[131] In January 2010, members of the site attacked YouTube again in response to the suspension of YouTube user lukeywes1234 for failing to meet the minimum age requirement of thirteen. [178], Also in August 2014, 4chan was involved in the Gamergate controversy, which began with unsubstantiated allegations about indie game developer Zoë Quinn from an ex-boyfriend, followed by false allegations from anonymous Internet users. bomb threat", "Australian Police Arrest Man Who Threatened to Attack Los Angeles Mall", "Teen Arrested for Threatening to Blow Up School", "Terroristic threatening in the second degree", "Indianapolis Man Arrested for Threatening Boston Free Speech Rally Attendees in 2017", "Another 4chan User Gets Busted By FBI: Student, 19, facing child porn, death threat charges. [171], After 4chan reported a 15-year-old boy in California who posted child pornography, the United States Department of Homeland Security raided his home on June 7, 2011, and took all of his electronic items. [150][151][152][153] The incident turned out to be a hoax; the "weapons" were toys and there were no actual bombs. All we can do, therefore, is follow reliable sources. [87][88], In 2005, a meme known as the "duckroll" began, after Poole used a word filter to change "egg" to "duck" across 4chan. 2016 United States presidential campaign. [165], On November 29, 2010, Ali Saad, a 19-year-old, was arrested and had his home raided by the FBI for posting child pornography and death threats on 4chan. [160] A 21-year-old man was arrested after 4chan provided the police with the IP address of the poster. "[199] The victim was Amber Lynn Coplin, aged 30. Now, if me actually attempting to translate a meme (and purely a visual gag at that) hasn’t put you off then chances are you’re likely to read this review about the updated C-HR which has just landed, looking like nothing has changed except for the price. [9] According to Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, /pol/ was created by "4chan's founder […] to siphon off and contain the overtly xenophobic and racist comments and memes from other wings of 4chan. Now, if me actually attempting to translate a meme (and purely a visual gag at that) hasn’t put you off then chances are you’re likely to read this review about the updated C-HR which has just landed, looking like nothing has changed except for the price. [95][96][97][98] Her rise to exposure began in late 2008 and early 2009, surrounding self-made videos that were initially made to be posted to her Gaia Online profile. 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. ALSO, THE GAME. 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Use our side by side comparison to help you make a decision. The show was first discussed with some interest around its debut in October 2010. Website under scrutiny after shootings", "Oregon shooting: Did 4chan trolls incite Chris Harper-Mercer to massacre at Umpqua Community College? January 25, 2011", "#GamerGate: the misogynist movement blighting the video games industry", "Chat logs show how 4chan users created #GamerGate controversy", "8chan, the central hive of Gamergate, is also an active pedophile network", "Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend", "Incels, 4chan and the Beta Uprising: making sense of one of the Internet's most-reviled subcultures", "What is 4chan? [9] 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 4chan community was able to track down the originator of the videos, a fourteen-year-old from Lawton, Oklahoma, and passed his details to his local police department. Coming standard across the range is advanced safety equipment such as AEB with pedestrian detection, active cruise control, lane departure alert with steering assistance, auto high beam, and blind spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert. Know Your Meme (KYM) is a website and video series where various Internet memes and other online phenomena are documented, such as viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, internet celebrities and more. [114][115][116][117], A report of Jeffrey Epstein's death was posted on /pol/ around 40 minutes before ABC News broke the news. 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, et al.—an exclusive club! Libertarian and Ancap have also gotten a lot of shipping behind them. We need sympathy after that landwhale got all the liberals teary eyed, so someone is going to have to make it look like the left is becoming more violent and radicalized. He'll find her, then call the cops. Coming standard across the range is advanced safety equipment such as AEB with pedestrian detection, active cruise control, lane departure alert with steering assistance, auto high beam, and blind spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert. It's popular everywhere. 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[25][41][42] 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;[43] Nishimura lost 2channel's domain after it was seized by his registrar, Jim Watkins,[44][45] after the latter alleged financial difficulties. [9] 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. "[55], 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. This message resulted in the Church receiving threatening phone calls. [81][82][83][84], Many early memes that originated at 4chan have gained media attention. Yes, my name is an ancap meme and I am an anarcho-capitalist. The games proceeded as planned but under a higher level of security awareness. [28][29] In February 2004, GoDaddy suspended the 4chan.net domain, prompting Poole to move the site to its current domain at 4chan.org. A multitude of /b/ visitors followed the order and pushed the symbol to the top of the chart, though Google later removed the result. The body was discovered in Port Orchard, Washington, after the images were posted. [155] The post, accompanied by an image of another man holding a shotgun, threatened a shopping mall near Beverly Hills. By November 2011, 4chan made the transition to utilizing Cloudflare following a series of DDoS attacks. My position is that based on the reliable sources, self-ownership is a significant enough of a tenet to warrant inclusion in the lead. [191][192] It gained more traction on the forum following the Umpqua Community College shooting, where it is believed that the shooter, Chris Harper-Mercer, also warned people not to go to school in the Northwest hours prior to the shooting as users encouraged him. The hacker posted the account's password on /b/, and screenshots from within the account to WikiLeaks. If you mean the left-right spectrum, that's designed to be a simplification, so expecting complexity or nuance is misguided. 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