King of GETs (KoG)
Summery
KoG is an legendary and long-running troll on 4chan, famous for stealing GETs, major and minor, all over the website. Since his "debut" in 2007, KoG has become the most well known GETposter in the site's history as well as greatly influencing GET culture in general. In December 13th, 2007 he created a youtube channel[1] where he's been posting videos about his GETs as well as other things ever since. When making GET posts, KoG is most known for using images of Yugi as well as the ice fairy Cirno from Touhou. Despite Yugi being his original and most recognized avatar, in more recent years he's been using Cirno far more often. He also frequently uses images of Serena from Pokémon when scoring GETs on /vp/. His nickname is a play on the "King of Games" title awarded to winners of various Yugioh tournaments.
Origin Story
KoG's first appearance was in an /a/ thread on November 24th, 2007 in which he informed another poster that if his post number ended in 5 his sister would die, and it did end in 5, sending the thread into an uproar.
KoG's first appearance was in an /a/ thread on November 24th, 2007 in which he informed another poster that if his post number ended in 5 his sister would die, and it did end in 5, sending the thread into an uproar. His post was accompanied by an image of Yami Yugi from Yugioh, which has since become KoG's avatar. Later in the thread other anons posted images of Yugi getting punched, but KoG once again correctly predicted his post number, saying that if his digits ended in 2 he activates his trap card and the other posters get punched. Following this, KoG would continue making posts and threads on /a/ predicting 5s, dubs, trips etc until eventually becoming a recognized poster on the board for his ability to score digits so consistently, as well as his showmanship while doing so. KoG would later expand his GET stealing efforts to virtually every board on 4chan, becoming notorious site-wide for (at the time of writing this) *14 years* of doing this.
4chan Posting Career
KoG's career in his earlier years consisted mainly of making countless threads and posts scoring digits with one of his usual identifiers. Almost all of his posts were on /a/.
In recent years, however, KoG has mostly stopped pursuing minor GETs and single digits like 5s and 9s, instead choosing to pop in and out of every board on 4chan to steal larger GETs (at least quints) before disappearing again. Occasionally when scoring a very major GET he'll upload a short video about it to his youtube channel. As a consequence of KoG's posting, the characters of Yami Yugi and Cirno have become associated with digits on 4chan, similarly to Patrick Bateman and Pepe/Kek on /pol/.
KoG has "retired" numerous times, his first being in July 16th of 2008,[3] but as of February 2022 he has never actually left for good. The height of his career was not coincidentally during the height of Bateman/GET posting on /a/ and /b/ in 2010/2011, during which he gained most of his infamy. This was back when /a/ had far looser moderation rather than some of the strictest on the site like it has today. He would make tons of successful GET posts and threads and consequently gained somewhat of a following on /a/. He also inspired other Cirno posters to begin claiming digits in her name for years to come. Meta threads about GETs and KoG even became a meme in and of themselves. These threads don't occur anymore, since as was mentioned earlier KoG doesn't really care about minor GETs anymore and only pops in every now and again to steal major ones.
KoG's GET pyramid documents most (all?) of his moderate/major GETs. The rarer the GET the higher up it is in the pyramid. As of February 2022, KoG's rarest GET ever is 123456789 on /tv/,[4][5] which he scored on November 2nd of 2019.
