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4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, anime, fitness, politics, and sports, among others.
- Christopher Poole
Christopher Poole (born c. 1988 [1]), also known online as...
- Imageboard
4chan is an English-language imageboard based on the...
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- Hiroyuki Nishimura
Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村 博之, Nishimura Hiroyuki, born 16...
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While 4chan's /pol/ board is the most popular board under...
- Christopher Poole
4chan is an English language website based on the Japanese Futaba Channel where people can post and discuss pictures and other images. These types of sites are called imageboards. It was started in 2003 by Christopher Poole, known as "moot" online, who was 15 years old at the time.
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Common /pol/ content involves discussion of history, far-right ideologies, hatred of black people, hatred and sexual exploitation of women and girls and current news. A 2020 report categorized about 36% of news sources frequently posted to the board by American users as "junk news", a category that includes sources considered to be propaganda, sens...
Prior to the creation of /pol/, there were two boards intended for discussing news that had been added and removed from the site. The first of these was /n/, which was added on 8 April 2006. It replaced /n/'s previous topic of animals and nature, which was moved to the /an/ board. /n/'s topic was changed to transportation on 19 February 2008, witho...
/pol/ has been characterized as predominantly racist and sexist, with many of its posts taking explicitly alt-right and neo-Nazi points of view. In particular, the board is infamous for the prevalence of antisemitic threads and memes. One common antisemitic meme on /pol/ is the Happy Merchant. Southern Poverty Law Center regards /pol/'s rhetorical ...
Influence
A 2017 quantitative analysis found that /pol/ was an important influencer of news content on Twitter, with the board contributing 3% of mainstream news links and 1.96% of alternative news links on Twitter (as a fraction of all links co-appearing on Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan). The researchers concluded that "'fringe' communities often succeed in spreading alternative newsto mainstream social networks".
Content and userbase
According to a 2017 longitudinal study, using a dataset of over 8million posts, /pol/ is a diverse ecosystem with users well-distributed around the world. The percentage of posts containing hate speech ranges from 4.15% (e.g., in Indonesia, Arab countries) to 30% (e.g., China, Bahamas, Cyprus). Elevated use of hate speech is seen in Western European countries (e.g., Italy, Spain, Greece, and France). They also examined raids performed by /pol/ users against other platforms, particularly YouTu...
Research design
A study published in New Media & Society in January 2022 discussed the interactions between /pol/ users and the researchers who study their community. The study observed the reactions of /pol/ users to a research workshop dedicated to studying them. The researchers suggested that studies that aim to learn about the /pol/ community and its users should take into account (for research designpurposes) that they may be aware of observation by external entities, "rather than seeing it as a communi...
Jokubauskaitė, Emilija; Peeters, Stijn (2020). "Generally Curious: Thematically Distinct Datasets of General Threads on 4chan/Pol/". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Soci...Crawford, Blyth; Keen, Florence; de-Tangil, Guillermo Suarez (15 December 2020). "Memetic Irony and the Promotion of Violence within Chan Cultures" (PDF). Centre for Research and Evidence on Securi...Hagen, Sal (2020). "'Trump Shit Goes into Overdrive': Tracing Trump on 4chan/pol/". M/C Journal. 23 (3). Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology. doi:10.5204/mcj.1657. hd...Jin, J.; Williams, E.; Lams, S.; Savas, O.; Hohman, E.; Bosch-Ruiz, M.; Rodrigues, P. (5 November 2020). "Analysis of evolution of meme trends on 4chan.org's /pol/ board via image clustering" (PDF)..."It was like a 4chan post come to life." You may rightly despair of the politics. But this was jaw-dropping TV. It was from the start, when moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News ...
Nov 8, 2014 · 4chan’s roots date back to a pre-Facebook age of the Internet, where anonymity ruled and rules were few to come by. Hackers deposited nude celebrity photos on the site over the summer.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has identified a clever new malware obfuscation technique which they have observed circulating on 4chan message boards.
Jul 31, 2016 · At 15, he founded the freewheeling online image board 4chan, which achieved notoriety early on for hatching memes among a stew of not-safe-for-work content, ranging from inventive pornography to...
