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'''4chan''' is an imageboard website made in 2003.<ref name="readwrite">Larson, S. (2018, September 29). [https://readwrite.com/2013/11/04/4chan-moot-christopher-pool-qa/ "4chan's Christopher Poole: I was a teenage coder-and then I stopped."] ReadWrite. Retrieved December 9, 2021. </ref><ref name="cnbc">Elias, J. (2021, April 23). [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-moot-has-left-google.html "4chan founder Chris Poole has left google"]. CNBC. Retrieved December 9, 2021.</ref><ref name="The Guardian">Wong, J. C. (2016, March 8). [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/chris-poole-4chan-google-hire-social-media "Google hires founder of 4chan, the 'Zuckerberg of Online Underground'"]. [[wikipedia:The Guardian|The Guardian]]. Retrieved December 9, 2021.</ref><ref name="The New York Times">Bilton, N. (2010, March 19). [https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/one-on-one-christopher-poole-founder-of-4chan/ "One on one: Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan"]. [[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]]. Retrieved December 9, 2021.</ref><ref name="Forbes">Ewalt, D. M. (2011, August 11). [https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/03/13/4chans-christopher-poole-why-anonymity-rules/ "4chan's Christopher Poole: Why anonymity rules"]. [[wikipedia:Forbes|Forbes]]. Retrieved December 9, 2021.</ref>  The site hosts multiple different topics boards with topics, including video games, fitness, politics, music, anime, and more. It is an English-language counterpart of Futaba Channel (known as 2chan at the time of the site's creation), a Japanese imageboard site discussing online culture. 4chan is known for popularizing several internet memes made by its community, and other than that, it also became known for being involved with [[screamer]]s and [[shock site]]s including [[Jeff the Killer]], [[Fukouna Shoujo 03]], [[Smile Dog]], [[Glory Hole Foundation]], [[Poochee and Pansy]] and others. The site doesn't require registration, so users can post anything on boards anonymously,<ref name="The Guardian" /><ref name="Forbes" /> but users can also use a nickname for themselves on the site.  

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&nbsp;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]].

A flash animation called [[Derpy animation.swf]] was first mentioned on January 3, 2012 in /f/, a board list of flash animations. The animation was supposed to lure My Little Pony fans into thinking the screamer was a list of Derpy's animations.

On March 14, 2018, [[Shuaiby's Suicide|Shuaib "Shuaiby" Aslam]] started a Livestream on his [[YouTube]] channel titled "Hey". Tarp was put on the windows to cover any debris. He starts a Discord call and two other people can be heard talking, one of them crying. A bit later, he holds out a piece of paper with the text "Bye /r9k/", loads a shotgun and finally shoots his face, splattering blood on the ceiling.