They invented the bikini bridge out of thin air and then laughed when it became a real thing reported on by The Daily Mail. They arranged a birthday party for a lonely old man. In the past, 4chan users have acted as white knights in their fight against Scientology. Tao Lin references it in his work, and is believed to post on the /lit/ board. From a literary perspective, I’d argue the average greentext story (personal stories told in point form) is more engaging than 90% of what I see from aspiring writers. Poole’s English-language answer to an anime image board called 2Chan spawned the hacker group Anonymous, generates many of the memes you (eventually) enjoy on Facebook, and is peerless in its ability to rustle jimmies. While there are many similar Chan sites (7Chan, 420Chan, etc.) 4chan is the grand-daddy of them all. When there’s an influx of new users, which happens every summer, or after a big media event like the fappening, the /b/ros get busy posting beheadings, coprophagiac gifs, and all manner of hair-raising content.
Nor are 4channers welcoming of newcomers. User friendliness and design function were not priorities for founder Christopher Poole when he created the site as a 15 year old.
At first I didn’t know what to make of it. I started visiting 4chan after reading Parmy Olson’s excellent book We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency. 4chan, as one local Fox News station stated, is “an Internet hate machine.” And you’re just going to have to deal with that. 4chan will most likely hate me for writing this post. It hates My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic culture, even though it has an entire “containment board” dedicated to it. 4chan hates 9GAG and Reddit, which are in many ways its direct descendants. This is true to the extent that 4chan hates everybody. There’s a message being conveyed by mainstream journalists and clickbait sites alike that 4chan hates women.
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