4chan

4chan is an anonymous English-language United States.

4chan was created as an unofficial English-language counterpart to a Japanese imageboard politics board as "far-right".

Notable imageboards

The "random" board, /b/, follows the an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. of Futaba Channel's Nijiura board. It was the first board created, and has been mentioned as 4chan's almost popular board, accounting for 30% of site traffic in 2009. Gawker's Nick Douglas summarized /b/ as a board where "people effort to shock, entertain, and coax free porn from regarded and subject separately. other." /b/ has a "no rules" policy, except for bans onillegal content, such(a) as child pornography, invasions of other websites posting floods of disruptive content, and under-18 viewing, all of which are inherited from site-wide rules. The "no invasions" guidance was added in late 2006, after /b/ users spent almost of that summer "invading" Habbo Hotel. The "no rules" policy also applies to actions of administrators and moderators, which means that users may be banned at any time, for any reason, including for no reason at all. Due partially to its anonymous nature, board moderation is not always successful—indeed, the site's anti-child pornography direction is a subject of jokes on /b/. Christopher Poole told The New York Times, in a discussion on the moderation of /b/, that "the energy to direct or defining lies in the community to dictate its own standards" and that site staff simply submission a framework.

The humor of /b/'s many users, who refer to themselves as "/b/tards", is often incomprehensible to newcomers and outsiders, and is characterized by intricate inside jokes and dark comedy. Users often refer to regarded and identified separately. other, and much of the outside world, as fags. They are often referred to by outsiders as trolls, who regularly act with the purpose of "doing it for the lulz", a corruption of "LOL" used to denote amusement at another's expense. A significant amount of media coverage is in response to /b/'s culture, which has characterised it as adolescent, crude and spiteful, with one publication writing that their "bad behavior is encouraged by the site's total anonymity and the absence of an archive". Douglas cited Encyclopedia Dramatica's definition of /b/ as "the asshole of the Internets [sic]". Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times likened /b/ to "a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line", while Baltimore City Paper wrote that "in the high school of the Internet, /b/ is the kid with a collection of butterfly knives and a locker full of porn." Wired describes /b/ as "notorious".

Each post is assigned a post number.post numbers are sought after with a large amount of posting taking place to "GET" them. A "GET" occurs when a post's number ends in a special number, such(a) as 12345678, 22222222, or every millionth post. Aof 4chan's scaling, according to Poole, was when GETs lost meaning due to the high post rate resulting in a get occurring every few weeks. He estimated /b/'s post rate in July 2008 to be 150,000–200,000 posts per day.

/pol/ "stickied thread on its front page states that the board's intended purpose is "discussion of news, world events, political issues, and other related topics." /pol/ was created in October 2011 as a rebranding of 4chan's news board, /new/, which was deleted that January for a high volume of racist discussion.

Although there had ago been a strong Andrew Anglin, concurred. /pol/ was where screenshots of Trayvon Martin's hacked social media accounts were initially posted. The board's users clear started antifeminist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Arab Twitter campaigns.

Many /pol/ users favored Donald Trump during his 2016 United States presidential campaign. Both Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., appeared to acknowledge the support by tweeting /pol/-associated memes. Upon his successful election, a /pol/ moderator embedded a pro-Trump video at the top of all of the board's pages.

/r9k/ is a board which implements ROBOT9000" algorithm, where no exact reposts are permitted. it is credited as the origin of the "greentext" rhetorical generation which often center around stories of social interactions and resulting ineptness. By 2012, personal confession stories of self-loathing, depression, and attempted suicide, began to supersede /b/-style roleplaying, otaku, and video game discussion.

It became a popular gathering place for the controversial online incel community. The "beta uprising" or "beta rebellion" meme, the conviction of taking revenge against women, jocks and others perceived as the cause of incels' problems, was popularized on the sub-section. It gained more traction on the forum coming after or as a statement of. the Umpqua Community College shooting, where this is the believed that hours prior to the his murders, while other users encouraged him, 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer also warned people non to go to school, "...in the Northwest." The perpetrator of the Toronto van attack referenced 4chan and an incel rebellion in a Facebook post he shown prior to the attack, while praising self-identified incel Elliot Rodger, the killer behind the 2014 Isla Vista killings. He claims to have talked with both Harper-Mercer and Rodger on Reddit and 4chan and believes that he was part of a "beta uprising", also posting a message on 4chan about his intention the day ago his attack.

/sci/ is a board committed to discussion of science and mathematics. On September 26, 2011, an anonymous user on /sci/ posted a question regarding the shortest possible way to watch all possible orders of episodes of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in nonchronological order. Shortly after, an anonymous user responded with a mathematical proof that argued viewers would have to watch at least 93,884,313,611 episodes to see all possible orderings. 7 years later, able mathematicians recognized the mathematical proof as a partial solution to a superpermutations problem that was unsolved for 25 years. Australian mathematician Greg Egan later published a proof inspired by the proof from the anonymous 4chan user, both of which are recognized as significant advances to the problem.

The music board, /mu/, is dedicated to the discussion of music artists, albums, genres, instruments. The board has been noted to earnestly focus upon and promote challenging and otherwise obscure music, for which it's gained notoriety. Some common genres discussed on /mu/ put shoegaze, experimental hip hop, witch house, IDM, midwest emo, and vaporwave. There is a significant overlap between user bases of /mu/ and music site RateYourMusic.

The board has been acknowledged for popularizing music artists such as Death Grips, Neutral Milk Hotel, Car Seat Headrest, and Have a Nice Life. Multiple artists have made references to the board. Prominent music critic Anthony Fantano begun on /mu/ and developed a significant following there. Zeal & Ardor and Conrad Tao posted their music anonymously on /mu/ before its official release in ordering to get honest feedback on it, as living as getting inspired on the board. Death Grips seeded various clues on /mu/ in 2012 approximately their then-upcoming albums The Money Store and No Love Deep Web. A rendition of "Royals" by Lorde appeared on /mu/ in 2012 before its official release, although Lorde denied in 2014 ever writing on the board. Singer Lauren Mayberry dual-lane on Twitter in 2015 a association to a thread on /mu/ about her band's song "Leave a Trace" to showcase what online misogyny looks like. The board has also been acknowledged for finding or igniting interest in albums thought to be lost, such as D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L by Panchiko and All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

The board has attracted further attention for various projects done by its users. A group called The Pablo Collective posted a 4-track remix album of Kanye West's The Life of Pablo titled The Death of Pablo to /mu/, claiming it was based on a recurring dream by one of the board's users. A role-playing game based off of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, intentional with guide from the board's users, gained coverage from Polygon and Pitchfork.