4chan/Chronicle/qa

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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 lore on the site.

>well, then?

An offtopic/meta community composed of posters from disparate origins that prematurely died due to aggression by off-site cliques.

Breakdown: Formative month (2015)

• Leftovers of moot's big AMA stream reminisce on nostalgic memories and ponder what to do with the board. The /qa/ charter gets drafted.

First Meta Period (2015-2017)

• /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 spam and porn. Most of the generals get created.

Early raids & listing (2017)

• A series of high profile events cause a number of small number off-site cliques originating from disparate boards and generals, and the /jp/ Spin Off webring, to discover /qa/ and realize it's practically unmoderated. Raids and angry protests ensue.

Great weeb-frog War (2018-2019)

• No-fun-allowed rejects from the spinoffs determine to turn /qa/ into their homeboard by aggressively botting up the place, but get resisted by an equally intense group of locals with seeming ties to /jp/ who adopt smug frogs as their callsign; This years long flamewar practically depopulates the board.

Second Meta Period (2020)

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

Soijak Raids & freezing. (2021)

• Through causes yet unknown, a /pol/ derived meme☼ turns /qa/ into a thousands strong community of middleschool kids that causes havok sitewide, and ultimately gets /qa/ frozen.

Epilogue

• All of /qa/ is concentrated on the 4chan Happenings General, which takes refuge on /trash/ (a gross mistake they came to regret)☼; /qa/ "lore", kekistani mythos and other bits and pieces of old memes are recycled by small clique of Soijak Party posters to create /qa2/

☼ needs verification

Basic demographics:

"old" /qa/

• metaposters
  • nostalgic oldfags (am I permitted to use this lingo?)
  • 4chan trivia aficionados --> made nice map threads
  • internet hobbyist --> bibanon is here
  • late /qa/ metaposters --> 2019/2020 generation, jaded as they get
• complaintposters
  • DELETEPOL
  • /a/fags
  • armchair admins --> countless of "how do i fix 4chan" threads.
• sfwofftopicposters
  • board-tans general
  • happening general
  • 4chan cup
  • [s4s], /bant/ & /a/jp/
  • /bant/ / /int/ frogposting ---> 2019/2020, nicer than they looked.

First Gen Raiders (2016-2017)

• SpinOff cliques: ota-ch, merorin & GNFOS
• /jp/ dissenters / OG frogposter
• /mlpol/

Second Gen Raiders (2018-2019)

• Steamchat Clique / proto-kissu
• Frogposters ---> is a group that was 100% homegrown really a raider?
• atechan
• leebaiter / lee / leebot

Third Gen Raiders (2020-2021)

• Bant Cabal ---> unconfirmed
• Soyjak Party --> really, really don't wanna touch on this

fat sack of loot:

classic that started it all: https://desuarchive.org/qa/search/image/5XOGOo6Y78jgow5f5t%2FYhw%3D%3D/page/82/ early threadbombing: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1134747/#1135235 https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1673519/#q1673716 listing sticky: https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1654916/#1690512 extremely important evidence: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1496/55/1496556790721.png