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4chan.md

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 { Pre 2010 there used to be a cool 4chan wiki called Wikichan, now can be read at the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20070218235405/http://wikichan.org/wiki/Main_Page. ~drummyfish }
 
-Just as [reddit](reddit.md) is composed of subcommunities known as subreddits, 4chan consists of different boards (just as other image boards), each with given discussion topic and rules. The most (in)famous boards are likely *politically incorrect* AKA /pol/, where most of the american school shooters hang around, and *random* AKA /b/, the most active board, which is just a shitton of [meme](meme.md) shitposting, [porn](porn.md), [toxicity](toxic.md), [fun](fun.md), [trolling](troll.md) and retardedness (lately it turned to almost 100% porn).
+Just as [reddit](reddit.md) is composed of subcommunities known as subreddits, 4chan consists of different boards (just as other image boards), each with given discussion topic and rules. The most (in)famous boards are likely *politically incorrect* AKA /pol/, where most of the [american](usa.md) school shooters hang around, and *random* AKA /b/, the most active board, which is just a shitton of [meme](meme.md) shitposting, [porn](porn.md), [toxicity](toxic.md), [fun](fun.md), [trolling](troll.md) and retardation (lately degenerated practically to a 100% pure [porn](porn.md) board). Each board has developed its own lore, memes and traditions, and of course boards themselves have sometimes complicated relationships with each other, there may be hatred and [competition](competition.md) but also peace and collaboration. Various creative and entertaining [games](game.md) are part of 4chan too, for example the art board /ic/ now regularly creates collaborative art pieces wherein each anon paints in a specific smaller tile of a bigger picture. Some boards even have their own [wikis](wiki.md).
 
 For us the most relevant part of 4chan is probably the technology board known as /g/ (for technoloGEE). Browsing /g/ can bring all kinds of emotion, it's a place of relative freedom and somewhat beautiful chaos where all people from absolute retards to geniuses argue about important and unimportant things, brands, tech news and memes, and constantly advise each other to kill themselves for liking the wrong text editor or something. Sometimes the place is pretty [toxic](toxic.md) and not good for mental health, actually it is more of a rule than an exception.
 
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 Do not despair however, there are still other fairly enjoyable boards offering a more comfy, [fun](fun.md) and politics-free experience, such as /an/ (animals), /out/ (outside), /vr/ (retro video games), /wg/ (wallpapers) and a bunch of others. A mistake most newcomers make is to just check out /b/ and /pol/ and swiftly quit in disgust. 4chan is actually designed this way on purpose, these so called "[cancer](cancer.md)" boards exist to filter out noobs. Only a few will proceed to explore other boards and indeed, there is a reward for doing so. One usually finds a nice niche board where people are quite mature and you no longer want to kill yourself when reading the threads.
 
-Despite dwelling slightly [underground](underground.md) -- maybe better said suffering isolation from the normie "safespace" [censornet](censorship.md) -- 4chan's utmost significance for the whole Internet [culture](culture.md) cannot be overstated, long [books](book.md) could be written about its [history](history.md), culture, unique, intricate social mechanism of its ways of communication and impact on the rest of the cyberspace. Although the golden age of 4chan is long over and many of the original 4channers say it's absolute shit now ([Ashley Jones](ashley_jones.md) being one of them for example), it still remains a great phenomenon at least in [history](history.md) [books](books.md). the "4chan experience" is one of the things that can't faithfully be described by words, it has to be lived. Just like reddit mixed some interesting concepts into a unique, yet more powerful combination that's more than a sum of its ingredients, so did 4chan -- yes, other boards are to be credited for this too, but 4chan is the flagship, the center of it all. Especially important seems to be the anonymity aspect, you never know who you are talking to, it's never clear if someone is [trolling](troll.md), serious, shilling, extremely dumb or something in between. There is no karma, no handles, no profile pictures, no upvotes (at best there are numbers of replies), no post history, no account age, you have to rely on judging people by unusual attributes, for example by the style of their talk, their knowledge of the [lore](lore.md) and latest [memes](meme.md), by how they format their posts (e.g. the infamously hated empty lines), what images they attach, as these are the only clues. A thread on 4chan isn't something with a clear goal, you don't know if someone is asking a question because he wants a genuine answer or because he's just bored and wants to see funny answers, or if he's posting a bait and is trying to trigger others, so each discussion is a bit of a game, you're trying to guess what's going on. A famous post, for example, had itself heard that the poster despises translations of books and always reads any book in its original language despite not understanding a word of it, and that he already read works such as Don Quixote and Les Miserables in their respective languages without knowing what they were about -- this stupidity combined with extreme determination and dedication (usually known as [autism](autism.md)) captures part of what makes 4chan what it is. Also everything is temporary, every thread and image is deleted in a short time, which is an important factor too, everything is constantly in motion, people have to react quickly, there is no return, reactions are quick and genuine, if you miss something it's gone. Also the image memes themselves show how [art](art.md) (who cares if low) evolves in completely unrestrained environment, anyone can try to spawn a new meme or download anyone else's posted meme, repost it or [modify](remix_culture.md) it, copyright mostly [de facto](de_facto.md) won't apply as the authors are unknown; bad works are filtered out while good ones remain simply by making others save them and keep reposting them, it's art without authors, separated from the people, evolving completely on its own, purely by its intrinsic attributes, unconstrained evolution at work right before our eyes -- this is a seriously [scientifically](science.md) [interesting](interesting.md) stuff.
+Despite dwelling slightly [underground](underground.md) -- maybe better said suffering isolation from the normie "safespace" [censornet](censorship.md) -- 4chan's utmost significance for the whole Internet [culture](culture.md) (and perhaps beyond) cannot be overstated, long [books](book.md) could be written about its [history](history.md), culture, unique, intricate social mechanism of its ways of communication and impact on the rest of the cyberspace. Although the golden age of 4chan is long over and many of the original 4channers say it's absolute shit now ([Ashley Jones](ashley_jones.md) being one of them for example), it still remains a great phenomenon at least in [history](history.md) [books](books.md). Back when it still meant something, 4chan has even made it to the mainstream American TV news -- it was the unforgettable, precious segment aired in 2014 when the hosts debated the Fappening scandal and one of them asked: "But who is this 4chan?" This gave rise to the "[hacker](hacker.md) known as 4chan" meme. In the mainstream 4chan has always held this aura of extremism and lurking danger so much that most "normal" people feared even visiting it, thinking they would instantly get raided by FBI upon typing the URL, when in fact it's really nothing more than a silly little site. The "4chan experience" is one of the things that can't faithfully be described by words, it has to be lived. Just like reddit mixed some interesting concepts into a unique, yet more powerful combination that's more than a sum of its ingredients, so did 4chan -- yes, other boards are to be credited for this too, but 4chan is the flagship, the center of it all. Especially important seems to be the anonymity aspect, you never know who you are talking to, it's never clear if someone is [trolling](troll.md), serious, shilling, extremely dumb or something in between. There is no karma, no handles, no profile pictures, no upvotes (at best there are numbers of replies), no post history, no account age, you have to rely on judging people by unusual attributes, for example by the style of their talk, their knowledge of the [lore](lore.md) and latest [memes](meme.md), by how they format their posts (e.g. the infamously hated empty lines), what images they attach, as these are the only clues. A thread on 4chan isn't something with a clear goal, you don't know if someone is asking a question because he wants a genuine answer or because he's just bored and wants to see funny answers, or if he's posting a bait and is trying to trigger others, so each discussion is a bit of a game, you're trying to guess what's going on. A famous post, for example, had itself heard that the poster despises translations of books and always reads any book in its original language despite not understanding a word of it, and that he already read works such as Don Quixote and Les Miserables in their respective languages without knowing what they were about -- this stupidity combined with extreme determination and dedication (usually known as [autism](autism.md)) captures part of what makes 4chan what it is. Also everything is temporary, every thread and image is deleted in a short time, which is an important factor too, everything is constantly in motion, people have to react quickly, there is no return, reactions are quick and genuine, if you miss something it's gone. Also the image memes themselves show how [art](art.md) (who cares if low) evolves in completely unrestrained environment, anyone can try to spawn a new meme or download anyone else's posted meme, repost it or [modify](remix_culture.md) it, [copyright](copyright.md) mostly [de facto](de_facto.md) won't apply as the authors are unknown; bad works are filtered out while good ones remain simply by making others save them and keep reposting them, it's art without authors, separated from the people, evolving completely on its own, purely by its intrinsic attributes, unconstrained evolution at work right before our eyes -- this is a seriously [scientifically](science.md) [interesting](interesting.md) stuff.
 
 As of typing this https://4stats.io/ reports /pol/ as the most active board (~80 posts/min, ~150 threads/hour), followed by /v/, /tv/ and /b/.
 
-**Alternatives to 4chan**: just check out other image boards like 8kun, anon.cafe, leftychan.net, wizardchan, soyjak.party, [BAI](bai.md), 1436chan ([gopher](gopher.md)) etc. Also check out other types of forums than image boards such as saidit.net, voat or [encyclopedia dramatica](encyclopedia_dramatica.md) forums. You won't have much success searching for these using [Goolag](google.md).
+**Alternatives to 4chan**: just check out other image boards like 8kun, anon.cafe, leftychan.net, wizardchan, soyjak.party, tubgurl, [BAI](bai.md), 1436chan ([gopher](gopher.md)) etc. Also check out other types of forums than image boards such as saidit.net, voat, [kiwifarms](kiwifarms.md) or [encyclopedia dramatica](encyclopedia_dramatica.md) forums. You won't have much success searching for these using [Goolag](google.md).
 
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