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'''4chan''' is many things to many people. Originally Faux News viewed 4chan as a hazardous "Leftist Internet Hate Machine" filled with domestic terrorists. To others, it is that site full of [[astroturfing|astroturfers]], weeaboos, trolls, children, and pedophiles that churns out some of the internet's most viral content. It has also developed | '''4chan''' is many things to many people. Originally Faux News viewed 4chan as a hazardous "Leftist Internet Hate Machine" filled with domestic terrorists. To others, it is that site full of [[astroturfing|astroturfers]], weeaboos, trolls, children, and pedophiles that churns out some of the internet's most viral content. It has also developed its own subculture defined by trolling, sociopathy, far-right-wing politics, and anti-feminism. This subculture as of 2019 permeates much of the internet including many incel forums and wikis. | ||
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4chan got | 4chan got its start from Something Awful. Moot and some other faggots needed a site that they could host their creepy anime. Moot also had an obsession with 2Channel so he decided to download Futabally and translate it to English, then host it on a webserver. He originally sent it to 20 of his goon friends and eventually everyone in SA's Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse and every other Something Awful board full of closet anime pedophiles (all of them) started to use 4chan and the Internet Hate Machine began. | ||
Launched on October 1, 2003; the site quickly became popular, expanded, and now features boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime/manga to videogames, music, literature, fitness, politics, and sports. /b/ was the first board to be created, and is the one that receives the most traffic. It's an open secret that /b/ is modded by the feds. | Launched on October 1, 2003; the site quickly became popular, expanded, and now features boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime/manga to videogames, music, literature, fitness, politics, and sports. /b/ was the first board to be created, and is the one that receives the most traffic. It's an open secret that /b/ is modded by the feds. | ||