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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 908 18.2%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 253 5.1%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,139 42.9%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,011 20.3%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 181 3.6%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 498 10.0%

  • Total voters
    4,990
Fuck wojaks and especially fuck soyjaks. I can't stand the sight of them. They have far outlived their welcome.
Sorry to the sharty folks but they're a little too psycho for my tastes. The main humor from them is knowing that there's a near uncontacted tribe of castaways from /qa/ who have developed an extremely retarded dialect.
 
It would take a *well-maintained* website weeks to reinstall its whole system (FreeBSD 10.1 -> 14.2 or ideally -> Linux), identify every vulnerability in its now-exposed source code and patch them (4chan's tranny developers inept and couldn't do this even in a very maintainable source code, let alone their extremely poorly written monolithic .php files) and replace the members of staff who will now undoubtedly resign (good luck finding new ones).

It will take them MONTHS. And once those retards realize it will take months AT THE MINIMUM, they will give up. The only hope is hiroshimoot coughing up some money for new developers, but I doubt he cares about his drunk purchase enough to do that.
Depending on how pwnt they are, it could be anywhere from no time at all or dead forever. From the sounds of it, the hacker hasn't modified anything, which if the case you can expect it to come back sooner rather than later.
It's just a matter of running freebsd-update -r $MAJOR_RELEASE a bunch of times. Depending on the filesystem in use (ZFS/UFS) they might be able to get away with backing up the application dataset (hopefully they made one), reinstall the system, then import the dataset.
 
Gamergate did more to rip the mask off 4chan's jannies than anything else. For me the big indicator of a newfag who wasn't actually around during 4chan's heyday is insisting the 2016 election is when all hope was lost. It certainly didn't help, but by 2014 the userbase had a huge sense of distrust with the jannies that would never be repaired.
Never forget that when that shit went down, ZQ had 4chan staff actively deleting shit in real time to cover her ass.

On 4chan. The site where anything could and did get said.

That was when the cancer reached its terminal stage. Everything after was the site's hospice period.
 
To illustrate the absolute state of /v/ and how its horde of powerjannies have willfully let the board rot to the core, here's the archive of the first page of /v/ before it got shitcanned:
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Pajeet Xitter screenshot engagement farming/baiting thread at the top
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Gooner thread
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Tranny gooner thread.
3/5 threads on the front page of /v/, all complete garbage, displaying the decadence and decay the powerjannies and mods have allowed to fester on /v/, frozen in time for everyone to gawk at and cringe in embarrassment. At least now we have names of the jannies and hopefully they'll kill themselves.
 
Re: 4chan and Gamergate and the fallout from that during the Obama years

Is everything related to it the reason why the e-left still whines about Gamergate in 2025?
It's the Big Lie, they have to repeat it often because the narrative building around that was such bullshit and so much of what they do today is predicated on GamerGate like it's their own personal 9/11. The need for more "diversity, representation, inclusion" is because gaming was too white, male and toxic before and it needs to be fixed. Leftists believe that problematic people or communities have problematic voodoo that indoctrinates those people, so gaming being a hotbed of "radicalization" is also a problem.

The other thing is the way these people lie, it's always from a position of oppression and being attacked. So they love the drama, they need to frame it in a particular way. GamerGate wasn't people pointing out this nepotism or rejecting the progressive hipster dipshits gaining a cultural strangehold on gaming as both a medium and community, it was cryptofascists and Steve Bannon radicalizing gamers into hating women and gay people.

But there was also some weird shit like DARPA funneling money into these progressive agitprop groups to start pushing out the progressive messaging. Basically like the USAID thing, although that's probably more of an A&H area to get into than this thread.
 
I wonder if, assuming they bring 4chan back, what'll happen with the /pol9k/ infestation all over. Will all the /pol/-lite users infesting the other boards flee to altchans forever, or will they be the only ones that come back?
The average organic pol user is unironically a 42 year old man these days, they'll probably just go to twitter where they belong.
 
Sorry to the sharty folks but they're a little too psycho for my tastes. The main humor from them is knowing that there's a near uncontacted tribe of castaways from /qa/ who have developed an extremely retarded dialect.
That's how SA goons saw 4chan in the mid 2000s to where Lowtax outright banned the term "lulz" from being posted on SA.
 
The average organic pol user is unironically a 42 year old man these days, they'll probably just go to twitter where they belong.
People on twitter are bemoaning the idea that 4chan users might migrate there but there's less than 20k semi-active users on any given board whereas twitter's got a klan rally or gestapo meeting rivaling that daily
 
I wonder if, assuming they bring 4chan back, what'll happen with the /pol9k/ infestation all over. Will all the /pol/-lite users infesting the other boards flee to altchans forever, or will they be the only ones that come back?
to nu-channer tourists saying racial slurs is /pol/lite... shocking. /pol/ complainers were the worst trannies on that site
 
For those unaware mootle's fixation (the one that caused the 2014 Gamergate fiasco that more or less killed the site) was a Gawker employee named Mallory Blair Greitzer. Mallory and Zoe Quinn got along for whatever reason. Ben Garrison (yes that one) mocked mootikin's one-sided crush by doing his own research, talking to the girl, hearing what she had to say on the matter and releasing this drawing before news of Moot's departure broke anywhere:
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It's just a matter of running freebsd-update -r $MAJOR_RELEASE a bunch of times.
They also need to update almost every utility they use alongside the base system (not to mention the dependency hell just upgrading will create. They're better off rebuilding from scratch). All of this happened because of some package that hasn't updated since 2012.
 
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