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* Link to the [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all 4chan News page] or [http://blog.4chan.org/ 4chan Blog] for any site-wide structural changes. | * Link to the [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all 4chan News page] or [http://blog.4chan.org/ 4chan Blog] for any site-wide structural changes. | ||
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* 3 March 2003 - The first English language channel is created: [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/world2ch world2ch], made by RIR6, a 16 year old Japanese user. At first, it supported text only. Its userbase consists of a mix of Japanese and English users, the only time that this happens for any considerable amount of time. The English speakers there are members of ADTRW, and they are also familiar with Futaba and visit it as a pasttime. Later, English users would convince the owner to make an imageboard. He makes two, officially becoming the first western imageboards. | * 3 March 2003 - The first English language channel is created: [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/world2ch world2ch], made by RIR6, a 16 year old Japanese user. At first, it supported text only. Its userbase consists of a mix of Japanese and English users, the only time that this happens for any considerable amount of time. The English speakers there are members of ADTRW, and they are also familiar with Futaba and visit it as a pasttime. Later, English users would convince the owner to make an imageboard. He makes two, officially becoming the first western imageboards. | ||
* 2003 - The 2chan appreciation thread is created on ADTRW, becoming the gateway between the eastern Internet culture and western. World2ch is discovered and posted on said thread, gaining a steady influx of English speaking users. | * 2003 - The 2chan appreciation thread is created on ADTRW, becoming the gateway between the eastern Internet culture and western. World2ch is discovered and posted on said thread, gaining a steady influx of English speaking users. | ||
* September 29 - [http://i.imgur.com/mf0BMfJ.png moot registers 4chan.net], just because it looked like 2chan.net (Futaba Channel) which was an ADTRW pastime. [ | * September 29 - [http://i.imgur.com/mf0BMfJ.png moot registers 4chan.net], just because it looked like 2chan.net (Futaba Channel) which was an ADTRW pastime. [http://bibanon.org/everything-shii-knows/www.jonnydigital.com/4chan-history.html According to former 4chan mod Jonnydigital], moot's original intention was only to own an e-mail address @4chan.net, but he quickly gets thinking... | ||
<moot> regging 4CHAN.net | <moot> regging 4CHAN.net | ||
<moot> FOUR CHAN | <moot> FOUR CHAN | ||
<moot> brace for faggotry | <moot> brace for faggotry | ||
* September 30: moot announces 4chan.net in Something Awful's ADTRW forum. Thread is titled "4chan.net - English 2chan.net!" | * September 30: moot announces 4chan.net in Something Awful's ADTRW forum. Thread is titled "4chan.net - English 2chan.net!" | ||
* October 1 - | * October 1 - 4chan is founded by moot, a member of the Something Awful forums, intended to be used as an English version of 2chan, a Japanese imageboard created in 2001 out of an extremely popular Japanese BBS called 2channel. moot creates '''/b/''' (Anime/Random) and makes a topic at Something Awful and [http://world2ch.org/dramabomb.html world2ch about the website], which is received extremely well. moot also holds a contest to decide what 4chan's logo should be. Within three hours of creating the contest, around 50 banners are submitted, after which moot decides to simply make it so that it would cycle through the best banners randomly every time a page was loaded. | ||
* October 2 - 4chan's hosting company receives an e-mail complaining about "lolikon and guro posted in /b/, to which moot writes back that neither of the two is illegal. Later in the day, moot creates a second board, '''/h/''' (Hentai). The email was sent by Shii/Menchi because the people of world2ch felt 4chan ripped them off (Which is inaccurate, since world2ch was a sister site to 2ch and 4chan was a sister site to Futaba/2chan) moot later befriended them. The rules page describes /b/ as a test board which will later become an anime board. moot describes /b/ in a news post as "a retard bin". | * October 2 - 4chan's hosting company receives an e-mail complaining about "lolikon and guro posted in /b/, to which moot writes back that neither of the two is illegal. Later in the day, moot creates a second board, '''/h/''' (Hentai). The email was sent by Shii/Menchi because the people of world2ch felt 4chan ripped them off (Which is inaccurate, since world2ch was a sister site to 2ch and 4chan was a sister site to Futaba/2chan) moot later befriended them. The rules page describes /b/ as a test board which will later become an anime board. moot describes /b/ in a news post as "a retard bin". | ||
* October 6 - moot creates four new imageboards: '''/c/''' (Anime/Cute), '''/d/''' (Hentai/Alternative), '''/w/''' (Wallpapers/Anime), and '''/y/''' (Yaoi), along with an oekaki BBS board ('''/i/'''). The /y/ board is unique in that (at the time) it was | * October 6 - moot creates four new imageboards: '''/c/''' (Anime/Cute), '''/d/''' (Hentai/Alternative), '''/w/''' (Wallpapers/Anime), and '''/y/''' (Yaoi), along with an oekaki BBS board ('''/i/'''). The /y/ board is unique in that (at the time) it was user-moderated. moot also fixes a retention bug that cause posts to be deleted too quickly and raised the maximum number of log entries for each board from 500 to 5000 (2000 for /b/). | ||
* October 9 - Two new imageboards are created: '''/g/''' (Guro), to clean the nastiest imagery on /h/, and '''/s/''' (Sexy Beautiful Women), both of which are user-moderated. moot announces that 4chan received over one million hits in the past six days and may be looking for sponsors to help pay the bills. /s/ is managed by Boco_T and PotatoSan. Boco_T also drew two of 4chan's title images: one of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, and one of Cardcaptor Sakura drawn in the style of Fist of the North Star. | * October 9 - Two new imageboards are created: '''/g/''' (Guro), to clean the nastiest imagery on /h/, and '''/s/''' (Sexy Beautiful Women), both of which are user-moderated. moot announces that 4chan received over one million hits in the past six days and may be looking for sponsors to help pay the bills. /s/ is managed by Boco_T and PotatoSan. Boco_T also drew two of 4chan's title images: one of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, and one of Cardcaptor Sakura drawn in the style of Fist of the North Star. | ||
* October 16 - 4chan is announced to 2chan, resulting in a massive amount of Japanese users coming to the site, at least doubling the traffic of all boards and decoupling the traffic of /c/. The onslaught of unexpected traffic causes /b/ to crash for two days, killing it for the first time. | * October 16 - 4chan is announced to 2chan, resulting in a massive amount of Japanese users coming to the site, at least doubling the traffic of all boards and decoupling the traffic of /c/. The onslaught of unexpected traffic causes /b/ to crash for two days, killing it for the first time. | ||
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* February 19 - '''/t/''' (Torrents) returns, albeit without the tracker, along with a new board, '''/f/''' (Flash). moot adds a new server, cgi.4chan.org, on which /f/ is hosted. | * February 19 - '''/t/''' (Torrents) returns, albeit without the tracker, along with a new board, '''/f/''' (Flash). moot adds a new server, cgi.4chan.org, on which /f/ is hosted. | ||
* February 21 - Two discussion boards are added, hosted on 0ch: /amh/ (Anime-Manga-Hentai) and /bbs/ (4chan Discussion). The next day, Censored Vagina makes a newspost announcing that the cost of running 4chan for the rest of 2004 added up to $2,200 and that the money would be needed in donations. The links on 4chan are reflected to link to 4chan.org instead of 4chan.net so that users will not need to write 4chan.org's IP into their hosts file. | * February 21 - Two discussion boards are added, hosted on 0ch: /amh/ (Anime-Manga-Hentai) and /bbs/ (4chan Discussion). The next day, Censored Vagina makes a newspost announcing that the cost of running 4chan for the rest of 2004 added up to $2,200 and that the money would be needed in donations. The links on 4chan are reflected to link to 4chan.org instead of 4chan.net so that users will not need to write 4chan.org's IP into their hosts file. | ||
* March 1 - moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay and that more donations will be required to pay it or 4chan will die. He makes one final request for donations and hopes for the best. According to a news post image about the original /q/, /q/ - Questions was added this day | * March 1 - moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay and that more donations will be required to pay it or 4chan will die. He makes one final request for donations and hopes for the best. According to a news post image about the original /q/, /q/ - Questions was added this day. | ||
* March 8 - After a week-long swarm of donations, moot announces that not only does he have enough money to pay the March bill, but that enough money was donated to keep the site running into 2005. moot thanks all donators and posters and announces that he is currently in "Cancun, Mexico". | * March 8 - After a week-long swarm of donations, moot announces that not only does he have enough money to pay the March bill, but that enough money was donated to keep the site running into 2005. moot thanks all donators and posters and announces that he is currently in "Cancun, Mexico". | ||
* March 28 - The 4chan.org domain becomes permanent, with 4chan.net now occupied by domain squatters (people who buy domains that will get a lot of traffic, such as porn.com, and put ads on the page). moot tells users to inform all people linking to 4chan about this change so that the domain squatters receive as little traffic as possible and therefore not profit from the incident. moot also deletes /g/ (Guro) around this time, possibly due to issues with PayPal. | * March 28 - The 4chan.org domain becomes permanent, with 4chan.net now occupied by domain squatters (people who buy domains that will get a lot of traffic, such as porn.com, and put ads on the page). moot tells users to inform all people linking to 4chan about this change so that the domain squatters receive as little traffic as possible and therefore not profit from the incident. moot also deletes /g/ (Guro) around this time, possibly due to issues with PayPal. | ||
* April 1 - As an April Fools' Day prank, moot posts pictures of a man in a graduation uniform shortly after getting his diploma from Stanford University, and posts another picture of the man on April 4, this time showing him next to a statue in Mexico. moot claimed that the man in the photographs was him, and that his name was Robert Bopkins, and this was believed by most of 4chan for a long while until moot appeared in the flesh at the 2005 Otakon Panel, revealing himself to have a teenage-like un-nerdy appearance which surprised many /b/tards. | * April 1 - As an April Fools' Day prank, moot posts pictures of a man in a graduation uniform shortly after getting his diploma from Stanford University, and posts another picture of the man on April 4, this time showing him next to a statue in Mexico. moot claimed that the man in the photographs was him, and that his name was Robert Bopkins, and this was believed by most of 4chan for a long while until moot appeared in the flesh at the 2005 Otakon Panel, revealing himself to have a teenage-like un-nerdy appearance which surprised many /b/tards. | ||
* April 4 - Spork (4chan mod) creates an official IRC channel for 4chan, hosted on irc.pyoko.org. The channel was later moved, hosted on irc.rizon.net, where it remains today. | * April 4 - Spork (4chan mod) creates an official IRC channel for 4chan, hosted on irc.pyoko.org. The channel was later moved, hosted on irc.rizon.net, where it remains today. | ||
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* August 7 - 4chan returns in its fifth incarnation following six weeks of downtime after gathering up enough money and support. Many new moderators , developers and server administrators are added as well. News posts by staff members are made under the name of “The Team” | * August 7 - 4chan returns in its fifth incarnation following six weeks of downtime after gathering up enough money and support. Many new moderators , developers and server administrators are added as well. News posts by staff members are made under the name of “The Team” | ||
* August 15 - 4chan changes its board software to a "super-hacked" version of Futallaby coded mostly by W.T. Snacks. It contains many new features such as replying with an image, hiding posts, the Name and E-mail fields, displaying image names and sizes, and linking to other posts by adding a >> next to the post number. Tripcodes were also added to /f/. | * August 15 - 4chan changes its board software to a "super-hacked" version of Futallaby coded mostly by W.T. Snacks. It contains many new features such as replying with an image, hiding posts, the Name and E-mail fields, displaying image names and sizes, and linking to other posts by adding a >> next to the post number. Tripcodes were also added to /f/. | ||
* August 16 - Saved thread reveals that the following boards existed already: '''/m/''' | * August 16 - Saved thread reveals that the following boards existed already: '''/m/''', "/n/" (Trains), and '''/cm/''' (Cute Male). /cm/ was created to keep male content out of /c/. The discussion boards "/anime"/, "/ascii/" and "/game/" already existed. /r/ was named "/r/ - Request". Top of page boards list: a/b/c/d/f/g/h/l/m/n/p/r/s/t/'''u'''/w cm/y anime/ascii/dis/game/sug. | ||
* September 8 - Three new boards are added: '''/k/''' (Weapons), '''/o/''' (Auto), and /sm/ (Shota/Male). Jibaku (4chan mod) announces that /b/ is severely lacking in quality and asks users to contribute better. | * September 8 - Three new boards are added: '''/k/''' (Weapons), '''/o/''' (Auto), and /sm/ (Shota/Male). Jibaku (4chan mod) announces that /b/ is severely lacking in quality and asks users to contribute better. | ||
* October 1 - 4chan turns one year old. | * October 1 - 4chan turns one year old. | ||
* October 9 - Four boards are added: /ib/ (Oekaki Random), /ip/ (Oekaki Pro), '''/v/''' (Video Games), and /tech/ (Technology, discussion board); one board, /n/ (Trains) is deleted. The oekaki BBS board, /i/, is deleted to make way for the two new oekaki boards. Around this time, /z/ (ZOMG NONE!!1), a user-moderated board which utilizes the “Idiot King” model from SA’s FYAD, where the userbase has to vote for its mods, is created. The board features flashing backgrounds, annoying embedded music, and legendary posts. Their first moderator was Soviet Russia !lM51PoudCg) . | * October 9 - Four boards are added: /ib/ (Oekaki Random), /ip/ (Oekaki Pro), '''/v/''' (Video Games), and /tech/ (Technology, discussion board); one board, /n/ (Trains) is deleted. The oekaki BBS board, /i/, is deleted to make way for the two new oekaki boards. Around this time, /z/ (ZOMG NONE!!1), a user-moderated board which utilizes the “Idiot King” model from SA’s FYAD, where the userbase has to vote for its mods, is created. The board features flashing backgrounds, annoying embedded music, and legendary posts. Their first moderator was Soviet Russia !lM51PoudCg) . | ||
* October 30 - 4chan hosts a panel at the AnimeUSA 2004 Con in Vienna, Virginia. The same day, 4chan experiences DNS problems, and asks that people edit their host files once again. | * October 30 - 4chan hosts a panel at the AnimeUSA 2004 Con in Vienna, Virginia. The same day, 4chan experiences DNS problems, and asks that people edit their host files once again. | ||
* October 31 - /l/ (Lolikon) and /sm/ (Shotakon) are deleted due to threats of legal action. | * October 31 - /l/ (Lolikon) and /sm/ (Shotakon) are deleted due to threats of legal action. On November 5, moot registers not4chan.org and moves /l/ and /sm/ there instead. On * * * * November 15, /g/ (Guro) is deleted as well due to threats from YowCow to seize 4chan's donations account due to guro being against YowCow's ToS. | ||
* November 1 - squeeks registers 4-ch.net, a site not related to 4chan's text boards. moot complains that squeeks is stealing his thunder. The site is based on 2channel rather than Futaba, and consists of text boards rather than imageboards, and is run on a heavily modified version of Kareha coded by !WAHa.06x36. Man of Wax (4chan mod) begs for donations and advertising on the front page of 4chan. /z/ was deleted shortly after this time. | * November 1 - squeeks registers 4-ch.net, a site not related to 4chan's text boards. moot complains that squeeks is stealing his thunder. The site is based on 2channel rather than Futaba, and consists of text boards rather than imageboards, and is run on a heavily modified version of Kareha coded by !WAHa.06x36. Man of Wax (4chan mod) begs for donations and advertising on the front page of 4chan. /z/ was deleted shortly after this time. | ||
* December 1 - Earliest known time when '''/tl/''' - Torrents/Loli existed (likely hosted on not4chan.org) | * December 1 - Earliest known time when '''/tl/''' - Torrents/Loli existed (likely hosted on not4chan.org) | ||
==2005== | ==2005== | ||
* January 6 - Cracky-chan saga - The first picture of a strangely artistic teenager | * January 6 - Cracky-chan saga - The first picture of a strangely artistic teenager appear on /b/. Anonymous becomes infatuated with the girl and scours the Internet for her pictures. A tripfag under the name of cracky-chan!N1toQkxgzc starts posting. | ||
* January 13 - 4chan's IRC channel moves from irc.pyoko.org to irc.rizon.net. This is announced on the front page, along with one of the first lines ever spoken in 4chan's Rizon channel: <moot> i wish to be the little girl. | * January 13 - 4chan's IRC channel moves from irc.pyoko.org to irc.rizon.net. This is announced on the front page, along with one of the first lines ever spoken in 4chan's Rizon channel: <moot> i wish to be the little girl. | ||
* January 19 - Four new boards are added: '''/e/''' (Ecchi), /3/ (3DCG, stands for 3-D Computer Graphics), '''/g/''' (Technology), and /n/ (Nature & Wildlife). /g/ and /n/ are worksafe. | * January 19 - Four new boards are added: '''/e/''' (Ecchi), /3/ (3DCG, stands for 3-D Computer Graphics), '''/g/''' (Technology), and /n/ (Nature & Wildlife). /g/ and /n/ are worksafe. | ||
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* February 3 - moot and shut register ikuzo.org, a side project they had formulated during 4chan's downtime in summer 2004. The site was basically meant to be a weeaboo site with news and reviews of things like anime, hentai, and general Japanese imports. However, the project is quickly abandoned and the site now redirects to img.4chan.org. | * February 3 - moot and shut register ikuzo.org, a side project they had formulated during 4chan's downtime in summer 2004. The site was basically meant to be a weeaboo site with news and reviews of things like anime, hentai, and general Japanese imports. However, the project is quickly abandoned and the site now redirects to img.4chan.org. | ||
* February 5 - The Cracky-chan obsession becomes so big W. T. Snacks wordfiltered her name with similarly sounding names (Creaky-chan, fappy-chan, etc). Many stalkers created fansites. | * February 5 - The Cracky-chan obsession becomes so big W. T. Snacks wordfiltered her name with similarly sounding names (Creaky-chan, fappy-chan, etc). Many stalkers created fansites. | ||
* February | * February 6 - The last known time that '''/tl/''' - Torrents/Loli existed. | ||
* February 13 - 700K GET is fixed by the mods, with the word "ZERO HOUR" written in extremely large letters and the post count reset to 1, and the message, "ONLY 699999 TO GO GUYS!!". However, the post count is restored within the day. | |||
* February 26 - Following a IRC townhall, moot creates three more boards: '''/gif/''' (Animated GIF), '''/hr/''' (High Resolution), '''/wg/''' (Wallpapers/General), and removes /x/. | * February 26 - Following a IRC townhall, moot creates three more boards: '''/gif/''' (Animated GIF), '''/hr/''' (High Resolution), '''/wg/''' (Wallpapers/General), and removes /x/. | ||
* March 29 - A Livejournal from Cracky, freakygirl, is found. The owner of a Cracky-chan website, Creacky-chan.com claims it’s fake, though it may have been a move to protect her identity. Another Livejournal, kittykat soon gets found, whether fake or real. | * March 29 - A Livejournal from Cracky, freakygirl, is found. The owner of a Cracky-chan website, Creacky-chan.com claims it’s fake, though it may have been a move to protect her identity. Another Livejournal, kittykat soon gets found, whether fake or real. | ||
* March 31 - moot purchases a new server (tmp.4chan.org, backup of orz.4chan.org) and announces that it will be up in April. He also announces that 4chan will have a panel at Otakon 2005 and announces that he would soon recruit a new administrator following DJ Lucid's (4chan admin) departure. | * March 31 - moot purchases a new server (tmp.4chan.org, backup of orz.4chan.org) and announces that it will be up in April. He also announces that 4chan will have a panel at Otakon 2005 and announces that he would soon recruit a new administrator following DJ Lucid's (4chan admin) departure. | ||
* April 1 - | * April 1 - Aprils Fur’s Day - For April Fools' Day, moot makes a front-page newspost containing a picture of Robert Bopkins (thought to be moot at the time) in graduation gear shortly after graduating from Stanford University, along with the message "GREETINGS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL!". moot also creates a new board, /fur/ (Furry), despite his promise never to do so. Although many think it the board is simply an April Fools' Day joke, the board remained the next day, and the board was started to be taken seriously. However, on the morning of April 3rd, everyone who had posted in /fur/ was banned for three months (including /b/tards who posted on /fur/ to denounce furries), following which 4chan was almost rid of furfags. This event has remained embedded in the mind of every furry in hopes of moot ever making a new, permanent version of /fur/. | ||
* April 3 - Shii cracks Cracky-chan’s tripcode. Since the password was “sweet”, the theory of a fake tripfag gains solidity. | * April 3 - Shii cracks Cracky-chan’s tripcode. Since the password was “sweet”, the theory of a fake tripfag gains solidity. | ||
* April 6 - Another of Cracky-chan’s Livejournal get known under the name of “scarecrownmaiden”. It contained many more artsy pictures, even nudes. The journal gets deleted quickly by the owner. | * April 6 - Another of Cracky-chan’s Livejournal get known under the name of “scarecrownmaiden”. It contained many more artsy pictures, even nudes. The journal gets deleted quickly by the owner. | ||
* April 7 - | * April 7 - 1M GET is reached on /b/. It was considered an "alright" GET, neither fail nor win. 1M GET was posted by a namefag under the handle Senator Rodden Clitoris, who posted picture of Sae Sawanoguchi from Magic Users Club having an orgasm, with the text/copypasta "Female Orgasm", which was deleted within a few seconds. The mods instead chose another thread with a picture of a budgie in a jar and changed its posted number to 1000000 and stickied it, fooling many into believing that it was the true 1M GET. | ||
* May | * May 7 to June 25 - '''/3/''' - 3DCG was probably deleted somewhere in this period, according to ancient 4chan screenshots. | ||
* June 6 - Cracky-chan pics become a bannable offense, according to W. T. Snacks, per alleged request of Cracky-chan herself. | * June 6 - Cracky-chan pics become a bannable offense, according to W. T. Snacks, per alleged request of Cracky-chan herself. | ||
* July - /b/ Warchief Rend Niggerhand opens Crackypedia, a place with all storts of stalkerish information about Cracky | * July - /b/ Warchief Rend Niggerhand opens Crackypedia, a place with all storts of stalkerish information about Cracky | ||
* July 1 - Many of 4chan's boards were closed unexpectedly and announcement was supposedly made by "moot's secretary" was posted on the front page, announcing that moot had abandoned 4chan and that 4chan would cease operations in a few days due to lack of funding. The next day, moot made a newspost announcing that that this had all happened behind his back, and that the post was neither true nor official. | * July 1 - Many of 4chan's boards were closed unexpectedly and announcement was supposedly made by "moot's secretary" was posted on the front page, announcing that moot had abandoned 4chan and that 4chan would cease operations in a few days due to lack of funding. The next day, moot made a newspost announcing that that this had all happened behind his back, and that the post was neither true nor official. | ||
* July 29 - | * July 29 - /b/ reaches 2M GET, a picture of someone holding up a notepad with "2000000 GET?" written on it, and the text "HAY GUYS! 2MIL GET! -Delcious Ironing" [sic]. This was (badly) photoshopped with a smiling ugly man and the text, "HAY GUYEZ WOULD YOU BE UP FOR SOME ADULT FUN AT MY COUNTRY CLUB SOMETIME -Delcious ron", which spawned a whole series of other shopped GETs. | ||
* August 12 - Saturgay, /b/ gets spammed with images of Seizure 5, Hard Gay and Sageman | * August 12 - Saturgay, /b/ gets spammed with images of Seizure 5, Hard Gay and Sageman | ||
* August 13 - Shortly after celebrating one year of uptime, 4chan starts its panel at Otakon 2005, the first time ever that /b/tards actually met the real moot, after which moot revealed that "Robert Bopkins" was not only not him, but that Bopkins' name was actually Eric J. Ross and that moot picked the photos at random. Everyone has a really good time and moot hangs out with the other /b/tards who flip out over the fact that they are experiencing mootfaggotry IRL. | * August 13 - Shortly after celebrating one year of uptime, 4chan starts its panel at Otakon 2005, the first time ever that /b/tards actually met the real moot, after which moot revealed that "Robert Bopkins" was not only not him, but that Bopkins' name was actually Eric J. Ross and that moot picked the photos at random. Everyone has a really good time and moot hangs out with the other /b/tards who flip out over the fact that they are experiencing mootfaggotry IRL. | ||
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* October 1 - 4chan turns two years old. Dan makes a commemorative picture. | * October 1 - 4chan turns two years old. Dan makes a commemorative picture. | ||
* October 16 - 3M GET on /b/, with a picture of Waha and Pedobear and how they would be seen in America. The post linked to itself, prefixed by ">>3000000" and "TIME PARADOX/what a lame GET/Surely you jest!". It was, unfortunately, a tripfag get, posted by 4chan mod Pixel Hotness !Ol2RiO/0Ro. The GET was considered "meh" and was suspected to have been a modGET. | * October 16 - 3M GET on /b/, with a picture of Waha and Pedobear and how they would be seen in America. The post linked to itself, prefixed by ">>3000000" and "TIME PARADOX/what a lame GET/Surely you jest!". It was, unfortunately, a tripfag get, posted by 4chan mod Pixel Hotness !Ol2RiO/0Ro. The GET was considered "meh" and was suspected to have been a modGET. | ||
* October 25 - moot announces that "things are looking up" and announces that many new features will be added to 4chan, including the DevBlog. He also begs for people to advertise because he needs money to construct additional pylons. | * October 25 - moot announces that "things are looking up" and announces that many new features will be added to 4chan, including the DevBlog. He also begs for people to advertise because he needs money to construct additional pylons. | ||
* October 30 - moot and Snacks have a long fight over IRC as moot takes the site down for a few hours to fix some problems. moot rages against Snacks for being a lazy coder and threatens to take away his server access, and generally being very arrogant towards Snacks. They both go to sleep, and continue in the afternoon the next day for about three hours, until moot tells Snacks that he will remove his server access (along with his moderator powers), which he does shortly afterwards, making him unable to moderate or code. Snacks then "leaves" 4chan for good. | * October 30 - moot and Snacks have a long fight over IRC as moot takes the site down for a few hours to fix some problems. moot rages against Snacks for being a lazy coder and threatens to take away his server access, and generally being very arrogant towards Snacks. They both go to sleep, and continue in the afternoon the next day for about three hours, until moot tells Snacks that he will remove his server access (along with his moderator powers), which he does shortly afterwards, making him unable to moderate or code. Snacks then "leaves" 4chan for good. | ||
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* November 4 - Shortly after midnight, /b/'s layout was changed again to a pink McDonald's-themed background, with "moving JavaScript Golden Arches" as Lurkmore put it, along with a 1980s McDonald's jingle added as background music. This hack lasted for three days and was hated by almost everybody. During this time, Xenon released the chatlogs from moot and Snacks' fight, causing massive outrage on /b/. | * November 4 - Shortly after midnight, /b/'s layout was changed again to a pink McDonald's-themed background, with "moving JavaScript Golden Arches" as Lurkmore put it, along with a 1980s McDonald's jingle added as background music. This hack lasted for three days and was hated by almost everybody. During this time, Xenon released the chatlogs from moot and Snacks' fight, causing massive outrage on /b/. | ||
* December 19 - moot posts a thread in /v/ asking for applications to be a janitor (person who can delete posts but not ban), which was up to that point unheard of. News of this spread to /b/, and many applications were received, and the janitors were implemented within the month. | * December 19 - moot posts a thread in /v/ asking for applications to be a janitor (person who can delete posts but not ban), which was up to that point unheard of. News of this spread to /b/, and many applications were received, and the janitors were implemented within the month. | ||
==2006== | ==2006== | ||
* January 30 - moot implements forced anonymous on /b/, with users unable to post with a name, tripcode, or subject, remaining until March 26, 2007, which, by then, had definitely worn out its welcome. | * January 30 - moot implements forced anonymous on /b/, with users unable to post with a name, tripcode, or subject, remaining until March 26, 2007, which, by then, it had definitely worn out its welcome. | ||
* February 6 - orz.4chan.org and cgi.4chan.org crash and are not fixed until three days later. During this time, the secret board, /5/, hosted on the orz server, was deleted. | * February 6 - orz.4chan.org and cgi.4chan.org crash and are not fixed until three days later. During this time, the secret board, /5/, hosted on the orz server, was deleted. | ||
* February 12 - Cracky-chan discovers her cult and decides it’s enough. She makes a public statement on 420chan telling everyone to stop. Later, Kirtaner closes the board. | * February 12 - Cracky-chan discovers her cult and decides it’s enough. She makes a public statement on 420chan telling everyone to stop. Later, Kirtaner closes the board. | ||
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* February 18 - The day after the new servers are installed, 5M GET is achieved, during which the posting rate increased twenty fold. The servers were put to the test, with jumbo.4chan.org maxing out its line at 99.31 Mbit/s (~12.41 megabytes per second). The 5M GET was a picture of cat taken at an angle that made the cat look large, with the text "Needs more towercat". Users were divided between whether it was win or fail, although moot himself called it "more garbage" in the DevBlog. | * February 18 - The day after the new servers are installed, 5M GET is achieved, during which the posting rate increased twenty fold. The servers were put to the test, with jumbo.4chan.org maxing out its line at 99.31 Mbit/s (~12.41 megabytes per second). The 5M GET was a picture of cat taken at an angle that made the cat look large, with the text "Needs more towercat". Users were divided between whether it was win or fail, although moot himself called it "more garbage" in the DevBlog. | ||
* March 14 - /a/ was still titled Anime at this time. | * March 14 - /a/ was still titled Anime at this time. | ||
* March 23 - | * March 23 - 6M GET was achieved on /b/, with a picture of Senator Bill Frist holding up a card and the text "In after 6M GET". It was mostly considered a winGET due to the potential for epic shoops. | ||
* April 1 - /b/'s CSS is fucked with yet again, with the page layout being changed to tanasinn.org's layout, with a looping voice saying "Don't think. Feel and you'll be Tanasinn." Letters were randomly changed to the three-dot triangle symbol. | * April 1 - /b/'s CSS is fucked with yet again, with the page layout being changed to tanasinn.org's layout, with a looping voice saying "Don't think. Feel and you'll be Tanasinn." Letters were randomly changed to the three-dot triangle symbol. | ||
* April 6 - Three new trial boards are added: '''/co/''' (Comics & Cartoons), '''/po/''' (Papercraft & Origami), and /sp/ (Sports). | * April 6 - Three new trial boards are added: '''/co/''' (Comics & Cartoons), '''/po/''' (Papercraft & Origami), and /sp/ (Sports). | ||
* April 8 - Five more boards are added: '''/cgl/''' (Cosplay & EGL), '''/ck/''' (Food & Cooking), '''/mu/''' (Music), /n/ (News) (Changing the previous /n/ to '''/an/ - Animals & Nature'''), and '''/tv/''' (Television). '''/ib/''' (Oekaki Random) and '''/ip/''' (Oekaki Pro) merged into '''/i/ - Oekaki'''. At the time of the merger, /ib/ had accumulated just over 14200 posts, while /ip/ only managed just under 5600 posts. It's possible than when the boards were merged, the final post numbers were combined into one, as evidenced by /i/'s post count being at 23200 by the start of June 2006. The mysterious '''/yg/''' - Yogurt board is also created, and Saber adds '''/ss/''' - Straight/Shota to not4chan | * April 8 - Five more boards are added: '''/cgl/''' (Cosplay & EGL), '''/ck/''' (Food & Cooking), '''/mu/''' (Music), /n/ (News) (Changing the previous /n/ to '''/an/ - Animals & Nature'''), and '''/tv/''' (Television). '''/ib/''' (Oekaki/Random) and '''/ip/''' (Oekaki/Pro) merged into '''/i/ - Oekaki'''. At the time of the merger, /ib/ had accumulated just over 14200 posts, while /ip/ only managed just under 5600 posts. It's possible than when the boards were merged, the final post numbers were combined into one, as evidenced by /i/'s post count being at 23200 by the start of June 2006. The mysterious '''/yg/''' - Yogurt board is also created, and Saber adds '''/ss/''' - Straight/Shota to not4chan. | ||
* April 10 - When a user shows his ban reason as being DSFARGEG, he is banned and his thread stickied. Later seven threads are stickied, are stickied along with another DSFARGEG post, which consisted on a puppet from a Japanese show riding a motorcycle. | * April 10 - When a user shows his ban reason as being DSFARGEG, he is banned and his thread stickied. Later seven threads are stickied, are stickied along with another DSFARGEG post, which consisted on a puppet from a Japanese show riding a motorcycle. | ||
* April 11 - /b/tards start to spam /b/ with the same puppet. Every post gets stickied and banned. This concluded with entire pages consisting only of stickied bans. DSFARGEG would be banned on sight from them on. | * April 11 - /b/tards start to spam /b/ with the same puppet. Every post gets stickied and banned. This concluded with entire pages consisting only of stickied bans. DSFARGEG would be banned on sight from them on. | ||
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* April 20 - 7M GET is reached, but due to the high strain on the server, the file was deleted, and the post had no text. However, mods retrieved the MD5 data from the picture from their database and found that it was the popular image macro of Chopper Dave from Sealab 2021 shouting "UH OHHHHHHH". Also, 13-year-old Mitchell Henderson kills himself, after which /b/ raids his memorial MySpace and the "an hero" meme is born after a classmate of his posted a poem she written on his memorial account in which she constantly referred to him as "an hero". | * April 20 - 7M GET is reached, but due to the high strain on the server, the file was deleted, and the post had no text. However, mods retrieved the MD5 data from the picture from their database and found that it was the popular image macro of Chopper Dave from Sealab 2021 shouting "UH OHHHHHHH". Also, 13-year-old Mitchell Henderson kills himself, after which /b/ raids his memorial MySpace and the "an hero" meme is born after a classmate of his posted a poem she written on his memorial account in which she constantly referred to him as "an hero". | ||
* May 11 - Eight threads are stickied, all consisting of modified versions of a picture from some Japanese show with a puppet riding on a motorcycle and the text "DSFARGEG". All posts were followed by (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) and DSFARGEG almost always resulted in a ban or a sticky. | * May 11 - Eight threads are stickied, all consisting of modified versions of a picture from some Japanese show with a puppet riding on a motorcycle and the text "DSFARGEG". All posts were followed by (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) and DSFARGEG almost always resulted in a ban or a sticky. | ||
* May 18 - | * May 18 - /b/ reaches 8M GET, one of the first GETs to be auto-stickied. It was considered a WinGET, due to the fact that it was a picture of George Zimmer and the text "HI, I'M GEORGE ZIMMER, FOUNDER AND CEO OF MEN'S WAREHOUSE. THIS IS 8000000 GET. I GUARANTEE IT". | ||
* June 15 - Comedian Tom Green starts his own late-night call-in talk show hosted from his own living room, hosted every night at 11 PM EST. Over the next three months, /b/ trolls his show, with around 10% of all calls on the show being prank calls from 4chan. /b/ also focused on a section of his show, "Girl Talk", which featured five stereotypical "dumb chicks" giving advice on relationships. The trolling of Girl Talk was so intense that it was canceled on August 19th because of it, combined with bad response from viewers. It would eventually become a tradition to raid Tom Green whenever he went. | * June 15 - Comedian Tom Green starts his own late-night call-in talk show hosted from his own living room, hosted every night at 11 PM EST. Over the next three months, /b/ trolls his show, with around 10% of all calls on the show being prank calls from 4chan. /b/ also focused on a section of his show, "Girl Talk", which featured five stereotypical "dumb chicks" giving advice on relationships. The trolling of Girl Talk was so intense that it was canceled on August 19th because of it, combined with bad response from viewers. It would eventually become a tradition to raid Tom Green whenever he went. | ||
* June 17 - A group of anons crapflood the Zelda Guide Forums for fun, after which a member threatens to "hack" 4chan. This prompts their leader, known as "Captain Cornflake" (the name of his raid account on Zelda Guide Forums, he was anonymous on /b/) to post this information to /b/. Many Anonymous joined the raid following this post and crapflooded the forums nearly into oblivion during the night while the moderating team was asleep. As the moderators were surveying the carnage the next morning, one mod actually pleaded for /b/ to stop and said he would give them their own board to spam, which just increased the raid. The forums now require manual admin verification, which keeps out many legit users, resulting in an anon victory. | * June 17 - A group of anons crapflood the Zelda Guide Forums for fun, after which a member threatens to "hack" 4chan. This prompts their leader, known as "Captain Cornflake" (the name of his raid account on Zelda Guide Forums, he was anonymous on /b/) to post this information to /b/. Many Anonymous joined the raid following this post and crapflooded the forums nearly into oblivion during the night while the moderating team was asleep. As the moderators were surveying the carnage the next morning, one mod actually pleaded for /b/ to stop and said he would give them their own board to spam, which just increased the raid. The forums now require manual admin verification, which keeps out many legit users, resulting in an anon victory. | ||
* June 19 - Yet another epic raid occurs, with | * June 19 - Yet another epic raid occurs, with /b/ destroying naruto-kun.com after a user there posted about their dislike of 4chan. Following a major porn flood after which the site admin threatened to sic the FCC on 4chan, one anon discovered a source code document hidden on the site containing the site's SQL database password (which Anon posted on /b/) as well as loads of unchecked MySQL injection vulnerabilities. Anonymous also discovered that the fucking dumbass's FTP had the same password as his MySQL database, following which tons of anons logged in to the FTP account and deleted everything, destroying the entire site, including premium accounts and the database, and bringing the site down for two days. | ||
* July 4 - The first of many in a series of /b/ CSS hacks in July as the background was turned red and the text yellow. | * July 4 - The first of many in a series of /b/ CSS hacks in July as the background was turned red and the text yellow. July 10th saw the theme song from "Bill Nye the Science Guy" embedded into the background (no layout changes however), while July 15th harbored a sticky in which "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by composer Richard Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey theme song) was embedded. Toward the end of July, ten threads were stickied, taking up the entire first page of /b/, and the theme song from Inspector Gadget was embedded into /b/. | ||
* July 6 - Crackypedia closes per (alleged again) Cracky-chan’s request. The owner posts a macro with the date of closure, viewcount (17464) and the message "Hope you enjoyed it folks, I told you it wouldn't last forever." | * July 6 - Crackypedia closes per (alleged again) Cracky-chan’s request. The owner posts a macro with the date of closure, viewcount (17464) and the message "Hope you enjoyed it folks, I told you it wouldn't last forever." | ||
* July 7 - | * July 7 - 10M GET is reached, considered the most failed GET of all time, simply a picture of Hazuki from the anime Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- on a merry-go-round, with the text "hazukiget". Ironically, it was much later revealed to be a modGET, but with no trickery involved; Shii (4chan admin; coder of discussion boards) got the GET out of pure luck, proving that all modGETs, staged or not, will always be fail. | ||
* July 12 - The great Habbo raid of July 2006 - 4chan (along with Encyclopedia Dramatica, YTMND, GNAA, Bantown, and myg0t) storm Habbo Hotel. A virtual online role playing game where, among other things, people pay real-life money for online money. Thousands of "nigras" (black characters with afros wearing business suits, the official raid costume) filled nearly every room on the site, especially the Pool Deck, during which the pool was blocked for hours because the pool had AIDS. The sheer number of Anonymous was so great that the Habbo mods could not ban the nigras faster than the accounts were being created, resulting in the mods having no choice but to reset their server, after which the raid continued for a few more hours on Habbo servers in other countries, particularly the German Habbo Hotel (where the nigras would form in swastika patterns). The Habbo raid is often considered /b/'s best and spawned the "Nigra" meme and the "Pool's closed" meme. The word "AIDS" was later wordfiltered on Habbo as a result of the raid. | * July 12 - The great Habbo raid of July 2006 - 4chan (along with Encyclopedia Dramatica, YTMND, GNAA, Bantown, and myg0t) storm Habbo Hotel. A virtual online role playing game where, among other things, people pay real-life money for online money. Thousands of "nigras" (black characters with afros wearing business suits, the official raid costume) filled nearly every room on the site, especially the Pool Deck, during which the pool was blocked for hours because the pool had AIDS. The sheer number of Anonymous was so great that the Habbo mods could not ban the nigras faster than the accounts were being created, resulting in the mods having no choice but to reset their server, after which the raid continued for a few more hours on Habbo servers in other countries, particularly the German Habbo Hotel (where the nigras would form in swastika patterns). The Habbo raid is often considered /b/'s best and spawned the "Nigra" meme and the "Pool's closed" meme. The word "AIDS" was later wordfiltered on Habbo as a result of the raid. | ||
* July 20 - moot announces that they will have a panel at Otakon 2006 from August 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland, with enough seating capacity to allow 680 people compared to the 230 from Otakon 2005. | * July 20 - moot announces that they will have a panel at Otakon 2006 from August 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland, with enough seating capacity to allow 680 people compared to the 230 from Otakon 2005. | ||
* July 22 - | * July 22 - /v/ reaches 1M GET, considered to be one of the greatest non-/b/ gets of all time. The GET was a picture of PONG, the first-ever video game, thus a very fitting get for /v/. | ||
* July 26 - /b/ receives a picture of a post on the Zelda Universe Forums, claiming that administrator StonyLonesome planned to launch a counterattack on 4chan with Habbo Hotel. Even though the post itself was found to have been fake, /b/ wasted no time in obliterating the forums until the admins had to shut it all down. Later, it was revealed that Captain Cornflake had started the raid, just like he did with the Zelda Guide Forums raid. | * July 26 - /b/ receives a picture of a post on the Zelda Universe Forums, claiming that administrator StonyLonesome planned to launch a counterattack on 4chan with Habbo Hotel. Even though the post itself was found to have been fake, /b/ wasted no time in obliterating the forums until the admins had to shut it all down. Later, it was revealed that Captain Cornflake had started the raid, just like he did with the Zelda Guide Forums raid. | ||
* July 27 - One of the Zelda Universe mods taunts /b/ and unintentionally revitalizes their interest in fucking up Zelda Universe. The ZU Media Wiki is targeted, mostly by one Anon using an AutoHotKey script. Six hundred wiki pages are defaced. A second raid on the forum is planned for August 2, but ends up never happening despite many accounts being prepared. | * July 27 - One of the Zelda Universe mods taunts /b/ and unintentionally revitalizes their interest in fucking up Zelda Universe. The ZU Media Wiki is targeted, mostly by one Anon using an AutoHotKey script. Six hundred wiki pages are defaced. A second raid on the forum is planned for August 2, but ends up never happening despite many accounts being prepared. | ||
* August 4 - Otakon 2006 starts and so does 4chan's panel. Many important 4channers are there, including moot, shut, Shii, and the apparent return of W.T. Snacks. An epic sermon was delivered by "Reverend" Lemmy Caution to spread the gospel of Raptor Jesus, and moot even created a new board, /con/ (Conventions), for people at the con to use, which was deleted a few hours after the con ended. | * August 4 - Otakon 2006 starts and so does 4chan's panel. Many important 4channers are there, including moot, shut, Shii, and the apparent return of W.T. Snacks. An epic sermon was delivered by "Reverend" Lemmy Caution to spread the gospel of Raptor Jesus, and moot even created a new board, /con/ (Conventions), for people at the con to use, which was deleted a few hours after the con ended. | ||
* August 12 - The 4chan :codes: (words put between colons that are turned into smilies, like how posting :happy: would display a happy emoticon, for example) are released to the site. They are soon spammed all over the place, and threads are pruned extremely quickly. | * August 12 - The 4chan :codes: (words put between colons that are turned into smilies, like how posting :happy: would display a happy emoticon, for example) are released to the site. They are soon spammed all over the place, and threads are pruned extremely quickly. | ||
* August 16 - The Tom Green raids - Tom Green, an Canadian host in an Internet call in show, Tom Green’s House Tonight, gets massively prank called by /b/tards, who made him hold a paper with the work b written on, wear a wig, suffered an hour long of DESU spam and meme spouting such as “Do a barrel roll”. All these calls ended up clogging the lines and keeping actual fans from calling in. Green gets pissed enough that he announces on live TV: “thanks to you assholes this will no longer be a call in show”. The next show in line was GirlTalk, which also got raided by /b/. This raid is possible because neither shows screened their calls. | * August 16 - The Tom Green raids - Tom Green, an Canadian host in an Internet call in show, Tom Green’s House Tonight, gets massively prank called by /b/tards, who made him hold a paper with the work b written on, wear a wig, suffered an hour long of DESU spam and meme spouting such as “Do a barrel roll”. All these calls ended up clogging the lines and keeping actual fans from calling in. Green gets pissed enough that he announces on live TV: “thanks to you assholes this will no longer be a call in show”. The next show in line was GirlTalk, which also got raided by /b/. This raid is possible because neither shows screened their calls. | ||
* August 22 - A group of Anonymous go on a midnight raiding spree, eventually attracting tons (~100) of Anonymous to their posse in raid threads. They charged, destroying Proana.us (a pro-anorexia community), deleting all accounts on the site. After this (by now around 1:00 AM of August 23), they attempted to raid the myg0t forum, but the raid failed due to myg0t's massive size. Instead, they raided teenbabynet.org (not only furries, but teenage furries with diaper fetishes), locking the forum and rendering it totally unviewable by 10:00 AM. At around this time, they turned their attention to WikiFur, leaving it in complete disarray. With mods extremely worried, moot does something drastic around noon of August 23... | * August 22 - A group of Anonymous go on a midnight raiding spree, eventually attracting tons (~100) of Anonymous to their posse in raid threads. They charged, destroying Proana.us (a pro-anorexia community), deleting all accounts on the site. After this (by now around 1:00 AM of August 23), they attempted to raid the myg0t forum, but the raid failed due to myg0t's massive size. Instead, they raided teenbabynet.org (not only furries, but teenage furries with diaper fetishes), locking the forum and rendering it totally unviewable by 10:00 AM. At around this time, they turned their attention to WikiFur, leaving it in complete disarray. With mods extremely worried, moot does something drastic around noon of August 23... | ||
* August 23 - The /b/-day - moot (in a somewhat justifiable fit of anger) posts a sticky (later referred to as the Bob Ross sticky, for he used an image of Bob Ross) announcing that anyone who posts illegal content will get you permabanned and possibly arrested, and that even people who REPLY to illegal threads will receive a two-week global ban, with the definition of "illegal threads" referring to CP, jailbait, personal info, and raids (some of /b/'s most cherished traditions). This led to a massive outcry due to the fact that this policy was technically introducing rules to /b/, whose main goal was to be a rule-free board. The sticky was deleted and replaced with a new sticky restating the policy, which was then de-stickied and re-stickied over and over by moot and some other mod, and, along with spamming from angry /b/tards, caused img.4chan.org to crash, leaving 14 boards, including /b/, /an/, /b/, /c/, /cm/, /g/, /k/, /m/, /o/, /p/, /r/, /s/, /t/, /v/, and /w/ inaccessible. A civil war broke out, with many /b/tards permanently leaving 4chan and taking up new homes at 7chan, IIChan, 2ch.ru, and 420chan. moot got rid of the policy very shortly afterwards due to the enormous backlash. However, img.4chan.org didn't return until August 25, two days later. Eventually, it would be considered that the events of the /b/-day where a failure, because a week later /b/ was doing the same routine as if it never happened. On the rest of the Internet, however, this resulted in a massive increase of alternative image boards, like WTFux, 7chan, 2ch.ru and others where many banned users took an exodus to. This marked the rise of the /i/nsurgence, given that 7chan housed an /i/ board, long forbidden by moot, for the first time the /b/tard would orchestrate raids on an organized fashion. | * August 23 - The /b/-day - moot (in a somewhat justifiable fit of anger) posts a sticky (later referred to as the Bob Ross sticky, for he used an image of Bob Ross) announcing that anyone who posts illegal content will get you permabanned and possibly arrested, and that even people who REPLY to illegal threads will receive a two-week global ban, with the definition of "illegal threads" referring to CP, jailbait, personal info, and raids (some of /b/'s most cherished traditions). This led to a massive outcry due to the fact that this policy was technically introducing rules to /b/, whose main goal was to be a rule-free board. The sticky was deleted and replaced with a new sticky restating the policy, which was then de-stickied and re-stickied over and over by moot and some other mod, and, along with spamming from angry /b/tards, caused img.4chan.org to crash, leaving 14 boards, including /b/, /an/, /b/, /c/, /cm/, /g/, /k/, /m/, /o/, /p/, /r/, /s/, /t/, /v/, and /w/ inaccessible. A civil war broke out, with many /b/tards permanently leaving 4chan and taking up new homes at 7chan, IIChan, 2ch.ru, and 420chan. moot got rid of the policy very shortly afterwards due to the enormous backlash. However, img.4chan.org didn't return until August 25, two days later. Eventually, it would be considered that the events of the /b/-day where a failure, because a week later /b/ was doing the same routine as if it never happened. On the rest of the Internet, however, this resulted in a massive increase of alternative image boards, like WTFux, 7chan, 2ch.ru and others where many banned users took an exodus to. This marked the rise of the /i/nsurgence, given that 7chan housed an /i/ board, long forbidden by moot, for the first time the /b/tard would orchestrate raids on an organized fashion. [https://i.imgur.com/k2OMPbe.jpg Image for reference]. | ||
* September 4 - World-famous Australian "croc hunter" Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray barb to the heart while filming a documentary. /b/ is immediately flooded with this information and one of the first threads to announce it was stickied for a week, becoming the most replied-to thread in /b/ history with slightly over 5,200 replies (later beaten by the "#fortune" sticky on April 27, 2007). Many Rule 34s and general parodies are posted in /b/ during that time. | * September 4 - World-famous Australian "croc hunter" Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray barb to the heart while filming a documentary. /b/ is immediately flooded with this information and one of the first threads to announce it was stickied for a week, becoming the most replied-to thread in /b/ history with slightly over 5,200 replies (later beaten by the "#fortune" sticky on April 27, 2007). Many Rule 34s and general parodies are posted in /b/ during that time. | ||
* September 11 - Habbo, Revisited - In response to Steve Irwin's death, the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and hatred for Habbo Hotel, /b/, led by AFRODUCK, starts another massive raid on Habbo, with around 5,000 Anonymous partaking in the raid (~600 nigras on the Pool Deck alone). They blocked every single room, announcing that not only did the pool have AIDS, but also had stingrays as well. The raid continued for 3 days until September 14. | * September 11 - Habbo, Revisited - In response to Steve Irwin's death, the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and hatred for Habbo Hotel, /b/, led by AFRODUCK, starts another massive raid on Habbo, with around 5,000 Anonymous partaking in the raid (~600 nigras on the Pool Deck alone). They blocked every single room, announcing that not only did the pool have AIDS, but also had stingrays as well. The raid continued for 3 days until September 14. | ||
* October 1 - /b/ celebrates its third anniversary, and places blue-and-pink striped party hats on the top of each thread. /b/tards made pictures interacting with the hats, causing many threads that are epic win (a good chunk of epic thread screencaps are from this day). Dan makes a second commemoration. | * October 1 - /b/ celebrates its third anniversary, and places blue-and-pink striped party hats on the top of each thread. /b/tards made pictures interacting with the hats, causing many threads that are epic win (a good chunk of epic thread screencaps are from this day). Dan makes a second commemoration. | ||
* October 20 - Jake Brahm turns himself in to authorities following a now-infamous copypasta that he had written, reposting it around 40 times within the previous 30 days, in which he warned of simultaneous terrorist attacks against seven football stadiums across the United States on October 22nd. Two days before this, on October 18, the Department of Homeland Security was notified about the copypasta and attempted to track down and arrest the creator of it; when the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin police department (Brahm's town of residence) received a tip on October 20, he turned himself in and faces up to 20 years imprisonment, thus making him the only person to have been party v& for his actions as of 2007. The phrase "DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL", uttered by FBI agent Les Wiser during a news report on Brahm's arrest, has since become a meme, and was briefly added to teh rules for /b/. | * October 20 - Jake Brahm turns himself in to authorities following a now-infamous copypasta that he had written, reposting it around 40 times within the previous 30 days, in which he warned of simultaneous terrorist attacks against seven football stadiums across the United States on October 22nd. Two days before this, on October 18, the Department of Homeland Security was notified about the copypasta and attempted to track down and arrest the creator of it; when the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin police department (Brahm's town of residence) received a tip on October 20, he turned himself in and faces up to 20 years imprisonment, thus making him the only person to have been party v& for his actions as of 2007. The phrase "DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL", uttered by FBI agent Les Wiser during a news report on Brahm's arrest, has since become a meme, and was briefly added to teh rules for /b/. | ||
* October 30 - Habbo, Revisited 2 or the Habbo fail raid - Somewhere around 100 nigras gather around Habbo Hotel, but are banned quickly. | * October 30 - Habbo, Revisited 2 or the Habbo fail raid - Somewhere around 100 nigras gather around Habbo Hotel, but are banned quickly. | ||
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* November 21 - /b/space day - A /b/tard loads a keylogger on a public PC and gives /b/ over 40000 MySpace accounts and passwords. Of course, they proceed to have a field day over it. | * November 21 - /b/space day - A /b/tard loads a keylogger on a public PC and gives /b/ over 40000 MySpace accounts and passwords. Of course, they proceed to have a field day over it. | ||
* November 30 - moot announces that more banner ads from AdBrite will be added to 4chan in December due to the fact that donations are no longer possible. As a result of the extra money, 4chan becomes faster after moot uses the money for extra bandwidth capacity. | * November 30 - moot announces that more banner ads from AdBrite will be added to 4chan in December due to the fact that donations are no longer possible. As a result of the extra money, 4chan becomes faster after moot uses the money for extra bandwidth capacity. | ||
* December 20 - Hal Turner, a white supremacist talk show host from New Jersey, plans his final radio show due to lack of funding, in which he takes calls for three hours straight. However, a combined surprise raid from 4chan, 7chan, YTMND, Something Awful, and Bantown destroyed Hal's show, with 150 prank calls being made in three hours, with almost none of his real listeners being able to call in due to clogged lines. Hal then posts the phone numbers of the callers on his website (some of which were minors), sparking a huge outrage among /b/. Bantown then uncovered his personal information, including his real phone number, after which ~160 calls were made to his house. Hal gave in and removed the phone numbers from his site, but as we all know, Anonymous does not forgive. | |||
* December 20 - Hal Turner, a white supremacist talk show host from New Jersey, plans his final radio show due to lack of funding, in which he takes calls for three hours straight. However, a combined surprise raid from 4chan, 7chan, YTMND, Something Awful, and Bantown destroyed Hal's show, with 150 prank calls being made in three hours, with almost none of his real listeners being able to call in due to clogged lines. Hal then posts the phone numbers of the callers on his website (some of which were minors), sparking a huge outrage among /b/. Bantown then uncovered his personal information, including his real phone number, after which ~160 calls were made to his house. Hal gave in and removed the phone numbers from his site, but as we all know, Anonymous does not forgive. | * December 25 - Hal Turner spends Christmas with his family over at his father's house; news of this spread, and Bantown quickly found his father's number, leading to a massive amount of calls and Hal supposedly being kicked out of the house. After this, Hal claimed that the FBI was investigating 4chan (an Anonymous later called in to Hal's show claiming that he had contacted the FBI and that they had said that no such investigation was taking place) and redirected his website to the FBI page. | ||
* December 25 - Hal Turner spends Christmas with his family over at his father's house; news of this spread, and Bantown quickly found his father's number, leading to a massive amount of calls and Hal supposedly being kicked out of the house. After this, Hal claimed that the FBI was investigating 4chan (an Anonymous later called in to Hal's show claiming that he had contacted the FBI and that they had said that no such investigation was taking place) and redirected his website to the FBI page | * December 31 - A happy ending for 2006 after Hal Turner surrenders to 4chan after much raiding and lulz, and announces that he is almost off of the internet completely. He announces, "I am not certain where to go from here. My entire existence - short of my physical presence on this planet - has been utterly wrecked, by people I never met from places I've never been." Anonymous knocks back a cold one and lols heartily. | ||
* December 31 - A happy ending for 2006 after Hal Turner surrenders to 4chan after much raiding and lulz, and announces that he is almost off of the internet completely. He announces, "I am not certain where to go from here. My entire existence - short of my physical presence on this planet - has been utterly wrecked, by people I never met from places I've never been." Anonymous knocks back a cold one and lols heartily. | |||
==2007== | ==2007== | ||
* January 3 - Hal Turner’s third radio show gets dropped midsession allegedly because a hacker called Slogh held a grudge against him, and launched a botnet to DDOS the site. | * January 3 - Hal Turner’s third radio show gets dropped midsession allegedly because a hacker called Slogh held a grudge against him, and launched a botnet to DDOS the site. | ||
* January 5 - Hal Turner redirects his website to the FBI for a while in an effort to deter trolls. | * January 5 - Hal Turner redirects his website to the FBI for a while in an effort to deter trolls. | ||
* January 9 - moot posts on the front page, announcing that 4chan would soon have interstitial ads due to dwindling revenue. moot also allows all of the trial boards created on April 6, 2006 | * January 9 - moot posts on the front page, announcing that 4chan would soon have interstitial ads due to dwindling revenue. moot also allows all of the trial boards created on April 6, 2006 to become full boards, except for /sp/ (Sports), which is deleted. | ||
* January 10 - All text disappears on /b/, with users only being able to talk through pictures or the E-mail field. Needless to say, this was win, and caused /b/ to be fag-free for a few hours. | * January 10 - All text disappears on /b/, with users only being able to talk through pictures or the E-mail field. Needless to say, this was win, and caused /b/ to be fag-free for a few hours. | ||
* January 22 - Hal Turners has enough and deletes his site. | * January 22 - Hal Turners has enough and deletes his site. | ||
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* March 7 - Hal makes another radio show, anonymous raids him again. He dedicated the show about the 21/4 raid. | * March 7 - Hal makes another radio show, anonymous raids him again. He dedicated the show about the 21/4 raid. | ||
* March 21 - Anonymous discovers photos of 16-year-old Kelly Isenhower of Georgia sucking off her dog, as well as her phone number and address. Needless to say, Anon went batshit, raiding her DeviantArt and MySpace, calling her parents and telling them about the incident, and even e-mailing the photographs to her school principal, although she was adamant that the photos were shopped (which they obviously weren't). She was suspended from school indefinitely, her dog was taken away, and everyone now hates her, including all her former friends and her parents. Anonymous rejoices. | * March 21 - Anonymous discovers photos of 16-year-old Kelly Isenhower of Georgia sucking off her dog, as well as her phone number and address. Needless to say, Anon went batshit, raiding her DeviantArt and MySpace, calling her parents and telling them about the incident, and even e-mailing the photographs to her school principal, although she was adamant that the photos were shopped (which they obviously weren't). She was suspended from school indefinitely, her dog was taken away, and everyone now hates her, including all her former friends and her parents. Anonymous rejoices. | ||
* March 26 - The Great re/b/oot - moot announces a re/b/oot and aims to restore /b/ to its former glory. Two stickies are created, one being a letter moot received that inspired him to start the re/b/oot, and another sticky being his formal apology for "letting /b/ turn to shit". /b/'s background changed to a seizure-inducing flashing yellow and white background with the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" embedded in the background. The Name and Subject fields return to /b/, effectively ending forced anonymous and allowing tripcodes. Many people were banned by moot in both stickies for comments such as "/b/ sucks", and in many other threads as well. Later, a third sticky was made which was a locked thread with only two posts, with the OP announcing that he was "afraid of being banned by the crazy bitch-ass mods" and also said, "You might as well make rules for /b/ now faggots", followed by which the poster was banned. Later in the day, | * March 26 - The Great re/b/oot - moot announces a re/b/oot and aims to restore /b/ to its former glory. Two stickies are created, one being a letter moot received that inspired him to start the re/b/oot, and another sticky being his formal apology for "letting /b/ turn to shit". /b/'s background changed to a seizure-inducing flashing yellow and white background with the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe" embedded in the background. The Name and Subject fields return to /b/, effectively ending forced anonymous and allowing tripcodes. Many people were banned by moot in both stickies for comments such as "/b/ sucks", and in many other threads as well. Later, a third sticky was made which was a locked thread with only two posts, with the OP announcing that he was "afraid of being banned by the crazy bitch-ass mods" and also said, "You might as well make rules for /b/ now faggots", followed by which the poster was banned. Later in the day, 23M GET was achieved, which was a picture of a Pokemon with text InfernalRape with the post consisting of INFERAPEGET. Considering this to be an extreme failGET (as did all of /b/), moot banned the poster, instantly transforming it into a winGET. | ||
* March 27 - Transmission - The next day, /b/'s title changes to “Transmission” with Trans italicized and the background turned /b/lack, and techno music was played, specifically “You could easily have me” by Motronomy. A sticky was posted containing a picture of Diglet and said, "/b/ is /b/ again". Many users were banned in the thread for suggesting otherwise. | * March 27 - Transmission - The next day, /b/'s title changes to “Transmission” with Trans italicized and the background turned /b/lack, and techno music was played, specifically “You could easily have me” by Motronomy. A sticky was posted containing a picture of Diglet and said, "/b/ is /b/ again". Many users were banned in the thread for suggesting otherwise. | ||
* March 28 - Revolution - /b/'s title changed to “Revolution” and the background was changed yet again to gray with red tripcodes (allowing users to impersonate moot every easily), techno music was added with the prominent line, "I am the creator". A sticky was posted in which a user was banned for posting DSFARGEG. | * March 28 - Revolution - /b/'s title changed to “Revolution” and the background was changed yet again to gray with red tripcodes (allowing users to impersonate moot every easily), techno music was added with the prominent line, "I am the creator". A sticky was posted in which a user was banned for posting DSFARGEG. | ||
* March 29 - Showdown - The day after that, the title was Showdown and the background was changed to a rapidly flashing rainbow background, as well as the posts. A techno version of the song "Eye of the Tiger” with elements from “Let Your Backbone Slide”, called “Tiger Said Knock You Out” by Neon Kobra, was added as background music. Four stickies were created, each with a GIF of a rainbow-flashing number 5 and the four stickies contained one line each of the song's opening verse (This is a showdown/A throwdown/Hell no, I can't slow down/It's gonna go) | * March 29 - Showdown - The day after that, the title was Showdown and the background was changed to a rapidly flashing rainbow background, as well as the posts. A techno version of the song "Eye of the Tiger” with elements from “Let Your Backbone Slide”, called “Tiger Said Knock You Out” by Neon Kobra, was added as background music. Four stickies were created, each with a GIF of a rainbow-flashing number 5 and the four stickies contained one line each of the song's opening verse (This is a showdown/A throwdown/Hell no, I can't slow down/It's gonna go). | ||
* March 30 - Intermission - The next day, /b/ returned to normal, with a normal layout and no background music, during which /b/'s title was changed to "Intermission". | * March 30 - Intermission - The next day, /b/ returned to normal, with a normal layout and no background music, during which /b/'s title was changed to "Intermission". | ||
* April 1 - Following two days of normal /b/, techno music was again added as background music, but the CSS remained unchanged, signaling the end of the re/b/oot. | * April 1 - Following two days of normal /b/, techno music was again added as background music, but the CSS remained unchanged, signaling the end of the re/b/oot. | ||
* April 20 - 4chan administrators are forced to temporarily shut down img.4chan.org after a thread containing four uncensored images of child pornography became stuck on the front page for over an hour (during which nobody could post) and could not be deleted due to MySQL problems. Rather than getting v&, the plug was pulled on img.4chan.org and was restored around 12-15 hours later. During the downtime, since 7chan was down as well, a massive amount of /b/tards flocked to 420chan, thus ruining 420chan's most special day, 4/20. | * April 20 - 4chan administrators are forced to temporarily shut down img.4chan.org after a thread containing four uncensored images of child pornography became stuck on the front page for over an hour (during which nobody could post) and could not be deleted due to MySQL problems. Rather than getting v&, the plug was pulled on img.4chan.org and was restored around 12-15 hours later. During the downtime, since 7chan was down as well, a massive amount of /b/tards flocked to 420chan, thus ruining 420chan's most special day, 4/20. | ||
* April 21 - Hal Turner fail IRL raid - Hal Turned hyped the shit out of a supposed IRL raid, called two cop units, and ambulance and various friends. Only four channers, two anons and two girls (Or traps?) came in. | * April 21 - Hal Turner fail IRL raid - Hal Turned hyped the shit out of a supposed IRL raid, called two cop units, and ambulance and various friends. Only four channers, two anons and two girls (Or traps?) came in. | ||
* April 27 - "Fortunes" are introduced to /b/, a feature that moot had implemented from the very beginning but had | * April 27 - "Fortunes" are introduced to /b/, a feature that moot had implemented from the very beginning but had never told anyone about. Basically, if you put your name as "#fortune", you will get a random fortune at the top of your post, chosen at random. moot announced it to the public after another mod told him to reveal it, causing mass spamming of fortunes. A thread in which someone guessed their own fortune was stickied and became the most replied-to thread in /b/ history up to that point, beating the Steve Irwin thread in just 19 hours with 5,336 posts. | ||
* April 28 - Subeta raids - 4chan, 7chan, and especially 420chan combine forces to attack Subeta, a faggot role-playing website similar to Gaia who stole Longcat and turned him into an item for their faggoty site. When the chans complained, Subeta DDoSed 420chan, leaving it in ruins and sticking Kirtaner (420chan's owner) with a $6,000 server bill. The *chans then DDoS Subeta, which they find hard to do due to lack of effort, as well as Subeta's 2000 GB monthly bandwidth and lack of large images. Nevertheless, two major Subeta fansites were shut down permanently and Subeta was down for two days. Keith (Subeta's owner) eventually apologized and removed Longcat from his site after a long and bloody battle, at which many Anonymous rejoiced. On this same day, Encyclopedia Dramatica, one of /b/'s most famous recruiting posts, encountered a severe hard disk failure and does not return until June 8. | * April 28 - Subeta raids - 4chan, 7chan, and especially 420chan combine forces to attack Subeta, a faggot role-playing website similar to Gaia who stole Longcat and turned him into an item for their faggoty site. When the chans complained, Subeta DDoSed 420chan, leaving it in ruins and sticking Kirtaner (420chan's owner) with a $6,000 server bill. The *chans then DDoS Subeta, which they find hard to do due to lack of effort, as well as Subeta's 2000 GB monthly bandwidth and lack of large images. Nevertheless, two major Subeta fansites were shut down permanently and Subeta was down for two days. Keith (Subeta's owner) eventually apologized and removed Longcat from his site after a long and bloody battle, at which many Anonymous rejoiced. On this same day, Encyclopedia Dramatica, one of /b/'s most famous recruiting posts, encountered a severe hard disk failure and does not return until June 8. | ||
* May 13 - moot changes /b/'s layout so that everything is the same color (excluding checkboxes and fortunes), meaning that users will have to press Ctrl+A (Select All) or disable CSS in order to view text. A sticky is posted in which moot explains that the color change is to keep stupid people out, which moot closed a few hours later at around 1,900 posts. moot | * May - first known instance of a Rickroll in 4chan's /v/. Related to Grand Theft Auto. | ||
* June 5 - | * May 13 - moot changes /b/'s layout so that everything is the same color (excluding checkboxes and fortunes), meaning that users will have to press Ctrl+A (Select All) or disable CSS in order to view text. A sticky is posted in which moot explains that the color change is to keep stupid people out, which moot closed a few hours later at around 1,900 posts. moot also announced that threads would go back to the limit of 250 posts and 100 images instead of 1000 posts and 500 images, so that topics can be pruned easier and that the directory dumper would be harder to abuse. The color change lasted a week (during which posting rates decreased by 10%) after which it was disabled, triggering some anger from some /b/tards who wished that the cancer could have been kept out longer. | ||
* June 5 - /co/ reaches 1M GET; the thread disappears within five seconds or so, and due to the strain on the server, the file was deleted as soon as it was uploaded. The post also had the text, "reducto get", referring to Reducto from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, meaning that the picture was most likely one of him. The next day, /b/ reaches 29M GET, which the original poster deletes after three hours after being persuaded to do so in another thread. | |||
* June 16 - | * June 16 - 30M GET is achieved one hour after midnight, when many /b/tards are asleep. It was an extreme failGET, as was 10M GET and 20M GET. Consisting of the text "Shit. Getting closer" and a picture from some anime, it received around 2400 replies before being deleted 15 hours later. | ||
* June 18 - moot brings back forced Anonymous on /b/ after someone insults him. Many think it is merely a temporary change, and they were right. The forced Anonymous remains in place for just over a month. | * June 18 - moot brings back forced Anonymous on /b/ after someone insults him. Many think it is merely a temporary change, and they were right. The forced Anonymous remains in place for just over a month. | ||
* July 12 - The Great Habbo Raid of July 2007 - Commemorating one year of the most epic raid ever done, /b/ sets out to raid Habbo hotel once again. This time, the mods decide that “If you can’t beat them, join then” via declaring international Afro day. However this resulted in racist implications. There were many complains about the raid, mainly coming from lack of organization, but everyone agrees it was just as funny as the last year. At the same time, Tom Green makes a midnight show, completely drunk, and gets one single prank call from the anons. He spends the rest of the show shouting BARREL ROLL and MUDLIFFS at every caller, ended up closing the show half an hour earlier. | * July 12 - The Great Habbo Raid of July 2007 - Commemorating one year of the most epic raid ever done, /b/ sets out to raid Habbo hotel once again. This time, the mods decide that “If you can’t beat them, join then” via declaring international Afro day. However this resulted in racist implications. There were many complains about the raid, mainly coming from lack of organization, but everyone agrees it was just as funny as the last year. At the same time, Tom Green makes a midnight show, completely drunk, and gets one single prank call from the anons. He spends the rest of the show shouting BARREL ROLL and MUDLIFFS at every caller, ended up closing the show half an hour earlier. | ||
* July 17 - Anonymous raids potterforums.com via spam bots with the spoilers for Harry Potter’s seventh book. They manage to close the site down temporarily. | * July 17 - Anonymous raids potterforums.com via spam bots with the spoilers for Harry Potter’s seventh book. They manage to close the site down temporarily. | ||
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* October 29 - Two hours before Zelda Universe has its weekly backup, anons raid the site, take over a few admin accounts, sending admin access to anybody who asked, renaming the site to Desu Universe, and obliterating the forums once more. When one of the main admins tries to counter the raid, the anons responding by wiping the SQL database again, meaning that the ZU team had to restore week-old backups of the forums. | * October 29 - Two hours before Zelda Universe has its weekly backup, anons raid the site, take over a few admin accounts, sending admin access to anybody who asked, renaming the site to Desu Universe, and obliterating the forums once more. When one of the main admins tries to counter the raid, the anons responding by wiping the SQL database again, meaning that the ZU team had to restore week-old backups of the forums. | ||
* November 5 - The EFG Day Raid - Commemorating the anniversary of V for Vendetta, anon change the classical nigras for a new model resembling the V for Vendetta character. Though extremely unorganized and failing most of its activities, the raid of notorious for managing huge swastigets and other forms of /b/lockade. | * November 5 - The EFG Day Raid - Commemorating the anniversary of V for Vendetta, anon change the classical nigras for a new model resembling the V for Vendetta character. Though extremely unorganized and failing most of its activities, the raid of notorious for managing huge swastigets and other forms of /b/lockade. | ||
* December - moot changes the front page | * December - moot changes the front page | ||
* December 14 - BRB, compromised - IDIDITFORTHELULZ.net obtains moot’s domain password, hereby taking control of 4chan by having CeLe, owner of Glexia.com, 4chan’s hosting, hand them over. CeLe was a good friend of DIDITFORTHELULZ’s admin, XyriX. Together with his team [Lulz] and his girlfriend Angyl they tried to make a “4chan for the people”. There is a | * December 14 - BRB, compromised - IDIDITFORTHELULZ.net obtains moot’s domain password, hereby taking control of 4chan by having CeLe, owner of Glexia.com, 4chan’s hosting, hand them over. CeLe was a good friend of DIDITFORTHELULZ’s admin, XyriX. Together with his team [Lulz] and his girlfriend Angyl they tried to make a “4chan for the people”. There is a recorded phone conversation where Angyl tries to get a fansign picture of a very angry moot in exchange for giving them the site back. Glexia suspended 4chan’s and teamdouche’s (Angyl’s former team) accounts after they Dox’d Angyl together with Anonymous Borg (Locutus_of_loli, actor in the Caturday Nap). Why they helped, its unknown. moot got the site back after he gave the ransom. I wonder where the pictures are. | ||
* December 21 - The FBI makes reports the arrest of Trey Burba in their website, showing that they really don’t have any idea of how /b/ works. | * December 21 - The FBI makes reports the arrest of Trey Burba in their website, showing that they really don’t have any idea of how /b/ works. | ||
* December 30 - Hal Turner announces that he is closing his site. In a last moment, 7channers and anons from #insurgency tell the g00ns, who used their actual hacker skills to steal all the data regarding donations and subscribers. It turns out Hal made more money from the former than the latter. Plus that bandwidth totaled way less than he told. | * December 30 - Hal Turner announces that he is closing his site. In a last moment, 7channers and anons from #insurgency tell the g00ns, who used their actual hacker skills to steal all the data regarding donations and subscribers. It turns out Hal made more money from the former than the latter. Plus that bandwidth totaled way less than he told. | ||
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* May 2 - /b/-day 2 - Out of curiosity, moot decides to turn /b/ off for one day. The ensuing wave of adrift /b/tards, with no place to go since 7chan was pretending to be bought by 4chan, redirecting to the site, they flocked at /r9k/. There, they discovered that they could impersonate moot, and decided to flood the shit out of everything. As the day progressed more and more /b/tards drifted towards the other boards, mainly /r9k/, /k/, /s/ and /x/. | * May 2 - /b/-day 2 - Out of curiosity, moot decides to turn /b/ off for one day. The ensuing wave of adrift /b/tards, with no place to go since 7chan was pretending to be bought by 4chan, redirecting to the site, they flocked at /r9k/. There, they discovered that they could impersonate moot, and decided to flood the shit out of everything. As the day progressed more and more /b/tards drifted towards the other boards, mainly /r9k/, /k/, /s/ and /x/. | ||
* May 22 - Operation Jewtube - In response to protests from My Chemical Romance fans regarding criticism of the band, /i/nsurgents from Britchan troll the media by making videos about the protest, adding a final note telling that they were going to kill themselves at the end. | * May 22 - Operation Jewtube - In response to protests from My Chemical Romance fans regarding criticism of the band, /i/nsurgents from Britchan troll the media by making videos about the protest, adding a final note telling that they were going to kill themselves at the end. | ||
* June 13 - 4chan's /b/ got spammed with obfuscated JavaScript code (henceforth known as 4chan.js) with the simple instructions. In reality, it effectively turns your computer into a botnet. The server is almost fucked by the load of hundreds of botnets until the mods manage to filter the text and delete all threads containing the instructions. | * June 13 - 4chan's /b/ got spammed with obfuscated JavaScript code (henceforth known as 4chan.js) with the simple instructions. In reality, it effectively turns your computer into a botnet. The server is almost fucked by the load of hundreds of botnets until the mods manage to filter the text and delete all threads containing the instructions. | ||
* June 14 - The 4chan.js script from the previous day is modified to dodge the filter, and spam starts anew | * June 14 - The 4chan.js script from the previous day is modified to dodge the filter, and spam starts anew. | ||
* June 15 - moot steps in to crack down on the 4chan.js scriptfags. The text string "eval(" is automatically filtered and users who post it are handed a 15 day ban. Also, for some reason, moot adds more word filters such as replacing "femanon" with "cumdumpster." /b/tards troll newfags by making threads such as "eval (now wordfilters to niggerjews)", getting many retards banned for two weeks. | * June 15 - moot steps in to crack down on the 4chan.js scriptfags. The text string "eval(" is automatically filtered and users who post it are handed a 15 day ban. Also, for some reason, moot adds more word filters such as replacing "femanon" with "cumdumpster." /b/tards troll newfags by making threads such as "eval (now wordfilters to niggerjews)", getting many retards banned for two weeks. | ||
* June 18 - The old /b/ day and the Boston fail meet up - /b/'s title was changed as well to old /b/, the love Theme from Metal Gear Solid 4 is embedded with the subtitle “/b/ has changed. it's no longer about original content, epic GETs, and win it's an endless series of reposts, perpetuated by newfags and trolls fail - and its consumption of /b/, has become an unstoppable cancer. /b/ has changed." and “This is our final mission” was written on the announcements. Before, the title/ has already been renamed /vaporeon/," "/tom/" and "/b/oston." The board was later locked, and unlocked with two stickies. Confused /b/tards though this was it, /b/ was going to be deleted and vowed to at least try to kill the cancer, the cancerous threads became “One last X” threads and other vowed to delete their /b/ folder. However, on other boards, a small text appeared: "today, 6/18. Boston common. park street. 7pm.". By 7PM, a link to an USTREAM video was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see. | * June 18 - The old /b/ day and the Boston fail meet up - /b/'s title was changed as well to old /b/, the love Theme from Metal Gear Solid 4 is embedded with the subtitle “/b/ has changed. it's no longer about original content, epic GETs, and win it's an endless series of reposts, perpetuated by newfags and trolls fail - and its consumption of /b/, has become an unstoppable cancer. /b/ has changed." and “This is our final mission” was written on the announcements. Before, the title/ has already been renamed /vaporeon/," "/tom/" and "/b/oston." The board was later locked, and unlocked with two stickies. Confused /b/tards though this was it, /b/ was going to be deleted and vowed to at least try to kill the cancer, the cancerous threads became “One last X” threads and other vowed to delete their /b/ folder. However, on other boards, a small text appeared: "today, 6/18. Boston common. park street. 7pm.". By 7PM, a link to an USTREAM video was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see. | ||
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* July 12 - /b/tards all over the *chans joined in Habbo Canada to raid. The zerg rush was absolute and very unorganized, even though the veteran nigras made tools for the newfags. The Canadian moderation was more reactionary than the American and banned nigras back and forth. At the same time, in an effort against | * July 12 - /b/tards all over the *chans joined in Habbo Canada to raid. The zerg rush was absolute and very unorganized, even though the veteran nigras made tools for the newfags. The Canadian moderation was more reactionary than the American and banned nigras back and forth. At the same time, in an effort against | ||
* July 13 - In an effort against scientology, /b/tard search bomb Google to make “scientology is a cult” top Google Trends. Later they change it to an Upside-down “fuck you Google” | * July 13 - In an effort against scientology, /b/tard search bomb Google to make “scientology is a cult” top Google Trends. Later they change it to an Upside-down “fuck you Google” | ||
* July 21 - The Chanopocalypse - Three users from Raidchan, Pacifico, ViraL and f have the idea to start an imageboard civil war; their attempts fail as they were discovered, so they decide to go nuts and DDOS every major imageboard on the net. | * July 21 - The Chanopocalypse - Three users from Raidchan, Pacifico, ViraL and f have the idea to start an imageboard civil war; their attempts fail as they were discovered, so they decide to go nuts and DDOS every major imageboard on the net. | ||
* July 26 - Two-year anniversary of the Zelda Universe raids. Anon comes back to fuck up the site for ninety minutes, leaving behind Marty Chang's gardening tips. | * July 26 - Two-year anniversary of the Zelda Universe raids. Anon comes back to fuck up the site for ninety minutes, leaving behind Marty Chang's gardening tips. | ||
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* August 31 - Another 4chan.js script appears which now copies files from your My Documents folder and implements them in the .gif files. Essentially, if you save the script like a tard, you've just had your documents uploaded to 4chan. | * August 31 - Another 4chan.js script appears which now copies files from your My Documents folder and implements them in the .gif files. Essentially, if you save the script like a tard, you've just had your documents uploaded to 4chan. | ||
* September 10 - Positron Uprising - The Large Hadron Collider was starting today, and moot changed /b/ title to Positron Uprising, with a subtitle of “I, for one, salute our new proton spiral overlords - ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH” And embedded Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan’s theme on /b/. Every single post is wordfiltered to “ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH”. A small, clickable fyi link appears under the comment field, which leads to a giant. /b/ proceeds to evacuate the board and raids the fuck out of /trv/ and various other boards. The next stop was /v/, but the raid was met with strong retaliation. Eventually this inspired /v/ tripfag 3 Angled Blue to make the Rage Vs. Cancer comic depicting the civil war, and it got such a rise in popularity that /v/irgins got together and made the popular V-rage flash. 3AB then made a sequel comic and an unfinished conclusion in flash. | * September 10 - Positron Uprising - The Large Hadron Collider was starting today, and moot changed /b/ title to Positron Uprising, with a subtitle of “I, for one, salute our new proton spiral overlords - ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH” And embedded Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan’s theme on /b/. Every single post is wordfiltered to “ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH”. A small, clickable fyi link appears under the comment field, which leads to a giant. /b/ proceeds to evacuate the board and raids the fuck out of /trv/ and various other boards. The next stop was /v/, but the raid was met with strong retaliation. Eventually this inspired /v/ tripfag 3 Angled Blue to make the Rage Vs. Cancer comic depicting the civil war, and it got such a rise in popularity that /v/irgins got together and made the popular V-rage flash. 3AB then made a sequel comic and an unfinished conclusion in flash. | ||
* September 16 - /b/tard David Kernel hacks into Sarah Palin’s email by guessing the secret questions, looking to derail his campaign. However he’s scared of being discovered and posts the password on /b/ under the name of Rubico. Subsequently, another user changes the password and posts a screencap, but forgets to censor it. Besides getting labeled a white knight, the account gets the password changed a third time, but due to Yahoo policy it gets locked. Rubico essentially showed /b/ all the information necessary to get v&, including his email, his American Proxy. moot gets called into court to testify against David. | * September 16 - /b/tard David Kernel hacks into Sarah Palin’s email by guessing the secret questions, looking to derail his campaign. However he’s scared of being discovered and posts the password on /b/ under the name of Rubico. Subsequently, another user changes the password and posts a screencap, but forgets to censor it. Besides getting labeled a white knight, the account gets the password changed a third time, but due to Yahoo policy it gets locked. Rubico essentially showed /b/ all the information necessary to get v&, including his email, his American Proxy. moot gets called into court to testify against David. | ||
* September 17 - Rubico posts his story of how he did it, it immediately becomes a copypasta. The news get on the old media and an Internet poll held by Fox News’s host Greta Van Susteren over the issue, asking what the users though about the incident, if it was a harmless prank or a political move. Anonymous was aware of this and immediately clicked the prank option. However when the polls turned to 67% in favour of the prank the host claimed they got hacked. After the show was over they rigged the poll so you could no longer select the prank option. 4chan then proceeded to spam the comments section. A thread erupts laughing at how moot will get v& because of it, and moot responds by changing the title to “/b/ - DESPICABLE, SLIMMY, SCUMMY” with the subtitle “Remix”. He then embedded a remix of Row Row Fight the Powah. | * September 17 - Rubico posts his story of how he did it, it immediately becomes a copypasta. The news get on the old media and an Internet poll held by Fox News’s host Greta Van Susteren over the issue, asking what the users though about the incident, if it was a harmless prank or a political move. Anonymous was aware of this and immediately clicked the prank option. However when the polls turned to 67% in favour of the prank the host claimed they got hacked. After the show was over they rigged the poll so you could no longer select the prank option. 4chan then proceeded to spam the comments section. A thread erupts laughing at how moot will get v& because of it, and moot responds by changing the title to “/b/ - DESPICABLE, SLIMMY, SCUMMY” with the subtitle “Remix”. He then embedded a remix of Row Row Fight the Powah. | ||
* September 20 - Rubico gets arrested and his house is investigated. It ends up he’s the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell. /b/ attempts to DDOS and Raid Bill O’Reily, who was dissing the site at the time but they fail to incite any reaction. | * September 20 - Rubico gets arrested and his house is investigated. It ends up he’s the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell. /b/ attempts to DDOS and Raid Bill O’Reily, who was dissing the site at the time but they fail to incite any reaction. | ||
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* October 7 - The second grand jury of Kernel’s case. moot had to go and testify about 4chan. - /b/ goes down due to script kiddies. /b/tards flood /x/, /d/, /v/ and /n/. /k/ strikes a counter-offensive. | * October 7 - The second grand jury of Kernel’s case. moot had to go and testify about 4chan. - /b/ goes down due to script kiddies. /b/tards flood /x/, /d/, /v/ and /n/. /k/ strikes a counter-offensive. | ||
* October 27 - 4chan.js is revived again. It apparently fails. | * October 27 - 4chan.js is revived again. It apparently fails. | ||
* November 4 - /b/'s title changed to RON PAUL 2008 and then to | * November 4 - /b/'s title changed to RON PAUL 2008 and then to O/b/ama - Your new supreme overlord for the elections. | ||
* November 6 - The ultimate 4chan.js script hits 4chan. This time, the script takes a rusty dildo and fucks literally every single board up, even the poor bastards at /i/. Mass bans are handed out to combat the spam. | * November 6 - The ultimate 4chan.js script hits 4chan. This time, the script takes a rusty dildo and fucks literally every single board up, even the poor bastards at /i/. Mass bans are handed out to combat the spam. | ||
* November 27 - A variation of 4chan.js, known as lol.js, appears on /b/. This time, running the script downloads something a copy of the script from Rapidshare and runs it on /b/. Technically speaking, this version of 4chan.js is an actual virus. | * November 27 - A variation of 4chan.js, known as lol.js, appears on /b/. This time, running the script downloads something a copy of the script from Rapidshare and runs it on /b/. Technically speaking, this version of 4chan.js is an actual virus. | ||
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* March 13 - A Dutch /b/tard announces his intention to go and kill people on the Brenda high school but is reported to the FBI. Europe, who had a high school massacre in Germany two days before, responds immediately. He gets arrested and his house is searched. He claimed that everything was a joke. | * March 13 - A Dutch /b/tard announces his intention to go and kill people on the Brenda high school but is reported to the FBI. Europe, who had a high school massacre in Germany two days before, responds immediately. He gets arrested and his house is searched. He claimed that everything was a joke. | ||
* March 15 - Another Dutchfag decided to do the same in Rotterdam too, however he was under seven proxies so the city of Rotterdam closes all their schools the next day. | * March 15 - Another Dutchfag decided to do the same in Rotterdam too, however he was under seven proxies so the city of Rotterdam closes all their schools the next day. | ||
* March 20 - The Dutch police reveal a third Dutchfag did a thread on March 13 but they didn’t not made the news public for fear of hyping the issue. | |||
* March 16 - The Dutch police decides to give him a two weeks detainment. | * March 16 - The Dutch police decides to give him a two weeks detainment. | ||
* March 21 - Again, /b/ retaliates towards the endless AnonTalk spam with Operation AntFuck II | |||
* March 21 - Again, /b/ retaliates towards the endless AnonTalk spam with Operation AntFuck II | * March 24 - A Legendary thread full of copypasta based on a Batman Begins quote of the Joker called "My Father...was a baker...and a friend" (http://archives.yotsubasociety.org/4chan/b/126031778.html)<--- is ded,internet archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20120311073656/http://archives.yotsubasociety.org/4chan/b/126031778.html | ||
* March 24 - A Legendary thread is | |||
* March 30 - Tom Green finally snaps, he played an atonal saxophone during the whole show, keeping the audience watching with the expectation that he would eventually stop and take calls. | * March 30 - Tom Green finally snaps, he played an atonal saxophone during the whole show, keeping the audience watching with the expectation that he would eventually stop and take calls. | ||
* April 1 - He continues the act the next day and closes the show shouting obscenities followed by “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK” | * April 1 - He continues the act the next day and closes the show shouting obscenities followed by “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK”. | ||
* April 11 - Once again, /b/ decides to raid AnonTalk for a third tame, continuing the operation. | * April 11 - Once again, /b/ decides to raid AnonTalk for a third tame, continuing the operation. | ||
* April 14 - 4chan.js returns, telling /b/ users to take a break from DESU DESU DESU spamming and copypastas. Surprise surprise, /b/ falls for it again and the board is assfucked by the colorful squares. | * April 14 - 4chan.js returns, telling /b/ users to take a break from DESU DESU DESU spamming and copypastas. Surprise surprise, /b/ falls for it again and the board is assfucked by the colorful squares. | ||
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* June 18 - A year after the events of the old /b/ day, /b/’s title changed to "you forgot - it was your final mission nothing will save you now." On the other boards, the meet up was scheduled at Washington Square, and this time, moot was there. | * June 18 - A year after the events of the old /b/ day, /b/’s title changed to "you forgot - it was your final mission nothing will save you now." On the other boards, the meet up was scheduled at Washington Square, and this time, moot was there. | ||
* June 19 - /b/ title changed to "tur/b/idity" | * June 19 - /b/ title changed to "tur/b/idity" | ||
* June 25 - /b/ title changed to "Goodnight Sweet Prince - RIP" in memoriam of Michel Jackson's Death. | * June 25 - /b/ title changed to "Goodnight Sweet Prince - RIP" in memoriam of Michel Jackson's Death. | ||
* July 5 - /b/ DDOS’s itself 2: Electric Bogaloo - /b/ starts to be spammed as if there is no tomorrow. At first the suspected culprit was Blackhatworld.com, but eventually they concluded that the /b/tards where downloading infected images again. The script uploads a rainbow of coloured images of the main character of A Clockwork Orange. The attack spread to every damn board and lasted until July 8. | * July 5 - /b/ DDOS’s itself 2: Electric Bogaloo - /b/ starts to be spammed as if there is no tomorrow. At first the suspected culprit was Blackhatworld.com, but eventually they concluded that the /b/tards where downloading infected images again. The script uploads a rainbow of coloured images of the main character of A Clockwork Orange. The attack spread to every damn board and lasted until July 8. | ||
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* July 25 - Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2094 suddenly decides] he will not be uploading his 4chan archive "anytime soon". It will not be uploaded until October 8, 2018. BoxxPeace - Sequel to BoxxMeet. A group of anonymous stalkers use her d0x to meet up at her neighborhood and bring her gifts. Given that this is the second time it happens, they found a chair on her front gates. They rang the bell but no one answered. They left some flowers in front of the gates with the word “Anon”. They later found her ex-boyfriend, Dan Birlen, though Boxxy never appeared. Over the months a new wave of pictures would appear, obtained by “Calif4nia”, an user of Killwebs.com, who got them by flirting with a friend of Boxxy, Niki, for months. He watermarked them with his site’s logo and blurred them. However, anonymous managed to fix the pictures and doxed callif4nia, whose team later shut down Killwebs.com. | * July 25 - Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2094 suddenly decides] he will not be uploading his 4chan archive "anytime soon". It will not be uploaded until October 8, 2018. BoxxPeace - Sequel to BoxxMeet. A group of anonymous stalkers use her d0x to meet up at her neighborhood and bring her gifts. Given that this is the second time it happens, they found a chair on her front gates. They rang the bell but no one answered. They left some flowers in front of the gates with the word “Anon”. They later found her ex-boyfriend, Dan Birlen, though Boxxy never appeared. Over the months a new wave of pictures would appear, obtained by “Calif4nia”, an user of Killwebs.com, who got them by flirting with a friend of Boxxy, Niki, for months. He watermarked them with his site’s logo and blurred them. However, anonymous managed to fix the pictures and doxed callif4nia, whose team later shut down Killwebs.com. | ||
* July 27 - AT&T blocks 4chan - moot attempts to reduce damage from having AnonTalk DDOS them with dire consequences: AT&T blocks 4chan's /r9k/ and /b/ more specifically the img.4chan.org sub domain was blocked. The entire site rises in arm in retaliation, but the matter is soon cleared and the block lifted. moot used the opportunity to talk about Internet censorship. The blotter is removed. | * July 27 - AT&T blocks 4chan - moot attempts to reduce damage from having AnonTalk DDOS them with dire consequences: AT&T blocks 4chan's /r9k/ and /b/ more specifically the img.4chan.org sub domain was blocked. The entire site rises in arm in retaliation, but the matter is soon cleared and the block lifted. moot used the opportunity to talk about Internet censorship. The blotter is removed. | ||
* August 20 - Tom Green runs another Skype show, with an anon offering to sings the FAT NIGGER song, the second anon puts on a charade for five minutes until finally fapping on camera, and the third anon gurgles cum on the air. | * August 20 - Tom Green runs another Skype show, with an anon offering to sings the FAT NIGGER song, the second anon puts on a charade for five minutes until finally fapping on camera, and the third anon gurgles cum on the air. | ||
* September - Gamespot.com hosted a tournament, where its users voted to decide who the greatest video game character of all time is. 4chan decided to trash this party. Anonymous decided to have Duke Nukem, Little mac and /b/ubble & /b/bobble come out at the top. Especially /b/u/b/ & /b/o/b/. At the first round of the tournament, bub & bob were against the mighty master chief. Master Chief was no match for bub & bob, since the Gamespot community wasn't prepared for a raid such as this. Much lulz was had, as bub & bob, a game that most people haven't heard of defeated master chief. bub & bob defeated sonic easily in the next round, and faced Samus in round 3. It was an incredibly tight match. Hackers from both sides pulled all-nighters. As a result, bub & bob won with 53% of the votes. Sadly, the Gamespot admins disqualified bub & bob because they caught 5 specific people who submitted 16K votes. bub & bob won the battle, but Samus had won the war. Due to the raid, the word 4chan was banned from the Gamespot forums. The Gamespot community now refers to 4chan as mordor. | * September - Gamespot.com hosted a tournament, where its users voted to decide who the greatest video game character of all time is. 4chan decided to trash this party. Anonymous decided to have Duke Nukem, Little mac and /b/ubble & /b/bobble come out at the top. Especially /b/u/b/ & /b/o/b/. At the first round of the tournament, bub & bob were against the mighty master chief. Master Chief was no match for bub & bob, since the Gamespot community wasn't prepared for a raid such as this. Much lulz was had, as bub & bob, a game that most people haven't heard of defeated master chief. bub & bob defeated sonic easily in the next round, and faced Samus in round 3. It was an incredibly tight match. Hackers from both sides pulled all-nighters. As a result, bub & bob won with 53% of the votes. Sadly, the Gamespot admins disqualified bub & bob because they caught 5 specific people who submitted 16K votes. bub & bob won the battle, but Samus had won the war. Due to the raid, the word 4chan was banned from the Gamespot forums. The Gamespot community now refers to 4chan as mordor. | ||
* September 22 - 4chan.js returns with a barrage of scripts hidden in pictures of greyness, but mods counter it after 5 hours. Three days later, the script returns but now the pictures are brown. This attack ends up being much more successful, taking over /d/, /wg/, /r9k/, /x/, and a number of other useless boards. | * September 22 - 4chan.js returns with a barrage of scripts hidden in pictures of greyness, but mods counter it after 5 hours. Three days later, the script returns but now the pictures are brown. This attack ends up being much more successful, taking over /d/, /wg/, /r9k/, /x/, and a number of other useless boards. | ||
* October 1 - 4chan turned 6 years old. The party hats return once again. /b/ crashes due to delicious cake. As usual, /b/ flees to /x/. The server crashes twice more until all of 4chan.img is down. Mac makes his third commemoration. | * October 1 - 4chan turned 6 years old. The party hats return once again. /b/ crashes due to delicious cake. As usual, /b/ flees to /x/. The server crashes twice more until all of 4chan.img is down. Mac makes his third commemoration. | ||
* November | * November 13 - Last known time that '''/hc/ - Hardcore''' existed before it was removed. | ||
* December 10 - The Boxxy videos get taken down by somebody named Lia Dawson, claiming that Boxxy is a registered trademark of the Lia Dawson & Frank Dawson Network. It was later discovered that Boxxy was an actual registered trademark of Oudipo, Inc. and that they renewed the trademark on December 2009. However, user ChrissyRin ousted the scammers for what they were, hoping to attain money from the Youtube videos of Boxxy and other 20 Youtube accounts. | * December 10 - The Boxxy videos get taken down by somebody named Lia Dawson, claiming that Boxxy is a registered trademark of the Lia Dawson & Frank Dawson Network. It was later discovered that Boxxy was an actual registered trademark of Oudipo, Inc. and that they renewed the trademark on December 2009. However, user ChrissyRin ousted the scammers for what they were, hoping to attain money from the Youtube videos of Boxxy and other 20 Youtube accounts. | ||
* December 14 - The account gets reactivated but without any videos, which were restored days later. The Lia account was abandoned and later hacked into and suspended in January. | * December 14 - The account gets reactivated but without any videos, which were restored days later. The Lia account was abandoned and later hacked into and suspended in January. | ||
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* May 4 - /r9k/ discovers Quiptext's vulnerability, /b/ founds out about it and Quiptext day was begun. | * May 4 - /r9k/ discovers Quiptext's vulnerability, /b/ founds out about it and Quiptext day was begun. | ||
* May 24 - Lost finale. /tv/ is renamed /tv/ - L O S T, and two stickies reach 4000 posts each within 24 hours. | * May 24 - Lost finale. /tv/ is renamed /tv/ - L O S T, and two stickies reach 4000 posts each within 24 hours. | ||
* June 15 - For | * June 15 - For 2010 World Cup, /b/ gets renamed to "/b/ - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" and the piercing sound of the Vuvuzela comes to life. | ||
* June 17 - | * June 17 - On January, an image with the word “June 17. She will return” was spammed since, /b/tards across all the chan baaaw as Boxxy didn’t return. Simultaneously /b/ manages to get “nigger” on Google Trends. | ||
* July 4 - Youtube Independence Day - /v/irgins discover and exploit in the comments sections and proceed to insert HTML codes into every damn videos of Youtube, redirecting many to the Last Measure, Goatse and many other things. | * July 4 - Youtube Independence Day - /v/irgins discover and exploit in the comments sections and proceed to insert HTML codes into every damn videos of Youtube, redirecting many to the Last Measure, Goatse and many other things. | ||
* July 14 - The Jessi Slaughter Saga - A video of Jessica Leonhardt, known as Jessi Slaughter, complaining about being harassed was posted on /b/. Shortly after, Leonhardt was inundated with attacks on the micro blogging site Tumblr. Later that night, Leonhardt uploaded a response video in which her father warned attackers that they would found proclaiming “YOU DUN GOOFED”. '''/vp/ - Pokémon''' gets created. The first post was "This is a thread about Pokemon." [http://i.imgur.com/zYZbAma.jpg Two stickies] [http://i.imgur.com/9Kd7XQt.jpg were created]. | * July 14 - The Jessi Slaughter Saga - A video of Jessica Leonhardt, known as Jessi Slaughter, complaining about being harassed was posted on /b/. Shortly after, Leonhardt was inundated with attacks on the micro blogging site Tumblr. Later that night, Leonhardt uploaded a response video in which her father warned attackers that they would found proclaiming “YOU DUN GOOFED”. '''/vp/ - Pokémon''' gets created. The first post was "This is a thread about Pokemon." [http://i.imgur.com/zYZbAma.jpg Two stickies] [http://i.imgur.com/9Kd7XQt.jpg were created]. | ||
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* July 27 - CAPTCHA wars - moot adds reCAPTCHA to quell the enormous waves of spam they have been suffering for years. Everyone shitstorms, but eventually they conclude that CAPTCHA is for the better. | * July 27 - CAPTCHA wars - moot adds reCAPTCHA to quell the enormous waves of spam they have been suffering for years. Everyone shitstorms, but eventually they conclude that CAPTCHA is for the better. | ||
* August 7 - The Boxxy videos are back up. | * August 7 - The Boxxy videos are back up. | ||
* September 17 - AnonTalk dies, after being spammed endlessly by Minichan, their clone site, since April 13. | * September 17 - AnonTalk dies, after being spammed endlessly by Minichan, their clone site, since April 13. | ||
* September 22 - AnonTalk returns. To everyone’s dismay. | * September 22 - AnonTalk returns. To everyone’s dismay. | ||
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* January 4 - /b/ finally gets the 300M GET. It was a image of France. | * January 4 - /b/ finally gets the 300M GET. It was a image of France. | ||
* January 9 - '''/soc/ - Social''' is added. The board is designed to remove "rate me" threads, "report in" posts and local meetups from /b/. | * January 9 - '''/soc/ - Social''' is added. The board is designed to remove "rate me" threads, "report in" posts and local meetups from /b/. | ||
* January 17 - Around 8pm EST moot deletes /r9k/ and /new/ - The current board list is: [a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / w / wg] [i / ic] [cm / y] [3 / adv / an / cgl / ck / co / fa / fit / int / jp / lit / mu / n / po / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / x] [rs] [status / ? / @] | * January 17 - Around 8pm EST moot deletes /r9k/ and /new/ - The current board list is: [a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / w / wg] [i / ic] [cm / y] [3 / adv / an / cgl / ck / co / fa / fit / int / jp / lit / mu / n / po / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / x] [rs] [status / ? / @] He also removes the XXX filter from /b/. | ||
* February 10 - /b/ gets flooded with “FUCK IT /B/ROS, I AM TIRED OF THIS CARDSTAND BULLSHIT. I AM GOING TO FUCK THAT CARDSTAND. GIVE ME 30 MINUTES. IF IT DOESN’T FALL IN 30 MINUTES, I WILL AN HERO MYSELF IN 30 MINUTES…” regarding a meme about a NYC camera that points to a cardstand | * February 10 - /b/ gets flooded with “FUCK IT /B/ROS, I AM TIRED OF THIS CARDSTAND BULLSHIT. I AM GOING TO FUCK THAT CARDSTAND. GIVE ME 30 MINUTES. IF IT DOESN’T FALL IN 30 MINUTES, I WILL AN HERO MYSELF IN 30 MINUTES…” regarding a meme about a NYC camera that points to a cardstand | ||
* February 13 - Andrew W.K. posts on 4chan's /mu/ with two threads. This is the beginning of the end for /mu/, as a flood of off-topic threads began to take over the board, with a special mention to /r9k/ feels. | * February 13 - Andrew W.K. posts on 4chan's /mu/ with two threads. This is the beginning of the end for /mu/, as a flood of off-topic threads began to take over the board, with a special mention to /r9k/ feels. | ||
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* August 21 - Boxxy upload yet another video, she commercialized her own image so hard that by this time nobody on /b/ really cares about her. | * August 21 - Boxxy upload yet another video, she commercialized her own image so hard that by this time nobody on /b/ really cares about her. | ||
* October 1 - 4chan turns eight years old. Mac makes another commemoration. | * October 1 - 4chan turns eight years old. Mac makes another commemoration. | ||
*October | * October 22 - '''/diy/ - Do It Yourself''' is created. | ||
* October 23 - | * October 23 - '''/hc/ - Hardcore''' returns after a brief disappearance and celebrates with [https://web.archive.org/web/20111219041049/http://chanarchive.org/4chan/hc/25437/in-this-itt-we-will-be-of-posting-blowjobs blowjobs.] | ||
* October 25 - Brodyquest is stickied on /b/, a mirror thread is made by a troll mod. A lot of blinking text is involved and people that post timestamped sink pics are given false bans | * October 25 - Brodyquest is stickied on /b/, a mirror thread is made by a troll mod. A lot of blinking text is involved and people that post timestamped sink pics are given false bans | ||
* October 26 - "I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts" is stickied on /b/. | * October 26 - "I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts" is stickied on /b/. | ||
* November 4 - moot responds to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement by hacking the shit out of /b/’s CSS. | * November 4 - moot responds to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement by hacking the shit out of /b/’s CSS. | ||
* November 8 - /new/ is (accidentally?) revived. No news posts are made, rules given, or mods on it. Title is "Yotsuba Image Board," the default title given to new boards; seems to be a mix of /co/ and /sp/ users with a healthy blend of racism thrown in. Posts from January still made up over half the board. Deadmau5 appears on /mu/ in two sticky threads. The off-topic posts in /mu/ intensify. | * November 8 - /new/ is (accidentally?) revived. No news posts are made, rules given, or mods on it. Title is "Yotsuba Image Board," the default title given to new boards; seems to be a mix of /co/ and /sp/ users with a healthy blend of racism thrown in. Posts from January still made up over half the board. Deadmau5 appears on /mu/ in two sticky threads. The off-topic posts in /mu/ intensify. | ||
* November 12 - Official Chrome extension released and Firefox extension updated. | * November 10 - moot resurrects '''/r9k/ - ROBOT9001''' and '''/pol/ - Politically Incorrect'''. | ||
* November 12 - Official Chrome extension released and Firefox extension updated. | |||
* November 13 - 4chan suffered a sustained DDoS onslaught by an unknown person or entity. After the onslaught moot installed Cloudflare Tumblr suspected. | * November 13 - 4chan suffered a sustained DDoS onslaught by an unknown person or entity. After the onslaught moot installed Cloudflare Tumblr suspected. | ||
* November 16 - DDOS dies down | * November 16 - DDOS dies down | ||
* November 17 - moot has a sticky in /g/. /r9k/ gets spoiler tags thanks to Tage Heyn and people(s) talk about Shii. /v/ becomes El Vidyo and gets Hispanic background music. | * November 17 - moot has a sticky in /g/. /r9k/ gets spoiler tags thanks to Tage Heyn and people (s)talk about Shii. /v/ becomes El Vidyo and gets Hispanic background music. | ||
* November 20 - moot tries to make pages load more quickly by changing how captchas load. Naturally, this makes captchas stop working altogether. Quick reply/Noko/All non-official 4chan applications stop working and the submit button grays out for a lot of people. I link moot to the thread and after he posts, the thread explodes with people bitching and moot undoes the changes after the thread hits 200 replies about an hour and a half later. (/g/21167645). | * November 20 - moot tries to make pages load more quickly by changing how captchas load. Naturally, this makes captchas stop working altogether. Quick reply/Noko/All non-official 4chan applications stop working and the submit button grays out for a lot of people. I link moot to the thread and after he posts, the thread explodes with people bitching and moot undoes the changes after the thread hits 200 replies about an hour and a half later. (/g/21167645). | ||
* November 26 - /sp/ - Ship Posting day - moot completely loses it and changes the name of /sp/ to WE NBA NOW!!!!!!!!!, with the subtitle of “our body is ready”. He proceeds to sticky random off-topic threads and ban users with random tags such as [USER WAS RHYTHMICALLY SLAPPED FOR THIS POST] or [USER WAS HORSEPLAYED FOR THIS POST] and changing his name to mootdusky. This is due to the state of /sp/ reaching critical mass; moot pretty much gave up on the board. | * November 26 - /sp/ - Ship Posting day - moot completely loses it and changes the name of /sp/ to WE NBA NOW!!!!!!!!!, with the subtitle of “our body is ready”. He proceeds to sticky random off-topic threads and ban users with random tags such as [USER WAS RHYTHMICALLY SLAPPED FOR THIS POST] or [USER WAS HORSEPLAYED FOR THIS POST] and changing his name to mootdusky. This is due to the state of /sp/ reaching critical mass; moot pretty much gave up on the board. | ||
* December 20 - 4chan, along with reddit and tumblr, invade 9gag after they stole their memes and claimed it as theirs, thus starting the 4chan 9gag war. | * December 20 - 4chan, along with reddit and tumblr, invade 9gag after they stole their memes and claimed it as theirs, thus starting the 4chan 9gag war. | ||
==2012== | ==2012== | ||
* February 4 - /v/ beats Reddit at Tribes Ascend, becomes /v/ - "Well-coordinated and heavily practiced Reddit team beaten by a rag-tag group of /v/irgins run by a furry tripfag and a BR with 140 ping" and gets GAL男宣言 (Galo Sengen) embedded as background music. This event is known to this day as the "shazbowl." /v/ is split into /v/ and '''/vg/ - Video Game Generals'''. It is now impossible to get dubs on /v/. The /int/ board is occupied by Russian channers from 2ch.so due to a DDoS attack by pro-government groups. | |||
* February 4 - /v/ beats Reddit at Tribes Ascend, becomes /v/ - "Well-coordinated and heavily practiced Reddit team beaten by a rag-tag group of /v/irgins run by a furry tripfag and a BR with 140 ping" and gets GAL男宣言 (Galo Sengen) embedded as background music. This event is known to this day as the "shazbowl." | |||
* February 14 - During Valentine’s Day, moot announces that he is planning to add up to 15 boards, including one to contain the rising brony phenomenon. Later, he reestablished forced anon on /b/ using a 24 hours ID system, essentially making one anonymous without being anonymous. From this day on, the quality of /b/ seems to ameliorate, albeit slowly. | * February 14 - During Valentine’s Day, moot announces that he is planning to add up to 15 boards, including one to contain the rising brony phenomenon. Later, he reestablished forced anon on /b/ using a 24 hours ID system, essentially making one anonymous without being anonymous. From this day on, the quality of /b/ seems to ameliorate, albeit slowly. | ||
* February | * February 17 - Since the cartoon series My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic becomes massively popular, surpassing its /co/ boundaries and adopting a pseudo culture under the name of bronies. moot creates '''/mlp/ - My Little Pony''' in order to stop the massive flood of My Little Pony threads on 4chan. Some bronies would rather create /b/reads: Threads outside /mlp/ that are essentially a circlejerk between trolls and tripfags, to the point of sharing contacts. | ||
* February 21 - Legendary spammer Barneyfag [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/99464/#108046 makes his first appearance]. | |||
* February 22 - moot quietly opens '''/hm/ - Handsome Men''' to the public after enough requests. | |||
* March 21 - Noboru Ishiguro, director of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, dies. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/63080409/ /a/ gets a sticky]. | * March 21 - Noboru Ishiguro, director of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, dies. [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/63080409/ /a/ gets a sticky]. | ||
* April 1 - moot hacked /pol/'s CSS to a [https://userstyles.org/styles/120270/communist-4chan-css communist theme]. The Russian anthem plays. | * April 1 - moot hacked /pol/'s CSS to a [https://userstyles.org/styles/120270/communist-4chan-css communist theme]. The Russian anthem plays. | ||
* April 16 - /b/'s 400M get and a testament to the cancer the board had become: "Niggers tongue my anus." | * April 16 - /b/'s 400M get and a testament to the cancer the board had become: "Niggers tongue my anus.". | ||
* May 26 - /a/ gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/66314919/#66314919 a sticky about Toonami] since it was airing that night. It said that in order to prevent /a/ being flooded with it, mods would create a [https://archived.moe/vg/thread/6303642/ Toonami discussion thread on /vg/] (as well as vowing to delete all Toonami threads on /a/ for the rest of the night). This created a massive amount of confusion and anger among the /a/ userbase as well as /v/ and /vg/, particularly because Toonami didn't have any real place on /vg/, and would have been better put on /tv/ or /co/ if not /a/. Many called out the mods for being lazy and simply tossing the problem to a different board. | * May 26 - /a/ gets [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/66314919/#66314919 a sticky about Toonami] since it was airing that night. It said that in order to prevent /a/ being flooded with it, mods would create a [https://archived.moe/vg/thread/6303642/ Toonami discussion thread on /vg/] (as well as vowing to delete all Toonami threads on /a/ for the rest of the night). This created a massive amount of confusion and anger among the /a/ userbase as well as /v/ and /vg/, particularly because Toonami didn't have any real place on /vg/, and would have been better put on /tv/ or /co/ if not /a/. Many called out the mods for being lazy and simply tossing the problem to a different board. | ||
* June 5 - moot creates '''/wsg/ - Worksafe GIF''', splitting /gif/ in two. | * June 5 - moot creates '''/wsg/ - Worksafe GIF''', splitting /gif/ in two. | ||
* June 8 - The anime series Chihayafuru gets a second season. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/66874559/ /a/ gets a sticky] | * June 8 - The anime series Chihayafuru gets a second season. [https://archived.moe/a/thread/66874559/ /a/ gets a sticky] | ||
* July 6 - moot writes a note talking about bandwidth usage, extensions and asks both add-on developers and users to be reasonable with update intervals. | * July 6 - moot writes a note talking about bandwidth usage, extensions and asks both add-on developers and users to be reasonable with update intervals. | ||
* August - With 4chan’s one billionth post looming in, moot replies to two threads on /b/ with his admin tag on. The threads quickly turn into a Questions and answers session between the long forsaken /b/tards and their admin years after the last news post and contact with the staff. Many tears were shed. | * August - With 4chan’s one billionth post looming in, moot replies to two threads on /b/ with his admin tag on. The threads quickly turn into a Questions and answers session between the long forsaken /b/tards and their admin years after the last news post and contact with the staff. Many tears were shed. | ||
* August 8 - After 4chan’s billionth post, moot posts the first news post in four years. He reopens /q/ as /q/ - 4chan Discussion and states that he plans to start a series of Prime ministers Q/A threads, because he feels he lost touch with the community. Following some suggestions on /q/, avatarfagging becomes a banned offense. There was also a failed attempt at allowing minors to browse 4chan, but was quickly replaced with MINERS because of the huge negative backslash from the community. With time /q/ is flooded by users from /a/ and /v/, the two boards with the most traffic after /b/, known to be notoriously reactionary. Not long after that, most mods are taken to /v/ to deal with the recent wave of shitposting and the deprecation of /v/ culture. /a/ users keep complaining about undesirable anime threads like Naruto, and how they shouldn’t be on /a/. The staff seems to have divided opinions and shift between deleting threads and leaving them be. The following debates backslash when trolls begin to crapflood /a/ with Naruto threads, whilst the rest of /a/ bandwagoned against them. Eventually moot stepped in and clarified that Naruto is /a/ content. | * August 8 - After 4chan’s billionth post, moot posts the first news post in four years. He reopens /q/ as /q/ - 4chan Discussion and states that he plans to start a series of Prime ministers Q/A threads, because he feels he lost touch with the community. Following some suggestions on /q/, avatarfagging becomes a banned offense. There was also a failed attempt at allowing minors to browse 4chan, but was quickly replaced with MINERS because of the huge negative backslash from the community. With time /q/ is flooded by users from /a/ and /v/, the two boards with the most traffic after /b/, known to be notoriously reactionary. Not long after that, most mods are taken to /v/ to deal with the recent wave of shitposting and the deprecation of /v/ culture. /a/ users keep complaining about undesirable anime threads like Naruto, and how they shouldn’t be on /a/. The staff seems to have divided opinions and shift between deleting threads and leaving them be. The following debates backslash when trolls begin to crapflood /a/ with Naruto threads, whilst the rest of /a/ bandwagoned against them. Eventually moot stepped in and clarified that Naruto is /a/ content. | ||
* August 10 - moot hacks /a/’s CSS and wordfilters every post to JIBUN WOOOOOOO. He embedded the first opening of Code Geass on the first page. | * August 10 - moot hacks /a/’s CSS and wordfilters every post to JIBUN WOOOOOOO. He embedded the first opening of Code Geass on the first page. | ||
* August 12 - Mods flip /b/ | * August 12 - Mods flip /b/ upside down and replace the background with Australian flags [https://i.imgur.com/vFk33PV.png ()]. | ||
* August 13 - Dub the Dew - 4chan gets hold of Mountain Dew’s new naming contest, and together with Reddit hijacks it, making names like “Fapple”, “Diabeetus” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” appear on the top. Bronies also join the game, attempting to get Applejack to the top, but they only manage to appear in second place. Later, the site was hacked and the banner “Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!” appeared, together with a rickroll and a pop up of “le 9gga ''[sic]'' are legion”. Mountain Dew later admits defeat and suspends the contest. | * August 13 - Dub the Dew - 4chan gets hold of Mountain Dew’s new naming contest, and together with Reddit hijacks it, making names like “Fapple”, “Diabeetus” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” appear on the top. Bronies also join the game, attempting to get Applejack to the top, but they only manage to appear in second place. Later, the site was hacked and the banner “Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!” appeared, together with a rickroll and a pop up of “le 9gga ''[sic]'' are legion”. Mountain Dew later admits defeat and suspends the contest. | ||
* August 30 - 4chan attempts to get Taylor Swift to play on a deaf school my hijacking the Taylor Swift on Campus promotion, where the winner gets $10,000 in prizes and Taylor Swift playing a gig at their place. 4chan votes the Horace Mann School for the deaf for first place, with an overwhelming 10,000. Many anons joined the cause because they knew it’s actually possible to play music for the deaf. Taylor Swift, however, had other plans. She convinces the sponsors to disqualify the school and donates the $10,000 herself. And it doesn’t stop there, she also gets the sponsors to donate themselves, along with three other non-profit companies, and gives tickets for her next gig to all the members of the school. Ending with a whopping $60,000 in donations. | * August 30 - 4chan attempts to get Taylor Swift to play on a deaf school my hijacking the Taylor Swift on Campus promotion, where the winner gets $10,000 in prizes and Taylor Swift playing a gig at their place. 4chan votes the Horace Mann School for the deaf for first place, with an overwhelming 10,000. Many anons joined the cause because they knew it’s actually possible to play music for the deaf. Taylor Swift, however, had other plans. She convinces the sponsors to disqualify the school and donates the $10,000 herself. And it doesn’t stop there, she also gets the sponsors to donate themselves, along with three other non-profit companies, and gives tickets for her next gig to all the members of the school. Ending with a whopping $60,000 in donations. | ||
* September 3 - moot announces on a news post that he will start working where he left off on the last news post of 2008. He announces that on 09/09 Janitor applications will open again. | * September 3 - moot announces on a news post that he will start working where he left off on the last news post of 2008. He announces that on 09/09 Janitor applications will open again. | ||
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* September 28 - moot makes a news post clarifying some doubts and questions about the 4chan pass | * September 28 - moot makes a news post clarifying some doubts and questions about the 4chan pass | ||
* October 1 - 4chan turns nine years, with the sixth consecutive commemoration from Mac. | * October 1 - 4chan turns nine years, with the sixth consecutive commemoration from Mac. | ||
* October 5 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure sticky]. The first episode was airing that night, so there was a lot of hype in the thread (as well as those complaining, as always). Throughout the early parts of the thread, many were asking for a stream for the show, with the requests growing in number as the show was closer to airing, culminating in the show being five minutes from airing and no stream available. Even [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72542440 the mods] were asking for a stream. However, with only minutes before the show started, one hero anon [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72543061 posted a link] to a Justin.tv stream, saving the day. /a/ went into a frenzy of excitement when the stream link was posted, even a mod [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72543477 thanking the poster]. Thread was either deleted by mods a bit after the stream ended or, according to one anon, "So good it broke the sticky. | * October 5 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure sticky]. The first episode was airing that night, so there was a lot of hype in the thread (as well as those complaining, as always). Throughout the early parts of the thread, many were asking for a stream for the show, with the requests growing in number as the show was closer to airing, culminating in the show being five minutes from airing and no stream available. Even [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72542440 the mods] were asking for a stream. However, with only minutes before the show started, one hero anon [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72543061 posted a link] to a Justin.tv stream, saving the day. /a/ went into a frenzy of excitement when the stream link was posted, even a mod [https://archived.moe/a/thread/72529916/#72543477 thanking the poster]. Thread was either deleted by mods a bit after the stream ended or, according to one anon, "So good it broke the sticky". | ||
* October 16 - After a load of consecutive epic thread happening lately, a mod stickies a loop from the anime Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! With the song Pull Over from Trina embedded on it. /b/ rages on weeaboos and raids /a/ for it. | * October 16 - After a load of consecutive epic thread happening lately, a mod stickies a loop from the anime Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! With the song Pull Over from Trina embedded on it. /b/ rages on weeaboos and raids /a/ for it. | ||
* October 19 - チルノのパーフェクトさすう教室 - Cirno's Perfect Math Class ENGLISH SUB is stickied on /b/. Guess the mods are back at sticking shit again. Just like the old times. | * October 19 - チルノのパーフェクトさすう教室 - Cirno's Perfect Math Class ENGLISH SUB is stickied on /b/. Guess the mods are back at sticking shit again. Just like the old times. | ||
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* November 12 - An uncut version of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apPYRUxSJ2c get’s stickied on /b/, ponies rage site-wide. /b/ rejoices, for it’s the first time the mods do something right. | * November 12 - An uncut version of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apPYRUxSJ2c get’s stickied on /b/, ponies rage site-wide. /b/ rejoices, for it’s the first time the mods do something right. | ||
* November 13 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DW31upNEEg get’s stickied on /b/. Nigga that’s kawaii. Kinder Ukraine resets the votecount and takes Victor out of the contest, /b/ gets it on the top again, only for the votecount to be reset again. | * November 13 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DW31upNEEg get’s stickied on /b/. Nigga that’s kawaii. Kinder Ukraine resets the votecount and takes Victor out of the contest, /b/ gets it on the top again, only for the votecount to be reset again. | ||
* November 16 - [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74823670/ /a/ gets a Evangelion sticky] (Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo was coming out the next day). Fly Me To The Moon from Evangelion was embedded and autoplaying. Since it was stickied and autoplaying, when anyone would open the frontpage of /a/ it would begin playing. After only 21 posts in the thread, a mod (thought to be the same mod behind the modposts in the Jojo sticky from October) [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74823670/#74823768 posted a crude drawing of Asuka from Evangelion] along with the text "P.S. If you're in Kyoto, let know so we can see the screening on Sunday." Since it was impossible to not hear the music coming from the thread when coming onto /a/ (other than simply hiding the thread and ignoring it), the thread became one of the largest stickies in a long time, almost triple the number of posts from the Jojo sticky. Along with general discussion of the show, much of the thread was just spam of various copypastas, mostly the same few being spammed over and over again. The thread finally died more than a day and a half later with 2940 posts, at which point the constant music on the frontpage was starting to get a bit annoying. | * November 16 - [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74823670/ /a/ gets a Evangelion sticky] (Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo was coming out the next day). Fly Me To The Moon from Evangelion was embedded and autoplaying. Since it was stickied and autoplaying, when anyone would open the frontpage of /a/ it would begin playing. After only 21 posts in the thread, a mod (thought to be the same mod behind the modposts in the Jojo sticky from October) [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74823670/#74823768 posted a crude drawing of Asuka from Evangelion] along with the text "P.S. If you're in Kyoto, let know so we can see the screening on Sunday.". Since it was impossible to not hear the music coming from the thread when coming onto /a/ (other than simply hiding the thread and ignoring it), the thread became one of the largest stickies in a long time, almost triple the number of posts from the Jojo sticky. Along with general discussion of the show, much of the thread was just spam of various copypastas, mostly the same few being spammed over and over again. The thread finally died more than a day and a half later with 2940 posts, at which point the constant music on the frontpage was starting to get a bit annoying. | ||
* November 18 - The ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) meme becomes widespread in record time. It was born out of the Finnish imageboard Ylilauta and overran 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr and Facebook in a single day. On /a/, a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74919556/ thread regarding the announcement of Season 3 of Rozen Maiden] gets stickied. Most anons responded very positively and excitedly (it had not aired in almost six years at the time and was mostly seen as a dead project) to the news. It had been the first Desu-related sticky in a long time and the thread quickly turned into a series of 2006-era desu memes and screenshots. | * November 18 - The ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) meme becomes widespread in record time. It was born out of the Finnish imageboard Ylilauta and overran 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr and Facebook in a single day. On /a/, a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/74919556/ thread regarding the announcement of Season 3 of Rozen Maiden] gets stickied. Most anons responded very positively and excitedly (it had not aired in almost six years at the time and was mostly seen as a dead project) to the news. It had been the first Desu-related sticky in a long time and the thread quickly turned into a series of 2006-era desu memes and screenshots. | ||
* November 19 - The second townhall starts | * November 19 - The second townhall starts | ||
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* December 25 - Christmas faggot hat day | * December 25 - Christmas faggot hat day | ||
* December 29 - This post throws some light on the matter of /pol/. Days later a mod took notice and vowed to take the matter to moot. | * December 29 - This post throws some light on the matter of /pol/. Days later a mod took notice and vowed to take the matter to moot. | ||
* December 30 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/ sticky created by mods] to clarify certain moderation policies | * December 30 - /a/ gets a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/ sticky created by mods] to clarify certain moderation policies/address the problems of /a/ for the coming year and as a general town hall. The mods began by acknowledging the /a/ did not actually have any major problems, and those facing them currently were trivial compared to those of the past. However, mods labeled the largest problem to be the "“us vs. them” mentality", a term used to describe clique/fanbase warfare. They claimed that much of the posts exemplifying this mentality were bannable shitposts. They then made some points about self-moderation being the best moderation, that users need to use the reports system, and that NSFW content is not allowed (with some exceptions, such as nudity that occurs in non-pornographic anime/manga). The thread itself (after the initial hoard of shitposters) was relatively straightforward, posters made suggestions/complaints, mods sometimes responding. After just over an hour, mods decided to [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77392834 lock the thread]. It would be almost two hours later that the thread would [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77397556 be unlocked], and most /a/nons were very harsh and had more vitriol directed at mods than usual, as the locking was seen to be mods getting tired after reading posts for an hour and generally being lazy. Something interesting one mod later posted in the thread was that there were [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77398537 "no shitposting mods"], which was quickly met with several counter-examples. A clear highlight of the thread occurred later on, when a [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77399054 mod responded to one anon] who posted "Group hug the mods?" with "*hug* I don't have an appropriate anime-related hugging image to accompany this post because I don't watch anime, but I do help /a/ with blatant shitposting and wanted to offer my support in this thread". The backlash to this was so immense that the post got the (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) tag applied, although it's unlikely that the mod was actually banned. Just over 40 minutes after the thread had been unlocked, the thread was [https://archived.moe/a/thread/77388775/#77399616 locked again] to "delete some irrelevant posts so it's easier for people who missed it to go through the thread". This would be the final time the thread would be locked, and presumably the thread itself would be removed by mods sometime on the 31st as the mods could see it was a failure. | ||
==2013== | ==2013== | ||
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* January 7 - #cutforbieber: Anonymous decides to do another joke on believers, in response and uses the opportunity brought by a leaked picture of Justin holding a joint to spread #cutforbieber, urging people to cut themselves. However /b/ did nothing besides the original idea so the GNAA took over. A user made a fake news story of a girl dying from the act. | * January 7 - #cutforbieber: Anonymous decides to do another joke on believers, in response and uses the opportunity brought by a leaked picture of Justin holding a joint to spread #cutforbieber, urging people to cut themselves. However /b/ did nothing besides the original idea so the GNAA took over. A user made a fake news story of a girl dying from the act. | ||
*January 10 - /pol/ finds gold on Tumblr and [http://web.archive.org/web/20160804061655/https://encyclopediadramatica.se/The_Great_/pol/_Social_Justice_Raid_of_2013 The Great /pol/ Social Justice Raid of 2013] starts. | *January 10 - /pol/ finds gold on Tumblr and [http://web.archive.org/web/20160804061655/https://encyclopediadramatica.se/The_Great_/pol/_Social_Justice_Raid_of_2013 The Great /pol/ Social Justice Raid of 2013] starts. | ||
* January 30 - #boobs4bieber: /b/ decides to attempt a new Bieber scam by editing tits out of jailbait pictures and posting them on Twitter. But this time the attack is reported by the media and rejected by /b/tards. They complain that Bieber is an overused target and the attack simply fails to take off. Meanwhile, /mlp/ is renamed to "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?", due to the reaction of the board towards the main character becoming an alicorn, for the sake of new toys. | * January 30 - #boobs4bieber: /b/ decides to attempt a new Bieber scam by editing tits out of jailbait pictures and posting them on Twitter. But this time the attack is reported by the media and rejected by /b/tards. They complain that Bieber is an overused target and the attack simply fails to take off. Meanwhile, /mlp/ is renamed to "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?", due to the reaction of the board towards the main character becoming an alicorn, for the sake of new toys. | ||
* February | * February - A sticky gets posted on /q/ discussing the possible improvements to the catalog. | ||
* February 20 - The nokosage function is changed, and now using it shows the user’s sage. | * February 20 - The nokosage function is changed, and now using it shows the user’s sage. | ||
* February 21 - For a while, all posts quoting another bug out and are hidden from the thread. | * February 21 - For a while, all posts quoting another bug out and are hidden from the thread. | ||
* March - With the sticky finished, the improved catalog gets released. | * March - With the sticky finished, the improved catalog gets released. | ||
* March 18 - moot adds '''/asp/ - Alternative Sports''', '''/gd/ - Graphic Design''', '''/out/ - Outdoors''', '''/lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender''' - Oh God - and '''/vr/ - Retro Games'''. However, there seems to be no /his/ - History nor /quest/ - Quest Games on sight, which were the two most requested boards | * March 18 - moot adds '''/asp/ - Alternative Sports''', '''/gd/ - Graphic Design''', '''/out/ - Outdoors''', '''/lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender''' - Oh God - and '''/vr/ - Retro Games'''. However, there seems to be no /his/ - History nor /quest/ - Quest Games on sight, which were the two most requested boards. | ||
* March 31 - moot confirms /s4s/ is here to stay. | * March 31 - moot confirms /s4s/ is here to stay. | ||
* April 1 - moot adds '''/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says''' under the header of “Unlike the other new boards, this is being added on a permanent basis. If it doesn't pan out or goes unused, you should probably check your privilege.” The board gets two stickies - a 5555 dubs GET and another saying “Post in this thread to have your privilege checked” Later the full joke kick’s in and moot changes the format and CSS to make it look like Reddit. On both /s4s/ and /b/ a popup about AdultCatFinder appears. A mod checks everyone’s privilege on the second sticky and an empty thread is stickied on /b/. | * April 1 - moot adds '''/s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says''' under the header of “Unlike the other new boards, this is being added on a permanent basis. If it doesn't pan out or goes unused, you should probably check your privilege.” The board gets two stickies - a 5555 dubs GET and another saying “Post in this thread to have your privilege checked” Later the full joke kick’s in and moot changes the format and CSS to make it look like Reddit. On both /s4s/ and /b/ a popup about AdultCatFinder appears. A mod checks everyone’s privilege on the second sticky and an empty thread is stickied on /b/. | ||
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* April 10 - /s4s/ gets renamed to Shit 4chan Says. | * April 10 - /s4s/ gets renamed to Shit 4chan Says. | ||
* April 15 - moot makes a public announcement telling he’ll log in AIM as moot chat and try to answer emails. | * April 15 - moot makes a public announcement telling he’ll log in AIM as moot chat and try to answer emails. | ||
* April 20 - /mlp/ reaches their | * April 20 - /mlp/ reaches their 10M GET, and breaks the record of the most replied post of 4chan with 2046 replies. | ||
* May - Recent crackdowns on the shitposting of /sp/ and /tv/ (Two long-forgotten, but still alive, boards) lead to many users outright rebelling against the moderation team. On one side, users form /tv/ have long been complaining about constantly celebrity waifu threads, which could take as much as half the board. /sp/’s off-topic posting has been increasing exponentially since 2010. The upset and banned users started spreading images and signing their posts with a hashtag #freesp or #freetv. Though it’s agreed that /tv/ has no holding ground to claim celebrity threads to be allowed, moot has agree that he would consider allowing certain classic /sp/ threads such as power level and current even threads. | * May - Recent crackdowns on the shitposting of /sp/ and /tv/ (Two long-forgotten, but still alive, boards) lead to many users outright rebelling against the moderation team. On one side, users form /tv/ have long been complaining about constantly celebrity waifu threads, which could take as much as half the board. /sp/’s off-topic posting has been increasing exponentially since 2010. The upset and banned users started spreading images and signing their posts with a hashtag #freesp or #freetv. Though it’s agreed that /tv/ has no holding ground to claim celebrity threads to be allowed, moot has agree that he would consider allowing certain classic /sp/ threads such as power level and current even threads. | ||
* May 12 - moot opens the third Q/A, fucks with the CSS by forgetting a “ and jokes with /s4s/ by giving it Comic Sans. | * May 12 - moot opens the third Q/A, fucks with the CSS by forgetting a “ and jokes with /s4s/ by giving it Comic Sans. | ||
* May 13 - Anamanaguchi, whose members are friends of moot, make a Q/A session on /mu/. Luke becomes a fan favorite. | * May 13 - Anamanaguchi, whose members are friends of moot, make a Q/A session on /mu/. Luke becomes a fan favorite. | ||
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* May 27 - Lauren Faust makes an AMA on /mlp/ and the entire board collectively lose their shit. moot renames /mlp/ to "IT'S HAPPENING". | * May 27 - Lauren Faust makes an AMA on /mlp/ and the entire board collectively lose their shit. moot renames /mlp/ to "IT'S HAPPENING". | ||
* June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day. This time, however, instead of a meet up on the other board, he starts two contests on /q/, one about rotating banners (Those things you see on the top page that always have the 4chan title) and house ads (Replacements for the adspace when there are no current adds running). | * June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day. This time, however, instead of a meet up on the other board, he starts two contests on /q/, one about rotating banners (Those things you see on the top page that always have the 4chan title) and house ads (Replacements for the adspace when there are no current adds running). | ||
* July 14 - /v/ achieves its 200M GET. After lots of tension, the GET goes to a completely unrelated post in a Pikmin thread, asking, "Also why does everyone crash land trying to get to Earth? Seriously." | |||
* July 14 - /v/ achieves its | |||
* July 15 - A thread is posted on /b/ with a link to a contest where you can have a chance to meet Taylor Swift by writing an essay about why you should be considered her biggest fan. The OP urges everyone to vote for a "Charles Z". "Charles" quickly reached 1st place, and on the 19th, the radio station shut down the content for "being compromised". This was followed by other attempts to make "Charles" meet a pop star - rigging a contest by New York City's Z100 to meet Selena Gomez on the 21st, and being followed the next day by another raid on a contest by the same station to meet the Jonas Brothers. | * July 15 - A thread is posted on /b/ with a link to a contest where you can have a chance to meet Taylor Swift by writing an essay about why you should be considered her biggest fan. The OP urges everyone to vote for a "Charles Z". "Charles" quickly reached 1st place, and on the 19th, the radio station shut down the content for "being compromised". This was followed by other attempts to make "Charles" meet a pop star - rigging a contest by New York City's Z100 to meet Selena Gomez on the 21st, and being followed the next day by another raid on a contest by the same station to meet the Jonas Brothers. | ||
* July 19 - /b/ | * July 19 - /b/ twitter-bombs UFC fighter "War Machine." Raiders insult his family, send him pizzas, post him in the gay section of Craigslist, and almost fool him into deleting system 32. As a result War Machine became enraged and repeatedly punched himself in the head. | ||
* July 27 - A harsh critic from GameInformer journalist Martin Beer makes Indie games developer Phil Fish ragequit Twitter and cancel his newest game, Fez 2. /v/ celebrates by making tons of OC, including a new /v/ Sings and countless Youtube videos. | * July 27 - A harsh critic from GameInformer journalist Martin Beer makes Indie games developer Phil Fish ragequit Twitter and cancel his newest game, Fez 2. /v/ celebrates by making tons of OC, including a new /v/ Sings and countless Youtube videos. | ||
* August 11 - moot finally renames /soc/ to Cam & Meetups, /q/ to 4chan Feedback and /fit/ to just Fitness. | * August 11 - moot finally renames /soc/ to Cam & Meetups, /q/ to 4chan Feedback and /fit/ to just Fitness. | ||
* August 13 - Naruto Day: /a/’s elitism finally goes too far when they dox a 4chan mod (RapeApe) who posted on /q/ telling them to stop complaining about naruto threads. moot retaliates changing the board name to /a/ - "N/a/RUTO CONFIRMED BEST ANIME CHINESE CARTOON OF ALL TIME", with the subtitle "BELIEVE IT (also dubs are better than subs)", embedding a remix of "believe it", changing the posting form and stickying a bunch of Naruto | * August 13 - Naruto Day: /a/’s elitism finally goes too far when they dox a 4chan mod (RapeApe) who posted on /q/ telling them to stop complaining about naruto threads. moot retaliates changing the board name to /a/ - "N/a/RUTO CONFIRMED BEST ANIME CHINESE CARTOON OF ALL TIME", with the subtitle "BELIEVE IT (also dubs are better than subs)", embedding a remix of "believe it", changing the posting form and stickying a bunch of Naruto thread. /a/ goes berserk and begins spamming CP and guro, forcing the mods to take it down. | ||
* August 15 - /b/ 500m GET: “poland has best prostitutes, i fucked plenty in london. i hope one is ur wife someday fag 500 mil get”. moot makes a headliners called “I for one salute our new polish prostitute overlords”. Considered a failGET by some. | * August 15 - /b/ 500m GET: “poland has best prostitutes, i fucked plenty in london. i hope one is ur wife someday fag 500 mil get”. moot makes a headliners called “I for one salute our new polish prostitute overlords”. Considered a failGET by some. | ||
* August 26 - Thanks Australia: Congratulating Kojima on his 50st birthday, /v/ sends him over a hundred postcards. However, Kojima thanks Australia instead of 4chan, because the sender was Australian. moot considered this funny and renamed the board to “/v/ - Australia” with the subtitle “T-Thanks Kojima-Sama!” | * August 26 - Thanks Australia: Congratulating Kojima on his 50st birthday, /v/ sends him over a hundred postcards. However, Kojima thanks Australia instead of 4chan, because the sender was Australian. moot considered this funny and renamed the board to “/v/ - Australia” with the subtitle “T-Thanks Kojima-Sama!” | ||
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* October 1 - TEN YEARS MOTHERFUCKERS. Also fgt hats are back, the American government shuts down, the Silk Road is closed, Terraria has a huge update and /v/ discovers Half-Life 3 is already trademarked and on the making. | * October 1 - TEN YEARS MOTHERFUCKERS. Also fgt hats are back, the American government shuts down, the Silk Road is closed, Terraria has a huge update and /v/ discovers Half-Life 3 is already trademarked and on the making. | ||
* October 2 - /b/ pulls a prank to convince Miley Cyrus fans that the singer had contracted AIDS. | * October 2 - /b/ pulls a prank to convince Miley Cyrus fans that the singer had contracted AIDS. | ||
* October 6 - /sp/ flips the fuck out as an /trb/ general poster who has been stalking tripfag UTV since June reveals he has been discovered and has to leave the general. He subsequently releases a | * October 6 - /sp/ flips the fuck out as an /trb/ general poster who has been stalking tripfag UTV since June reveals he has been discovered and has to leave the general. He subsequently releases a 97 pages pdf detailing everything he ever thought or written about UTV. It includes notes, poems, artwork, and all posts by namefag UTV since July 1. UTV Archiver was later referenced as “The most autistic user in the history of 4chan” | ||
* October 8 - /con/ is removed. | * October 8 - /con/ is removed. | ||
* October 22- The website known as 8chan, is created, they become sworn rivals of 4chan, and call them "halfchan", 8fags ripped off 4chan and then try to be "superior", this is how 8chan was born. | * October 22- The website known as 8chan, is created, they become sworn rivals of 4chan, and call them "halfchan", 8fags ripped off 4chan and then try to be "superior", this is how 8chan was born. | ||
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* December 2 - moot implements a new domain for images and .sfws, 4.cdn.org, a new strategy that has been implemented by other sites, saving data by reducing cookie and packet size. The new measure totals up to 43 terabytes of saved data per month. moot announces the update in his Tumblr via the news. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6835392 He also submits his post to Hacker News] where it reaches the top of the front page for a few hours, leading to a small technical Q&A in the comment section. | * December 2 - moot implements a new domain for images and .sfws, 4.cdn.org, a new strategy that has been implemented by other sites, saving data by reducing cookie and packet size. The new measure totals up to 43 terabytes of saved data per month. moot announces the update in his Tumblr via the news. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6835392 He also submits his post to Hacker News] where it reaches the top of the front page for a few hours, leading to a small technical Q&A in the comment section. | ||
* December 15 - With an ad blocker activated, ads are replaced with "Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan.org/*, purchasing a self-serve ad, or buying a 4chan Pass." | * December 15 - With an ad blocker activated, ads are replaced with "Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan.org/*, purchasing a self-serve ad, or buying a 4chan Pass." | ||
* December 22 - 4chan passes go on sale. At the same time, /b/ has a successful raid for the first time in ages. An anon finds a network of school sites have the default username and passwords. He proceeds to post them on /b/ to which a group of anons deface the site with the usual: porn, and the words "nigger" and "faggot" as well as a link to a narcotic honey-pot. CP had also been reported to have been posted. Anons who didn't use a proxy should be expecting a visit from the partyvan | * December 22 - 4chan passes go on sale. At the same time, /b/ has a successful raid for the first time in ages. An anon finds a network of school sites have the default username and passwords. He proceeds to post them on /b/ to which a group of anons deface the site with the usual: porn, and the words "nigger" and "faggot" as well as a link to a narcotic honey-pot. CP had also been reported to have been posted. Anons who didn't use a proxy should be expecting a visit from the partyvan. | ||
* December 23 - /k/ is flooded with mourning threads following the death of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mods embed the song "Moscow Nights". The sticky stays up for over a week and gets several thousand replies. | * December 23 - /k/ is flooded with mourning threads following the death of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mods embed the song "Moscow Nights". The sticky stays up for over a week and gets several thousand replies. | ||
* December 25 - anus hats, Hanukkah edition. | * December 25 - anus hats, Hanukkah edition. | ||
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* January 21 - moot’s startup, the one in charge of Canv.as and DrawQuest, finally closes after the venture is confirmed to be unprofitable. moot makes the news public on 4chan. | * January 21 - moot’s startup, the one in charge of Canv.as and DrawQuest, finally closes after the venture is confirmed to be unprofitable. moot makes the news public on 4chan. | ||
* January 23 - A stickied thread on /s4s/ becomes the first thread in 4chan history to reach ten thousand replies. The thread, which was posted by a namefag called 'Getter Robo' with the text 'LETS BREAK THE REPLY RECORD' and a picture of said robot exclaiming 'UOOH!', is nearly impossible to view without crashing the computer. The OP of the post received ten thousand replies, doubling the previous record set by a namefag called 'eternal samefig' on the same board, who vowed to reply to his post until 4chan died. The thread dies on February 18. | * January 23 - A stickied thread on /s4s/ becomes the first thread in 4chan history to reach ten thousand replies. The thread, which was posted by a namefag called 'Getter Robo' with the text 'LETS BREAK THE REPLY RECORD' and a picture of said robot exclaiming 'UOOH!', is nearly impossible to view without crashing the computer. The OP of the post received ten thousand replies, doubling the previous record set by a namefag called 'eternal samefig' on the same board, who vowed to reply to his post until 4chan died. The thread dies on February 18. | ||
* February - The abomination version of 4chan; Masterchan is created, where all the mentally sick people who are banned from 4chan and 8chan go, Masterchan is found on the dark web. | * February - The abomination version of 4chan; Masterchan is created, where all the mentally sick people who are banned from 4chan and 8chan go, Masterchan is found on the dark web. | ||
* February 9 - moot modifies captchas so they only appear when you type something in the comment field because Google raises the difficulty of captchas as a punishment for sending too many unanswered requests. He also brings IDs back to /b/. | * February 9 - moot modifies captchas so they only appear when you type something in the comment field because Google raises the difficulty of captchas as a punishment for sending too many unanswered requests. He also brings IDs back to /b/. | ||
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* February 18 - [s4s] goes completely out of control after the aforementioned "Reply record" thread is un-stickied, resulting in a glitch in the system. This includes up to 26 pages being added one by one, resulting in threads linking to 404's, or 504 gateway errors, and multiple threads being made to "keep" the pages once the bug is fixed... only to be reverted later. The ongoing kek thread gets deleted as well. | * February 18 - [s4s] goes completely out of control after the aforementioned "Reply record" thread is un-stickied, resulting in a glitch in the system. This includes up to 26 pages being added one by one, resulting in threads linking to 404's, or 504 gateway errors, and multiple threads being made to "keep" the pages once the bug is fixed... only to be reverted later. The ongoing kek thread gets deleted as well. | ||
* February 23 - moot opens janitor applications. States that he will open them once every 1/1.5 years and that’s he’s feeling like doing a new Q&A. At the same, he adds IDs to /biz/, to curb the tripfag population. | * February 23 - moot opens janitor applications. States that he will open them once every 1/1.5 years and that’s he’s feeling like doing a new Q&A. At the same, he adds IDs to /biz/, to curb the tripfag population. | ||
* February 26 - An exploit is discovered where pasting a large amount of text into the captcha field allows the poster to bypass it. | * February 26 - An exploit is discovered where pasting a large amount of text into the captcha field allows the poster to bypass it. | ||
* March 13 - 4chan goes on yet another outage where if one attempts to post, he will be redirected to a page saying "Posting temporarily disabled. Come back later!" moot makes a sticky on /biz/ stating you can now target /biz/ with self-serve ads. The page numbers bar is also added to the top of the page. "Settings" is organized into several categories which can be hidden; Quotes & Replying, Monitoring, Filters & Post Hiding, Navigation, Images & Media, and Miscellaneous. Brief descriptions of the options are added underneath. A new option, "Snippets in page title" is added, which allows you to show/hide post subjects or comment snippets in the page (tab) title. | * March 13 - 4chan goes on yet another outage where if one attempts to post, he will be redirected to a page saying "Posting temporarily disabled. Come back later!" moot makes a sticky on /biz/ stating you can now target /biz/ with self-serve ads. The page numbers bar is also added to the top of the page. "Settings" is organized into several categories which can be hidden; Quotes & Replying, Monitoring, Filters & Post Hiding, Navigation, Images & Media, and Miscellaneous. Brief descriptions of the options are added underneath. A new option, "Snippets in page title" is added, which allows you to show/hide post subjects or comment snippets in the page (tab) title. | ||
* March 25 - All hell breaks loose when it is announced that Facebook has purchased the gaming device Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars. /v/ and other boards outrage, with /v/ getting the title, changed to "Where were you when gaming died?", embedded music with the song "Komm, süsser Tod", and a sticky. | * March 25 - All hell breaks loose when it is announced that Facebook has purchased the gaming device Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars. /v/ and other boards outrage, with /v/ getting the title, changed to "Where were you when gaming died?", embedded music with the song "Komm, süsser Tod", and a sticky. | ||
* April 1 - For April Fool's Day, captchas are substituted with fake Japanese character captchas. To get the actual captcha, you must scroll over the fake captcha. | * April 1 - For April Fool's Day, captchas are substituted with fake Japanese character captchas. To get the actual captcha, you must scroll over the fake captcha. | ||
* April 2 - A new file type named "WebM" is introduced to /g/ and /jp/, with | * April 2 - A new file type named "WebM" is introduced to /g/ and /jp/, with a sticky in the former. A few days later, it is now available on all boards. | ||
* April 6 - The blotter and the blog | * April 6 - The blotter and the blog is reintroduced. | ||
* April 7 - moot uses the blog to announce that discussion (text) boards will be frozen but not deleted, but /rs/, the fileshare board, will be deleted to focus on the image boards. | * April 7 - moot uses the blog to announce that discussion (text) boards will be frozen but not deleted, but /rs/, the fileshare board, will be deleted to focus on the image boards. | ||
* April 8 - 4chan raids omegle (or possibly shamchat, reports unclear), setting interests to tumblr and telling all users that their name is "dan". | * April 8 - 4chan raids omegle (or possibly shamchat, reports unclear), setting interests to tumblr and telling all users that their name is "dan". | ||
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* July 30 - The robot on /r9k/ is disabled, the reason being that "/r9k/ ceased to be "original content" years ago". The board quickly devolves into /b/2.0. A user on /pol/ makes a post saying "Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art / This post is art.", which then was photographed off the screen and framed by another user who posted another reply in the thread with a photo of the framed quote. Later the that user created an auction [http://www.ebay.com/itm/221509460160?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 on eBay] for the framed photo which quickly rose to high prices, culminating in a price of $90,900 after which many news outlets picked up on the story, i.e. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/05/a-photo-of-a-4chan-post-sold-for-almost-100000-because-art/ The Washington Post]. | * July 30 - The robot on /r9k/ is disabled, the reason being that "/r9k/ ceased to be "original content" years ago". The board quickly devolves into /b/2.0. A user on /pol/ makes a post saying "Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art / This post is art.", which then was photographed off the screen and framed by another user who posted another reply in the thread with a photo of the framed quote. Later the that user created an auction [http://www.ebay.com/itm/221509460160?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 on eBay] for the framed photo which quickly rose to high prices, culminating in a price of $90,900 after which many news outlets picked up on the story, i.e. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/05/a-photo-of-a-4chan-post-sold-for-almost-100000-because-art/ The Washington Post]. | ||
* August 13 - The E-mail field is replaced with an "Options" field to sage, ect. And threads on /a/ and /v/ will now be accessible for a period of 48 hours after being pushed off of the board index | * August 13 - The E-mail field is replaced with an "Options" field to sage, ect. And threads on /a/ and /v/ will now be accessible for a period of 48 hours after being pushed off of the board index | ||
* August 17 - /lit/ [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S5302969 starts writing a book collectively] that later came to be known as [ | * August 17 - /lit/ [https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S5302969 starts writing a book collectively] that later came to be known as [http://legacy.totalitarian.info/public/assets/totalitarian.pdf "The Legacy Of Totalitarianism In A Tundra"] - the first book by 4chan and probably also the first written in anonymous collaboration online. | ||
* August 31 - A guy on /b/ leaks several hundred celebrity nudes hacked off of iCloud. TMZ offers him over a million dollars for the rest (which he declined), and continues to post pictures and videos throughout the day. A thread on /b/ made by him has bump and image limits disabled until it reaches over 9,000 replies (Reached 10,111 replies) in a non-stickied thread, causing the entire site to lag. The event is dubbed both by 4channers and the media "The Fappening". | * August 31 - A guy on /b/ leaks several hundred celebrity nudes hacked off of iCloud. TMZ offers him over a million dollars for the rest (which he declined), and continues to post pictures and videos throughout the day. A thread on /b/ made by him has bump and image limits disabled until it reaches over 9,000 replies (Reached 10,111 replies) in a non-stickied thread, causing the entire site to lag. The event is dubbed both by 4channers and the media "The Fappening". | ||
* September 2 - A 17 year old kid on /out/ embarks on a 5500km walk from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales | * September 2 - A 17 year old kid on /out/ embarks on a 5500km walk from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales | ||
* September 16 - Despite being previously allowed, #gamergate (which had been ongoing for weeks) is suddenly banned and every post deleted, without explanation. Users riot and accuse an unspecified "rogue mod". In the wake of the crackdown, 4chan's "feedback" page is also removed from the website, moot's e-mail address disappears from all contact pages, and Germany allegedly gets a mass IP range ban (this was then discovered to be just a rumour with no basis, due to several German flags appearing on /int/). | * September 16 - Despite being previously allowed, #gamergate (which had been ongoing for weeks) is suddenly banned and every post deleted, without explanation. Users riot and accuse an unspecified "rogue mod". In the wake of the crackdown, 4chan's "feedback" page is also removed from the website, moot's e-mail address disappears from all contact pages, and Germany allegedly gets a mass IP range ban (this was then discovered to be just a rumour with no basis, due to several German flags appearing on /int/). | ||
* September 18 - Sticky on /v/. moot declares GamerGate officially banned from the whole site because of Global Rule 4 (no doxxing). "''Said threads are being deleted primarily because they violate our blanket "no personal information / raids / calls to invasion" rule. Spamming the reports system and creating multiple topics were also a factor, especially given /v/ is one of 4chan's fastest moving boards and has historically struggled with keeping topics limited to actual video games.''" Following the crackdown, a vast amount of complaining stirs up on /b/, with a good portion of threads speaking out against 4chan moderation and administration. Many of said threads say that users should simply leave on October 1st (4chan's 11th anniversary) and only return when (and if) moderation of 4chan returns to its original relaxed state. A 4chan clone, 8chan, gets popular for discussing Gamergate threads. Linking to it results in an auto-ban. | * September 18 - Sticky on /v/. moot declares GamerGate officially banned from the whole site because of Global Rule 4 (no doxxing). "''Said threads are being deleted primarily because they violate our blanket "no personal information / raids / calls to invasion" rule. Spamming the reports system and creating multiple topics were also a factor, especially given /v/ is one of 4chan's fastest moving boards and has historically struggled with keeping topics limited to actual video games.''" Following the crackdown, a vast amount of complaining stirs up on /b/, with a good portion of threads speaking out against 4chan moderation and administration. Many of said threads say that users should simply leave on October 1st (4chan's 11th anniversary) and only return when (and if) moderation of 4chan returns to its original relaxed state. A 4chan clone, 8chan, gets popular for discussing Gamergate threads. Linking to it results in an auto-ban. | ||
* October 1 - The 17 year old kid from /out/ now titled Little Thor by the community passes the 1000km mark. /b/ also attempts [http://web.archive.org/web/20151023083256/https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Operation_Timebomb_v2 Operation Timebomb v2] but fails. 8chan raids /b/. The raid lasts five minutes before it's pruned away due to /b/'s speed. Hilarity ensues. People complain on 8chan about their permanent bans from 4chan, which really makes no sense since they said the raid would've been their last visit to 4chan in the first point. | * October 1 - The 17 year old kid from /out/ now titled Little Thor by the community passes the 1000km mark. /b/ also attempts [http://web.archive.org/web/20151023083256/https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Operation_Timebomb_v2 Operation Timebomb v2] but fails. 8chan raids /b/. The raid lasts five minutes before it's pruned away due to /b/'s speed. Hilarity ensues. People complain on 8chan about their permanent bans from 4chan, which really makes no sense since they said the raid would've been their last visit to 4chan in the first point. | ||
* October 7 - 8chan raids /b/ again, this time by regarding any post ending in 8 as a get. Somewhat more effective than the last raid. | * October 7 - 8chan raids /b/ again, this time by regarding any post ending in 8 as a get. Somewhat more effective than the last raid. | ||
* October 12 - moot [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S12534873#p12582276 announces] that he'll be at the Aizu-Wakamatsu train station to [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S12534873#p12582378 wave] at the iconic webcam, which was followed for years in a /jp/ general; even if the webcam service was [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S16552062#p16792971 discontinued] in March 2017, the beloved general is still running. | * October 12 - moot [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S12534873#p12582276 announces] that he'll be at the Aizu-Wakamatsu train station to [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S12534873#p12582378 wave] at the iconic webcam, which was followed for years in a /jp/ general; even if the webcam service was [https://warosu.org/jp/thread/S16552062#p16792971 discontinued] in March 2017, the beloved general is still running. | ||
* October 19 - Little Thor is a faggot and drops out after 1200km | * October 19 - Little Thor is a faggot and drops out after 1200km | ||
* November 5 - A murderer who strangled his girlfriend and uploaded pictures of her corpse on 4chan is apprehended. Judging by the media coverage, being associated with 4chan trumps the fact that an innocent girl died. | * November 5 - A murderer who strangled his girlfriend and uploaded pictures of her corpse on 4chan is apprehended. Judging by the media coverage, being associated with 4chan trumps the fact that an innocent girl died. | ||
* November 9 - moot announces that the number of unique posters in a thread will now be listed, and that the thread watcher can now auto-watch and highlight threads based on custom filters. | * November 9 - moot announces that the number of unique posters in a thread will now be listed, and that the thread watcher can now auto-watch and highlight threads based on custom filters. | ||
* November 14 - /b/ title is changed to "STOP to my /b/eat". A YouTube video gets embedded on the board page. The uploader changes its title to "go away 4chan" and disables the comments. | |||
* November 14 - /b/ title is changed to "STOP to my /b/eat". A YouTube video gets embedded on the board page. The uploader changes its title to "go away 4chan" and disables the comments. | |||
* November 17 - /b/ is back to normal. | * November 17 - /b/ is back to normal. | ||
* November 21 - moot makes a new blog post, saying that janitors now have the ability of request warns instead of bans. He also states that roughly 90% of the 4chan users are lurkers and only 10% of the 20 million monthly users actually posts. His suggestion that recommendation threads on /a/ are not ban-worthy but only deserve a warn causes a shitstorm in the board. He also illustrates some changes in the mobile version of the site. | * November 21 - moot makes a new blog post, saying that janitors now have the ability of request warns instead of bans. He also states that roughly 90% of the 4chan users are lurkers and only 10% of the 20 million monthly users actually posts. His suggestion that recommendation threads on /a/ are not ban-worthy but only deserve a warn causes a shitstorm in the board. He also illustrates some changes in the mobile version of the site. | ||
* November 23 - A new sticky on /co/ explicitly stating that ''"The posting of non-worksafe content under spoiler tags is not permitted, and will result in a ban. Furry content is also not permitted"'' causes furries in the board to protest in outrage. | * November 23 - A new sticky on /co/ explicitly stating that ''"The posting of non-worksafe content under spoiler tags is not permitted, and will result in a ban. Furry content is also not permitted"'' causes furries in the board to protest in outrage. | ||
* December 4 - Asuka's Birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0 is embedded into every board along with Chen pictures and signs stating "No honk allowed". /a/ gets renamed to "USAKA" with the subtitle "USAKA IS LUUV USAKA IS LUUF". moot posts on /a/ sending the board into chaos, and he also makes a post stating "ayy lmao" in a BANE? thread on /pol/. | * December 4 - Asuka's Birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0 is embedded into every board along with Chen pictures and signs stating "No honk allowed". /a/ gets renamed to "USAKA" with the subtitle "USAKA IS LUUV USAKA IS LUUF". moot posts on /a/ sending the board into chaos, and he also makes a post stating "ayy lmao" in a BANE? thread on /pol/. | ||
* December 7 - The /pol/ocaust | * December 7 - The /pol/ocaust. moot goes nuts and transforms /pol/ into a shitpost board - It starts with the addition of multiple wordfilters, e.g. "moot" becomes "the CEO of Troll, Inc.", and "cuck" becomes "cluck". More word filters are added as the day progresses. 4chan temporarily goes down for maintenance, and comes back a few hours later. Several threads are stickied - the first is a locked "FOR FREE" thread mocking janitors, and the second is a picture of moot getting fucked by Anita and Zoe. Captcha and flags are removed, and moot adds a global announcement urging people to go and test /pol/'s new captcha-less posting. Another sticky is added, this time saying "POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE". The post timer is later reduced to 15 seconds, and the global announcement is edited to say "Now with legacy timers!". The timer for creating threads is reduced to 1 minute. All posts are turned into dubs by adding an extra digit identical to the last digit at the end of the post number, which causes chaos as people are unable to link to previous posts. At the request of an Anon on [s4s], moderator swaglord stickies a thread that repeats the phrase "wew lad" over and over. Furry porn, guro, loli and ponies are posted with little retaliation from the mods, although some threads are deleted. The board goes apeshit as the users try to flee to /mlp/, /int/, [s4s], and other boards to no avail. After a couple of hours the "wew lad" and "POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE" stickies are removed, but the cuck sticky and janitor sticky remain. The audio from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPM6LKIaopk is embedded into the front page and the board is renamed '''The 8 Steps of Cuckolding''' with subtitle ''>she does it for fun''. A feature is added which makes every post be preceded by "[trigger warning]", which is given a marquee animation soon after. The fortune function is added, and is later changed to say "Your privilege:" instead of "your fortune:" and "Cuck" instead of "Luck". People had been typing "moot ## Admin ⌘" in the subject field to impersonate moot, so the subject field is renamed "moot ## Admin ⌘" as a joke. Two threads are stickied; one is unicode art of an anime girl, the other is a sticky request. They are both locked and unstickied later on. Many believe these happenings mean moot is going to delete /pol/. Antisemitic cartoonist Ben Garrison made a cartoon threatening moot prior to this happening, which referred to moot as "the CEO of Troll, Inc." (which is what the word filter is referencing). The cartoon was deleted shortly after. | ||
* December 8 - ReCAPTCHA 2 is implemented, replacing the CAPTCHA box with a button that says "I'm not a robot". Publishers breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to worry about the word nigger getting into their books. moot posts on /b/ for the first time in half a decade, and publicly fires a janitor. Screencap: https://i.imgur.com/z5lfv0Q.png | * December 8 - ReCAPTCHA 2 is implemented, replacing the CAPTCHA box with a button that says "I'm not a robot". Publishers breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to worry about the word nigger getting into their books. moot posts on /b/ for the first time in half a decade, and publicly fires a janitor. Screencap: https://i.imgur.com/z5lfv0Q.png | ||
* December 10 - /pol/'s 39999999 GET, containing a naruto page edited to be a dubs pic, is stickied & locked, while the 40M GET, simply consisting of "HITLER WAS RIGHT!", happens in a GET thread and quickly goes 404. /pol/'s title is changed back to "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect", and the embedded audio is removed, but the stickies and the other effects still remain. [s4s]'s font is changed to Comic Sans. | * December 10 - /pol/'s 39999999 GET, containing a naruto page edited to be a dubs pic, is stickied & locked, while the 40M GET, simply consisting of "HITLER WAS RIGHT!", happens in a GET thread and quickly goes 404. /pol/'s title is changed back to "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect", and the embedded audio is removed, but the stickies and the other effects still remain. [s4s]'s font is changed to Comic Sans. | ||
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*January 18 - A 4chan janitor creates [https://8ch.net/forfree/index.html a board on 8chan] and starts leaking things. He "confirms" his identity by linking to pics hosted on the secret janitor board, /j/. moot in response announces [http://blog.4chan.org/post/108414215167/new-requirement-for-4chan-volunteers-going-forward in a new blog post] that janitors are now required to sign a contract that binds them legally and prevents them from leaking any kind of info. | *January 18 - A 4chan janitor creates [https://8ch.net/forfree/index.html a board on 8chan] and starts leaking things. He "confirms" his identity by linking to pics hosted on the secret janitor board, /j/. moot in response announces [http://blog.4chan.org/post/108414215167/new-requirement-for-4chan-volunteers-going-forward in a new blog post] that janitors are now required to sign a contract that binds them legally and prevents them from leaking any kind of info. | ||
*January 20 - The site is frozen for 4 hours and 46 minutes. | *January 20 - The site is frozen for 4 hours and 46 minutes. | ||
*January 21 - Causing what will be remembered as the biggest shitstorm to ever flood 4chan, at 11:00 AM EST [https://www.4chan.org/ | *January 21 - Causing what will be remembered as the biggest shitstorm to ever flood 4chan, at 11:00 AM EST [https://www.4chan.org/news?all#118 moot officially announces his retirement from the role of 4chan's acting administrator]. "''[...] as today I'm retiring as 4chan's administrator. From a user's perspective, nothing should change. A few senior volunteers—including 4chan's lead developer, managing moderator, and server administrator—have stepped up to ensure a smooth transition over the coming weeks.''" | ||
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc Here's to you, Nicola and Bart] is embedded on /b/, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECQApj9IJs Futurama's Goodbye Seymour... Will Wait For You] is embedded on /co/, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XgCEFVE9w poor ocarina rendition of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On] is embedded on [s4s]. | **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc Here's to you, Nicola and Bart] is embedded on /b/, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECQApj9IJs Futurama's Goodbye Seymour... Will Wait For You] is embedded on /co/, and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XgCEFVE9w poor ocarina rendition of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On] is embedded on [s4s]. | ||
**/a/ gets renamed to "It /a/ll returns to nothing.", subtitled "tumbling down", with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRwRlicEmw Komm, Susser Tod] embedded. moot also posts in a thread on /a/ which gets 7403 replies and nearly 3000 uploaded images, [http://i.imgur.com/3py6RcC.png with about 3600 of which are replying to his post], breaking the record for most replied post in /a/'s history. There was also [http://i.imgur.com/xxvsRK1.png a smaller thread] which moot replied to that was stickied on /co/. | **/a/ gets renamed to "It /a/ll returns to nothing.", subtitled "tumbling down", with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRwRlicEmw Komm, Susser Tod] embedded. moot also posts in a thread on /a/ which gets 7403 replies and nearly 3000 uploaded images, [http://i.imgur.com/3py6RcC.png with about 3600 of which are replying to his post], breaking the record for most replied post in /a/'s history. There was also [http://i.imgur.com/xxvsRK1.png a smaller thread] which moot replied to that was stickied on /co/. | ||
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUKJBZuUig Archived 8-hour YouTube livestream] | ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUKJBZuUig Archived 8-hour YouTube livestream] | ||
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pL3LmKIb6Q25LGzO3GwNqgGOAjQnrCasdMULVpwF4vw/edit# Livestream Transcript under construction here]. | ** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pL3LmKIb6Q25LGzO3GwNqgGOAjQnrCasdMULVpwF4vw/edit# Livestream Transcript under construction here]. | ||
*January 26 - /a/ returns to its normal state. | *January 26 - /a/ returns to its normal state. Moot's final Q&A is still embedded as an announcement site-wide. /qa/ is frozen [https://archived.moe/qa/search/deleted/deleted/filter/text/ so a wave of shitposts can get deleted] (and presumably, a full-time team of mods and janitors are assigned). | ||
*January 27 - After fears that it was en route to getting deleted, /qa/ is unfrozen. Based on [http://archived.moe/qa/thread/68391 a unilateral declaration] by it's users, /qa/ is now a permanent metaboard dedicated to discussion on the decade-long (and counting) legacy of 4chan. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/67896/ A similar thread] was previously created that discussed the possibility of /qa/ becoming a U.N. of sorts for the boards. | *January 27 - After fears that it was en route to getting deleted, /qa/ is unfrozen. Based on [http://archived.moe/qa/thread/68391 a unilateral declaration] by it's users, /qa/ is now a permanent metaboard dedicated to discussion on the decade-long (and counting) legacy of 4chan. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/67896/ A similar thread] was previously created that discussed the possibility of /qa/ becoming a U.N. of sorts for the boards. | ||
*January 29 - Webms with sound are on /wsg/ and /gif/ (unmute to listen). First sound webm to be uploaded is a 10-second loop of Bane's "for you" clip from The Dark Knight Rises. A poorly-dubbed version of said clip is soon embedded and autoplayed on the same thread. Moderator swaglord embeds the entire /wsg/ thread into a /tv/ baneposting thread, effectively creating a "portal" from /tv/ to /wsg/ through which users can post. On /i/, [https://archived.moe/i/thread/384891 a thread about a drawfag dies] a few months after becoming the oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, at 1106 days. It would be overtaken a few months later by another /i/ thread. | *January 29 - Webms with sound are on /wsg/ and /gif/ (unmute to listen). First sound webm to be uploaded is a 10-second loop of Bane's "for you" clip from The Dark Knight Rises. A poorly-dubbed version of said clip is soon embedded and autoplayed on the same thread. Moderator swaglord embeds the entire /wsg/ thread into a /tv/ baneposting thread, effectively creating a "portal" from /tv/ to /wsg/ through which users can post. On /i/, [https://archived.moe/i/thread/384891 a thread about a drawfag dies] a few months after becoming the oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, at 1106 days. It would be overtaken a few months later by another /i/ thread. | ||
*January 30 - [https://i.imgur.com/fxwOQ1h.jpg ISIS comes to /mlp/] and | *January 30 - [https://i.imgur.com/fxwOQ1h.jpg ISIS comes to /mlp/] and [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619064 threaten to kill a rainbow dash plushie] if trips aren't achieved in the thread. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619444 Trips are gotten relatively quickly], while more trips are garnered to [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619555 kill the terrorists] [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21619666 and their families]. After this [s4s] joins the fight, making [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21620000 /s4s/-tan the leader of /mlp/] with quads and [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/21618976/#21622222 permanently banishing the terrorists] with quints. | ||
*February 1 - A superbowl ad shows the main cast of MLP in Colts fan gear for two seconds. /sp/ has a meltdown and /mlp/ has a good time. | *February 1 - A superbowl ad shows the main cast of MLP in Colts fan gear for two seconds. /sp/ has a meltdown and /mlp/ has a good time. | ||
*February 3 - A Spurdo Spärde thread [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140 is stickied on /int/] by moderator swaglord, who then shows [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37070690 his] [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37074635 mod] [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37073964 powers] for a while (including unsticking and resticking said thread) before the thread finally dies shortly before reaching 2000 replies. | *February 3 - A Spurdo Spärde thread [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140 is stickied on /int/] by moderator swaglord, who then shows [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37070690 his] [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37074635 mod] [https://archived.moe/int/thread/37048140/#37073964 powers] for a while (including unsticking and resticking said thread) before the thread finally dies shortly before reaching 2000 replies. | ||
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*June 10 - /z/ is removed, along with its "Why am I getting "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE"?" section in the FAQ. | *June 10 - /z/ is removed, along with its "Why am I getting "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE"?" section in the FAQ. | ||
*June 11 (appx.) - /i/ old, Java-based drawing applet ShiPainter is replaced by a new, JavaScript-based one. | *June 11 (appx.) - /i/ old, Java-based drawing applet ShiPainter is replaced by a new, JavaScript-based one. | ||
*June 21 - An option is added to use the old (text-based) captcha instead of the newer "one click"/picture selection one. No longer do users have to select 3 "sandwiches" (hamburgers) in order to make a post. | *June 21 - An option is added to use the old (text-based) captcha instead of the newer "one click"/picture selection one. No longer do users have to select 3 "sandwiches" (hamburgers) in order to make a post. | ||
*June 24 - /v/'s [https://archived.moe/v/thread/300000000/#300000000 300000000 GET is "Splatoon is new meme."] The OP gets banned and stickied, inkling music plays and /v/ shits its brix with over 5100 replies. | *June 24 - /v/'s [https://archived.moe/v/thread/300000000/#300000000 300000000 GET is "Splatoon is new meme."] The OP gets banned and stickied, inkling music plays and /v/ shits its brix with over 5100 replies. | ||
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*August 27 - Some anons decide to make a tumblr account where they recolor Steven Universe characters into white and blond people, [http://imgur.com/gallery/RcW1N successfully causing anal annihilation among tumblr.] | *August 27 - Some anons decide to make a tumblr account where they recolor Steven Universe characters into white and blond people, [http://imgur.com/gallery/RcW1N successfully causing anal annihilation among tumblr.] | ||
*September 2 - Users are unable to upload images. A message located below the news-feed tells users "Image posting is temporarily unavailable due to a hardware issue. Please wait warmly" with an option to dismiss the message located at the end. | *September 2 - Users are unable to upload images. A message located below the news-feed tells users "Image posting is temporarily unavailable due to a hardware issue. Please wait warmly" with an option to dismiss the message located at the end. | ||
*September 21 - 4chan is "bought" by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel. Anxious threads on both 4chan and 2ch discuss the possibility of Nishimura scamming the former for a profit [ | *September 21 - 4chan is "bought" by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel. Anxious threads on both 4chan and 2ch discuss the possibility of Nishimura scamming the former for a profit [http://pastebin.com/CJPHJSmC/ as some claim he once did with the latter]. | ||
*September 22 - Hiroyuki Nishimura (posting as hiroyuki ## Admin) hosts his first Q&A on the /qa/ board. 12,850 posts are made across five [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183963 "Question" threads]. Hiroyuki, [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183913/ posting answers in a separate "Answer" thread], spends 4 hours answering around 200 replies that were all submitted in the first two minutes of the first thread being up. He (hilariously) answered every single post, including troll-posts, shitposts, and repeated questions, seriously and with broken English. Users of 4chan were [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/185655/ highly entertained by his 'Engrish.'] He would later go on to accidentally post several answers [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/62106829/ on /sp/], and then abandon the Q&A to post [https://archived.moe/a/thread/131253890 on /a/]. Due to his weak grasp on English and 4chan culture, he was seen as innocent and naive, with many posters believing this to be cute and endearing. Nine hours after the Q&A began, the site begins to break, and then completely freezes. It remains down for about six hours. | *September 22 - Hiroyuki Nishimura (posting as hiroyuki ## Admin) hosts his first Q&A on the /qa/ board. 12,850 posts are made across five [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183963 "Question" threads]. Hiroyuki, [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/183913/ posting answers in a separate "Answer" thread], spends 4 hours answering around 200 replies that were all submitted in the first two minutes of the first thread being up. He (hilariously) answered every single post, including troll-posts, shitposts, and repeated questions, seriously and with broken English. Users of 4chan were [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/185655/ highly entertained by his 'Engrish.'] He would later go on to accidentally post several answers [https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/62106829/ on /sp/], and then abandon the Q&A to post [https://archived.moe/a/thread/131253890 on /a/]. Due to his weak grasp on English and 4chan culture, he was seen as innocent and naive, with many posters believing this to be cute and endearing. Nine hours after the Q&A began, the site begins to break, and then completely freezes. It remains down for about six hours. | ||
*September 23 - Anons agree to call their new overlord simply hiro or Hiroyuki. Hiroyuki changes his Twitter avatar to his shota equivalent. /pol/ affectionately names Hiroyuki g00k, because it sounded like moot. | *September 23 - Anons agree to call their new overlord simply hiro or Hiroyuki. Hiroyuki changes his Twitter avatar to his shota equivalent. /pol/ affectionately names Hiroyuki g00k, because it sounded like moot. | ||
*September 28 - One of /tg/'s worst-ever tripfags, virtualoptim, is banned for praising FATAL. | *September 28 - One of /tg/'s worst-ever tripfags, virtualoptim, is banned for praising FATAL. | ||
*October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 12th birthday. '''/aco/ - Adult Cartoons''' is added. An /r9k/ user shoots up a school in Oregon, killing 13 people and injuring 20 others. /d/ goes through a mi/d/life crisis, as the ban on Western art is enforced. /d/eviants discuss this in /mlp/, who acts as a safehaven (because /d/-tan and /mlp/-tan are dating). Mods keep deleting Winterball threads | *October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 12th birthday. '''/aco/ - Adult Cartoons''' is added. An /r9k/ user shoots up a school in Oregon, killing 13 people and injuring 20 others. /d/ goes through a mi/d/life crisis, as the ban on Western art is enforced. /d/eviants discuss this in /mlp/, who acts as a safehaven (because /d/-tan and /mlp/-tan are dating). Mods keep deleting Winterball threads. | ||
* October 7 - Hiroyuki changes the homepage: It is now displaying a photograph of the [https:// | * October 7 - Hiroyuki changes the homepage: It is now displaying a photograph of the [https://s.4cdn.org/image/fp/atlantis.png "Atlantis" spaceshuttle] he took with 4chan's logo above it. After long periods of downtime, archive.moe displays a "410 - Gone" error. It [http://web.archive.org/web/20160123075610/https://archive.moe/404 died] the same day. | ||
* October 9 - Janitor applications are re-opened, and the requirement to send proof of identification is dropped | *October 9 - Janitor applications are re-opened, and the requirement to send proof of identification is dropped. | ||
*October 13 - /jp/ gets [sjis] tags, allowing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art SJIS art] to be posted. | *October 13 - /jp/ gets [sjis] tags, allowing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art SJIS art] to be posted. | ||
*October 24 - The robot on /r9k/ is enabled again. | *October 24 - The robot on /r9k/ is enabled again. | ||
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*November 12 - /asp/ is renamed "Alternative Sports & Wrestling". Hiroyuki makes a sticky on /sp/ stating that wrestling and WWE threads should be made on /asp/ from now on. | *November 12 - /asp/ is renamed "Alternative Sports & Wrestling". Hiroyuki makes a sticky on /sp/ stating that wrestling and WWE threads should be made on /asp/ from now on. | ||
*November 14 - '''/news/ - Current news''' is added, though posting is disabled, being revived as a SFW board. OPs should require news links that aren't older than 48 hours, as stated in the first sticky. | *November 14 - '''/news/ - Current news''' is added, though posting is disabled, being revived as a SFW board. OPs should require news links that aren't older than 48 hours, as stated in the first sticky. | ||
*November 26 - /vg/ reaches its [https://i.imgur.com/8ixAhaF.png 123456789th GET] which is taken by /4ccg/, demanding BorisxKeksandra porn where Boris is buttfucking Keksandra and saying "This is how I made /mlp/ win Summer you know". | *November 26 - /vg/ reaches its [https://i.imgur.com/8ixAhaF.png 123456789th GET] which is taken by /4ccg/, demanding BorisxKeksandra porn where Boris is buttfucking Keksandra and saying "This is how I made /mlp/ win Summer you know". | ||
*November 27 - The stickies in /news/ have been deleted and were replaced with another generic sticky, stating the board is a ''text board'', although it is in imageboard format. The "File" field in the submission box has been removed. Additionally, the rules page was updated with /news/' rules. The board hasn't been opened yet. | *November 27 - The stickies in /news/ have been deleted and were replaced with another generic sticky, stating the board is a ''text board'', although it is in imageboard format. The "File" field in the submission box has been removed. Additionally, the rules page was updated with /news/' rules. The board hasn't been opened yet. | ||
*November 28 - Posting is enabled on /news/. OP images are allowed a few hours later. The default name on /mlp/ is changed to "=" again for the Season 5 Finale. | *November 28 - Posting is enabled on /news/. OP images are allowed a few hours later. The default name on /mlp/ is changed to "=" again for the Season 5 Finale. | ||
*December 12- Masterchan starts advertising itself to 4chan and 8chan, growing in number. Moderators banned Masterchan users from both sites once noticed. | *December 12- Masterchan starts advertising itself to 4chan and 8chan, growing in number. Moderators banned Masterchan users from both sites once noticed. | ||
*December 15 - Wordfilter for cuck is removed. CUCK (in all caps) is still filtered "as an heritage" (sic). | *December 15 - Wordfilter for cuck is removed. CUCK (in all caps) is still filtered "as an heritage" (sic). | ||
*December 16 - The global message changes to "It's getting cold, isn't it?" | *December 16 - The global message changes to "It's getting cold, isn't it?" | ||
*December 20 - '''/wsr/ - Worksafe Requests''' is added. | *December 20 - '''/wsr/ - Worksafe Requests''' is added. | ||
*December 23 - Some boards go down and posting is disabled for hours | *December 23 - Some boards go down and posting is disabled for hours. | ||
*December 25 - A /b/tard had leaked the info on a YouTuber named "NeuroSoup", who is a minor Internet Celebrity with a 100,000 user fanbase, that the YouTuber was a psycho rapist, who tortured an innocent man almost to death, anons started leaking the info allover her channel, hoping to smear her name across the internet. (You can see the police report here: (Warning; GRAPHIC descriptions) http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/04-04-07-krystal-cole-psi.pdf#page=4. | *December 25 - A /b/tard had leaked the info on a YouTuber named "NeuroSoup", who is a minor Internet Celebrity with a 100,000 user fanbase, that the YouTuber was a psycho rapist, who tortured an innocent man almost to death, anons started leaking the info allover her channel, hoping to smear her name across the internet. (You can see the police report here: (Warning; GRAPHIC descriptions) http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/04-04-07-krystal-cole-psi.pdf#page=4. | ||
*December 27 - The front page layout is changed for the first time in 8 years, with the Popular Threads section now resembling the board catalogs, the Recent Images and Latest Posts sections removed, and the video game boards now having their own section. | *December 27 - The front page layout is changed for the first time in 8 years, with the Popular Threads section now resembling the board catalogs, the Recent Images and Latest Posts sections removed, and the video game boards now having their own section. | ||
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*February 2 - /b/ gets Satan³ 666666666. The GET was Pokeporn of ORAS May, which additionally made /vp/ shit brix. [http://archived.moe/b/thread/666651461/#666666666 Source] | *February 2 - /b/ gets Satan³ 666666666. The GET was Pokeporn of ORAS May, which additionally made /vp/ shit brix. [http://archived.moe/b/thread/666651461/#666666666 Source] | ||
*February 13 - Caco makes a group-chat on FaceBook for /b/, which is a start of a small community of /b/tards. (Room Invite Link[not a virus]): ) | *February 13 - Caco makes a group-chat on FaceBook for /b/, which is a start of a small community of /b/tards. (Room Invite Link[not a virus]): ) | ||
*February 14 - Several anons from 4chan and 8chan (Consisting mainly of /b/tards, /pol/acks and a few guys from /k/ and /g/ too) form up and raid Tumblr on valentines day, dubbed the [https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre Valentine's Day Massacre.] The reaction from Tumblr's userbase was briefly noticeable, even on places like Youtube. | *February 14 - Several anons from 4chan and 8chan (Consisting mainly of /b/tards, /pol/acks and a few guys from /k/ and /g/ too) form up and raid Tumblr on valentines day, dubbed the [https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre Valentine's Day Massacre.] The reaction from Tumblr's userbase was briefly noticeable, even on places like Youtube. | ||
*February 15 - In attempt to protest against the current state of /b/, [https://archive.is/4elVh a thread] on the board is created to exceed the bump limit of 300 posts, by rallying up enough /b/tards to post in the thread after the reply count had reached 300 posts, to bring it to 500 posts. The thread reached nearly 800 posts before death and was revered as the first collaborative win on /b/ in a long while. | *February 15 - In attempt to protest against the current state of /b/, [https://archive.is/4elVh a thread] on the board is created to exceed the bump limit of 300 posts, by rallying up enough /b/tards to post in the thread after the reply count had reached 300 posts, to bring it to 500 posts. The thread reached nearly 800 posts before death and was revered as the first collaborative win on /b/ in a long while. | ||
*February 16 - /vr/'s 3000000 GET is claimed by a [s4s] namefig posting doge. [http://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/2997624/#3000000 Awoo!] | *February 16 - /vr/'s 3000000 GET is claimed by a [s4s] namefig posting doge. [http://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/2997624/#3000000 Awoo!] | ||
*February 23 - /tv/ gets visited by porn star and maker DickBush, after Brazzers published a meme porn teaser. Mods sticky the [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/66307533 thread]. | *February 23 - /tv/ gets visited by porn star and maker DickBush, after Brazzers published a meme porn teaser. Mods sticky the [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/66307533 thread]. | ||
*February 26 - The leaked Pokémon games Sun and Moon get announced. /vp/ gets two stickies, a hype thread and a confirmation sticky. | *February 26 - The leaked Pokémon games Sun and Moon get announced. /vp/ gets two stickies, a hype thread and a confirmation sticky. | ||
*March 2 - Notch visits [https:// | *March 2 - Notch visits [https://archived.moe/v/thread/329398076/#329401285 /v/ for a small Q&A]. It's confirmed on twitter. | ||
*March 3 - Some downtime happens. Hiro tells anons through the global messaging system to wait warmly. | *March 3 - Some downtime happens. Hiro tells anons through the global messaging system to wait warmly. | ||
*March 7 - [http://chrishateswriting.com/post/140641275808/my-next-chapter moot is now hired by Google.] An apparent Google employee also announced it [https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S53322162 two days ago on /g/]. The reactions were mixed. Some say moot became a hypocrite, others were happy that he moved on. A number of changes are made to 4chan, in particular to uploads. Maximum .webm durations of 120 seconds are applied to all boards, except /gif/ and /wsg/, where it's capped at 300 seconds. /gif/ and /wsg/ also receive sound for their webms. Minimum image dimensions are added to /hc/ (500x500), /hr/ (1000x1000), /s/ (500x500), /w/ (480x600) and /wg/ (480x600). /news/ is made a text-only board. | *March 7 - [http://chrishateswriting.com/post/140641275808/my-next-chapter moot is now hired by Google.] An apparent Google employee also announced it [https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S53322162 two days ago on /g/]. The reactions were mixed. Some say moot became a hypocrite, others were happy that he moved on. A number of changes are made to 4chan, in particular to uploads. Maximum .webm durations of 120 seconds are applied to all boards, except /gif/ and /wsg/, where it's capped at 300 seconds. /gif/ and /wsg/ also receive sound for their webms. Minimum image dimensions are added to /hc/ (500x500), /hr/ (1000x1000), /s/ (500x500), /w/ (480x600) and /wg/ (480x600). /news/ is made a text-only board. | ||
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*July 18 - The banner contest for /asp/, /f/, /ic/ and /vr/ begins its voting phase. | *July 18 - The banner contest for /asp/, /f/, /ic/ and /vr/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*July 25 - All /news/ threads now require a subject. The banner contest for /biz/, /s4s/ and /u/ begins its voting phase. | *July 25 - All /news/ threads now require a subject. The banner contest for /biz/, /s4s/ and /u/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*July 31 - | *July 31 - Moot gets [http://www.businessinsider.com/4chan-founder-chris-pooles-journey-to-google-2016-7 interviewed]. | ||
*August 1 - The banner contest for /jp/, /sci/, /t/ and /y/ begins its voting phase. | *August 1 - The banner contest for /jp/, /sci/, /t/ and /y/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*August 8 - The banner contest for /e/, /lgbt/, /m/ and /toy/ begins its voting phase. | *August 8 - The banner contest for /e/, /lgbt/, /m/ and /toy/ begins its voting phase. | ||
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*September 26 - The banner contest for /aco/, /int/ and /tg/ begins its voting phase. | *September 26 - The banner contest for /aco/, /int/ and /tg/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*October 1 - 4chan turns 13, and pedos lament that it's too old now. 4chan Pass users have their post cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, and gain an option to showcase how long they've had their pass by putting "since4pass" in the option field. The latter creates a shitstorm and is removed an hour later only to be reactivated a few minutes after that. A number of changes are made to 4chan's boards.json as well. The in-thread reply and image reply cooldowns are removed from most boards, with reply cooldowns being increased from 30 to 60 seconds (if not already), while image reply cooldowns remain at 60 seconds. A number of exceptions exist for other boards: The image reply cooldowns on /aco/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /hr/, /i/, /ic/, /r/, /r9k/, /s/, [s4s], /soc/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /wg/ and /y/ are decreased to 30 seconds. /b/'s maximum .webm filesize is dropped from 3MB to slightly over 2MB. /vg/'s reply cooldown is increased from 30 to 90 seconds, and its image cooldown is increased from 60 to 120 seconds, likely to enable longer-lasting generals. | *October 1 - 4chan turns 13, and pedos lament that it's too old now. 4chan Pass users have their post cooldown reduced to 15 seconds, and gain an option to showcase how long they've had their pass by putting "since4pass" in the option field. The latter creates a shitstorm and is removed an hour later only to be reactivated a few minutes after that. A number of changes are made to 4chan's boards.json as well. The in-thread reply and image reply cooldowns are removed from most boards, with reply cooldowns being increased from 30 to 60 seconds (if not already), while image reply cooldowns remain at 60 seconds. A number of exceptions exist for other boards: The image reply cooldowns on /aco/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /hr/, /i/, /ic/, /r/, /r9k/, /s/, [s4s], /soc/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /wg/ and /y/ are decreased to 30 seconds. /b/'s maximum .webm filesize is dropped from 3MB to slightly over 2MB. /vg/'s reply cooldown is increased from 30 to 90 seconds, and its image cooldown is increased from 60 to 120 seconds, likely to enable longer-lasting generals. | ||
*October 2 - Hiroyuki | *October 2 - Hiroyuki announces that 4chan can no longer pay its server bill, mainly due to advertising no longer covering the server costs. He then says that if 4chan should stay afloat, one of three things has to happen, reduce traffic by lowing filesize limits and deleting boards, introduce pop-ups and malicious ads, or have enough people buy 4chan passes to cover the server costs. /qa/ is flooded with people saying that /pol/ should be deleted. The banner contest for /fit/, /mu/ and /vg/ begins its voting phase. | ||
*October 3 - Notch, billionaire, and creator of Minecraft, says he would consider buying 4chan on twitter but in the end, it turns out he was merely baiting. Swaglord makes an appearance and exchanges a bit of banter. Notch later deletes his past 4 months of tweets. | *October 3 - Notch, billionaire, and creator of Minecraft, says he would consider buying 4chan on twitter but in the end, it turns out he was merely baiting. Swaglord makes an appearance and exchanges a bit of banter. Notch later deletes his past 4 months of tweets. | ||
*October 4 - '''/vip/''' is brought back, this time as an imageboard. Everyone can view it, but only 4chan pass users are allowed to post. | *October 4 - '''/vip/''' is brought back, this time as an imageboard. Everyone can view it, but only 4chan pass users are allowed to post. | ||
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*November 4 - Hiro takes a modified 4chan logo (now featuring a picture of Keksandra, [s4s]'s board-tan, checking 'em) from a malicious ad-reporting thread on /qa/ and makes it the new homepage image, as suggested by a user. [s4s] celebrates, while some /a/ and /qa/ members complain that Keksandra is replacing Yotsuba. A few hours later on /b/, Keksandra gets sexts and declares herself the new mascot of 4chan, causing a slight meltdown. The thread is filled with dubs checking and Keksandra porn. | *November 4 - Hiro takes a modified 4chan logo (now featuring a picture of Keksandra, [s4s]'s board-tan, checking 'em) from a malicious ad-reporting thread on /qa/ and makes it the new homepage image, as suggested by a user. [s4s] celebrates, while some /a/ and /qa/ members complain that Keksandra is replacing Yotsuba. A few hours later on /b/, Keksandra gets sexts and declares herself the new mascot of 4chan, causing a slight meltdown. The thread is filled with dubs checking and Keksandra porn. | ||
*November 6 - The banner contest finally ends. Every board except /b/, /gif/, /pol/, /qa/, /qst/ and /trash/ has one at this point. /mlp/ also doesn't have one due to the previous controversy. | *November 6 - The banner contest finally ends. Every board except /b/, /gif/, /pol/, /qa/, /qst/ and /trash/ has one at this point. /mlp/ also doesn't have one due to the previous controversy. | ||
*November 7 - An anon on /vp/ gets his hands on the full version of the upcoming game, Pokémon Moon, and [https://archive. | *November 7 - An anon on /vp/ gets his hands on the full version of the upcoming game, Pokémon Moon, and [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/search/tripcode/%21%21fFO0IgPFrv8/order/asc/ leaks a large amount of information before uploading a playable copy the next day], 10 days before the official release date. | ||
*November 8 - Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America. /pol/ goes completely apeshit and celebrates his victory. Two stickies get placed too, with one being the results of the election... | *November 8 - Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America. /pol/ goes completely apeshit and celebrates his victory. Two stickies get placed too, with one being the results of the election... | ||
*November 9 - ...and the other being an embed video of Trump's victory dance. Meme magic is real once again! Meanwhile, Hiro removes Keksandra from the front page after five days. /pol/'s rolling 2016 Presidential election results sticky breaks the record for most posts in one thread again, receiving 73171 posts in its 23 hours and 53 minutes. This surpassed the Brexit sticky by nearly 15000 posts. | *November 9 - ...and the other being an embed video of Trump's victory dance. Meme magic is real once again! Meanwhile, Hiro removes Keksandra from the front page after five days. /pol/'s rolling 2016 Presidential election results sticky breaks the record for most posts in one thread again, receiving 73171 posts in its 23 hours and 53 minutes. This surpassed the Brexit sticky by nearly 15000 posts. | ||
*November 16 - After confirming that he goes to McMaster University (having gotten most of their IPs banned from 4chan) and being dumb enough to leave his full name and email on the manifesto he released in 2014, Barneyfag is doxxed by a /v/ user. His name is revealed to be Lee Goldson, and his pictures confirm how much of a disgusting shit we all imagined he looked like. [http://pastebin.com/xN3mtfE8 See here for his info]. | *November 16 - After confirming that he goes to McMaster University (having gotten most of their IPs banned from 4chan) and being dumb enough to leave his full name and email on the manifesto he released in 2014, Barneyfag is doxxed by a /v/ user. His name is revealed to be Lee Goldson, and his pictures confirm how much of a disgusting shit we all imagined he looked like. [http://pastebin.com/xN3mtfE8 See here for his info]. | ||
*November 18 - /vp/ reaches its [https:// | *November 18 - /vp/ reaches its [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/29999052/#30000000 30000000th post], an image of Lana, a new loli character. Get [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/29995104/#29999999 No. 29999999] is Elesa doing a dubs gesture. Also, janitor applications are back again for the next 48 hours. | ||
*November 20 - /a/ hits its [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/149963322/#150000000 150000000th post.] It's wasted by some homo with poor tastes in hairstyles who can't even speak english properly. While not quite making up for the disappointment, [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/149999999/ 149999999] is taken by loli. | *November 20 - /a/ hits its [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/149963322/#150000000 150000000th post.] It's wasted by some homo with poor tastes in hairstyles who can't even speak english properly. While not quite making up for the disappointment, [https://boards.fireden.net/a/thread/149999999/ 149999999] is taken by loli. | ||
*November 23 - A few minutes before midnight EST, /pol/ hits the [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/99995014/#100000000 100M GET], the fifth board in the history of the site (after /b/, /v/, /a/ and /vg/) to reach such milestone. And surprisingly, it wasn't stolen by a Leaf. | *November 23 - A few minutes before midnight EST, /pol/ hits the [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/99995014/#100000000 100M GET], the fifth board in the history of the site (after /b/, /v/, /a/ and /vg/) to reach such milestone. And surprisingly, it wasn't stolen by a Leaf. | ||
*November 26 - /g/'s /ptg/ general hacks into the admin account of a private BitTorrent tracker, and the login info is posted. Many lulz were had before the staff shuts the site down. | *November 26 - /g/'s /ptg/ general hacks into the admin account of a private BitTorrent tracker, and the login info is posted. Many lulz were had before the staff shuts the site down. | ||
*November 27 - Code Geass gets a third season announced. /a/ loses its collective shit, the announcement thread is stickied and receives over 4000 replies. [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150244109/] JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! | *November 27 - Code Geass gets a third season announced. /a/ loses its collective shit, the announcement thread is stickied and receives over 4000 replies. [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/150244109/] JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! | ||
*December 12 - Might not be worth mentioning, but [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/102746387/#102756099 /pol/ issued a "Deceleration" of War on the island nation of Tuvalu.] | *December 12 - Might not be worth mentioning, but [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/102746387/#102756099 /pol/ issued a "Deceleration" of War on the island nation of Tuvalu.] | ||
*December 15 - Apparently Lanzer returns to Gaia, /v/ has a thread about it which housed nostalgiafags and the like. | *December 15 - Apparently Lanzer returns to Gaia, /v/ has a thread about it which housed nostalgiafags and the like. | ||
*December 16/17 (Midnight) - /pol/ gets into conflict with either the manager or a mod who wants to delete the /diy/ threads, Hiro had greenlighted the threads however so it put /pol/ against the mod and /qa/. Again. | *December 16/17 (Midnight) - /pol/ gets into conflict with either the manager or a mod who wants to delete the /diy/ threads, Hiro had greenlighted the threads however so it put /pol/ against the mod and /qa/. Again. | ||
*December 18 - Cirno visits /pol/ and promises a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/103333333/ frosty inauguration.] She was blushing too, well, at least according to her filename. | *December 18 - Cirno visits /pol/ and promises a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/103333333/ frosty inauguration.] She was blushing too, well, at least according to her filename. | ||
*December 19 - The manager | *December 19 - The manager makes a sticky on /qa/ detailing the firing of a mod (later confirmed for being modcat through IRC) for obeying his own feelings rather then the rules, also explaining that the right wing safety squad (a /pol/ general named /diy/, named after the venues they look into, not the board) threads are not valid for the board. Also /pol/ is NEVER EVER getting deleted. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/894474/ /thread]. /pol/ entered HAPPENING status about an hour after as some Russian dude got assassinated and a couple of attacks happened in Europe. | ||
*December 22 - Mirroring the events of November 4, Hiro puts the modified logo featuring Keksandra back on the front page of the website, at the request of a user. Only this time, Keksandra is wearing Santa's hat. 'tis the season to be dank. | *December 22 - Mirroring the events of November 4, Hiro puts the modified logo featuring Keksandra back on the front page of the website, at the request of a user. Only this time, Keksandra is wearing Santa's hat. 'tis the season to be dank. | ||
*December 25 - Christmas hats are added again. | *December 25 - Christmas hats are added again. | ||
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*January 10 - /pol/ tricks John McCain, Rick Wilson, Buzzfeed and the CIA into believing scat fanfiction about politicians as fact, fooling many. [https://archive.is/PDpKd Relevant Image.] Archive: [[https://archive.is/kQpfx 1]], [https://archive.is/d8xdG[2]] | *January 10 - /pol/ tricks John McCain, Rick Wilson, Buzzfeed and the CIA into believing scat fanfiction about politicians as fact, fooling many. [https://archive.is/PDpKd Relevant Image.] Archive: [[https://archive.is/kQpfx 1]], [https://archive.is/d8xdG[2]] | ||
*January 17 - /a/ manages to decode the witch script in Little Witch Academia, which impresses the English PR guy for Trigger, Tattun, so much he starts posting on /a/. Mods being Mods ban him for no reason, after 30 minutes they say it was mistake and apologize, and then sticky the thread for a few minutes, then make it so that the thread can't be bumped off the index or hit its image limit. | *January 17 - /a/ manages to decode the witch script in Little Witch Academia, which impresses the English PR guy for Trigger, Tattun, so much he starts posting on /a/. Mods being Mods ban him for no reason, after 30 minutes they say it was mistake and apologize, and then sticky the thread for a few minutes, then make it so that the thread can't be bumped off the index or hit its image limit. | ||
*January 20 - Donald Trump is officially inaugurated as President of the United States. /pol/ celebrates endlessly and laughs at liberal tears. Swaglord makes a visit in the sticky, posting a picture with the caption "WE PRESIDENT NOW". The only sad note of the day is the announcement of Gabe the Dog's death, where /wsg/ honors his <s>memory</s> memery by posting Gabe remixes. [https:// | *January 20 - Donald Trump is officially inaugurated as President of the United States. /pol/ celebrates endlessly and laughs at liberal tears. Swaglord makes a visit in the sticky, posting a picture with the caption "WE PRESIDENT NOW". The only sad note of the day is the announcement of Gabe the Dog's death, where /wsg/ honors his <s>memory</s> memery by posting Gabe remixes. [https://twitter.com/moot/status/822665454397308928 moot also posts about it on his Twitter], the first anyone's heard from him in months. Also, to protest Donald Trump's presidency, (((Shia LaBeouf))) sets up a 24/7 live stream "art" exhibit called "He Will Not Divide Us" in the heart of New York City, with the goal of live-streaming people chanting the stream name in solidarity. /pol/ and /tv/ host threads on the stream, and within hours, people arrive to meme IRL and causes shenanigans. | ||
*January 21 - Tattun visits /a/ again to announce that the show's producer has agreed to visit for a AMA in a few days. He sticks around for several hours to answer questions. Mods show up to give him a 4chan Pass at Hiro's request. Users from /pol/ continue to raid the HWNDU stream by shouting "Pepe!" and playing Shadilay. One brave /pol/ack plasters the name of KEK on the side of a building. | *January 21 - Tattun visits /a/ again to announce that the show's producer has agreed to visit for a AMA in a few days. He sticks around for several hours to answer questions. Mods show up to give him a 4chan Pass at Hiro's request. Users from /pol/ continue to raid the HWNDU stream by shouting "Pepe!" and playing Shadilay. One brave /pol/ack plasters the name of KEK on the side of a building. | ||
*January 24 - In a few days, the HWNDU stream trolling becomes more sophisticated, ranging from uttering meme phrases and ordering tendie delivery, to non-stop Eurobeat music DJ's and anti-Semitic picture drawing. Even CIA and Moonman cosplay make an appearance. Because the trolls are 'mostly harmless', many reappear as regulars on the stream, and are universally loved by the thread lurkers. The two most popular regulars are "Jackie4chan", the delightfully vanilla 4chan browser, and "/pol/ Blart", the policeman dead-ringer for Paul Blart. | *January 24 - In a few days, the HWNDU stream trolling becomes more sophisticated, ranging from uttering meme phrases and ordering tendie delivery, to non-stop Eurobeat music DJ's and anti-Semitic picture drawing. Even CIA and Moonman cosplay make an appearance. Because the trolls are 'mostly harmless', many reappear as regulars on the stream, and are universally loved by the thread lurkers. The two most popular regulars are "Jackie4chan", the delightfully vanilla 4chan browser, and "/pol/ Blart", the policeman dead-ringer for Paul Blart. | ||
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*March 29 - Shia LaBeouf, after getting BTFO for the fourth time by /pol/, moves his project to Finland and changes the name of his project from HWNDU to AloneTogether. This project consists of him, Rönkkö (the Finnish semen demon) and Turner living in separate wood cabins on the isolated island of Lapland. During this time, Shia and Co. will have no access to phones, computers etc. The only way they can communicate with the outside world is through a small video chat that is linked with the Kiasma Museum from Helsinki, where visitors can talk with them. This project is planning to start on 12 April and last for about a month. | *March 29 - Shia LaBeouf, after getting BTFO for the fourth time by /pol/, moves his project to Finland and changes the name of his project from HWNDU to AloneTogether. This project consists of him, Rönkkö (the Finnish semen demon) and Turner living in separate wood cabins on the isolated island of Lapland. During this time, Shia and Co. will have no access to phones, computers etc. The only way they can communicate with the outside world is through a small video chat that is linked with the Kiasma Museum from Helsinki, where visitors can talk with them. This project is planning to start on 12 April and last for about a month. | ||
*March 29, 30 - Club Penguin shuts down, /v/ has one final raid for the purple republic before it shuts down and then looks back on it all. | *March 29, 30 - Club Penguin shuts down, /v/ has one final raid for the purple republic before it shuts down and then looks back on it all. | ||
*April 1 - Reddit adds a new subreddit called /r/Place | *April 1 - Reddit adds a new subreddit called /r/Place. /pol/, upon hearing about it, begins to raid it and spam Pepes and Tranny Flags. [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/119148066/rpg-rplace-general-assault-edition The inaugural thread] ([https://archived.moe/pol/thread/119148066/ and an archived version]). Boards are merged as an April Fools joke, resulting in: /can/ - Animals/Cute, /cock/ - Comics & Cartoons & Cooking, /fap/ - Fashion & Photography, /fitlit/ - Well-Rounded Citizens, /mo/ - Mecha & Auto, /mtv/ - Video Killed The Radio Star, /mlpol/ - My Little Politics, /outsoc/ - Outdoor Socialization, /spa/ - Tanoshii Sports and /vint/ - International Vidya. [s4s] celebrates its 4th birthday, with good wishes from all boards [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5268144/official-s4s-foreth-birthday-discussion], but the thread is deleted for an unknown reason just as the day began. Swaglord also pulls of the greatest ruse in history, stickying what seemed to be a link to a future get, but when clicked leads to a secret duckroll thread [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5273416#p5273416]. Barneyfag gets banned on [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1194185/#1195824 /qa/, twice]. An idiot on /b/ also got banned [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/727637878 thrice for using 8cuck]. /cock/ got a [https://archived.moe/cock/thread/22398 McChicken sticky] and also [https://my.mixtape.moe/vqziez.png this entertaining thread]. /fitlit/ had a thread stickied. /vint/ celebrated getting its dubs back. Flags on /spa/ revealed that a large number of /a/ users were from South America. For first few hours, /mlpol/ was in a bloody civil war, but soon /pol/ realized /mlp/'s horse porn have chased away many low effort threads and actual discussion starts to take place amongst floods of pony porn. /mlp/ and /pol/ both share their interests and autism, and become best friends | ||
*April 2 - After the merge was undone, /pol/ goes back to full shitpost mode. Quality in discussions suffer in /a/ as a result of the flags, posters are accused of being Canadian or South American when they state an unpopular opinion; /a/ risks devolving into /pol/. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5277777 The 5277777 GET (which is a reply to swaglord's April Fools Peek) actually occurs and is stickied on s4s]. The link in the OP of swaglord's peek sticky is changed to point to the GET. | *April 2 - After the merge was undone, /pol/ goes back to full shitpost mode. Quality in discussions suffer in /a/ as a result of the flags, posters are accused of being Canadian or South American when they state an unpopular opinion; /a/ risks devolving into /pol/. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5277777 The 5277777 GET (which is a reply to swaglord's April Fools Peek) actually occurs and is stickied on s4s]. The link in the OP of swaglord's peek sticky is changed to point to the GET. | ||
*April 3 - A legendary get thread on esfores is posted, getting ~1500 replies and an insane number of dubs [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5279555/get-thread]. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279535 A necc thread] is stickied on s4s. The April Fools Peek and the 5277777 GET are unstickied. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279555/ A get thread] is stickied. | *April 3 - A legendary get thread on esfores is posted, getting ~1500 replies and an insane number of dubs [https://archived.moe/s4s/thread/5279555/get-thread]. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279535 A necc thread] is stickied on s4s. The April Fools Peek and the 5277777 GET are unstickied. [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5279555/ A get thread] is stickied. | ||
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*April 8 - /int/'s 73333333 GET gets wasted by a Jap Flag, confirming that Japanese people are the worst posters on 4chan. [https://archived.moe/int/thread/73333007/#q73333333] | *April 8 - /int/'s 73333333 GET gets wasted by a Jap Flag, confirming that Japanese people are the worst posters on 4chan. [https://archived.moe/int/thread/73333007/#q73333333] | ||
*April 12 - The first day of Shia's "AloneTogether" project. Finnish /pol/acks begin to visit the museum and fuck around with Shia and Co. Some /pol/acks pose in front of the cameras doing the CIA pose. Some /pol/acks managed to make Shia say "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" on the livestream chat and also tell a strange story about his childhood toilet trauma. Shia goes berserk. | *April 12 - The first day of Shia's "AloneTogether" project. Finnish /pol/acks begin to visit the museum and fuck around with Shia and Co. Some /pol/acks pose in front of the cameras doing the CIA pose. Some /pol/acks managed to make Shia say "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" on the livestream chat and also tell a strange story about his childhood toilet trauma. Shia goes berserk. | ||
*April 13 - /pol/ has another session of trolling but this time,the security is much tighter and after 10 minutes, they get kicked out. [https:// | *April 13 - /pol/ has another session of trolling but this time,the security is much tighter and after 10 minutes, they get kicked out. [https://static.ylilauta.org/files/hr/orig/je9fi4xv/Pepe%20tries%20to%20infiltrate%20the%20cuck%20shed.mp4 One managed to walk around in front of the cameras while wearing a Pepe mask before a guard kicked him out.] The Twitter hashtag for the event gets leaked on /pol/, resulting in a shitstorm visible on a television inside the museum. Meanwhile, /pol/ begin working on pinpointing Shia's cabin. A group of 4-5 Finnish /pol/acks planned to visit the cabin during the weekend to give Shia a warm greeting and a MAGA hat. | ||
*April 16 - /qa/ is brought back from being frozen, as shown with [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1248943/ this thread], but the majority of the community doesn't noticed till [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1248945/ April 22]. | *April 16 - /qa/ is brought back from being frozen, as shown with [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1248943/ this thread], but the majority of the community doesn't noticed till [https://archived.moe/qa/thread/1248945/ April 22]. | ||
*April 21 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5333313 A "big guy for you" thread] where the [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5333313/#5333333 5333333 GET] occurs is stickied on /s4s/. | *April 21 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5333313 A "big guy for you" thread] where the [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5333313/#5333333 5333333 GET] occurs is stickied on /s4s/. | ||
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*May 1 - /a/'s favorite BitTorrent tracker for anime, Nyaa, goes down permanently. Nobody, not even the site's staff, is sure why. /a/ suffers a shitstorm as many newfags are left in the dust as to how to obtain their shows. | *May 1 - /a/'s favorite BitTorrent tracker for anime, Nyaa, goes down permanently. Nobody, not even the site's staff, is sure why. /a/ suffers a shitstorm as many newfags are left in the dust as to how to obtain their shows. | ||
*May 3 - In an effort to revive or mirror Nyaa as good as possible, anons from both /g/ and /a/ come together and recreate a working mirror of the site. | *May 3 - In an effort to revive or mirror Nyaa as good as possible, anons from both /g/ and /a/ come together and recreate a working mirror of the site. | ||
*May 4 - The trial board '''/bant/ - International/Random''' gets added, which is basically /b/ with flags. It's /pol/'s cumdump. Many anons are upset about the fact that Hiro, instead of enforcing the rules and cleaning the boards, makes new boards to dump all the cancer from other boards in it. | *May 4 - The trial board '''/bant/ - International/Random''' gets added, which is basically /b/ with flags. It's /pol/'s cumdump. Many anons are upset about the fact that Hiro, instead of enforcing the rules and cleaning the boards, he makes new boards to dump all the cancer from other boards in it. | ||
*May 5 - The 99999th /bant/ GET is achieved by Cirno, who declares war against frogposters, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjXN_xPQd0M Chirumiru Cirno] is also [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/98674/#99999 embedded into the thread] [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/98674/#102931 A moderator also posts in the thread]. | *May 5 - The 99999th /bant/ GET is achieved by Cirno, who declares war against frogposters, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjXN_xPQd0M Chirumiru Cirno] is also [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/98674/#99999 embedded into the thread] [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/98674/#102931 A moderator also posts in the thread]. | ||
*May 9 - A new anti-spam filter appears to have been enabled, catching posts seemingly at random and presenting a "Connection Error" message when using the Quick-Reply form instead of the usual spam message. When posting using the old reply form, you are informed that "Your IP or IP range has been banned," when in reality it hasn't been. This message is additionally displayed to 4chan pass users. | *May 9 - A new anti-spam filter appears to have been enabled, catching posts seemingly at random and presenting a "Connection Error" message when using the Quick-Reply form instead of the usual spam message. When posting using the old reply form, you are informed that "Your IP or IP range has been banned," when in reality it hasn't been. This message is additionally displayed to 4chan pass users. | ||
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*May 18 - A guy on /x/ made a thread about how he saved his family by imitating the sound of a shotgun reload with his mouth. A new copypasta was shortly born. [https://archived.moe/x/thread/19020571] | *May 18 - A guy on /x/ made a thread about how he saved his family by imitating the sound of a shotgun reload with his mouth. A new copypasta was shortly born. [https://archived.moe/x/thread/19020571] | ||
*May 19 - Janitor applications are open for the next 48 hours. | *May 19 - Janitor applications are open for the next 48 hours. | ||
*May 21 - /bant/ raids itself with the same picture of an old man with Alzheimers and edits thereof. An Argentinian starts a thread posting a picture of an old man with the comment 'ask someone with Alzheimer anything' [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/641416/], other anons catch on and follow suit, it avalanches from there until the entire catalog is filled with lost old men. [https:// | *May 21 - /bant/ raids itself with the same picture of an old man with Alzheimers and edits thereof. An Argentinian starts a thread posting a picture of an old man with the comment 'ask someone with Alzheimer anything' [https://thebarchive.com/bant/thread/641416/], other anons catch on and follow suit, it avalanches from there until the entire catalog is filled with lost old men. [https://archive-media-0.nyafuu.org/bant/image/1495/42/1495420980534.jpg] This goes on for a few hours until a mod deletes all threads with pictures of the old man. | ||
*May 23 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5423420 A thread asking whether swaglord would sticky Jay Irwin] is stickied. The thread features a pic of swaglord wearing a kek shirt and holding a bury pink hammer. | *May 23 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5423420 A thread asking whether swaglord would sticky Jay Irwin] is stickied. The thread features a pic of swaglord wearing a kek shirt and holding a bury pink hammer. | ||
*May 27 - Captcha is broken for non-pass users for some hours, the pass users mock the poorfags as a result. The post quality increased on several boards. | *May 27 - Captcha is broken for non-pass users for some hours, the pass users mock the poorfags as a result. The post quality increased on several boards. | ||
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*August 6 - The Pickle Rick episode airs. /tv/ is impossible to use for hours as it drowned in pickleposting. "Pickle Rickers In The House Tonight" plays in the background. The cursor becomes Pickle Rick. /s4s/ gets a [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5662468 PICKLE RICKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT sticky]; the sticky has blinking Comic Sans text and an embedded video. | *August 6 - The Pickle Rick episode airs. /tv/ is impossible to use for hours as it drowned in pickleposting. "Pickle Rickers In The House Tonight" plays in the background. The cursor becomes Pickle Rick. /s4s/ gets a [http://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/thread/5662468 PICKLE RICKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT sticky]; the sticky has blinking Comic Sans text and an embedded video. | ||
*August 8-17 - /tv/ latches on to Sneedposting, referencing the wordplay gag "Sneed's Feed & Seed - Formerly Chuck's" from The Simpsons. Fa/tv/irgins gather to theorize the real meaning of the gag, discussing the history of Chuck and Sneed as well as trying to figure out why Sneed turned Chuck's Fuck & Suck into a seed-selling business. The meme takes over every non-Sneedposting Simpsons thread and soon spreads to other threads on the board. | *August 8-17 - /tv/ latches on to Sneedposting, referencing the wordplay gag "Sneed's Feed & Seed - Formerly Chuck's" from The Simpsons. Fa/tv/irgins gather to theorize the real meaning of the gag, discussing the history of Chuck and Sneed as well as trying to figure out why Sneed turned Chuck's Fuck & Suck into a seed-selling business. The meme takes over every non-Sneedposting Simpsons thread and soon spreads to other threads on the board. | ||
*August 17 - Mods make a sticky for the upcoming American solar eclipse on /sci/. | *August 17 - Mods make a sticky for the upcoming American solar eclipse on /sci/. | ||
*August 18 - One of the mods on /tv/ goes on a rampage and spends five hours deleting Sneedposts. | *August 18 - One of the mods on /tv/ goes on a rampage and spends five hours deleting Sneedposts. | ||
*August 19 - A Dutch /bant/er steals the 33333333 GET from /vp/ with a picture of Kagari. A butthurt mod who tried to take the GET for himself immediately bans him for a day [https://thebarchive.com/data/bant/image/1503/15/1503157131020.png] and deletes the thread before anyone can reply. [https://archive. | *August 19 - A Dutch /bant/er steals the 33333333 GET from /vp/ with a picture of Kagari. A butthurt mod who tried to take the GET for himself immediately bans him for a day [https://thebarchive.com/data/bant/image/1503/15/1503157131020.png] and deletes the thread before anyone can reply. [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/33333333/ Archive of the thread] | ||
*August 21 - The /sci/ sticky explodes as the eclipse proceeds travelling over America. | *August 21 - The /sci/ sticky explodes as the eclipse proceeds travelling over America. | ||
*August 25 - The plot to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 gets leaked by the former lead writer onto the Internet. /v/ gets a sticky with a link to the leak and "It's dead, jim." written underneath it, and [https://youtu.be/iy61r3Qkm6o this song] on autoplay. | *August 25 - The plot to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 gets leaked by the former lead writer onto the Internet. /v/ gets a sticky with a link to the leak and "It's dead, jim." written underneath it, and [https://youtu.be/iy61r3Qkm6o this song] on autoplay. | ||
*August 30 - [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93987126/#93992248 An anon] on /co/ manages to get a subtly insulting letter printed on the fan mail section of one of Marvel's worst comics, mods sticky [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/95000647/ a thread] about it. It eventually turns into a celebration of all the things 4chan has achieved over the years, while also becoming proof that half of /co/ doesn't understand sarcasm. | *August 30 - [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/93987126/#93992248 An anon] on /co/ manages to get a subtly insulting letter printed on the fan mail section of one of Marvel's worst comics, mods sticky [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/95000647/ a thread] about it. It eventually turns into a celebration of all the things 4chan has achieved over the years, while also becoming proof that half of /co/ doesn't understand sarcasm. | ||
*August 31 - /bant/'s 2000000 GET is fiercely contested by Cirno and a Dutch anon posting Kagari: [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2000000/#q2000000 Cirno wins], stickying the GET, leading to [https:// | *August 31 - /bant/'s 2000000 GET is fiercely contested by Cirno and a Dutch anon posting Kagari: [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2000000/#q2000000 Cirno wins], stickying the GET, leading to [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/2000553/#q2000553 mass butthurt] on the latter's part. | ||
*September 8 - Anon accidentally doxxes himself after putting a letter with his address under a glass with a spider inside in a microwave. People proceed to send Dominos and Chinese food at his address. Some anons managed to find his real Facebook account and his sister's. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/744583529 Archive] | *September 8 - Anon accidentally doxxes himself after putting a letter with his address under a glass with a spider inside in a microwave. People proceed to send Dominos and Chinese food at his address. Some anons managed to find his real Facebook account and his sister's. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/744583529 Archive] | ||
*September 15 - After failing on /jp/, a spammer decides to target the innocent /po/. The entire catalog was wiped by Mexican Easter toads and only about 12 threads survive. | *September 15 - After failing on /jp/, a spammer decides to target the innocent /po/. The entire catalog was wiped by Mexican Easter toads and only about 12 threads survive. | ||
*September 16 - The devs recover the archived /po/ threads. This marks the first time that threads have been restored. | *September 16 - The devs recover the archived /po/ threads. This marks the first time that threads have been restored. | ||
*October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#123 14 years have passed since the creation of 4chan.] | *October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#123 14 years have passed since the creation of 4chan.] | ||
*October 6-7 - Ylilauta raids 4chan, especially /pol/, by spamming copypasta of Marutei Tsurunen. 4chan reacts by blocking Finland from posting on all boards for almost the whole weekend. | *October 6-7 - Ylilauta{{cite}} raids 4chan, especially /pol/, by spamming copypasta of Marutei Tsurunen. 4chan reacts by blocking Finland from posting on all boards for almost the whole weekend. | ||
*October 12 - Suiseiseki is revived on /bant/ after its tragic desu-worthy death on /b/ back when moot was still a faggot. LET THE DESU HELL BEGIN! [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2488686/#2488888] | *October 12 - Suiseiseki is revived on /bant/ after its tragic desu-worthy death on /b/ back when moot was still a faggot. LET THE DESU HELL BEGIN! [https://archived.moe/bant/thread/2488686/#2488888] | ||
*October 21 - An anon on /v/ known as 4chanleaker as his Switch name or Brainlet, finds an copy of Super Mario Odyssey and decides to leak the game. People on the thread think he's lying, but then he streams the intro and posts screenshots and the show begins. | *October 21 - An anon on /v/ known as 4chanleaker as his Switch name or Brainlet, finds an copy of Super Mario Odyssey and decides to leak the game. People on the thread think he's lying, but then he streams the intro and posts screenshots and the show begins. The brainlet keeps streaming for hours while anons laugh out the game for being too empty and bland. Meanwhile on NeoGAF a huge drama takes loose where the owner of the site has been accused of sexual assault against a woman. Users get banned, staff members step down (and get banned as well) and the owner has plans to shut the website down. Neogaf gets 404's at least 3 times. A sticky with the message “The NeoGAF scandal and/or bitching about social justice garbage is NOT VIDEO GAMES. Threads posted about it will be deleted and the posters warned or banned. If you want to talk about it go to /pol/. If you want to stay on /v/, then talk about VIDEO GAMES.” gets made on /v/ to move the NeoGAF discussion elsewhere, linking to /pol/, with a picture of moot with a quote "It has the most basic fucking rules: Talk about video games!".[https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/10/4chan-v-bans-discussion-neogaf-sexual-misconduct-scandal/42448/] Faggot mods start censoring hard on NeoGaf threads, which result in /v/ finding out that one of the mods named 'Beam' is female single mother roastie who most likely frequents NeoGaf. /v/ users get confused about the censoring, since NeoGaf is a big video game board, which resulted in /v/ migrating to /pol/ to talk about NeoGaf. Due to the overwhelming shitposting about NeoGaf on /pol/, /pol/ users get mad and help /v/ users who want to celebrate NeoGAF's death start shitposting on /v/. Shitposting commenced, with either /v/ posting John Morris "He does it for free" meme to piss off mods, and just straight up NeoGAF posting, which of course resulted in bans. The event would result in half of the United Kingdom and parts of Canada to get temporarily ISP banned. Canada should have stayed banned. /a/ gets a new rule, low-effort, catchphrase and template threads are now banned. Statements from various mods on IRC confirm that generals are allowed again, they just should follow the new rule. | ||
*October 23 - Hiro comes on /qa/ and gets asked if he can allow NeoGaf threads on /v/. Hiro than | *October 23 - Hiro comes on /qa/ and gets asked if he can allow NeoGaf threads on /v/. Hiro than eternally BTFO /v/ mods by letting a single, stickied thread about the NeoGAF question to be allowed on /v/, which resulted in the thread to be more about /v/ laughing at the mods more than laughing/discussing the NeoGAF situation. Later, after more than two years, /qa/ becomes a listed board. [s4s], /r9k/, /vip/ and /qa/, much like /cm/, /hm/, /lgbt/ and /y/, are merged into their own section on the board list. | ||
*October 27 - Catalonia declares independence (and fails), resulting in a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/146841910/ /pol/ sticky]. The Catalonian flag is added as a troll flag on /pol/. | *October 27 - Catalonia declares independence (and fails), resulting in a [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/146841910/ /pol/ sticky]. The Catalonian flag is added as a troll flag on /pol/. | ||
*October 30 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again. In addition, pass users can also type "tricks" into the options field which attaches a pumpkin to the name field that tracks how many replies they've gotten. | *October 30 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again. In addition, pass users can also type "tricks" into the options field which attaches a pumpkin to the name field that tracks how many replies they've gotten. | ||
*October 31 - /pol/ raids real life by putting up pieces of paper that say "It's okay to be white" in a calm, black font, in response to a police investigation at Boston College over "Don't apologize for being white" signs being placed on their campus. Aiming to prove that the media and the snowflakes will turn the harmless posters into a major shitstorm and out themselves as racists, /pol/ succeeds as usual. Posters are ripped off, school principals explicitly state that the message is hateful, the media shits bricks and /pol/'s point is proven. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT6xWWUgk3TYzwo4XOrRxsEpVeTxHT2vDpfcGs29YGY31jAN7iAB8RjEsoarOXg1EYNUMKZzbvd0flz/pubhtml Collection of media and snowflake butthurt,] as well as a [https://ghostbin.com/paste/3g6ks Ghostbin]. | *October 31 - /pol/ raids real life by putting up pieces of paper that say "It's okay to be white" in a calm, black font, in response to a police investigation at Boston College over "Don't apologize for being white" signs being placed on their campus. Aiming to prove that the media and the snowflakes will turn the harmless posters into a major shitstorm and out themselves as racists, /pol/ succeeds as usual. Posters are ripped off, school principals explicitly state that the message is hateful, the media shits bricks and /pol/'s point is proven. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT6xWWUgk3TYzwo4XOrRxsEpVeTxHT2vDpfcGs29YGY31jAN7iAB8RjEsoarOXg1EYNUMKZzbvd0flz/pubhtml Collection of media and snowflake butthurt,] as well as a [https://ghostbin.com/paste/3g6ks Ghostbin]. | ||
*November 19 - /bant/ is on suicide watch after a thread moved from /pol/ gets >>2999999 & >>3000000. many users call for /bant/ to no longer be /pol/'s trashcan. | *November 19 - /bant/ is on suicide watch after a thread moved from /pol/ gets >>2999999 & >>3000000. many users call for /bant/ to no longer be /pol/'s trashcan. | ||
*December 13 - /v/ gets it's 400 millionth post. [https://archived.moe/v/thread/399999018/#400000000 It declares Saika Totsuka to be best girl (boy).] /v/ experiences full-blown butthurt. | *December 13 - /v/ gets it's 400 millionth post. [https://archived.moe/v/thread/399999018/#400000000 It declares Saika Totsuka to be best girl (boy).] /v/ experiences full-blown butthurt. | ||
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*December 18 - /g/ discovers something major. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63894609 Three shady new domains, two of which were registered earlier in the month and one of which isn't registered, now show up in ad-blocking extensions.] Two of the domains belong to a suspicious Ukrainian company, and filtering out the domains ruins 4chan's CSS. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1794456 Later investigation of the malware-ridden advertisements] shows that the Ukrainian domains host a variant of the Nemucod ransomware. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63922522 Word is passed around that Hiro was hired by MGID] to put these ads on 4chan, and that the payload added to 4chan is being used to data-mine or mine crypto. | *December 18 - /g/ discovers something major. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63894609 Three shady new domains, two of which were registered earlier in the month and one of which isn't registered, now show up in ad-blocking extensions.] Two of the domains belong to a suspicious Ukrainian company, and filtering out the domains ruins 4chan's CSS. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/1794456 Later investigation of the malware-ridden advertisements] shows that the Ukrainian domains host a variant of the Nemucod ransomware. [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/63922522 Word is passed around that Hiro was hired by MGID] to put these ads on 4chan, and that the payload added to 4chan is being used to data-mine or mine crypto. | ||
*December 20 - Hiro (presumably) blocks Desuarchive's IP address from both the a.4cdn.org and i.4cdn.org servers, rendering it unable to archive. [https://desuarchive.org/desu/thread/2700/ rbt.asia and yuki.la also appear to be showing similar issues.] | *December 20 - Hiro (presumably) blocks Desuarchive's IP address from both the a.4cdn.org and i.4cdn.org servers, rendering it unable to archive. [https://desuarchive.org/desu/thread/2700/ rbt.asia and yuki.la also appear to be showing similar issues.] | ||
*December 29 - William Shatner makes a post on /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/92355705/] | *December 29 - William Shatner makes a post on /tv/ [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/92355705/] | ||
==2018== | ==2018== | ||
*January 5 - Janitor applications open for the next 48 hours. | *January 5 - Janitor applications open for the next 48 hours. | ||
*January 16 - A new sticky with an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQdugNM-0M embedded video] appears on /bant/. | *January 16 - A new sticky with an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQdugNM-0M embedded video] appears on /bant/. | ||
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*January 29 - Hiro does an exquisite šhïtpõśt on [http://archive.is/FsDLi /v/]. | *January 29 - Hiro does an exquisite šhïtpõśt on [http://archive.is/FsDLi /v/]. | ||
*January 31 - Hiro posting on [http://archive.is/VphZ3 /qa/] | *January 31 - Hiro posting on [http://archive.is/VphZ3 /qa/] | ||
*February 1 - Bitcoin begins to crash, hard. swaglord shitposts about it on [http://archive.is/ZzV2P /biz/], cryptocentral in case you didn't know. /biz/ Goes on full suicide watch mode, resulting in spams of red angry faced wojaks usually screaming or reciting sad/angry lyrics from various songs, such as LinkinPark, Guns N, Roses, and Nirvana. A mod (likely swaglord) continues the recent mod shitpost spree on [http://archive.is/ny9iM /b/]. Public bans rain from the sky once more like the good old days. | *February 1 - Bitcoin begins to crash, hard. swaglord shitposts about it on [http://archive.is/ZzV2P/biz/], cryptocentral in case you didn't know. /biz/ Goes on full suicide watch mode, resulting in spams of red angry faced wojaks usually screaming or reciting sad/angry lyrics from various songs, such as LinkinPark, Guns N, Roses, and Nirvana. A mod (likely swaglord) continues the recent mod shitpost spree on [http://archive.is/ny9iM /b/]. Public bans rain from the sky once more like the good old days. | ||
*February 4 - Ekureiru goes to Gensokyo. He was a good lad. | *February 4 - Ekureiru goes to Gensokyo. He was a good lad. | ||
*February 8 - Reminiscent of [https://archive.is/3thkj a year ago] Hiro gets [https://archive.is/kj2eG another ad] placed on the 404 page, tying into some video game called [https://global.grandsummoners.com/?page=4chan Grand Summoners]. It advertises "paper 4chan money" for people with a pass. | *February 8 - Reminiscent of [https://archive.is/3thkj a year ago] Hiro gets [https://archive.is/kj2eG another ad] placed on the 404 page, tying into some video game called [https://global.grandsummoners.com/?page=4chan Grand Summoners]. It advertises "paper 4chan money" for people with a pass. | ||
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*April 1 - 4chan's April Fools joke this year randomly assigns you to 1 of 5 teams based on the sum of your last two IP octets modulo 5. The teams are Team Creme, Team Mini, Team Peep, Team Peanut Butter, and Team Chocolate. A bar graph of each team's 'score' is shown in the announcement. It is not clear how this score is influenced, these scores are most likely predetermined and updated at regular intervals. The confused panic that resulted rendered most big boards almost completely unusable. In the end, Team Peanut Butter won and the winners got rickrolled. | *April 1 - 4chan's April Fools joke this year randomly assigns you to 1 of 5 teams based on the sum of your last two IP octets modulo 5. The teams are Team Creme, Team Mini, Team Peep, Team Peanut Butter, and Team Chocolate. A bar graph of each team's 'score' is shown in the announcement. It is not clear how this score is influenced, these scores are most likely predetermined and updated at regular intervals. The confused panic that resulted rendered most big boards almost completely unusable. In the end, Team Peanut Butter won and the winners got rickrolled. | ||
*April 2 - Many reported sadness due to the fact they'll never see their queens again. | *April 2 - Many reported sadness due to the fact they'll never see their queens again. | ||
*April 4 - First known post of a robot claiming to be blackmailed by a user known as Reiko. This is the start of a trend pertaining to trap "harems" in related discord servers, but information on whether blackmailing and such is actually prevalent is still unknown. | *April 4 - First known post of a robot claiming to be blackmailed by a user known as Reiko. This is the start of a trend pertaining to trap "harems" in related discord servers, but information on whether blackmailing and such is actually prevalent is still unknown.*April 13 - Many boards have been frozen for over 7 hours. Reason unknown so far. | ||
*April 13 - Many boards have been frozen for over 7 hours. Reason unknown so far. | *April 15 - Actor Ronald Lee Ermey passes away due to complications related to pneumonia. An site-wide announcement gets made with the text: "R.I.P. Ronald Lee Ermey." Mods sticky [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/4789876/#4789876 another embedded video] on /bant/. | ||
*April 15 - Actor Ronald Lee Ermey passes away due to complications related to pneumonia. An site-wide announcement gets made with the text: "R.I.P. Ronald Lee Ermey." Mods sticky [https:// | |||
*April 20 - Mods finally crack down on soyposting and add wordfilters. "soy" is now filtered to "onions", and any word with "soy" in it will turn it into "based" (e.g. soyboy becomes basedboy). As of April 29, /ck/ does not seem to have these filters. Later during the day, /co/ joins the big guys club with its [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/99986250/#100000000 100M GET]. Swedish musician Avicii dies at the young age of 28, [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/thread/79536153 resulting in a sticky on /mu/.] | *April 20 - Mods finally crack down on soyposting and add wordfilters. "soy" is now filtered to "onions", and any word with "soy" in it will turn it into "based" (e.g. soyboy becomes basedboy). As of April 29, /ck/ does not seem to have these filters. Later during the day, /co/ joins the big guys club with its [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/99986250/#100000000 100M GET]. Swedish musician Avicii dies at the young age of 28, [https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/thread/79536153 resulting in a sticky on /mu/.] | ||
*April 24 - Many boards are frozen yet again for an unknown reason. After around 8 hours 4chan works again. | *April 24 - Many boards are frozen yet again for an unknown reason. After around 8 hours 4chan works again. | ||
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*May 15 - An website for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gets made with the game name and an possible hint or date. Because of this, an sticky gets made on /v/ and quickly goes past the 1000 post mark. | *May 15 - An website for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gets made with the game name and an possible hint or date. Because of this, an sticky gets made on /v/ and quickly goes past the 1000 post mark. | ||
*May 22 - /b/ goes into seizure mode, with mods making a thread about "[https://image.ibb.co/ib3KrT/b_happening.gif SWEET RAVE FURRET]" and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zchf7_5cnbw techno remix of "Gangster's Paradise"] in the background. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/769349085 Archive link] | *May 22 - /b/ goes into seizure mode, with mods making a thread about "[https://image.ibb.co/ib3KrT/b_happening.gif SWEET RAVE FURRET]" and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zchf7_5cnbw techno remix of "Gangster's Paradise"] in the background. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/769349085 Archive link] | ||
*May 29-30 - [https:// | *May 29-30 - [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/35690955/ Screenshots appear on /vp/] of what seems to be the 1997 Spaceworld demo of Pokemon Gold. | ||
*May 31 - Some based Anon [https:// | *May 31 - Some based Anon [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/35736202/#35737816 drops the full ROM] of the Pokemon Gold Spaceworld demo, which contains a whole bunch of unreleased content including scrapped Pokemon. This is the first thing released from wack0's hack of Nintendo, the rest of which surfaced in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nintendo_data_leak 2020 "Nintendo Gigaleak"]. Happenings are summarized [https://archive.is/FR0jG here]. | ||
*June 2 - Loss was posted 10 years ago. /v/ gets a [https://archived.moe/v/thread/418383831/ sticky.] | *June 2 - Loss was posted 10 years ago. /v/ gets a [https://archived.moe/v/thread/418383831/ sticky.] | ||
*June 4 - Site dies A G A I N | *June 4 - Site dies A G A I N | ||
*June 12 - E3 2018 begins. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is shown off, and /v/ goes crazy. /v/ gets a sticky after Ridley is announced for the game. | *June 12 - E3 2018 begins. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is shown off, and /v/ goes crazy. /v/ gets a sticky after Ridley is announced for the game. | ||
*June 18 - /tv/ reaches 100,000,000 posts. The [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/99999999/ 99999999 GET] being a confused Sneed sign thread, and the [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/99997359/#100000000 100000000 GET] being a comment saying "why can't we just talk about movies". Perhaps the most board defining GETs imaginable. | *June 18 - /tv/ reaches 100,000,000 posts. The [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/99999999/ 99999999 GET] being a confused Sneed sign thread, and the [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/99997359/#100000000 100000000 GET] being a comment saying "why can't we just talk about movies". Perhaps the most board defining GETs imaginable. | ||
*August 2 - Hiro starts a contest to design a 4chan Vtuber, with the winner receiving a lifetime 4chan pass. | *August 2 - Hiro starts a contest to design a 4chan Vtuber, with the winner receiving a lifetime 4chan pass. | ||
*August 6 - The report function now lists a drop-down menu which allows reporters to specify what rule a user broke, rather than a single checkbox to indicate a broken rule. | *August 6 - The report function now lists a drop-down menu which allows reporters to specify what rule a user broke, rather than a single checkbox to indicate a broken rule. | ||
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*September 7 - Terry Davis is confirmed to be dead. /g/ gets a sticky in his memorial and his picture is added to the regular /g/ sticky. | *September 7 - Terry Davis is confirmed to be dead. /g/ gets a sticky in his memorial and his picture is added to the regular /g/ sticky. | ||
*September 9 - /bant/ celebrates Cirno Day, which is canonized as an official board holiday via sticky. | *September 9 - /bant/ celebrates Cirno Day, which is canonized as an official board holiday via sticky. | ||
*September 18 to 19 - PD, a prominent /bant/ namefriend known for entering private property and posting photos of his antics on /bant/, is snitched on by 'Normie' after vandalising an art gallery. Gets a visit from the sheriff, and teases the possibility of going to jail. [https:// | *September 18 to 19 - PD, a prominent /bant/ namefriend known for entering private property and posting photos of his antics on /bant/, is snitched on by 'Normie' after vandalising an art gallery. Gets a visit from the sheriff, and teases the possibility of going to jail. [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/6467696/ Initial Thread] [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/6475915 Follow-up] | ||
*October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 15th birthday. Voting for the 4chan Vtuber opens. By midnight, the site crashes for reasons unknown and remains unusable to the masses for a span of roughly 15 hours. | *October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 15th birthday. Voting for the 4chan Vtuber opens. By midnight, the site crashes for reasons unknown and remains unusable to the masses for a span of roughly 15 hours. | ||
*October 8 - Nine years after first promising to do it, Jason Scott [https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1049369826190352389 finally releases a huge archive] containing all 4chan posts from 2006 to 2008. No images though; only text. In it, [https://old.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/9mkms3/hi_this_should_be_the_first_iteration_of_the/ a redditor finds] the first ever SCP Foundation post. | *October 8 - Nine years after first promising to do it, Jason Scott [https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1049369826190352389 finally releases a huge archive] containing all 4chan posts from 2006 to 2008. No images though; only text. In it, [https://old.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/9mkms3/hi_this_should_be_the_first_iteration_of_the/ a redditor finds] the first ever SCP Foundation post. | ||
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*March 17 - Dick Dale dies at age 81; [https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/86549199 /mu/ gets a sticky.] | *March 17 - Dick Dale dies at age 81; [https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/86549199 /mu/ gets a sticky.] | ||
*March 18-19 - Multiple New Zealand and Australian ISPs begin blocking 4chan, 8chan, Kiwi Farms, Liveleak, Zerohedge, archive.is, archive.fo, Gab, Voat, xyzchan, and many others, depriving shitposters their right to sick bantz. The ISPs claim that these are temporary blocks and that websites which take action and remove the Christchurch footage will be removed from the block. Some only block at the DNS level, leading to easy workarounds by changing the DNS to OpenDNS or Google DNS. Others ISPs block at the IP level, leading to Tor and VPN usage. | *March 18-19 - Multiple New Zealand and Australian ISPs begin blocking 4chan, 8chan, Kiwi Farms, Liveleak, Zerohedge, archive.is, archive.fo, Gab, Voat, xyzchan, and many others, depriving shitposters their right to sick bantz. The ISPs claim that these are temporary blocks and that websites which take action and remove the Christchurch footage will be removed from the block. Some only block at the DNS level, leading to easy workarounds by changing the DNS to OpenDNS or Google DNS. Others ISPs block at the IP level, leading to Tor and VPN usage. | ||
*March 19 - [https:// | *March 19 - [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/7699999/[Russian brony gets the 7699999 on /bant/]], dethroning the current queen (Cirno) and replacing her with a humanized Starlight Glimmer. | ||
*March 23 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324041833/https://thebarchive.com/data/b/image/1553/39/1553394938534.png /b/'s CSS layout was changed to a gif of Nyan Cat with the Nyan Cat theme playing in the background] in honor of caturday, along with an [https://archived.moe/b/thread/795730390 official caturday thread] where mods public banned furfags and ponyposters, embedded large images without thumbnails and /b/tards either posted old memes they found on Encyclopedia Dramatica or made typical "old meme cringe new meme good" posts. This thread strangely wasn't stickied. (This might of had something to do with Twitter, a social media website famous for popularizing the word "yikes" on the internet and also housing a userbase packed full of people blaming 4chan for the recent NZ shooting, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324040014/https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=Caturday&src=spxr making "caturday" a trending hashtag on the same day.]) | *March 23 - [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324041833/https://thebarchive.com/data/b/image/1553/39/1553394938534.png /b/'s CSS layout was changed to a gif of Nyan Cat with the Nyan Cat theme playing in the background] in honor of caturday, along with an [https://archived.moe/b/thread/795730390 official caturday thread] where mods public banned furfags and ponyposters, embedded large images without thumbnails and /b/tards either posted old memes they found on Encyclopedia Dramatica or made typical "old meme cringe new meme good" posts. This thread strangely wasn't stickied. (This might of had something to do with Twitter, a social media website famous for popularizing the word "yikes" on the internet and also housing a userbase packed full of people blaming 4chan for the recent NZ shooting, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190324040014/https://twitter.com/search?vertical=default&q=Caturday&src=spxr making "caturday" a trending hashtag on the same day.]) | ||
*March 31 - Australian ISPs unblock all websites, including 4chan and 8chan. The Aussie shitposters return. [https://archive.is/bUIdf A 22222222 GET on /trash/ gets stickied.] | *March 31 - Australian ISPs unblock all websites, including 4chan and 8chan. The Aussie shitposters return. [https://archive.is/bUIdf A 22222222 GET on /trash/ gets stickied.] | ||
*April 1 - April Fools' Day returns. A like system is added to posting. Users earn points by liking posts, receiving likes, or making posts. Unlockable perks include the use of fortune, dice rolls, adding an emoji tag, hats, the /fit/ T-rex, and spooky skeletons. Some lament the low-effort attempt while most others rush to shitpost their way to the top. /mlp/ gets [https://archive.is/knpI2 two] [https:// | *April 1 - April Fools' Day returns. A like system is added to posting. Users earn points by liking posts, receiving likes, or making posts. Unlockable perks include the use of fortune, dice rolls, adding an emoji tag, hats, the /fit/ T-rex, and spooky skeletons. Some lament the low-effort attempt while most others rush to shitpost their way to the top. /mlp/ gets [https://archive.is/knpI2 two] [https://archive.is/https://archived.moe/nel/thread/33679515 stickies], [https://archive.is/5Kn6e /vp/ gets one sticky], [https://archive.is/p8DY1 /s4s/ gets one sticky], [http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/91810533 /sp/ gets one sticky], [https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/86839201 /mu/ gets one sticky] & [https://archive.is/WDoBf /v/ gets one sticky and a VGM playlist in the background]. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/2669430 All NSFW boards have had broken catalogs since the day prior;] /f/ loses its embed function on the same day. | ||
*April 2 - [https://archive.is/AjUAH /mlp/ gets a sticky] announcing the lift of some former board-specific bans, with the exception of rp/fetish threads and Anonfilly, Milky Way, and tulpa threads. | *April 2 - [https://archive.is/AjUAH /mlp/ gets a sticky] announcing the lift of some former board-specific bans, with the exception of rp/fetish threads and Anonfilly, Milky Way, and tulpa threads. | ||
*April 6 - [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/33705498 /mlp/ gets a sticky] for discussion of the opening two episodes of Season 9. Stickies for further episodes continue to happen. | *April 6 - [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/33705498 /mlp/ gets a sticky] for discussion of the opening two episodes of Season 9. Stickies for further episodes continue to happen. | ||
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*April 18 - The redacted version of the Mueller report is was released to the public. [https://archive.is/VXiwK /pol/ gets a sticky.] | *April 18 - The redacted version of the Mueller report is was released to the public. [https://archive.is/VXiwK /pol/ gets a sticky.] | ||
*April 19 - Koike Kazuo passes away on the 17th; [https://archive.is/8jSEO /a/ gets a sticky.] | *April 19 - Koike Kazuo passes away on the 17th; [https://archive.is/8jSEO /a/ gets a sticky.] | ||
*May 5 - Cinco de Mayo; [https://archive.is/Fw3ch /a/ gets a Cinco de Maho sticky] with [https://www.youtube.com/embed/wztuzAkF0hw?version=3&autoplay=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&playlist=wztuzAkF0hw Himeko's Maho Song] playing in the background. | *May 5 - Cinco de Mayo; [https://archive.is/Fw3ch /a/ gets a Cinco de Maho sticky] with [https://www.youtube.com/embed/wztuzAkF0hw?version=3&autoplay=1&controls=0&showinfo=0&modestbranding=1&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&playlist=wztuzAkF0hw Himeko's Maho Song] playing in the background. | ||
*May 6 - Raphiposter gets the legendary "Kot" ID on /bant/. Frogposting slows down as a result. [https:// | *May 6 - Raphiposter gets the legendary "Kot" ID on /bant/. Frogposting slows down as a result. [https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/7976914] | ||
*May 9-10 - Popular gaming YouTuber ProJared [https://archive.is/IaSWs cheated on his wife and sent NSFW photos to underage fans]; /v/ was spammed with threads about the incident and they were all quickly banned on sight, and a mod even [https://archive.is/jl9gF stickied] a thread saying, "An e-celeb cheating on his wife is not video games. Take it to /b/." And so they did, not only crossboarding to /b/ but /v/tards fled to /qa/ as well and started to mention the fact that viral marketing threads, constant "home" and vtmb threads, 10+ Smash """"""leak""""" threads at once, twitter screencap threads, /pol/ bait threads, Dunkey/Jontron/literalwho e-celeb threads were are allowed to stay up, but this one event specifically got banned from /v/ entirely without a second thought. On May 10th, Jared had officially lost over 100,000 subscribers. Moralfags from twitter spam clown pepe memes and wojacks on all of his social media. [https://archive.is/qguVl An 8000000 GET gets stickied on /bant/] | *May 9-10 - Popular gaming YouTuber ProJared [https://archive.is/IaSWs cheated on his wife and sent NSFW photos to underage fans]; /v/ was spammed with threads about the incident and they were all quickly banned on sight, and a mod even [https://archive.is/jl9gF stickied] a thread saying, "An e-celeb cheating on his wife is not video games. Take it to /b/." And so they did, not only crossboarding to /b/ but /v/tards fled to /qa/ as well and started to mention the fact that viral marketing threads, constant "home" and vtmb threads, 10+ Smash """"""leak""""" threads at once, twitter screencap threads, /pol/ bait threads, Dunkey/Jontron/literalwho e-celeb threads were are allowed to stay up, but this one event specifically got banned from /v/ entirely without a second thought. On May 10th, Jared had officially lost over 100,000 subscribers. Moralfags from twitter spam clown pepe memes and wojacks on all of his social media. [https://archive.is/qguVl An 8000000 GET gets stickied on /bant/] | ||
*May 14 - [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/105567419 A Eurovision Song Contest 2019 thread is stickied on /int/]. | *May 14 - [https://desuarchive.org/int/thread/105567419 A Eurovision Song Contest 2019 thread is stickied on /int/]. | ||
*May 15 - YTMND is shut down; [https://archive.is/yDkhh /f/ gets a sticky in memorial]. Italy decided to air the next month of MLP:FiM ahead of schedule; [https://archive.is/V1hg9 /mlp/ gets a sticky] | *May 15 - YTMND is shut down; [https://archive.is/yDkhh /f/ gets a sticky in memorial]. Italy decided to air the next month of MLP:FiM ahead of schedule; [https://archive.is/V1hg9 /mlp/ gets a sticky] | ||
*May 16 - Joshua Schubart (who plays Frank on the series The Tick) pops in on [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/107606269 /co/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/114875021 /tv/] after doing a Reddit AMA. It goes well on /co/ and [https://twitter.com/Josh_Schubart/status/1128900575016443904 about as you expect on /tv/]. Both threads later get deleted, probably because he was advertising the show | *May 16 - Joshua Schubart (who plays Frank on the series The Tick) pops in on [https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/107606269 /co/] and [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/114875021 /tv/] after doing a Reddit AMA. It goes well on /co/ and [https://twitter.com/Josh_Schubart/status/1128900575016443904 about as you expect on /tv/]. Both threads later get deleted, probably because he was advertising the show | ||
*May 17 - /b/ reaches its 800m GET | *May 17 - /b/ reaches its 800m GET. | ||
*May 20 - [https://archive.is/cNtXH /tv/ gets a sticky] for the Game of Thrones finale | *May 20 - [https://archive.is/cNtXH /tv/ gets a sticky] for the Game of Thrones finale | ||
*May 24 - Theresa May confirms resignation; [https://archive.is/fhApW /pol/ gets a sticky]. | *May 24 - Theresa May confirms resignation; [https://archive.is/fhApW /pol/ gets a sticky]. | ||
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*August 2 - Psyche. The Panda returns, this time hosted in Moldova, "hopefully permanently". Many /h/ residents thank [https://archiveofsins.com/h/thread/5495996/#5496208 the Moldovan Spurdo] for his help, while remaining wary and making sure to archive more content. The immediate traffic to Exhentai causes 503 errors to return. A mod posts on a [http://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/2972574#p2975266 /wsg/ thread for bigger webms thanks to the recent filesize limit increase] and ups the limit from 5MB to 6MB. /v/'s new buzzword, "cumbrain", is given a word filter on the board ("cumbrain" becomes "gamer"). | *August 2 - Psyche. The Panda returns, this time hosted in Moldova, "hopefully permanently". Many /h/ residents thank [https://archiveofsins.com/h/thread/5495996/#5496208 the Moldovan Spurdo] for his help, while remaining wary and making sure to archive more content. The immediate traffic to Exhentai causes 503 errors to return. A mod posts on a [http://desuarchive.org/wsg/thread/2972574#p2975266 /wsg/ thread for bigger webms thanks to the recent filesize limit increase] and ups the limit from 5MB to 6MB. /v/'s new buzzword, "cumbrain", is given a word filter on the board ("cumbrain" becomes "gamer"). | ||
*August 3 - An /mlp/ anon [https://archive.is/hXkbK gives Lauren Faust a letter written by the board]. The thread proceeds past the bump limit. /a/, /aco/, /co/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /i/, /ic/, /mlp/, /news/, /pol/, /r/, /s4s/, /soc/, /sp/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, /w/, /wg/ and /y/ all have their image limits increased from 250 to 300, while /qst/'s image limit is increased from 250 to 375. Two mass shooters kill a combined total of roughly 30 civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, the former of whom reportedly posted a manifesto on 8chan and claimed to approve of the shooter's actions. Like all mass shootings, politicians and the media in the USA blame 4chan and Trump, stand on the victim's dead bodies to promote gun control, and launch racist attacks against white men. Infamous commie politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets about 4chan and claims it's the place where radicalized young men go to after radicalization. | *August 3 - An /mlp/ anon [https://archive.is/hXkbK gives Lauren Faust a letter written by the board]. The thread proceeds past the bump limit. /a/, /aco/, /co/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /i/, /ic/, /mlp/, /news/, /pol/, /r/, /s4s/, /soc/, /sp/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, /w/, /wg/ and /y/ all have their image limits increased from 250 to 300, while /qst/'s image limit is increased from 250 to 375. Two mass shooters kill a combined total of roughly 30 civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, the former of whom reportedly posted a manifesto on 8chan and claimed to approve of the shooter's actions. Like all mass shootings, politicians and the media in the USA blame 4chan and Trump, stand on the victim's dead bodies to promote gun control, and launch racist attacks against white men. Infamous commie politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets about 4chan and claims it's the place where radicalized young men go to after radicalization. | ||
*August 4 - The SadPanda backup sticky on /h/ passes 73000 posts and officially becomes | *August 4 - The SadPanda backup sticky on /h/ passes 73000 posts and officially becomes the largest thread in the history of 4chan, taking the crown from /pol/'s 2016 election sticky. Shortly afterwards, the thread is unstickied and later gets archived. Many begin to pay respects and repeat the iconic statement "through dick, unity." The thread's final post count is of uncertainty. Archived.moe gives a count of [https://archived.moe/h/statistics/largest-threads/ 73274], while Archive of Sins reports a count of [https://archiveofsins.com/h/statistics/largest-threads/ 74553]. | ||
*August 5 - Cloudflare reverses its policy and cuts off protection to 8chan, because apparently white supremacy will stop existing once 8chan dies. 8chan struggles to find an alternative and floods to 4chan for the time being. Even Hotwheels himself (the former owner) has had enough of 8chan and demands the current owner to shut the site down, stating that he's sick of dealing with calls from the media every time shit happens and that the site is a "megaphone" for shooters. | *August 5 - Cloudflare reverses its policy and cuts off protection to 8chan, because apparently white supremacy will stop existing once 8chan dies. 8chan struggles to find an alternative and floods to 4chan for the time being. Even Hotwheels himself (the former owner) has had enough of 8chan and demands the current owner to shut the site down, stating that he's sick of dealing with calls from the media every time shit happens and that the site is a "megaphone" for shooters. | ||
*August 6 - [https://archive.fo/v6FZU Duplicate file bug occurs on /v/]. [https://archive.is/dXZpe /b/ gets a furry sticky/CSS]; 7 posts in and there's already a public ban | *August 6 - [https://archive.fo/v6FZU Duplicate file bug occurs on /v/]. [https://archive.is/dXZpe /b/ gets a furry sticky/CSS]; 7 posts in and there's already a public ban | ||
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*August 27 - Fight between Frogposters and weebs continues on /qa/. Animeposter makes an anti frogposter thread [https://archive.fo/pt8YB Mods publically unban him] | *August 27 - Fight between Frogposters and weebs continues on /qa/. Animeposter makes an anti frogposter thread [https://archive.fo/pt8YB Mods publically unban him] | ||
*August 29 - Posting on 4chan is fucked. Some posts can get through, but most of the time, it returns a Connection Error. Apparently posts can go through despite the errors, according to some reports. The shittiness continues into August 30 as everybody calls Hiro a gook. | *August 29 - Posting on 4chan is fucked. Some posts can get through, but most of the time, it returns a Connection Error. Apparently posts can go through despite the errors, according to some reports. The shittiness continues into August 30 as everybody calls Hiro a gook. | ||
*September 4 - [https://archive.is/iKDAv /o/ gets a sticky]. [https:// | *September 4 - [https://archive.is/iKDAv /o/ gets a sticky]. [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/39900085#p39900085 /vp/] and [https://archive.is/BPgRl /v/] get Nintendo Direct discussion stickies. | ||
*September 5 - The new 4chan janitors arrive. | *September 5 - The new 4chan janitors arrive. | ||
*September 9 - /jp/, /a/, /v/, /c/ and [https://archive.is/LdDmW /bant/] celebrate the 10th annual Cirno day; meanwhile on /bant/, a [https://archive.is/U2Nla cirnoposter tries to get the 99999 GET] but is off by one, and a kagposter gets the [https://archive.fo/jcfRQ 99999 GET]. [https://archive.is/KkBKJ /bant/ gets a cirno sticky] and every single [https://archive.is/QaJov frogposter gets public banned]. Many call this the "Day of The Lake". | *September 9 - /jp/, /a/, /v/, /c/ and [https://archive.is/LdDmW /bant/] celebrate the 10th annual Cirno day; meanwhile on /bant/, a [https://archive.is/U2Nla cirnoposter tries to get the 99999 GET] but is off by one, and a kagposter gets the [https://archive.fo/jcfRQ 99999 GET]. [https://archive.is/KkBKJ /bant/ gets a cirno sticky] and every single [https://archive.is/QaJov frogposter gets public banned]. Many call this the "Day of The Lake". | ||
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*October 10 - 4chan is mentioned on [https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/anschlag-in-halle-toedlicher-judenhass-in-deutschland-sendung-vom-10-oktober-2019-100.html German TV] and other media. Just in time for its ninth anniversary /mlp/ gets a sticky after a Russian hacker once again leaks production files, resulting in a total of 434GB leaked and [https://s1.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1570/82/1570824573538.png three simultaneous rolling stickies] being up at the same time, the other two about the anniversary itself and the previous dutch leaks. | *October 10 - 4chan is mentioned on [https://www.zdf.de/politik/maybrit-illner/anschlag-in-halle-toedlicher-judenhass-in-deutschland-sendung-vom-10-oktober-2019-100.html German TV] and other media. Just in time for its ninth anniversary /mlp/ gets a sticky after a Russian hacker once again leaks production files, resulting in a total of 434GB leaked and [https://s1.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1570/82/1570824573538.png three simultaneous rolling stickies] being up at the same time, the other two about the anniversary itself and the previous dutch leaks. | ||
*October 12 - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's last three episodes air. [https://archive.is/ZrN0s The event is stickied on /mlp/], and /mlp/'s activity is more than 500% above normal. | *October 12 - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's last three episodes air. [https://archive.is/ZrN0s The event is stickied on /mlp/], and /mlp/'s activity is more than 500% above normal. | ||
*October 31 - Annual [https://archive.is/oA2Hh spooky skeletons CSS] arrives | *October 31 - Annual [https://archive.is/oA2Hh spooky skeletons CSS] arrives | ||
*November 4 - /vp/ gets a [https://archive.is/3zZh1 sticky] | *November 4 - /vp/ gets a [https://archive.is/3zZh1 sticky] | ||
*November 13 - /pol/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/233047285 sticky] | *November 13 - /pol/ gets a [https://archived.moe/pol/thread/233047285 sticky] | ||
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*December 10 - /b/ gets three stickies, "Hip To Be Square" by Huey Lewis And The News embedded in the background and mods ban porn for a day. Two [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815883666 DSFARGEG] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815887780 threads] and [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877806 three] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877818 obvious] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877950 troll]-porn threads get public banned. Yellowfags rejoice and spam yellow threads and upper text lower text memes while ironically saying /b/ will "now be free of spam and uncreative threads". Mods remove the stickies and unban porn the next day | *December 10 - /b/ gets three stickies, "Hip To Be Square" by Huey Lewis And The News embedded in the background and mods ban porn for a day. Two [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815883666 DSFARGEG] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815887780 threads] and [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877806 three] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877818 obvious] [https://archived.moe/b/thread/815877950 troll]-porn threads get public banned. Yellowfags rejoice and spam yellow threads and upper text lower text memes while ironically saying /b/ will "now be free of spam and uncreative threads". Mods remove the stickies and unban porn the next day | ||
([http://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3411327 Note: an anon on /f/ archived the front page in the form of a .swf file]) | ([http://archive.4plebs.org/f/thread/3411327 Note: an anon on /f/ archived the front page in the form of a .swf file]) | ||
*December 25 - Christmas hats are added. | *December 25 - Christmas hats are added. | ||
*December 31 - /v/ [http://archive.is/lu9je stickies] International Wrestling Festival's 2019 gachimuchi collab | *December 31 - /v/ [http://archive.is/lu9je stickies] International Wrestling Festival's 2019 gachimuchi collab | ||
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*January 22 - The first [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/240319260/#240319260 coronavirus general (/cvg/)] is posted on /pol/. | *January 22 - The first [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/240319260/#240319260 coronavirus general (/cvg/)] is posted on /pol/. | ||
*January 25-26 - swaglord has another [https://archive.is/CRsWb sticky parade] on /s4s/, and makes "respond to my funny thread" a new board meme. | *January 25-26 - swaglord has another [https://archive.is/CRsWb sticky parade] on /s4s/, and makes "respond to my funny thread" a new board meme. | ||
*January 28 - A shitposter on /qa/ makes a thread saying /vr/'s board name is misleading because the board isn't related to virtual reality games. Hiro comes back from the grave (his last post being a reply to the "test p4" thread on February 2, 2019) and [https://archive.is/Ye1kp asks] "Should we have Virtual Reality board?" Mostly everyone says no and he agrees. Most of the thread is just desperate anons suggesting dumb board ideas and someone who asks hiro to enable noscript captcha, and which he then tells them to buy a pass. | *January 28 - A shitposter on /qa/ makes a thread saying /vr/'s board name is misleading because the board isn't related to virtual reality games. Hiro comes back from the grave (his last post being a reply to the "test p4" thread on February 2, 2019) and [https://archive.is/Ye1kp asks] "Should we have Virtual Reality board?" Mostly everyone says no and he agrees. Most of the thread is just desperate anons suggesting dumb board ideas and someone who asks hiro to enable noscript captcha, and which he then tells them to buy a pass. | ||
*February 3 - /qa/ mods embed loud nigra on the index of /qa/ for roughly two hours, then remove it. (Note: the only evidence of this happening existing is [https://archive.is/eevNv this thread], which people responded to presumably after the YT embed was removed and just thought it was another nonsense thread with an anime girl thumbnail) | *February 3 - /qa/ mods embed loud nigra on the index of /qa/ for roughly two hours, then remove it. (Note: the only evidence of this happening existing is [https://archive.is/eevNv this thread], which people responded to presumably after the YT embed was removed and just thought it was another nonsense thread with an anime girl thumbnail) | ||
*February 5 - /tv/ gets a [https://archive.is/EUuxz sticky] in honor of Kirk Douglas, who had previously been memed for living so long. | *February 5 - /tv/ gets a [https://archive.is/EUuxz sticky] in honor of Kirk Douglas, who had previously been memed for living so long. | ||
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*March 20 - /v/ hits the 500M GET. The post is [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/499990681/#500000000 "bats are more delicious"] in reference to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Madagascar also confirms its first coronavirus case, [https://arch.b4k.co/v/chunk/500002987/ prompting a /v/ sticky] with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" autoplaying as a reference to the old Flash game Pandemic 2. | *March 20 - /v/ hits the 500M GET. The post is [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/499990681/#500000000 "bats are more delicious"] in reference to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Madagascar also confirms its first coronavirus case, [https://arch.b4k.co/v/chunk/500002987/ prompting a /v/ sticky] with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" autoplaying as a reference to the old Flash game Pandemic 2. | ||
*March 21 - A [https://archive.is/OPvYI#selection-963.0-966.0 global announcement is made] stating 4chan will switch to HTTPS by default set for March 27th. | *March 21 - A [https://archive.is/OPvYI#selection-963.0-966.0 global announcement is made] stating 4chan will switch to HTTPS by default set for March 27th. | ||
*April 1 - The first April Fools day of the decade begins. The joke starts on /v/; OP says the joke is "no names or tripcodes". An [https://archive.is/Gz1i8#selection-13785.0-13790.0 anon responds] "cope seethe dilate", his username is distorted and the outside of his text box is sickly green. He was then (USER WAS QUARANTINED FOR THIS POST). The next case is from /mlp/; someone makes a meta thread about the no name/trip rumor, and anons in the thread say the prank is gimmicky. A few posts later, an infected user [https://archive.is/lchNZ#selection-5023.0-5028.0 shitposts]. By this point, half of [https://archive.is/OHxbL /b/ is already infected]. A [https://archive.is/4MFd9 frogposter on /pol/] manages to get an even sicklier, more dense green outline around his text box. /a/ gets a quarantine [https://archive.is/OeyQG sticky]. Each board gets a news ticker; /b/'s [https://archive.is/LCn0a infection level] is the most critical. Several boards get corona stickies: [https://archive.is/d1rq3 | *April 1 - The first April Fools day of the decade begins. The joke starts on /v/; OP says the joke is "no names or tripcodes". An [https://archive.is/Gz1i8#selection-13785.0-13790.0 anon responds] "cope seethe dilate", his username is distorted and the outside of his text box is sickly green. He was then (USER WAS QUARANTINED FOR THIS POST). The next case is from /mlp/; someone makes a meta thread about the no name/trip rumor, and anons in the thread say the prank is gimmicky. A few posts later, an infected user [https://archive.is/lchNZ#selection-5023.0-5028.0 shitposts]. By this point, half of [https://archive.is/OHxbL /b/ is already infected]. A [https://archive.is/4MFd9 frogposter on /pol/] manages to get an even sicklier, more dense green outline around his text box. /a/ gets a quarantine [https://archive.is/OeyQG sticky]. Each board gets a news ticker; /b/'s [https://archive.is/LCn0a infection level] is the most critical. Several boards get corona stickies: [https://archive.is/d1rq3 1] [https://archive.is/XGqaN 2] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/251317888#p251317888 3] [https://archive.is/ZvUrX 4] [https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/131556003 5] [https://archive.is/epTF1 6]. /s4s/ gets a [https://archive.is/7klIn birthday sticky]. The index of /int/ gets an embed of a youtube video hiro [https://archive.is/3hxRa uploaded]; the video itself is a static image of Pepe The Frog with 30 minutes of sirens, gunshots and thunder in the background. It's nothing special, but it does confirm hiro is, in fact, a frogposter, and is the most likely explanation as to why frog spam hasn't been filtered. | ||
*April 6 - 4channel gets [http://archive.is/MtECR new ads]. The ads in question are promoting a YouTube series called [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHfAEvP2WAbuu_4vCi4kqQ "The Non-Family"], a presumably-unintentionally creepy South Park knockoff that only has one episode. Since these ads were links to a YouTube video and not the usual sketchy porn site, everyone without an adblocker on 4channel watches The Non-Family and it quickly becomes a [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/text/non-family/ meme on /tv/]. | *April 6 - 4channel gets [http://archive.is/MtECR new ads]. The ads in question are promoting a YouTube series called [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHfAEvP2WAbuu_4vCi4kqQ "The Non-Family"], a presumably-unintentionally creepy South Park knockoff that only has one episode. Since these ads were links to a YouTube video and not the usual sketchy porn site, everyone without an adblocker on 4channel watches The Non-Family and it quickly becomes a [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/text/non-family/ meme on /tv/]. | ||
*April 14-15 - A YouTuber by the name of Frank Hassle had been a trendy subject on /tv/ ever since he started his youtube channel, considering he works with Sam Hyde. Most anons shit on his videos, while the small majority say they're kino. But on April 14th, Frank uploads a new video where he messes with people at a crossfitting place. When one of Frank's usual fans made another thread about it on /tv/, an [http://archive.is/dpbIV#selection-25603.0-25608.0 anon in the thread finds the crossfitting place's facebook page and contacts the owners]. Keep in mind, the video was recorded at least 2 years prior ([https://youtu.be/2tRBFqGg9mk?t=254 was previously teased in a Sam Hyde video]), but nontheless, the owners were infuriated and [https://archive.is/FqdGa claimed the video]. Afterwards, he [https://archive.is/YV3OZ privates everything on his channel]. | *April 14-15 - A YouTuber by the name of Frank Hassle had been a trendy subject on /tv/ ever since he started his youtube channel, considering he works with Sam Hyde. Most anons shit on his videos, while the small majority say they're kino. But on April 14th, Frank uploads a new video where he messes with people at a crossfitting place. When one of Frank's usual fans made another thread about it on /tv/, an [http://archive.is/dpbIV#selection-25603.0-25608.0 anon in the thread finds the crossfitting place's facebook page and contacts the owners]. Keep in mind, the video was recorded at least 2 years prior ([https://youtu.be/2tRBFqGg9mk?t=254 was previously teased in a Sam Hyde video]), but nontheless, the owners were infuriated and [https://archive.is/FqdGa claimed the video]. Afterwards, he [https://archive.is/YV3OZ privates everything on his channel]. | ||
*April 21 - Qtard and Twitter moms discover that Googling "tv television and film" and going to Google Images shows a bunch of child model pictures caused by cunnyposter pedophiles posting on /tv/. A minor shitstorm develops. One retarded Twitter wine aunt decides that "4plebs" is a shortened version of "4 pedo celebs". [https://archive.4plebs.org/plebs/thread/2480/ 4plebs staff make an official statement] and assure people that they always delete such pictures from their archives when reported. [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/132559790 /tv/ discusses the event.] | *April 21 - Qtard and Twitter moms discover that Googling "tv television and film" and going to Google Images shows a bunch of child model pictures caused by cunnyposter pedophiles posting on /tv/. A minor shitstorm develops. One retarded Twitter wine aunt decides that "4plebs" is a shortened version of "4 pedo celebs". [https://archive.4plebs.org/plebs/thread/2480/ 4plebs staff make an official statement] and assure people that they always delete such pictures from their archives when reported. [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/132559790 /tv/ discusses the event.] | ||
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*May 29 - 4chan reaches a daily total of one million posts owing to the increase in /pol/ traffic due to riots across the United States. It is the first time since April Fools Day 2020 that 4chan has had one million daily posts. | *May 29 - 4chan reaches a daily total of one million posts owing to the increase in /pol/ traffic due to riots across the United States. It is the first time since April Fools Day 2020 that 4chan has had one million daily posts. | ||
*May 31 - /pol/ gets a new [https://archive.is/vAQx7 locked sticky], informing people not to post the same twitter screencap thread when it already exists. /pol/ is now at its most active since the 2016 Presidential election, reaching nearly [https://4stats.io/ 273 thousand posts in one day] thanks to the nationwide George Floyd """protests""". | *May 31 - /pol/ gets a new [https://archive.is/vAQx7 locked sticky], informing people not to post the same twitter screencap thread when it already exists. /pol/ is now at its most active since the 2016 Presidential election, reaching nearly [https://4stats.io/ 273 thousand posts in one day] thanks to the nationwide George Floyd """protests""". | ||
*June 12 - Volcano High, a furry dinosaur visual novel, was announced at the big PlayStation 5 reveal press conference; [https://archive.is/WPURg#selection-3115.0-3118.0 /v/ blows up] with threads about the game, but doesn't get a sticky. '''/trash/''' got a [http://archive.is/ZkuSu sticky] instead. | |||
*June 12 - Volcano High, a furry dinosaur visual novel, was announced at the big PlayStation 5 reveal press conference; [https://archive.is/WPURg#selection-3115.0-3118.0 /v/ blows up] with threads about the game, but doesn't get a sticky. /trash/ got a [http://archive.is/ZkuSu sticky] instead | |||
*June 18-21 - TLOU2 releases. While critics are having a field day with the game the user reviews turned out to be highly negative and people started bashing the game. /v/ catches wind of the negativity and anons start making various templates of certain cutscenes from the game. One of these in particular is the sex scene where Abby and Owen are fucking each other. One anon began compiling a spreadsheet of every frame in the scene that everyone could claim so that it could be compiled into a video. When the video was finished /v/ got a [https://arch.b4k.co/v/chunk/513438328 sticky]. A huge MEGA collage got made of all the TLOU2 edits as well which can be found [https://mega.nz/folder/onxAEaYZ#Qn9jj34uz4hPdLVSQ7TG6w here.] | *June 18-21 - TLOU2 releases. While critics are having a field day with the game the user reviews turned out to be highly negative and people started bashing the game. /v/ catches wind of the negativity and anons start making various templates of certain cutscenes from the game. One of these in particular is the sex scene where Abby and Owen are fucking each other. One anon began compiling a spreadsheet of every frame in the scene that everyone could claim so that it could be compiled into a video. When the video was finished /v/ got a [https://arch.b4k.co/v/chunk/513438328 sticky]. A huge MEGA collage got made of all the TLOU2 edits as well which can be found [https://mega.nz/folder/onxAEaYZ#Qn9jj34uz4hPdLVSQ7TG6w here.] | ||
*June 25 - It is announced that Studio Trigger will be producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/OTik0 sticky]. | *June 25 - It is announced that Studio Trigger will be producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/OTik0 sticky]. | ||
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*August 28 - "New Vidya Board Friday" appears to have ended, but change comes to /vr/. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/6770545 Mods officially announce] that sixth generation consoles launched between 1999 and 2001, such as the Xbox, PS2, Game Boy Advance and GameCube, are now "retro" enough for /vr/. Vidya on these consoles released before 2008 is also allowed. Users on the board are divided, with a two-thirds majority (approximately 63% according to an informal straw poll) standing against the change and preferring the creation of /v2k/ instead. Trolls flood the board with shitty 6th gen content, both as a form of protest and for the lulz. [https://archive.is/nIyG1 The new sticky] incorporates this update, as well as allowing homebrew console games made in 2008 and beyond on the sixth generation consoles. A mod on /qst/ announces that the board would be getting a new banner, [https://archive.vn/knMBW and is open to submissions]. | *August 28 - "New Vidya Board Friday" appears to have ended, but change comes to /vr/. [https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/6770545 Mods officially announce] that sixth generation consoles launched between 1999 and 2001, such as the Xbox, PS2, Game Boy Advance and GameCube, are now "retro" enough for /vr/. Vidya on these consoles released before 2008 is also allowed. Users on the board are divided, with a two-thirds majority (approximately 63% according to an informal straw poll) standing against the change and preferring the creation of /v2k/ instead. Trolls flood the board with shitty 6th gen content, both as a form of protest and for the lulz. [https://archive.is/nIyG1 The new sticky] incorporates this update, as well as allowing homebrew console games made in 2008 and beyond on the sixth generation consoles. A mod on /qst/ announces that the board would be getting a new banner, [https://archive.vn/knMBW and is open to submissions]. | ||
*August 29 - A mod on /qst/ makes and stickies a thread for voting on banners submitted in the previous thread, [https://archive.vn/VM7dh and one is chosen almost unanimously]. | *August 29 - A mod on /qst/ makes and stickies a thread for voting on banners submitted in the previous thread, [https://archive.vn/VM7dh and one is chosen almost unanimously]. | ||
*August 31 - ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan (The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya)'' is announced; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/XSQga sticky] with embedded Haruhi music | *August 31 - ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan (The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya)'' is announced; /a/ gets a [https://archive.is/XSQga sticky] with embedded Haruhi music. | ||
*September 4 - On the 30th of August, /pol/ denizens [https://archive.is/Koojr doxxed] a man called Michael Reinoehl who in popular consensus seemed to have murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, painting a target on him all over the web. After an interview with VICE, the [https://archive.is/WPI8b man is killed] by law enforcement trying to arrest him on Sep 4. | *September 4 - On the 30th of August, /pol/ denizens [https://archive.is/Koojr doxxed] a man called Michael Reinoehl who in popular consensus seemed to have murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, painting a target on him all over the web. After an interview with VICE, the [https://archive.is/WPI8b man is killed] by law enforcement trying to arrest him on Sep 4. | ||
*September 5 - A random [s4s] anon makes a thread and received the 9000000 GET; thread is [https://archive.is/7SqjU stickied]. | *September 5 - A random [s4s] anon makes a thread and received the 9000000 GET; thread is [https://archive.is/7SqjU stickied]. | ||
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*September 17 - /g/entooman got the [https://archive.vn/8Fi9K#p77777777 77777777 /g/et] and later got banned with (USER INSTALLED GENTOO FOR THIS POST). He also had to install StumpWM due to asking anons to [https://archive.vn/8Fi9K#p77778448 roll] trips for the DE/WM. | *September 17 - /g/entooman got the [https://archive.vn/8Fi9K#p77777777 77777777 /g/et] and later got banned with (USER INSTALLED GENTOO FOR THIS POST). He also had to install StumpWM due to asking anons to [https://archive.vn/8Fi9K#p77778448 roll] trips for the DE/WM. | ||
*September 18 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice, dies. [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/278112396 /pol/ gets a sticky.] /pol/ celebrates by laughing at "NO NO NO" trending on Twitter, posting Twitter and Reddit salt, and watching Democrats melting down and hoping to prevent Trump from adding yet another conservative justice to an already packed court. | *September 18 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice, dies. [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/278112396 /pol/ gets a sticky.] /pol/ celebrates by laughing at "NO NO NO" trending on Twitter, posting Twitter and Reddit salt, and watching Democrats melting down and hoping to prevent Trump from adding yet another conservative justice to an already packed court. | ||
*September 20 - The cat behind one of 2chan/4chan's earliest memes, Longcat, [https://twitter.com/miyabi_2222/status/1307543841449234433 dies of respiratory failure as confirmed by the owner on Twitter.] [https://archive.is/7FjWs /b/], [https://archive.is/1MZ4g /an/], [https://archive.is/JL4rG /f/] and [https://archive.is/K8DRp /s4s/] all get stickies. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/836329620/#q836333333 Anon self-predicts hexes for Longcat] in the /b/ thread. The fucking [https://archived.moe/b/thread/836329620/#q836334040 Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy] even makes an appearance in the /b/ thread. An imposter pretending to be him claims to dig up the jar and shows it, but the pictures are found to have been from 2018. The actual Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy explains that he moved out while the jar was still buried, so he can't get to it. | *September 20 - The cat behind one of 2chan/4chan's earliest memes, Longcat, [https://twitter.com/miyabi_2222/status/1307543841449234433 dies of respiratory failure as confirmed by the owner on Twitter.] [https://archive.is/7FjWs /b/], [https://archive.is/1MZ4g /an/], [https://archive.is/JL4rG /f/] and [https://archive.is/K8DRp /s4s/] all get stickies. [https://archived.moe/b/thread/836329620/#q836333333 Anon self-predicts hexes for Longcat] in the /b/ thread. The fucking [https://archived.moe/b/thread/836329620/#q836334040 Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy] even makes an appearance in the /b/ thread. An imposter pretending to be him claims to dig up the jar and shows it, but the pictures are found to have been from 2018. The actual Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy explains that he moved out while the jar was still buried, so he can't get to it. | ||
*September 21 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax, including Bethesda, iD, Obsidian Software and more. An anon makes a post that gets [https://archive.is/Ppi80 stickied] and /v/ goes absolutely apeshit. The consolewar is on. | *September 21 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax, including Bethesda, iD, Obsidian Software and more. An anon makes a post that gets [https://archive.is/Ppi80 stickied] and /v/ goes absolutely apeshit. The consolewar is on. | ||
*June | *June to September 22 - KnowYourMeme shitposter Southern Yeehaw starts flooding KYM with soyjak images, causing [https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/report-problems/topics/61633-southern-yeehaws-soy-boy-wojak-spam massive amounts of butthurt]. He is soon banned, but a cabal of soyposters on /qa/ [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3277303 pick up on his efforts] and start flooding KYM with soyjaks themselves. KYM is completely inundated with soyjaks for months; as a result, the recent images gallery [https://s2.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1598/59/1598594844344.png turns into] [https://i.imgur.com/AXVcm3n.png a giant wall] of soyjaks, the soyboy article stays on 'trending' for months, and of course [https://s2.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/qa/image/1598/97/1598974993451.png the forums and comments] [https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/serious-debate/topics/62083-regarding-soyjak-and-soyjak-spams fill with the seethe] of dozens of KYM autists. Though the butthurt from the userbase is unanimous, The Great Soy Flood divides KYM mods: some view it as a great addition of OC and meme documentation and even [https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1890465-kym-tan join in] [http://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3430771/#3431706 soyposting] themselves, while others view it as low-quality spam. Several KYM users rage quit and delete their accounts. Spammers during this time include peanusweanus, grasshopper, and albinorhino. Albinorhino is the most notorious; he manages to upload hundreds of soyjak images without getting banned by uploading only a few a day and keeping them SFW. Also notable is a KYM oldfag, elleichops, who [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3414594/#3430459 sacrifices] his decade-old account to share some nice soyjaks. On September 22, the KYM mods finally agree to crack down on soyjak spam and albinorhino is banned, seemingly bringing an end to the spam. Efforts on /qa/ still continue, however. | ||
*September 25 - Ron Paul (/pol/'s former Republican idol back when /new/ was a thing) has a stroke-like episode during a livestreamed interview. [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/279184817 /pol/ gets a sticky] with two videos of the event uploaded to Bitchute. Two hours later, [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/279202714 /pol/ gets another sticky] with Ron Paul announcing on Twitter that he's "doing fine" in hospital. | *September 25 - Ron Paul (/pol/'s former Republican idol back when /new/ was a thing) has a stroke-like episode during a livestreamed interview. [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/279184817 /pol/ gets a sticky] with two videos of the event uploaded to Bitchute. Two hours later, [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/279202714 /pol/ gets another sticky] with Ron Paul announcing on Twitter that he's "doing fine" in hospital. | ||
*September 26 - [s4s] users finish a collage of Longcat drawings and [https://archive.is/cz20x send it] [https://archive.is/wip/CY6y9 to the owner on Twitter.] She goes to the [s4s] sticky [https://archive.is/WNFMk to thank them] for the image and for remembering Longcat, and sticks around to read their kind words. [s4s] sends her respectful condolences. | *September 26 - [s4s] users finish a collage of Longcat drawings and [https://archive.is/cz20x send it] [https://archive.is/wip/CY6y9 to the owner on Twitter.] She goes to the [s4s] sticky [https://archive.is/WNFMk to thank them] for the image and for remembering Longcat, and sticks around to read their kind words. [s4s] sends her respectful condolences. | ||
*September 28 - At some point, the Hololive streamer Coco gets attacked by insect drones from China for daring to mention Taiwan at all. Suddenly, /pol/ was sprawling with Hololive threads until the jannies got them all wiped off the face of the earth. It seems | *September 28 - At some point, the Hololive streamer Coco gets attacked by insect drones from China for daring to mention Taiwan at all. Suddenly, /pol/ was sprawling with Hololive threads until the jannies got them all wiped off the face of the earth. It seems. | ||
*October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#127 4chan celebrates its 17th birthday]; Party Hats are enabled on all boards. Meanwhile, Steve from Minecraft is in Smash. No, really. The meme is real. Among the massive meltdown on /v/, [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/526844941 a sticky emerges and CaptainSparkles's Minecraft parody of "DJ's Got Us Falling In Love" is embedded.] The sticky barely lasted an hour. | *October 1 - [https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php?all#127 4chan celebrates its 17th birthday]; Party Hats are enabled on all boards. Meanwhile, Steve from Minecraft is in Smash. No, really. The meme is real. Among the massive meltdown on /v/, [https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/526844941 a sticky emerges and CaptainSparkles's Minecraft parody of "DJ's Got Us Falling In Love" is embedded.] The sticky barely lasted an hour. | ||
*October 2 - Donald and Melania Trump confirm that they have the coronavirus. /pol/ freaks the fuck out and [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/280346889 also gets a sticky.] Meanwhile, bunkerchan.xyz (the remainder of 8chan's /leftypol/) considers it wise to raid /pol/ with 'Chudjak', a Wojak of the guy who did the El Paso shooting, which they proclaim a caricature of the typical /pol/ user. Pissing into an ocean of piss leads to you getting pissed back at, and Bunkerchan proceeds to be raided overnight by a few shitposters, a spambot, gore, lolicon, cp and the subversion of the meme they were trying to spam. It gets too much for Bunkerchan mods, and they lock the board. It eventually turns out there's no evidence that the spam started on Bunkerchan, and it was probably actually done by /qa/ soyposters and random trolls who joined in. Whoops! | *October 2 - Donald and Melania Trump confirm that they have the coronavirus. /pol/ freaks the fuck out and [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/280346889 also gets a sticky.] Meanwhile, bunkerchan.xyz (the remainder of 8chan's /leftypol/) considers it wise to raid /pol/ with 'Chudjak', a Wojak of the guy who did the El Paso shooting, which they proclaim a caricature of the typical /pol/ user. Pissing into an ocean of piss leads to you getting pissed back at, and Bunkerchan proceeds to be raided overnight by a few shitposters, a spambot, gore, lolicon, cp and the subversion of the meme they were trying to spam. It gets too much for Bunkerchan mods, and they lock the board. It eventually turns out there's no evidence that the spam started on Bunkerchan, and it was probably actually done by /qa/ soyposters and random trolls who joined in. Whoops! | ||
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*October 10 - /mlp/ gets another [https://archive.is/UpWYc sticky] in honor of the actual 10th anniversary of Friendship is Magic. Later that day, after teasing it on his [https://archive.is/yRmZ4 Twitter], M.A. Larson, one of the show's script writers, also [https://archive.is/Y5rMr visits] the [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/5/#35979038 anniversary sticky], answering questions, showing unused scripts, and bidding farewell with his favorite [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/6/#35979809 mantra.] The stickied thread becomes the largest thread in /mlp/'s history. | *October 10 - /mlp/ gets another [https://archive.is/UpWYc sticky] in honor of the actual 10th anniversary of Friendship is Magic. Later that day, after teasing it on his [https://archive.is/yRmZ4 Twitter], M.A. Larson, one of the show's script writers, also [https://archive.is/Y5rMr visits] the [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/5/#35979038 anniversary sticky], answering questions, showing unused scripts, and bidding farewell with his favorite [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/chunk/35971518/500/6/#35979809 mantra.] The stickied thread becomes the largest thread in /mlp/'s history. | ||
*October 11 - A /b/ mod breaks GR15. The mod [https://archive.is/FESi5 stickies a pony shitpost], presumably in honor of FiM's 10th anniversary, and /b/ reacts with confusion, pony porn, and image macros unrelated to the thread. As the thread progresses, the OP gets [https://archive.is/tpzXZ updated] three times, referencing Lee Goldson, aka Barneyfag. After being unstickied, it finally falls off the board with [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/837673649/ 3197 posts], making it the [https://archived.moe/b/statistics/largest-threads/ 4th largest thread] in /b/'s history. | *October 11 - A /b/ mod breaks GR15. The mod [https://archive.is/FESi5 stickies a pony shitpost], presumably in honor of FiM's 10th anniversary, and /b/ reacts with confusion, pony porn, and image macros unrelated to the thread. As the thread progresses, the OP gets [https://archive.is/tpzXZ updated] three times, referencing Lee Goldson, aka Barneyfag. After being unstickied, it finally falls off the board with [https://thebarchive.com/b/thread/837673649/ 3197 posts], making it the [https://archived.moe/b/statistics/largest-threads/ 4th largest thread] in /b/'s history. | ||
*October | *October 15 - [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/45099200/#45099549 An autistic /vp/oreon shows his dead grandma his Shiny Dusknoir.] Needless to say, /vp/ fucking breaks. The shitstorm is so large that the thread reaches beyond 3000 posts without ever being stickied. It even reaches Twitter and [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/showing-grandma-my-shiny-dusknoir gets a KnowYourMeme entry.] | ||
*October 16 - The 8th /v/ the musical ends at 152 songs. /pol/ debunks itself into oblivion with its new "debunked" meme, mocking how the media dismissed leaks from Hunter Biden's laptop as false. | *October 16 - The 8th /v/ the musical ends at 152 songs. /pol/ debunks itself into oblivion with its new "debunked" meme, mocking how the media dismissed leaks from Hunter Biden's laptop as false. | ||
*October 17 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283248827 Somebody on /pol/ discovers that they can literally modify Oregonian voter's votes through one of their websites,] just as long as you know their name and date of birth. If you don't understand, it means /pol/ is literally hacking the US election. They use the data on the website to track down big names and who they voted for. An anon summarises: ''"Ok I just logged into the Washington state system for my ex wife, not only can i submit a ballot for her, but by even STARTING the process it cancels her other ballots. So if she orders a ballot, fills it out and sends it in THEN i start the online process even if I stop it and never file it CANCELS her ballot she thinks counts. THIS IS MASSIVE."'' Jannies try to cover everything up but [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283257640 new] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283261966 threads] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283264915 continue] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283266723 to] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283272228 crop] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283278894 up.] [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283248827/#q283256721 The founder of Nike, Philip Knight, voted Trump.] It also turns out that [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283257640/#q283257784 the same can be done for voters in Washington state's VoteWA site.] Soon, it is claimed that other states can also be rigged because they use the same "name and DOB" system, including California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC, Michigan, New York, and Nevada. Ideas and thoughts are tossed around, including the possibility that Antifa may have used these records to dox Trump voters, or that Trump can use this as evidence that mail-in voting is easily rigged, or that people with administrative access can delete or change Trump voter's preferences. An anon from Uzbekistan (or using an Uzbek VPN) [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283261966/#q283263661 makes a script that allows anons to cancel shitloads of votes.] The addresses of big names living in the vulnerable states are found, including those of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Someone also finds out that a laptop with the personal details of 650000 Oregonians was stolen in February of 2020. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283272228/#q283273711 Someone ELSE changes the Governor of Oregon's address to "533 Poopoo Peepee Boulevard South, Department of Based", BTFOing her for saying "You can't hack paper. #VoteByMail".] The Oregon site goes down in the early morning. Seething damage controllers from Twitter and Plebbit try to deBOOOOOOOOOOOONK but get laughed off of /pol/. | *October 17 - [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283248827 Somebody on /pol/ discovers that they can literally modify Oregonian voter's votes through one of their websites,] just as long as you know their name and date of birth. If you don't understand, it means /pol/ is literally hacking the US election. They use the data on the website to track down big names and who they voted for. An anon summarises: ''"Ok I just logged into the Washington state system for my ex wife, not only can i submit a ballot for her, but by even STARTING the process it cancels her other ballots. So if she orders a ballot, fills it out and sends it in THEN i start the online process even if I stop it and never file it CANCELS her ballot she thinks counts. THIS IS MASSIVE."'' Jannies try to cover everything up but [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283257640 new] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283261966 threads] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283264915 continue] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283266723 to] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283272228 crop] [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283278894 up.] [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283248827/#q283256721 The founder of Nike, Philip Knight, voted Trump.] It also turns out that [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283257640/#q283257784 the same can be done for voters in Washington state's VoteWA site.] Soon, it is claimed that other states can also be rigged because they use the same "name and DOB" system, including California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC, Michigan, New York, and Nevada. Ideas and thoughts are tossed around, including the possibility that Antifa may have used these records to dox Trump voters, or that Trump can use this as evidence that mail-in voting is easily rigged, or that people with administrative access can delete or change Trump voter's preferences. An anon from Uzbekistan (or using an Uzbek VPN) [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283261966/#q283263661 makes a script that allows anons to cancel shitloads of votes.] The addresses of big names living in the vulnerable states are found, including those of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Someone also finds out that a laptop with the personal details of 650000 Oregonians was stolen in February of 2020. [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/283272228/#q283273711 Someone ELSE changes the Governor of Oregon's address to "533 Poopoo Peepee Boulevard South, Department of Based", BTFOing her for saying "You can't hack paper. #VoteByMail".] The Oregon site goes down in the early morning. Seething damage controllers from Twitter and Plebbit try to deBOOOOOOOOOOOONK but get laughed off of /pol/. | ||
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*November 3 - /pol/ gets an election results [https://archive.is/ZBj0X sticky]. There's so much traffic 4chan gets repeated SSL errors, and /pol/'s sheer traffic surpasses that which it had during 2016's election day. | *November 3 - /pol/ gets an election results [https://archive.is/ZBj0X sticky]. There's so much traffic 4chan gets repeated SSL errors, and /pol/'s sheer traffic surpasses that which it had during 2016's election day. | ||
*November 4 - Due to strange circumstances, it takes forever for the votes to get counted. Arizona goes blue, and soon Wisconsin and Michigan follow, putting Biden ever so close to victory. With less enthusiasm, /pol/ turns into a shitshow about election fraud, coping, OHNONONOs and the like. A bunch of crappy Pepe Joe Biden memes get posted (expect /pol/ to hijack it for their own gain). The rest of 4chan wonders if this will finally kill the election tourists off. | *November 4 - Due to strange circumstances, it takes forever for the votes to get counted. Arizona goes blue, and soon Wisconsin and Michigan follow, putting Biden ever so close to victory. With less enthusiasm, /pol/ turns into a shitshow about election fraud, coping, OHNONONOs and the like. A bunch of crappy Pepe Joe Biden memes get posted (expect /pol/ to hijack it for their own gain). The rest of 4chan wonders if this will finally kill the election tourists off. | ||
*November 5 - The [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/286876906/ election sticky] is unstickied. It has shattered the record for | *November 5 - The [http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/chunk/286876906/ election sticky] is unstickied. It has shattered the record for the largest thread in history, breaking the 100000 post barrier for the first time and ending with a lower estimate of 103567 posts, shattering the SadPanda /h/ sticky by about thirty thousand posts. | ||
*November 7 - After a ton of waiting, the Media declares Joe Biden to be the new President of the USA. /pol/ explodes again, this time in /leftypol/ or bunkerchan invaders, crossboarders and many more tourists all either making fun of /pol/, shitposting or having serious threads. This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg song] is put on autoplay with a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/288562771/#288562771 sticky that has a picture of Joe Biden]. | *November 7 - After a ton of waiting, the Media declares Joe Biden to be the new President of the USA. /pol/ explodes again, this time in /leftypol/ or bunkerchan invaders, crossboarders and many more tourists all either making fun of /pol/, shitposting or having serious threads. This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg song] is put on autoplay with a [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/288562771/#288562771 sticky that has a picture of Joe Biden]. | ||
*November 11 - 4chan randomly goes down for about fifty minutes. When posting finally works again, a message "〜 sorry 4 the downtime 〜" is added underneath the self-serve ads announcement. | *November 11 - 4chan randomly goes down for about fifty minutes. When posting finally works again, a message "〜 sorry 4 the downtime 〜" is added underneath the self-serve ads announcement. | ||
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*December 5 - /mu/ becomes the tenth board to join the one hundred million post club. Despite the K-Pop general's overconfidence, they [http://archived.moe/mu/thread/99999999 miss] both [https://archived.moe/mu/thread/100000000 gets] and get laughed off the board. | *December 5 - /mu/ becomes the tenth board to join the one hundred million post club. Despite the K-Pop general's overconfidence, they [http://archived.moe/mu/thread/99999999 miss] both [https://archived.moe/mu/thread/100000000 gets] and get laughed off the board. | ||
*December 7 - Barneyfag experiences the most epic BTFOing ever as a /qa/ anon pays the actual Barney voice actor to record a message directed at Lee, who obliviously mocks him for his incessant spamming, love of cheese, and Barney hatred. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3683720 thread] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7bkr_ygSQ video] | *December 7 - Barneyfag experiences the most epic BTFOing ever as a /qa/ anon pays the actual Barney voice actor to record a message directed at Lee, who obliviously mocks him for his incessant spamming, love of cheese, and Barney hatred. [https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3683720 thread] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7bkr_ygSQ video] | ||
*December 16 - [http://archived.moe/biz/thread/24850475/hol-fukc-we-did-it /biz/ gets a sticky] as Bitcoin finally breaks the 20000 USD/BTC barrier with a glorious pump at 1:42pm UTC. | *December 16 - [http://archived.moe/biz/thread/24850475/hol-fukc-we-did-it /biz/ gets a sticky] as Bitcoin finally breaks the 20000 USD/BTC barrier with a glorious pump at 1:42pm UTC. | ||
*December 17 - Pastebin decides to fuck itself and automatically privates any paste that the SMART filters identify as NSFW, in effect killing virtually all NSFW stories and plenty of SFW stories that writefags have uploaded to the site. /mlp/ and /trash/, both hyper-dependent on storing their works on Pastebin, freak the fuck out as at least half of their shit is obliterated. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/34819143/#34825193 Some anons] come to [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/34819223/#34823721 the rescue] with a number of archive downloads to ease the pain. The Pastebin SMART filter is, as you'd expect, not smart at all and also privates a bunch of completely SFW pastes found in generals and stickies. | *December 17 - Pastebin decides to fuck itself and automatically privates any paste that the SMART filters identify as NSFW, in effect killing virtually all NSFW stories and plenty of SFW stories that writefags have uploaded to the site. /mlp/ and /trash/, both hyper-dependent on storing their works on Pastebin, freak the fuck out as at least half of their shit is obliterated. [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/34819143/#34825193 Some anons] come to [https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/34819223/#34823721 the rescue] with a number of archive downloads to ease the pain. The Pastebin SMART filter is, as you'd expect, not smart at all and also privates a bunch of completely SFW pastes found in generals and stickies. | ||
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*January 26 - The /biz/ reddit colony called /r/wallstreetbets causes GameStop's stocks to go up into the billions and threads pop up on several boards including /v/, /pol/ and /biz/. Hedgefunds be damned on Friday. | *January 26 - The /biz/ reddit colony called /r/wallstreetbets causes GameStop's stocks to go up into the billions and threads pop up on several boards including /v/, /pol/ and /biz/. Hedgefunds be damned on Friday. | ||
*January 27 - /r/wallstreetbets temporarily goes private due to the GameStop short squeeze and their Discord server is banned for "hate speech" (because somebody beat the filter). Redditors flood onto /biz/ and make the board the fastest on the whole site. Other stocks such as AMC, Express Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond, iRobot, and Blockbuster get the GameStop treatment too. The subreddit is unprivated an hour later. /biz/ is finally fucking making it. At the same time, /v/ finds and raids a stream for the New Vegas mod "The Frontier" after memeing about the mod for a bit more than a week and exposing one of the devs as a pedo or some shit (it's quite confusing). Afterward, the mod creators pull the plug on the mod out of stress. [https://i.imgur.com/rlvLm1v.png This image sums things up decently.][[https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/subject/frontier%20meltdown/ b4k archive]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZKmEZFW9c video]], [[https://youtu.be/waNTnRTXrH8 interview]] | *January 27 - /r/wallstreetbets temporarily goes private due to the GameStop short squeeze and their Discord server is banned for "hate speech" (because somebody beat the filter). Redditors flood onto /biz/ and make the board the fastest on the whole site. Other stocks such as AMC, Express Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond, iRobot, and Blockbuster get the GameStop treatment too. The subreddit is unprivated an hour later. /biz/ is finally fucking making it. At the same time, /v/ finds and raids a stream for the New Vegas mod "The Frontier" after memeing about the mod for a bit more than a week and exposing one of the devs as a pedo or some shit (it's quite confusing). Afterward, the mod creators pull the plug on the mod out of stress. [https://i.imgur.com/rlvLm1v.png This image sums things up decently.][[https://arch.b4k.co/v/search/subject/frontier%20meltdown/ b4k archive]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZKmEZFW9c video]], [[https://youtu.be/waNTnRTXrH8 interview]] | ||
*January 28 - /biz/'s GME stock trading take a hit when stock trading app Robinhood (and a few others) delist GME and AMC, only allowing people to close positions but not buy or sell. The Internet goes wild, uniting rightists like Donald Trump Jr. with leftists like AOC under one banner of "Fuck Robinhood and fuck market manipulation." GME closes the day losing nearly half its value, though it mostly recovers by the next day. | *January 28 - /biz/'s GME stock trading take a hit when stock trading app Robinhood (and a few others) delist GME and AMC, only allowing people to close positions but not buy or sell. The Internet goes wild, uniting rightists like Donald Trump Jr. with leftists like AOC under one banner of "Fuck Robinhood and fuck market manipulation." GME closes the day losing nearly half its value, though it mostly recovers by the next day. | ||
*January 29 - '''/vt/ - Virtual YouTubers''' is added, finally freeing /jp/ from the endless cycle of VTuber cancer. The anime VTuber virgins do battle with the Annoying Orange OG VTuber chad's but the mods delete the Orange threads. /vt/ initially does not appear on any offsite archival websites, leading some to believe many early threads are lost to time. However, the [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/ Nyafuu] and [https://warosu.org/vt/ Warosu] archives began archiving a few days later, having archived mostly everything. | *January 29 - '''/vt/ - Virtual YouTubers''' is added, finally freeing /jp/ from the endless cycle of VTuber cancer. The anime VTuber virgins do battle with the Annoying Orange OG VTuber chad's but the mods delete the Orange threads. /vt/ initially does not appear on any offsite archival websites, leading some to believe many early threads are lost to time. However, the [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/ Nyafuu] and [https://warosu.org/vt/ Warosu] archives began archiving a few days later, having archived mostly everything. | ||
*January 31 - Hiro makes his first appearance in a year in a [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/thread/132025/ /vt/ thread asking what happened to the 4chan VTuber.] He confirms that the project was cancelled, and that all of the new boards added recently have been the mods' idea and not his. | |||
*January 31 - Hiro makes his first appearance in a year in a [https://archive. | |||
*February 2 - Phoneposters are temporarily cucked as loading a blue board covers the entire page with an impossible-to-remove ad. The problem is fixed a few hours later. | *February 2 - Phoneposters are temporarily cucked as loading a blue board covers the entire page with an impossible-to-remove ad. The problem is fixed a few hours later. | ||
*February 2-3 - /tv/ had a long car chaseb owl thread series when some schizo in South LA leads the cops on a retarded 15mph freeway chase over the course of like five and a half hours. Police spikes stripped the leather off of two tires and eventually one of the rims blew out and ended the chase. A couple of drivers beside the vehicle livestreamed it all. After the rim got destroyed, the anons who wanted to see suicide by cop [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146031031 were disappointed to see him bitch out and cooperate after ten minutes of standing still.] ReviewBrah himself even appeared in the YouTube stream chat | *February 2-3 - /tv/ had a long car chaseb owl thread series when some schizo in South LA leads the cops on a retarded 15mph freeway chase over the course of like five and a half hours. Police spikes stripped the leather off of two tires and eventually one of the rims blew out and ended the chase. A couple of drivers beside the vehicle livestreamed it all. After the rim got destroyed, the anons who wanted to see suicide by cop [http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/146031031 were disappointed to see him bitch out and cooperate after ten minutes of standing still.] ReviewBrah himself even appeared in the YouTube stream chat. | ||
*February 5 - | *February 5 - /qa/ gets a rare Developer post. Anon Dev clarifies it was him, not Hiro, who posted the RIP Longcat sticky in /b/ on September the 20th. Christopher Plummer dies. /tv/ gets a sticky. | ||
*February 7 - /sp/ gets an annual [https://archive.is/G6TKt Super Bowl sticky.] | *February 7 - /sp/ gets an annual [https://archive.is/G6TKt Super Bowl sticky.] | ||
*February 9 - CD Project Red, the makers of Withcer and Cyberduck, [https://archive.is/sTSYZ announce that their database has been hacked.] [[https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/543671841/ Anon post] the source code of Gwent on /v/ but digging reveals its an old build. Suspicions grow of the leak being a lie only for pity to make up for the Redditry disaster of Cyberdunk2077. It is suspected that the devs bought the game in the auction but it isn't confirmed yet.[https://archive.is/fYD8T][https://archive.vn/j36JF] | *February 9 - CD Project Red, the makers of Withcer and Cyberduck, [https://archive.is/sTSYZ announce that their database has been hacked.] [[https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/543671841/ Anon post] the source code of Gwent on /v/ but digging reveals its an old build. Suspicions grow of the leak being a lie only for pity to make up for the Redditry disaster of Cyberdunk2077. It is suspected that the devs bought the game in the auction but it isn't confirmed yet.[https://archive.is/fYD8T][https://archive.vn/j36JF] | ||
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*February 28 - /mlp/'s mods (headed by Twimod) host a [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36641353/ town hall sticky] to ask for improvements and ideas for the board going into the new MLP G5 series. | *February 28 - /mlp/'s mods (headed by Twimod) host a [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36641353/ town hall sticky] to ask for improvements and ideas for the board going into the new MLP G5 series. | ||
*March 2 - The /mlp/ town hall concludes. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656144/ Twimod officially announces new changes to /mlp/:] An increased character limit from 2000 to 3000 for writers, the dice roll feature used on /tg/ and /qst/, pony meme flags like the ones found on /pol/, and after a long time since the banner contest, the board is also getting a banner. Twimod also unbans Anonfilly threads on the condition that degenerate erotic roleplayers fuck off, while other threads such as diaper ponies and Milky Way threads remain banned on the grounds that they're based on fetish content. Equestria Girls content is also confirmed /mlp/. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656404/ An /mlp/ banner suggestion thread is also stickied.] | *March 2 - The /mlp/ town hall concludes. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656144/ Twimod officially announces new changes to /mlp/:] An increased character limit from 2000 to 3000 for writers, the dice roll feature used on /tg/ and /qst/, pony meme flags like the ones found on /pol/, and after a long time since the banner contest, the board is also getting a banner. Twimod also unbans Anonfilly threads on the condition that degenerate erotic roleplayers fuck off, while other threads such as diaper ponies and Milky Way threads remain banned on the grounds that they're based on fetish content. Equestria Girls content is also confirmed /mlp/. [https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36656404/ An /mlp/ banner suggestion thread is also stickied.] | ||
*March 4 - [https://archive.is/nvE6v Someone on Futaba Channel] decided to post places where Hololive was discussed internationally. Discussion soon shifted to 4chan, as it was the opening image. This drew the attention of /vt/ and resulted in a [https://archive. | *March 4 - [https://archive.is/nvE6v Someone on Futaba Channel] decided to post places where Hololive was discussed internationally. Discussion soon shifted to 4chan, as it was the opening image. This drew the attention of /vt/ and resulted in a [https://archive.nyafuu.org/vt/thread/1191041/ thread that reached post limit] where Nameless and Anonymous people mingled. | ||
*March 7 - /a/ mods [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/217766474 sticky and lock a reminder] to use spoiler tags in the wake of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time's release. | *March 7 - /a/ mods [http://desuarchive.org/a/thread/217766474 sticky and lock a reminder] to use spoiler tags in the wake of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time's release. | ||
*March 8 - [https://archive.is/PX5qv /g/'s daily programming general] turns into the Rozen Maiden general, accompanied by an embedded Suiseiseki as well. Odd for a board concerned with Junk. | *March 8 - [https://archive.is/PX5qv /g/'s daily programming general] turns into the Rozen Maiden general, accompanied by an embedded Suiseiseki as well. Odd for a board concerned with Junk. | ||
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*March 23 - The cargo ship "EverGreen" [https://archive.ph/AGpGo gets stuck in the Suez Canal,] pausing international trade. General threads made in [https://archive.is/m9z0t /pol/] later leading to tourists arriving and [https://archive.ph/L1c0o discussing] on [https://archive.ph/mfoNp /n/.] An open letter against Richard M. Stallman of GNU fame is brought forth, and /g/ doesn't like it. They [https://archive.is/oTrok create their own letter in support of him.] It eventually surpasses the original in signatures, and gets support from all over the world. | *March 23 - The cargo ship "EverGreen" [https://archive.ph/AGpGo gets stuck in the Suez Canal,] pausing international trade. General threads made in [https://archive.is/m9z0t /pol/] later leading to tourists arriving and [https://archive.ph/L1c0o discussing] on [https://archive.ph/mfoNp /n/.] An open letter against Richard M. Stallman of GNU fame is brought forth, and /g/ doesn't like it. They [https://archive.is/oTrok create their own letter in support of him.] It eventually surpasses the original in signatures, and gets support from all over the world. | ||
*March 24 - The expansive archive of yuki.la mysteriously dies without a clue as to what happened to it. | *March 24 - The expansive archive of yuki.la mysteriously dies without a clue as to what happened to it. | ||
*March 27 - [https://archive.is/LPySg An anon from /g/] appears and declares to have scraped the text, URLs, and MD5 hashes from yuki.la in its entirety, rescuing mountains of posts that were briefly lost to time. No thumbnails or full res images appear to have been saved however | *March 27 - [https://archive.is/LPySg An anon from /g/] appears and declares to have scraped the text, URLs, and MD5 hashes from yuki.la in its entirety, rescuing mountains of posts that were briefly lost to time. No thumbnails or full res images appear to have been saved however. | ||
*April 1 - Jannies finally ask for assistance against the leaf menace. Flags are removed from all boards. A live tracker count of Canadians in added to each board. A rake icon appears next to each post, where users can report posters suspected of being Canadians. Caught leafs are sent to '''/qb/ - Quebec''' for the time being, as well as anons who make too many false reports. A number of word filters are also added: "Sorry" becomes "based", "tranny" becomes "hoser", "out" becomes "oot", "about" becomes "aboot", "house" becomes "igloo", and "football" becomes "hockey". The board quickly becomes a slower /b/ due to a lack of rules, with various /mlp/ users willingly raking themselves in order to post more pony. Around 1PM EST posting site-wide is disabled for an unknown reason and returns a connection error when attempted. The website returned around 2:30PM. Later, /qb/ gets the Canadian flag as its background and gets songs like "O Canada", "Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback, "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber autoplaying as well. | *April 1 - Jannies finally ask for assistance against the leaf menace. Flags are removed from all boards. A live tracker count of Canadians in added to each board. A rake icon appears next to each post, where users can report posters suspected of being Canadians. Caught leafs are sent to '''/qb/ - Quebec''' for the time being, as well as anons who make too many false reports. A number of word filters are also added: "Sorry" becomes "based", "tranny" becomes "hoser", "out" becomes "oot", "about" becomes "aboot", "house" becomes "igloo", and "football" becomes "hockey". The board quickly becomes a slower /b/ due to a lack of rules, with various /mlp/ users willingly raking themselves in order to post more pony. Around 1PM EST posting site-wide is disabled for an unknown reason and returns a connection error when attempted. The website returned around 2:30PM. Later, /qb/ gets the Canadian flag as its background and gets songs like "O Canada", "Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback, "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber autoplaying as well. | ||
*April 2 - /qb/ is frozen at 2:19am local time after 16289 posts and a shitload of ponies, leafs, and shitposting. The last post on the board was [https://archive.is/N67VU a screencap of a vore fetish green featuring Lyra from MLP.] A fitting end. | *April 2 - /qb/ is frozen at 2:19am local time after 16289 posts and a shitload of ponies, leafs, and shitposting. The last post on the board was [https://archive.is/N67VU a screencap of a vore fetish green featuring Lyra from MLP.] A fitting end. | ||
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*April 4 - The final chapter of Attack on Titan is released and /a/ was very vocal about it and not happy. The catalog suffers a meltdown and /a/ briefly surpasses /pol/ in posting speed as [https://archive.is/VCXs7 the ending] brings disappointment to many. | *April 4 - The final chapter of Attack on Titan is released and /a/ was very vocal about it and not happy. The catalog suffers a meltdown and /a/ briefly surpasses /pol/ in posting speed as [https://archive.is/VCXs7 the ending] brings disappointment to many. | ||
*April 9 - Around 1PM EST a new teaser for the new MLP movie drops, showcasing the last two main characters that were not seen in 3D yet. One of them looks like a carpet muncher and the other one is seen holding a smartphone. /mlp/ reaches 300% activity and [https://archive.is/C4pL4 a thread is stickied.] | *April 9 - Around 1PM EST a new teaser for the new MLP movie drops, showcasing the last two main characters that were not seen in 3D yet. One of them looks like a carpet muncher and the other one is seen holding a smartphone. /mlp/ reaches 300% activity and [https://archive.is/C4pL4 a thread is stickied.] | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
*[https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki Bibliotheca Anonoma] - [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/4chan-Chronicle 4chan Chronicle] | * [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki Bibliotheca Anonoma] - [https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/4chan-Chronicle 4chan Chronicle] | ||
*[https://shii.bibanon.org/www.jonnydigital.com/4chan-history.html Jonnydigital.com's 4chan-history] (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A page dealing with 4chan's earliest history, written by a former admin. | * [https://shii.bibanon.org/www.jonnydigital.com/4chan-history.html Jonnydigital.com's 4chan-history] (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A page dealing with 4chan's earliest history, written by a former admin. | ||
*[https://shii.bibanon.org Everything Shii Knows] (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A personal wiki created by Shii, an important primary source for World2ch, most anonymous textboards before 2006, and 4chan before 2006. | * [https://shii.bibanon.org Everything Shii Knows] (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A personal wiki created by Shii, an important primary source for World2ch, most anonymous textboards before 2006, and 4chan before 2006. Currently a moderator at Wikipedia. | ||
* | * <s>"http://www.wikichan.org/index.php/The_Complete_History_of_4chan" Article source</s> [http://web.archive.org/web/20080511013508/http://www.wikichan.org/index.php/The_Complete_History_of_4chan archived version]. | ||
* | * "https://web.archive.org/web/20200314123218/http://world2ch.org/dramabomb.html" - Early world2ch post about 4chan. | ||
* | * "http://imgur.com/a/Rqkc9" - Screencaps of December 22, 2013 raid. | ||
* | * "http://macrochan.org/index.php" - Giant picture archive. | ||
* | * "http://web.archive.org/web/20140426002232/https://archive.thedarkcave.org/int/thread/23490553/" - Archived thread of the April 23 hack. <s>Gallery - "https://imgur.com/a/hkCdH"</s> (The gallery has been expunged.) | ||
* | * "http://plus4chan.org/boards/pkmn/" - Plus4chan's archived /pkmn/ board, giving an idea how /vp/ was in its early days. | ||
*[https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php | *[https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php Everything Rumia Knows] - A personal wiki, home to many pages on 2ch boards/AA art and imageboards. | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion Jason Scott's archive] - A text-only archive of | *[https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion Jason Scott's archive] - A text-only archive of all(?) 4chan posts from 2006 to 2008. | ||
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