In its earliest years /b/ started prank calling the radio show of nazi Hal Turner, then messed with Stomfront as the conflict widened. There was little activist component to this. They just thought it was funny to rile…
I lied about my age and was given janitor access in the mid 2000s. There was a special /j/ board to coordinate on, but it broke relatively early, and you mostly had to hang out in the #janiteam channel on Rizon. I think…
My official association with 4chan ended in 2010, but I still recognise a good third of those names and would wager the leak is legit.
RIP /prog/. One of the most brilliantly idiotic communities to grace the web.
Journalists do this all the time now. They coordinate reporting to manufacture controversy that will hopefully shame advertisers into censoring opinions they find disagreeable. Most of the time it's a massive cope…
There was a lot of well-founded animosity towards SomethingAwful in the early days of 4chan. How could you respect anybody who paid money to talk to people online? It was so contrary to the spirit of the internet. SA's…
Yeah nah. I think all that radicalisation is more easily explained by America being a terrible country full of miserable people. I thought (re)creating /pol/ was a bad move at the time, but it's very out of touch to…
Throwaway. Was involved with 4chan in the 00s. Not ashamed of it, but not proud enough to associate it with my name. People totally forget about 4chan's textboards, which ran on Shiichan. They're closed now, but even…
In its earliest years /b/ started prank calling the radio show of nazi Hal Turner, then messed with Stomfront as the conflict widened. There was little activist component to this. They just thought it was funny to rile…
I lied about my age and was given janitor access in the mid 2000s. There was a special /j/ board to coordinate on, but it broke relatively early, and you mostly had to hang out in the #janiteam channel on Rizon. I think…
My official association with 4chan ended in 2010, but I still recognise a good third of those names and would wager the leak is legit.
RIP /prog/. One of the most brilliantly idiotic communities to grace the web.
Journalists do this all the time now. They coordinate reporting to manufacture controversy that will hopefully shame advertisers into censoring opinions they find disagreeable. Most of the time it's a massive cope…
There was a lot of well-founded animosity towards SomethingAwful in the early days of 4chan. How could you respect anybody who paid money to talk to people online? It was so contrary to the spirit of the internet. SA's…
Yeah nah. I think all that radicalisation is more easily explained by America being a terrible country full of miserable people. I thought (re)creating /pol/ was a bad move at the time, but it's very out of touch to…
Throwaway. Was involved with 4chan in the 00s. Not ashamed of it, but not proud enough to associate it with my name. People totally forget about 4chan's textboards, which ran on Shiichan. They're closed now, but even…