Posts Tagged ‘4chan’

4chan webmaster/overlord moot (Christopher Poole) recently gave a speech during a recent TED conference regarding the genesis of the imageboard and its impact across the wider internet and mainstream pop culture. Mind the quality.

Following our previous coverage, 4chan has issued a statement on the heels of Verizon Wireless lifting their block (or, as Verizon argues, “protection”) against 4chan. Verizon Wireless early today argued that the denial of access stemmed from a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the internet site 4chan.org. That’s about the end of where 4chan [...]

As has been the case all weekend, Verizon Wireless is actively blocking the boards.4chan.org subdomain on port 80, which is where each individual image and discussion board is stored on the popular site, while allowing all other traffic free reign. In related news, Comcast itself filtered access to the main page and boards domain for [...]

Popular imageboard being blocked by second largest mobile service provider in the US with no official explanation.

Click for full-size. These were posted anonymously on 4chan’s /cgl/ board three days ago, with users frantically searching for the identity of the (presumably female) cosplayer who has managed to pull off a near perfect Rei plugsuit. Whether it be female, male (unlikely) or even trap (fine too) this is pure win. Anyone out there [...]

This thread on 4chan’s /cgl/ board about the worst examples of the mythical weeaboo and fangirl brought back a flood of hilarious and painful memories for me. If you’re not familiar with the term, a weeaboo is an extremely obsessed Japanese anime/manga fan (usually white, though there are exceptions) that goes out of their way [...]

I’ve been able to confirm along with several other users (as well as moot) that certain parts of the 4chan imageboard are being actively blocked by AT&T across all high-speed connections with all boards on the img server being blocked. Calls to tech support are dead ends as neither Tier 1 or Tier 2 are [...]

Four Leaf Studios, the virtual development studio formed by various 4chan users, has released the demo version of its first visual novel in Katawa Shoujo (“Cripple Girl”) with plans to finish the rest of the novel later this year. Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled [...]

The Washington Post has an illuminating interview with Chris Poole a.k.a moot of 4chan infamy. The interview delves into the history of the community as well as his current struggles with making the 5 million user site profitable in an example of turning a community into a living much in the same way as Facebook. [...]