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{{ | {{Quote|The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.}} | ||
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|keywords= 4chan screamers, 4chan akk.li, 4chan Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan, 4chan Christoper Poole, 4chan Screamer Wiki, 4chan shock sites, 4chan screamer, 4chan wiki | |keywords= 4chan screamers, 4chan akk.li, 4chan Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan, 4chan Christoper Poole, 4chan Screamer Wiki, 4chan shock sites, 4chan screamer, 4chan wiki | ||
|description= 4chan is an imageboard website made in 2003. This site hosts a plenty of boards with topics, including video games, fitness, politics, music, anime and many more. It is an English-language counterpart of Futaba Channel, a Japanese imageboard site discussing online culture. Introduced by Christopher Poole, site has also been known for popular internet memes made by its community. It has became known for screamers. | |description= 4chan is an imageboard website made in 2003. This site hosts a plenty of boards with topics, including video games, fitness, politics, music, anime and many more. It is an English-language counterpart of Futaba Channel, a Japanese imageboard site discussing online culture. Introduced by Christopher Poole, site has also been known for popular internet memes made by its community. It has became known for screamers. | ||
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<u>NOTE</u>: This list is incomplete, you can help by adding [[screamers]] and [[shock sites]] involving 4chan on this list. | <u>NOTE</u>: This list is incomplete, you can help by adding [[screamers]] and [[shock sites]] involving 4chan on this list. | ||
As mentioned, the site was introduced on 2003 by [[wikipedia:Christopher Poole|Christopher Poole]], better known online as "moot", when he was at 15-years-old.<ref name="readwrite" /><ref name="cnbc" /><ref name="The Guardian" /><ref name="The New York Times" /> The site was born shortly after Poole copied Futaba Channel's source code and translated the text into English.<ref name="readwrite" /><ref name="cnbc" /><ref name="The New York Times" /> He then advertised the site for people interested in Japanese culture.<ref name="Forbes" /> Poole left 4chan after | As mentioned, the site was introduced on 2003 by [[wikipedia:Christopher Poole|Christopher Poole]], better known online as "moot", when he was at 15-years-old.<ref name="readwrite" /><ref name="cnbc" /><ref name="The Guardian" /><ref name="The New York Times" /> The site was born shortly after Poole copied Futaba Channel's source code and translated the text into English.<ref name="readwrite" /><ref name="cnbc" /><ref name="The New York Times" /> He then advertised the site for people interested in Japanese culture.<ref name="Forbes" /> Poole left 4chan after the Gamergate controversy;<ref>D'Orazio, D. (2015, March 14). [https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/14/8214713/gamergate-scandal-convinced-4chan-founder-moot-to-leave-the-site "Gamergate scandal convinced 4chan founder moot to leave the site"]. [[wikipedia:The Verge|The Verge]]. Retrieved December 9, 2021.</ref> he officially announced that he sold the site to Hiroyuki Nishimura,<ref name="cnbc" /> a founder of 2channel. 4chan users also helped popularize [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. | ||
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