In 2008, The Guardian summarized the 4chan community as "lunatic, juvenile (.) brilliant, ridiculous and alarming". 4chan has often been the subject of media attention as a source of controversies, including the coordination of pranks and harassment against websites and Internet users, and the posting of illegal and offensive content. The site has been described as a hub of Internet subculture, its community being influential in the formation and popularization of prominent Internet memes, such as lolcats, Rickrolling, rage comics, wojaks, Pepe the Frog, as well as hacktivist and political movements, such as Anonymous and the alt-right. Ĥchan was created as an unofficial English-language counterpart to the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel, also known as 2chan, and its first boards were created for posting images and discussion related to anime. As of 2022, 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, of which approximately half are from the United States. Registration is not available and users typically post anonymously.
Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime and manga to video games, cooking, weapons, television, music, literature, history, fitness, politics, and sports, among others. People have associated it with the alt-right, Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers, as well as those part of the Red-Brown coalition, due to there being sections devoted to them.4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Several Internet memes have started at 4chan, including lolcats and rickrolling. One of the boards on the site, called "/b/", is dedicated to random topics and is often mentioned in media. When the site started, it was for discussing anime and manga, but now many other topics are discussed. On the website, users post pictures and discuss them. It was started in 2003 by "moot" also known as Christopher Poole, who was 15 years old at the time. Sites such as these are called imageboards. 4chan is an English language website based on the Japanese Futaba Channel where people can post and discuss pictures and other images.
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