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Breakdown:
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First Meta Period (2015-2016)
First Meta Period (2015/01-2016/09) --> Ends around october 2016
* Stragglers from moot's big AMA stream reminisce on nostalgic memories and ponder what to do with the board. The /qa/ charter gets drafted.
* Stragglers from moot's big AMA stream reminisce on nostalgic memories and ponder what to do with the board. The /qa/ charter gets drafted.
* /qa/ coalesces into a small collection of meta aficionados, karens crying to the mods and anons looking for an off-topic board that wouldn't get swarmed with weirdos and porn. Most generals get created.
* /qa/ coalesces into a small collection of meta aficionados, karens crying to the mods and anons looking for an off-topic board that wouldn't get swarmed with weirdos and porn. Most generals get created.
Off-Topic Period (2017)
Off-Topic Period (2016/09-2017/04) --> Ends by the board freeze
* Sweeping site changes on 4chan's 13th birthday, Hiroyuki's fearmongering, the 2016 US election, the firing of Anonymous-San, a badly timed April's Fool joke and finally the listing of /qa/ cause a massive increase in activity<ref>Increase  
* Sweeping site changes on 4chan's 13th birthday, Hiroyuki's fearmongering, the 2016 US election, the firing of Anonymous-San, a badly timed April's Fool joke and finally the listing of /qa/ cause a massive increase in activity<ref>Increase  
  starting October: https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Question%26AnswerActivitySpike.PNG</ref> causing generalized chaos and destabilizing regular threads.<ref>12 day sample OPs for Nov. 2016. None of the threads have more than a handful replies. https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-11-06/end/2016-11-18/order/asc/page/6/</ref>. By 2017, the forum registers on the map of multiple off-site cliques whose origins lie between disparate boards, generals and the /jp/ Spin Off webring. They discover that /qa/ is, moderation wise, an off-topic SFW board; Raids and angry protests ensue.
  starting October: https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Question%26AnswerActivitySpike.PNG</ref> causing generalized chaos and destabilizing regular threads.<ref>12 day sample OPs for Nov. 2016. None of the threads have more than a handful replies. https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-11-06/end/2016-11-18/order/asc/page/6/</ref>. By 2017, the forum registers on the map of multiple off-site cliques whose origins lie between disparate boards, generals and the /jp/ Spin Off webring. They discover that /qa/ is, moderation wise, an off-topic SFW board; Raids and angry protests ensue.
Great weeb-frog War (2018-2019)
Great weeb-frog War (2017/05-2019/XX) --> July / June 2017 to be exact
* No-fun-allowed rejects from the spinoffs determine to turn /qa/ into their homeboard by aggressively botting up the place and gaslighing all passerby. They are resisted by an equally intense group of locals with seeming ties to "/jp/" who adopt /pol/'s smug frogs as their callsign; This years long flamewar practically depopulates the board.
* No-fun-allowed rejects from the spinoffs determine to turn /qa/ into their homeboard by aggressively botting up the place and gaslighing all passerby. They are resisted by an equally intense group of locals with seeming ties to "/jp/" who adopt /pol/'s smug frogs as their callsign.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1648512/</ref>; This years long flamewar practically depopulates the board.<ref>1 day sample of the peak of the "war" https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2017-06-26/end/2017-06-27/order/asc/page/1/</ref> and deteriorates until only a couple spamming schizophrenics remained on either side.
Second Meta Period (2020)
Second Meta Period (2019/XX-2020/XX) --> starts months into 2019
* Mods figure out how to kill the spambots, causing the /qajp/ clique to self-exile; Frogs impose a short lived era of /int/-like frogposting with a pretense of meta ☼
* Mods figure out how to kill the spambots, causing the /qajp/ clique to self-exile; Frogs impose a short lived era of /int/-like frogposting with a pretense of meta ☼
Soijak Raids & freezing. (2021)
Soijak Raids & freezing. (2020/XX-2021/05) --> starts ???
* Through causes yet unknown, a /pol/-derived meme☼ turns /qa/ into a thousands strong community of middleschool kids; They cause site-wide havok that ultimately gets /qa/ frozen.
* Through causes yet unknown, a /pol/-derived meme☼ turns /qa/ into a thousands strong community of middleschool kids; They cause site-wide havok that ultimately gets /qa/ frozen.
Epilogue
Epilogue  
* All of /qa/ is concentrated on the 4chan Happenings General, which takes refuge on /trash/ (initially peaceful, but a mistake on the long term) ☼.
* All of /qa/ is concentrated on the 4chan Happenings General, which takes refuge on /trash/ (initially peaceful, but a mistake on the long term) ☼.
* Soijak Party goes on to become an underground phenomenon
* Soijak Party goes on to become an underground phenomenon
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Native Personalities of /qa/ & Other Notables: ''Not a tripfag list. These entries are posters known to be notorious rulebreakers who waged little personal wars against the mods and other posters.''
Native Personalities of /qa/ & Other Notables: ''Not a tripfag list. These entries are posters known to be notorious rulebreakers who waged little personal wars against the mods and other posters.''
* Pony avatarfag - A single poster, possibly but unlikely multiple people, on a years long campaign to get GR15 removed.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/38FMrZ42VBR1SiRGmfhCBw/</ref>
* Pony avatarfag - A single poster, possibly but unlikely multiple people, on a years long campaign to get GR15 removed.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/38FMrZ42VBR1SiRGmfhCBw/</ref> Ran out of the board by mid 2017.
* GR15 Defense Force / GRXVDF !!mQybBQsWzGP ---> /qa/'s first problem tripfag. Donned the name in late 2016<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/username/DEFENSE%20FORCE/order/asc/</ref>. His claim to fame is the failed GET that unwittingly became an infamous reference point for the start of the spin off raids<ref>See ghost posts: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/999998/</ref>. Obsessed with about bronies and generally a teenbro type shitposter<ref>Very likely behind Suck My Cock Dude spam given his choice of victims https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22suck%20my%20cock%20dude%22/order/asc/</ref>. Spun the narrative that 2D/Random saved /qa/ from /mlpol/ raids and insisted on it for the better part of a year. Befriended the Spin Off clique and got publicly banned in december 2017; dropped off public posting soon after. <ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1750436/#q1750723</ref>
* GR15 Defense Force / GRXVDF !!mQybBQsWzGP ---> /qa/'s first problem tripfag. Donned the name in late 2016<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/username/DEFENSE%20FORCE/order/asc/</ref>. His claim to fame is the failed GET that unexpectedly became an infamous reference point for the start of the spin off raids<ref>See ghost posts: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/999998/</ref>. Obsessed with bronies and generally a teenbro type shitposter<ref>Very likely behind Suck My Cock Dude spam given his choice of victims https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22suck%20my%20cock%20dude%22/order/asc/</ref>. Spun the narrative that 2D/Random saved /qa/ from /mlpol/ raids and insisted on it for the better part of a year. Befriended the Spin Off clique<ref>https://desuarchive.org/meta/thread/2327/#3039</ref> and got publicly banned in december 2017; dropped off public posting soon after. <ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1750436/#q1750723</ref>
* ''"asuka"'' / ''"asukaspammer"'' ---> Avatarfag of character ''Asuka Kurashina'' from ''Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm''<ref>https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1474/99/1474998565236.png</ref>, first spotted early 2016, likely a /jp/ / "/jp/" main. He utilized a crapflood script to wipe /qa/, then gloat after he's nuked and 3/4ths of the board go with him.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/834362/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/837184/</ref>. Coordinated spam with with the /g/+/ota/ raiders but never openly associated with them☼.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/752066/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22Don%27t%20mind%20me%20just%20killing%20a%20thread%22/order/asc/</ref>. May have belonged to an /ota/ clique. Publicly banned in december 2017, gradually dropped off the board in 2018. <ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1750436/#q1750736</ref>. ''I'll never understand what they see in these generic characters.
* ''"asuka"'' / ''"asukaspammer"'' ---> Avatarfag of character ''Asuka Kurashina'' from ''Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm''<ref>https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1474/99/1474998565236.png</ref>, first spotted early 2016, likely a /jp/ / "/jp/" main. He utilized a crapflood script to wipe /qa/, then gloat after he's nuked and 3/4ths of the board go with him.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/834362/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/837184/</ref>. Coordinated spam with with the /g/+/ota/ raiders but never openly associated with them☼.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/752066/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22Don%27t%20mind%20me%20just%20killing%20a%20thread%22/order/asc/</ref>. May have belonged to an /ota/ clique. Publicly banned in december 2017, gradually dropped off the board in 2018. <ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1750436/#q1750736</ref>. ''I'll never understand what they see in these generic characters.
* ''"Anti Crack-Kun"'' / ''"ACK"'' - Infamous personality from /u/. Formerly a guerrilla scanlator, he was a high functioning autistic with serious hangups about shipping. His condition deteriorated into paranoid delusions of targeted trolling, leading him to blame Team4chan for his woes. ACK turned to spamming both #4chan and /qa/ for the lion's share of the board's early life; his drama retinue included other /u/ personalities such as !Akemi and warosushitter !!dApALfIDywS following him around<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/500765/#q502331_6</ref>
* ''"Anti Crack-Kun"'' / ''"ACK"'' - Infamous personality from /u/. Formerly a guerrilla scanlator, he was a high functioning autistic with serious hangups about shipping. His condition deteriorated into paranoid delusions of targeted trolling, leading him to blame Team4chan for his woes. ACK turned to spamming both #4chan and /qa/ for the lion's share of the board's early life; his drama retinue included other /u/ personalities such as !Akemi and warosushitter !!dApALfIDywS following him around<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/500765/#q502331_6</ref>
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First Gen Raiders (2016-2017)
First Gen Raiders (2016-2017)
* /pol/ bandwagon --> The first group to pervasively raid /qa/ was /pol/, as payback over perceived slights originating from the also pervasive /deletepol/ threads. In what's essentially 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<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-11-08/end/2016-11-10/order/asc/page/6/</ref>, getting modcat fired<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-12-19/end/2016-12-21/order/asc/page/3/</ref> among other things such as falling for trolls claiming /leftypol/ infiltrated the staff<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/892786/#q892786</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/894265/</ref>. As all bandwagons, it was intense enough to speed up /qa/ by an order of magnitude, but also short-lived<ref>See spikes of activity in October, November, December: https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Question%26AnswerActivitySpike.PNG</ref>.
* /pol/ bandwagon --> The first group to pervasively raid /qa/ was /pol/, as payback over perceived slights originating from the also pervasive /deletepol/ threads. In what's essentially 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<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-11-08/end/2016-11-10/order/asc/page/6/</ref>, getting modcat fired<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-12-19/end/2016-12-21/order/asc/page/3/</ref> among other things such as falling for trolls claiming /leftypol/ infiltrated the staff<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/892786/#q892786</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/894265/</ref>. As all bandwagons, it was intense enough to speed up /qa/ by an order of magnitude, but also short-lived<ref>See spikes of activity in October, November, December: https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Question%26AnswerActivitySpike.PNG</ref>.
* Spin Off cliques --> warosu.org/g/, ota-ch, himasugi, 4taba, /nen/ & GNFOS<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1015048/</ref>. Arrived between february and april 2017 during a massive shitposting spree, those that remained began by aggressive campaign to run all other demographics off the board.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22die%20retard%22/order/asc/</ref> Most spinoffers left by the end of the year, with only a singular clique remaining.
* Spin Off cliques --> warosu.org/g/, ota-ch, himasugi, 4taba, /nen/, GNFOS and likely more.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1015048/</ref>. Arrived between february and april 2017 during a massive shitposting spree, those that remained began by aggressive campaign to run all other demographics off the board.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22die%20retard%22/order/asc/</ref> Most spinoffers left by the end of the year, with only a singular clique remaining.
** Trevelyon --> Admin of GNFOS, was a notorious avatarfag ►
** Trevelyan / Trevor / T --> Admin of GNFOS, legendary /jp/ shitposter. Raided /qa/ around february and an entire mob followed him.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1090190/#1091630</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1098298/#1098608</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1015346</ref>
** ccd0 ---> mantainer of the 4chanX extension since 2015 ‼, began to cause problems for 4chan after the custom CAPTCHA got announced in 2017 ‼
** ''"Satania"'' / ''"Trevor"'' --> Avatarfagged as ''Satanichia Kurumizawa Mcdowell'' from ''Gabriel DropOut'' (''bruh'') around 2017. Was confused to be trevor by local frogposters.<ref>http://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/K0XUQG8dAO9DBcPLG7Wz4w/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1459683/#1460211</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/sYS3uSAsdPZFYhZzrMjpLw/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1459274/#1459301</ref>
* local resistance / "/jp/" dissenters. /qa/'s meta side had a sizeable /a/, /jp/ & spinoff presence before the raids. "/jp/"'s raid immediately raised alarms among those familiar with /jp/ and they made their opinions known, to little effect beyond basically predicting how the whole thing would go down ‼. Furthermore, many other /qa/ natives spoke their mind on the damage done to the board but were unable to pinpoint who was responsible. ‼ Tensions mounted until a sizeable "resistance" started looking for ways to bait the spinoffs into flamewars.
** ccd0 !!Bu9nPEv33rQ ---> mantainer of the 4chanX extension since 2015 ‼, part of the steamgroup clique and in bed with their antics on /qa/<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1662063/#1662452</ref>. began to cause problems for 4chan after the custom CAPTCHA got announced in 2019. The betrayal was shocking enough that the mods banned all mention of him, and enacted a series of sweeping rangebans to kill the clique for good ‼
** "The" frogposter --> A strange combination of /pol/+/jp/ main that arrived in early 2017. Identifiable by image hashes and his ability to directly name spinoff antics. His entire identity, usage of /pol/ frogs and polite-yet-sarcastic prose seemed handcrafted to make spinoff posters as angry as possible<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/FQTpjrlHCyzmfXgGhE1sPw%3D%3D/page/2/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/DSxhoHN4fdpPtyk%2BDSUDmw%3D%3D/page/3/</ref>, inspiring many copycats. May have coined the term weeb mafia. <ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1356659/</ref>. Active until the very end of the board. ☼
* local resistance / "/jp/" dissenters --> /qa/'s meta side had a sizeable /a/, /jp/ & spinoff presence before the raids. "/jp/"'s raid immediately raised alarms among those familiar with /jp/ and they made their opinions known, to little effect beyond basically predicting how the whole thing would go down ‼. Furthermore, many other /qa/ natives spoke their mind on the damage done to the board but were unable to pinpoint who was responsible. ‼ Tensions mounted until a sizeable "resistance" looking for ways to bait the spinoffs into flamewars began hounding their threads ☼.
** "The" frogposter --> A strange combination of /pol/+/jp/ main that made itself known in early 2017. Identifiable by image hashes and his ability to directly name spinoff antics, even if not always correctly. His identity, usage of /pol/ frogs and polite-yet-sarcastic prose seemed handcrafted to make spinoff posters as angry as possible<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/FQTpjrlHCyzmfXgGhE1sPw%3D%3D/page/2/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/DSxhoHN4fdpPtyk%2BDSUDmw%3D%3D/page/3/</ref> thought he was known to engage spinoffers in a playful manner early on<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1458881/#1459472</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1461928/#1462073</ref> He fought what was essentially a low energy guerrilla war to make sure a couple frog threads were always on the catalog.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1635184/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1461611/</ref><ref>See specifically filename  1495081606395.jpg https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/aZU24MtI206NLE6TNykkdQ%3D%3D/page/2/</ref>, inspiring many copycats.<ref>What is likely the OG and early copycats having a premature victory party. The worst was yet to come. https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1648512/#1650130</ref> May have coined the term weeb mafia. <ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1356659/</ref>. Active until the very end of the board. ☼
** Small Skelly !!RAjBw+iGH/Y --> Poster with some /r9k/, [s4s] and /jp/ knowledge, but not enough to know of spin off; an election tourist that quickly ID'd problem posters from /jp/ and called them out then spent the rest of the year pointlessly picking fights.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1459274/</ref>
* /mlpol/ --> The April's Fool 2017 prank caused a short-lived raid by /mlp/, as merging the board was the most interesting thing to happen to /mlp/ since 2015. ‼
* /mlpol/ --> The April's Fool 2017 prank caused a short-lived raid by /mlp/, as merging the board was the most interesting thing to happen to /mlp/ since 2015. ‼




Second Gen Raiders (2018-2019)
Second Gen Raiders (2018-2019)
* Steamchat & #qa Clique / ''"weeb mafia"'' / /qajp/ / !qajp / kissu.moe ---> Typical no-fun-allowed, neurotic "/jp/" crew. Stragglers who actually believed the rhetoric of making /qa/ into 2D/Random. ''I'm only naming those suspected of running bots or raiding, I don't intend to witchhunt nor encourage such behaviour.''
* Steamchat & #qa Clique / ''"weeb mafia"'' / ''"the weab"'' / /qajp/ / !qajp / kissu.moe ---> Typical no-fun-allowed, neurotic "/jp/" crew. Stragglers who actually believed the rhetoric of making /qa/ into 2D/Random. Their presence begins to stand out from the rest of the cliques who were on the way out, by the end of 2017. ''I'm only naming those suspected of running bots or raiding, I don't intend to witchhunt nor encourage such behaviour.''
** Verniy / ''"hibiki"'' / ECHibiki / ECVerniy ---> Canadian developer. Originally an avatarfag of character Hibiki‼. Later ran a bot.☼ When rangebans sweept, created kissu.moe‼
** Verniy / ''"hibiki"'' / ECHibiki / ECVerniy ---> Canadian developer. Originally an avatarfag of character Hibiki‼. Later ran a bot.☼ When rangebans sweept, created kissu.moe‼
** yotgo / !QAJP/YOtGo ---> Created the MD5 filter megalist for 4chanX<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2088105/#q2114031_7</ref>. Likely ran the bumpbot ☼. Kissu mod. Likely still around in 4hap<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/80061177/#q80071040</ref>
** yotgo / !QAJP/YOtGo ---> Created the MD5 filter megalist for 4chanX<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2088105/#q2114031_7</ref>. Likely ran the bumpbot ☼. Kissu mod. Likely still around in 4hap<ref>https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/80061177/#q80071040</ref>
** atechan ---> Brazilian, very likely underage. clique member known for manually bumping several threads and having episode if they were deleted ‼
** atechan ---> Brazilian, very likely underage. clique member known for manually bumping several threads and having episode if they were deleted ‼
** jevin ---> Seemingly harmless ☼, [s4s] speak aficionado ‼. Could have posted on /a/jp/? ☼
** jevin ---> Seemingly harmless ☼, [s4s] speak aficionado ‼. Could have posted on /a/jp/? ☼
** ''"schizoweeb"'' ---> at least one, possibly two‼, unspecified clique personalities known for unhinged posts and accusations of samefagging directed at frogspam.‼
** ''"schizoweeb"'' ---> at least one, possibly two‼, unspecified clique personalities known for unhinged posts, replying to himself and throwing accusations of samefagging directed at frogspam.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2908031/</ref> His usual calling cards are combinations of subhuman, schizo and wacko<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1617067/</ref>
* Frogposters ---> ''is a group that was 100% homegrown really a raider?'' Due to !qajp taking the bait every single time, /qa/ developed a community of copycat frog posting trolls inspired by the antics of the original frogposter ☼. Their goal was flooding the board with threads to 404 threads protected by the steamchat bumpbot ☼. Notably less verbose than their originator ☼, with possible /bant/ influence ☼.
* Frogposters ---> ''is a group that was 100% homegrown really a raider?'' Due to !qajp taking the bait every single time, /qa/ developed a community of copycat frog posting trolls inspired by the antics of the original frogposter<ref>1495081606395.jpg is the OG, later posts are copycats. Notice the less... intelligent OPs. https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/aZU24MtI206NLE6TNykkdQ%3D%3D/page/1/</ref>. More destructive and incoherent, and likely less numerous, their goal was flooding the board with threads to 404 threads protected by the steamchat bumpbot ☼. Notably less verbose than their originator ☼, with possible /bant/ influence ☼.
** ''"the freak"'': mythological poster that may either be the group's most prolific spammer or a boogeyman existing entirely in one spinoffer's head built off half-remembered assumptions of the original frogposter.‼
** ''"the freak"'': mythological poster that may either be the group's most prolific spammer or a boogeyman existing entirely in one spinoffer's head constructed from half-remembered assumptions of the original frogposter.‼
** atechan ---> Mostly hearsay. Got in a fight with kissu ‼ and supposedly, according to them, became a major frog spammer who coined the term "weab" ►.
** atechan ---> ► Mostly hearsay. Got in a fight with kissu ‼ and supposedly, according to them, became a major frog spammer who popularized the term ''"the weab"''.


Third Gen Raiders (2020-2021)
Third Gen Raiders (2020-2021)
* Kissu hardliners --> even thought verniy and most of the clique was happy on Kissu, one or multiple posters remained at /qa/ on a strange mission to convince everyone else their clique has only been good for the board ‼. not many believed their tale.
* Kissu hardliners --> even thought verniy and most of the clique was happy on Kissu, one or multiple posters remained at /qa/ on a strange mission to convince everyone else their clique has only been good for the board ‼. not many believed their tale.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2963984/</ref>
* Bant Cabal ☼ --> supposedly, the last pre-soyjak board wipes were made by a discord clique originating from /bant/. They can be identified by usage of real life photos (anathema to spinoffers) during crapfloods.
* Bant Cabal ☼ --> supposedly, the last pre-soyjak board wipes were made by a discord clique originating from /bant/. They can be identified by usage of real life photos (anathema to spinoffers) during crapfloods.
* Soyjaks / Soyjak.Party / the Sharty ‼ --> It hasn't been determined whether it was organic or artificially created by mods redirecting threads; soy variants of wojak, originally from /v/ and /pol/, started getting posted on /qa/ during the pandemic and attracted an enormous following, which quickly imploded into it's own website and several discord cliques. They got the board frozen after effectively running out every other thread.
* Soyjaks / Soyjak.Party / the Sharty ‼ --> It hasn't been determined whether it was organic or artificially created by mods redirecting threads; soy variants of wojak, originally from /v/ and /pol/, started getting posted on /qa/ during the pandemic and attracted an enormous following, which quickly imploded into it's own website and several discord cliques. They got the board frozen after effectively running out every other thread.
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kissu/weeb mafia astroturfing:
kissu/weeb mafia pushing agenda:
 
https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1934751/#1935668


https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1934170/
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https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2554646/#2554677
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qa review
https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1634875/




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


>why am I writing this

Personal endearment.

>but why now?

Arguably the most revisioned board history on the site.

>well then, what is it?

At the start, an offtopic & meta community composed of posters from disparate origins that died prematurely due to aggression from off-site cliques. Then it became something else entirely.

Breakdown:

First Meta Period (2015/01-2016/09) --> Ends around october 2016

  • Stragglers from moot's big AMA stream reminisce on nostalgic memories and ponder what to do with the board. The /qa/ charter gets drafted.
  • /qa/ coalesces into a small collection of meta aficionados, karens crying to the mods and anons looking for an off-topic board that wouldn't get swarmed with weirdos and porn. Most generals get created.

Off-Topic Period (2016/09-2017/04) --> Ends by the board freeze

  • Sweeping site changes on 4chan's 13th birthday, Hiroyuki's fearmongering, the 2016 US election, the firing of Anonymous-San, a badly timed April's Fool joke and finally the listing of /qa/ cause a massive increase in activity[1] causing generalized chaos and destabilizing regular threads.[2]. By 2017, the forum registers on the map of multiple off-site cliques whose origins lie between disparate boards, generals and the /jp/ Spin Off webring. They discover that /qa/ is, moderation wise, an off-topic SFW board; Raids and angry protests ensue.

Great weeb-frog War (2017/05-2019/XX) --> July / June 2017 to be exact

  • No-fun-allowed rejects from the spinoffs determine to turn /qa/ into their homeboard by aggressively botting up the place and gaslighing all passerby. They are resisted by an equally intense group of locals with seeming ties to "/jp/" who adopt /pol/'s smug frogs as their callsign.[3]; This years long flamewar practically depopulates the board.[4] and deteriorates until only a couple spamming schizophrenics remained on either side.

Second Meta Period (2019/XX-2020/XX) --> starts months into 2019

  • Mods figure out how to kill the spambots, causing the /qajp/ clique to self-exile; Frogs impose a short lived era of /int/-like frogposting with a pretense of meta ☼

Soijak Raids & freezing. (2020/XX-2021/05) --> starts ???

  • Through causes yet unknown, a /pol/-derived meme☼ turns /qa/ into a thousands strong community of middleschool kids; They cause site-wide havok that ultimately gets /qa/ frozen.

Epilogue

  • All of /qa/ is concentrated on the 4chan Happenings General, which takes refuge on /trash/ (initially peaceful, but a mistake on the long term) ☼.
  • Soijak Party goes on to become an underground phenomenon
  • Years later, /qa/ "lore", kekistani mythos, stormfront propaganda and other bits and pieces of old memes are recycled by a small clique of Soijak Party posters to create /qa2/ & The Ribbit Rally.

Basic demographics:

old /qa/

  • metaposters
    • 4chan trivia aficionados --> discussed their main boards, made nice map threads and dug old pieces of OC
    • nostalgic oldfags --> mostly there to tell the aficionados how good they used to have it
    • armchair admins --> countless foolish but well-meaning "how i will fix 4chan" threads. ‼
    • internet hobbyists --> bibanon is here! - people who wished for a board best described as "/internet/ - Internet Culture" and found /qa/ it's closest equivalent
  • complaintposters
    • /DELETEPOL/ --> primordial fire of all 4chan metadiscussions
    • The 4chan Karen --> only here to vent and call people names ‼, but unwittingly acted as the greatest conversation starters on the board.
    • Off-board Clique refugees --> Such as /gsg/ and /intl/ among others. Across the years several micro-communities took refuge on /qa/ to complain about this and that ‼. While not inherently a problem, these crossposters didn't find themselves obligated to respect the locals ♫
    • /mlp/ apostates --> From the first day to the end of 2017, rotating casts of pony posters demanded to get GR15 revoked.
    • /a/fags --> technically Karens, but their numbers alone were enough to develop a persistent /a/ hatefandom during the early days ‼
  • sfwofftopicposters
    • Board-tans General --> As drawthreads moved on to other fotms, artsy teens found /qa/ as a refuge to ship anthropomorphic imageboards undisturbed. more prolific than people imagine with multiple site-wide events to their name. ‼
    • Happenings General --> Remained oddly consistent for the better part of 6 years.
    • CSS General --> Short-lived 4chan UI customization thread that was taken over by raiders from the Spin Off. They contributed a number of interesting developments.
    • Off-Topic Colonies: At first, it was [s4s] & /a/jp/. Other posters were ambivalent to their presence, but they were not aggressive and contributed large quantities of OC. Slowly, other groups, such as "/jp/", /pol/ & /int/ frogposters made /qa/ their home away from home. All the colonists got ran out the board by early 2018. ‼

late /qa/ (2019-2020)

  • /bant/ / /int/ type frogposter ☼ ---> nicer than they looked.
  • late /qa/ metaposters --> jaded as they get
    • (Punished) Happenings General --> A thread denied it's board. Took in refugees from every other demographic as the board collapsed into non-stop spam. Was the thread to close the door on /qa/ as the board got frozen.


Native Personalities of /qa/ & Other Notables: Not a tripfag list. These entries are posters known to be notorious rulebreakers who waged little personal wars against the mods and other posters.

  • Pony avatarfag - A single poster, possibly but unlikely multiple people, on a years long campaign to get GR15 removed.[5] Ran out of the board by mid 2017.
  • GR15 Defense Force / GRXVDF !!mQybBQsWzGP ---> /qa/'s first problem tripfag. Donned the name in late 2016[6]. His claim to fame is the failed GET that unexpectedly became an infamous reference point for the start of the spin off raids[7]. Obsessed with bronies and generally a teenbro type shitposter[8]. Spun the narrative that 2D/Random saved /qa/ from /mlpol/ raids and insisted on it for the better part of a year. Befriended the Spin Off clique[9] and got publicly banned in december 2017; dropped off public posting soon after. [10]
  • "asuka" / "asukaspammer" ---> Avatarfag of character Asuka Kurashina from Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm[11], first spotted early 2016, likely a /jp/ / "/jp/" main. He utilized a crapflood script to wipe /qa/, then gloat after he's nuked and 3/4ths of the board go with him.[12][13]. Coordinated spam with with the /g/+/ota/ raiders but never openly associated with them☼.[14][15]. May have belonged to an /ota/ clique. Publicly banned in december 2017, gradually dropped off the board in 2018. [16]. I'll never understand what they see in these generic characters.
  • "Anti Crack-Kun" / "ACK" - Infamous personality from /u/. Formerly a guerrilla scanlator, he was a high functioning autistic with serious hangups about shipping. His condition deteriorated into paranoid delusions of targeted trolling, leading him to blame Team4chan for his woes. ACK turned to spamming both #4chan and /qa/ for the lion's share of the board's early life; his drama retinue included other /u/ personalities such as !Akemi and warosushitter !!dApALfIDywS following him around[17]
  • "barneyfag" / Lee Goldson --> Infamous /co/ spammer; an autistic who despised Barney & Friends and associated the cartoons My Little Pony and Steven Universe with it. From 2015 onwards he imposed a reign of terror that spread to several boards including /v/, /vg/ & /qa/. Spent considerable time on /qa/ hunting down the local pony spammer ‼; He got doxxed in 2017☼ and his last confirmed activity was around 2019‼.
  • "leebaiter" / "leebot" ‼ --> After Lee got doxed and allegedly stopped posting around 2019, the troll clique that formed around him kitbashed a leebot spamscript with image recognition capabilities and hooked it up to the brony booru. The maintainer of this lee imitation bot began using boards such as /int/ & /qa/ as testing grounds. ☼
  • unicodefag / leto ---> Notable scriptspammer, allegedly /bant/ main ☼. Didn't specifically target /qa/ but several boards. Attempted to bait the #qa clique into a flamewar but wasn't picked up on. ‼

Raiders: Off-site and sometimes local groups who organized to bring /qa/ to it's knees one way or the other, plus their lynchpins and notables.

First Gen Raiders (2016-2017)

  • /pol/ bandwagon --> The first group to pervasively raid /qa/ was /pol/, as payback over perceived slights originating from the also pervasive /deletepol/ threads. In what's essentially 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[18], getting modcat fired[19] among other things such as falling for trolls claiming /leftypol/ infiltrated the staff[20][21]. As all bandwagons, it was intense enough to speed up /qa/ by an order of magnitude, but also short-lived[22].
  • Spin Off cliques --> warosu.org/g/, ota-ch, himasugi, 4taba, /nen/, GNFOS and likely more.[23]. Arrived between february and april 2017 during a massive shitposting spree, those that remained began by aggressive campaign to run all other demographics off the board.[24] Most spinoffers left by the end of the year, with only a singular clique remaining.
    • Trevelyan / Trevor / T --> Admin of GNFOS, legendary /jp/ shitposter. Raided /qa/ around february and an entire mob followed him.[25][26][27]
    • "Satania" / "Trevor" --> Avatarfagged as Satanichia Kurumizawa Mcdowell from Gabriel DropOut (bruh) around 2017. Was confused to be trevor by local frogposters.[28][29][30][31]
    • ccd0 !!Bu9nPEv33rQ ---> mantainer of the 4chanX extension since 2015 ‼, part of the steamgroup clique and in bed with their antics on /qa/[32]. began to cause problems for 4chan after the custom CAPTCHA got announced in 2019. The betrayal was shocking enough that the mods banned all mention of him, and enacted a series of sweeping rangebans to kill the clique for good ‼
  • local resistance / "/jp/" dissenters --> /qa/'s meta side had a sizeable /a/, /jp/ & spinoff presence before the raids. "/jp/"'s raid immediately raised alarms among those familiar with /jp/ and they made their opinions known, to little effect beyond basically predicting how the whole thing would go down ‼. Furthermore, many other /qa/ natives spoke their mind on the damage done to the board but were unable to pinpoint who was responsible. ‼ Tensions mounted until a sizeable "resistance" looking for ways to bait the spinoffs into flamewars began hounding their threads ☼.
    • "The" frogposter --> A strange combination of /pol/+/jp/ main that made itself known in early 2017. Identifiable by image hashes and his ability to directly name spinoff antics, even if not always correctly. His identity, usage of /pol/ frogs and polite-yet-sarcastic prose seemed handcrafted to make spinoff posters as angry as possible[33][34] thought he was known to engage spinoffers in a playful manner early on[35][36] He fought what was essentially a low energy guerrilla war to make sure a couple frog threads were always on the catalog.[37][38][39], inspiring many copycats.[40] May have coined the term weeb mafia. [41]. Active until the very end of the board. ☼
    • Small Skelly !!RAjBw+iGH/Y --> Poster with some /r9k/, [s4s] and /jp/ knowledge, but not enough to know of spin off; an election tourist that quickly ID'd problem posters from /jp/ and called them out then spent the rest of the year pointlessly picking fights.[42]
  • /mlpol/ --> The April's Fool 2017 prank caused a short-lived raid by /mlp/, as merging the board was the most interesting thing to happen to /mlp/ since 2015. ‼


Second Gen Raiders (2018-2019)

  • Steamchat & #qa Clique / "weeb mafia" / "the weab" / /qajp/ / !qajp / kissu.moe ---> Typical no-fun-allowed, neurotic "/jp/" crew. Stragglers who actually believed the rhetoric of making /qa/ into 2D/Random. Their presence begins to stand out from the rest of the cliques who were on the way out, by the end of 2017. I'm only naming those suspected of running bots or raiding, I don't intend to witchhunt nor encourage such behaviour.
    • Verniy / "hibiki" / ECHibiki / ECVerniy ---> Canadian developer. Originally an avatarfag of character Hibiki‼. Later ran a bot.☼ When rangebans sweept, created kissu.moe‼
    • yotgo / !QAJP/YOtGo ---> Created the MD5 filter megalist for 4chanX[43]. Likely ran the bumpbot ☼. Kissu mod. Likely still around in 4hap[44]
    • atechan ---> Brazilian, very likely underage. clique member known for manually bumping several threads and having episode if they were deleted ‼
    • jevin ---> Seemingly harmless ☼, [s4s] speak aficionado ‼. Could have posted on /a/jp/? ☼
    • "schizoweeb" ---> at least one, possibly two‼, unspecified clique personalities known for unhinged posts, replying to himself and throwing accusations of samefagging directed at frogspam.[45] His usual calling cards are combinations of subhuman, schizo and wacko[46]
  • Frogposters ---> is a group that was 100% homegrown really a raider? Due to !qajp taking the bait every single time, /qa/ developed a community of copycat frog posting trolls inspired by the antics of the original frogposter[47]. More destructive and incoherent, and likely less numerous, their goal was flooding the board with threads to 404 threads protected by the steamchat bumpbot ☼. Notably less verbose than their originator ☼, with possible /bant/ influence ☼.
    • "the freak": mythological poster that may either be the group's most prolific spammer or a boogeyman existing entirely in one spinoffer's head constructed from half-remembered assumptions of the original frogposter.‼
    • atechan ---> ► Mostly hearsay. Got in a fight with kissu ‼ and supposedly, according to them, became a major frog spammer who popularized the term "the weab".

Third Gen Raiders (2020-2021)

  • Kissu hardliners --> even thought verniy and most of the clique was happy on Kissu, one or multiple posters remained at /qa/ on a strange mission to convince everyone else their clique has only been good for the board ‼. not many believed their tale.[48]
  • Bant Cabal ☼ --> supposedly, the last pre-soyjak board wipes were made by a discord clique originating from /bant/. They can be identified by usage of real life photos (anathema to spinoffers) during crapfloods.
  • Soyjaks / Soyjak.Party / the Sharty ‼ --> It hasn't been determined whether it was organic or artificially created by mods redirecting threads; soy variants of wojak, originally from /v/ and /pol/, started getting posted on /qa/ during the pandemic and attracted an enormous following, which quickly imploded into it's own website and several discord cliques. They got the board frozen after effectively running out every other thread.

symbols:

‼ Attested on archives, citation pending.

☼ Unverified aka "i'm the primary source", no primary evidence.

► Source is exclusively anon testimony, no primary evidence.

♫ --> gsg, Infinity's intl, other infinity players, /jp/ spin offers, and many, many more.


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

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

note: trifpags are a surprisingly informative resource on presence of other boards.

fun things are fun -> /a/fags ;

fuwafuwa -> /a/jp/ / spinoff

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/


/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/


/gsg/ raids:

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1220369/#1220369

https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/18852770/#18852809


[s4s] <3 /qa/

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


/pol/ raid

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


early threadbombing:

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


warosu raids:

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

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

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


bumpbot selections

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


kissu/weeb mafia pushing agenda:

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

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

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2007664/#2007735

possible OG frogposter sighting

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1004342/#q1034360

https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1004342/#q1152768


frogposters theorizing poster indentikits

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

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


qa review

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


schizoweeb

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


anons talking board personalities:

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


Generic info on non qa raiders


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

  1. ↑ Increase starting October: https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Question%26AnswerActivitySpike.PNG
  2. ↑ 12 day sample OPs for Nov. 2016. None of the threads have more than a handful replies. https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-11-06/end/2016-11-18/order/asc/page/6/
  3. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1648512/
  4. ↑ 1 day sample of the peak of the "war" https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2017-06-26/end/2017-06-27/order/asc/page/1/
  5. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/38FMrZ42VBR1SiRGmfhCBw/
  6. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/username/DEFENSE%20FORCE/order/asc/
  7. ↑ See ghost posts: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/999998/
  8. ↑ Very likely behind Suck My Cock Dude spam given his choice of victims https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22suck%20my%20cock%20dude%22/order/asc/
  9. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/meta/thread/2327/#3039
  10. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1750436/#q1750723
  11. ↑ https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1474/99/1474998565236.png
  12. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/834362/
  13. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/837184/
  14. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/752066/
  15. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22Don%27t%20mind%20me%20just%20killing%20a%20thread%22/order/asc/
  16. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1750436/#q1750736
  17. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/500765/#q502331_6
  18. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-11-08/end/2016-11-10/order/asc/page/6/
  19. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/type/op/start/2016-12-19/end/2016-12-21/order/asc/page/3/
  20. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/892786/#q892786
  21. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/894265/
  22. ↑ See spikes of activity in October, November, December: https://wiki.bibanon.org/File:Question%26AnswerActivitySpike.PNG
  23. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1015048/
  24. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/text/%22die%20retard%22/order/asc/
  25. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1090190/#1091630
  26. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1098298/#1098608
  27. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1015346
  28. ↑ http://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/K0XUQG8dAO9DBcPLG7Wz4w/
  29. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1459683/#1460211
  30. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/sYS3uSAsdPZFYhZzrMjpLw/
  31. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1459274/#1459301
  32. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1662063/#1662452
  33. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/FQTpjrlHCyzmfXgGhE1sPw%3D%3D/page/2/
  34. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/DSxhoHN4fdpPtyk%2BDSUDmw%3D%3D/page/3/
  35. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1458881/#1459472
  36. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1461928/#1462073
  37. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1635184/
  38. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1461611/
  39. ↑ See specifically filename 1495081606395.jpg https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/aZU24MtI206NLE6TNykkdQ%3D%3D/page/2/
  40. ↑ What is likely the OG and early copycats having a premature victory party. The worst was yet to come. https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1648512/#1650130
  41. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1356659/
  42. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1459274/
  43. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2088105/#q2114031_7
  44. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/80061177/#q80071040
  45. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2908031/
  46. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1617067/
  47. ↑ 1495081606395.jpg is the OG, later posts are copycats. Notice the less... intelligent OPs. https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/aZU24MtI206NLE6TNykkdQ%3D%3D/page/1/
  48. ↑ https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2963984/
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