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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,032 18.5%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 343 6.1%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,325 41.7%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,093 19.6%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 219 3.9%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 570 10.2%

  • Total voters
    5,582
Holy shit, that's still around, kinda
not4chan.org

Clearly a restart but includes a LOT of old things like a ~2005 archive of 4chan
Old videos from that era
And other stuff

Feels like I just opened a time capsule

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Doing it for free, for almost 20 years
I wonder if at the inevitable heat death of the universe the last janny in existence will wonder why he wasted his whole life doing it for free.
 
I wonder if at the inevitable heat death of the universe the last janny in existence will wonder why he wasted his whole life doing it for free.
It's pathetic in the case of 4chan and reddit jannies because it's all a power thing, but I do feel for the jannies who do it for free out of passion/love like KF's jannies.
 
Wasnt he 15 when he started 4chan? I think he was just a teen that wanted to host a website on which anything goes. I dont think at that point in time he thought that would attract actual CP posters, or that he would have to appear in court to explain 4chan lingo, or that he would deal with a bunch of celebrity lawyers angry at him for hosting a fappening hotspot.
Can someone tell me who the family of Christopher Poole is? I can't find anything. It might shed light on why he was basically invulnerable to the law during his tenure. And he passed the torch to the original guy who also suspiciously came out of nowhere and is legally immune with the same unlimited bandwidth with virtually no ads imageboard
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I just want to log this because I don't recall seeing anything about it come up after the site went down.
In the last several months on 4chan, I experienced something a few times, which I had never experienced in many years of posting. I would be banned for certain posts, usually a violation of the Racism rule. But these posts would be made and tied to my IP when I was not at home, or was asleep. On 2 of the 3 noted occasions, they were posts I had made weeks prior, repeated word for word and then following with an issued ban. The odd 1 out, was a thread started on /tv/ just posting a black actress with an inflammatory remark.
I made none of these particular posts, and they were made on my IP which only I have access to. I also have experienced replies to various posts on 4chan in this timeframe, which I believe were made by unidentified moderators/janitors indicating they were watching me.
It all sounds very schizophrenic but I had never witnessed an "injected" post on my own IP that was also banworthy. It makes me uneasy because I suspect anything could be posted and tied to my IP if those posts were. Apologies for blogposting but knowing how much information the 4chan staff has access to with regards to the userbase just made me do a big thunk about it all.
 
Can someone tell me who the family of Christopher Poole is? I can't find anything. It might shed light on why he was basically invulnerable to the law during his tenure. And he passed the torch to the original guy who also suspiciously came out of nowhere and is legally immune with the same unlimited bandwidth with virtually no ads imageboard
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I feel like some Moot was just some Manhattan jew kid and both these guys were only figureheads.

I might be wrong, but I feel like the environment that Moot comes from doesn't produce the kind of guy he is and what 4chan was supposed to be on the surface.

I feel like it was all a psyop.
 
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Occams razor,never chalk up to malice which could be simple ignorance.

Moot probably got muscled around as a lackey of sorts by larger players.
A willing dupe, albiet involved, I’ve seen many a man loose their life simply because they were fascinated with being around and participating in the action.

Ancient “history” is written by the winners - I’ve heard.
 
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There's some degenerate altchan that kept spamming ads on 4chan that had a similar issue, so much pedo shit that they eventually had to shut it all down because it kept looping back to illegal content being posted/shared.
I believe you're thinking about Kimmo Alm's anontalk, basically a pedo board run by an actual pedo.
 
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Holy shit, that's still around, kinda
not4chan.org

Clearly a restart but includes a LOT of old things like a ~2005 archive of 4chan
Old videos from that era
And other stuff

Feels like I just opened a time capsule

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Doing it for free, for almost 20 years
He truly was a trailblazer in the art of running his own website for social rejects with the assistance of voluntary whipping boys.
 
I once got a ban for "racism" on /v/ for making a thread about how Debra Wilson is in a lot of games, not even calling her a nigger or anything. I guess if someone is black you aren't even allowed to point out the fact that they're everywhere. Or /v/ jannies have been conditioned to immediately make the association of black person = politics.
The funniest thing is that not even a month later she appeared in a trailer for Death Stranding 2 and her face got plastered all over the catalog.
 
Hmmm, I haven't been to /a/ in a long time, I wonder if there's anything good thats come out in the last couple years...
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Holy shit, that's still around, kinda
not4chan.org

Clearly a restart but includes a LOT of old things like a ~2005 archive of 4chan
Old videos from that era
And other stuff

Feels like I just opened a time capsule

View attachment 7309604
Doing it for free, for almost 20 years

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Even back then they hated gemmy raids, wtf is wrong with 4cuckers?
 
I once got a ban for "racism" on /v/ for making a thread about how Debra Wilson is in a lot of games, not even calling her a nigger or anything. I guess if someone is black you aren't even allowed to point out the fact that they're everywhere. Or /v/ jannies have been conditioned to immediately make the association of black person = politics.
The funniest thing is that not even a month later she appeared in a trailer for Death Stranding 2 and her face got plastered all over the catalog.
Thats nothing, I got banned on /co/ for saying I dont like Miles Morales and that hes a blatant PR push from Marvel/Disney. Another time I got banned for saying the jeet who got Apu cancelled was a snake-in-the-grass. But these were just on /co/ itself. Ironically I’ve seen people blatantly admit they post porn and only get “warnings” or it just gets deleted and they can still post without issue.
 
And he passed the torch to the original guy who also suspiciously came out of nowhere and is legally immune with the same unlimited bandwidth with virtually no ads imageboard
Hiro's situation is obviously very weird. He lives in Paris and doesn't seem to have any legal troubles due to 4chan. All that while the Telegram founder was jailed in France for hosting a service with a lot less extremist content than 4chan.
 
wt snacks and moot in better days.webpwt snacks and moot in better days.webpIt all sounds very schizophrenic but I had never witnessed an "injected" post on my own IP that was also banworthy. It makes me uneasy because I suspect anything could be posted and tied to my IP if those posts were. Apologies for blogposting but knowing how much information the 4chan staff has access to with regards to the userbase just made me do a big thunk about it all.
Had something similar. Got a 3day ban, then while checking it I noticed I suddenly had a second, permanent ban for rule 1 dated half a year earlier. I wasn't even in the country, let alone at home, when that got filed. Spooked the shit out of me. Then a day later it was gone. It wouldn't surprise me their backend is so shit bans end up being shown to different IPs.
I feel like some Moot was just some Manhattan jew kid and both these guys were only figureheads.

I might be wrong, but I feel like the environment that Moot comes from doesn't produce the kind of guy he is and what 4chan was supposed to be on the surface.

I feel like it was all a psyop.
Why not. He was a teenager posting on SA, then wanted to make an anime focussed site based off of a japanese imageboard for him and his goon pals to screw around on. All the early mods were his friends. The garbage he had to shovel was a problem, but I think he was idealistic enough to enjoy the free form anonymous posting 4chan generated. Hell, I mailed him one time in 2011 about some stupid ban and he took the time to read the mail and respond to me, not even an automated response or some template. The CP was a problem but I think he managed to get some kind of understanding with the feds. He would hand them over all the data he had on them every time they posted, and in return he wouldn't get reamed.

Moot might not have been perfect, but I think his heart was in the right place. He stuck with the website for years, even as it drifted away from being a fun imageboard to anonymously discuss anime on, and instead became some shithole that started a tirefire disaster every other month.
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I mean, this is what 4chan amounted to early on.
 
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Hiro's situation is obviously very weird. He lives in Paris and doesn't seem to have any legal troubles due to 4chan. All that while the Telegram founder was jailed in France for hosting a service with a lot less extremist content than 4chan.
No, Telegram actually hosted channels for illegal stuff that gets immediately deleted on 4chan and the cops called on the poster. Shitwood would have never been able to jail that neckbeard if he was posting on Telegram instead of /pol/.
 
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