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|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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As mentioned, the site was introduced on 2003 by [[wikipedia:Retard|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 when this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign) incident happened];<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 popularized [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]], a site documenting internet culture in a humorous manner, which also included [[shock sites]] such as [[Offended]].

* '''Safe for work link (no NSFW boards):''' 4channel.org