Now the site is a .org, but other than that, little has changed. If you believe 4chan’s own reporting, the community is still mostly made up of young men interested in Japanese culture. (Though you’re supposed to be at least 18 to join, the mean age is presumed to be closer to...
It was appalling when the cretins of the internet started using artificial intelligence to create porn of people who don’t want porn made of them, but the newest trend from the darkest-and-dorkiest corner of the internet, 4chan, is using AI to “fix” images of provocatively dressed ...
we first encountered trumpism bubbling up through the chans—4chan, 8chan, 2chan—and reddit. in around 2015 it emerged into an essentially performative act. the original trump fans online were people who didn't believe in trump particularly, but they thought he was really funny. they essentia...
DC Courts Are Such A Mess Because Leftist Judges, Not POTUS, Pick Their Colleagues. 4Chan implies it will be back up soon: FBI must be dying without all the intel it was gathering running the site. It is interesting the site went down as 8Kun was under attack too, as if there is ...
While more ads might provide a short-term salve, shoddy or intentionally "malicious" ads are likely to not only to drive people away but also push them into flipping on ad blockers. While its future was never exactly certain, it seems the odds are now more stacked against 4chan than ever...
plunge into internet rabbit-holes on websites like 4chan in search of clues to the truth about Simon’s death, and struggle with the media’s perception of the events swarming through their gossip-obsessed high school. As they do so, social media, cell phones, computers, and other tools ...
Bing leads you down a path from a simple typo to 16-year-old girls to 10-year-old girls, and it's disgusting. Other examples are easy to find, too. If you search for "cheese pizza," which is 4chanslangfor child pornography, Bing suggests "Cheese Pizza Girls." ...
“Simon was one of those people who thought he should be at the center of everything, but wasn’t. And he was obsessed with the idea of making some kind of huge, violent splash at school. He fantasized about it all the time on those 4chan threads. What if this was his version of...
4chan is crawling with plots to meme the democratic candidate into defeat. one involves doctoring images to look like biden is using the pedobear as a mascot, an attempt to link biden to the conspiracy theories about elite democrats and pedophilia. it’s grim. part of this is a function of...
4chan and 8chan now host some of the most vile speech on the internet. There's also a business consideration. Many tech companies are feeling the public pressure of ensuring that users feel safe. To this end, most have adopted terms of service that provide some rules. Applerejected the Ga...