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, and annotated by me.<ref>[https://archived.moe/bant/thread/1165551 The posts in question.]</ref> 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.

  The King of Games<ref>[https://wiki.bibanon.org/King_of_GETs_(KoG) KoG's] proper nickname is "King of GETs", which is a play on the "king of games" title from yugioh.</ref> is this poster who started a bit of a tradition way back in 2007ish on /a/,<ref>November 24th of 2007, to be exact.</ref> 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,<ref>The implicatio here being that gamergate and /pol/ calling moot a cuck were the main reasons for his leave, though a strong case can be made that the fappening was a bigger reason.</ref> 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.

  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<ref>probably the most contestable line in the essay, /pol/ certainly wasn't nearly as big prior to 2015/2016 though calling it a laughing stick is, in my opinion, and exaggeration of people's attitudes towards to board.</ref> 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."