This week, the internet’s most odious imageboard, 4chan, was hacked. The site, where some of the web’s worst memes, trends, and movements percolated before blowing up, is currently down.

4chan was hacked by users from Soyjak.Party, leaking janitor emails, restoring the long-dead /qa/ board, and exposing the site's creaky old codebase.

Memes have remained relevant in this fast-moving digital world. Many other trends have come and gone, but these easily crafted images with funny one-liner texts continue to be a mode of ...

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Devin Nunes paraphrased a 4chan meme used to harass journalists while appearing on Fox News to discuss investigations into Trump's ties to Russia.

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of ...

According to Vocativ, the 4chan users' ploy worked. Ebola-Chan made its way onto the Nigerian message board Nairaland — presumably with the help of 4chan — and the conspiracies firmly took ...

“I’m f—— trembling out of excitement brahs,” one 4channer wrote Tuesday night, adding a very excited Pepe the Frog drawing. “We actually elected a meme as president.” ...

“The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem” is a documentary about 4Chan, the popular imageboard website that became the Petri dish in which QAnon — the mother of all crackpot conspiracy ...