTML development in /int/ around March. It's earliest appearance is on /qa/ in May and it lingers in obscurity until August when soyboy posting becomes rampant on /tv/. The A24 horror trend was in full swing, derided by contrarians due to pretentious critics praising it to high heavens. By June 2019, /tv/ gets floored by soyjaks mocking A24's "slow burn atmospheric horror" in a raid that lasts well into September, where soydueling goes from a couple rare funposts to a whole ass thing. A trend that would find a home in /qa/ by April 2020 as /tv/ started getting moderated via liberal application of rangebans.

Collecting: /int/'s /soy/ and Decoupling from the Culture War

A closer look on the posts tells things a bit different. Soyjak spam was a forced meme spread by a handful of off-site cliques. These groups were in turn influenced by a specific set of spammers operating in /int/, /tv/ and /qa/ who managed an almost year long streak of activity, imposing their injokes through catalog wipes and interjecting threads. In essence they are responsible for the largest forced meme since that anon who came up with the 30yo boomer.

The earliest traces of organized soyposting begin on /int/ at the start of 2019. A group there had taken to making threads uploading and sharing new Wojak variants and even tried to start - or maybe parody - a /soy/ general thread for a time. At the start it was the Swede and a couple other anons making threads for their variants. Other activities involved interjecting Gigachad threads with greentexting wojaks, trying to creatively contradict or subvert the OP. It should also be noted that International had a years long tradition of wiping it's own catalog to get back at the janitors dating back to the #outlaws of 2013, a reason why nobody batted an eye when a bunch of randoms started filling the place with threads. This practice that took a life of their own when other anons started doing the same with Gigachad images, peaking with a trend that sees Gigachad and Soyboy become a comedic duo. This happens at the same time the Swede was attempting to "replace" wojak with... a wojak with ears, his most involved period on /int/. While there was some success and he garnered a group of fans, neither gigachad roleplay or earjaks were revolutionary and the Swede seems to lose interest by mid-2019. But Soyboy threads don't disappear - By the turn of 2019 Canadian, Finnish, American and Brazilian flags among others had replaced Swedish flags in posting new variants.

The while the development of this "soyjak factory" - a post-hoc name taken from the future /qa/ soyjak general - was at it's core a (speculated) inner group was rather organic. It's undeniable they had a funny bone here and there and the group spawned a number of copycats on /int/ who spread the joke vis natura. '/int/-brand' interjections could be seen making their way back to /pol/, /v/ and /tv/ in small numbers. There's an innovative element to the early Soyjak scene where, in a 4chan co-opted by /pol/ and the ever-intensifying Culture War, the idea of appropriating one of their staple insults proves to be attractive in and on itself. As time goes by Soyjak variants grow more disconnected from the culture war that spawned them. By the turn of 2019 it's possible to observe the shift in mentality of the main movers, whose interests focus on making the best mocking faces and parodying not just liberals but anyone taking 4chan too serious - Best represented in the set of Yotsoybas posted by a Canadian flag.

This group doesn't cease activity and in fact grows more intense by 2020. Their adherents could be seen aiding the ongoing /tv/ Soy raid and interjecting on /qa/ and other smaller boards. Anywhere where soyjaks were posted (spammed) had this group content creators follow in an attempt to convince spammers to adopt the new variants, sometimes hopping in on the spam. This in turn educated the clique in new forms of soyposting, leading to the adoption of the Soyduel of /tv/ and by mid 2020, moving to /qa/ where the lack of Janitors left gave them the unexpected option of making a real general, the aptly named Soyjak Factory. It's here where another hint of coordination occurs, with the Swede appearing in September to declare himself the creator of soyjaks when there's no mentions of /qa/ being a soyjak board in the archives. The Questions forum becomes the place where Soyjak culture centralizes, and the place where soot, future admin of soyjak.party, discovers and later reinvents the culture.

Raiding & Soydueling: /tv/'s Slow Burners and other Raid Groups

The usage of Soyboy Wojaks to mock anyone perceived as "acting Nu-Male" wasn't going to go away anytime soon. On /tv/, one of the biggest soyboy spammers was making threads every week mocking anyone who liked "slow burn horror with no jumpscares" movies like Midsommar, The Witch and the upcoming Lighthouse. Around May 2019 he had gone off the deep end, spamming one of the earliest variants, the James Youniverse soyboy face (and his soyjak version) every day while making "Soy Horror" infographics that included every cult classic horror film that wasn't action horror / slasher. In turn, he inspired a poster to copycat his posts, one Gigachad roleplayer named "chad" took to imitate him and even outpost him. Together, they cause the growing contrarian sentiment towards the late 2010's horror revival explode into a several months long self-raid as they get the entire board to shit on A24, getting banned dozens of times and accruing a posse of copycats.

By July 2019, after the A24 spammer fell off activity, Chad took up his mantle, however he wasn't interested in proving slow burn cinema was bad. He had fallen in love with the disruptive potential of Soyjaks and set himself on an insane mission to prove they were the next big thing when it came Imageboard funposting. Chad attempted to innovate by adapting and formalizing a previous crapflood practice from /int/, soyquote interjections and doublequoting, now turned into a soyduel, a forum game where Chad would counter-doublequote the opponent with a soyjak until either ran out of 'jaks - but he later stated the practice was forced and samefagged and didn't take off at all. He formalized this in August 2by writing a soyduel manifesto, more of a parody of a real manual than an actual ruleset. In August 15 he created the first soyjak discord, The Slow Burners and promoted it for a while. However it didn't take off as he desired and was reduced to his funposting blog where he'd pretend (or "pretend") he was an unhinged schizophrenic. Chad's insistence on soyspam went from stupid to fun - from September to November he gathered a handful of imitators plus the attention of /int/'s Soyjak Factory who took to posting new variants on /tv/ in the hopes it'd catch the spammers' attention.

His performance and the public's response taught the local Discord fauna - /tv/'s Sneedcord and related servers - that soyjaks were excellent trolling tool. These groups of early adopters spread the soyjak crapfloods to other boards, little raids could be seen on /his/, /fit/, /lit/, /qa/ and more from December onwards. Chad and his copycats thus formed one the cornerstones of initial soyteen culture - Soydueling, aggressive parodying, raiding. Without the influence of these groups, soyjak shitposting would have lived and died contained to /int/ like many memes before them.

Migration: /qa/'s Soy Collections and the Pandemic

By November Chad and the Slow Burners ran out of steam. He and his group disperse, soyjak raids become rare and /tv/ returns to middling normalcy. However he had demonstrated just how good a raid tool it could be, and for chatrooms whose status is measured in (you)s and how much seething they can cause on 4chan, this was intoxicating. In November, on /qa/, an unknown group had developed a MEGA collection of over 500+ soyjaks, all tidy and numbered, and proceeded to repost it in all 3 boards for the rest of the year and the first months of 2020. According to one anon claiming to have been from these groups, the intent was co-opting /int/'s soyposters and spread 'jaks them all over the net in an experiment to create a macro that could compete with frogposting. Few from that group would believe how successful they were.

It's during the first months of the COVID pandemic - February & March just as school classes in the USA are suspended and the lockdowns set in - when we can find the inflection point that sees soyjaks go from "forced meme" to "meme" and the Slow Burner's injokes are taken off their hands by an horde of tweenaged anons hiding in chatrooms. By winter 2020, exacerbated by the pandemic, soyjak crapfloods had flared up all across 4chan in numbers enough to be noticed by both regular posters and younger newcomers forced to spend all day in their room due to the quarantine. Little by little, Soyjak crapfloods on smaller boards intensified and raids spread all over 4chan. There's now a group of anons who plainly identify as "'jakkers".

Soyposting reaches it's new peak in March 2020 when Chad returns to the fray and gets /tv/ slapped with a renewed spamwave. The /int/ soyjak factory is also present, selling new whimsical takes such as animal variants and soyjaks arranged to look like barbershop singers. This time team4chan would have none of it: Chad gets counter-slapped with a rangeban and any attempt at soyposting is answered with IP nukes. Faced with a sitewide purge, both amused recent adoptees and the slow burners gang end up gathering on /qa/, whose lack of janitors makes any sort of mod response very limited. It's at this point where the joke spirals out of these cliques' control and takes a life of it's own. By May /qa/ has having dozens of threads interjected with soyduels, hitting bump limit and even continuing with ASCII soyjaks. In May Chad anonymously "leaks" his discord on /tv/ causing a stir. Days later he deletes it and comes clean on /qa/, happy that Question & Answer had become "the soyduel board" he wanted /tv/ to be. He had grown bored - or worried his obsession was becoming detrimental to his mental health - and was now going to retire from the game. For good or ill, his activities and his copycats' carved the cornerstone that would create the Soyjak Party community.

Community: The Soyjak Factory and the Know Your Meme Raid

Pointing down when a coherent /qa/ community formed and distinguished itself from the site-wide habit of numale allegories by turning towards collecting 'jaks is difficult. Even the well-recorded Soyjak Party's wiki is uninterested in finding out when and how they came to be from a demographic point of view, handwaving it as "we came from /int/" despite culture from that board being inexistent in soyteen circles. After the initial wave of soythreads in May and June, things slowed down. The group posting MEGA links resurfaces, more energetic, posting elaborate oldschool copypastas imitating Billy Mays and George Zimmer. A larger, improved collection is made the same month.

At some point, the original /int/ clique realizes what's happening and chooses to migrate to /qa/ in full. There they set up the Soyjak Factory, an actual general for making new variants. Between the months of June and September hundreds of new "'jaks" are made there and soyposting on /int/ almost disappears. In August, the swede himself appears and advertises himself as the creator of the Soyjak, showing to /qa/ the first one ever made. The swede was amazed - and proud - his one-off shitpost created a whole trend. At the end of June, a 'jakker starts blogging his fights with Know Your Meme over uploading dozens of Soyjaks a day. Over the following weeks he gets banned and a baker's dozen take his place. KYM is flooded with soyjaks for months, keeping the "new images" section filled with soyboys becomes a board tradition. It's here where the culture has its first off-site raid and its founding myth. Co-opting KYM's most visible pages becomes a huge source of advertising, bringing in a large number of newcomers to /qa/. This raid becomes the focus point for the separation of Soyjaks from Nu-Males in the eyes of new posters in 4chan and the Internet at large.

By September, the recent addition to the factory, soot, creates the Soyjak Party, a sort of bunker for soyposting. Days later a SoyBooru follows and the soy zeitgeist finds it's formal starting point. 2020 ends with a highly motivated band of marauders running a community dedicated to raiding while the notoriety of 'jak threadbombing makes waves large enough that most new 4chan-influenced chatrooms come to use soyjaks in some way or form. Widespread adoption by Discords in turns creates a feedback loop of free advertising for /qa/ - the growth of this phenomenon is truly explosive, causing /qa/ to outpace 4chan's pandemic induced growth with a perfect y=x linear function. At this point, it's little more than a statement of fact to say that /qa/ had become the soyjak board. Chad makes one last appearance on October 2020 in one of his old threads, brimming with pride at what the board had become.

To recap: The Slow Burners and Chad can be argued to have set the grounds for it's development with raids, manufacturing site-wide notoriety for soyjak-variant soyboys. It's undeniable that the COVID-19 pandemic was an influence in the development of soyjaks by encouraging a sharp rise in shitposts and off-site chatroom activity. It's known that Yotsuba underwent a period of heavy moderation to "purge" soyjaks from the board in March, April & May after a renewed period soy shitposting - a direct consequence of the pandemic. These actions cause the then biggest soyposting band to move to /qa/, already known as a bit of a soyjak-friendly hanging ground thanks to the habitual crossposts of Chad and others proto-soyteens. The point where it can be affirmed to have already occurred can be found in April 20 when an unknown group botspams and wipes /qa/. By this point, soyjak enthusiasts observe there's a much laxer moderation reaction, noting the lack of janitors cripples the mods' ability to react to run-of-the-mill shitposts. From here on there's more copycats than movers, these anons go on to turn the soyjak towards a zeitgeist independent from the reactionary culture war insult it started as. The rest is /qa/ history.

Demographic Summary

Basic /qa/

Core /qa/ posters, the natural userbase of the board for good and ill

/qa/'s initial use as moot's goodbye stream set the nature of the board in stone. From its creation to its end, it occupied the space reserved for meta forum in the zeitgeist of Yotsuba channel. Meta discussion had more value to your average anonymous poster than it would have most forums given that the lion's share of 4chan history is shrouded in hearsay and urban myth. The prospect of having a space to discuss all things 4chan is a very attractive one for people fascinated by the aging site's history.

On average, in an "on topic" /qa/, we can divide the forum in three types, each corresponding to a way people carry of meta discussion on imageboards.

• Meta Posters

The "locals" of /qa/. People who'd prefer to spend their browsing hours discussing the past instead of engaging the present, albeit on occasion commenting about the present too. An activity that can be described as the forum equivalent to birdwatching, their numbers divided between the 4chan equivalent to geriatrics feeding the birds and newer posters fascinated by the imageboard giant. Some times metaposters will get really technical about their interests, becoming a source of infographics, statistical and graphical analysis, their topics may go beyond 4chan and onto other imageboards and the history of the Internet. Among these, Bibliotheca Anonoma members have been known to belong and some embassies where tried, however leadership opted to minimize engagement given the possibility it may create a hatefandom.

• Stragglers

A "straggler" is little more than an random anon with a question. This question could be about their favourite boards, mysterious injokes they could not lurk out the meaning of, or questions about the site's actual structure and function. Many came with good-willed but unworkable solutions to the problems plaguing their hangouts. They represented the essential motor of activity for first years of /qa/, their threads being the concrete filling of the catalog.

• Complainers

What passes for Karen on 4chan. Emotional, to say the least, and more than willing to let others know. In short, a useless straggler that has been hurt by moderation or another anon in their regular boards and has decided to take it out on someone else. More often than not their assumptions are far off-target and they are resistant to any attempt at correction. Truth is, they don't come here for explanations, they come to vent at someone's expense and if no one comes they are content to scream at the void of an empty catalog. Only a fool would give them the satisfaction. However, they were not entirely useless: It's also complaint threads that often get subverted and used as conversation starters for many a 4chan history and meta debate.

By 2020, almost all meta posters were bunkered up in the Happenings thread and the threads by stragglers and karens mattered less and less as the off-topic elements of /qa/ came to dominate the forum.

Off-Topic /qa/

The many communities that tried to carve a culture out of /qa/

By fiat, /qa/ was also an off-topic board. Owed to the simple fact it never had a defined set of rules. At the start when there were multiple active off topic boards, this side of /qa/ was ignored. As the site changed and the old off-topic hangouts ossified, people started eyeing /qa/ as potential playground. It was soon discovered that the board had no janitors, making it a prime target. Many communities tried making Question & Answer their home, but all their attempts where short lived, cut before their prime either by accidents of luck or another community running them out of the board. By the final two years, a semblance of a board culture formed, but it had share board space and poster base with an spinoff raid site that grew too fast and uncontrollable, causing /qa/ to get frozen.

Initial Period

The initial throngs of /qa/ had some attempts a forming a culture centered around meta. This didn't last very long, but it did produce a number of long standing rolling threads. It can be argued /qa/ was at it's most diverse in the beginning, having attracted posters from all ages and all of 4chan's constituent communities. A smaller, younger subgroup took to make personal connections that ended up creating the board's only native circlejerk.

• Happenings Thread

Originally a mix of GET spotting and commenting on high profile events (ie: stickies, raids), it transformed, or perhaps evolved, into the lounge of /qa/ and center of all meta oriented discussions. Spent at least 3 digits worth of posts arguing on what exactly constituted a happening. Survived multiple near death experiences by miracle and ended being the only extant artifact of /qa/'s original culture. The /hap/ experiment was one of the more successful ideas to come out of the original /qa/. The general became self-sustaining as the notion of 4chan gossip ended up capturing one or two anons from every group that visited /qa/. By the time Soyteens arrived, it was in practice the board's hub and chatroom, to the point it was the source of more than one Happening by itself. It brandished the dubious award of being the only general in 4chan history known to have mod-level regulars in it, which in turn attracted a large number of migrants of questionable quality such as /trash/ posters, /q/ karens and infamous ban evader Leto. It is the only Question & Answer's community to have survived all of /qa/'s history, but also it's death, migrating to /trash/ and subsequent debales that that saw it move to /r9k/ and at the time of writing, /bant/.

• CSS Thread

4chan UI customization threads. In some ways a /jp/sphere colony on /qa/, as almost all screenshots were /jp/ related. Come 2017, it was taken over by raiders from the spin offs where it became a filter thread for a certain Yotgo to complain how much he hated everything not /jp/. Here they developed the MD5 filter megalist.

Middle Period

An invisible demographic, the anons that arrived with the advent of Hiroyuki's October where the dominant posterbase on 4chan - And they were going to let everyone know. Having roots in /pol/'s posting culture, their use for /qa/ was indistinguishable from their use for well, every other board: All engagement grew out of commentating real life events or commentating on people commentating real life events. Their culture, catchphrases and original content, was all made with referencing that in mind. They rarely acknowledge the potential uses of the boards for activities not related to this practice. Described as invisible because they arrived at the same time as a dozen different raid groups and in the end were ran out in a few months by the Warosu clique's effort to cleanse the board of anyone not themselves.

Warosus are also one facet of the other half of middle /qa/'s population. Tech-acquainted, college aged anons whose usual hangouts were /a/, /jp/ and /g/, their threads where often NEET and otaku related and their content production culture was hopelessly in love with ritual threads. The type of poster the clique tried to foster, but never could quite retain.

• Sageru

Sageru is a distant descendant of 4-ch.net, 4chan's rival in the yore days of 2005. Unlike Yotsuba, the 4-ch tradition is rooted in textboard culture and the history of BBSs has always been a source of great interest to them. By the days of Question & Answer, most of the scene hung at the IRC network at irc.ageru.org, an anonymous chatroom. Sageru itself was ran by former /jp/ poster Tokiko while the IRC server was ran by Warosu admin meltingwax until being given an unidentified admin at some point past 2015. Given the culture, it was natural that members would find their way to /qa/. Overlap between the /jp/sphere and textboards led to Sageru members inviting the Warosu clique to their network - and innocent mishap that saw them end up playing second fiddle to an overbearing community that hated their posting culture. The relationship turns sour in January 2019 when #qa brings in the IRC spammer Atechan who'd spent several hours a day crapflooding the place. Despite this, they sometimes snuck in their own threads, sandwiched between bumpbot spam, with topics rooted in internet, history or internet history. As the clique caused no end of trouble, Sageru posters lost interest and disappeared from /qa/ by the turn of 2019.

Late Period

It is not out of place to call /qa/ post-pandemic a kindergarten. The average age in the board was at best highschool, with some exceptions. And so all the typical behaviors found in young communities can be found. Fixations over relatable situations (hello, Ongezellig), shame and shyness over their guilty pleasures even in an anonymous community, headstrong attachment to identity, shock at common internet occurrences and more are all the markings of a young /qa/.

• Not a Happening General

The majority of /qa/'s new blood between the period 2019 and 2020 consisted of one-line bloggers, emigreés from /bant/ and later /trash/ as both boards were ravaged by spammers. Well adapted to board culture, but often too dense to handle. They found refuge in /hap/ during that interim between Warosu dominance and soyteen dominance. However the situation became unsustainable and the /nah/ thread was created to offload some of the more blatant off-topic posts. They rejoined with /hap/ during the exile to /trash/.

Board Colonies on /qa/

The forum's nature as an SWF off-topic board made it into a safehouse for small groups that found themselves run out of their home boards or discovered Question & Answer had enough space to house their niche. None lasted for long, most being kicked out by marauding raid groups.

• Board-tans General

Board-tans as site culture peaked around 2014. As the larger drawthreads moved on to other flavours-of-the-month, drawfag remnants of the /co/ (formerly /tg/) 4chan House and the /v/ Winter Ball projects found the recent Questions board to be a refuge where they could ship anthropomorphic imageboards undisturbed. Acting as a hub for the board-tans fandom, the thread managed to encourage the tradition site-wide and eke out a good 2 years worth of OC: Around a five hundred illustrations if not more and two cross-board events in form of the Winter Balls 2015 & 2016. Changes to /qa/'s speed killed the already fading general by first quarter 2017, and changes in site culture and mod's attitude crippled the Winter Ball 2017, marking the end of the subculture.

• [s4s] - Shit 4chan Says

Both types of esfores - Classic [s4s] brand funposting & the cuteness obsessed troupes inspired by [a/jp] were keen crossposters on /qa/. Their influence was felt through exports in the form of memes and namefags and mod attention, in particular swaglord's. Other posters were ambivalent to their presence, but they were not aggressive and contributed large quantities of OC. Contempt for [s4s] grew over time as swaglord ran out of engagement ideas and took to raid other boards, creating a hatefandom all for himself.

• /a/ & /jp/

Their numbers alone were enough to develop a persistent meta threads during the first years, focused on denouncing or celebrating elitism culture and requesting spinoff-friendly boards. Being the cultures closest to the staff, they also had a considerable interests overlap with meta discussions.

• /his/ - History

Before /his/ was a board, it was a lobby on /qa/. Anons from /lit/, /pol/ and even specific communities like /gsg/ - Grand Strategy General have been campaigning for an /his/ board since the days of /q/, something moot curtly dismissed stating he was certain it would just end up becoming "/pol/ with dates". Time proved he was 100% correct. Still, the change of management gave History aficionados renewed hope and cause to spend several threads around 2015 and 2016 begging for a new forum, going as far as to roleplay what it would look like in a couple threads. To everyone's surprise, one of Hiroyuki first decisions as administrator was addressing their request and agreeing to create /his/.

• /kr/ - KPop General aka /yegi/

Due to unknown reasons a whole group of /mu/'s /kr/ posters split from the main general, choosing /qa/ as their new home. They were swarmed and hunted down as soon as they made the first OP, but not even soyteens could get rid of 4chan's most obsessive fandom with ease. /kr/ endured half a year of terrible threads in an unsustainable environment until it dispersed. However it remained on /qa/ memory as yejibugs became a new meme.

Personalities of /qa/

Not a tripfag list. These are local posters that reached infamy by waging personal wars against mods and poster alike, plus spammers from other boards that visited regularly.

If you considered yourself a regular poster and are not on this list, you were a nice dude.

Glossary: 
*Name/Tripcode/Handle - Anon
*Popular Nickname - Anon
*Never Named, wiki-only name - "Anon"

/qa/'s lovely band of crazies

• "Remove GR15 Spammer"

A single poster on a years long campaign to get GR15 removed. On /qa/ since first quarter 2016. Argumentative poster who'd defend his view to the point of flaming, habit made worse by the fact he managed to attracted the attention of thee barneyfag spammer so often people ended up believe it has Lee himself. His insistence on the GR15 hill caused a minor riot that ended up with every thread he made getting scriptspammed. His final posts were around February 2017. The first true personality of /qa/.

• "Remove (You) Spammer"

For the entirety of 2016 and a good chunk of 2017, one insane anon demanded the mods remove (You)s from the site every week. Unlike Remove GR15, he never posted much.

• Catholic Anon / Andy

Old /qa/'s beloved resident retard. First appeared in June 2016; Known for his rants about religion and Reddit (sorry, reddit) ruining 4chan and anime. Managed to get all of the Questions forums of 2016 to flip their lid at him at some point, reaching a level of infamy that would see him still get talked about years after his age cohort left the board. Became the target of harassment by a group of trolls that haunted him well past the point of reader amusement. Moved to /bant/ in 2017 and became known for posting Junko Enoshima from Danganrompa, then had brief stints visiting /qa/.

• "Old /qa/ Circlejerk" - Gun Control Anon, Prose Anon, Meiling, Pikarifag, remeranAuthor !.neWrem.g., Lucas & others

Assortment of personalities that surfaced in the second quarter 2016, most out of trolling Catholic Anon. CA gets led on into a months long flamewar that took multiple threads several hundred posts past bump-limit. This spiraled into a barely comprehensible sequence of fights between personalities that seemed to know each other outside /qa/. Gun Control Anon was a troll from Norway mistaken for female by CA, who then became the object of his ire. GCA harassed CA for months, pretending to be multiple people and making vague references to steam groups, later claiming to have baited CA into steam and doxxed him. CA's lolcow behaviour started to see him get piled on by other posters such as Prose Anon, alleged to be from New York & also female; Known for criticizing other people's prose but more famous for being an avatarfag for Luluco from Space Patrol Luluco. In turn, other posters began getting involved in rapid-fire style back & forth flamewars, including a drawfag known as newrem who ended up in a case of mutual doxxing and short lived avatarfags of Hong Meiling from Touhou Project and Pikari from Amanchu!. Most of them stopped posting by 2017, with Prose Anon being one of the last.

• Pikarifag / sa.ge

Arch-nemesis of REMOVE GR15. In late 2016 he attempted to ask the mods for help with ponyspam and got rejected, then took the nuclear option and botspammed the Remove GR15 schizo's threads with broken text and images from various anime, being he is best remembered for his dumps and eventual avatar of Pikari from Amanchu!, later for making several "how to fix /pol/" threads and hanging around the CSS and happenings threads. His antics resulted in a minor resurgence of the old /a/ Pocari Sweat meme thanks to detractors/circlejerks.

• asukaspammer

Avatarfag of character Asuka Kurashina from Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm first spotted by the first quarter of 2016 but only active as a spammer from third quarter 2016 onwards. He did manual crapflood via mobile-evasion (the classic plane mode move) to wipe /qa/ then gloat after he gets nuked and 3/4ths of the board go with him, attempted to run a bumpbot of his own by bumping threads with "rolf". At the start of the spammer act he was well received for fighting off the October /pol/spam, he ran out of goodwill by 2017 after it became he clear he wasn't going to stop. By the time Warosus arrived, Asuka took to coordinate spam with them - but allegedly never joined rank, at least under the Asuka persona. He was an episode against the mods together with GR15DF and got a public ban in December 2017, point where he reduced his activity, leading the #qa clique to enact copycat asukaspam as a form of plausible deniability. Asuka posted on and off under his avatar until the first months of 2020.

• GR15 Defense Force / GRXVDF !!mQybBQsWzGP / 本物GR15 DEFENSE FORCE !!mkmIzR2cT7O

/qa/'s first problem tripfag. Donned the name in late 2016 in order to argue with the Remove GR15 spammer. Fell in with the #qa clique and spent all his time flaming with the /intl/ spammers convinced they were bronies; His claim to fame is the failed GET that became an infamous reference point for the start of the spin off raids. Got his trip permanently banned in December 2017 and dropped off public posting soon after.

Dreadful outsiders ruining our fun

• barneyfag / Lee Goldson

Infamous /co/ spammer; an autistic who despised Barney & Friends and associated it with cartoons My Little Pony and Steven Universe. From 2012 onwards he imposed a reign of terror that spread to several boards including /v/, /int/ & /qa/. This in turn attracted a gallery of trolls that tested his (long suspected to be script aided) image identification abilities. His most active period was around 2017, same year he got doxxed due to his spam having a visible effect on 4chan usage on his university. By the turn of 2017 he was getting harassed non-stop by a group of trolls nicknamed the leebaiters. Unlike previous barney trolls, this group knew each other through private chats and were also harassing barneyfag off-site, albeit much of their history in 2018 and 2019 is a mystery. Lee's willpower was chipped away as his posting habits slow to a trickle by 2019, and he stops posting entirely by 2020.

• Anti Crack-Kun / Crack-Kun / ACK

Infamous personality from /a/ and /u/. A popular scanlator, he was a high functioning autistic with serious hang-ups about shipping. He came to fame around 2014 when he appended unhinged rants to his translations declaring that any non canon pairing "degrades" the characters involved. When some manga websites such as Dynasty Scans removed the rant, he completely lost it and shifted to dedicate every waking hour of his life to harassing the perpetrators. In 4chan, local ritual threads had him fixate and stalk a number of posters, causing a retinue of /a/ trolls such as I_love !Akemi7npFA and warosushitter !!dApALfIDywS to goad him on. His condition deteriorated into paranoid delusions, coming to believe he was being gangstalked by people who where both secret tripcode trolls and secret 4chan mods. He arrived to /qa/ around September 2015 making wall of text threads calling out staff and ritual posters, later moving on to harass the #4chan IRC and squatting ghost/qa/ for years.

• leto / unicodefag / foxe / furnigger

A creature out of old /b/'s nightmares. Developer, botspammer, homosexual, zoophile, pedophile, and furry. As of 2025, the most infamous spammer 4chan ever saw. His earliest appearances date around late 2017 on /qa/ and /bant/ as an avatar of Nick Wilde from Zootopia. He later moved onto fursonas, one black/red and one white/blue, drawn by FA artist letodoesart. Other signatures included emojis for filenames and invisible unicode characters in his name. leto cut his teeth by botspamming /bant/ on 2018 with a residential proxy list of unprecedented size from Luminati. On occasion, he attempted to bait the #qa clique claiming to have a copy of their bumpbot code, but wasn't picked on - thought he managed to code his own. He later appropriated /trash/, in particular the /gfur/ general, and spammed that community to high hell. Post-/qa/ he hung out with the 2chen /cumg/ crew and by late 2022 ran a fork of the [CENSORED] ban evasion tool that he started spamming the poor /hap/ thread with.

Raiders

Groups who organized to bring /qa/ to it's knees one way or the other.


Only name those suspected of running bots or raiding, this is not a witch hunt nor does bibanon encourage such behaviour.

October Cliques

(2016-2017)
Transient groups that discovered /qa/ through the October Chaos and tried to carve their name on the board.

• /pol/ Bandwagon

The first group to pervasively raid /qa/ was /pol/, as both a shitposting spree with some hints of payback over perceived slights originating from the also pervasive /deletepol/ threads. Attracted by the noise of HIroyuki's October announcements, the presence of anti-/pol/ threads riled up election tourist /pol/lacks who never heard of the board before. /qa/ then joins the ranks of the /leftypol/ boogeyman in the eyes of the culture war aficionados. Post-elections, in a months-long sore winner tantrum from the then most influential board on 4chan, teenage /pol/yps gloated to /qa/ddit of resisting supposed attempts at bringing their board down, winning the election,, getting modcat fired among other things such as falling for trolls claiming /leftypol/ infiltrated the staff. As all bandwagons, it was intense enough to speed up /qa/ by an order of magnitude, but also short-lived..

• Icemen

A handful off-site liberal activists began sharing links to /qa/ around January 2017, coming to /qa/ with the idea that they could convince the mods to shut down /pol/'s He Will Not Divide Us trolling campaign. Their goal is little more than disrupting /pol/ activities by reporting technically rulebreaking posts as GR1 violations and encouraging anyone they came across to "ice" /pol/ threads by reporting them as illegal as the mods would ban the false reporter but delete the thread anyways. This was noticed by /pol/lacks who proceeded to accuse them of everything on earth, sparking thread long flamewars. At the start this passed unnoticed on the mod's radar, they were put down by February. One of their more intense posters, nicknamed Chris and Icefag by locals, refused to leave for months making anime OPs calling out /pol/ raids or otherwise campaigning and confusing Warosu threadbombings for an anime /pol/ cabal.

• /jp/ Spin Offs - chiru.no, ota-ch, 4taba, himasugi, merorin, kakashi nempo & GNFOS/no-you

In February 2017, a yet unknown, off-site connected group of spinoffers invited the Spinoff communities to /qa/, inciting an massive, months long raid by most of the /jp/sphere. The raid turns into an competitive shitposting campaign instigated behind the lines by this clique who used the chaos to try to landscape /qa/ to their liking. The pretense of /qa/ being a spinoff board held on, and /qa/ became "/jp/-related" in the zeitgeist of the spinoffs. Over the coming years, many /jp/sies (most from /ota/ and hima) would come by during downtimes. Most spinoffers left by the freezing of the board, with some flares of activity through the second quarter of 2017 but in the end were ran off the board through disagreement with Warorus, with the unusual exception of Trevor of old /jp/ fame. Only the inviting clique remained; One that would fast become infamous as the #qa clique.

• Trevor / T

Admin of GNFOS & no-you, legendary /jp/ shitposter and spinoff pioneer. Visited /qa/ around February causing an entire mob to follow him there. Had a period of absence then returned to the fray mid 2018. Didn't do much raiding, in fact he just played around, blogposted and comfyposted. Created a /qa/ steamgroup, linked to /qa/ in No You and at one point did daily Youtube reviews of the /jp/sphere. Went just a little bit nuts over it. By mid 2019 he was out of /qa/ posting on ota-ch.

• Satania / Trevelyan

Avatarfagged as Satanichia Kurumizawa Mcdowell from Gabriel DropOut around 2017. He spent his time playfighting with the frogposter clique, who nicknamed them Trevelyan after confusing him with Trevor. He could be recognized by his habit of going around /qa/ rating threads. Left by third quarter 2017.

• Cirno General & Touhou Posters

Touhou posting flared on and off as a side effect of the general chaos of election month /qa/. Many of these first threads are deleted for unknown reasons. It isn't until the February 2017 Spinoff raids that Touhous appear in any meaningful numbers, espousing vague ties to /a/'s cirnospammers, King of GETs, the #jpradio station chiru.no and it's board /cirno/ which in turn had to ties to 8chab. Warosu clique lynchpin Yotgo being a known regular in their hangouts. Verniy later states that chiru.no's admin was the one with the idea of sending the /qa/ invitations to the spinoffs. By late March a much more coherent group forms out of a site-wide wave of Cirnoposting, product of the announcement of Touhou Project's Hidden Star in Four Seasons starring the Ice Fairy herself. The immediate effect is the appearance of multiple rolling threads all over /jp/, /a/ and /qa/, and the presence of a handful of drawartists and tripcode users like Niner. Some set shop in /qa/ where they remain all the way to the freezing of the board. Post-unfreezing, they coalesce into a single thread and make an earnest effort to fit in; arguing they'd be more welcome in /qa/ than in a /jp/ that became dominated by topical generals and a growing hostility towards newcomers. As a general however, they remained by far the best behaved of all /jp/sphere groups, albeit this resulted in some grumbling from Warosus. The group persisted thread remained undisturbed until the creation of /bant/ in May 2017 prompted a migration; the /qa/ thread limped a bit into June, then dropped off the board. In /bant/ cirnoposters would grow to become one of the main fixtures on the frontpage, becoming board culture, until the group degenerates into an infamous Discord spam clique.

• Infinity shitposters

October's Chaos brought /qa/ to the attention of /pol/, which in turn put /qa/ on the map of several /pol/sphere related groups, most of them stemming from 8chan. While /pol/ forgot about /qa/ by the the turn of 2016, much like an earthquake's creak, subsequent ripples may be felt. A number of Infinity-related cliques appeared on /qa/ months later, some exceedingly skilled at falseflagging, causing no end of confusion to /qa/'s inhabitants.

• /int*/, Brony Discord & mlpol.net

The April's Fool 2017 prank caused a stir in /mlp/, as merging with /pol/ to form /mlpol/ was the most interesting thing to happen to that board since 2015. A bunker was created by /mlp/ anons, but the idea of requesting the board back through /qa/ was floated around but didn't gather many replies. In a strange turn of events, despite the bronies' usual 4chan savvy ways, a raid still occurred on April 3. It's later revealed it was orchestrated by a 200 users large Discord server with some ties to 8chan's /b/, a haven for bronies, and to /intl/'s trolling culture. The raid intensifies in April 4 and the weeb mafia opts for mass reporting fake GR1 violations, prompting the mods to freeze /qa/ in April 7. After this the discord moved onto greener pastures and the actual /b/ bronies there create their own imageboard, mlpol.net. It dabbles on trolling and it reignites the /qa/ flamewar as soon as the board is unfrozen, this time opposed by a very angry /qa/ cabal. The raid loses momentum by the second week of May. Their IB remains in operations as of 2025.

• 8chan /b/, [BR] & napvlv

fugthelug was a drawfag and avatarfag of Hatsune Miku, and the female lynchpin of an 8chan clique tracing membership all way back to the Cat's Cradle group- By the time of Board Owner Dysnomia, Fug developed an interest in /qa/ after /pol/ raided it during the elections and linked it on occasion. In /quay/ she experiments with trolling a bit with between December 2016 and February 2017 and does a bit of drawing. Months later, her clique opened a Discord server named either Goon Killers or Anti-Goon and spend their time on a chatroom known as Non Aggression Pact Violating Lewd Voyeurs, or napvlv. Relations with /b/ collapsed after fug got demoded on /b/ for datamining anons, fug moves her group away from 8chan to an unknown, unlisted gibberish board on 8ch.pl they referred to as [BOARD REDACTED] . Months later, in a very confusing episode, her clique imploded and the drama somehow moves to /qa/, making several threads between May and June astroturfing fug and [BR] as masterminds of an ancap themed, internet right wing death squad. Both fug and her detractors cause minor chaos in a desperate attempt to dox and defame fug, posting old 8/b/ personality spiderchan's nudes and attributing them to her, even spilling over to other boards posing as fug. By June 8ch/b/ had managed to confirm her sex and found socials @fnordord and e celeb bullshit that where promptly deleted. A supposed fug's picture from months earlier was spammed everywhere too, but there's no 8ch/b/ archive evidence to corroborate it's her. Some Warosus set it to themselves to find all they knew of [BR], but never quite reached a conclusion. Fug would reappear from time to time on /hap/ all the way into 2020. While a low impact event, the antics of this 8gag group caused massive rage on the "/jp/" clique trying to colonize /qa/, who proceeded to speculate on them being behind frogpost and every single mention of /pol/, being behind the icemen of January (which developed into the Public Enemy of /qa/ copypasta) and being part of a journalistic plot to prop up their careers. Posters from 8chan /b/ and the /int*/ sphere would be seen from time to time through the next year.

Spam War

(2017-2019) 
The manchildren behind the great weeb/frog war. Made /qa/ practically unusable for all of 2017, 2018 and 2019.

• Warosu Clique / /qa/ Friends / /qa/ Cabal / weeb mafia / "/jp/" / kissu.moe

In the first years of /qa/ /jp/sphere posters were just another group among the endless crossboarders, gathering in /jp/ meta threads to discuss spinoffs, /jp/ history, spinoff-adjacent scenes like textboards or just requesting a "2D/Random" forum in-tune of the old Niijiura boards of Futaba Channel. After October's Chaos, with moderator Anonymous-san's activity in November, a new stock of /jp/sie was attracted to /qa/. Enamored with early 2010s /jp/, warosu.org's ghost posting culture (disabled mid-2015) and the /jp/ spinoff scene; with some members overlapping with /jp/'s touhou and 2AM threads and 8chan's /jp/. Asan's firing caused these anons to despise all meta through association with /pol/. In essence, what started as an idea while discussing Asan & /qa/ within /jp/sphere back channels -private chats and IRC, the exact origin of which is unknown, possibly related to 8chan circles, but some of it happened on sageru.org's IRC channel #jp- evolved into a plan to terraform /qa/ into a spinoff board. By January 2017 there's threads discussing running out metaposters and turning /qa/ into 2D/Random, and a slew of pre-planned /jp/ heritage threads began to appear.

By March, it's clear an eclectic mix of teenbro shitposters and no-fun-allowed neurotics had determined to take over /qa/ force it to turn into 2D/Random, citing a fantasy vision of 2chan's Niijiura boards and old /jp/ (which got them accused of cargo cultists by actual /jp/ dinosaurs). This group, calling each other /qa/ friends and the cabal, existed in an ad-hoc form - a few bot running lynchpins with a plan leading on unwitting allies who haven't realize the board culture wasn't natural. The unidentified leadership encouraged them to attack unwelcome threads and make every disproved poster feel unwelcome. The temporal freezing of /qa/ led them to reorganize as a community within the sageru #qa channel. The opening salvo of this secret war was a series of invitations to the spinoff boards to raid /qa/ around February, going on to harass threads deemed "/q/" or "/pol/", which involved in essence all threads that had an "ugly" OP in their eyes. The circlejerk behind Warosu coded bash scripts hooked to a whitelist and 4chan API reader to bump approved threads while "cycling out" unapproved ones both by hand and with the aid of thread-making scripts. If a thread infuriated them, spammers like Yotgo would start up CAPTCHA-bypass crapflood scripts, dumping images and posts copied from archives that's crapflood it 'til it hit bump limit - plus a bit of creative trolling.

In the first month on they'd squat on the Happenings Thread trolling locals then had a brief stint on a Discussion Thread where they'd brag about their spam. After the April 2017 freeze, the Discussion thread, ghostposting and the creation of Desuarchive's /meta/ acted as a recruitment points. Post-freeze they were successful in making the board unfun to other raiders, but locals and crossboarders who saw their honest threads get attacked for no reason began to fight back, taking the form of frogposting threadbombers. The clique even had unwitting mod support, unaware of the spam they assumed the growing anti-weeb sentiment on /qa/ were just generic trolls. This turns sour in late 2017 as the main movers of the Cabal (Verniy and Yotgo) were not sufficiently emotionally stable to not attract trouble, creating enough negative attention to incite a growing number of equally unhinged anti-mafia spammers.

The war heats up and reaches a permanent state of spam/counter-spam and mutual stalking, with the more public personalities getting their casual posts IP wiped. The clique later makes a second IRC, #qa @ rizon.net, to escape problems in the real one and as both were trolled non-stop, a third invite-only IRC. When mods upped the ante with rangebans, the mafia created their own spinoff at kissu.moe. By mid 2019 most members left /qa/ for kissu or left all-together as coexistence proved difficult, the remainers who refused to let /qa/ go - Kissu's admins in fact - saw the tables turn on them as their backseat moderation and threadbombing led to anons capable of identifying them from anon posts and tell them off. The final nail in the coffin came in the form of mods a placing 7 day autosage, killing necrobumping. The clique official leaves /qa/ from this spoint on, spending a couple months shilling Kissu before dispersing.

All in all, the Warosu clique was responsible for several thousand botposts over the span of 3 years; at least 10% of all posts between 2017 and 2019 were by bots with most threads that made it to 100 posts on archive doing so through scriptspam. Their presence was the singular reason behind the enactment of draconic moderation decisions on /qa/.

• Unknown

At least two or more Warosu spammers ran some minimal opsec or contributed to the development of the cabal, such as neo the creator of the #qa rizon & sageru IRCs, vraa and {}{}{}{}. with no identifiable /qa/ posting history or links to botting beyond minimal references.

• yotgo / !QAJP/YOtGo / cool guy

American, self-described hikkimori and lolicon. No-fun-allowed, passive-aggressive spammer fixated on removing anything that isn't /jp/-derived from /qa/, but also a prolific producer of OC. Known to post touhous and participate in /jp/'s 2AM threads, he became a /qa/ emigré around mid 2016 (making him the only confirmed clique member to have known old /qa/), limiting himself to lurking and doing manga dumps and trivia threads. Often claims to have been on /qa/ since 2015 and seen the /jp/ golden/dark age. No evidence has been found. The brain behind the "/jp/" plot to colonize /qa/ which he described from the start as a "terraforming project". He sparks into activity in January 2017, stating he wants to turn /qa/ into 2D/Random as he fears the thread he'd like to make could get him banned on /jp/.

He created large quantities of OC and promoted community projects with the intent to align /qa/ with his idea of /jp/ culture, he also contributed edits and the 4chanX MD5 filter megalist for the CSS thread; Was a permanent fixture on the happenings thread, if only to backseat moderate it. He was later made owner of sageru.org #qa channel and later OP of Rizon #qa, ran a weekly anime stream and became a mod at Kissu where he began advertising that site's seasonal stream.

Spent hundreds of posts demanding people who didn't post /jp/ culture to get out of the board and other hundreds trying to convince anon that "/jp/" and user moderation could only be good for /qa/ - Or rather, his personal use of /qa/. His mental state deteriorated over time, going into rants about user/self-moderation, /qa/ being threatened by 8gag slacktivism, /qa/ having always been 2D/random, ludicrous accusations of being an instigator or a concern troll to anyone who didn't play ball, refusing to acknowledge that his actions where detrimental and describing his clique as the "good posters" of /qa/. When he started getting IP nuked for his spam and ban evasion he fell into delusions of persecution, claiming he was targeted by an obsessed mod; his paranoia and resentment inflamed until he was convinced every shitpost he saw was a targeted harassment campaign aimed to "destroy" /qa/, either by boogeyman called "the freak" or enabler mods that "hated /qa/". In March 2019 had a fight with clique member Atechan that caused a mental breakdown that saw him to around the board accusing everyone of being Atechan.

The most abusive spammer of the clique. He wrote the first bumpbots and thread crapflood scripts with captcha bypass features in bash. He'd crapflood any thread he didn't like to bump limit with images, copypasta and posts copied from board archives, even threads he made but went in directions that disappointed him. He'd attack any dissenters by scriptspamming pictures of concern brands. Forced the boson meme, and after post deletion was disabled, started bumping threads with image spam.

Over time his hostility, lack of boundaries on the Happenings thread and general condescension towards everything not /jp/ saw him become the most well known and most reviled poster on /qa/. His antagonism made him the object of fixation of another deranged spammer who infiltrated Warosu and taunted him for most of 2019. By September 2019, his spam tired the mods out and they set a 7-day autosage on /qa/, causing him to meltdown, turn off the bots and announce he was leaving the board... only to be seen doing his routine gaslighting a couple days later, now pretending /qa/ was depopulated without him. For a couple months after being ran out he'd ad-spam Kissu links hidden among bumpbot imagedumps. Determined to stay here forever.

• Verniy / !HibikiZODI / hibikid / ECHibiki / ECVerniy

Canadian. An avatar of character Hibiki from Kantai Collection. Earliest appearances can be traced to March 2017. Dropped/lost his trip by 2018. He can also be identified by being one of the very few /jp/ posters with 8chan encoded filenames.. By August he wrote some of the spamming tools used by the clique, at least one bumpbot replacement and more; Made an alternate 4chan ban logger, several extension scripts, coded and hosted kissu.moe the third /qa/ (trevor sniped the second in gnfos) and first /qa/ spinoff. He later created qa.booru.org and formed a /qa/ webring with the 4taba.net and wakabb.net admins, albeit both sites shut down within a few months, the formed he tried to resurrect for a time. Spiteful spammer known to gorespam and target 4chan mods via report spam, after this got him rangebanned a couple times he proceeded to spam advertise his site. He also included a special option on kissu.moe to mark threads for reposting on /qa/.

• ccd0 !!Bu9nPEv33rQ

Maintainer of the 4chanX extension since v1.4.2. In August 2017 took up to modifying 4chanX to help the Warosu clique's colonization, albeit they didn't agree in all matters. His interferences were such as adding popups discouraging meta threads, planning an exodus then the disabling of reCAPTCHA v1 was announced. He later expanded 4chanX's scope by integrating tinychan powered spinoff imageboards into the code framework. In 2019 he forces changes on /qa/ to present it as a spin-off related board, later advertising Kissu.moe on the extension as a pop-up on /qa/ saying "Stay in touch with your /qa/ friends". Some of his final guerilla changes were using 4chanX to advertise captcha evasion methods and other spinoffs.

• Atechan / Rin -Also- schizospammer / frogposter

Brazilian. Notorious personality that ran a dual persona as both a Warosu and the dreaded schizospammer boogeyman. He was known to post on ota-ch around 2018. His earliest /qa/ posts come circa June 2018, speculated to happen after he discovered the clique through their stream threads. There he'd discuss anime on their IRC channels while taunting them on /qa/ and spamming threads with frogs by hand, gradually becoming fixated on them until he was spamming everyday by first quarter 2019. As the spammer, he'd post IRC screenshots and insider info under the mask of a frogposter; his vocabulary consisted of heavy /pol/ lingo and coined popular terms terms like weaboid / weab. He later develops elaborate gonzo-like rants accompanied by clown and suit frog variants where he paints exaggerated roleplay scenarios of a war with the clique. He also had access to IRC spam bots which he used to spam everyone, from #4chan and #qa Rizon.net to the entire sageru server. Most of his exploits happened inside Sageru, where he was known to have been OP at #jp and #qa, obsessing over and torturing Yotgo for months.

On March 2019, he was found out to be the frogposting boogeyman, causing a fallout with Yotgo that resulted on him botspamming the #qa sageru IRC to the point it crashed the entire server while waging a multithread flamewar that lasted several months, where Yotgo accused him of being the freak, 8gag, mlpol brony and every other schizo to ever post in /qa/ before doxxing him in June upon discovering his old /ota/ selfies. Managed to get the boson meme banned by spamming #4chan @ Rizon.net. After being ran out of #qa, he retained the schizospammer persona for the rest of the year, making threads titled "let us not forget" and narrating kissu's attempts at sliding it, trying to id posters without directly calling them out. In the end, he outlasted Yotgo and lowered his posting frequency before disappearing around late 2020. According to tokiko, owner of sageru, he passed away in an accident in 2024.

• lowercase-kun / schizoweeb

The angriest poster on /qa/. Earliest attestable appearances date to October 2017, known for pottymouth lowercase posting, mild satania and marisaposting, and unhinged rants made infamous due to calling everyone subhuman. His usual calling cards are flowery combinations of schizo, freak and subhuman marked by his namesake lowercase paragraphs. Oscillates between being genuinely angry and performing elaborate stream of thought shitposting sprees that bewildered frog and weeb alike, which coined him the nickname schizoweeb. He was confused with a previous lowercase poster, the Satania avatarfag from the beginning of 2017. His demeanor got worse with time to the point he was "disowned" by the clique on more than one ocassion. By 2019 he became obsessed with the schizospammer whom he hunted down on every thread attributing every frog ever posted to him. Do not confuse him with run-off-the-mill /g/-brand satania posters.

• !tEEnBROyBk / !NadekoX7Mo

Exactly what it says on the tin. First appeared around April, posted regularly for a couple months. Made the Tenshi "Suck My Cock Dude" macro and spammed it everywhere. Later made the history of /qa/ revisionist post. He ended up dropping the trip and continued posting as anon as far as 2019.

• Kissu Hardliners

Post-exile, even though Verniy and most of the clique were happy on Kissu, some Warosus remained on /qa/ chiming in on ocassion to defend the clique. Few believed their tale..

• Frogposters

As /qajp/ took the bait every single time, /qa/ developed a short-lived community of frog posting trolls who'd spend their /qa/ time baiting Warosus for (you)s. Most of their posting habits where inspired by the antics of a prolific Easter Frog poster, who in turn adapted his vernacular from /int/'s eponymous meme. His copycats were less creative and quite more crass but a source of great stress for the colonizers. The earliest appearances of frogposters dedicated to troll local /jp/sies can be traced to post-freeze /qa/ in the first weeks of May 2017. Come end end of the year, their tactics shifted towards spamming threads to 404 those protected by the clique's bumpbot, on top of their own brand of necrobumping and various hijinks up to making their own OC parodying Warosu ritualposts. Most frog trolls has an activity span of 2-3 months before getting bored and leaving, with the bulk of them claiming an early victory and calling it quits when the board got listed October 2017. Their influence was however quite a bit longer lived as the frogposter persona was taken up by Atechan in 2018 to wage a one man war against Kissu, in turn inspiring a few copycats of his own. Even after the clique abandoned /qa/, the tale of the "frog-weeb war" was taken up by Soyteens who had it assimilated into their zeigeist and reenacted the events in elaborate roleplays .

• "Easter Frog"

An October tourist that made himself known through the /int/ Easter Frog meme (not to be confused by the Groyper Toad (Fuck you nick fuentes)) in the second quarter of 2017. Never pseudonymous, but identifiable by filenames, prose and his interest in spinoff antics. While not the first frogposter, he managed to set the tone and context for the bulk of the frogposting trolls. In essence an avatarfag of the Easter Frog best known for his unusual flowery vocabulary, politeness and occasional playfighting with spinoffers such as the satania avatar. His MO consisted of trying to bait the cliques by waging a low energy guerrilla war where he ensured there's always couple frog threads on the catalog. The tactic was an overarching success that inspired multiple copycat trolls. May have coined the Warosu nickname weeb mafia. He called it quits in October 2017 when /qa/ got listed, but has sporadically visited all the way to 2021, extrapolating arguments from what 2017 /qa/ was like.

• Local Resistance

/qa/ regulars spoke their mind on the damage done to the board but were unable to pinpoint who was responsible. Their efforts more often than not amounted to nothing and ended up mocked by teenbro shitposts when not bumped off by October spam. Faced with an impossible situation - raiders raiding raiders - the old guard left and those that remained arranged themselves into a "resistance" (of grumpy complained) looking for ways to bait the spinoffs into flamewars, before mutating into a guerrilla of counter-spammers and frogposters. Later on, as the war slowed down and some mafiosos went too hard on backseat moderation on board hubs like /hap/, most of /qa/ learned to smell them out tell them off.

• /jp/ Dissenters

/qa/'s meta side had a sizeable /a/, /jp/ & Spinoff presence and not all February newcomers saw things the same way the Warosu clique did. Starting in April when the more aggressive thread spam bots entered play, some /jp/sphere posters concluded that the spam was damaging the community beyond repair and they made their opinions known, to little effect beyond predicting how the whole thing would go down. Their efforts often got them singled out as concern troll or instigators by Yotgo and the rest.

• "February Spammer" / concernbro / the freak

A purported /qa/ OG horrified at the spinoff clique bots. He waged a one man attrition war with the clique since April, spending all 2017 and the first months of 2018 trying to flame their threads and following their activities on Desuarchive's ghost/qa/ and /meta/; All he could achieve was get into fights with his equal yet opposite clique member Yotgo, not because he'd seek him out but because Yotgo was physically incapable of not replying to a post he didn't like. February Anon knew nothing about /jp/ or the spinoffs and never quite grasped what was going on. He became infamous for singling out GRXVDF's failed GET as the start of the spinoff raid, repeating a mantra-like argument summarized as "They arrived in Febrary 2017 and refuse to leave". He repeated it so often it became a meme. He was also identifiable for his anime astroturfing threads where he'd explain to himself that there was a spinoff raid going on, an odd source of successful bait. Further tells were the lack of images, large posts and the February argument. As the latter became a meme he switched tactics, having a brief stint with frogposting and likely popularizing the term 'weebspam', which together with the Warosu counter 'schizospam' became the biggest meme of 2018. His constant presence on Warosu threads often created great confusion and got him accused of being every raider and problem poster under the sun, later netting the catch all nickname the freak. He appears to have ragequit in the second or third quarter 2018, but his impact traumatized some of the mafia who would continue accusing people of being him well after his departure.

• Small Skelly !!RAjBw+iGH/Y

Tripfag from /r9k/, with some [s4s] and /jp/ knowledge, but not enough to know of spinoffs; arrived mid 2017 and ID'd problem posters from /jp/, calling them out more out of hate of weebs in general than any understanding of what happened on /qa/. He spends the rest of the year picking pointless fights with mafiosos who dug his post history and tried to shame his out of the board. He quit posting a few months later as the situation became futile

Pandemic Gangs

(2020-2021)
The pandemic drove many people insane. And turned /qa/ into the playground of one massive group of shitposters.

• Soyteens / 'jakkers / soyboys

Wojak remixes of the numale meme where first created in the turn of 2017 and become a sitewide phenomenon in the first quarter of 2018, attached as "this is you" flourishing to /pol/-derived mockery. A year later, soyjaks undergo a revival pushed by cliques originating from /int/ and /tv/. A limited presence of soyjaks on /qa/ can be seen as early as May 2019 with a small spike in activity in August by the hand of a few stragglers and a couple crossposters from /tv/. These stragglers aren't enough to outpost the local cliques during the peak of weeb/frog flamewars, but they persist on both boards. It isn't until March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic puts the entire planet in quarantine their efforts see fruit and posters import /tv/-brand soy spam to /qa/ as their raiding had provoked a moderation crackdown. This kickstarts a feedback loop of notoriety that attracts soyboy spammers from all over 4chan, including to the original /int/ clique and even their creator, the Swede. 'jakkers cause /qa/'s pph to grow on a linear function and resurrect the board culture; They explode in popularity, move to an off-site bunker and develop into a complex irony culture that is, with some exceptions, disconnected from /qa/ proper. Soyjaks quickly grow too large for /qa/, spreading to other boards and even creating their own imageboard, as they both populate and mutate /qa/, new posters ditch the original irony culture and move the macro towards new directions.

• Soyjak General / Soyjak Factory / /soy/

The /int/ group responsible for the majority early soyjak OC on 4chan. Albeit it is probable, it's was never known if they communicated off-site. May or may have not included in their ranks the soyjak creator's the swede. A Troupe of enthusiasts known to interject /int/ threads with new soyjaks of their own making and later adapted the Gigachad meme into the joke. Active since the first quarter of 2019, they'd spend their time posting and rating each other's variants much to the utter confusion of /int/, however, their year long streak of OC production netted them a large organic following and they came to represent the glut of non-culture war soyposters. Their exact point of origin is hard to place, their earliest traces come from short lived soyjak generals during their activity peak in late 2019. Hints of communication can be seen from a number of posters who meticulously numbered all new images passed around, and they have a penchant to repost new variants on multiple boards in their first day being posted. They also compiled and spread around soyjak folder collections numbering in the several hundreds and tools to change image hashes and avoid filters. A number of them were attracted to The Slow Burner's ongoing attack on /tv/, contributing content and later ending up on /qa/ after mods cracked down on soyposting sitewide. In /quay/, the group doesn't arrive in force until June 2020 where, free to post variants undisturbed, they come up with the Soyjak Factory thread that become the hub of /qa/'s new 'jak posters. It's from one of these /soy/ threads that Soot, the creator of Soyjak Party, comes from. Most /int/ era content creators left by the first months of 2021, as the Sharty took prominence and moved the joke in directions they didn't find entertaining.

• The Slow Burners

Believed to have been the first soyboy wojak raid group. /tv/ raid group named after a blog/discord server made by an anon known as Chad. Inspired by an infamous soy horror spammer, he terrorized /tv/ during the third quarter of 2019, netting himself a retinue of copycats. Slow Burners are responsible for popularizing raiding among soyposters, and Chad came up with the concept of soyduel. Chad and some other soyposters who followed him around were known to post on /qa/ from time to time. It's their activity that caused widespread adoption of soyjaks by raid groups across 4chan and thus indirectly responsible for the ban waves that ended up moving soyteens to /qa/.

• soyjak.party / soyjak.us / The Sharty

/qa/'s second spinoff and a community that developed in parallel and in tandem to post-pandemic /qa/. The website and it's sister site SoyBooru were created in the /soy/ - Soyjak Factory threads and grew to become a blend of all trends developed by previous soyjak cliques. At the start the rest of 4chan can barely notice a difference between /qa/'s soyteens and soyboy spam proper, that is until soyteens posting in the Party bunker start raiding other boards, netting them sitewide notoriety. While the Sharty likes to pretend they alone invented /qa/ culture, it's not a stretch to say that /soy/ and Question & Answer were entwined communities as catchphrases and memes from both forums found themselves crossing website lines. The party develops new mainstays such as the wholesome soyjaks and the troon & chud duo, much to the grumbling of /int/ oldheads. Their life as a raid bunker, with elaborate community infrastructure, community games and self-aggrandizing mythology see them outpace /qa/'s growth. As the two grew in size the Party's raiding habits start growing out of control. By February 2021 mods begin a pushback against their raids but to no avail, leading to a spiteful punishment-by-association that has /qa/ frozen in November 2021. In 2025 the Sharty hacks 4chan and doxxes the entire staff. Mods again punish /qa/ instead and delete the frozen board as payback.

• "/qa/ Archeologists"

Anime and frogs were always background noise in /qa/ Jak shitposts. In April 2021, after a wave of botspam ravages every thread on /qa/ with ancient Meta and Off-Topic era images, a group of jak posters develop an interest in old /qa/ and started browsing desuarchive for tidbits, ghostposting along the way. jaks managed to reconstruct a crude timeline of events, lists of names and phrases, enough to integrate then into the Party's ironic sense of humour. Many images and phrases used by older personalities saw themselves reposted by these sleuths. The extent of the act went to such extent jakkers produced OC in tune with years old frogposter and weeb mafia content.

• Raid Groups - Sneedcord, Trans/Femboy Spammers, logposter, Generic Soyboy Spammers, Official /qa/ Discord & others

The Discord Wars is a popular term to describe the immediate consequences of the Pandemic on 4chan. A large number of off-site cliques materialized and went on brigading campaigns against several boards, consisting of the off-topic quartet (/bant/, /trash/, [s4s] and /r9k/) but also funposting-heavy boards such as /tv/, /g/ and /vp/. A number of these turned their attention to /qa/ on occasion, being the force behind a number of ritualposts and memes in 2020 and 2021. Their reputation collapsed site-wide when some of the most prevalent Discord groups, Reiko's clique and the Pinkpiller servers, were revealed to be involved in child grooming and sextortion. By the turn of 2021, interactions between Discordians and the Soyteens turn sour and the latter falls into a purity spiral where they'd crapflood any thread they suspected was made by "tranny groomers", fight that continued all the way to the freeze.

• leebaiters / leecord / leebot

After Lee slows down, the troll clique that formed around him kitbashed a leebot spamscript with image recognition capabilities hooked to the derpibooru website. The group and potentially the bot can be traced as far back as second quarter 2018, but their activities don't take a unique spin until mid 2019. This clique coordinated both botspam and manual spam to continue the pretense of baiting Lee. Boards such as /int/ & /qa/ were used as testing grounds for the script's image recognition. Starting on the tail end of 2019 they increase their activity and develop an entire set of phrasing and injokes around baiting lee. With the advent of soyteens, the /qa/ of the soy era adopted them as part of their culture, and leebait became a meme. The group explodes in popularity and develops a large number of copycats, some that may have formed "leebaiting" cliques of their own that could have replaced the original baiters at some point. Either the old or new clique, by 2020 they developed a persona in the form of an avatarfag of Don Turtelli from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with pictures taken from an obscure My Little Pony fetish porn comic. Leebaiters kept upping the ante, making several threads a week, paying a Barney voice actor to perform stealth injokes, making elaborate posts pretending to be barneyfag such as making a "surrender" post and an infamous feet fetish post.

TEMP

fat sack of loot: some will be used for the Timeline.

extremely important evidence: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1496/55/1496556790721.png

Punky Brewster !GRG1IWogTk / Punky Brewster !!3KOUpWS64nD -> oldschool [s4s], /a/jp/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/username/Punky%20Brewster/order/asc/page/12/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/username/milkless%20cereal%20/order/asc/

early threads

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/82176/#q82176

/qa/ meta

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/133633/#140088

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/756933/#q757731

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3390941/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/351615/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4331618/#4348772

/jp/ meta

one of the best meta threads ive ever read https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/469585/#

/a/ meta

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/261522/#263640

https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/username/Fun%20Things%20Are%20Fun/order/asc/page/17/

[s4s] <3 /qa/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/828021/

spinoffers in s4s https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5297429/

brief discussion on [s4s] influence: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1248942/#1248942_396

/pol/ raid

people debating asukaspammer -> https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/833874/

sageru raids:

classic that started it all: https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/5XOGOo6Y78jgow5f5t%2FYhw%3D%3D/page/82/

pre jp board wipes https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/836969/#q837077

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1134747/#1135235

anon explains what teenbros are https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1562225/#1562237

early spin off presence https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22suck%20my%20cock%20dude%22/order/asc/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1153551/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1368463/#1368866

2019 anons aware of spammers https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2554646/#2554739

clueless anon discuss raids: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1365400/#q1366364

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1673519/#q1673716

eta about raids https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1363253/#1363627

qa native adressing asuka, frogs and ghost raiders PLUS early schizoweeb mentions: https://www.archived.moe/qa/thread/1374236/#q1374294

/qa/ getting absolutely destroyed https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2017-08-03/end/2017-08-05/order/asc/page/1/

anime posters and meta posters have an argument regarding the bumpbots https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1423884/ meta bunker https://desuarchive.org/meta/thread/742/

meta thread that starts of well then gets spammed to death https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1441460/

bumpbot selections

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1418437/

kissu/weeb mafia gaslighting:

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1934751/#1935668

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1934170/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5180231/#5183023

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3015707/

kissu infighting

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2838188/

weeb/frog meta arguments

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2560610/#q2560636

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2554646/#2554677

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2680044/#2680430

possibly atechan? *likely* https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2702454/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2955587/#2956266

trevors qa review

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1634875/

mods taking sides and switching sides

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1634019/#1657021

schizoweeb

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2554646/#q2554704

late /qa/ frogs:

https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/Q9O6tpu_l_Qg_Iuklay3ZA/

kissu & ota rivalry

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2513058/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2830464/#2830721

anons talking board personalities:

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2554646/#q2554739

happenings caught in the crossfire

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1836697/

Statistic tidbits

old qa deleted posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/end/2016-08-01/

old qa total posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/end/2016-08-01/

old qa deleted ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/type/op/end/2016-08-01/

old qa total ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/end/2016-08-01/

october chaos deleted posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/type/posts/start/2016-08-01/end/2017-02-01/

october chaos total posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/posts/start/2016-08-01/end/2017-02-01/

october chaos deleted ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/type/op/start/2016-08-01/end/2017-02-01/

october chaos total ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-08-01/end/2017-02-01/

weeb/frog war deleted posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/start/2017-02-01/end/2019-09-01/

weeb/frog war total posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/start/2017-02-01/end/2019-09-01/

weeb/frog war deleted ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/type/op/start/2017-02-01/end/2019-09-01/

weeb/frog war total ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2017-02-01/end/2019-09-01/

soyjak delete posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/start/2019-09-01/end/2021-11-03/

soyjak total posts https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/start/2019-09-01/end/2021-11-03/

soyjak deleted ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/deleted/deleted/type/op/start/2019-09-01/end/2021-11-03/

soyjak total ops https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2019-09-01/end/2021-11-03/

Generic info on non #qa raiders

• unicodefag https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/5210481/#q5215928

• unicodefag https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/4781883/#q4782056

• unicodefag https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/foxe/deleted/deleted/type/op/

• bui raid https://archived.moe/bant/thread/5829585/

jaks churning oc like its a goddamn job

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3730452/

frog datamine

apu frenposter from q2 2017

https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/4bJ4WIfEkF7jfoyDC8Xa-A/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/y7JSz4zshH4L-ZRAuGs5yw/

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1471879/#q1471879

/bant/ meta threads / migration linsk

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2987271/#q2987271

Clique refugees:

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2007664/

curia:

>Mass download every image hash uploaded to 4chan in the first two months of this year.

>Calculate the similarity of boards based on how their share image hashes

>Build a chart that shows overlapping userbases

-threads limited to 3 per IP instead of 5 - when= -certain IP ranges banned from saying certain words - ??? -phrases triggering autoban - SMCD? -10m cooldown placed on image md5 - when?