The most elusive Internet giant 4 chan has seen a lot of news recently --
A little good.
First, the site was accused of leaking nude photos stolen by dozens of female celebrities.
Later, it invented an unfunny and inexplicable \"mascot\" for Ebola and encouraged new iPhone users without wisdom to microwave their phones. (
The latter rumor gained such an appeal that the Los Angeles Police Department felt compelled to step in. )
Apparently believing that the \"Ninth Circle of Hell\" is not enough to destroy itself, suspicious virus marketers pretend to be 4 chan users and then pretend to invade Emma Watson\'s nudity
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4 units required to be closed.
\"The recent disclosure of nude photos by 4 chan celebrities is a violation of privacy,\" hoaxsters complained in an open letter against 4 chan, \"and [are]
This also makes it clear that the internet needs to be reviewed.
\"How exactly does an anonymous website cause this anger?
And a series of completely anonymous Times --
Sensitive message board-
Message board with interface directly from the era of geographical city-
Is there such a far-reaching impact on the entire internet?
What\'s more: Who are these people, don\'t they have better things to do?
Don\'t worry, confused readers.
We have answers.
4 chan is a completely anonymous seriesgoes forums.
4 chan is not much different in layout and basic operations than Reddit, be it scary or other large
Internet forum of scale.
This site is divided into several threads where users can discuss different topics --
From civet coffee to sex toys-
Users like 22 million do this every month.
However, there are a few things that make 4 chan different as a forum.
First of all, unlike Reddit, users do not need to register an account or select a username-
Even fake names.
This means that participants can say almost anything they want to do with the most distant threat of accountability.
This also means that unless other users reveal their identity in some way, you cannot message them or establish any social relationship with them.
This is strange for social networks.
In fact, many social scientists take the time to study exactly how it works.
More complicated, the 4 chan thread expires after a certain amount of time
Shorter R-TIME
Rated board, longer time for G or PG Board-
This gives the whole operation a sense of impermanence, meaning that it is difficult for the user to see exactly the same thing.
Few posts will last more than a few days before they are removed from a 4 chans server.
Reverse organization Post-
In chronological order
Although \"organized\" may have exaggerated it.
4 The interface of chans is deliberate, untimely minimalism, which makes the non-
General user access.
Bottom line: 4 chan is a forum
There\'s nothing crazy or mysterious there.
This is just a forum with no name, no rules, no consequences, this is (a)
With almost all other mainstream social property and (b)
Means people canand do! )
They say whatever they want.
According to the website\'s own statistics, the vast majority of users of the website are young college students.
Educated men who are interested in Japanese culture, video games, comics and technology.
Most people live in English.
Country-
United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
But the site also has a lot of traffic from Germany, Sweden and France.
Inlate2010, a 4 chan user made (
Completely unscientific)
A survey of other site users found that, among other things, most 4 chan users do not discuss the site offline and most users do not let their children join.
The founder of the website urged readers to accept the investigation \"with a grain of salt --
He noted that due to the high anonymity of the site, it was ultimately impossible to determine who used it.
Three reasons: First of all, 4 chan is the original incubator for a large number of memes and behaviors that we now consider to be at the heart of mainstream internet culture.
Second, 4 chan has been responsible for some of the biggest shenanigans, cyberbullying and Internet shenanigans over the past five years.
Third, anonymous started on 4 chan.
The hacker group is playing an increasingly important role in the news from Ferguson to storbenville rape.
In short, the full list given to the Internet by 4 chan will be very extensive.
But start with the good :. . . . . . Bad start: The list continues.
There are several rules.
Users are prohibited from violating US laws. S.
Laws, including copyright laws, and laws that publish personal information of others on the website, impersonate webmasters, and use robots.
Users can post racism, graphics, and other \"weird\" materials, but only on the blackboard. (
There will be more later. )
4 chan has a team of referees who call it \"moderators\" and \"gatekeepers\" who can delete posts and ban users who publish illegal content.
But as we all know, 4 chan is too tight.
Who will ease it? and how much.
Jackie Chan seems to think secrecy is part of his spirit.
\"The end user cannot accurately judge the moderate amount that occurs at any given point in time,\" the site explains in its FAQ . \".
This does not mean that 4 chan is inherently evil, nor does it mean that everything on the site has fallen.
Like Reddit or Hacker News or anything else, good and bad coexist.
You will get message boards like/B/that are often spread in Gore and other shocking pornography.
But you also have people talk about how to bake raw coffee beans, or how to be gay for family members.
4 chan\'s board themes include cooking, fitness, fashion, technology, music and math;
They also include several discussions dedicated to weapons, \"politically incorrect\" discussions and hardcore --
Frequent interruptions-porn.
Much of the content of the site is devoted to anime, manga and other Japanese cultural works, a legacy created by the site in 2003.
When Christopher, founder of 4 chan (“moot”)
Poole created the site in October of the same year, and he mainly attracted the community in a terrible anime Forum.
15-year-old Poole was in his middle now. 20s.
Chan has 63 \"board\" or sub-forums as of this article. Two of those —/b/ and /pol/ —
Mainly responsible for the small number of 4 chans-than-
Excellent reputation.
/Pol/, or \"politically incorrect\", exists on the surface to discuss news and politics --
However, these discussions are often replaced by racial discrimination or defamation of women.
Of course, this is not much different from the Washington Post comments section.
But when The Washington Post hires employees to make sure
Words and other impolite things don\'t happen very often,/pol/hurls them.
This is where we saw the birth of the Ebola virus. chan” meme.
However, as/pol/can get,/B/is completely another animal.
The board is a catch.
All/release valves for all rape porn
Injury pictures, and creepy drawings of children who are not allowed to dress in other forums.
This is also designed: technically 4 chan prohibits tracking, racism and weird images elsewhere on the site, but allows it to enter/B /.
Not even/B/completely bad-
Just posted a debate this morning.
But it\'s still an unpredictable grab.
Random, disgusting and totally weird bag.
In one sentence, what happened on 4 chan won\'t stay on 4 chan
In any case, not when it gets bigger. In-
Jokes and Other well-meaning ephemera tend to be organically filtered out through the user\'s other online networks and social media accounts. (
As I wrote earlier this month, Celebgate reached the mainstream through a Reddit/4 chan union user named John Meneses. )
But 4 chan is often more proactive in pushing his creations to the public.
For example, when users plan a major prank or prank, they usually create fake Twitter accounts and tags to spread stories or attract media attention.
They are also very good at playing any platform that displays content based on popularity: This includes not only Twitter that highlights the \"trends\" theme, but also YouTube and Google Trends.
Because some forums have been very successful in getting a group of people to act at the same time, 4 chans are considered \"some of the highest --
Brief introduction to collective action in the history of the Internet.
\"To be honest, it\'s hard to guess the motives of the 4 chans, especially since no one knows exactly who used the site and there are no exact numbers.
But in general, according to the many hours of stay on the site, people who spread pranks are often on the site for lulz-
In other words, gloating.
Laugh at the heartfelt happiness of other people\'s stupidity/sacrifice.
Even ten years after the launch, it is clear that 4 chan was created by a teenage boy
I suspect that it is also clear that many of its users still belong to this group, despite 4 chan\'s insistence on not allowing minors to access the site. (
It tells us that when you enter \"4 chan users\" in Google, one of the first suggested searches is \"… It\'s a loser. ”)
Of course, there are many other reasons for using 4 chan.
For others, 4 chan\'s aggressive anonymity can also serve as a safe space, a place to discuss the interest or curiosity of taboos elsewhere. (
It\'s no coincidence that the Brony sub-culture has its own 4 chan board. )
Frequency of offensive language and slander
Used so casually, not even maliciously
This seems to indicate that users are just eager for a place to get rid of any social rules.
In fact, Poole said so much in an interview with The New York Times on 2010: that is, there is no doubt that many legitimate racism, mystics, homophobia, pedophile and other annoying people also flock to 4 chan.
Those shady characters mixed up with pranks and militants
Anonymous advocates, make an unstable mixture: a place where any mischief is entirely possible. Wrong.
Outside of \"Rantic Marketing --
Serial prank/annoying Internet guy that generated EmmaWatson-nudes faux-
Scandal this week
Few would like to see 4 chan offline.
Poole, founder of the site, believes convincingly that having and stripping multiple identities online has intrinsic value.
4 chan is really a hotbed of creativity and dialogue, even if most of this creativity and dialogue is something you may not want to see.
That is to say, 4 chan\'s mild-
Like Reddit\'s-
Leave what you want, especially since it is very, black and opaque.
As far as we know, Poole himself is the only wizard behind the scenes.
But maybe this metaphor is inappropriate.
After all, it seems to mean someone is hosting the 4 chan show.
When everything is said and done, 4 chans infinite, unrevealed anarchy is its defining feature --
It becomes the reason why it is an Internet monster that is equally annoying and unknown.