The site was launched as 4chan.net on October 1, 2003, by Christopher Poole, a then-15-year-old student from New York City using the online handle “moot”.[25] Poole had been a regular participant on Something Awful’s subforum “Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse” (ADTRW), where many users were familiar with the Japanese imageboard format and Futaba Channel (“2chan.net”).
4chan got it’s start from Something Awful moot a poster on ADTRW (The Anime Forum) and some other faggots needed a site that they could host their Child Porn Anime. Moot also had an obsession with 2Channel so he decided to download Futabally and translate it to English, then host it on a webserver. He originally sent it to 20 of his goon friends and eventually everyone in ADTRW and every other Something Awful board full of closet anime pedophiles (all of them) started to use 4chan and the Internet Hate Machine began.
Makes a lot of sense lol. I appreciate your usage of ED as a source, I find that reading between the opinions yields some shockingly accurate web history. I remember being shocked at their articles for gay and trans people… and then you read the one on straight people and realize they believe in equal treatment.
I love going back to browse ED occasionally. Both because it’s such a blast from the past with so many memes and references I’ve forgotten about, and also just how absolutely batshit insane it is
ED actually fully lives up to the ‘every one is incompetent, stupid and slur, now lemme break down why’, kind of edginess from 2000’s net … ‘discourse’.
And yeah, as you say, it’s written basically with the ‘editorial directive’ to be as merciless and cruel as possible… but it does actually contain a good bit of … well, either actually sourced, or as close to well sourced as is possible for stupid shitshow drama in some tiny community that wiped out all that stuff a decade+ ago, but turns out to be relevant a decade later because the fates ordained this one particular random weirdo to be massively influential.
Wonderful.
It’s from SomethingAwful, an even older and possibly an even more wretched hive of scum and villainy than 4chan.
This is just more netlore at this point, but:
m00t made 4chan after either convincing a bunch of users of SA’s hentai forum to come join his new cooler and better site without censorship on loli…
… or he just actually got banned from SA for posting too much loli, and thus was 4chan.
I can’t actually source that last claim definitively, but I swear I’ve seen a video with LowTax stating such.
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
Encyclopedia Dramatica:
https://edramatica.com/4chan
Lowtax banning Hentai put the fascists into power in the US.
Makes a lot of sense lol. I appreciate your usage of ED as a source, I find that reading between the opinions yields some shockingly accurate web history. I remember being shocked at their articles for gay and trans people… and then you read the one on straight people and realize they believe in equal treatment.
I love going back to browse ED occasionally. Both because it’s such a blast from the past with so many memes and references I’ve forgotten about, and also just how absolutely batshit insane it is
ED actually fully lives up to the ‘every one is incompetent, stupid and
slur, now lemme break down why’, kind of edginess from 2000’s net … ‘discourse’.And yeah, as you say, it’s written basically with the ‘editorial directive’ to be as merciless and cruel as possible… but it does actually contain a good bit of … well, either actually sourced, or as close to well sourced as is possible for stupid shitshow drama in some tiny community that wiped out all that stuff a decade+ ago, but turns out to be relevant a decade later because the fates ordained this one particular random weirdo to be massively influential.
They even have two separate articles for Trump, each from the complete opposite perspective.
That’s hilarious. They’re really keeping the spirit of the wild west-era internet alive.