Programmers 4Chan or “That which shall not be named”
4Chan Background:
- Created by “moot” or Christopher Poole in 2003, from his New York bed room, he was 15 at the time
- 4chan is based on the popular Japanese image board 2chan
- The random board or /b/ is the first and most popular board, there 48 boards now
- Originally a board to share all things anime, there is now high amounts of pornography trading and distasteful jokes
Internet Meme Factory
“A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with "cream"[1]) is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena.” – Wikipedia
“The term Internet meme (pronounced /ˈmeːme/, rhyming with "cream"[1]) is used to describe a concept that spreads swiftly via the Internet.[2] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.” – Wikipedia
- 4chan is known as the Internet meme factory, they have started many of the internets biggest trends since its creation:
1) Lol Cats – Was created when board members started posting pictures of their cats on Saturdays or “Caturday” as they called it. But one day someone put a picture up of a hefty cat with the lolspeak “I can has cheezeburger” and the meme spiralled from there
2) Rickrolling – This was created when “moot” changed the word “egg” to “duck” in every post, therefore changing “egg roll” to “duck roll”, this lead to “bait and switching” links that lead to a photoshoped image of a duck on wheels. Move forward to the invent of youtube, links of wanted videos (trailers for video games) were leading to Rick Astleys “Never Gunna Give you up”
3) “Chocolate Rain” was noticed by 4chan users who viewed the video numerous times and put it on the front page of youtube
4) “Pedobear” – Is a pedophile bear that is photoshopped into images of children
5) Too many more to count!
Social Activism
“The most powerful people on the Internet don't work for Microsoft, Google or the government. Rather, they're a bunch of antisocial, foul-mouthed, clever nerds who congregate at a largely unknown Web site called 4chan.org.” – Taryn Sauthoff, Fox News
- Members of 4chan got angry when a leaked video of Tom Cruse was pulled off the internet, they over crowded any Scientology website they could find
- A month later, February 10 2008, 7,000 anonymous protested 100 Scientology locations World Wide
- They have also put a stop to school bombing/shootings from posts on 4chan
- Do not mess with animals and post the video, they can find out who you are within 24 hours and can have you arrested in 48
- Hacked Sarah Palin’s email during her 2008 Election Campaign bid
- In 2009 they “porn attacked” YouTube over new copyright laws, tagging porn clips with names like Hanna Montana
Hacked Internet Polls
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- They have hacked and controlled internet polls put on by Oprah, Justin Beiber and most interestingly the Time Magazine Website. They voted 4chan’s creator as the most influential person in 2009, but also arranged “Marblecake Also the Game” a 4chan meme statement
Bibliography
For moots talk at TED please check out this first link!
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