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72-456: Top 10 artists based on number of awards The annual award ceremony takes place at the beginning of the summer, at the end of June and is broadcast on a television station, on ANT1 were broadcast from 2004 until 2005 and from 2012 until 2014, on Alpha TV were broadcast from 2006 until 2011 and from 2015 until 2019, also were broadcast on MAD TV after the television station have broadcast them. The first award ceremony took place in 2004 at

144-591: 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 from one of the board's users. A role-playing game based on Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea , designed with help from the board's users, received coverage from Polygon and Pitchfork . /pol/ (" Politically Incorrect ") is 4chan's political discussion board. A stickied thread on its front page states that

216-456: A Nice Life . Prominent music critic Anthony Fantano began his career on /mu/ and developed a significant following there. Some artists, like Zeal & Ardor and Conrad Tao , admitted to posting their music anonymously on /mu/ to get honest feedback, as well as find inspiration from the board. In particular, Zeal & Ardor said their sound, which mixes black metal with spirituals , came from suggestions by two users. Andrew W.K. did

288-428: A Q&A with the board's users in 2011, causing the servers to crash from the increased traffic. Death Grips seeded various clues on /mu/ in 2012 about 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 she denied ever writing on the board in 2014. Singer Lauren Mayberry shared on Twitter in 2015

360-404: A collection of butterfly knives and a locker full of porn." Wired describes /b/ as "notorious". Each post is assigned a post number. Certain 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 as 12345678, 22222222, or every millionth post. A sign of 4chan's scaling, according to Poole,

432-471: A criminal record. In response, Hideo Kojima threatened to sue over false posts, stating that he "strongly condemns the spread of fake news and rumours that convey false information". ANT1 has had various slogans over the years including: 4chan 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to

504-561: A link to a thread on /mu/ about her band 's song " Leave a Trace " to showcase what online misogyny looks like. An alleged unreleased Radiohead song, titled "Putting Ketchup in the Fridge" and "How Do You Sit Still", was initially reported as genuine by NME and Spin until CNN revealed it was a hoax promoted by the board's users. The board has been acknowledged for sharing rare music recordings and unreleased materials, as well as finding albums thought to be lost. Notable examples include

576-570: A month for their services in 2015. By May 2022, that fee had risen to $ 4,400 a month. The submitted documents also revealed RapeApe lamenting that 4chan was "getting the shaft" over the Buffalo terrorist attack and his attempt to persuade the advertising platform Bid.Glass to reverse their exit from the website. Poole kept his real-life identity hidden until it was revealed on July 9, 2008, in The Wall Street Journal . Prior to that, he had used

648-521: A papal visit. 4chan has been labeled as the starting point of the Anonymous meme by The Baltimore City Paper , due to the norm of posts signed with the "Anonymous" moniker. The National Post ' s David George-Cosh said it has been "widely reported" that Anonymous is associated with 4chan and 711chan, as well as numerous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels. Through its association with Anonymous, 4chan has become associated with Project Chanology,

720-500: A popular gathering place for the controversial online incel community. The "beta uprising" or "beta rebellion" meme, the idea of taking revenge against women, jocks and others perceived as the cause of incels' problems, was popularized on the subsection. The perpetrator of the Toronto van attack referenced 4chan and an incel rebellion in a Facebook post he made prior to the attack, while praising self-identified incel Elliot Rodger,

792-527: A position which he held until his appointment in January 2002 as Group Vice Chairman. Mr. Kyriakou has been a Director since September 1998. Since 1993, Antenna has broadcast its programming internationally for Greek-speaking audiences abroad. Initially, the broadcast was for a few hours each day but since 2000 has evolved into a full channel that operates twenty-four hours a day. ANT1 currently operates three television channels, via satellite, which vary according to

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864-419: A poster's identity. As making a post without filling in the "Name" field causes posts to be attributed to "Anonymous", general understanding on 4chan holds that Anonymous is not a single person but a collective (hive) of users. Moderators generally post without a name even when performing sysop actions. A "capcode" may be used to attribute the post to "Anonymous ## Mod", although moderators often post without

936-484: A proof inspired by the proof from the anonymous 4chan user, both of which are recognized as significant advances to the problem. /v/ is 4chan's video games board. The board has spawned multiple Internet memes, most notably the NPC Wojak in 2016 (derived from the gaming term non-player character to describe those who do not think for themselves or make their own conscious decisions). The "paranormal" board, /x/ ,

1008-402: A reCAPTCHA verification when posting and reporting posts on the 4chan image boards"; the money raised from the passes to go towards supporting the site. On January 21, 2015, Poole stepped down as the site's administrator, citing stress from controversies such as Gamergate as the reason for his departure. On September 21, 2015, Poole announced that Hiroyuki Nishimura had purchased from him

1080-410: A swarm of donations from users. In June 2004, 4chan experienced six weeks of downtime due to PayPal suspending 4chan's donations service after receiving complaints about the site's content. Following 4chan's return, several non-anime related boards were introduced, including /k/ (Weapons), /o/ ( Auto ), and /v/ ( Video Games ). In 2008, nine new boards were created, including the sports board at /sp/,

1152-459: A test implementation of xkcd 's ROBOT9000 script. During the same year, the /soc/ board was created in an effort to reduce the number of socialization threads on /b/. /r9k/ was restored on October 23, 2011, along with /hc/ ("Hardcore", previously deleted), /pol/ (a rebranding of /new/) and the new /diy/ board, in addition to an apology by Poole where he recalls how he criticized the deletion of Encyclopedia Dramatica and realized that he had done

1224-489: A thread on /x/ created on 12 May 2019, where the users were asked to "post disquieting images that just feel 'off'." There, the first photo depicting the Backrooms was uploaded and another user commented on it with the first story about the Backrooms, claiming that one enters the Backrooms when they " noclip out of reality in the wrong areas". After the 4chan post gained fame, several Internet users wrote horror stories relating to

1296-406: A wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature , cooking , weapons , music , history , technology , anime , physical fitness , politics , and sports , among others. Registration is not available, except for staff, and users typically post anonymously. As of 2022 , 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, of whom approximately half are from

1368-637: A worldwide protest against the Church of Scientology held by members of Anonymous. On January 15, 2008, a 4chan user posted to /b/, suggesting participants "do something big" against the Church of Scientology's website. This message resulted in the Church receiving threatening phone calls. It quickly grew into a large real-world protest. Unlike previous Anonymous attacks, this action was characterized by 4chan memes including rickrolls and Guy Fawkes masks . The raid drew criticism from some 4chan users who felt it would bring

1440-454: Is "most closely associated" with /pol/, although only it features predominant Alt-Right beliefs; /pol/, like other boards, has been prominent in the dissemination of memes, in cases, featuring coordination to disperse Alt-Right sentiments. /pol/ "increasingly became synonymous with 4chan as a whole". The Southern Poverty Law Center regards /pol/'s rhetorical style as widely emulated by white supremacist websites such as The Daily Stormer ;

1512-622: Is a free-to-air television network airing in Greece . The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek ; ena (ένα) is the Greek number 1 (one), thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna (Αντέννα). It launched on 31 December 1989, and is owned by Antenna Group . ANT1 had been a popular network in Greece for years with its line up of soap series including dramas Lampsi and Kalimera Zoi . The first broadcast of

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1584-445: Is a significant overlap between user bases of /mu/ and music site Rate Your Music . The board's culture has inspired many online music communities and meme pages on social media that emulate /mu/'s posting style. Publications such as Pitchfork and Entertainment Weekly noted the board played a significant role in popularizing various music artists, such as Death Grips , Neutral Milk Hotel , Car Seat Headrest , and Have

1656-479: Is a subject of jokes on /b/. Christopher Poole told The New York Times , in a discussion on the moderation of /b/, that "the power lies in the community to dictate its own standards" and that site staff simply provided 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 each other, and much of

1728-482: Is dedicated to discussing topics regarding unexplained phenomena , the supernatural , and non-political conspiracy theories . /x/ was initially launched in January 2005 as 4chan's general photography board; in February 2007, it was repurposed as a paranormal-themed board. Many of the earliest creepypastas (Internet horror -related legends) were created on /x/. The idea of the Backrooms gained popularity thanks to

1800-512: 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

1872-493: The Stormer ' s editor, Andrew Anglin , concurred. /pol/ was where screenshots of Trayvon Martin 's hacked social media accounts were initially posted. The board's users have 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

1944-581: The United States . 4chan was created as an unofficial English-language counterpart to the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel , also known as 2chan, and its first boards were originally used for posting images and discussion related to anime. The site has been described as a hub of Internet subculture , its community being influential in the formation and popularization of prominent Internet memes , such as lolcats , Rickrolling , rage comics , wojaks , Pepe

2016-505: The " rickroll " was born. A link to the YouTube video of Tay Zonday 's song " Chocolate Rain " was posted on /b/ on July 11, 2007, and then subsequently circulated by users, becoming a very popular internet meme. The portion of the song in which Zonday turns away from the microphone, with a caption stating "I move away from the mic to breathe in", became an oft-repeated meme on 4chan and inspired remixes. Fellow YouTuber Boxxy 's popularity

2088-539: The "Random" board—also known as /b/—enforces few rules. 4chan is the Internet's most trafficked imageboard, according to the Los Angeles Times . 4chan's Alexa rank was 853 in March 2022, though it has been as high as 56. It is provided to its users free of charge and consumes a large amount of bandwidth ; as a result, its financing has often been problematic. Poole has acknowledged that donations alone could not keep

2160-527: The 4chan community as "lunatic, juvenile [...] brilliant, ridiculous and alarming". The majority of posting on 4chan takes place on imageboards , on which users have the ability to share images and create threaded discussions. As of August 2022 , the site's homepage lists 75 imageboards and one Flash animation board. Most boards have their own set of rules and are dedicated to a specific topic, including anime and manga, video games, music, literature, fitness, politics, and sports, among others. Uniquely,

2232-451: The 4chan.org domain in December 2023 for unknown reasons, and 4channel.org now redirects to 4chan.org. In a 2020 interview with Vice Media, several current or past moderators spoke about what they perceived as racist intent behind the site's management. They alleged that a managing moderator named RapeApe was attempting to use the site as a recruitment tool for the alt-right, and that Nishimura

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2304-591: The Backrooms. Many memes were created and shared across social media, further popularizing the creepypasta. American model Allison Harvard first gained notoriety in 2005 as an Internet meme on the /x/ board where she became known as Creepy Chan. Known for her large eyes and peculiar interests like fascination with blood, photos she posted on her blog were widely circulated on the board. She gained mainstream notoriety in 2009 and again in 2011 by appearing on America's Next Top Model . She would visit /x/ after new episodes of America's Next Top Model would air to see what

2376-467: The Frog , as well as hacktivist and political movements , such as Anonymous and the alt-right . 4chan has often been the subject of media attention as a source of controversies, including the coordination of pranks and harassment against websites and Internet users, and the posting of illegal and offensive content as a result of its lax censorship and moderation policies. In 2008, The Guardian summarized

2448-491: The Japanese text into English using AltaVista 's Babel Fish online translator. After the site's creation, Poole invited users from the ADTRW subforum, many of whom were dissatisfied with the site's moderation, to visit 4chan, which he advertised as an English-language counterpart to Futaba Channel and a place for Western fans to discuss anime and manga. At its founding, the site only hosted one board: /b/ (Anime/Random). Before

2520-668: The Theatro Vrahon - Melina Mercouri. The awards have been held since 2010 at the Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena , with the exception of the 11th award ceremony held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium . The 17th award, although initially canceled due to high budget and emergency measures against Coronavirus , took place on December 7–8, 2020 without the presence of the public and was broadcast on January 2, 2021, by Mega Channel . ANT1 Antenna , better known as ANT1 ,

2592-614: The U.S. ANT1 Satellite News was also shown until the late 1990s. Antenna TV studios are located in the Athens suburb of Marousi . The station broadcasts terrestrially via a network of repeaters throughout all of Greece and Cyprus. Antenna was founded by Minos Kyriakou and today is led by Theodore Kyriakou . He served as Executive Vice President of the Antenna Group S.A. (from 1995) and as Chief Operating Officer (from September 1998) until his appointment in March 1999 as Chief Executive Officer,

2664-404: The alias "moot". In April 2009, Poole was voted the world's most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by Time magazine . The results were questioned even before the poll completed, as automated voting programs and manual ballot stuffing were used to influence the vote. 4chan's interference with the vote seemed increasingly likely, when it was found that reading

2736-412: The alleged killer. ANT1 TV Greece took down the video on Friday, but the story caused major controversy as it became viral globally. The mistake first started going viral after French far-right politician Damien Rieu tweeted pictures of Kojima in response to another politician's tweet about the assassination. The 4chan post used a photo of Kojima and falsely labelled him as a "left-wing extremist" with

2808-468: 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. Seven years later, professional 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

2880-429: 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 previously been a strong left-libertarian contingent to 4chan activists, there was a gradual rightward turn on 4chan's politics board in

2952-578: The capcode. In a 2011 interview on Nico Nico Douga , Poole explained that there are approximately 20 volunteer moderators active on 4chan. 4chan also has a junior moderation team, called "janitors", who may delete posts or images and suggest that the normal moderation team ban a user, but who cannot post with a capcode. Revealing oneself as a janitor is grounds for immediate dismissal. Gianluca Stringhini, an associate professor at Boston University College of Engineering , said in August 2024, "The only moderation on

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3024-493: The channel was on 31 December 1989. Antenna Group also runs Easy 97.2 and Rythmos 94.9 in Athens , as well as international networks ANT1 Satellite (from America), ANT1 Pacific (from Australia) and ANT1 Europe which broadcast the best of ANT1 programming to audiences abroad. It also owns a stake in Makedonia TV also with national coverage in Greece. Programs that were once shown on ANT1 include CBS Evening News from

3096-414: The controversial Sad Satan video game. "[A] significant and influential element of contemporary internet culture", 4chan is responsible for many early memes and the site has received positive attention for its association with memes. This included " So I herd u liek mudkipz " [ sic ], which involved a phrase based on Pokémon and which generated numerous YouTube tribute videos, and

3168-581: The design of Futaba Channel's Nijiura ("Random") board. It was the first board created, and has been described as 4chan's most popular board, accounting for 30% of site traffic in 2009. Gawker 's Nick Douglas summarized /b/ as a board where "people try to shock, entertain, and coax free porn from each other." /b/ has a "no rules" policy, except for bans on certain illegal content, such 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" rule

3240-541: The different geographical targets: ANT1 began broadcasting in high definition (HD) by the evening of March 1, 2016. The program is transmitted as the normal broadcast and at the frequency of simple definition, but the parent (native HD) broadcast only emits what has been shot with this resolution. In 2010, Antenna Group had launched on-demand Internet media service Netwix, available to viewers in Greece. It mainly included short YouTube-style comedy videos created by famous greek comedians. This service closed in 2023, due to

3312-429: The early-mid 2010s, with the fundamentalist approach to free speech contributing. The board quickly attracted posters with a political persuasion that later would be described with a new term, the alt-right . Media sources have characterized /pol/ as predominantly racist and sexist , with many of its posts taking an explicitly neo-Nazi bent. The site's far-reaching culture of vitriolic and discriminatory content

3384-407: The end of 2003, several new anime-related boards were added, including /h/ ( Hentai ), /c/ ( Anime/Cute ), /d/ (Hentai/Alternative), /w/ (Wallpapers/Anime), /y/ ( Yaoi ), and /a/ (Anime). In the early days of the website, Poole hosted meetings from 2005 to 2008 in various locations to promote it, such as Otakon , that popularized some of the first 4chan-related memes. Additionally, a lolicon board

3456-565: The fashion board at /fa/ and the "Japan/General" (the name later changed to " Otaku Culture") board at /jp/. By this point, 4chan's culture had altered, moving away from the "early, more childish," humour, as evident by the likes of Project Chanology ; trolling underwent a so-called "golden age" that took aim at American corporate media. In January 2011, Poole announced the deletion of the /r9k/ ("ROBOT9000") and /new/ (News) boards, saying that /new/ had become devoted to racist discussions, and /r9k/ no longer served its original purpose of being

3528-586: The first letter of the first 21 candidates in the poll spelled out a phrase containing two 4chan memes: "mARBLECAKE. ALSO, THE GAME ." On September 12, 2009, Poole gave a talk on why 4chan has a reputation as a "Meme Factory" at the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna, Austria , which was part of the Paraflows 09 festival, themed Urban Hacking . In this talk, Poole mainly attributed this to the anonymous system, and to

3600-423: The form of a weekly post dedicated to them and a corresponding theme. In 2005, the installment of a word filter which changed "egg" to "duck", and thus "eggroll" to "duckroll", across 4chan led to a bait-and-switch meme in which users deceitfully linked to a picture of a duck on wheels. This was then modified into users linking to the music video for Rick Astley 's 1987 song " Never Gonna Give You Up ". Thus,

3672-444: The high costs of production and the low audience appeal. Since April 2022, Antenna Group has launched its own subscription-based streaming media , which includes some original shows such as "Serres" and "I Gefyra (The Bridge)", along with many movies and foreign television series. In July 2022, following the assassination of Shinzo Abe , a news segment on ANT1 TV Greece shared the same images of Hideo Kojima , identifying him as

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3744-466: 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 before his attack. /sci/ is 4chan's science and mathematics board. 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

3816-561: The lack of data retention on the site ("The site has no memory."). In April 2010, Poole gave evidence in the trial United States of America v. David Kernell as a government witness. As a witness, he explained the terminology used on 4chan to the prosecutor, ranging from "OP" to " lurker ". He also explained to the court the nature of the data given to the FBI as part of the search warrant , including how users can be uniquely identified from site audit logs. The "random" board, /b/ , follows

3888-565: The maximum bandwidth throughput of 4chan from 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. Unlike most web forums, 4chan does not have a registration system, allowing users to post anonymously . Posting is ephemeral , as threads receiving recent replies are " bumped " to the top of their respective board and old threads are deleted as new ones are created. Any nickname may be used when posting, even one that has been previously adopted, such as "Anonymous" or "moot". In place of registration, 4chan has provided tripcodes as an optional form of authenticating

3960-416: The outside world, as fags . They are often referred to by outsiders as trolls , who regularly act with the intention 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

4032-662: The ownership rights to 4chan, without disclosing the terms of the acquisition. Nishimura was the former administrator of 2channel between 1999 and 2014, the website forming the basis for anonymous posting culture which influenced later websites such as Futaba Channel and 4chan; Nishimura lost 2channel's domain after it was seized by his registrar, Jim Watkins due the latter's alleged financial difficulties. Wired later reported that Japanese toy manufacturer Good Smile Company , Japanese telecommunication Dwango , and Nishimura's company Future Search Brazil may have helped facilitate Nishimura's purchase, with anonymous sources telling

4104-427: The platform appears to be for clearly illegal content, such as child pornography . Everything else remains untouched." 4chan has been the target of occasional denial of service attacks . For instance, on December 28, 2010, 4chan and other websites went down due to such an attack, following which Poole said on his blog, "We now join the ranks of MasterCard , Visa , PayPal , etc and is an exclusive club!" The site

4176-454: The publication that Good Smile obtained partial ownership in the website as compensation. In October 2016, it was reported that the site was facing financial difficulties that could lead to its closure or radical changes. In a post titled "Winter is Coming", Hiroyuki Nishimura explained, "We had tried to keep 4chan as is. But I failed. I am sincerely sorry", citing server costs, infrastructure costs, and network fees. On November 17, 2018, it

4248-544: The same fictional universe . A stand-alone wiki was created in January 2008 on the EditThis wiki hosting service to display the SCP articles. The EditThis website did not have moderators, or the ability to delete articles. Members communicated through individual article talk pages and the /x/ board. /x/ was the first place where the 2015 viral video 11B-X-1371 was posted. The board also contributed to investigating and popularizing

4320-502: The same. In 2010, 4chan had implemented reCAPTCHA in an effort to thwart spam arising from JavaScript worms. By November 2011, 4chan made the transition to utilizing Cloudflare following a series of DDoS attacks. The 4chan imageboards were rewritten in valid HTML5 / CSS3 in May 2012 in an effort to improve client-side performance. On September 28, 2012, 4chan introduced a "4chan pass" that, when purchased, "allows users to bypass typing

4392-437: The site online, and turned to advertising to help make ends meet. However, the explicit content hosted on 4chan has deterred businesses who do not want to be associated with the site's content. In January 2009, Poole signed a new deal with an advertising company; in February 2009, he was $ 20,000 in debt, and the site was continuing to lose money. The 4chan servers were moved from Texas to California in August 2008, which upgraded

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4464-622: 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 that implements Randall Munroe 's " ROBOT9000 " algorithm, where no exact reposts are permitted. It is credited as the origin of the "greentext" rhetorical style 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

4536-508: The term " an hero " [ sic ] as a synonym for suicide , after a misspelling in the Myspace online memorial of seventh grader Mitchell Henderson. 4chan and other websites, such as the satirical Encyclopedia Dramatica , have also contributed to the development of significant amounts of leetspeak . A lolcat is an image combining a photograph of a cat with solecistic text intended to contribute humour, widely popularized by 4chan in

4608-496: The works of Duster , 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 . This was described by NPR as resembling "a secret club of preservationists obsessed with the articulation of a near-dead language". The board has attracted further attention for various projects done by its users. A group called The Pablo Collective posted

4680-494: Was "hands-off, leaving moderation of the site primarily to RapeApe." Neither Nishimura nor RapeApe responded to these allegations. Far-right extremism has been reported by public authorities, commentators and civil society groups as connected, in part, to 4chan, an association that had arisen by 2015. According to 4chan's filings to the New York Attorney General's Office, 4chan signed an agreement to pay RapeApe $ 3,000

4752-400: Was added in late 2006, after /b/ users spent most 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 rule

4824-493: Was announced that the site would be split into two, with the work-safe boards moved to a new domain, 4channel.org, while the NSFW boards would remain on the 4chan.org domain. In a series of posts on the topic, Nishimura explained that the split was due to 4chan being blacklisted by most advertising companies and that the new 4channel domain would allow for the site to receive advertisements by mainstream ad providers. All boards returned to

4896-432: Was being written about her and participated in discussions. The SCP Foundation , a fictional secret organization documented by the collaborative writing wiki project of the same name, originated on /x/ in 2007, when the first SCP file, SCP-173, was posted by an anonymous user. Initially a stand-alone short story, many additional SCP files were created shortly after; these new SCPs copied SCP-173's style and were set within

4968-445: Was created at /l/ (Lolikon), but was disabled following the posting of genuine child pornography and ultimately deleted in October 2004, after threats of legal action. In February 2004, GoDaddy suspended the 4chan.net domain, prompting Poole to move the site to its current domain at 4chan.org. On March 1, 2004, Poole announced that he lacked the funds to pay the month's server bill, but was able to continue operations after receiving

5040-446: Was due in part to 4chan. In his American incarnation, Pedobear is an anthropomorphic bear child predator that is often used within the community to mock contributors showing a sexual interest in children. Pedobear is one of the most popular memes on non-English imageboards, and has gained recognition across Europe, appearing in offline publications. It has been used as a symbol of pedophilia by Maltese graffiti vandals prior to

5112-458: Was launched as 4chan.net on October 1, 2003, by Christopher Poole, a then-15-year-old student from New York City using the online handle "moot". Poole had been a regular participant on Something Awful 's subforum "Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse" (ADTRW), where many users were familiar with the Japanese imageboard format and Futaba Channel ("2chan.net"). When creating 4chan, Poole obtained Futaba Channel's open source code and translated

5184-927: 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. The music board, /mu/ , is dedicated to the discussion of music artists, albums, genres, and instruments. Described as "4chan's best kept secret" and a "surprisingly artistic side of 4chan", /mu/ is used by users to share their music interests with similar minds and discover "great music they would never have found otherwise" with many moments of insightful candor that can affirm or challenge their own musical tastes. The board has gained notoriety for earnestly focusing upon and promoting challenging and otherwise obscure music. Some common genres discussed on /mu/ include shoegaze , experimental hip hop , witch house , IDM , midwest emo , vaporwave , and K-pop . There

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