Editing An Anecdotal History of Cirno Posting

The following is a short, anecdotal essay about the history of Cirno and Cirno posters on 4chan, as written by an anonymous /bant/ users on June 24th of 2017 and split up into multiple posts in response to another user's questions. This page will detail the exchange that occurred between them as well as display the images that were attached to each post, each image corresponding to the post below it. While the general information given is correct, some of the more subjective details can be contested. No claims are made as for this essay's exact accuracy.

  Most people will tell you weebs, but they are mistaken, as only 25% of Cirnoposters have been certified to be actual weebs. The real answer is that the King of Games himself decided he would make this place the chosen land of the getposters and so he as well as a random German made dank gets including one that had mod recognition, causing all the getposters to flood here because this was someplace they could gather their digits without being banned (you can't do that on weeb boards), while /bant/'s international nature meant that normally seperate communities with their own Cirnoposters in them colested together into some kind of weirdo family reunion. Kick back and enjoy the show or ignore it.

  The King of Games is this poster who started a bit of a tradition way back in 2007ish on /a/, informing some proto-/m/fag that if his post ended in 5, his sister would die, and the post did indeed end in a 5, causing an uproar on the board. From there, he grew in power, changing from predicting 5s (which has since become a party trick for getposters) to predicting dubs, then trips, and then quads, and so on, to the point that he searched for larger numbers on boards outside of /a/, popping in and out of boards on a whim just to snatch those digits, something which he did for years. In order to mix things up a bit however, KoG posted images that were semi-relevant to the board which he got the gets, one of which was Cirno, which he started using either during the very start of /jp/ or just before its inception depending on who you ask. Cirno steadily became his most common image used, more so than the actual King of Games, so those who didn't have any idea as to what was happening would see a Cirno image in a board where she otherwise wouldn't appear next to a major get and associate her with digits, some emulating him, creating the first Cirnoposters. For 10 years KoG has labored, and the Cirnoposters both try to claim gets on the behalf of Cirno or else record the endeavors of KoG and their fellow posters, so that they gets might not be lost in 4chan's poorly-made archival system There was a dark age in between the period of 2010, in which GETs such as dubs and trips were disabled using the infamous "XXX" system across the board, hampering many would be getposters, but this was minor, for the major numbers, the ones the KoG cared about, the ones the Cirnoposters cared about, were still attainable and were collected at a reduced rate, and those really anal about it could install a script so they could see what the XXXs actually were.

  /qa/ was made by moot during 2015 in order to signal his farewell. Why he left is best left to /v/ and /pol/ to explain, but many questions were asked to him. "Why are you a faggot?" "Is Cirno the strongest?" With Cactuar on hand, he answered those questions and informed 4chan that he needed to go now, for Googles botnet needed him, and so he left his creation behind, as well as the pedestal that was /qa/ which he ascended from. A while or so later hiro came and has his own AMA, in which he answered that Cirno was his favorite 2hu.

  To the Cirnoposters, this was seen as a sign. /qa/ was conspicuously left intact even after the AMA sessions, and unlike the police state of /jp/, was virtually unmoderated. It was a haven for the /jp/ posters of old who wanted to leave the general infested stagnation that /jp/ had become, and so they set up shop parroting old memes like it was 2012 again, and from their number came the Cirnoposters who started to record their gets again. At last a happy place where they could do as they please had been found, and though they could not emulate the heights of 2012 again, they could at least do their jobs and converse with fellow weeb anons as well as cheer on KoG and the non-weeb getposters who nevertheless fought in Cirno's name. This would be their happy place for a while, and everything was right and jollly other than that one bastard who kept asking for /pol/ to be deleted and that idiot that wouldn't stop using /qa/ like it was /r9k/.

  Meanwhile, on the other side of 4chan, what would become Pepe the Frog had gained much more traction among /pol/ and had become something of a symbol. A symbol of change, a symbol of the robot, the NEET, the anon who was angry at society for rejecting him and locking him away in a basement for his views, and this was a sentiment shared with many not just across 4chan, but across the entire internet. Redditor and /pol/tard were united in their desire to change the real world through any means required, and the 2016 Elections in the US were coming up, and one of the men running was just what they needed to demolish the society which they felt had taken everything from them, and so they lent him their efforts. What they lacked in coordination or money they made up with in autism, persistence, and the ability to really get under peoples' skins, and they waged what is known as the Great Meme War in which multi-billion dollar organizations wasted millions trying to attack a stupid cartoon frog and labeled him a hate symbol because they made them butthurt. How much a contribution /pol/ and /r/TheDonald had made was debatable, but what wasn't debatable was that their guy won and the opposition looked like manchildren in the process of trying to fight them. /pol/ grew from the laughing stock of the site into a capable force which now had major dictation in 4chan's culture as a surge of new members arrived from their shores, interested to see the might of the "Hacker Known as 4 Chan."

  /pol/ had payed its own price for this maneuver, and too many newfags came in for it to be able to deal with them all, leading to a rapid change in culture. Much like /jp/ before it, any /pol/ oldfags no longer felt like they belonged, and the redditors they negotiated with in order to secure power were annoying to deal with and turning their board inside out with bots, shills, and general faggotry. The Cult of Kekistan was created, and has been agreed to be most cringey by all but newfags and idiots who actually invested in it. These /pol/tards needed something in order to get rid of the cancer, yet they were at a loss to how. It would be through chance that on April 1st, 2017, /pol/ would merge with /mlp/ to create /mlpol/, which was seen as a righteous punishment to /pol/ for its faggotry. At first, there was rage followed by the "acceptance of death" routine, but this slowly faded as the /pol/tards realized something... /mlpol/ was free of redditors, who were freaked out by bronies, as well as bots who weren't configured to run on the board. For the first in a long time, the oldfags of /pol/ could converse with each other without cancer, and the horses were seen as the kimo. For a whole day, there was must rejoicing as two seemingly unrelated groups of people embraced each other, with the rest of 4chan agape at what Hiro had created.

  Come April fortnight, and the inevitable happened as /mlpol/ was physically deleted from the server after agreements with the mods failed. The occupation of /qa/ became an attempted annexation as 2d/r, Cirnoposters included fought back shitpost to shitpost in a battle which raged with so much intensity that /qa/ was frozen for the majority of April. This was taken to mean that /qa/ would too be deleted, and there was much sadness as the Cirnoposters had lost their home. Many attempted to return to /jp/ only to be rejected as Nazi Mod culled them for their insubordination, while others tried a hand at /[s4s]/ along with other /qa/ refugees, and still others tried to revive Soku threads on /v/ but failed because none of them actually played the game. Bitter tears were had until the tail end of April, where many things happened to change the mood.

  /qa/ was unfrozen and after a hard-fought war the home team was victorious, a bit having to deal with an insurgency for many weeks following which is said to continue to this day. Hidden Star in Four Seasons was announced, where Cirno would be a playable protagonist in the style of a main character, leading to a glut of new OC making. Finally, the creation of a new board to divert the cancer that was coming from /pol/ was announced, what would become /bant/. /qa/'s OC makers were exhausted fighting an insurgency, and for getposters the board simply moved too slow to be of use for actual digits claiming. Dozens of Cirnoposters were showing up after years of silence to rally under a single banner, and upon the hour that /bant/ became public an offensive was mounted from that board. The mission: Collect as many nines as possible. This led to the securing of >>99999 and their reemergence into the eye of the public simultaneously, leading us to today, more or less. Important but unsorted footnotes include the Rise and Fall of iichan in which Cirnoposters of a different stripe came and would mingle with 4chan's Cirnoposters on /bant/, the Creation and Death of Blepe as part of the ongoing War on Frogs, and KoG's securing of >>1111111. It is now considered to be the Silver Age: a time of turmoil and strife, but also hope and new OC as the Nine Ballers explore new frontiers and once again makes OC in a climate very different from 2012, some anticipating the release of HSiFS.