4chan/History

This timeline is the collective effort of thousands of anons over the span of a decade, passed down from generation to generation, rescued from wiki to wiki.

Record the milestones, disasters, and achievements of today, so it will not perish from the memory of the anons of tomorrow.

4chan Timeline Project

Introduction

This page is a compendium of text blurbs remarking memorable events in the day to day life of 4chan and its constituent communities, generally comprehensive up to board level. The 4chan timeline has existed in various forms for the last 20 years and is one of—if not the—oldest 4chan community project still active. For over a decade the timeline has served as the go-to guide for the site's history, going through multiple versions and websites. It should be noted that the Bibliotheca Anonoma fork is not an official narrative or historiography of 4chan. It is intended as a humoristic reference guide that, ideally, provides the means for the reader to do their own research and draw their own conclusions. The timeline's currently inactive sister project, the historiographical summary formerly known as the 4chan.doc can be found on Wikibook's 4chan Chronicle Page.

Project Corpus

Everyone is welcome to contribute, no permissions or account needed. It's suggested to link primary evidence of the events through a 4chan archiver, a webpage saver such as archive.is or the Wayback Machine, or archive it yourself and upload it on archive.org. Events regarding individual threads or microcommunities (neé Generals) are selectable for submission if they are impactful enough to be noticed by the rest of the board or have visible off-site impact. There's no filters for language, but overtly partisan takes may be corrected over time.

Recommendations and questions may be posted on the Talk:4chan/History page. For in-depth discussions, you can engage other Bibanon contributors in a bridged chatroom you can access through IRC, Discord or Matrix.

Board Timelines

Splitting the darn thing into thematic timelines to mitigate (but not solve) the problem laid out in status.

Following the dash format, all 4chan/History/* pages belong to the timeline project and may be created as needed.

General guidelines for timeline subprojects:

• Snippets that exclusively reference a board should only appear in the board's timeline
• Snippets should be added to the primary timeline if they involve multiple boards, involves team4chan (and something more notable than a simple public ban) or are otherwise considered innovative or newsworthy (ie: first board to have a new site feature). Such duplicate snippets are ok, but please try to keep them matched.
• Complex events whose effects could be broken down into multiple snippets for an individual board may have a short snippet in the primary timeline and an more elaborate sequence in the subproject timeline. It's recommended to link to the subproject timeline's year if so.
• Deleting snippets from the main timeline after moving them to a board timeline should be first announced & discussed with other members.
• Subprojects are not limited to boards only, and potential /dev, /mod & /GET timelines have been suggested.

Rule: Current Year Goes Unsorted

Reader and contributor alike check the timeline for the latest entries. In order to not make keeping up difficult for either party, the current year should act as a catch all for all site events. When the next year sweeps in and the current one becomes old news, then entries may be moved their respective timeline.

Board Timeline List

Board	Status
/b/ - Random	Split Complete
[s4s] - Shit 4chan Says	Needs rechecking
/qa/ - Question & Answer	Needs rechecking
/mlp/ - My Little Pony	Mostly complete

Finished Template

Boards - Timeline Pages
Japanese Culture	Interests	Creative	Other	Adult(NSFW)
Anime & Manga Anime/Cute Anime/Wallpapers Mecha Cosplay & EGL Cute/Male Flash Transportation Otaku Culture Virtual YouTubers Video Games Video Games Video Game Generals Video Games/Multiplayer Video Games/Mobile Pokémon Retro Games Video Games/RPG Video Games/Strategy	Comics & Cartoons Technology Television & Film Weapons Auto Animals & Nature Traditional Games Sports Extreme Sports Professional Wrestling Science & Math History & Humanities International Outdoors Toys	Oekaki Papercraft & Origami Photography Food & Cooking Artwork/Critique Wallpapers/General Literature Music Fashion 3DCG Graphic Design Do-It-Yourself Worksafe GIF Quests	Business & Finance Travel Fitness Paranormal Advice Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Pony Current News Worksafe Requests Very Important Posts Misc.(NSFW) Random ROBOT9001 Politically Incorrect International/Random Cams & Meetups Shit 4chan Says	Sexy Beautiful Women Hardcore Handsome Men Hentai Ecchi Yuri Hentai/Alternative Yaoi Torrents High Resolution Adult GIF Adult Cartoons Adult Requests Secret Janitor & Moderation Discussion Off-Topic Cygnustown

Status

On simple terms: The timeline has crossed the threshold of comfortable readability. It is a chore to go through several thousand entries to read a few items of interest. It is a chore to edit several thousand lines of plain text.

Discussion has concluded that, at this point, the only ways to increase readability on a page as large as the timeline is by migrating from the Wikimedia format. There's been many ideas being discussed, generally along the idea of being able to tag and filter entries, and camps align along two general solutions:

• A simple but custom website and database with filtering capabilities.
• Migrating into a more modern Wiki format with the appropriate required features.

Currently, such work is outside our development team's scope and requires the aid of dev volunteers.

Contribution Suggestions

Sources

See also: Imageboard Archives

Add primary/secondary sources, from thread screencaps to news reports, or even archived websites on Archive.org.

Glossary

• Archived - Webpage saved on Wayback Machine or a snapshot archiver
• Backed-Up - Webpage downloaded and uploaded on a permanent archive
• Integrated - Contents analyzed and added to the timeline
• Since - Date since last check up

4chan Sources

Link	Description	Notes	Archived?	Backed-up?	Integrated?	Since?
Official
https://4chan.org/4channews	4chan News Page	Some links redacted	Y	N	~30%	2026-04
https://4chan.org/blotter	4chan Blotter		Y	N	~40%	2026-04
http://blog.4chan.org	4chan Blog	Hosted via Tumblr	Y	N	~10%	2026-04
https://x.com/4chan	4chan Xitter		N	N	N	N
https://github.com/4chan	4chan GitHub		N	N	N	N
https://youtube.com/@4chan	4chan YouTube	Sony lifted their DMCAs! We SUCCEEDED	N	2/7	N	2026-06
Semi-official / Affiliated
https://archive.today/chrishateswriting.com	Founder moot's Blog	Deleted	Y	N	~40%	2026-04
https://x.com/hirox246	Owner Hiroyuki Nishimura's Xitter	Rarely discusses 4chan	Y Y2	N	N	2026-06
https://x.com/GrapeApe9k	Admin RapeApe's Xitter		N	N	~5%	2026-04
https://x.com/astrange_e	Sysadmin Mr. Vac Bob's Xitter	Doesn't discuss 4chan	Y	N/A	N/A	2026-06
https://github.com/desuwa	Developer Desuwa's Github	Tegaki Repo	N	N	N	2026-06
Unofficial
https://4stats.io	Site Activity Tracker	Use for screenshots
https://github.com/floens/ChanTracking	Static Pages Tracker	2014-2021 - (read)	N	N	100%	2026-04
https://github.com/4chenz/ChanTracking0	Static Pages Tracker	Since 2023 - (read)	N	N	N	2026-04

4chan Board Archives

Link	Boards
Currently Active
https://desuarchive.org/	[ a / aco / an / c / cgl / co / d / fit / g / his / int / k / m / mlp / mu / q / qa / r9k / tg / trash / vr / wsg ]
https://arch.b4k.dev/	[ g / mlp / qb / v / vg / vm / vmg / vp / vrpg / vst ]
https://thebarchive.com/	[ b / bant ]
https://4plebs.org/	[ adv / f / hr / o / pol / s4s / sp / tg / trv / tv / x ]
https://warosu.org/	[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ]
https://archive.palanq.win/	[ bant / c / con / e / i / n / news / out / p / pw / qst / toy / vip / vp / vt / w / wg / wsr ]
https://boards.fireden.net/	[ cm / sci / v (inactive) / y ]
https://ayasequart.org/	[ 3 / adv / biz / c / ck / co / diy / g / gif / his / jp / sci / t / trv / wsr ]
https://archive.alice.al/	[ c / vg ]
https://archiveofsins.com/	[ h / hc / hm / i / lgbt / r / s / soc / t / u ]
https://archived.moe/	[ 3 / a / aco / adv / an / asp / b / bant / biz / c / can / cgl / ck / cm / co / cock / con / d / diy / e / f / fa / fap / fit / fitlit / g / gd / gif / h / hc / his / hm / hr / i / ic / int / jp / k / lgbt / lit / m / mlp / mlpol / mo / mtv / mu / n / news / o / out / outsoc / p / po / pol / pw / q / qa / qb / qst / r / r9k / s / s4s / sci / soc / sp / spa / t / tg / toy / trash / trv / tv / u / v / vg / vint / vip / vm / vmg / vp / vr / vrpg / vst / vt / w / wg / wsg / wsr / x / xs / y ]
https://4archive.org/	[ pol / v / tv / int / b / r9k / lgbt / biz / pw / a / mu / co / g / vt / s4s / vg / bant / fit / sp / r / his / x / vp / adv / lit / k / ck / mlp / vr / gif / o / tg / soc / fa / sci / wsr / ic / jp / m / an / s / toy / vrpg / trv / news / wsg / diy / vm / aco / vst / h / out / p / d / hr / hc / n / vmg / qst / hm / gd / c / cm / cgl / 3 / wg / e / i / u / j / t / vip / xs / y / po / w ]
Special
https://old.sage.moe/	[ 3 / a / adv / an / anime / b / book / c / carcom / cgl / ck / cm / co / comp / con (Otakon '06) / con (AWA '06) / con (AWA '07) / con (Otakon '08) / d / (dis.) sci / (dis.) vip / diy / e / fa / fit / food / g / games / gif / h / hc ('08) / hc ('11) / hm / hr / i / ib / ic / img / ip / jp / k / lang / lit / lounge / m / mlp / mu / music / n (News) / n (Transportation) / newnew / newpol / o / p / po / prog / r / r9k ('08) / r9k ('11) / s / sci / sjis / soc / sp ('06) / sp ('08) / sports / t / tech / tele / tg / toy / trv / tv / u / v / vg / vp / w / wg / wsg / x / y ]
https://swfchan.com/	[ f ] (And every single swf posted to /f/ ever)

General Archives

Link	Description	Notes
File Archives
https://archive.org/	Permanent File Archive.	Consider at risk of losing function and/or arbitrary deletions
Website Snapshot Archives
https://archive.today/	Strips Javascript, pages may break. Takes page screenshots	Investigated by law enforcement. Consider at risk of dying.
https://ghostarchive.org/	Runs a Replayweb.page instance.	No pornography or piracy allowed. Embedded UI.
https://megalodon.jp/	Runs JavaScript, including ad popups	Respects noarchive and noindex. Max 60 snaptshots per day.
https://web.archive.org/	Automatic & on-request scrapper	Respects noarchive and noindex. 4chan.org/4channel.org excluded.

Writing

• Complex or major events that have become part of popular memory (ie: BRB, Compromised; Gamergate) may have a title written in Bold.
• If multiple, unrelated events occur on the same day, each event should have their own entry.
• Don't be afraid to make jokes! _{we are not ED tho'}

Anchors

If an event references another, they may be potentially years apart. It's possible to link to it through mediawiki anchors. This also works if you want to link to an entry in the timeline from another page.

First insert a block in the text with an id tag.

<span id="anchor_name"></span>

Then you can link it be #referencing the ID directly.

[[4chan/History#anchor_name]]

Visual Guides

There's sequences of related entries, popularly titled "sagas", that span months and even years. There's currently no way to tag or link subsequent entries without making extremely cluttering mediawiki anchor chains. A still cluttering but more readable solution is using icon-like visual guides.

• 4chan.js -> (note: figure out how to link picture height to text-height).

Code Guides

Another solution is unicode symbols that can be browser searched as a form of improvised filtering.

• New Boards -> ○
• Deleted Boards -> •

Timeline Historiography

4chan Milestones & The Complete History of 4chan

The earliest attempts at documenting 4chan history began in early 2004, just months after the site's creation. A wikiworld.com page written by 4chan fans surfaces, it was simple effort at noting down the context behind some catchphrases and memes. By 2006 it sees the development of a short Milestones section that would represent the cornerstone of all 4chan checklists to come. In September 2006, the 4chan page is deleted as Wikiworld's administration is not willing to host non-politically correct content. Refugees run first to Lurkmore.com's new wiki, where the Milestones section gets it's own page and a few updates, but is otherwise forgotten.

The Complete History of 4chan was an open contribution page created around May 2007 in wikichan.org, a wikimedia site hosted by an Anon and maintained by the budding chanverse community. The page imported Lurkmore's Milestones page and updated it with several new developments, such as GETs, raids, /b/ drama and other events, including mentions of then active 4chan spinoffs such as 420chan and 7chan. Contributors maintained this history page through Wikichan.org's death in July 2008 into successor Wikichan.net.

The project went inactive with the coming of the new decade as the original chanverse cliques splinter and disband, and the imageboard zeitgeist moves on to new pastures such as documenting raids and drama on Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED). Wikichan Net falls into inactivity by 2010, and off the web by 2011. With no-easy-to access archivers, the events that defined these imageboards become something akin to folklore, recited in oldfag diatribes and joked about in ED pages.

The GET Encyclopedia & Individual Efforts

While Lurkmore ditched the Milestones page in favour of individual pages for significant events, on March 2008 they independently developed their own timeline named The GET Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia became the authoritative source on the esteemed bulletin board tradition until it fell inactive in 2015. Other attempts at noting down 4chan's history were made by Shii in his personal wiki Everything Shii Knows and JonnyDigital's blog, both of which folded by the mid-2010s. Many other imageboard otaku imageboards and textboards surface around this period, such as Wakaba's /soc/.

The Complete History of 4chan goes on to become a bit of a treasure, being hosted by multiple sites. Around 2012, recovered copies of the timeline appear on tanasinn.info, partyvan.info and Yotsuba Society's wiki. The last traditional version of the timeline was published by jKid of Yotsuba Society blog in 2014.

Unified Timeline & Bibliotheca Anonoma's 4chan.doc

A new generation of imageboard enthusiasts appeared to pick up the pieces on the sadly derelict sites. The spartan 4chan Timeline was developed in late 2014 by an independent anon, first through merging and fact checking Tanasinn's extant page of The Complete History of 4chan, Jonny Digital's timeline, Shii's wiki dates, tidbits of Lurkmore's GET Encyclopedia then through their own research. The rediscovery of the Nanashii World network saw the timeline extend back past 4chan's founding all the way to the foundation of the first eastern anonymous BBSs. Linking up with the other hobbyists at vyrd.net and Bibliotheca Anonoma (Bibanon), the latter of whom developed the narrative retelling called the 4chan Chronicle, the (unintended) closed doors project was subsumed and published through Bibanon's Github as the 4chan.doc; An Office document containing updated forms of the timeline & chronicle plus new sections such as provisory board addition dates and a staff members list. The document's iterations saw it lean towards a stronger historicity, being rechristened as the 4chan Ethnographic and Historic Summary.

As development on the 4chan.doc slowed, its contents were exported to other sites, with the Chronicle being rehosted on Wikibooks and the Timeline being reabsorbed by revitalized Tanasinn and Lurkmore forks. While the later saw little activity, the former's unified Complete History became the main hub for the once again open contribution project, which innovated with actual citations after a whooping 13 years of hearsay additions. In December 2019, Tanasinn folds and Bibanon wiki imports the timeline to this current page alongside orphaned contents of the .doc. As the timeline grew, the limitations of the wiki format became a problem for readers, a problem which the ongoing effort of splitting the timeline into constituent sections attempts to ameliorate.

Timeline

Pre-History

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• 1996, August 21 - A man named Masayuki Shiba opens a Registration-less Bulletin Board called Strange World (あやしいワールド / Ayashii Warudo), a WWW continuation of a Home Party service BBS he used in the summer/autumn of 1995. It runs a custom fork of CGI Rescue's Perl script SimpleBBS (簡易ＢＢＳ), later miniBBS. Warez and (then legal) csem are posted and a second board opens for technology discussion, where an early troll / hacker group named GUESS conducted website hackings and invasions. The website hops through free services and similar BBs open under the "あやしいわーるど＠" prefix, collectively called the Nameless World after the default name field Nanashi. Through 1996 to 2000, the Nameless World becomes the largest network of websites in Japan and develops a culture based on memes and trolling, marking the official starting point of Anonymous Internet Culture. In September 9, 1998, Shiba shuts down Strange World over personal disgust (and potential legal repercussions) when his userbase doxes a spammer.
• 1998, March 18 - Nameless World link aggregator Amazing Links (あめぞうリンク / Amezou Rinku), better known for it's url Amezo, opens with their own miniBBS forum. Under the motto "A silent protest against people who say information on the Internet is boring." amezo becomes a leading Nameless World site and with Ayashii World shutting down, one of the main hubs of the Japanese Internet.
• 1998, August 6 - Amezo switches to a new Perl script resBBS, a threaded BB they modified into the first Floating Thread Bulletin Board (rechristened Textboard in the west), where new posts bump threads to the top. Amezo's "kitchen sink" approach to forums makes the site incredibly popular, leading to non-stop raids and trolling, and severe site-loading problems. Amezo keeps developing resBBS, coming up with their their fork,
• 1999, May 10 - Entrepreneur Hiroyuki Nishimura opens Channel 2, more popularly known as 2channel (2ちゃんねる / Ni Channeru). Claiming pedigree from Amezo as the "first channel", 2ch was a perl clone coded from scratch, with several backend changes and the added feature of opting-out of bumping threads through sage, and the addition of third-party Tripcodes. Between 1999 and 2000, 2ch and amezo find themselves in harsh competition over userbase, with spambots employed by both sides and even Nameless World sites chiming in. In the end, Amezo shuts down on Aug. 12 1999 and Nishimura sees 2ch become a cultural phenomenon and Japan's largest website by far.
• 1999, November 16 - Amateur writer Lowtax starts a comedy blog called Something Awful. It explodes in popularity, prompting the creation of a vBulletin forum by 2000. The forum overtakes the blog and becomes the largest gathering of content creators on the western internet.
• 2001, May 14 - Lowtax creates an Anime subforum titled Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse (later shortened to ADTRW). The forum speeds up next year, creating an involved community and coining the ZOMG meme. Lowtax's (and his inner circle's) disposition towards ADTRW was never very high and only got lower with time, leading to the othering of board regulars and periodic purges over their sense of humour.
• 2001, August 30 - 2channel is in danger of dying. While a fix was in the works, users created a bunker 2chan.net, officially named Channel Two Leaves, popularly known as Futaba Channel (ふたばちゃんねる / Futaba Channeru).
• 2002, March 12 - Futaba implements a custom fork of GazouBBS, a Floating Thread BB script made on PHP known by westerners as an Imageboard, where a thread's opening post may attach a file. The spartanly named Futaba script improves Gazou by limiting the number of threads instead of posts, having old threads pruned as new ones are made. In the coming years, imageboards become wildly popular among Anime Otaku and even in the English speaking internet.
• 2002, November 6 - ADTRW regulars [NPH], Inpheaux, mdl and Uziga form Studio ADTRW, fangroup dedicated to anime fansubbing and manga scanlating. On November 6 they open an official website, adtrw.org, with a forum, wallpapers page, videogame mods, IRC #adtrw on irc.aniverse.com (later irc.mircx.com, irc.pyoko.org, and irc.synirc.org), torrent releases and personal blogs. Studio ADTRW absorbs a handful dying fangroups, developing a small network of supporters that don't completely overlap with Something Awful.
• 2002, November 16 - Studio ADTRW member Hannibal and acquaintance IchibanMuffin create DC++ hub Raspberry Heaven (After the ending of Azumanga Daioh). Initially, Raspberry Heaven is a anime-only hub doubling as one of Studio ADTRW's release venues, hosted by obso of (also ADTRW's) SADCHUB. In May, hannibal moves to his own domain at raspberryheaven.net. By the end of 2003, the hub had accrued over 100 active members and the IRC-DC++ bridged channel #raspberryheaven (on irc.mircx.com and later irc.pyoko.org) imposes itself as ADTRW's everyday lounge, with forum top posters doubling as RH regulars.
• 2003, March 3 - The first English language textboard is created: world2ch, made by RIR6, a 16 years old Japanese user. Its userbase consists of a mix of Japanese and English users, the only time that this happens for any considerable amount of time. The English speakers there are members of ADTRW, and they are also familiar with Futaba and visit it as a pasttime. In June, English users would convince the owner to make an imageboard. He makes two, officially becoming the first western imageboards.
• 2003 Circa June/July - 15 years old anime fan from New York City named Christopher "moot" Poole joins #raspberryheaven IRC through ADTRW.
• 2003 - The 2chan.net appreciation thread is created on ADTRW, becoming the gateway between the eastern Internet culture and western. There World2ch is discovered, gaining a steady influx of English speaking users. 2chan rapid-fire image sharing becomes wildly popular on ADTRW and RH, making it one of the fastest threads on the forum and spawning fan videos. (ref pending)

2003

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• September 29 - moot registers 4chan.net just because it looked like 2chan. According to RH contemporary and former 4chan mod Jonnydigital, moot was encouraged by 2chan's recent ban of all foreign IPs. moot later stated he did it to set his own e-mail address up, and years later stated he choose 4chan simply because 3chan was taken. Then he has an idea...

<moot> regging 4CHAN.net
<moot> FOUR CHAN
<moot> brace for faggotry

• September 30 - Circa 21:30, moot announces 4chan.net in Something Awful's ADTRW forum. The Thread is titled 4chan.net - English 2chan.net!. The website is hosted by SA Goon nem's Apis Network webhosting on the Advanced plan (20USD/m), paid for in secret with his mom's credit card. The site is not finished, the domain isn't routed, there are no boards and the frontpage is built from "4 lines" with no content. A couple hours later [NPH] offers to fix up the frontpage.
• October 1 - 4chan.net goes officially online around 9:00 PM. It opens a single board running a translated fork of GazouBBS: ○ /b/ - Anime/Random, inspired on the URL suffix of Futaba's backroom (secret) 2D Imageboards. It sports the motto A comprehensive english based resource for the collection and distribution of yaoi and dickgirlz and footer - GazouBBS + futaba + moot -. The website was coded by moot with help of hova who helped translating Gazou and [NPH] wrote the 4chan frontpage HTML with a Sidebar (also called a Portal), a News Frontpage plus Rules and an empty Frequently Asked Questions page. He makes a test post on 10:30PM EDT and welcome post minutes later begging people to not start fights over 2chan and w2ch. The SA does in fact explode into a fight between moot's Raspberry Heaven crew and world2ch regulars upset they stole the credit of being the first 2chan-like forum. He later opens a Contests page to decide 4chan's banner, to be taken from posts on /b/.
• October 2 - New Boards: ○ /h/ - Hentai.
• October 2 - Apis receives an e-mail complaining about "lolikon and guro" posted in /b/ and nem shows it to moot, who writes a witty retort. The email was sent by world2ch regular Menchi (later known as shii). He started an outrage thread with fellow w2ch regulars who felt 4chan ripped them off with the "first english imageboard". moot writes a longer retort on the news page, then personally goes to their site to defend himself. They manage to make amends, and exchange advice in how to fix the code. There moot learns to implement Tripcodes and discovers Futaba had already made an English translation of their code, making his effort at translating Gazou a massive waste of time. Later, moot creates /h/ and tells everyone to check the rules page. There he describes /b/ as a "test board" which will later become an anime board and it's only rule being 1. ZOMG NONE!!!1. moot in another news post describes /b/ as "a retard bin". Hours later he makes a second post, explaining he had huge amount of entries (unsourced: 50 within 3 hours) and he decided to cycle his 36 picks with a PHP script he found on the net titled "Urakh's Rotating Signature Script". He then adds a Navigation Bar to the link all boards at the html header.
• October 6 - New Boards: ○ /c/ - Anime/Cute ○ /d/ - Hentai/Alternative ○ /w/ - Wallpapers/Anime ○ /y/ - Yaoi ○ /i/ - Oekaki BBS.
• October 6 - First, boards /c/ and /d/ are added to clean up /h/ as people were arguing about fetishes even then. On the Something Awful thread, he announces Shingo and Marshall Banana as Board moderators, describing them as janitors. From here up to mid 2004, almost all new mods picked are locals at the Raspberry Heaven IRC. Shingo also wrote a Japanese Page for the site. moot and [NPH] continue making sense of GazouBB, fixing a retention bug that caused posts to be deleted too quickly and raised the maximum number of log entries for each board from 500 to 5000 (2000 for /b/). By now /b/ had over 2000 posts. To close the day, they implement /i/, an Oekaki Board running PaintBBS and /y/, which moot refuses to moderate directly, naming SA goon BadLuck as the site's board mod for /y/. BadLuck advertises 4chan in Livejournal socials and Yaoi communities. moot announces that bandwidth costs are going to be up, as they are "200% over the [monthly transfer] cap, which is 50", requesting Donations for the first time at [email protected].
• October 9 - New Boards: ○ /g/ - Guro ○ /s/ - Sexy Beautiful Women
• October 9 - Both new boards have their own moderators. /g/ is yet another board made to clean off undesired paraphilias from /h/ moderated by Portable951 while /s/ has no given reason for addition and is moderated by Boto_T and PotatoSan. The 4chan team now numbers at 10. moot announces that 4chan received over had over 9000 unique visions and over one million hits in the past six days. He considers be looking for advertisers (sponsors) to help pay the bills and elaborates on future self-serve ads. Boco_T also drew two of 4chan's banners: one of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, and one of Cardcaptor Sakura drawn in the style of Fist of the North Star. On the Something Awful thread, someone points out that 4chan was not thumbnailing images, meaning they sending 10 times as much bandwidth than they should have. moot did not seem to understand.
• October 10 - The frontpage motto chances to "we love chidori"

[2003-10-14 02:51] <rizzou> hey moot - there's this cool website at http://www.4chan.net/ you should check it out. it's really looking like the next big thing, you know?

• October 16 - First Death of 4chan - 4chan is announced to 2chan, resulting in a massive number of Japanese users coming to the site, at least doubling the traffic of all boards with /c/ going up by an actual order of magnitude. Japanese posters explain that Futaba's 2D Backroom (Nijiura) was being flooded with 3D, so they were going to use /c/ as bunker. The spike of unexpected traffic mixes up with the thumbnailing bug and sees nem cut 4chan from Apis servers for eating up almost the entire company's monthly bandwidth quota. Posters on IRC and SA joke the site is done for good.
• October 17 - moot refuses to let the site die and discusses his options on RH and SA. One of them is contacting Peter Payne of the J-list for hosting.
• October 21 - Candidates for new hosting are considered, including United Colo Gmbh and Apex Solutions. (source pending). On the world2ch dramabomb thread, moot announces he had a new server.
• October 29 - Deleted boards: • /i/ - Oekaki BBS
• October 29 - The site is back online, hosted under Apex Solutions. This time 4chan is backed by RH leadership, with IchibanMuffin letting him share server space and hannibal becoming the site's second administrator. The new site motto reads "yotsuba what?". oekaki.4chan.org does not make it. moot makes various changes to the imageboards, including fixing Japanese character display and adding the day of the week to posts. He also announces that boards will now use a MySQL database (a modified form of 2chan's futabaSQL called yotsubaSQL), coded with help of thatdog, leechers will now receive a punishing giant .gif instead of their hotlink, a robots.txt file gets made to keep out some auto-downloaders, along with an .htaccess file to prevent hotlinking and monitor app to track offenders, courtesy of scuzzy. /g/ temporarily suffered a problem with tripcodes, and all boards had a problem where users said their posts were not appearing and they were getting a Japanese error message. Both of these were fixed within the day by modifying the anti-spam script and fixing the imageboards' .php files, respectively. moot sneakily changes his email to [email protected] and a PayPal Donation Button. on the sidebar.
• November 1 - moot laments that Peter Payne rejected a sponsorship. The site is also running extremely slowly due a mistake not too dissimilar to the tables problem 2ch suffered back in 2001. This is a problem as it's also bogging down the shared server he and other Apex clients use. moot laments would have to block Japanese domains unless something was done - A possible solution, moving to a dedicated server - could rank up the bill to $400/month. moot warns that 4chan will die slowly unless enough donations are received.
• November 2 - moot resets img.4chan.net and drops all MySQL tables, deleting all post counts and purging all boards. He announces the following changes: The maximum post limit for each board is reduced from 3000 to 750. MySQLd and PHP were optimized and moot laments that he cannot implement auto-pruning after ten pages like 2chan.
• November 7 - moot makes a newspost announcing an upcoming Archive feature, new boards and a problem with PayPal that isn't letting him retrieve payments.
• November 8 - New Boards: ○ /a/ - Anime ○ /l/ - Lolikon.
• November 8 - /a/ was planned from the start as the second main board together with /b/, while /l/ happens after a week-long flamewars over porn in /c/. moot announces the future release of a database of archived 4chan threads that requires a paid subscription, which had been suggested by Moderator Spork a week before. By this time /b/ lost the anime/random subtitle and became just "Random".
• November 10 - New Boards: ○ /r/ - TRAINZ
• November 10 - moot and thatdog set to replace the Gazou+Futaba shishkebab moot had created. thatdog also works on the beta-archive and sets up a test board called TRAINZ. It's not announced anywhere but /b/.
• November 20 - Second Death of 4chan - The RH-backed 4chan implodes. The site's unexpected growth is throttling the server. Ichiban and moot have a talk and he moves out of their server space, moot is forced to take down the site and loses his email. Hours later thatdog sets up the first 4chan spinoff, 1chan.net and sets up prototype site for the Futaba-script fork they are working on.
• November 22 - Deleted boards: • /r/ - TRAINZ
• November 22 - 4chan returns following two days of downtime after moot reformatted the now-dedicated server to RH9, making everything considerably faster. he also deletes /r/ as it's now redundant and announces that the thread archive will be up shortly. Somewhat humbled, he thanks all the people who helped him code the site so far.
• November 23 - moot comments on many technical problems still unfixed. The RH9 apt-get repository was cleared out, causing GIFs not to be thumbnailed correctly for a few hours. thumbnailing has problems and .bmp files are not uploading properly.
• November 28 - moot announces 3-days downtime to fix lingering problems.
• November 29 - Downtime cancelled. Another RH member now turned admin, DJLucid managed to fix every single problem without needing to reformat the servers. He also states that by next week thatdog will have a major backend rework of futaba-script ready.
• November 30 - moot announces his @4chan.net email is working again, a new context for the site's favicon.
• December 8 - The FavIcon contests ends. moot announcer the winner, Moderator shut's four leaf clover ().
• December 11 - teh rei - moot has a meltdown on /h/ and edits the board html declaring: 12/11/03 -> 12/14/13 IS REI FREE WEEKEND. STOP POSTING THE SAME REI PICTURES OVER AND OVER, EVERY PAGE SHOULD NOT CONTAIN 33% REI OR EVANGELION HENTAI. Psaiyan !un..4BpqS. finds this hilarious and proceeds to troll moot by spamming an erect dick made to look like rei for several months. This is arguably 4chan's first (forced) meme.
• December 12 - Deleted Boards: • /g/ - Guro
• December 12 - Between 11/19 and 12/12, /g/ is deleted.
• December 16 - New Boards: ○ /t/ - Torrents
• December 16 - Along with a 4chan Torrent Tracker. moot tightens the rules regarding /h/ and /l/ and cracks down on rule breakers. moot also considers blocking Japanese domains due to the fact that they make up half of 4chan's traffic and post only extremely rarely. He reminds everyone to not sass the mods.
• December 17 - Goodbye Japan - moot blocks all Japanese IPs, who had been keeping /c/ as the second fastest board at the cost of a large chunk of the site's bandwidth. Apparently, moot says that in the two weeks before the announcement, Japanese domains had accounted for 650 GB but only made about fifty posts or so.
• December 20 - Futallaby - thatdog's great work is done. Futallaby is an upgraded Futaba script sporting a complete rework of the backend with some UI upgrades. 4chan changes its footer text to - GazouBBS + futaba + futallaby -. The first published version is v031222 and moot and terra (maintainer of Pyoko.org, named after Piyoko from Di Gi Charat) contributed to the code.
• December 23 - The first Futallaby website is created by Terra (terra !hv8fIUoYQw), Burichan, who advertises it as a "Gay 4chan". The primary board /b/ - Bridget is about the eponymous Bridget from Guilty Gear who he describes as the "posterboy for yaoi". Terra shakes up the colour schemes from soft red of Futaba to a cool blue shade.
• December 29 - Deleted boards: • /l/ - Lolikon
• December 29 - Following a flood of CSAM, /l/ is deleted. moot refuses to talk about it, so former /l/ board mod Censored Vagina states that the raid wasn't the only reason, citing the board attracting people who think posting such content is ok required a "practical solution". Minutes later, moot announces that although he has blocked Japanese domains, his traffic from the rest of the world has now passed the rate from before December 17, meaning that moot's server bill is still $400/month.

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• January 3 - Futallaby v040103 is published. It now takes in XHTML and CSS, and comes with two selectable .css styles, Futaba and Burichan. Some time later, thatdog stops developing Futallaby over falling out with moot.
• January 8 - New Boards: ○ /r/ - Request
• January 8 - Returning Boards: • /l/ - Lolikon
• January 8 - /r/ was created chiefly for torrent requests after /t/ was filled with beggars, although it quickly morphed into the /r/ we know and love today.
• January 25 - Deleted Boards: • /t/ - Torrents
• January 25 - Studio ADTRW Manager now turned 4chan Manager Censored Vagina makes a news post announcing that the torrent tracker and /t/ had been taken down due to representing a major strain on the server. He declared that the tracker will return shortly in a considerably smaller form, with a maximum of 40 torrents.
• January 30 - moot writes a news post. He announces that the torrent tracker will return shortly albeit it in a considerably smaller form, with a maximum of 40 torrents and profoundly thanks donators and supporters. He adds the PayPal donate button to all boards, right of the post form and below a "Help keep 4chan alive!" text blurb. moot states he's considering advertising, with a possible addition being a small 88x31 AnimeNation banner right above the donate button.
• February 8 - moot announces all previous bans are now lifted, as he can now write ban reasons.
• February 11 - People report they can't access 4chan and moot makes a news post explaining it's a Windows XP registry problem and how to fix it.
• February 11 - Third Death of 4chan - Something Awful user "nubdestroyer" attempts to get 4chan shut down, e-mailing domain provider GoDaddy. He succeeds.
• February 14 - moot registers 4chan.org and reestablishes the site there, complaining GoDaddy simply never answered back.
• February 16 - moot writes a news post. He announces that 4chan is now fully integrated on the org domain, but he still hopes to get net back. He also sets up the new mootmail [email protected]
• February 19 - New Boards: ○ /f/ - Flash.
• February 19 - Returning Boards: • /t/ - Torrents
• February 19 - /f/ is an "Upload Board" with file upload code from 2chan (someone coded this for moot, can't remember who). Only 20 threads max. /t/ returns, albeit without the tracker. moot announces this in a news post, also showing the new FAQ page, also explains that the .net domain is flagged "Redemption Period" which is why it was taken out.
• February 21 - New Boards: ○ /amh/ - Anime-Manga-Hentai ○ /bbs/ - 4chan Discussion.
• February 21 - 4chan BBS - Moot introduces the 4chan "Discussion Boards", two experimental textboards built from 0ch, the Perl clone of 2channel's now proprietary code. The experiment is labelled a failure and the boards are closed in a few days.
• February 22 - Censored Vagina writes a news post answer donator questions: He explains the cost of running 4chan for the rest of 2004 should add up to $2,200. He also announces 4chan's first advertisements, stating they plan to set up rotating ad banners.
• February 28 - New Boards: ○ /p/ - Photo
• February 28 - Earliest known date for /p/'s addition. It is unannounced. By now, advertisements are in place with two rotating banners below the post form. Some of the earliest advertisers are webcomics, and anime (and porn) sites like World of Hentai
• March 1 - New Boards: ○ /q/ - EMERGENCY DISCUSSION
• March 1 - Deleted Boards: • /amh/ - Anime-Manga-Hentai - • /bbs/ - 4chan Discussion
• March 1 - First Donation Drive - In a news post titled THE END, a very upset moot announces that the site will not be able to continue because the March server bill is too large to pay out of pocket and the donation money hasn't been enough. He makes one final request for donations and hopes for the best. There are also some changes: He deletes /amh/ and /bbs/, creates /q/ - EMERGENCY DISCUSSION and slaps a giant "READ THE FRONT PAGE (below) Click here." announcement on (presumably only) /b/, below the post form. /q/ gets added to the NavBar later with a sloppy [/q/ - EMERGENCY DISCUSSION] section. He also includes, below the rotating ads, a small Advertise with 4chan! link to the new Advertisements contact page. In /q/, an awkward poster named Lain!I53PaYay6o offers to donate more but fumbles the approach, upsetting many staff members and becoming a meme.
• March 8 - Deleted Boards: • /q/ - EMERGENCY DISCUSSION
• March 8 - After a week-long swarm of donations, moot announces that not only does he have enough money to pay the March bill, but that enough money was donated to keep the site running into 2005 and is considering contracting a second server. moot thanks all donators and posters and announces that he is currently in "Cancun, Mexico". /q/ was likely deleted at this point, having become the place of flamewars about /l/.
• March 28 - A disheartened moot writes a news post announcing that 4chan.org is likely to be permanent, and encouraged anons to spread the news. By now, 4chan.net is occupied by domain squatters (people who buy domains that will get a lot of traffic, such as porn.com, and put ads on the page).
• March 30 - Drama ensued and moot writes a news posts where he clarifies the rules for some boards, telling people to not use /d/ as a replacement /g/, not shitpost on /p/ or post minors on /s/. He would like to add /g/ back some time, and still wants to make textboards but refuses to use 0ch engine again, calling it "the shittiest perl script known to man". He ask readers for suggestions.
• March 31 - New Boards: ○ /cm/ - Cute/Male
• March 31 - /cm/ gets created to keep teh gay segregated from /c/ and, together with /y/, moved to their own section in the NavBar (lol moot). The navbar now reads: [a / b / c / d / f / h / l / p / r / s / t / u / w] [cm / y]
• April 1 - As an April Fools' Day prank, moot decides to reveal himself as one man named Robert Bobkins. He later makes a news post with another picture of the same man next to an Aztec statue saying GREETINGS FROM MEXICO!. mootxico is born.
• April 4 - New... Board? Changes: Moderator Spork creates an official 4chan IRC channel at Pyoko net. #4chan or irc://irc.pyoko.org/4chan.
• April 19 - 100K GET on /b/ is reached. Many were creating new topics rapidly in hopes of getting the GET for themselves, but 100K GET turned out to be an unrelated text reply in a thread that attempted to be 100K GET. The reply was completely unrelated to the thread that it was in, only saying "lol internet" with no image. To this day, it is considered to be the most win that a GET has ever been.
• April 30 - New Boards: ○ /dis/ - Discussion ○ /sug/ - Suggestion
• April 30 - In response to moot's previous news post, world2ch turned RH regular and now 4chan developer shii came up with shiichan, a PHP rewrite of 0ch. moot then announces that textboards are back and adds them to a new section of the NavBar.
• May 2 - moot writes a news post stating that /b/ gets the most posts while the most bandwidth heavy boards such as /h/ barely get discussion. He considers deleting boards and tells banned people to kick rocks. He also mentions 3 discussion boards, implying that at some point either /amh/ or /bbs/ were brought back or /anime/ got created.
• May 9 - Second Donation Drive - moot writers a news post announcing that 4chan's bandwidth usage is raping the server bill, exceeding the permitted 500gb limit and thus doubling the cost, noting traffic is still growing. He states his plan is hiring a second server, which places a one time donation quota of $2400. He also considering adding a PaintBBS 'oekaki' boards and berates troll posts outside /b/.
• June 15 - TheRowan, owner of HentaiKey and host of 5chan, attempts to get 4chan shut down. This time by e-mailing PayPal who controlled 4chan's donations at the time. He succeeds, freezing the donation money.
• June 20 - Fourth Death of 4chan - A day that will live forever in short-term memory. 4chan dies for the fourth and longest time, nearly six weeks. The site is shut down with the only thing left being macro of moot escaping a crashing jet and the last News post titled DING DONG, 4CHAN IS DEAD. Among other things, moot blames lack of contribution, exponential growth and his own lack of skill plus asshole posters, lack of donations and the GNAA flooding as the reasons for 4chan's death while thanking the his Raspberry Heaven friends, new world2ch volunteers and SA acquaintances for their continued support through this months long venture.
• July 24 - Birth of the Chanverse - As a direct response to 4chan shutting down, a man named Thock created iichan aka Idlechan, technically the first 4chan spinoff imageboard, built on the Wakaba engine coded by !WAHa.06x36. It pioneers the what was popularly known as the chanverse, the network of imageboards all claiming pedigree from 4chan's posting culture. It also merged efforts with other IBs and became the first webring of the imageboard scene.
• August 7 - Resurrection - 4chan returns in its fifth incarnation following six weeks of downtime after gathering up enough money and support. With the revival, new structural changes are added: 4chan now has both official webmasters (W.T. Snacks) and sysadmins (DJLucid), developers (shii, shut, etc) and many new moderators. News post by staff members are made under the name of “The Team”. The news announcement subtly jabs moot for his antagonistic ways, while he later clears thing up with a note stating that he's still the owner, albeit a much humbled one.
• August 11 - News post announces 4chan is "fully back" and there's now a Portal Page acting as a secondary front page (with the news page being the primary). It's hosted on subdomain dis.4chan.org, hosting 4chan's introduction and categorized board lists. Textboards are re-added under the same subdomain.
• August ~14 - New Boards: ○ /m/ - mecha ○ /u/ - Yuri ○ /n/ - Trains, imageboards. ○ /anime/ - Anime ○ /ascii/ - ASCII Art ○ /game/ - Games, textboards.
• August 14 - Dates are unknown as the boards were likely announced on /sug/, a /b/ sticky or the portal instead of news posts, this is their earliest known date.
• August 15 - Flammant new Developer W.T. Snacks announces that 4chan updated its board software to a "super-hacked" Futallaby v081404. It contains many new features such as replying with an image, hiding posts, the Name and E-mail fields, displaying image names and sizes, and linking to other posts by adding a >> next to the post number. Tripcodes were also added to /f/, showing it has a custom board software.
• August 18 - Moderator Lucid aka DJLucid writes a newspost showing that bandwidth consumption has doubled despite the downtime. He asserts ad rotation will comes back and encourages people to donate via the YowCow Digital Service. Four days later he edits the post stating YowCow has booted them out due to reports. Typical.
• August 27 - Moderator Man of Wax writers a newspost announcing that 4chan is still struggling with bandwidth, announces that banner ads are back again and can be bought via [email protected]. They also announce that they've switched money handlers from PayPal to Yahoo PayDirect. At some point moot edits the post and adds PayDirect closed down.
• September 8 - New Boards: ○ /k/ - Weapons ○ /o/ - Auto ○ /sm/ - Shota/Male.
• September 8 - Moderator Jibaku announces that /b/ is severely lacking in quality and asks users to contribute better. Jibaku also announces that post quantity is going down and what little there is rather bad, callout out /b/ over it, encouraging posters to fix themselves up.
• September 12 - The Split moot registers 4channel.org in order to comply with TOS requirements for payment processors YowCow and/or PayPal. By the end of the month, Safe-for-work (SFW) boards opened via 4chan now redirect to 4channel. The attempt fell through but a partial solution was found by contracting Google Ads.
• September 26 - Moderator Souldark writers a news post complaining that contributions has gone too far down and threatens to delete boards if they don't get active. There is also to be a crackdown on trolling. On other news, moot promotes 4chan's first browser extension, the spartanly named 4chan Firefox NavBar Extension coded by DamageInc.
• September 27 - Rampant shitposting about chiidesu, the first (confirmed) girl on 4chan (IRC) prompts moot to rename /b/ to an image called "chiidesusbf" lifted from her Livejournal. The image has been lost time, but this so far the earliest known humoristic HTML / CSS Hack in 4chan history. Almost a hundred different ones were to come.
• September 28 - Lucid announces some hours of downtime.
• September 30 - All boards down. moot writes a news post explaining a server migration went bad accidentally deleted the whole thing and they are working on getting it back up. Snacks later edits the post adding the recovered the data.
• October 1 - 4chan turns one year old. No news post is made, moot presumably celebrates on /dis/ and /b/.
• October 9 - New Boards: ○ /ib/ - Oekaki Random ○ /ip/ - Oekaki Pro ○ /v/ - Video Games ○ /z/ - ZOMG NONE!!1, imageboards. ○ /tech/ - Technology, textboard.
• October 9 - /i/ is deleted and /n/ is frozen. All new boards were added a few dates prior. /z/'s creation is unconfirmed but not unannounced, it was a user-moderated board which utilizes the “Idiot King” model from SA’s FYAD where the userbase has to vote for its mod. The board features flashing backgrounds, annoying embedded music, and legendary posts. Their first moderator was legendary shitposter Soviet Russia !lM51PoudCg. Snacks also states /n/ will stay online for some time and trains can be discussed on /o/, and that /dis/ got it's posts restored while he retouched shiichan a bit. There's also a new Tools page, with links to semi-official 4chan stuff like the now updated 4chan Firefox NavBar Extension.
• October 23 - Idlechan Webring. Another Wakaba imageboard, Wakachan is made. Right as iichan was about to die off from lack of funding. Wakachan's Lain offers Thock a refugee board for iichan's posters. The two hit it off and develop the idea making a Federation of imageboards that would help host, promote and crosslink each other - on layman's terms, a webring. The exact start of the webring project is lost to archives, but plan (and iichan's return) was already being discussed before the end of October. Months later the webring includes Squeek's 4-ch.net (for a time), nucleating most active posters in the early chanverse (The others being Burichan, Gurochan, fchan and soon to be joined by WTFux).
• October 27 - Man of Wax announces that 4chan will host a panel at the AnimeUSA 2004 Convention at Viena, Virginia, run personally by him.
• October 30 - First 4chan Panel - 4chan hosts a panel at the AnimeUSA 2004 Con in Vienna, Virginia. The same day, 4chan experiences DNS problems, and moot asks that people edit their registries once again.
• October 31 - /l/ and /sm/ are deleted due to threats of legal action.
• November 1 - Third Donation Drive - Man of Wax announces that 4chan continues to be anally raped by growing bandwidth costs, this time requiring a whooping $7400 to pay, asking for a new donation drive and declaring they are back with YowCow. On Something Awful, an user named squeeks promotes his newly registered 2channel-styled BBS 4-ch.net. moot appears to complain that they are stealing his thunder. 4-ch ran on the Waha's recently completed Kareha engine. Contrary to expectations, 4-ch survives and their culture develops heavily influenced by 2ch-style posting, evolving in wildly different ways from mainstream *chan culture. 4-ch goes on to become a major branch of the chanverse, sprouting a small but persistent network of anonymous BBSs.
• November 5 - moot registers domain not4chan.org, and hosts a parallel 4chan clone on his servers under the may.not4chan partition. /l/ and /sm/ are moved there. No announcements are made (it's unknown where it was announced, clould have been global announcements), but anons quickly discover they are effectively the same server as bans from one site translate to the other. At some point in time, domain ownership is transferred to saber, friend of moot from the Raspberry Heaven days, while Censored Vagina offered help setting up.
• November 11 - moot registers domain world4ch.org as part of a collaboration with Shii.
• November 15 - /g/ is deleted again as well due to threats from YowCow to seize 4chan's donations account due ToS violations. This time it's permanent.
• November 30 - Donation Drive Successful (at a price). moot writers a news post detailing how YowCow is completely retarded, even worse than PayPal and their donations account is once again dead, but also declares that 4chan had made ends meet.
• December 1 - New Boards: ○ /tl/ - Torrents/Loli
• December 1 - /tl/ is hosted on not4chan.org, earliest known date
• December 24 - New Boards: ○ /lounge/ - Lounge ○ /vip/ - News for VIP ○ /img/ - Imageboard Discussion ○ /sjis/ - SJIS Room ○ /prog/ - Programming ○ /games/ - Video Games ○ /anime/ - Anime & Manga ○ /carcom/ - Comics & Cartoons ○ /music/ - Music ○ /tele/ - Television & Film ○ /pol/ - Politics ○ /tech/ - Technology ○ /comp/ - Computers
• December 24 - world4ch - Shii pushes a major update for shiichan, rechristening the engine as world4ch and introducing comprehensive changes to 0ch's code. First is the introduction of 2channel styled persistent Frames (opposed to the frontpage only sidebar) and multiple Styles or Themes: world4ch's original being Pseud0ch, an imitation of 2channel's colour scheme with a nifty brickwall motiff, but also making Burichan which is adapted from the colour scheme of the gay 4chan website of the same name. world4ch is hosted on dis.4chan.org partition as a separate codebase with it's own sidebar frame that crosslinks to 4chan. 4chan links back with a "world4ch" section on the NavBar. shii made several new boards imitating the 2ch "everything and the kitchen sink" organization style, and singles out: /lounge/ a general off-topic forum, /meta/ for discussing the nascent chanverse scene, /vip/ to serve as the local /b/. All 4chan BSS non-meta textboards (/ascii/, /tech/, /game/ and /anime/) are deleted and their replacements don't inherit post history. /dis/ and /sug/ continue existing. It's well received as both staffer and anon congratulate shii, albeit some complain it is not original when !WAHa.06x36 and lolocaust, both 4-ch devs, accuse him of stealing their site's features.
• December 29 - A few days later (12/29 at earliest) world4ch is promoted on an ad-hoc Global Announcements section replacing the now useless donate button with the text CHECK OUT WORLD2CH ('world2ch' embed with an unknown hyperlink).
• December 27 - New Boards. ○ /book/ - Books ○ /sci/ - Science & Math
• December 27 - Unannounced new boards. Likely promoted on the portal, /b/ or the global announcements.
• December 28 - New Layout - moot writes a news post announcing world4ch's improvements have been adapted to 4chan proper - meaning the static frontpage sidebar written by [NPH] has been replaced, albeit it can still be accessed. The frames era begins now. The updated sidebar sections read the following, responding to the NavBar. 4chan (Remove Frames) - 4chan BBS (/dis/ - /sug/ - more... world4ch (Takes you to separate NavBar page) ) - Image Boards (/a/ - /b/ - /c/ - /cm/ - /d/ - /h/ - /k/ - /l/ - /m/ - /o/ - /r/ - /s/ - /sm/ - /t/ - /tl/ - /u/ - /v/ - /w/ - /y/) - Drawing Boards (/ip/ - /ic/) - Upload Boards (/f/). With the old bottom text blurb reading: Note: These boards may or may not be worksafe. All users give up their right to a worksafe enviroment when entering these boards - you have been warned. A "style" selection reading [ Futaba / Burichan ] is added below the post deletion button.

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• January 2 - New Boards: ○ /new/ - World News
• January 2 - /new/ likely announced on the portal.
• January 3 - Shii gets booted off team4chan - Without consulting moot, Shii adds crosslinks to 4-ch in the boardlist of world4ch. Squeeks does the same. moot reverts the changes the same day and has an episode where he orders the rest of the team to never let shii touch anything site-level again. While not explicitly kicked out, shii's relation with the team never recovers and he cold quits there and then, although he remains an active member of both site and IRC.
• January 13 - 4chan's IRC channel #4chan moves from Pyoko to a moot-owned channel on Rizon net (more concretely: irc://irc.rizon.net/4chan). moot announces this in a news post along with one of the chat's first lines: <moot> i wish to be the little girl and the protocol link to the channel gets put on it's frames section IRC under #4chan @ irc.rizon.net
• January 19 - New Boards: ○ /e/ - Ecchi ○ /3/ - 3DCG (Three Dimensional Computer Graphics) ○ /g/ - Technology ○ /n/ - Nature & Wildlife.
• January 19 - All boards are announced on the global announcements section under "/3/ /e/ /g/ /n/ TRIAL BOARDS ADDED - POST TO THEM", appended below the previous world4ch announcement. /g/ and /n/ are worksafe.
• January 23 - Squeeks removes the crosslinks to world4ch.
• January 24 - W.T.Snacks enables the first Emoticon on /b/ and they quickly spam it everywhere. Tired of the overuse, moot suggests snacks to wordfilter it to a giant bold NIGGERS AND BISCUITS. What the original emoticon was is unknown, but a handful others follow (and most get wordfiltered)
• January 27 - New Boards: ○ /ic/ - Artwork/Critique ○ /p/ - Photography ○ /x/ - General Photo.
• January 27 - The previous /p/ is deleted with /x/'s taking it's place. It's unknown if posts were moved. The new /p/ has new features such as EXIF data.
• February 2 - New Boards: ○ /food/ - Food, textboard.
• February 2 - Unannounced. Likely the last admin change pushed by shii.
• February 3 - moot and Developer shut register ikuzo.org, a side project they had formulated during 4chan's downtime in summer 2004. The site was basically meant to be a weeaboo site with news and reviews of things like anime, hentai, and general Japanese imports. However, the project is quickly abandoned and the site now redirects to img.4chan.org.
• February 7 - Saber updates not4chan's rules and posts a news posts on their frontpage. The contents are unknown.
• February 25 - In an unknown date between Feb 25 to March 21, the global announcements are retracted and replaced with a restored YowCow Donation button.
• February 26 - New Boards: ○ /gif/ - Animated GIF ○ /hr/ - High Resolution ○ /wg/ - Wallpapers/General.
• February 26 - /x/ is removed. All three boards are added as trial status while the previous addition graduate to permanent boards. The changes were suggested during the IRC townhall.
• February 27 - Snacks upgrades the NavBar, replacing the world4ch portal link with a collapsible.. Looks: Old - New
• March 21 - Earliest known date for the return of YowCow donations. Below the button, global announcement solemnly reads: "Please support 4chan". Google Ads are not present on /b/. It is likely that as a requirement to get the account back and the /b/ ads, not4chan's boards /l/, /sm/ and /tl/ had to be delinked on frames, making neither site link back to the other anymore. Further frames changes sees the textboards collapsible become a new world4ch subsection with a custom brownish color.
• March 31 - moot purchases a new server (tmp.4chan.org, backup of orz.4chan.org) and announces that it will be up in April. He also announces that 4chan will have a panel at Otakon 2005 and announces that he would soon recruit a new administrator following DJ Lucid's (4chan admin) departure. (This is likely when Modern Vac Bob got hired)
• April 1 - New Boards: ○ /fur/ - Furry.
• April 1 - Aprils Fur’s Day- For April Fools' Day, moot makes a front-page newspost containing a picture new of Robert Bopkins in graduation gear shortly after graduating from Stanford University, along with the message "GREETINGS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL!". moot also creates a new board /fur/, despite his promise never to do so. Although many think it the board is simply an April Fools' Day joke, the board remained the next day, and the board was started to be taken seriously. However, on the morning of April 3rd, everyone who had posted in /fur/ was banned for three months, causing a massive shitstorm given how many people were just playing along. Tripcode user Tapioca makes a rant post telling furries to go to fchan that gets stickied. The drama from the events gets to the point /fur/ became a meme in the zeitgeist of furry and anon alike for years to come.
• April 18 - New Boards: ○ /rl/ - Request/Loli, not4chan imageboard.
• April 18 - Earliest known mention.
• April 30 - Something Awful falls into a Purity Spiral and purges any ADTRW poster who ever made a positive post of media with lolicon in it. (former) moderator Shii is of course banned. Hours later Saber and Censored Vagina also get banned after being called out about not4chan. Anons on 4chan start joking that 4chan was founded by people banned from SA, starting a decades old internet myth that persists to this day.
• May 12 to June 6 - /3/ was probably deleted somewhere in this period, according to ancient 4chan screenshots.
• June 6 - Cracky-chan pics become a bannable offense, according to W. T. Snacks, per alleged request of Cracky-chan herself.
• July - /b/ Warchief Rend Niggerhand opens Crackypedia, a place with all storts of stalkerish information about Cracky
• July 1 - Many of 4chan's boards were closed unexpectedly and announcement was supposedly made by "moot's secretary" was posted on the front page, announcing that moot had abandoned 4chan and that 4chan would cease operations in a few days due to lack of funding. The next day, moot made a newspost announcing that that this had all happened behind his back, and that the post was neither true nor official.
• August 13 - Second 4chan Panel - Shortly after celebrating one year of uptime, 4chan starts its panel at Otakon 2005, the first time ever that /b/tards actually met the real moot, after which moot revealed that "Robert Bopkins" was not only not him, but that Bopkins' name was actually Eric J. Ross and that moot picked the photos at random. Everyone has a really good time and moot hangs out with the other /b/tards who flip out over the fact that they are experiencing mootfaggotry IRL.
• August 23 - 7chan.org is created
• August 28 - DONATE OR DIE 2005 - The fourth and last donation Drive. moot announced that he requires $20,000 in donations to purchase three baremetal servers (later called bin.4chan.org, nov.4chan.org, and a second img.4chan.org). Frenzy started, with camwhores showing their tits and vagoo if users donated to 4chan. Within a week, $14,000 was raised, which was actually enough to purchase the three servers even if they fell short of their goal. Later, on September 15th, moot announces that donations will cease September 30th, and even then can only be delivered by snail mail. After this, 4chan ceased to take donations.
• September 28 - Some browsers were having problems loading site html with frames on.
• October 1 - 4chan turns two years old. Dan makes a commemorative picture.
• October 25 - moot announces that "things are looking up" and announces that many new features will be added to 4chan, including the DevBlog. He also begs for people to advertise because he needs money to construct additional pylons.
• October 30 - Firing of W.T.Snacks - moot and Snacks have a long fight over IRC as moot takes the site down for a few hours to fix some problems. moot rages against Snacks for being a lazy coder and threatens to take away his server access, Snacks doesn't take it sitting. They both go to sleep, and continue in the afternoon the next day for about three hours, until moot tells Snacks that he's fired, closing his account. Snacks' friends continue to make Radio threads that occasionally get deleted.
• October 31 - The 4chan Development Blog is inaugurated at www.4chan.org/blog. shut publishes a post titled "Behind the Scenes at 4chan!" where he shows off the Romper Room - a nickname for the Moderator IRC, #team4chan - and the homebrew admin toolkit written in PHP, FutabaLight. In the following days, shut and moot answer comments while the latter declares that they have no intention of releasing, much less selling their modified Fuballaby code, arguing it's "5th generation script, i have no intention of selling code that isn't really ours".
• November 1 - DAY OF XENON - After "losing" a camwhore battle on /b/, moot gives prominent /f/ creator XENON an admin account and tell him he can do whatever he wants on /b/ for the next day. He thoroughly rapes /b/'s CSS and causes moot start fucking with /b/'s layout too, starting a years long tradition.
• December 19 - First Janitor Recruitment - moot posts a thread in /v/ asking for applications to be a Janitor, a replacement of the board moderator role where volunteers can read reports and delete posts, but not ban. News spread and many applications were received. Janitors were implemented within the month.

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• February 2 - Latest known appearance of /dis/ and /sug/. By next week, they are removed.
• February 6 - orz.4chan.org and cgi.4chan.org crash and are not fixed until three days later. During this time the secret board /5/ was deleted. As it was hoted on the orz server, the crash is possibly related.
• February 17 - The three new servers purchased during the Donate or Die 2005 campaign are successfully brought online. Each served as a backup for three of 4chan's content servers, with nov.4chan.org backing up cgi, bin.4chan.org backing up zip, and tmp.4chan.org backing up orz (img was already backed up by dat.4chan.org). In addition, the new servers took care of all post submissions, speeding up the boards significantly.
• February 18 - The day after the new servers are installed, 5M GET is achieved, during which the posting rate increased twenty fold. The servers were put to the test, with jumbo.4chan.org maxing out its line at 99.31 Mbit/s (~12.41 megabytes per second). The 5M GET was a picture of cat taken at an angle that made the cat look large, with the text "Needs more towercat". Users were divided between whether it was win or fail, although moot himself called it "more garbage" in the DevBlog.
• February 20 - New Boards: ○ /lang/ - Foreign Language ○ /sports/ - Sports, textboards.
• February 20 - By now, Developer Mr. Vac Bob (MVB) was on w4ch maintenance duties.
• March 14 - /a/ was still titled Anime at this time.
• March 24 - Smash hit movie V for Vendetta, released a few weeks ago, sees their Guy Fawkes Mask imagery integrated into the aesthetics of /b/ and the growing Anonymous identity.
• March 28 - Earliest known date for the Not4chan Grab Extension (v1.9). Only 4chan extension so far that let you download images with their original filenames.
• April 6 - New Boards: ○ /co/ - Comics & Cartoons ○ /po/ - Papercraft & Origami ○ /sp/ - Sports.
• April 6 - Added on a trial basis, if their activity doesn't cut it, they will be deleted.
• April 8 - New Boards: ○ /cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL (Elegant Gothic Lolita) ○ /ck/ - Food & Cooking ○ /mu/ - Music ○ /n/ - News ○ /tv/ - Television ○ /i/ - Oekaki ○ /an/ - Animals & Nature ○ /ss/ - Straight/Shota ○ /yg/ - Yogurt.
• April 8 - More trial boards are added. /ib/ and /ip/ are deleted and merged back into /i/ with all their posts intact. The previous animals board, /n/, is deleted and no posts are moved. At the time of the merger, /ib/ had accumulated just over 14200 posts, while /ip/ only managed just under 5600 posts. It's possible than when the boards were merged, the final post numbers were combined into one, as evidenced by /i/'s post count being at 23200 by the start of June 2006. /ss/ is added to not4chan. moot secretly adds the mysterious Yogurt board. The NavBar reads: [ a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / w / wg ] [ i / ic ] [ cm / y ] [ an / cgl / co / mu / n / po / sp / tv ] - Roughly representing [ Image Boards ] [ Drawing Boards ] [ Gay ] [ Trial Boards ] - It is also the point where the Frames section starts being ignored in favour of NavBar oriented sectioning.
• April 13 - By this time, /a/'s title has been changed to Anime & Manga.
• April 14 - moot announces that the three servers purchased during Donate or Die 2005 have been collocated and are up and running and also announces that he will rarely use the front page for small updates from now on, instead choosing to announce them on the DevBlog and blotter. moot also announces that 4chan will have a panel at which he will appear at AnimeCentral 2006, which took place on May 6.
• May 13 - First known of appearance Fortune feature written by Coda. Basically, if you put your name as "#fortune", you will get a random fortune at the top of your post, chosen at random. It went mostly unnoticed. Also, the earliest known mention of http://www.4chan.org/tmp/tiny/'''tiny.cgi'''
• May 20 - Second Janitor Recruitment - moot announces they are expanding the janitor program to cover all boards except /b/. moot promotes the application on the Something Awful thread. The Global announcements reads: "Open call for janitors!" below: "We're once again accepting applications for janitor positions. You may remember us testing them out on a handful of boards a few months back. We are now preparing to roll the program site-wide (with the exception of /b/), and need people to fill the positions! Applications are being accepted via the form below. If you submitted an application months back, you must resubmit it. Old applications will not be considered. In addition please be detailed with your responses. Writing too little is much worse than writing too much. Thanks!" The blotter is also updated: "The search is on! We are now looking to fill approximately sixty (60) janitor positions. Want to apply? Check below for more info."
• May 25 - Global announcement update: "Apply to become a janitor! Applications close Monday, 5/29/06. Form here."
• May 29 - Janitor drive ends. The blotter reads: "Janitor applications are now closed. Good luck to all those who applied. Review and implementation should take 2-3 weeks—thanks for your understanding."
• June 10 - /v/ gets a sticky dedicated to GEC-tan (Giant Enemy Crab drawn as an anime girl).
• July 10 - The Report system is rolled for all boards, with a nifty Report Button on the bottom right corner that lets you select whether it breaks site rules or US law. The global announcement reads: "Reporting HOWTO. We've finally coded a reporting system. Make use of it. See the following for how it works:" accompanied with an image that explains the process. The announcement ends with a smaller explanation that reads "The goal of this is to help expedite post deletion/removal of illegal content. To be effective, you must actually use this tool. Don't let it go to waste. Also the janitors have not been rolled out yet globally but should be soon. Thanks for your patience." Anons play around with and report each other, while pedos whine.
• July 17 - Server layout changes move /b/ from img.4chan.org to dat.4chan.org, breaking all extensions.
• July 20 - moot announces that they will have a panel at Otakon 2006 from August 4-6 in Baltimore, Maryland, with enough seating capacity to allow 680 people compared to the 230 from Otakon 2005.
• July 22 - /v/ reaches 1M GET, considered to be one of the greatest non-/b/ gets of all time. The GET was a picture of PONG, thus a very fitting get for /v/.
• July 23 - not4chan dies - moot closes not4chan.org and removes it from his servers, deleting the site and boards /l/, /sm/, /ss/, /tl/ & /rl/. Moderator Butter states too many resources taken up for something not even associated with 4chan directly
• August 4 - New Boards: ○ /con/ - Convention
• August 4 - Fourth 4chan Panel - Otakon 2006 starts and so does 4chan's panel. Most of the moderation team is there sporting custom team4chan shirts. Co-hosted by moot and shut and with participation from Man of Wax, Coda, Mr. Vac Bob, shii, and guest starring W.T. Snacks and Saber. An epic sermon was delivered by "Reverend" (and mod) Lemmy Caution to spread the gospel of Raptor Jesus. moot even created a new board, /con/ (Conventions), for people at the con to use, which was deleted a few hours after the con ended. Saber does damage control over not4chan which was likely taken down the Adam Walsh Act. MrSpooky also attends, and teaches a bunch of /b/tards the secrets of /b/ Emoticons, causing them to be spammed for all of November.
• August 12 - The 4chan :codes: (words put between colons that are turned into smilies, like how posting :happy: would display a happy emoticon, for example) are released to the site. They are soon spammed all over the place, and threads are pruned extremely quickly.
• August 23 - The /b/-day - The confusing events of the /b/-Day wrek havok on the Random board and take down the img subdomain server.
• August 30 - A not4chan revival site is opened at not4chan.us by admin narunett / narunetto.
• September 2 - The Merge - At some point between August and today, 4channel.org now redirects to 4chan. Few people noticed.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its third anniversary. Every board gets blue-and-pink striped party hats slapped on the top of each thread. /b/tards made pictures interacting with the hats, causing many threads that are epic win (a good chunk of epic thread screencaps are from this day). Dan makes a second commemoration.
• October 20 - DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL - /b/ wakes up to see it's name on the news. Jake Brahm, the author of the dirty bombs copypasta, has been arrested. "DON'T MESS WITH FOOTBALL", uttered by an FBI agent during the arrest becomes a meme and gets reposted for days. As it turns out: Brahm wrote the piece and reposted it "around 40 times within the previous 30 days". On October 18, he had the FBI knock on his door. Two days later, Wauwatosa (Wisconsin) cops and the news were waiting on his porch, making him the first person to have been party v& for his shitposts on 4chan. On 2012 in a video conference with Marshell mars of Share Foundation, moot revealed this was the first time 4chan was subpoenaed by law enforcement, and he personally had sit with FBI special agents and explain to them how 4chan worked.
• November 7 - OH NOES THE SERVERS ARE DOWN - Coinciding right with the 2006 Midterm elections, moot forgets to pay the bills, the site goes down for two days, during which a page was put up explaining that the servers were gone because moot didn't pay and that the problem would be fixed within "24-48 hours" (crossed out with "FIFTY-BILLION YEARS" written next to it). As the days go by, the server down message gets rewritten with new updates shitting on the electoral parties. Many /b/tards, looking for a temporary *chan to go to until 4chan returns, cause a major spike in traffic for other *chans as /b/tards go there temporarily. 7chan and 12chan were destroyed by the flood of traffic and suffered severe downtime.
• November 30 - moot announces that more banner ads from AdBrite will be added to 4chan in December due to the fact that donations are no longer possible. As a result of the extra money, 4chan becomes faster after moot uses the money for extra bandwidth capacity.
• December 9 - /sp/ is deleted. Pissed off users flock to /b/ to demand /sp/'s release to no avail.
• December 12 - moot stirs the ad formula, removes the form-donation button 60x100 ad and announces the current direct-request 468x60 ad banner (The one subtitled "Advertise to 4chan!") will be replaced for an Ad rotator AdBrite. The global announcements section, which now reads: "You may have noticed our ad-layout has changed slightly. The "Advertise with 4chan!" link and 100x60 button ad have been removed, and we've migrated over to AdBrite for serving our rotating banner ads. Read the front page for more information regarding these changes." with a second line reading: "If you're blocking ads and/or JavaScript (with tools such as AdBlock and NoScript), we urge that you allow/whitelist 4chan.org. Why? It's what keeps this site running, and it costs you nothing. And also because, quite frankly, they're really not that bad. They're not even "intrusive!" Our ad layout doesn't degrade our so called "user experience", which has always been important to us. Anyway; have a heart—keep our ads unblocked. Thanks!" while the blotter is update to read "Ad layout updated. Please allow ads from 4chan.org & AdBrite.com. Thanks!"
• December 13 - Blotter updated: "Support our sponsors—click ads relevant to your interests!"

2007

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• January 9 - moot posts on the front page, announcing that 4chan would soon have interstitial ads due to dwindling revenue. moot also allows all of the trial boards created on April 6, 2006 (except /sp/, which got canned a month prior) to become full boards. Global announcements first read "Front page updated. READ IT FULLY!" And hours later to "01/09/06 front page update. READ IT FULLY. *UPDATED!". Anons mock moot for time travelling back to January 2006. The 4chan blotter is updated to read: "Important update posted to the front page! Read it here."
• January 10 - Global announcements get updated to "Front page update: READ IT FULLY. *UPDATE #2!*", below "If you are seeing the interstitial fag more than once per day: Make sure you are accepting third party cookies. Please whitelist AdBrite.com and 4chan.org!" and on a third line: "To those waiting for the extension update: It's in beta and should be released soon."
• January 14 - The last line on the still running global announcement gets shifted to the middle and updated updated to: "DamageInc's 4chan Firefox extension has been updated to version 0.4.5.0. Grab it here!" and the blotter has a similar update: "4chan Firefox extension updated to version 0.4.5.0. Available here."
• January 24 - Ian, owner of 7chan, gets a notice from his host saying that the board /i/ violates the TOS. He deletes it.
• January 27 - The Great Chan Death of January 2007 - 4chan has a power failure and dies in the usual manner, however, so do all the other major imageboards of the Internet. 420chan was kicked out of hosting, 12 was suspended by the FBI, 2ch.ru died for unknown reasons, and 7chan couldn’t handle the influx of all the users bases put together and crashed. Even wikichan went down.
• February 7 - 4chan BNRS Contest - moot goes to /i/ and announces a "pseudo-contest", requesting people to make Page Banners for periods where AdBrite has no ads on rotation. These are intended to link to various pages in the Frontpage Portal (e.g. Rules, FAQ). In the process he has multiple anger outbursts about memes and board banners, discovers a bug on /i/. He also personally manages the thread as the moot mail is currently not working.
• February 15 - Two updates to the blotter: "4chan BNRS!" contest over. Check out the winners page!" and "Two new trial boards added: /tg/ & /x/. Give them a look!"
• February 15 - New Boards. ○ /tg/ - Traditional Games ○ /x/ - Paranormal.
• February 15 - Both are /b/ spin off boards product of Warhammer 40000 and Creepypasta threads becoming a permanent presence on /b/'s frontpage. moot also may have or have not responded to 7chan's own /x/ board. moot also announces the winners in a contest for new banners.
• February 16 - Janitor applications are opened and then closed four days later, with the new janitors being implemented around early March.
• March 13 - Artist and friend of team4chan Dan Kim makes an /a/ thread announcing his entry into the Joe Shuster awards for the "Outstanding Canadian Web Comic Creator" category, and asks for their votes & support. A mod stickies the thread, which moot did not authorize, and when he finds out later he dunks on Dan Kim.
• March 29 - the first known instance of a Rickroll occurs on this day, on /v/, the bait-and-switch placeholder was the Grand Theft Auto IV reveal.
• April 20 - 4chan administrators are forced to temporarily shut down img.4chan.org after a thread containing four uncensored images of child pornography became stuck on the front page for over an hour (during which nobody could post) and could not be deleted due to MySQL problems. Rather than getting v&, the plug was pulled on img.4chan.org and was restored around 12-15 hours later. During the downtime, since 7chan was down as well, a massive amount of /b/tards flocked to 420chan, thus ruining 420chan's most special day, 4/20.
• April 26 - Fortune Day - A stealthy mod thread reminds /b/tards that fortune exists. Several threads get going and a /b/tard manages to guess their own fortune, getting his thread stickied. moot explain there that Coda hallucinated they never announced #fortune before. The sticky became the most replied-to thread in /b/ history up to that point, beating the Steve Irwin thread in just 19 hours with 5,336 posts.
• June 5 - /co/ reaches 1M GET; the thread disappears within five seconds or so, and due to the strain on the server, the file was deleted as soon as it was uploaded. The post also had the text, "reducto get", referring to Reducto from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, meaning that the picture was most likely one of him.
• June 22 - On /x/, the first SCP thread is posted, quickly becoming a phenomenon on the board and a sub-culture outside of 4chan.
• July 26 - HACKERS ON STEROIDS - Fox News makes what is the probably most hilariously retarded act of journalism in history. A sensationaist exposé on "Anonymous" describing them as internet terrorists, followed by a sequence of inane imagery and fake interviews, including: Stock footage an exploding van, an interview of a mother whose sons' MySpace account got hacked and took to defensive measures such as "buying a dog". A voice-modified teenager spouting /b/ catchphrases at random. The presenter goes on a tirade where he coins the therms HACKERS ON STEROIDS, INTERNET HATE MACHINE, "lulz, a corruption of lol". It is likely Hal Turner's harasment has some relation to this. The reception on 4chan was one of utter glee, almost every scene in the exposé became a meme.
• late August (August 16-August 21) - The first known instance of an automated, non-crapflood posting script on 4chan. /b/ gets botspammed ads for something called Agloco. It won't be the last.
• September 5 - New Boards. ○ /rs/ - Rapidshare. Upload Board.
• September 5 - It has a custom board script derived from Futaba's Upload Script (same as /f/'s) that allows posting Rapidshare hyperlinks.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 4th birthday with the return of the purple and blue party hats to /b/. A good time is had by all. The yearly commemoration is made by Mac. Global announcements read: "4chan turns four years old today! (10/01/07) :toot:"
• October 19 - The Caturday Nap - /i/nsurgents from partyvan.org, a 420chan /i/ spinoff, had come up with the idea of centralizing all chanverse IRC communities in a federation called Lulznet aka irc.lulz.net. Having gotten a number of local personalities interested (such as legendary shitposter Soviet_Russia and Kirtaner of 420chan), they decided it was time to contact moot. User kakama under the handle Locutus_Of_Lulz comes to #4chan. The exchange immediately devolves into Star Trek roleplay demanding the channel be moved from its current location (irc.rizon.net) to their IRC. They are simply not taken seriously and get banned in short order, with moot famously coining the phrases “Im gonna go make soup” and "IRC is stupid". Angered, lulznet starts a massive crapflod and LOIC attack against 4chan. Yotsuba's servers are timing out, moot's solution: Plug them out. #4chan is swamped with complaints and paranoia for days, including rumous that the site closed down.
• October 20 - 7chan crashes as collateral as their servers cannot take the /b/tard influx, while 420chan engages preventive party hard mode. Simultaneously, Encyclopedia Dramatica DDoS's Wikichan for the sake of it.
• October 21 - A 7chan mod decides it’s enough and attaches an upgraded version of partyhard.css to /b/, sending everything to hell. Later they decide to DDOS Lulznet, they fail and Lulznet counter-attacks, bringing them down and having their host null them for a while. Then p4ch3c0 redirects the 7chan domain to Habbo hotel. /b/tards schedule raids while they wait.
• October 22 - /b/tards and /i/nsurgents gather at Freechan and begin to plan a counter attack. The surge of users puts the site down for fifteen minutes and the OP of the invasion threads gets banned due to fear of Lulznet retaliation. Later that day, the DDoS stopped but moot is still hanging onto his soup and does not attempt to get 4chan back on, turning the sequence even more ridiculous.
• October 24 - A good samaritan decided to DDOS irc.partyvan.info, taking them out of commission and stopping their DDOS. The site returns to normalcy and 4chan spams parodies of moot killing 4chan to get some soup. The sheer embarrassment caused by the "war" kills the federated chanverse idea there and then. Everyone goes back to their servers while Encyclopedia Dramatica rips lulznet a new one. With the back site up, moot writes on the global announcements that the 4chan Status page has been created (with alternative link 4chanstatus.blogspot.com).
• November 3 - RSS feeds are enabled for every board except /b/. A Global message is added for a few days.
• November 24 - The legendary troll King of GETs makes his first appearance, posting a picture of Yami Yugi and informing a poster on /a/ that his sister will die if his post number ends in 5, and it did end in 5, sending the thread into an uproar. In the many years following, KoG would go from predicting 5's to dubs, trips, quads and eventually major GETs using images of yugi, and later cirno.[2,430]
• Early December - moot changes the front page
• December 10 - DamageInc's (un)Official 4chan Firefox Extention gets updated - moot announces it on the global announcements as "4chan Firefox Extension has been updated to version 0.4.5.4. See /tools/ or grab it here."
• December 14 - BRB, compromised - Hacker group Did It For The Lulz aka [Lulz] attains access moot’s Network Solutions domain registry account. This is a nuclear shitstorm of unequalled proportions. Leaders XyriX and Vipsta first redirect the 4chan.org domain to a PHP forums called diditforthelulz.com- The forum had a recently added subsection called The New 4chan and crashes in around 5 hours, the expected side effect of getting 1 million visits. Then they open a plain HTML with hack credits and a link to their IRC. Hours later their redirect to the forum of their previous crew the g00ns group, which had recently joined the Lulznet / Party Van Network and crashes their website. In the IRC, Xyrix and fellow teammember/girlfriend Angyl spend the next day trolling Anons under the pretense of making a "4chan for the people", even giving out Q&As. There is a recorded phone conversation where Angyl tries to get a fansign picture of a very angry moot in exchange for giving them the site back, she later states she called him several times until he unplugged his phone. On the new 4chanstatus blog, moot writes a post titled "ATTENTION!" explaining he lost control of the registry account and recommends anons to delete their cookies.
• December 15 - diditforthelulz.com's hosting provider, Glexia, suspends their domain account by the afternoon, but anons notice its actually a redirect and a rather uncanny explanation for a hosting company including alluding the FBI was involved. 4chan was still accessible through DNS name and moot writes a global announcement stating: As the day goes by this becomes a complete drama as several websites, such as 711chan, Freechan and Digg find out that [Lulz] member CeLe was in fact Michael Williams, the owner of Glexia. moot later adds a global announcement: Please do not continue to attack Glexia and to the 4chanstatus post. As the Michael-CeLe situation became apparent the 4chan.org domain mysteriously starts redirecting to 4chan proper again and Glexia updates the diditforthelulz suspended page with even more accolades to 4chan.
• December 16 - /b/tards, /i/nsurgents (including a redeemed kakana and Angyl's former posse, teamloosh) and others compile XyriX, CeLe and Angyl's dox. moot also deletes the requests to not attack Glexia. As CeLe was at risk of real life harassment, he suspends teamloosh’s account and [Lulz] members walk out, effectively disbanding the group. moot eventually got control of his Network Solutions account.
• December 21 - The FBI reports "the arrest of Trey Burba" in their website, showing that they really don’t have any idea of how /b/ works.^MARGE?

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• January 15 - Project Chanology - The /i/nsurgency's greatest hour. On partyvan.info, 711chan and IRC backchannels there's a shift towards political activism, which eclosions with Scientology's takedown of Tom Cruise's hilariously propagandistic video recently uploaded to Youtube. Threads on /b/ start to surface shaping the grounds for their upcoming activities, declaring that "Anonymous should go big".
• January 18 - The /i/nsurgency, keeping notable OPSEC, starts DDoS Scientology websites. This is of little interest of /b/ who continues to posts their tubgirlgoatsedickbucketsealnipples as usual, and goes mostly unnoticed sans for more shaping attempts.
• January 21 - /i/nsurgents release the oddly clever "Message To Scientology" video on Youtube, declaring the start of Project Chanology. This goes viral beyond all their expectations, becoming trending discussion on Digg and Facebook and spawning actual real life protests, but it also becomes an enormous headache for 4chan: Now, on top of the spamming manchildren screaming about epic raids, they have to deal with actual bona fide activists who think /b/ is a secret liberal hacker cabal and appropriate 4chan culture for their political activism, earning the moniker protestfags. It is also the swan song of raid culture, as most movers behind the /i/nsurgery had either retired or jumped towards blackhat hacktivism.
• February 12 - moot posted on the news page basically talking about imminent changes on 4chan (new trial boards, more janitors, etc).
• February 19 - New Boards: ○ /fa/ - Fashion ○ /fit/ - Health & Fitness ○ /hc/ - Hardcore ○ /n/ - Transportation ○ /sp/ - Sports ○ /toy/ - Toys ○ /trv/ - Travel.
• February 19 - /n/ - News is deleted, leading to some protests.
• February 20 - New Boards: ○ /jp/ - Japan/General ○ /r9k/ - ROBOT9000.
• February 20 - /jp/ is created after moot intervenes in an ongoing drama in /a/, anons had grown tired of the Touhou fandom that had essentially become a troll group on the board, up to "hijacking" threads with spam. Robot 9000 was an experimental board based on the idea that killing repetition would impose originality. A comparison script would mute the poster if the post was previously found within /r9k/ post database.
• March 6 - Janitor applications go live.
• March 18 - The new themes Yotsuba and Yotsuba Blue are introduced as replacement for the original default themes, ending the "Times New Roman" era.
• April 11 - /n/ was invaded by news posts in seeking to turn the board back to /n/ - News, but in a few hours the threads were removed and the posters banned.
• April 26 - moot goes to ROFLcon - moot attends his first public appearance as 4chan's founder, invited to Christina Xu (and Hardvard)'s ROFLcon, an internet culture convention. There he shares the Internet Cult Leaders panel with Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics and Randall Munroe of XKCD. Munroe, revealing he is a long time 4chan regular, gets moot do a barrel roll on camera and the panel gets crashed by protestfags. moot states his personal motivation for running 4chan is observing it's effect on internet culture, and that 4chan breaks even monetarily but he's personally unsatisfied with the time investment required. He then states he posts frequently but only as anonymous since posting as admin derails threads and clarifies he doesn't feels responsible for the recent pranks-turned-harassment /b/tards are involved in, nor he considers himself as a "leader" in 4chan, but rather the person who provides the framework for the site's anonymous content creators whom he believed would have surfaced whether he made 4chan or not.
• May 2 - /b/-day 2 - Out of curiosity, moot decides to turn /b/ off for one day. The ensuing wave of adrift /b/tards, with no place to go since 7chan was pretending to be bought by 4chan and redirected back to the site, flock to the closest /b/ board at the time: /r9k/. There, they discovered that they could impersonate moot, and decided to flood the shit out of everything. As the day progressed /b/and drifted towards the other boards, mainly /k/, /s/ and /x/. /x/'s slow speed and vague topic resonates specially with /b/'s nascent "board culture", and they make it a tradition to migrate to /x/ whenever their server is down.
• May 22 - Operation Jewtube - In response to protests from My Chemical Romance fans regarding criticism of the band, /i/nsurgents from Britchan troll the media by making videos about the protest, adding a final note telling that they were going to kill themselves at the end.
• May 27 - /v/ steals /a/'s 12000000 GET (partial screenshot of both threads) with a picture of Cory in the House for the Nintendo DS.
• June 8 - Coda rolls out his final update of 4chan's Futallaby script, version 20080608. We only know this because of world4ch updating the footer to read "shiichan 3955 + 4chan 20080608" days later. Coda retires a few weeks later.
• June 13 - 4chan.js Saga - Showing how dangerous web 2.0 could get before the browser sandbox environment, 4chan's /b/ got spammed with obfuscated JavaScript code (henceforth known as 4chan.js) with the simple instructions. In reality, it effectively turns your computer into a 4chan-only botnet that reposts more copies of the script to /b/. The server is almost fucked by the load of hundreds of bot until the mods manage to filter the text and delete all threads containing the instructions.
• June 14 - The 4chan.js script from the previous day is modified to dodge the filter, and spam starts anew.
• June 14 - The ability to roll Dice is added to /tg/ with an announcement directly from moot.
• June 15 - moot steps in to crack down on the 4chan.js scriptfags. The text string "eval(" is filtered into a 15 day autoban. Also, for some reason, moot adds more word filters such as replacing "femanon" with "cumdumpster." /b/tards troll newfags by making threads such as "eval (now wordfilters to niggerjews)", getting many retards banned for two weeks.
• June 18 - Old /b/ Day AKA Boston FAIL Meet Up - /b/'s title was changed as well to old /b/, the love Theme from Metal Gear Solid 4 is embedded with the subtitle “/b/ has changed. it's no longer about original content, epic GETs, and win it's an endless series of reposts, perpetuated by newfags and trolls fail - and its consumption of /b/, has become an unstoppable cancer. /b/ has changed." and “This is our final mission” was written on the announcements. /b/'s tittle gets already been renamed "/vaporeon/", "/tom/" and eventually "/b/oston." The board was later locked, and unlocked with two new stickies. Confused /b/tards though this was it, /b/ was going to be deleted and vowed to at least try to kill the cancer, the cancerous threads became “One last X” threads and others vow to delete their /b/ folder. However, on every board except /b/, a small text appears: "today, 6/18. Boston common. park street. 7pm.". By 7PM, a link to an USTREAM video called 4CHAN LOLBUTTS was posted on all the boards. moot successfully tricked all the newfags for 4chan to see. While initially it looked decent, it quickly dispersed after a group of Chanology supporters showed up in large numbers. moot personally took the chance to rant on protestfags being even worse than raid enthusiasts, "the ultimate form of cancer".
• July 9 - moot Unmasked - Months after moot began college and definitely thanks to ROFLcon, there's two email interviews published the same day, one from the Wall Street Journal and the other from TIME Magazine, reveal moot's photo and real name Christopher Poole (and even his dad's). In the interviews moot explains his mom paid for the first months of server space, 4chan is breaking even but struggles with advertising sponsors, that a lawyer reviewed the /b/ motto, reccounts the Coda Tetris game story and Rupert Murdoch should buy 4chan the same price he bought MySpace. The wsj link gets spammed all over 4chan, anons find it unreal that the guy who runs 4chan is called "C.P.".
• July 16 - KoG announces a retirement from GETs. He doesn't actually commit to that.
• July 21 - The Chanopocalypse - Three users from Raidchan, Pacifico, ViraL and f have the idea to start an imageboard civil war; their attempts fail as they were discovered, so they decide to go nuts and DDOS every major imageboard on the net.
• July 25 - Mr. VacBob rolls out the final update of shiichan, version 3960, but forgets to update the footer which still reads version 3955. He also releases the source code on is-a-chief.com website (defunct). In 2022, Moderator Cygnus rehosts it on Github. MVB takes over site maintenance, replacing Coda.
• August 7 - 4chan's DNS servers were down and it was not restored until August 11 2008.
• August 11 - New Boards. ○ /con/ - Convention.
• August 11 - Fifth 4chan Panel FAIL - The glorious return of /con/ for the discussion of the ongoing Otakon 2008 Convention and what would be 4chan's fifth official panel. Global announcements reads: "/con/ is open for discussion of Otakon 2008. A news post will be up in the next 48 72 hours A FEW MORE DAYS--SORRY!". The strikethrough is because Otacorp's administration was stonewalling moot. Hours later he writes on /con/ that it's extremely likely that Otakon will not let them host a new panel and promises to write a news posts about it. It is quite likely that there were prior preparations by team4chan who assumed they were already guaranteed a spot. user mood at the convention isn't very positive either, with many reporting protestfags being annoying or embarrassing and criticizing the very idea of referencing 4chan at conventions. Many pics were posted too.
• August 19 - 4chan.js script returns and retards continue to fall for it, this time as images with embedded js, spammed with the text "1. Open this image. 2. Save it as lol.hta 3. Open the file you saved. 4. Shit bricks.". One of the script posts steals the 81M GET.
• August 29 - Another spam script gets hold of /b/ taunting people to come to their house for some reason.
• August 31 - A third 4chan.js variation appears which now copies files from your My Documents folder and implements them in the .gif files. Essentially, if you save the script like a tard, you've just had your documents uploaded to 4chan.
• September 2 - /con/ is closed again to avoid script spam.
• September 10 - Positron Uprising - The Large Hadron Collider was starting today, and moot changed /b/ title to Positron Uprising, with a subtitle of “I, for one, salute our new proton spiral overlords - ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH” And embedded Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan’s theme on /b/. Every single post is wordfiltered to “ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH”. A small, clickable fyi link appears under the comment field, which leads to a giant. /b/ proceeds to evacuate the board and raids the fuck out of /trv/ and various other boards. The next stop was /v/, but the raid was met with strong retaliation. The sequence of events inspires /v/ tripfag 3 Angled Blue to make the Rage Vs. Cancer comic, and it got so popular that /v/irgins got together and made the popular V-rage flash. 3AB then made a sequel comic and an unfinished conclusion in flash.
• September 16 - Sarah Palin Email Hack - David Kernel hacks into Sarah Palin’s email by guessing the secret questions, looking to derail his campaign. However he’s scared of being discovered and posts the password on /b/ under the name of Rubico. Subsequently, another user changes the password and posts a screencap, but forgets to censor it. Besides getting labeled a white knight, the account gets the password changed a third time, but due to Yahoo policy it gets locked. Rubico essentially showed /b/ all the information necessary to get v&, including his email, his American Proxy.
• September 17 - Rubico posts his story of how he did it, it immediately becomes a copypasta. The news get on the old media and an Internet poll held by Fox News’s host Greta Van Susteren over the issue, asking what the users though about the incident, if it was a harmless prank or a political move. Anonymous was aware of this and immediately clicked the prank option. However when the polls turned to 67% in favour of the prank the host claimed they got hacked. After the show was over they rigged the poll so you could no longer select the prank option. 4chan then proceeded to spam the comments section. A thread erupts laughing at how moot will get v& because of it, and moot responds by changing the title to “/b/ - DESPICABLE, SLIMMY, SCUMMY” with the subtitle “Remix”. He then embedded a remix of Row Row Fight the Powah.
• September 20 - Rubico gets arrested and his house is investigated. It ends up he’s the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell. Months later moot gets called into court to testify in a case against David.
• October 1 - 4chan turns five years old. moot celebrates again adding party hats to everything. Mac makes a second commemoration.
• October 7 - The second grand jury of Kernel’s case. moot had to go and testify about 4chan.
• October 27 - 4chan.js is revived again. It apparently fails.^{How? MARGE.}
• November 6 - The ultimate 4chan.js script hits 4chan. This time, the script takes a rusty dildo and fucks literally every single board up, even the poor bastards at /i/. Mass bans are handed out to combat the spam.
• November 24 - moot personally comes to /tg/ to announce the permanent ban of infamous tripfag Jim Profit. /tg/ cannot believe moot would actually post there. Everyone rejoices and a short Q&A ensues. drawfags chime in with celebratory OC.
• November 27 - A variation of 4chan.js, known as lol.js, appears on /b/. This time, running the script downloads something a copy of the script from Rapidshare and runs it on /b/. Technically speaking, this version of 4chan.js is an actual virus.
• December 12 - Anontalk Saga - /b/ starts getting bot spam advertising a site known as anontalk.org. /b/tards plan retaliation. Hal Turner meanwhile tried to convince anonymous to hack into the Federal Reserve and get him some dox.

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• January 23 - 4chan.js is back, but the .gif's are now yellow squares.
• January 28 - "After four months of being ad-free, we're running some ad tests. We ask that you bear with us as we filter out the shitty ads and see what works. Also, please don't block them, and be sure to click those that interest you. Thanks!"
• February 1 - 4chan leaks its own source code when /b/ crashes and delivers the entire imgboard.php script. A /prog/ anon soon discovers dat.4chan.org/b/imgboard.php has a security failure that hands out source code to anyone who opens it. However the imageboard script alone doesn't work without the rest of the Futallaby bundle, so nothing came out of it besides /prog/gers making fun of the code for a while.
• February 1 - /a/ is brutally raped by 4chan.js, this time the .gif squares are now in all sorts of colors. /r9k/ gets buttfucked the next day.
• February 5 - The script fucks /b/ again with a sea of glorious red squares. On Caturday that month (which Caturday, we don't know), 4chan.js instructions tell newfags that they can use them to get to the sekrit raid board, /z/. It's /b/, so /b/ does what /b/ does and fucks itself. Those who escape the carnage take refuge on /x/ and shit up that board instead.
• February 17 - A controversial journalistic article written by Monica Hesse of The Washington Post writes a prose recount of moot's stay at ROFLcon 2008 titled A Virtual Unknown: Meet 'Moot,' the Secretive Internet Celeb Who Still Lives With Mom. It's revealed he's 20.000$ in debt due to difficulties getting advertisers to sign on 4chan, with moot stating he refuses to allow pornographic ads on SWF boards or contract malvertisement services. On top of this, the article reveals moot has been unable to get a job or capitalize on his recent networking and is considering attending college in New York, that his parents are divorced, and that he's an acquaintance of Jason Scott, internet archivist, who's helping him write a resumé.
• February 18 - moot is interviewed by Rex Sorgatz of fimocolous.com in an article titled "Macroanonymous is the new Microfamous", originally intended for a bigger publisher that got scrapped after TWP beat them to it. Sorgatz and moot reveal his birthday is early in the year and that he has been getting police subpoenas as early as 2004, when he was 16. He states that 4chan costs about $6,000 per month, they are barely making ends meet, has 4.75 million unique IPs with /b/ representing at least 30% of the total site traffic. He mentions he'd rather have a passive approach to moderation, letting boards determine their culture.
• April 14 - 4chan.js returns, telling /b/ users to take a break from DESU DESU DESU spamming and copypastas. Surprise surprise, /b/ falls for it again and the board is assfucked by colorful squares.
• April 17 - After multiple /b/ counter-spam waves, Kimmo makes a news post declaring that he won’t spam any longer. Anonymous declares victory. Two days later he goes full circle and the spam starts again.
• April 27 - moot Goes to Time Magazine - 4chan related groups successfully hacked Time 2009's Person of the Year contest by rigging the candidates’ names with mARBLECAKEALSOTHEGAME. Time refuses to shallow pride and declare the poll valid, inviting moot to a Time magazine event, sparking a meme in the process.
• May 5 - 4chan DDOS’s itself - /b/ and /r9k/, hosted on the same server, grinded to a halt by DDOS. Everyone suspects 711chan is to blame. However it was later discovered that users downloaded an image that contained a DDOS script, likely yet another 4chan.js variant. The attack continued an entire week.
• June - 4chan.js returns with a vengeance, this time injecting the script into a random picture taken from your hard drive, then uploading it to 4chan. The script also dodges the wordfilters by removing random letters from the script posts. Mods apparently just gave up at this point.
• June 18 - Washington Square Meet Up - A year after the events of the old /b/ day, /b/’s title changed to "you forgot - it was your final mission nothing will save you now." On the other boards, the meet up was scheduled at Washington Square, and this time, moot was there. The meet is a pleasant surprise and goes on without drama. Everyone has a good time.
• June 20 - After countless complaints on /a/ about the infamous tripfags Lanced Jack and Taiga, moot changes everyone's default name to either lanced jack or taiga for nearly two weeks.
• July 5 - 4chan DDOS’s itself 2: Electric Bogaloo - /b/ starts to be spammed as if there is no tomorrow. At first the suspected culprit was Blackhatworld.com, but eventually they concluded that the /b/tards where downloading infected images again. The script uploads a rainbow of coloured images of the main character of A Clockwork Orange. The attack spread to every damn board and lasted until July 8.
• July 12 - moot makes a global announcement stating that he might use a 4chan Twitter "(ugh)" for site updates in addition to other stuff. (Despite the initial feelings about twitter, he eventually learns to enjoy it.).
• July 23 - Jason Scott announces he has acquired an archive of over 10 million 4chan threads, which he plans to upload to archive.org over the next week.
• July 25 - Jason Scott suddenly decides he will not be uploading his 4chan archive "anytime soon". It will not be uploaded until October 8, 2018.
• July 27 - AT&T blocks 4chan - moot attempts to reduce damage from having AnonTalk DDOS them with dire consequences: AT&T blocks 4chan's /r9k/ and /b/ more specifically the img.4chan.org sub domain was blocked. The entire site rises in arm in retaliation, but the matter is soon cleared and the block lifted. moot used the opportunity to talk about Internet censorship. The blotter is removed.
• August 6 - The infamous Endless Eight arc of The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya's second season finally reaches it's eighth and final episode, /a/ erupts in celebration.
• August 10 - Moot releases the emails sent to him by Lanced Jack (annoying and infamous tripfag who avatarfagged as Konata from Lucky Star) in which he pathetically begs for his rangeban to be removed. The thread gets stickied.
• September 22 - 4chan.js returns with a barrage of scripts hidden in pictures of greyness, but mods counter it after 5 hours. Three days later, the script returns but now the pictures are brown. This attack ends up being much more successful, taking over /d/, /wg/, /r9k/, /x/, and a number of other useless boards.
• October 1 - 4chan turned 6 years old. The party hats return once again. /b/ crashes due to delicious cake. As usual, /b/ flees to /x/. The server crashes twice more until all of 4chan.img is down. Mac makes his third commemoration.
• November - Winter of Pain - Around late 2009, MVB travels to NYC to help moot to a complete server software reinstall, upgrading FreeBSD from 5.5 to 7.1. cgi.4chan.org now has a throughput twice as large, going from 200 to 400 mb/s.
• November 20-24 - Earliest known dates for the deletion of /hc/ - Hardcore.
• December 22 - Deleted boards: • /adv/ - Advice
• December 22 - /adv/, a used as a secret test board for new frontend upgrades such as additional html and drop down menus for posts, is deleted.

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• January 25 - New Boards: ○ /adv/ - Advice ○ /lit/ - Literature ○ /new/ - News ○ /int/ - International ○ /sci/ - Science & Math ○ /3/ - 3DCG.
• January 25 - /3/ and /new/ bring back their previous incarnations (/3/ and /n/ respectively). /int/ is directly copied from German imageboard Krautchan's own /int/ board, but without geolocation flags.
• January 26 - The start of the longest ever collab thread in the history of 4chan on /3/. The thread continued until 2012/17/03 and later.
• February - Massive Q and A threads on /a/, /jp/, and /r9k/. moot creates a 4chan Q&A formspring page for the process but it was flooded with 20,000 messages. Around 2012 he quietly replaced the formspring page with the 4chan FAQ.
• February 4 - Verizon users started experiencing problems loading 4chan. Soon moot confirmed with Verizon customer support that 4chan was blocked. Verizon took a week to "resolve" the situation.
• February 10 - moot Goes to TED - Early in February, moot makes a /b/ sticky and announces he'll be featuring at TED 2010, asking what he should mention and talk about. The thread received over 12000 posts. moot features in TED's fifth session (day) in a feature called "The Case for Anonymity Online" - There he described Anonymous and the Meme Factory to a bunch of confiscates in 70 different countries. He claimed 4chan was growing due to the movement towards removing anonymity causing people to self-censor (Facebook). moot also revealed that he recently moved out of his mom's house and went back to college.
• February 20 - /jp/ - Japan/General is officially renamed to /jp/ - Otaku Culture. Many people complain.
• February 21 - moot implements post number truncation on /b/, replacing the last 3 digits with "XXX", to curtail Roll threads, "Post Ending in X" and the growing Dubs fad. This doesn't do diddly, with Dubs shitposting spreading all over the site but specially /v/.
• February 23 - A clue was featured on Jeopardy in a category entitled 'Internet' containing a reference to 4chan.org. moot posted an image about the broadcast. (where?)
• February 26 - HARMONY - A /v/irgin delves into the depths of Adult Swim’s flash section and finds a single game - Robot Unicorn Attack. The /v/irgin, felt something weird… something new. For the first time he actually liked a game. So he went to /v/ to tell the news.
• February 27 - Robot Unicorn Attack invades the entirety of /v/ and leaks into /a/, /jp/, /co/, /m/. /tg/, /k/, /x/ and /mu/. Many tripfags contributed, MFGreth1 added it on wiki recommended games list, Gay Purple Man, began streaming the game, BaconShota made #robotunicornattack, lordofhet started a group on Steam. Hundreds of /v/irgins emailed moot asking him to embed the RUA theme - Always by Erasure - on /v/. And he complied. Surprisingly, the game wasn’t even mentioned on /b/, something the /b/tards didn’t like. This event, in its own small way, change the way /v/ reacted towards games, from the hate bandwagon to actually admitting what games they liked. This would be a perfect reflection of the cultural changes 4chan went through during 2010.
• February 28 - "Over the past 48 hours 4chan's formspring page has gotten over 12,000 questions, and I've received over 3,000 e-mails. Many thanks to everyone who submitted a question, and sent me a message! I was able to respond to a few hundred e-mails and had hoped to start answering questions on formspring, but it seems that the number of questions broke the page. Once that's sorted out, I'll sift through them and answer as time allows. Thanks again for all of the support!" - However this fix never happened due to various reasons.
• April 1 - 4chan 2.0 - An April Fools prank that was actually useful when dealing with the onslaught of .hta spam the site was suffering from.
• April 22 - After testimonies by Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin and moot himself, Rubico, the author of the Sarah Palin email hacks, get convicted to one year and a day of prison. He appeals but is later rejected in 2012. Days later, the full transcript of moot's testimony surfaces and /b/tards he to read him explain what a rickroll is a federal judge.
• May 4 - Quiptext Day - /r9k/ discovers Quiptext's vulnerability and /b/ chimes in. Quiptext day was begun.
• May 23 - Lost Series Finale - /tv/ is renamed /tv/ - L O S T, and two stickies reach 4000 posts each within 24 hours.
• June 8 - OP trolls /b/ for an entire afternoon by pretending he was gonna kill himself on camera. Angered, /b/tards troll OP by figuring out how to send cops to his house.
• July 4 - Youtube Independence Day - /v/irgins discover and exploit in the comments sections and proceed to insert HTML codes into every damn videos of Youtube, redirecting many to the Last Measure, Goatse and many other things.
• July 14 - New Boards: ○ /vp/ - Pokémon.
• July 14 - Here comes the first of the /v/ermin. The first post was "This is a thread about Pokemon." Two stickies were created.
• July 15 - /vp/ gets another infamous sticky, this time featuring Bill. Its name also got changed to "/tr/ - Team Rocket" at some point in the future. The time from 2010-2012 will be remembered as /tr/'s "glorious" shitposting years, with tripfag trolls trolling trolls, NSFW furfaggotry and Gary spam.
• July 27 - CAPTCHA Wars - After an initial test run on /b/ during Good Morning America!'s coverage of 4chan, moot decides to permanently add Google's reCAPTCHA to quell the waves of spam they have been suffering for years. This is arguably the biggest shitstorm on 4chan since the /b/-day, and likely the biggest shitstorm since ever. Many 4channers swear the site has been ruined, while others solemnly conclude that the site is indeed better.
• September 7 - On /x/, BEN DROWNED is introduced to the world. It would go on to become one of the most famous and influential SHITTIEST creepypastas of all-time. While initially it's laughed off and ridiculous, a young subset of the fandom swear by it, and ultimately marks a turning point in the subculture. From now on, there's a general trend towards video game horror.
• September 15 - /g/ gets a sticky for the 15th anniversary of Hackers, the world's most accurate movie about hacking. This GIF of scenes from the movie and the Leftfield song Open Up are embedded into the first reply.
• September 17 - AnonTalk dies after being spammed endlessly by Minichan, their clone site, since April 13.
• September 22 - AnonTalk returns. To everyone’s dismay.
• September 25 - moot fills /b/ with falling dongs.
• October 1 - 4chan turns 7 years old today. He chatted as MOOTCHAT on Meebo and AIM via airplane internet. But that didn't work out, so he created #4chanbirthday @ irc.rizon.net. He discussed a bit about The Social Network movie that premiered in cinemas in the US. Mac makes yet another commemoration.
• October 14 - A single anonymous began hammering AnonTalk with all his might, killing the website a second time.
• October 19 - An article titled The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation is posted to /co/. It receives widespread condemnation due to its alarmist tone and prompts more /co/mrades to ironically watch some of the shows mentioned therein, notably the new incarnation of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
• October 25 - An anon coins the term "brony",. Consequences were never the same.
• November 4 - Kimmo brings the site back a third time under an American host and DDOS protection. He must really like the site. This time, however, both Tinychan and Minichan had their spambots at the ready.
• November 14 - Operation: Overlord AKA 4chumblr. A butthurt Tumblr user makes a request of invasion on /b/, but is shunned off by most as it was a personal army request. Still it garnered enough users to catch the attention of the Tumblr user’s that browsed 4chan. It prompted them to start Operation Overkitten, flooding /b/ with actual pictures of kittens and the phrase “What is air” . In response, /b/ attempts to DDOS Tumblr but fails, only taking the front page down. Tumblr declares victory and eventually, in the victory flood of /b/. In a sign of changing times, /b/ no longer has the energy of yesteryear and the raids petter out into conversations. A fad sets in that since 4chan is predominantly male, and Tumblr is predominantly female, they should solve their problems with sex. Thus, 4chumblr is born and hereon the Anonymous avatar and Tumblr-Tan get shipped by boardtanfags everywhere. A surprising amount of Tumblr girls began to post pics of themselves in you love you lose and tits threads.
• November 17 - Operation: Black Rage - /b/ realized that their massive collection of rageface comics was getting turned into prints by webstores, or reposted a la ebaumsworld in websites like 9gag. In an urge to stop meme culture from going mainstream, /b/ starts making “race guy” comic, racist variants of rage guy, in hopes of getting Hot Topic to stop selling t-shirts. Though initially successful, Hot Topic research the issue and calls out the raid, putting the shirts on sale again. This marks the beginning of the end for /b/'s board culture, and ultimately ends with 4chan denouncing rage faces as foreign culture.
• November 18 - Kimmo Alm, who has been showing a surprising amount of patience towards the wave of spam, finally snaps and raises his entry requirements to impossible limits.
• November 19 - Itamake, an enemy of AnonTalk, makes a domain under the same host as them. He puts ALTBBS on the work, which is an exact copy of AnonTalk. Kimmo loses his shit and kills his own site a third time.
• November 27 - Kimmo brings the site back again for a fourth time, this time even more restricted as before. Same old, same old.
• December 1 - PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI - CSS hack featuring the Japanese commercial song PUDDI PUDDI. Many /b/tards flee to /x/ again, in a sort of tradition. After so many times having /x/ handle /b/ refugees, /b/ enacts rule 43 - Due to their always helpful, although sometimes reluctant, attitude /x/ has had toward /b/ all these years and specially due the events of the PUDDI invasion, /x/ will not be raided anymore. This didn’t do much however, by the time this happened /x/ was already through the last stages of terminal cancer due to local tripfags.
• December 8 - moot joins Lerer Ventures as an investment advisor. The news goes unnoticed on 4chan.

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• January 3 - 4chan suffered another distributed denial of service attack "Right on the eve of /b/’s 300 millionth post".
• January 9 - New Boards: ○ /soc/ - Social.
• January 9 - The board is designed to remove "rate me" threads, "report in" posts and local meetups from /b/. Arguably one of the more controversial boards, but it's effects at the time could have never been predicted.
• January 17 - moot introduces multiple changes around 8PM EST. He deletes /r9k/ and /new/. He also removes the XXX post truncation filter from /b/. The navigation bar lists: [a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / w / wg] [i / ic] [cm / y] [3 / adv / an / cgl / ck / co / fa / fit / int / jp / lit / mu / n / po / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / x] [rs] [status / ? / @].
• February 13 - Andrew W.K. posts on 4chan's /mu/ with two threads. This is the beginning of the end for /mu/, as a flood of off-topic threads began to take over the board, with a special mention to /r9k/ feels.
• February 26 to March 1 - Pony Wars - The infamous 'Pony Wars' take place on /b/, /co/, and the rest of the site, with mods banning pony posters and pony posters fighting back with router resets. However, using words such as "pony", "ponies", and "brony" remains a bannable offense for some time, and the biggest pony trolls coalesce in the /b/read, a general thread with enough infrastructure that they could ID each other through forced anon via script extensions. neber forgetti. Bronies later regroup in their own allowed thread: /mlpg/ - My Little Pony General
• March 14 - moot Unveils canv.as - moot had his SXSW 2011 (South By Southwest Festival) talk regarding canv.as. 4channers mocked him in countless threads and it was considered to be the worst of all the talks he had about 4chan in history. moot also meets future 4chan admin Hiroyuki Nishimura here.
• April 25 - nonTalk dies its fourth and final death, Kimmo finally fed up with the board.
• May 1 - End of AnonTalk Saga - Attempting to reach AnonTalk shows a tl;dr post by Kimmo explaining how the host told him to censor the site or leave, so site will never return unless he has tons of money to run it himself
• June 26 - /vp/ steals /v/'s 100000000 GET with an image of Haunter.
• July 2 - For some reason /b/ resets to the standard Yotsuba Image Board title, it was later reverted.
• July 24 - Akihabara meet up - moot announces he's on Akihabara and he'd like to meet up with 4channers on 3PM in front of Radio Kaikan. About 30 people come by, only 10 being Japanese. (was this a global announcement??)
• July 27 - moot x Hiroyuki - moot, former mod Shut and who appears to be thatdog travel to Tokyo to meet with Hiroyuki Nishimura and Daisuke Tsuda, for a livestream interview in Nico Nico Douga's studio. moot and hiro butcher each others' language, compare their countries' social media, visit /a/, /v/ and /jp/ while anons share stream links and compete to get their attention.
• August 6 - First 4chan Cup The inaugural 4chan Cup kicks off; Soccer teams representing 16 of 4chan's finest boards are pit against each other to prove their superiority.
• August 9 - /a/ becomes the first 4chan Cup champion, defeating /ck/ 3 - 0.
• August 18 - A final post by Kimmo realizing that there’s no possible way he could ever get any money of sorts.
• October 1 - 4chan turns eight years old. Mac makes another commemoration.
• October 6 - /sp/ steals /a/'s 55555555 GET, the most important GET in KoG's career.
• October 23 - New Boards: ○ /r9k/ - ROBOT9001 ○ /pol/ - Politically Incorrect ○ /hc/ - Hardcore ○ /diy/ - Do It Yourself.
• October 23 - /r9k/ and /new/ (now rechristened /pol/) are re-added after moot hears Sherrod DeGrippo, owner of household name Encyclopedia Dramatica, nonchalantly explain how she de-platformed her own community in the hopes of monetizing ED's fame. /hc/ comes back because why not. (And they celebrates with blowjobs). This effectively depopulates 4chon, who goes onto produce a number of spinoffs such as Wizardchan and 8chan (Infinitychan) as it's userbase specializes. This "new guard" chanverse would come to be extremely influential in years to come.
• October 31 - The Great Raven Ban. A raven thread on /x/, a normal occurrence around Halloween, was deleted, randomly. The OP of the thread was banned for two days for "shitposting". Soon, anyone who posted ANYTHING related to ravens & crows were having their posts deleted, and those who posted the the original OP image were issued two-day bans. For the months in which the ban was in effect, ravens became symbols of freedom on the board and rebellion against mod abuse in general on /x/, which had gotten out of hand. However, around Valentine's day of 2012, as mysteriously as it began, the ban suddenly ceased as a regular occurrence, with only occasional public bannings to keep the /x/men in line. By the next Halloween, bans had practically ceased altogether. Possibly the work of a single rogue janitor/mod, or maybe part of a larger anti-raven conspiracy, but no real reason was ever determined.
• November 8 - /new/ is (accidentally?) revived. No news posts are made, rules given, or mods on it. Title is "Yotsuba Image Board," the default title given to new boards; seems to be a mix of /co/ and /sp/ users with a healthy blend of racism thrown in. Posts from January still made up over half the board. Deadmau5 appears on /mu/ in two sticky threads. The off-topic posts in /mu/ intensify.
• November 12 - 4chan's Official Chrome Extension released and the 4chan Firefox Extension updated. KoG gets publicly banned 9 times after getting quints.
• November 13 - 4chan suffered a sustained DDoS onslaught by an unknown person or entity.
• November 16 - DDOS dies down after moot contracts CloudFlare services, offending yet more /g/ay men's anti-big-tech sentiments.
• November 17 - moot has a sticky in /g/. /r9k/ gets spoiler tags thanks to Tage Heyn and people(s) talk about Shii. /v/ becomes /v/ - El Vidyo and gets Hispanic background music.
• November 20 - moot tries to make pages load more quickly by changing how captchas load. Naturally, this makes captchas stop working altogether. Quick reply/Noko/All non-official 4chan applications stop working and the submit button grays out for a lot of people. I link moot to the thread and after he posts, the thread explodes with people bitching and moot undoes the changes after the thread hits 200 replies about an hour and a half later. (/g/21167645).
• November 26 - /sp/ - Ship Posting Day - moot completely loses it and changes the name of /sp/ to WE NBA NOW!!!!!!!!!, with the subtitle of “our body is ready”. He proceeds to sticky random off-topic threads and ban users with random tags such as [USER WAS RHYTHMICALLY SLAPPED FOR THIS POST] or [USER WAS HORSEPLAYED FOR THIS POST] and changing his name to mootdusky. This is due to the state of /sp/ reaching critical mass, becoming the vanguard of a new generation of trolls; after this, moot pretty much gave up on the board.
• November - At some point this year, bans are changed so they no longer block the user from browsing the imageboards. From now on, posters only find out they are banned when they try to post. If an user is banned, and it expired, or warned, they must first see the 4chan.org/banned/ page before being able to post again. This update wasn't applied to world4ch which still blocks users from browsing. at the time of the update, moot justifies it as being needlessly cruel, but in May 2013 he reveals later that this was due to the move to CloudFlare causing issues with fake bans and stopping people from browsing.
• December 20 - 4chan, along with reddit and tumblr, invade 9gag after they stole their memes and claimed it as theirs.
• December 25 - An original story called A Tsundere Christmas Carol gets posted to /a/ for the first time. It becomes widely loved, to the point that it's tradition to repost it every Christmas since then.

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• January 3 - The 123456789 GET on /v/ is taken by a picture of Yugi, KoG later claimed it wasn't him. Archive
• January 4 - Katawa Shoujo, /a/'s long-awaited visual novel, gets released. /a/ goes apeshit in anticipation and gets a giant sticky with relevant music playing in the background.
• February 4 - shazbowl - /v/ beats Reddit at Tribes Ascend, becomes /v/ - "Well-coordinated and heavily practiced Reddit team beaten by a rag-tag group of /v/irgins run by a furry tripfag and a BR with 140 ping" and gets GAL男宣言 (Galo Sengen) embedded as background music. This event is known to this day as the "shazbowl." The /int/ board is occupied by Russian channers from 2ch.so due to a DDoS attack by pro-government groups.
• February 14 - During Valentine’s Day, moot announces that he is planning to add up to 15 boards, including one to contain the rising brony phenomenon. Later, he reestablished forced anon on /b/ using a 24 hours ID system, essentially making one anonymous without being anonymous. From this day on, the quality of /b/ seems to ameliorate, albeit slowly.
• February 16 - New Boards: ○ /mlp/ - My Little Pony ○ /vg/ - Video Game Generals ○ /hm/ - Handsome Men.
• February 16 - /mlp/ represents moot finally giving up on curtailing the /b/read spammers, and also ends the absolutely enormous speed discrepancy between /mlpg/ - My Little Pony General and the rest of /co/ which was causing no end of moderator problems. The /b/read refuses to leave /b/, with infamous /x/ avatarfag & shitposter turned brony Aeris arguing that moving to "bunkers" would deprive them of new members. Ditto for /vg/, since over half the frontpage of /v/ was General threads at any given time. It is now impossible to get repeating digits on /v/, other than 00s. He explains the formal definition of general and his reasoning in a /v/ sticky
• February 21 - Legendary spammer Barneyfag makes his first appearance.
• March 21 - Noboru Ishiguro, director of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, dies. /a/ gets a sticky.
• April 1 - moot hacked /pol/'s CSS to a communist theme. The Russian anthem plays.
• April 1 - /b/read regular milkytiptoe programs a server network to identify each other through forced anon called Name-Sync )alt link, turning the /b/read and later /gfur/ into some one of the most confusing circlejerks on the history of 4chan.
• May 20 - Banbusters - A /b/read newbie later known as ScriptKitty writes a program called Project /B/anBuster, an automated ban evasion tool that scrapes proxy lists, tests and switches them for every post (thumbnail screenshot, he also opens a TinyIB imageboard). Years later Kitty would relate how this caused a power struggle in the /b/read, with one of the founders, Tom, trying to get them out of /b/ into MLPchan. Within a few months, the bread goes from a circlejerk to a veritable menace, as they are effectively unbannable. They escape the /b/read and take their shitpost war to moot himself, harassing him on /q/.
• May 26 - /a/ gets a sticky about Toonami since it was airing that night. It said that in order to prevent /a/ being flooded with it, mods would create a Toonami discussion thread on /vg/ (as well as vowing to delete all Toonami threads on /a/ for the rest of the night). This created a massive amount of confusion and anger among the /a/ userbase as well as /v/ and /vg/, particularly because Toonami didn't have any real place on /vg/, and would have been better put on /tv/ or /co/ if not /a/. Many called out the mods for being lazy and simply tossing the problem to a different board.
• June 3 - Hacker group UGNazi hacks CloudFlare's DNS server through a 0day exploit worth at least 6 digits only write a 4chan diss track. For a couple hours, the 4chan.org domain redirects to UGNazi's twitter account, where they accuse 4chan of being a haven of pedophiles and disgusting bronies. As the exploit was fixed in a couple hours, few people actually noticed. It is likely the group realized they were not in a position to monetize such a high profile hack so they did next best thing: Brag about it.
• June 5 - New Boards: ○ /wsg/ - Worksafe GIF.
• June 5 - /gif/ officially becomes a porn board after a couple years of being almost 100% porn threads. The 3 /gif/ oldfags left despair.
• June 8 - The anime series Chihayafuru gets a second season. /a/ gets a sticky
• July 6 - moot writes a note talking about bandwidth usage, extensions and asks both add-on developers and users to be reasonable with update intervals.
• August - With 4chan’s one billionth post looming in, moot replies to two threads on /b/ with his admin tag on. The threads quickly turn into a Questions and answers session between the long forsaken /b/tards. Though /b/ had their title and CSS routined trifled with, it was years since the last word exchange with the m00t. Many tears were shed.
• August 8 - New Boards: ○ /q/ - 4chan Discussion.
• August 8 - The glorious return of /dis/ and /sug/. After 4chan’s billionth post, moot posts the first news post in four years. He /q/ and states that he plans to start a series of "primer minister" style Q/A threads stating he feels he lost touch with the community. Following some suggestions on /q/, avatarfagging becomes a banned offense. With time /q/ is flooded by users from /a/ and /v/, the two boards with the most traffic after /b/, known to be notoriously reactionary. Not long after that, most mods are taken to /v/ to deal with the recent wave of shitposting and the deprecation of /v/ culture. /a/ users keep complaining about undesirable anime threads like Naruto, and how they shouldn’t be on /a/. The staff seems to have divided opinions and shift between deleting threads and leaving them be. The following debates backslash when trolls begin to crapflood /a/ with Naruto threads, whilst the rest of /a/ bandwagoned against them. Eventually moot stepped in and clarified that Naruto is /a/ content.
• August 9 - MINER DAY - moot fiddles with the rules and pushed the most controversial change of the year: Allowing minors to post on 4chan by changing the rules to allow people 13 years and up to post on SFW boards. Backlash ensued as anons somehow concluded words on the rules page were enough to stop underageB&s from posting while threads like "i'm 13, recommend me anime for 13 years olds" pop up everywhere. moot tried to insist, but eventually relented and replaced minors with MINERS, then rolled back the rules changes.
• August 10 - moot hacks /a/’s CSS and wordfilters every post to JIBUN WOOOOOOO. He embedded the first opening of Code Geass on the first page. He also fucks with the rules page and shitposts, users wonder if he's just drunk. [2,431] [2,432]
• August 13 - Dub the Dew Raid - 4chan (/v/, /b/ and more boards) gets hold of Mountain Dew’s new naming contest, and together with Reddit hijacks it, making names like “Fapple”, “Diabeetus” and “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” appear on the top. Bronies also join the game, attempting to get Applejack to the top, but they only manage to appear in second place. Later, the site was hacked and the banner “Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!” appeared, together with a rickroll and a pop up of “le 9gga [sic] are legion”. Mountain Dew later admits defeat and suspends the contest.
• August 28 - For a few days, a mysterious game titled LostBoy.exe gets posted, containing a virus that steals users' personal information. A mod makes a sticky on /v/ saying "DON'T PANIC", reminding people to not download things linked on 4chan.
• September 3 - moot announces on a news post that he will start working where he left off on the last news post of 2008. He announces that on 09/09 Janitor applications will open again.
• September 5 - 4chan JS - On a news post, moot announces that lead Developer KING JAFFE JOFFER along with the writer of the Yotsuba Catalog and new Developer Desuwa made a major overhaul of the HMTL5 code, created the Inline Extension and added a JSON API. All threads are now rendered via JSON too. KFF also ports the Official Firefox extension to Google Chrome. The inline extensions are published on the official 4chan Github, in hopes that the coding community will give suggestions to make it better, but /g/ would rather tease ## Developer over their BSD license. Unsaid, KFF was also working on a major rework of the Admin Toolkit. This would be KFF's last major project as 4chan Developer. He'd later retire.
• September 9 - After a long time, janitor applications open for a period of 24 hours. moot reports receiving 7500 applications and will oversee them within the following months.
• September 12 - moot opens the first official Q/A on /q/ a la prime minister questions.
• September 14 - The 4chan 9gag war ends. Marge.
• September 18 - After a lengthy discussion with /q/ regarding moot's ethics towards site finances and his refusal to accept donation again, moot & /q/ come up with the 4chan Pass system. It allows users to bypass reCAPTCHA for a year at the price of 20 dollars. This is simply because moot doesn’t support the concept of ongoing donations nor donations rallies, citing he dislikes receiving without giving.
• September 28 - moot makes a news post clarifying some doubts and questions about the 4chan pass
• October 1 - 4chan turns nine years, with the sixth consecutive commemoration from Mac.
• October 5 - /a/ gets a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure sticky. The first episode was airing that night, so there was a lot of hype in the thread (as well as those complaining, as always). Throughout the early parts of the thread, many were asking for a stream for the show, with the requests growing in number as the show was closer to airing, culminating in the show being five minutes from airing and no stream available. Even the mods were asking for a stream. However, with only minutes before the show started, one hero anon posted a link to a Justin.tv stream, saving the day. /a/ went into a frenzy of excitement when the stream link was posted, even a mod thanking the poster. Thread was either deleted by mods a bit after the stream ended or, according to one anon, "So good it broke the sticky."
• November 8 - Name-Sync Purge - On a /q/ thread about /mlp/, a /b/read personality posts http://thereisnosanity.com/posters/statistics.php, leading to what looked like an archive and activity statistics tracker for avatarfags and tripfags, including everyone who was using the /b/read's NameSync, some well known, some not, and some unrelated to the /b/read. The site goes password only hours later. 4chan wonders if organized shitposting is actually real. Who knows, we should ask Bui, Siztra, Trevor, Tokiko, Raidchan, Lulznet, #tomgreen and the rest of the /i/nsurgency.
• November 9 - /g/ begins to investigate. They immediately ID the domain owner and get his real anme. Attempts to break into and later DDoS the site are made but other /g/entlemen inform them it's a waste of time. What they do is extract a List of 400 tripcodes that used Name-Sync, prompting a mod to ask the anon to post them. The plot thickens when shitposters from the /b/read ERIS / Discord (also Aeris of /x/ infamy) and Incendia, among others, chime in and narc on the leaker being one "Seff", trying to paint him as one of them and making several threads on /v/ and /b/ trying to get people to IRL raid his address. More investigation shed some light on him and proved he was active in the /b/read but also posted on /a/, "thereisnosanity" Seff’s personal nick found on his Youtube channel and myanimelist page. Later, Seff appears to defend himself, claiming he's been working on this for a couple weeks, and had emailed moot about it with the site's access credentials. This prompts moot himself to appear and ask what the fuck he's talking about, then actually check his email and confirm Seff is legit. moot uses Seff's list to blanket ban every tripcode that used the tool for ban evasion. Anons are left wondering if Seff was legit or just covering for himself, as he was in the top #25 of his own tracker. The next day Seff he posts his emails with moot in a seconed thread ands explains he did it to "get to know" the /b/read while said group spams the place.
• November 16 - /a/ gets a Evangelion sticky (Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo was coming out the next day). Fly Me To The Moon from Evangelion was embedded and autoplaying. Since it was stickied and autoplaying, when anyone would open the frontpage of /a/ it would begin playing. After only 21 posts in the thread, a mod (thought to be the same mod behind the modposts in the Jojo sticky from October) posted a crude drawing of Asuka from Evangelion along with the text "P.S. If you're in Kyoto, let know so we can see the screening on Sunday." Since it was impossible to not hear the music coming from the thread when coming onto /a/ (other than simply hiding the thread and ignoring it), the thread became one of the largest stickies in a long time, almost triple the number of posts from the Jojo sticky. Along with general discussion of the show, much of the thread was just spam of various copypastas, mostly the same few being spammed over and over again. The thread finally died more than a day and a half later with 2940 posts, at which point the constant music on the frontpage was starting to get a bit annoying.
• November 18 - ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) - The ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) meme becomes widespread in record time. It was born out of the Finnish imageboard Ylilauta and overran 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr and Facebook in a single day. On /a/, a thread regarding the announcement of Season 3 of Rozen Maiden gets stickied. Most anons responded very positively and excitedly (it had not aired in almost six years at the time and was mostly seen as a dead project) to the news. It had been the first Desu-related sticky in a long time and the thread quickly turned into a series of 2006-era desu memes and screenshots.
• November 19 - The second /q/ townhall starts
• November 27 - moot talks about 4chan pass and the economic state of 4chan
• December 7 - /a/ gets a sticky: One anon got Nyotai ka!! Sekai no Dokusaisha Retsuden, a mook (magazine/book) showing moe and bishoujo depictions of dictators and autocrats, and began posting scans of it to /a/. As the thread progressed, the topic of the thread shifted from the discussion of girls and scans themselves to the dictators and countries in real life. Many interesting accounts of people who lived under or have a relative who lived under one of the dictators were posted in the thread (several relayed accounts of Pinochet). Near the end of the thread, the OP (who is swiss) posted the final mediafire links to the complete raw scan of the mook. Many in the thread thanked the OP and sent him wishes for a speedy recovery as he revealed that he had been suffering from a cold (some hypothesized that he caught a Japanese cold through his imports).
• December 13 - moot adds Bitcoin Support to the 4chan pass
• December 20 - On /a/, the popular manga series Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! gets an anime adaptation. A thread discussing this was stickied. This was good news to most, although some voiced sadness over the fact that they wouldn't be able to see it since the world was due to end the next day. There was noticeably less excitement in the sticky then there usually is when a new anime adaptation gets announced, as there was more general discussion of the show than there was all-caps spam (which is preferable). There was more room for complaints in this less-enthusiastic group of posters, and some complained that there was nothing to make an anime of from the manga, some saying it would only be three minutes per episode (others joking that J.C. Staff would be producing it).
• December 21 - Mayan Apocalypse - >4chan Passes are on sale for the End of the World and Holidays. Click here to learn more and purchase one.<PS: Passes can now be purchased with Bitcoin, and as gifts for others. - 4chan passes go on their first Sale and can now be bought with Bitcoin. Links lead to the /pass and /news 4chan Pass announcement respectively. /v/'s title is changed to FINAL HOURS and has the Final Hours music from the Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask playing in response to the predicted apocalypse. Two other stickies related to the so-called end of the world are posted on /b/ and /x/; opening the /b/ sticky opens a CSS hack featuring an autoplaying video of R.E.M.'s song "It's the End of the World As We Know It" and a custom background, while the /x/ sticky was opened for more serious discussion. /a/ gets Komm, süsser Tod playing as well.
• December 25 - Christmas faggot hat day. global announcements have their first line changed to >4chan Passes are on sale for Holidays. Click Here to learn more and purchase one.<
• December 29 - This post throws some light on the matter of /pol/. Days later a mod took notice and vowed to take the matter to moot. Marge.
• December 30 - /a/ gets a sticky created by mods to clarify certain moderation policies and address the problems of /a/ for the coming year. Mods claimed the biggest problem plaguing /a/ was the "“us vs. them” mentality," meaning clique/fanbase and board.v.board warfare, something they claimed was mostly exemplified by bannable shitposts. After just over an hour, mods decided to lock the thread,unlocking it two hours later, something most /a/nons saw as mods being lazy. Later on, a mod who didn't watch anime was publicly banned and just over 40 minutes after the thread had been unlocked, it was locked again to "delete some irrelevant posts so it's easier for people who missed it to go through the thread". The thread would remain locked until it was removed by mods sometime on the 31st due to its clear failure.
• December 31 - r/a/dio - /a/ gets three r/a/dio new years stickies with gifs playing in the backgrounds. These stickies are seen as an official mod approval of r/a/dio threads, a topic discussed during the December 30 town hall sticky as some claimed it was "not related to anime or manga and does not promote discussion thereof" and a "topicality". For EST, Colors (theme of Code Geass) played for new years ( while the first post made after new years was a picture of Yukikaze Panettone from Dog Days in a boobs thread). When new years came for CST, Trainroll was playing, and the song playing for PST New Years was Feel So Moon, by Unicorn. By the next and final sticky, the thread stopped being a "celebration of the new year thread" and turned into a "first stream of 2013" thread. At 3:48:38 in the morning, EST, exactly this point in the thread, the stream began breaking. "Unfortunately the stream is down for the moment, please return later" was on the front page, and many began freaking out, although many were happy to finally be free to go to sleep. Luckily, in just over two minutes the stream was back, and an admin said some time later "the entire server broke a moment". The DJ that had been on earlier, Hiroto, said that he "woke up to fix everything". The thread, over the next two hours, became something of a goodbye thread for those that had stuck around for all the threads; Activities such as the posting of new year's resolutions, dance gifs, and waifus were had. One final celebration was had when one anon posted that a well-known and hated tripfag shitposter, Komeiji, had announced he would be permanently leaving 4chan, although many doubted this (he would come back in March of 2013). By this point, most were too sleep-deprived to understand what was happening, and the thread was locked and then deleted. The last post of the thread was the fitting "there's no way in hell /a/ could agree on what songs to include". There were more than 9700 posts in the stickies combined and roughly 8000 in the non-sticky threads before it, and it's estimated that they accounted for 1/5 of all posts on /a/ that day. Hiroto posted a message to the r/a/dio site with some stats the next day.

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• January - moot announces that desuwa has adapted his Yotsuba Catalog into an official Inline Catalog.
• January 8 - The banned page now shows you which post you were banned for.Note: This only applies to new bans going forward, and there are a few exceptions—posts will only be shown for templated bans (which account for the vast majority of bans, including ban requests), and will not be shown for auto-bans, thread bans, and bans for anything illegal. - /q/ has a sticky to discuss the change where mods answers anon questions and states he didn't want to implement this as he believed it wouldn't reduce complaints (like that mattered), but bans being templated changed his mind. He also shoots down other possible reforms (seeing the post/template that got you banned for false reporting, adding ser notes on reports) and reveals the queue gets assailed by spurious reports constantly. The thread ther gets raided by the /b/tread using the BanBusters proxy switcher while moot forgets world2ch existed. It all devolves into shitflinging where moot, who's not clearly not having a good day, goes off at random posters. Shit hits the fan when out of nowhere he accuses the lead /b/read spammer, DeputyDerps/ScriptKitty, of being Zaiger, current admin of Encyclopedia Dramatica. A few weeks later, the real ScriptKitty takes down / makes private his Banbusters page, citing moots' call out as a reason
• January 8 - Anons start reporting that trying to post or report, specially via 4chan X, gives 502 and Connection error with sys.4chan.org messages. Some speculate it's Zaiger retaliating against moot for defaming hours ago. However loading problems only affect sys.4chan.org, which is protected by CloudFlare. Problem persists for a couple days and anons theorize its a certificates issue.
• January 10 - /pol/ finds gold on Tumblr and The Great /pol/ Social Justice Raid of 2013 starts.
• January 15 - Ghost in the Shell gets a new anime, titled "Arise"; /a/ gets a sticky. This was very exciting news for most as the last major release in the Ghost in the Shell franchise by Production I.G was in 2008 (Ghost in the Shell 2.0, which was only a rerelease), although there were some complaints over the casting/production choices and some claimed that Ghost in a Shell is /v/ shit. Although there was a plenty of petitioning towards the mods to have the thread stickied (one anon even posted to /q/ to get mods to see it), it would be over ~700 posts before the thread was stickied, at which point it had already begun to autosage (in fact, another thread was created just in case the original thread would 404). Interestingly, a few anons were able to determine that the anime was a prequel before much information had gotten out about it (which ended up being correct), although this was quickly disregarded and argued against by the others. After this, much of the thread was either arguing about very minor details of the anime (small redesigns) or anime in general ("Name one anime from the last 10 years with no cgi at all"), although for a while the discussion mainly revolved around board culture as there were mainly complaints about /v/ (as usual), this time as someone linked to a /v/ thread discussing the new anime, leading to much anger amongst /a/ ("/v/ is full of hypocrites who shun almost anything Japan-related but then circlejerk over certain Japanese games/anime anyway").
• January 30 - /mlp/ is renamed to "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?", due to the reaction of the board towards the main character becoming an alicorn, for the sake of new toys.
• February 5 - A sticky is made on /q/ discussing the possible improvements to the catalog ad inline extension.
• February 15 - moot stickies his shitposting thread on /a/ (although he may have been drunk considering many of his posts made no sense). Prior to this, he had made a non-stickied test thread on /a/ (a pastime of his) without an image. Much of /a/ was fed up with moot using the board as his "test board" as this always drew in off-topic discussion, and mod-sanctioned shitposting had been a topic discussed during a town hall sticky by mods back in December, as mods denied that there were any shitposting mods, much less the admin. One frantic anon made a thread on /q/ trying to get him to stop fucking with the board. However, as this was directed towards the mods, nothing ever came of it. The thread that moot had stickied was even more off-topic than the test thread, although this time the ever-so-light presence of mods (surprising considering it was moot's thread) was clear in the thread from the posts deleted. The topic of the /q/ thread from earlier had also shifted topic towards moot's shitposting on /a/ with this new sticky, but it was mostly just complaints as they knew there was nothing they could do. Several began speculating what the occasion was this time, whether he was drunk or if he was just in the mood for fucking around. Based on his posts later in the thread, it's probable that moot was either 1. actually drunk and just pressing random buttons on his keyboard, explaining why some of his answers made no sense and why they were all in lowercase, or 2. he was just pretending to be drunk and stupid for shits and giggles. The latter was more favored by speculating anons in the beginning of the thread but as the thread carried on and moot's text became making less sense, among other changes (including no longer using any capitalization), the possibility he wasn't actually pretending took hold. Some believed he was just sleep-deprived. The thread reached over 2500 posts (13 of which were moot's shitposts).
• February 20 - The nokosage function is changed, and now using it shows the user’s sage.
• February 21 - For a while, all posts quoting another bug out and are hidden from the thread.
• March - With the sticky finished, the improved catalog gets released.
• March 18 - New Boards: ○ /asp/ - Alternative Sports ○ /gd/ - Graphic Design ○ /out/ - Outdoors ○ /lgbt/ - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender ○ /vr/ - Retro Games.
• March 18 - However, there seems to be no /his/ - History nor /quest/ - Quest Games on sight, which were the two most requested boards. After a short sticky on /3/ as to whether /3/ and /gd/ should be merged (moot forgot to get their opinion before creating the board), moot decides to keep the boards separate. moot on the other hand refuses to add /his/ because he's certain it would become "/pol/ with dates". This comes long with a general restructuring of the boardlist on the top of the page.
• April 1 - New Boards: ○ /s4s/ - Shit 4chan Says.
• April 1 - April Fool's 2014 - Making fun of both the recent Reddit hate fad, moot adds a r/srs ('Shit Reddit Says) spoof board. In the global announcements he writers: “Unlike the other new boards, this is being added on a permanent basis. If it doesn't pan out or goes unused, you should probably check your privilege.” The board gets two stickies - a 5555 dubs GET and another saying “Post in this thread to have your privilege checked” Later the full joke kick’s in and moot changes the format and CSS to make it look like Reddit. On both /s4s/ and /b/ a popup about AdultCatFinder appears. A mod checks everyone’s privilege on the second sticky and an empty thread is stickied on /b/.
• April 2 - /s4s/'s reception if overwhelmingly positive. moot confirms /s4s/ is here to stay.
• April 3 - /s4s/ becomes an official 4chan board, becoming a rules-free yellow board. moot first tries to decouple it from the Reddit references by changing the title to “/s4s/ - Shitposting 4n Steroids”, but it’s not listed on the main page and many people complain about the name change.
• April 7 - /vp/ gets renamed to /vp/ - RIGHT IN THE CHILDHOOD after a certain new Pokemon gets released. /s4s/ is renamed again, this time, to /s4s/ - Shitp4sterS.
• April 10 - /s4s/ gets renamed back to Shit 4chan Says.
• April 15 - moot makes a public announcement telling he’ll log in AIM as moot chat and try to answer emails.
• April 20 - /mlp/ reaches their 10M GET, (taken by Vinyl Scratch) and breaks the record of the most replied post of 4chan with 2046 replies.
• May - #Outlaws - Recent crackdowns on the shitposting of /sp/ and /tv/ (Two long-forgotten, but still alive, boards) lead to many users outright rebelling against the moderation team. On one side, users form /tv/ have long been complaining about constant celebrity waifu threads that could take as much as half the board. /sp/’s off-topic posting has been increasing exponentially since 2010 and this is coupled with severe crackdown on multiple generals, including topic bans. The upset and banned users essentially cry revolution and start spreading anti mod propagandas and signing their posts with hashtag parodies #freesp, #freetv and #outlaws. The spamwave extend to /fit/, /int/, /s4s/, /v/ and more. /sp/ becomes one of the first boards to wipe their own catalog in protest, all parodying the moderator by making an avatar of janitor Mr. Morris of Arthur. Though it’s agreed that /tv/ has no holding ground to claim celebrity threads to be allowed, moot has agree that he would consider allowing certain classic /sp/ threads such as power level and current even threads. Self-wiping in protest becomes a tradition in /sp/ and culturally similar boards like /tv/ and /int/. Later, /sp/ diehards would migrate to spinoff GETchan.
• May 4 - After a 4 year long hiatus, Cirnopoly !/ciRNo/Ym. released the 11th issue of Four Chan Magazine, an /a/ oldfag project last updated in 2009.
• May 12 - moot opens the third Q/A, fucks with the CSS by forgetting a “ and jokes with /s4s/ by giving it Comic Sans.
• May 13 - Anamanaguchi, whose members are friends of moot, make a Q/A session on /mu/. Luke becomes a fan favorite.
• May 18 - Israel Affaire - /int/ janitor nikka gets fired over internal drama. He is soon revealed to have been defending his moderation actions to the point of infamy in the form of a Polish flag that always sucked up the janny. Infamous janitor of /jp/ Anonymous of Colombia volunteers as a temporal replacement. Within weeks, every mention of the words "Jew", "Israel" or actual posts by Israelites outside their own general start getting deleted minutes from posting. Turns out, AoC was running a post autodeletion script hooked to Duanemoody's Janiroids janitor userscript. For months, it's practically impossible to discuss Israel on /int/. Anons are amused. At first.
• May 23 - Dragongate - 4chan Cup /n/ team manager Dragonfag is revealed to be /cm/’s manager Kageyama, and former /sp/ manager Torres McIlroy...and fifteen other personalities. After an extensive investigation, many matches in which Dragonfag was a manager are nullified. /sp/ loses its 2012 Winter Cup trophy. Dragonfag is banned from the cup (he later came back to run the cup betting before each matchday)
• May 27 - Lauren Faust makes an AMA on /mlp/ (inside an existing thread) and the entire board collectively lose their shit. moot renames /mlp/ to "IT'S HAPPENING".
• June 18 - moot celebrates the Boston fail meet up by re-enacting the old /b/-day. This time, however, instead of a meet up on the other board, he starts two contests on /q/, one about rotating banners (Those things you see on the top page that always have the 4chan title) and house ads (Replacements for the adspace when there are no current adds running).
• June 19 - The entire catalog of /int/ is nearly completely wiped. Nobody knows why. It's revealed in the #janiteam leaks of 2015 that Janitor AoC (Anonymous of Columbia) of /jp/ was also moderating /int/ and running a regex reader auto deletion script through a custom made modtool extention that just had a major mishap.
• July 3 - /pol/ and /b/ raid the skype call of Scott Pleasents's remote testimony in the George Zimmerman trial after meming about it for a while. Several media outlets report on the incident.
• July 14 - /v/ achieves its 200M GET. After lots of tension, the GET goes to a completely unrelated post in a Pikmin thread, asking, "Also why does everyone crash land trying to get to Earth? Seriously."
• July 27 - A harsh critic from GameInformer journalist Martin Beer makes Indie games developer Phil Fish ragequit Twitter and cancel his newest game, Fez 2. /v/ celebrates by making tons of OC, including a new /v/ Sings and countless Youtube videos.
• August 11 - moot renames /soc/ to /soc/ - Cam & Meetups, /q/ to /q/ - 4chan Feedback and /fit/ to /fit/ - Fitness.
• August 13 - Naruto Day - /a/’s elitism finally goes too far when they try to dox a 4chan mod (RapeApe) who posted on /q/ telling them to stop complaining about naruto threads. moot retaliates changing the board name to /a/ - "N/a/RUTO CONFIRMED BEST ANIME CHINESE CARTOON OF ALL TIME", with the subtitle "BELIEVE IT (also dubs are better than subs)", embedding a remix of "believe it", changing the posting form and stickying a bunch of Naruto threads. /a/ goes berserk and begins spamming CP and guro, forcing the mods to shut all down.
• August 26 - Thanks Australia - Congratulating Kojima on his 50st birthday, /v/ sends him over a hundred postcards. However, Kojima thanks Australia instead of 4chan, because the sender was Australian. moot considered this funny and renamed the board to “/v/ - Australia” with the subtitle “T-Thanks Kojima-Sama!”
• August 27 - moot announces that he will host a 4chan Panel on AnimeWeekend on September 26 and 27 to celebrate the site’s tenth birthday.
• September 3 - After some days of the announcement, he makes a news post detailing the 4chan Panel and who will be there. It comes with a new image from Jim Ken.
• September 4 - moot has an impromptu Q/A session on /q/ where he’d livestream the answers.
• September 5 - moot hosts his 4th PMQ/Q&A, but live-streamed from Google Hangouts to YouTube in audio. He states "If it goes well, we'll probably switch over to this format for the future." He then goes on to confirm this, and will now be hosting all Q&A's in audio format for the future. He later makes a sticky on /s4s/ where he discusses porn threads on the board, both him and the community decide they should be banned. Meanwhile, Harach, the most popular Russian imageboard, dies and the entirety of its userbase returns to /int/.
• September 9 - Due to overwhelming popular request moot renames /s4s/ to its true name [s4s] in reference to being the only off-topic board in the Navigation Bar.
• September 9 - OP thread deletion is disabled to prevent staff impersonation. Janitor Duanemoody, who also wrote the Janiroids moderation extension, lashes out at the news and moot fires him without warning.
• September 10 - moot in a soup-induced delirium, adds :fortune: to [s4s]. Many rolls where had.
• September 15 - [s4s], notorious for stealing GETs, has their 1M get stolen by /g/.
• September 18 - Full House Update - moot posts a tl;dr newspost where he defines the site's official stance on shitposting and on-topic content, introducing a "final" batch of updates meant to modernize 4chan and encourage high quality content: Intra-thread and inter-thread (threads vs posts) timers are now separate, and the post timer is increased to 1 minute with the sage post timer now equalized to it. He announces that all future Q/A sessions will be livestreamed and deletes /q/, replacing it with the new Feedback suggestion box and it's answers page. He also adds a 4chan Ban Log page that shows only a mod-detrmined sample of all bans. Finally, in an act that will live in infamy, he makes sage invisible after almost 10 years of the feature. R.I.P in pieces, Sageman.
• September 19 - /co/ flips out when they realize the timer has effectively killed storytimes, their most important tradition. moot makes an extremely rare /co/-post to revert the change to 30 seconds, specifically for images posted on /co/. /co/ is to this day still processing the fact that senpai noticed them.
• September 27 - AWA 2013 starts.
• September 28 - 4chan's 10 Years Anniversary Panel - The aforementioned 10th Anniversary 4chan panel takes place at AWA. As with previous cons. /jp/ changes its title to "/jp/ - Weaponized /a/ Home of ``Misunderstood Genuises''". /jp/ watches the 4chan panel on youtube, and this is ground zero for the shitstorm as the board got hijacked by /b/tards when moot mentioned it as “Weaponized /a/”.
• September 29 - New Boards: ○ /con/ - Convention.
• September 29 - In keeping with the Otakon tradition, he reopens the temporal board /con/. moot also does a meetup on Atlanta before the Panel starts and signs a /k/ommando’s Mosin Nagant.
• September 30 - Newspost on the Panel. moot livestreams the panel for an hour, and later uploads the video to Youtube. Shut and Snacks were present alongside many original mods and friends of moot. He also jokes saying that /jp/ is the new /b/ which turns the board to shit for a while.
• October 1 - TEN YEARS MOTHERFUCKERS. Also fgt hats are back, the American government shuts down, the Silk Road is closed, Terraria has a huge update and /v/ discovers Half-Life 3 is already trademarked and on the making.
• October 6 - UTV Affair - /sp/ flips the fuck out as an /trb/ general poster who has been stalking tripfag UTV since June reveals he has been discovered and has to leave the general. He subsequently releases a 97 page pdf detailing everything he ever thought or written about UTV. It includes notes, poems, artwork, and all posts by namefag UTV since July 1. UTV Archiver was later referenced as “The most autistic user in the history of 4chan”
• October 8 - /con/ is removed.
• October 22 - Developer hotwheels created 8chan.net (Infinitychan), an experimental IB that lets anon create their own boards like the AnonIB site of old. Initially their userbase has strong overland with former 4chon developers and the Imageboard Wizardchan. It soon comes to house /new/ oldheads that refuse to assimilate into /pol/ and a plethora of small communities. Years later, unexpected internet-wide developments sees them become truly massive and declare themselves sworn rivals of "halfchan" neé 4chan.
• November 9 - By now, the Ban page is modified to include the frontpage's Navigation buttons and its custom footer (a mix of the imageboard html footer with the frontpage's 4chan copyright line) is truncated and has the frontpage links tacked on top.
• November 15 - 4chan implements reCAPTCHA on the ban page, which kills the BanBusters program once and for all.
• November 20 - All images, flashes and static files are now hosted on their own server, which will make loading speeds a little faster.
• November 22 - The /vr/ sticky is updated to include the Sega Dreamcast as a retro console, though other sixth generation consoles such as the Xbox and PS2 are excluded.
• November 25 - 4chan Pass goes on sale.
• November 29 - moot announces a blog post explaining the rationale behind his MO.
• December 2 - moot implements a new domain for images and .sfws, 4.cdn.org, a new strategy that has been implemented by other sites, saving data by reducing cookie and packet size. The new measure totals up to 43 terabytes of saved data per month. moot announces the update in his Tumblr via the news. He also submits his post to Hacker News where it reaches the top of the front page for a few hours, leading to a small technical Q&A in the comment section.
• December 15 - With an ad blocker activated, ads are replaced with "Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan.org/*, purchasing a self-serve ad, or buying a 4chan Pass."
• December 22 - 4chan passes go on sale again.
• December 23 - /k/ is flooded with mourning threads following the death of Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mods embed the song "Moscow Nights". The sticky stays up for over a week and gets several thousand replies.
• December 25 - anus hats, Hanukkah edition.

2014

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• January - moot implements code upgrades that greatly fasten the site’s browsing speed.
• January 5 - Site goes on an outage from 01:32 - 13:10 (EST) due to MySQL error. Boards are semi-functional, as in the board pages are frozen, but you can open threads and post, and also make new threads. People begin to make CP threads during this time.
• January 10 - /a/, despite being one of the oldest boards and one of the most active, finally reaches the 100M GET, and it only took them a little more than 10 years.
• January 18 - It is announced that "You can now add a search term to the end of a board URL to default to a catalog search for that term. Example: 4chan.org/a/waifu"
• January 21 - moot’s startup, the one in charge of Canv.as and DrawQuest, finally closes after the venture is confirmed to be unprofitable. moot makes the news public on 4chan.
• January 23 - A stickied thread on /s4s/ becomes the second (sorry!) thread in 4chan history to reach ten thousand replies. The thread, which was posted by a namefag called Getter Robo with the text 'LETS BREAK THE REPLY RECORD' and a picture of said robot exclaiming 'UOOH!', is nearly impossible to view without crashing the computer. The OP of the post received ten thousand replies, doubling the previous record set by a namefag called eternal samefig on the same board, who vowed to reply to his post until 4chan died. The thread dies on February 18.
• February 9 - moot modifies captchas so they only appear when you type something in the comment field because Google raises the difficulty of captchas as a punishment for sending too many unanswered requests.
• February 12 - moot makes a new blogpost, The Anonymity I know, and publicizes it on the news page.
• February 13 - New Board: ○ /biz/ - Business & Finance.
• February 13 - Another containment board in the vein of /vg/ and /mlp/. /biz/ attempts to move the crescent cryptocurrency thread out of /g/, also taking with them the free market and neo-classical posters from /pol/. He also makes a sticky on /g/: “take your shitty bitcoin threads here”.
• February 14 - moot makes a Valentine's Day sticky on /soc/, like last year.
• February 18 - Chaos in [s4s] - [s4s] goes completely out of control after the aforementioned "Reply record" thread is un-stickied, resulting in a glitch in the system. This includes up to 26 pages being added one by one, resulting in threads linking to 404's, or 504 gateway errors, and multiple threads being made to "keep" the pages once the bug is fixed... only to be reverted later. The ongoing kek thread gets deleted as well.
• February 23 - moot opens janitor applications. States that he will open them once every 1/1.5 years and that’s he’s feeling like doing a new Q&A. At the same, he adds IDs to /biz/, to curb the tripfag population.
• February 25 - Start of the Crimean Crisis, which would eventually lead to the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Vladimir Putin's Russia. On /pol/, threads about it devolve into a shitshow, with lots of WW3 doomsayers, people accusing each other of being Russian/EU shills and people waifufagging around prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya.
• February 26 - An exploit is discovered where pasting a large amount of text into the CAPTCHA field allows the poster to bypass it.
• March 13 - 4chan goes on yet another outage where if one attempts to post, he will be redirected to a page saying "Posting temporarily disabled. Come back later!" moot makes a sticky on /biz/ stating you can now target /biz/ with self-serve ads. The page numbers bar is also added to the top of the page. "Settings" is organized into several categories which can be hidden; Quotes & Replying, Monitoring, Filters & Post Hiding, Navigation, Images & Media, and Miscellaneous. Brief descriptions of the options are added underneath. A new option, "Snippets in page title" is added, which allows you to show/hide post subjects or comment snippets in the page (tab) title.
• March 25 - All hell breaks loose when it is announced that Facebook has purchased the gaming device Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars. /v/ and other boards outrage, with /v/ getting the title, changed to "Where were you when gaming died?", embedded music with the song "Komm, süsser Tod", and a sticky.
• April 1 - For April Fool's Day, captchas are substituted with fake Japanese character captchas. To get the actual captcha, you must scroll over the fake captcha.
• April 2 - A new file type named "WebM" is introduced to /g/ and /jp/, with several stickies in the former. A few days later (April 6), it became available on all boards, with a new sticky on /g/ made by <hype>the Developer</hype> describing how to encode (convert) gifs/generic video files into vp8 webms. The sticky was linked to from the global red-text message and blog post (see below).
• April 6 - The blotter and the blog are reintroduced, most likely because of all the new features/code changes moot wanted to implement this month. The first post to the blog was made regarding the decision to support webms. (archive of that blog post)
• April 7 - Death of world4ch - moot uses the blog to announce that discussion boards, nominally known as textboards, will be frozen but not deleted, as they have gone unmaintained for too long. However /rs/, the fileshare board, will be deleted to focus on the image boards. /vip/ and /prog/, world4ch's two most (and only) active boards, mourn and disperse.
• April 18 - New Boards: ○ /htmlnew/ - /test/ - Testing.
• April 18 - Titled "/test/ - Testing", it's an unannounced "secret" board to preview upcoming CSS/html changes. Posting is only available for mods/admins.
• April 19 - /htmlnew/ is removed and the new changes are implemented. In thread URLs, thread links, which go by "res/" are renamed to "thread/", and subject/comment snippets are appended after the thread ID as a slug (#). The "src/" and "thumb/" directories are removed from images.4chan.org and thumbs.4chan.org and shorthands i.4cdn.org and t.4cdn.org. Files now live at the board root on those subdomains. The board index now starts from "Page 1" instead of "Page 0" and there's now an un-browsable "Page 11" representing the next thread up for deletion. There is now an option on all pages to search for OPs. A drop-down menu is added beside every post, with the options "Report post", "Hide thread", "Image search »", "Download file", and "Filter selected text". There are also several minor cosmetic changes.
• April 23 - 4chan Hack of 2014 - moot appears on /int/ doing some uncharacteristically unmooty posts - it turns out an Australian managed to get root access to 4chan, all in order to dox a french /int/ tripfag called FWG. After posting her location, he leaks ip's of mods and janitors and the password to the moderator IRC channel. Subsequently, 4chan was frozen for about 6 hours. At the same time, moot's venture DrawQuest gets hacked and almost turned into a BitCoin farm. It's later revealed this is because 4chan and DrawQuest were hosed on the same servers.
• May 6 - Deleted Boards: • /fk/ - For Kids!
• May 6 - The final set of site changes are in place. /fk/ is deleted. The board footer is modified with script credits (- futaba + yotsuba -) completely removed. moot publishes a new blog on chrishateswriting titled "When a bad day gets worse—getting hacked twice in one day", including the opening of a Vulnerability Disclosure Program page, advertised in the 4chan Blog.
• May 6 - Anon finds moot talking about the hack on Hacker News and complains on /g/. moot decides to have an impromptu Q&A there.
• May 11 - A sticky is posted on /v/ regarding a moderator who outed himself for a forum of an EA game. moot demands that everyone stops doxing him or else they will receive a ban.
• June 27 - Homestuck generals are banned from /co/. "At this point, we are no longer allowing Homestuck General threads. They've long since become echo chambers for off-topic discussion and are a detriment to the board as a whole. Please do not create any more homestuck generals. Thank you." A Homestuck general is stickied on [s4s].
• July 4 - Aftermath of speed running convention, original content is developed in the form of that autistic guy annoying a passive aggressive manchild. It also comes to light that a streamer was cheated on by his wife and her potato faced cuckold that goes by the stream name Stivitybobo on twitch; he continues to exhibit signs of his disability in the form of playing the victim. Stivy also got a pizza dinner delivered to his home, interrupting and prematurely ending his streamed speed run.
• July 4 - Independence Day Invasion - /b/ and /pol/ manage to falseflag Tumblr and start flinging shit at each other, eventually climaxing into the great Independence Day Invasion.
• July 12 - The oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, a thread about a drawfag on /i/, finally dies after 978 days, almost two and a half years. It was overtaken a few months later by a different /i/ thread about a drawfag.
• July 30 - The robot on /r9k/ is disabled, the reason being that "/r9k/ ceased to be "original content" years ago". At rhis point, /r9k/ was firmly the "incel frog board" it is popularly known as. A user on /pol/ makes a post saying "Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art / This post is art.", which then was photographed off the screen and framed by another user who posted another reply in the thread with a photo of the framed quote. Later the that user created an auction on eBay for the framed photo which quickly rose to high prices, culminating in a price of $90,900 after which many news outlets picked up on the story, i.e. The Washington Post.
• August 12 - The ARCHIVE - In a news post, moot announces a partial implementation of something that's been in the to-do list since literally 2003: The Thread Archive. Unfortunately, it's not permanent. Described as "delayed thread pruning", threads on /a/ and /v/ will now be accessible for a period of 48 hours after being pushed off of the board index. In the same post, the E-mail field is renamed Options field, and it is no longer to link your email in it.
• August 17 - /lit/ starts writing a book collectively that later came to be known as "The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra", the first book by 4chan and probably also the first written in anonymous collaboration online. Proceeds from the book on Amazon are donated to the Autism Research Center.
• August 21 - A Ukraine General is created on /pol/, with overall pro-Putin sentiment.
• August 25 - The static pages tracker called ChanTracking goes online. Its creator, Floens, programs a bot to keep track of changes to 4chan's static pages and JSON in order to develop his Clover mobile app for 4chan. The github is now archived. Earliest commits (2014-2016) must be read through the Floensbot commit history and the rest can be read through commits to master. The extension.js versioning at the beginning of tracking is 869 for extension.js and 568 for board CSS. The number goes up (presumably) for every changed pushed by the dev. Around August 2017, the tracker starts suffering hallucinations that spam the commit history until its closure in 2021.
• August 28 - GamerGate - The weeks long, ongoing Zoe Quinn cancellation drama takes an unexpected turn as nearly all independent video games news pages publish variations of "Gamers are Dead" on the same day. What was previously a controversial lolcow watch becomes a civil war within the gaming community. On /v/ the affably received quinnspiracy threads, now coalesced into the Gamergate general, become the single most active threads on the site, burning through the bump limit in hours as refugees from NeoGAF, r/games and many more forums rush to the only forum that allows discussion on the topic.
• August 31 - The Fappening - A guy on /b/ leaks several hundred celebrity nudes hacked off of iCloud. TMZ offers him over a million dollars for the rest (which he declined), and continues to post pictures and videos throughout the day. A thread on /b/ made by him has bump and image limits disabled until it reaches over 9,000 replies (Reached 10,111 replies) in a non-stickied thread, causing the entire site to lag. The event is dubbed both by 4channers and the media "The Fappening".
• September 1 - Lawsuit-Proofing - In response to the Fappening (and due to threats of legal action by Jennifer Lawrence's lawyers), 4chan lawyers up and implements a series of late night policy changes. First, moot adds a Legal page to the frontpage with a DMCA takedown service. This service operates through a MD5 hash blacklist. He also updates the footer text to include 4chan's LLC identifier. It now reads About • Feedback • Legal • Contact (below) Copyright © 2003-2014 4chan, LLC. All rights reserved. - At first, they mistake Corporation Service Company's headquarters with their registered agent address
• September 2 - A 17 year old kid on /out/ embarks on a 5500km walk from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales
• September 3 - Further post-fappening lawyer proofing is introduced. The forgotten Press page gets the link to Legal added. The FAQ now reads that 4chan was inspired by 2chan rather than the original was copied from.
• September 3 - The thumbnail server t.4cnd.org has a minor subdomain change to 0.t.4cnd.org (n.b. may be a Floens Chantracking artifact)
• September 4 - The most public pictures of Jennifer Lawrence are the first MD5s confirmed banned. It's most likely the legal threats did not end there, as Martin Singer would soon threaten Google itself.
• September 4 - More changes: The DMCA service gets explained to the FAQ. There's also now minor updates, such as 4chan no longer hinting about the secret final page (11 or 16) and including the 4chan logo in list of things forbidden to claim as 4chan endorsing. The frontpage css, the rarely updated yui.css, gets the first new update in a while, but the changes weren't tracked.
• September 7 - Another batch of lawyer proofing changes. The global rules are rewritten to appear more formal. Privacy policy disclaimer is moved to Legal page. "DMCA Policy" gets renamed "Copyright policy".
• September 8 - More updates to the frontpage CSS (yui.css) that are not properly tracked (probably to accommodate new identifiers for divs)
• September 11 - Minor Fix: Padding used to counter recaptcha's webkit padding removed from mobile css (Yotsuba mobile).
• September 15 - An unfortunate anon makes a terrible first post on the Gamergate general and anons start demanding people report non-helpful posts. At this point, the thread was moving so fast such actions saturated the report queue, an enormous problem for a moderation that is dealing with the fallout of The Fappening and another headache for an Administration that could find itself in court soon.
• September 16 - Exile of Gamergate - A mod posts on the Gamergate general declaring the topic banned because it's clogging the report queue. Every new GamerGate thread gets deleted and users riot and accuse this mod of going rogue. In the wake of the crackdown, moot's e-mail address disappears from all contact pages, and Germany allegedly gets a mass IP range ban (this was then discovered to be just a rumour with no basis, due to several German flags appearing on /int/). The outrage that ensued is on a scale unseen since the /b/day of legend, making /v/ unusable for several days, having ripples in several boards, most notably /b/ and /pol/, the latter seeing it as a "gotcha" moment for their anti-moot narrative.
• September 17 - The Feedback page is unlinked from the frontpage, being accessible only from URL. In the FAQ, that lines that state posters are able to sent feedback to ask for spam filter changes or discuss 4chan policies are removed. From here on, no more feedback questions get replies. Anons assume this related to GamerGate.
• September 18 - Minor Fix: There's now an icon for archived threads () and extension.js does more robust checks for posting and opening the reply form if the thread's archived.
• September 18 - Sticky on /v/. moot declares GamerGate officially banned from the whole site because of Global Rule 4 (no doxxing). "Said threads are being deleted primarily because they violate our blanket "no personal information / raids / calls to invasion" rule. Spamming the reports system and creating multiple topics were also a factor, especially given /v/ is one of 4chan's fastest moving boards and has historically struggled with keeping topics limited to actual video games." It's later discovered that modposting was disabled by order of moot. Following the crackdown, a vast amount of complaining stirs up on /b/, with a good portion of threads speaking out against 4chan moderation and administration. Many of said threads say that users should simply leave on October 1st (4chan's 11th anniversary) and only return when (and if) moderation of 4chan returns to its original relaxed state. A 4chan clone, 8chan, gets popular for discussing Gamergate threads. Linking to it results in an auto-ban.
• September 19 - moots the Luggage Lad - For the first time, moot suffers leaks of his personal life. /pol/ discovers the Instagram account of moot's fellow NYC acquaintance, Mallory Blair, which is completely public and happily blogging that she went to Europe with him around July. It's soon discovered that Blair together with moderator Swaglord had ties to NYC news media, particularly Gawker. Many assume moot finally got a gf, others that he is a simp. One of her social media posts however has unfortunate friendzoning vibes with the line "he carries luggage & is single ladies", sparking a meme. With /pol/ in full rebellion and /v/ still reeling from Gamergate, anons eat this up and spread it everywhere claiming 4chan sold the site to SJW over a woman. The leaks were likely motivated by Gawker's involvement in Gamergate (via Kotaku), and while initially taken in stride by all involved, may have directly affected moot's personal social life.
• September 22 - moot makes a shitposty /sp/ sticky about going to see the Bears. A picture of Blair's actual boyfriend is posted and /pol/ implodes as soon as they see it. Everything related to moot gets flooded to hell and back with cuck spam.
• September 23 - Emma watson makes a speech at the UN denouncing mysoginy (nobody knew about her and Weinstein yet). The same day, a website called emmawatsonyouarenext.com appears, declaring they'll leak her private photos on September 24 12PM. The news go viral on twitter and social media. The site has 4chan's logo pasted on the page, albeit it's barely noticed at the time.
• September 24 - emmawatsonyouarenext.com's date announces celebrity leaks of Watson on September 24th. On that same date, instead of celebrity nudes a hashtag called #shutdown4chan and a large, typo-filled rant about the number of visits and mention the site got (around 48 million).
• September 24 - Minor Fix: You can now configure the inline extension to center threads in the middle of the page. The Feedback page is back to being linked. But it never gets a moderator reply again.
• September 24 - /lit/ writes a sequel to the original Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, titled The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra II - Miami, in just over one and a half days.
• September 25 - In the following five days, ChanTracking detects jsVersion jumping from 875 to 879, but does not have the updated scripts tracked.
• September 26 - emmawatsonyouarenext.com is hacked and the marketing company behind it, Rantic, is revealed. Anons mock the normies' failed attempt at internet cred. The site shuts down the next day.
• October 1 - The 17 year old kid from /out/ now titled Little Thor by the community passes the 1000km mark.
• October 1 - 4chan Turns Eleven - A rather tumultous bday. Mac Once again makes a new birthday illustration. The Blotter has two updates: News Post: HAPPY 11TH BIRTHD- and Happy 11th Birthday, 4chan!
• October 1 - Minor fix: The FAQ now adds quotations to moot's name.
• October 2 - Minor fix: The inline extension has the ability to use post subject as tab title removed. Likely due to browser incompatibilities. It now can also have the auto thread watcher filter for filenames.
• October 12 - moot announces that he'll be at the Aizu-Wakamatsu train station to wave at the iconic webcam, which was followed for years in a /jp/ general; even if the webcam service was discontinued in March 2017, the beloved general is still running.
• October 18 - Minor fix: The inline extension now has the auto thread watcher filter per board.
• October 19 - Little Thor is a faggot and drops out after 1200km.
• October 30 - Minor fix: More robust checks on extension.js's capthca reload. The next day jsversion goes up by two, but the changes where not tracked, Jsversion is now 886.
• November 3 - Minor fix: You can now unfilter posts caught in your filter.
• November 4 - A thread on /b/ surfaces where anon claims to have murdered his gf and posts proof. Hours later anons discover they where real as police alerts of a murder in Port Orchard, Washington. The thread has since been lost.
• November 5 - David Kalac, now dubbed the "4chan killer" by shitty news media, is arrested after crossing state lines to Oregon.
• November 5 - Minor fix: extension.js bugfix - Strikethrough (s) now works on quote preview
• November 9 - The blotter updates and reads: Blog Post: Enhanced Thread Watcher, unique posters, and delayed pruning. moot announces a series of new features. First, the IP Counter is added to the thread info box (bottom left), at first the popup tooltip reads (n) Posters but this is quickly changed to (n) Unique Posters. The auto thread watcher that was being worked on since october goes live and has unique json fetchs, albeit it has to be manually updated to work. The archive is a success, and has been extended to every board but /b/.
• November 10 - Minor fix: The polishing continues. The post form can be opened via URL (e.g. boards.4chan.org/b/#reply) The popup tooltip for thread info gets more changes: Instead of Bump Limit Reached it reads Replies (bump limit reached). Ditto for Image Limit Reached for Images (limit reached). On mobile css, the tooltip no longer appears in italics and gets a bugfix that stops it from rendering if there's no countable IPs (how??) Also, loading thread stubs gets future-proofed by taking thread info elements dynamically (e.g. images and replies)., the filter gets some regex improvements on mobile theme the post link gets realigned. while thread stubs and filenames get truncated and can be expanded by selection elements (plus bugfix).
• November 11 - Minor fix: Two more site changes, one untracked and another a backend reformatting of the thread watcher to be more robust.
• November 12 - Minor fix: The inline-quote preview now reveals spoilers.
• November 12 - The admin of archive.heinessen.com, the main archiver for /mlp/, /fit/, /k/, and /x/ (among others) announces on /mlp/ that the site will close due to personal reasons. /mlp/ panicked as there was no other archiver that had archived /mlp/ from birth and many requested a torrent be provided. Some even offered to pay for the archive to continue while others asked to mail him a HDD to save full images. Other threads discussing this were made on /r9k/, /toy/, and /k/. In the end, /k/, /mlp/, and /r9k/ were made available for torrenting (/fit/ was given to other archives as well) while /x/, /int/, /an/, /toy/, and /gif/ were deleted.
• November 14 - The Tomorrow CSS Theme is implemented on the site code, but is unannounced yet, and has some bugfixes and typo fixes in its settings description in the following days.
• November 15 - Minor fix: Recaptcha window has some logic changed.
• November 16 - Minor fix: Infinite scroll is introduced for the Yotsuba mobile format, manually, by clicking Load More.
• November 17 - Minor fix: (Seemingly) invisible fiddling on the post button.
• November 18 - Minor fix: Infinite scrolling now behaves a bit different between mobile and desktop forms.
• November 19 - Minor fix: The navigation bar now hides when you scroll down in mobile.
• November 20 - Minor Fix: CSS rules changes for the inline quote preview, and there's a minor scope bugfix for reply hiding.
• November 20 - Blotter updates and reads: Blog Post: Mobile site improvements and change to moderation. moot wrote a new blog post saying that janitors now have the ability of request warns instead of bans. He also states that roughly 90% of 4chan users are lurkers and only 10% of the 20 million monthly users actually posts. His suggestion that recommendation threads on /a/ are not ban-worthy but only deserve a warn causes a shitstorm. He also summarizes Tomorrow them and announces more changes to mobile CSS site some introduced during prior week and some during the day: Truncated names, thread stub stats (X replies / Y images), infinite scroll, navigation auto-hiding (now toggable on mobile settings), etc.
• November 23 - /co/ gets an introductory sticky restating the board topic and inviting people to browse the catalog. It controversially states The posting of non-worksafe content under spoiler tags is not permitted, and will result in a ban. Furry content is also not permitted. This causes a minor stir as several furry oriented webcomics now had uncertain fates (Prequel, Poppy O'possum, Lackadaisy, Endtown, TwoKinds, etc). This was actually intended as a stab to the Caturday guerrilla general led by notorious furry drawartists and Swat Katz enthusiasts Redout and Dbaru, among others, who had been playing a cat & mouse game (no pun intended) with mods over blatant NSFW posts since 2012.
• November 25 - Minor Fix: The Youtube Embed link for Mobile CSS now reads Open
• November 26 - Minor Fix: The reveal spoilers setting is now disabled by default.
• November 27 - → 4chan Passes are now on sale from Black Friday through Cyber Monday! ← (Blotter update: 4chan Passes are currently on sale for Black Friday/Cyber Monday!)
• November 29 - Minor Fix: If you hover over an image that was deleted after you loaded the page, the tooltip popup will read File no longer exists (404).
• December 4 - Minor Fix: If you hover over a post's date, it will now tell you the time passed since it was posted (e.g. One Hour and 30 minutes ago.
• December 4 - USAKA - Asuka's Birthday. A bike horn rendition of Cruel Angel's Thesis is embedded on every board along with Chen pictures and signs stating "No honk allowed". /a/ gets renamed to USAKA with subtitle USAKA IS LUUVUSAKA IS LUUF and slapped with crayon drawn asukas, sending the board into chaos. moot posts on /a/ and stickies an usaka drawthread. He also makes a post stating "ayy lmao" in a BANE? thread on /pol/. It's been years since moot was this hectic.
• December 5 - Ben Garrison, the conspiracy theory cartoonist who was completely mindbroken by /pol/ after they edited his entire portfolio to blame the jews, draws a second moot diss illutration calling him The CEO of Troll, Inc. revealing how he fell for a fake moot email asking why he was so racist - This is picked on by /pol/ and GamerGaters who proceed to spam it everywhere.
• December 6 - Minor Fix: The Legal page hyperlink at the bottom of the frontpage portal gets renamed to the DMCA page, but the URL remains the same. The "What personal information is collected?" line in the FAQ is deleted
• December 7 - The /pol/ocaust AKA /pol/ Harbor - After months of harassment over personal photos, moot loses his shit and transforms /pol/ into a shitpost board - It starts with "cuck" being wordfiltered to "cluck" during late night. /pol/tards start complaining and getting passive-aggressive replies from a visibly upset moot. In a few hours over a dozen new wordfilters appear such as "moot" becoming "the CEO of Troll, Inc.", "shill" to "loyal consumer" and "jew" to "happy merchant". Circa 3:30 the site goes down and comes back at 5:30. Minutes later moot declares open season on /pol/ by removing the captcha and editing global announcements to read We're testing CAPTCHA-less posting on /pol/—feel free to give it a whirl. and an hour later the timer for posts and threads is reduced to 15 seconds and 1 minute, global announcements appending EDIT: Now with legacy timers!. Furry porn, guro, loli and ponies are posted with little retaliation from the mods. The board goes apeshit as /pol/lacks try to flee to /mlp/, /int/, [s4s], etc. or /pol/ tries to fight back by pasting "m00t ## Admin ⌘" or inserting invisible unicodes in the subject field. Several threads are sticked - first a copypasta asking about janitor salaries, then an open POST YFW THE CAPTCHA IS GONE thread and a shoop of moot getting fucked by Anita and Zoe. More stickies get made after swaglord brings [s4s] to the house. By midday, even more wordfilters got added and Forced Dubs get made by duplicating the last post digit which causes chaos as people are unable to link to previous posts. /jp/ gets mentioned with a Reimu Yukkuri ASCII. moot doubles down and at 19:00 places a battery of features, renaming /pol/ to The 8 Steps of Cuckolding with subtitle >she does it for fun. He embeds full first episode mp3 of Cuckolding Princess' audiolog (40$!??) to the html, old /b/ style. Fortune is enabled and posts now warn you about triggers. 20 minutes later both get an upgrade with rolling marquee animations and checking your Cuck Privilege. This changed little in the eyes of /pol/ which was already convinced moot had betrayed them since GamerGate, but it aired many grievances the rest of 4chan had with the nascent culture war environment that board cultivated. Many unwitting souls believed these happenings meant moot is going to delete /pol/, unaware this is just moot going back to classics.
• December 8 - moot's scourging of /pol/ continues. As /pol/ slows dows a bit, moot does a tour of 4chan, visiting /a/, and /b/ where he publicly fires a janitor after he breached secrecy in a thread asking what jannies thought of moot. Ben Garrison quietly deletes his CEO of Troll, Inc. cartoon after realizing he was led on regarding moot.
• December 8 - ReCAPTCHA 2 is implemented, replacing the CAPTCHA box with a button that says "I'm not a robot". Since the system is completely different, captcha post form containers change size, captchas no longer preupload and extension.js and core.js have to be retouched. Publishers breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to worry about the word nigger getting into their books. Users report having captcha passing without having to solve it.
• December 10 - The blotter updates: Blog Post: No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA - moot writers a blogpost announcing High Trust session cookies (aka not a spambot) will bypass reCAPTCHA on occasion, showing roughly 1/5th of total posters now bypassing verification. The legal page recommending readers to use [email protected] is now red & bold.
• December 10 - /pol/'s naruto themed 39999999 GET is stickied & locked, while the 40M GET was HITLER WAS RIGHT! and gets several hundred replies. /pol/'s title is changed back to "/pol/ - Politically Incorrect", and the embedded audio is removed.
• December 11 - 4chan Pass sales are temporarily taken down and mentions of it in the FAQ and frontpage portal navigation (not the same as the footer nav) are removed.
• December 11 - Minor Fix: Report panel popup extended to fit reCAPTCHA V2
• December 11 - Minor "Fix": Max Width for Mobile CSS thumbnails is removed and quickly added back.
• December 11 - [s4s]'s font gets changed to Comic Sans because why not.
• December 11 - IDs are removed and dubs return on /b/. /b/ gets the captcha removed and old post timers restored like /pol/, and is flooded by a spambot whose owner is Bui, a /vp/ tripfag & ban evader known for spamming Goodra porn threads. The changes are quickly reversed.
• December 11 - /b/ and /pol/ both get a dancing robot along with Chris Carter & Blim's Robot embedded, to parody the new captcha system.
• December 12 - /pol/ gets IDs after a /b/ user requests moot to bring back IDs, and moot says the user didn't specify which board. meanwhile swaglord stickies dubs.
• December 13 - Minor Fix: Submit post button is made a bit more "robust" to prevent runtime errors
• December 13 - Minor Fix (?): The Options field now fetchs data from cookies
• December 13 - moot has a lengthy and mildly cathartic Q&A session in /pol/, where he states he sees 4chan "as a hobby, not a career", says that he is not deleting /pol/ and blair was just a friend, along with several other topics. IDs on /pol/ are now different for every post, regardless of poster's IP, thanks to a user suggestion. Two threads are stickied on /pol/ - one asking if newpol stands with (((Our Greatest Ally))) then swaglord stickies a Beary Pink fanart.
• December 14 - Minor Fix: Old V1 recaptcha html is removed and Desktop css now features navigation bar auto hiding like in mobile css.
• December 14 - Minor Fix 2: Custom CSS, Keyboard Shortcut and Colored ID options in the inline extension are now disabled by default.
• December 15 - Geolocation flags are added on /pol/ and they get several esfores stickies, including da bears, a pufferfish, awoo and BBC. While he was adding country flags, dsw took the opportunity to clean up a couple lines for troll flags.
• December 16 - 4chan Pass sales are reenabled - Global Announcement reads: Users who purchased a 4chan Pass on or before December 8th, 2014 are being offered a pro-rated refund for a limited time. (below) More details regarding the refund, and the future of 4chan Passes, can be found here. - Blotter Update: Blog Post: The future of 4chan Pass. moot explains he disabled the 4chan passes last week over Google's V2 CAPTCHA and their trusted cookie verification bypass system. He argued he didn't feel comfortable selling a service that now has reduced value, but decided to keep sales because they are 4chan's primary source of revenue. However he offered a discount for anyone who bought passes before December 8 2014. In addition, the Verification field (The CAPTCHA field) in the post form now reads 4chan Pass users can bypass this verification. [Learn More] [Login]. While reenabled, some links of the 4chan pass (e.g. the portal hyperlink) take until 2016 to come back.
• December 16 - /pol/ celebrates hannukah with a sticky and panama learns how2sticky
• December 17 - DC Comics reaches the absolute peak of batwank where human detective Batman fights off DC's cosmic big bad Darkseid to bring his son Damien back from the dead. Resident /co/mrade mod Redwood made it a sticky, and /co/ can't decide whether they should be upset at the utter retardation or be happy the fan favorite Robin is back.
• December 20 - 4chan is down for unknown reasons.
• December 24 - Minor Fix: New CSS rules for the Archive for yotsubabluenew css, but they are removed the next day, likely for testing purposes.
• December 29 - Hanukkah ends and all stickies on /pol/ are removed.
• December 30 - Minor Fix (?): 4chan now gives an error and loads the CAPTCHA if your pass doesn't work (onPassError)
• December 31 - Minor Fix: CSS rules from December 24 are implement on all themes. The Bottom of the page report button is disabled on Mobile CSS. Event listeners for mouse over on the thread delivery block and the archive thread table are now attached to the whole document instead of a specific on page element.

2015

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• January 1 - Footer copyright message updates to current 2015
• January 1 - Minor Fix (?): Assigning the Deletion Password (What formerly was the obscure °°°°°°°° field at bottom right) is now more robust, requiring a post form to exist at html level
• January 1 - /pol/ gets an awoo sticky and someone stickies another new years thread by accident
• January 3 - After a day of maintenance-induced sitewide shutdowns and unstable browsing, Captcha on /b/ and /pol/ is back and bump limit on the former is changed back to 500. Thumbnails are broken for several hours after the update. A new link to the archives,, previously only accessible by visiting boards.4chan.org/board/archive, is rolled out in the mid page navbar (Thread Navigation Bar?) which now reads [Search OPs…] [Catalog] [Archive]
• January 4 - Minor Fix: More updates to the Archive, including CSS changes and sorting by post number.
• January 5 - Substitute Banners are rolled out, visible by those who use ad-blockers. The banners read: Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan*.org/*, purchasing a self-serve ad, or buying a 4chan Pass. While this same message has been displayed previously, Substitute banners are containerized (sporting 468x60 448x60 or 728x910 size blocks), drawing more attention. Over the next few days they get light div realignments. They don't display while using 4chan Pass and blocking ads. Also, Mouseover event listeners moved to document scope in December 31 are reverted back to lower element nesting.
• January 7 - The Charlie Hebdo massacre occurs and /pol/ burns through several stickies across the day
• January 8 - End of the /pol/ocaust - After the third charlie hebdo sticky, moot reinstates the "Welcome to /pol/" sticky and removes forced dubs, fortune and trigger warnings. However, geolocation flags and board-wide IDs remain.
• January 9 - Minor Fix: DMCA Agent line in 4chan.org/legal now reads Christopher Poole, DMCA Agent.
• January 9 - Minor Fix: Reply links no longer load as rel=canonical (html SEO trick)
• January 10 - Minor Fix: Several frontpage portal changes. Many elements are now self-closing, the function that loads google analytics has a type attribute, Do-It-Yourself is fixed to Do It Yourself in the FAQ and Legal page now has extra meta keywords about moot plus typo fixes.
• January 11 - URLs can now Linkify, toggable in the inline extension, and Vocaroo embeds are disabled. Linkify URLs have a minor regex issue thats later fixed.
• January 12 - Minor Fix: The frontpage portal News page is reduced to only the latest news article.
• January 12 - Minor Fix: Thread reply headers change from X posts & Y image replies omitted to X replies & Y images omitted
• January 13 - Minor "Fix": Some inline extension options' lines are moved around in the code.
• January 17 - #janiteam leaks - Coached by a lawyer, moot rolls out in-depth internal policy changes for team4chan. Including sweeping changes to janitor application wording, the definition of Janitor, and the added requirements that Janitors are now required to sign a Volunteer Moderator Agreement with includes a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and present proof of identity (e.g. digital signature or a real ID in case of Americans). At 13:00 EST he breaks the news to #janiteam, where a palpably jaded moot to confirms the change applies to all current team4chan members, not just new ones. This is a surprise to Janiteam, with less active mods taken off-guard and some janitors responding in shock about the idea of de-anonymizing but moot rebukes them and tells them to quit if they don't like it. Within hours a janitor, andonuts, goes to 8chan's Rizon IRC channel (##8chan) and hands him all his #janiteam logs, prompting 8chan's owner Brennan to contact team4chan to gloat.
• January 18 - Blotter updates: Blog Post: New requirement for 4chan volunteers going forward. moot pre-empts the leaks by explaining (rather ineffectively) that this is a liability-proofing measure standard in most sites that utilize volunteer moderators, and posts the Janitor volunteer agreement in full, and indirectly dares copypaste to leak the logs alluding they'll only prove how mundane and professional the Janitors are. An hour later Brennan makes a sticky on /b/ accusing moot of trying to hide skeletons in his closet and leaks the logs to the public. Simultaneously, andonuts de-privates a 8chan board: /forfree/ - Journal of Janny, where andonuts states he was planning on leaking the logs since December and was waiting for an opportunity to maximize damage in order to cause an exodus to *chans. He explains he was feeling antagonized by moot over changing moderation practices, specially the firing of /a/ favoritist mods (leaking the email where moot explained why he fired kusanagi) and the handling of GamerGate, meanwhile he dispels various urban myths about janitors while shitting on Brennan too for being an easily-influence trendwhore. This is by far and wide the largest leak of internal practices 4chan ever had, leading to multiple hundred threads of Anons trying to find who "their" janitor was. Another Infinity board becomes the hub for several sniffers looking for incriminating evidence on the mods and schizos looking to for any excuse to affirm their superstitions about mods were real. Most of these accusations are related to team4chan hosting "undesirables" such as bronies, transexuals and furries in the team. Janitors on rizon are privately contacted and dozens of chat snippets would go on to become the basis for years-long conspiracy theories. Above all, the leaks portray a moot that shows signs of severe burn out, addressing janitors passive-aggressively and making dismissive remarks about 4chan, stating he only made the Otakon anniversary convention to meet old acquaintances and didn't give a care about common anons.
• January 20 - The site is frozen for 4 hours and 46 minutes.
• January 21 - End of an Era - Causing what will be remembered as the biggest shitstorm to ever hit 4chan, at 11:00 AM EST, the global announcements and the blotter update: NEWS POST: The Next Chapter, aka moot's retirement - moot officially announces his retirement from the role of 4chan's acting administrator.

"[...] as today I'm retiring as 4chan's administrator. From a user's perspective, nothing should change. A few senior volunteers—including 4chan's lead developer, managing moderator, and server administrator—have stepped up to ensure a smooth transition over the coming weeks." 

The Next Chapter gets a mootnote: There's going to be a Question & Answer Prime Minister Questions session Friday Afternoon (Jan 23) stream through the official youtube account, but the exact date will be defined the same Friday. Celebration and mourning erupts across the site:

• /a/ gets renamed to It /a/ll returns to nothing. subtitled tumbling down with a (now deleted) Komm, Süsser Tod embed. moot tells /a/non "I told you so!!" in reference to a post on January 15 where he implied he was quitting soon but was not taken seriously. That thread breaks the record for most replied post in /a/'s history with 7403 replies and nearly 3000 uploaded images, with about 3600 replying to his post.
• Here's to you, Nicola and Bart is embedded on /b/, Futurama's Goodbye Seymour... Will Wait For You is embedded on /co/, and by night Swaglord embeds a poor ocarina rendition of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On called RIP 4chan, a tribute by [s4s]. moot posts on /co/ for the third time ever while circlejerking with Inspector Redwood over a scripted modGET.
• Several boards, including /a/, /v/, /g/, /int/ and /mlp/, and [s4s] make (or attempt at making) goodbye cards for moot. It's noteworthy to point out that /a/ tried to reach 10,000 signatures.

• January 23 - New Boards: ○ /qa/ - Question & Answer
• January 23 - moot's Farewell Stream - At 00:30~ EST /qa/ is created, moot makes the first post at 00:50 EST; The board remains unannounced until midday. At 14:00 EST the Global Announcements is appended: moot's final Q&A will begin around 2:00PM ET. Ask questions in the stickies on /qa/ or in the Google Hangout, and watch here: (line 2) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUKJBZuUig (line 3) Google+: https://plus.google.com/events/cdniiul8iq8ps7bk217j3hnkdbs with the upcoming livestream embedded below. moot has a livestream session that lasts eight hours. Twelve stickies in /qa/ are maxed out. He speaks at length about several topics, personal and managements, such as his favourite board having been /a/ for the last few years and explaining at length what the new General Manager does. He ends the Q&A with a misquote from Cowboy Bebop: "See you later, space cowboy". News post gets an update and the Blotter now reads: moot's final 4chan Q&A has been posted here. with Global Announcements getting some lines updated: moot's final 4chan Q&A—which lasted 8 straight hours—is embedded below. See the /qa/ archive for the question threads. (below) YouTube: https://youtu.be/XYUKJBZuUig?t=41s. Bibanon set to write an unofficial Transcript. /a/ is renamed to See you, sp/a/ce cowboy. with subtitle Bang., and Space Lion is embedded.
• January 26 - Blotter updates: News Post: In Memoriam - "The Team" makes their official reappearance with illustrator Mac's tribute to pinup for moot.
• January 26 - /qa/ is frozen so a wave of shitposts can get deleted.
• January 27 - After fears that it was en route to getting deleted, /qa/ is unfrozen. Based on a unilateral declaration by it's users, /qa/ is now a permanent metaboard dedicated to discussion on the decade-long (and counting) legacy of 4chan. A similar thread was previously created that discussed the possibility of /qa/ becoming a 4chan U.N. of sorts.
• January 29 - Webms with Sound are allowed on /wsg/ and /gif/ (unmute to listen). Max file limit on /wsg/ and /gif/ is now 4Mbs to compensate the increased weight. First sound webm to be uploaded is a 10-second loop of Bane's "for you" clip from The Dark Knight Rises. A poorly-dubbed version of said clip is soon embedded and autoplayed on the same thread. Moderator swaglord embeds the entire /wsg/ thread in a /tv/ baneposting thread.
• January 29 - an /i/ thread about a drawfag dies a few months after becoming the oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, at 1106 days. It would be overtaken a few months later by another /i/ thread.
• January 30 - ISIS comes to /mlp/ and threatens to kill a rainbow dash plushie if trips aren't achieved in the thread. Trips are gotten relatively quickly, while more trips are garnered to kill the terrorists and their families. After this /s4s/ joined the fight, making /s4s/-tan the leader of /mlp/ with quads and permanently banishing the terrorists with quints.
• February 1 - Minor fix (?): Inline extension's Image Hover feature is now turned off by default. But it's also expanded to load images according to a regexed href meaning: You can now hover images from inline previewed posts. It (n.b. unconfirmable as ChanTracking' broke at the time) likely got retouched in the following week.
• February 1 - A Super Bowl ad shows the main cast of MLP in Colts fan gear for two seconds. /sp/ has a meltdown and /mlp/ has a good time.
• February 3 - A Spurdo Spärde thread is stickied on /int/ by Swaglord, who then shows his mod powers for a while (including unsticking and resticking said thread) before the thread finally dies shortly before reaching 2000 replies.
• February 5 - /v/ gets spammed with "find a flaw" for a few hours or so.
• February 5 - /mlp/ gets sad after a known writefag gets terminal leukemia.
• February 8 - Floens' ChanTracking derps out and stops logging changes until today. Somewhere between January 13 and Feb 8:
  • the Legal page gets its footer link renamed back from DMCA to Legal.
  • The popup tooltip now tells you if a webm has audio and there's further retouching for image hover.
• February 11 - Hilarity ensues as NBC airs "Intimidation Game", a Law & Order SVU episode that focuses on Gamergate and chan culture. Notable flubs include improper use of image macros, old or irrelevant video game jokes (a man shouts "LEVEL COMPLETED" while punching a woman, Ice-T complains about campers, and "I read on Kotaku that it's better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion pack"), and redchanit, a fake website and bastardized version of Reddit and a chan board. Threads pop up on both /tv/ and /v/ the night of and the day after. Actual Redchanit is created as a board on 8chan (http://redchan.it redirects there).
• February 12 - Shi Painter is reimplemented on /i/ after being disabled since mid 2014 over a java.policy compatibility issue. There's a sticky explaining how to fix said problem. However, if you check the code in ChanTracking, you'll see some references to an script called Tegaki created just a few weeks ago
• February 12 - The thumbnail subdomain/server t.4cdn.org is discontinued in favour of i.4cdn.org which now servers all images.
• February 12 - Minor fix: CSS rules for inline reply form post error text has been reworked to take more cases beyond file errors
• February 12 - Minor Fix 2: Loading "extra" server scripts (such as internal ad scripts or google analytics' code) is made more robust.
• February 13 - Major work on ChanTracking static pages tracker, de-minifying the code. This has the unintended effect of breaking the fuck out of the bot, which will start committing ghost changes. Several attempts to fix this are made, but they just give up by 2018. Meanwhile, jsversion goes 820->822 but with so much changed its impossible to find
• February 13 - jsversion goes 822->825 and css goes 596 -> 597 but is untracked.
• February 14 - between February 10 and 14, global announcements got purged.
• February 15 - 4chan experiences database and php issues. Most boards' titles change to default "Yotsuba Image Board". 4chan Pass login is broken. Threads refuse to load. It's not known why, but by the end of the day they return and the global announcements are purged.
• February 15 - Minor Fix: New CSS rules for Tegaki's canvas
• February 16 - Minor Fix (?): Changes to how Mobile CSS's navigation selector handles switching boards
• February 17 - Minor Fix: Mobile CSS navigation bar now has a softer transition
• February 19 - Flags are removed from /pol/, only to be returned later that day. ID's on /pol/ are changed to be thread-specific.
• February 23 - Frontpage Portal CSS (global.css) goes 28->29, but is untracked.
• February 27 - Leonard Nimoy dies. Sad music is embedded on /tv/. A thread is stickied, and after a couple of hours a second thread dedicated to shitposting is stickied by moderator swaglord, who also embeds the Battlestar Galactica main theme in said thread.
• February 28 - Minor Fix: cssversion goes 599->600 but the change is untracked.
• February 28 - Minor Fix: moot's 4chan email is removed from News Posts author info. There's a new CSS attribute rule
• February 28 - 8th Janitor Recruitment - Global Announcements updated: 4chan is now accepting janitor applications for the next ~48 hours.→ Click here to view and submit your application ← and blotter: Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours.
• March 3 - Janitor Recruitment ends, global announcement is purged and the blotter janitor app link is scratched out
• March 3 - 4chan is down at around CST 4 am. Some boards appear empty due to an unknown error. After approximately 4 hours, service returns, with boards that appeared empty having their previous content restored.
• March 5 - The 4chan tooltip is updated to replace capcode definitions: The Red Clover Icon now reads: This posters is a 4chan Administrator instead of "the" 4chan Administrator (and now in the inline extension you can highlight posts by the administrators), moot gets the customized not!owner capcode he mentioned prior: Admin Emeritus which reads This user is 4chan's founding Administrator.. You can also no longer open the reply form on archived threads.
• March 5 - /co/ reaches their 70M GET. 8chan's /sp/, in conjunction with /4get/ steal the GET with the comment "claiming this GET for the 8cháñ army" and a picture of Wade Davis. It is instantly deleted with 0 replies before archive.moe could save it and the user banned for breaking Rule 4. /co/'s 69999999 GET is also stolen by 8chan's /4get/ and is archived by archived.moe before being deleted.
• March 7 - Posting is down for a half hour or so for an unknown reason.
• March 10 - Shitposting on /pol/ hits an all-time high through speculations of a "World War 3" because of NATO drills. Putin's sudden disappearance, earlier, allowed for shitposting to also skyrocket. Happening threads are posted on a constant basis. /pol/ is still shitposting about what may happen next.
• March 11 - Minor Fix: The Navigation Bar board selector on the Catalog no longer redirects to normal Imageboards but their Catalog version. Oekaki images now preview properly (n.b. not thumbnails, the full file on DB, I dunno ask dsw). 4chan's self-serve domain 4chan-ads.org is temporarily replaced with a "naked" domain from Adzerk, the infrastructure provider for 4chan's self-serve system. Adzerk's domain is zkcdn.org.
• March 14 - Minor Fix: futabanew and burischannew CSS now have a font-family: Time New Roman rule for body
• March 19 - Part two of the Death Grips album The Powers That B, titled Jenny Death, is leaked. /mu/ is flooded with Jenny Death threads, over 45 were present at one point.
• March 23 - There's now a "Who is the Founder" entry on the FAQ page, along with other wording changes
• March 26 - Les Bains - A thread in /tv/ pertaining to a plane crash that has many coincidences with the baneposting fad is stickied. In less than 8 hours it gets over 6000 replies and over 1600 images by the time it is de-sticked, breaking the record for largest single thread on /tv/. The final images were 2 enlarged spurdo photos posted by moderator swaglord. A parody of All-Star is also embedded into the thread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9994nv8BcU), prompting massive amounts of praise to the mods.
• April 1 - A robot from /r9k/ starts a ten day auction on eBay for a folder containing over 1200 rare Pepe pictures downloaded from the board over the course of a year, which takes off much like the "This post is art" one from /pol/. For April Fool's Day, Sticky (a Clippy parody) is added. It is a duplicate of 4chan's 2008 April Fools prank.
• April 3 - The eBay Pepe folder achieves a highest bid of $99,166 USD from 126 bids, and is then taken down by eBay.
• April 4 - Default name on /mlp/ is changed to "=" as a reference to the premiere of Season 5 of MLP:FiM
• April 8 - A robot registers a site to sell rare pepes.. There is also an entire pepe booru.
• April 10 - Minor Fix: /qa/ is added to the 4chan API.
• April 10 - /vg/'s 100M GET is stolen by 8chan's /undina/, mods immediately delete the thread.
• April 11 - The default name on /mlp/ is back to normal.
• April 13 - Minor Fix (?): Minor change on Post Menu (the Triangle next to your post) thread hiding.
• April 14 - Blotter updates: Janitor acceptance emails are being sent, make sure to check your spam folders.
• April 15 - Minor fix: 4chan cssversion 603->604, changes were not tracked.
• April 17 - Blotter's April 14 entry is updated: Janitor acceptance e-mails are being sent; check your Spam folder if you applied.
• April 20 - Minor fix: 4chan cssversion 604->607, changes were no tracked.
• April 20 - /tv/'s 55555555 GET is taken by GoT, mods sticky the thread.
• April 22 - Minor fix: FAQ page has a new section, "Is there any way to post without a CAPTCHA?", plus updates regarding the status of 4chan passes and typo fixes and additions to other sections.
• April 22 - /qa/'s 100000 GET is "wew lad".
• April 29 - /pol/'s 44444444 GET is stolen by 8chan's /imperfectsatan/, mods immediately delete the thread.
• May 1 - /mu/'s 55555555 GET successfully stays in their hands, despite 55555554 and 55555556 both taken by attempts by 8chan's /sp/.
• May 9 - At approximately 4:30 AM CST, 4chan goes down unexpectedly.
• May 13 - 4chan now stores post id data locally meaning you can get notified of replies to your post after you close the tab. There's also minor fiddling with post buttons and the update thread button. (?)
• June 2 - warosu.org /jp/ archiver, successor of easymodo, disables their ghostposting feature after months of abuse.>
• June 2 - New FAQ section: "What personal information is collected?".
• June 5 - Minor fix: On the Rules page, /x/ is now alphabetically ordered behind /y/
• June 7 - Almost all OP files and most files across all boards are hit by 404's and don't open. This is likely divine punishment for removing all mentions of thatdog's futallaby and Yotsuba Script's genealogy from the FAQ page. Visitors and data served statistics are also updated (22 million visitors monthly and 50 Tbs daily)
• June 8 - Minor fix: jsversion 987->988, but the changes are not tracked.
• June 9 - Minor Fix: core.js changes to how report popup urls are delivered.
• June 9 - The memorial to /z/, mystery.jpg, is removed from static pages, along with its "Why am I getting "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE"?" section in the FAQ.
• June 10 - Minor "fix": Single capitalization change in the FAQ page.
• June 11 - Tegaki.js - After years of /i/'s ancient Shi-Painter being barely usable, its finally replaced with Developer Desuwa's Tegaki, an open source javascript inline painter and his fourth major 4chan project after the Catalog, Inline Extension and 4chan API. Tegaki is not initially well received by seasoned /i/ drawartists, having strange quirks and lacking a recording/oekaki feature. But with Shi Painter being unusable on most browsers at this point, it actually revitalized mouse drawing on /i/. Surprisingly, the change went unannounced, and thus ignored outside its intended board. It even went untracked in ChanTracking by sheer bad luck, but you can see Jsversion jumping 10 versions between commits.
• June 14 - Minor Fix: New CSS rules for Mobile CSS post menu button.
• June 15 - Thanks to May 13's post id data changes, the thread watcher now italices threads if you have a reply. There's also several small changes: There's a rework of how post ID tracking works for hiding replies. The inline extension now lets you choose a background color for transparent images. The toggable report button option is removed. The way extension.js handles report urls changes again. There's improvements to Youtube Embed regex. Post & Report buttons and image reverse search on Mobile CSS have been reworked. Other untracked changes (jsversion 990->991) follow.
• June 16 - Minor Fix: Post menu button how rotates according to type of mobile CSS view.
• June 16 - Donald Trump officially launches his 2016 presidential campaign. In his first speech as a candidate, he claimed Mexico was sending rapists and drug dealers to the US, besides promising to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. On /pol/, reception to his announcement was lukewarm at first, with some anons agreeing with his stance on Mexico, but overall sentiment favoring candidate Rand Paul. A few days later, the first Trump general was created, but it did not reach bump limit.
• June 20 - Minor Fix: Mobile CSS post menu changes from special character ➞ to "...". FAQ page has mentions of "staff" changed for "team", likely to differentiate employees (staff) from volunteers. There's a third untracked change that moves jsversion from 992->993.
• June 21 - An option is added to use Google's V1 (now legacy) reCAPTCHA instead of V2. Blotter reads: It's now possible to use the old text captcha with the Quick Reply window. You can find the new option inside the Settings menu under Quotes & Replying. No longer do users have to select 3 "sandwiches" (hamburgers) in order to make a post. This also implies some board CSS changes to quick reply popup's CAPTCHA container.
• June 22 - Legacy captcha is now a toggable option in the inline extension
• June 24 - Latest Blotter entry is edited to read: It's now possible to use the legacy text CAPTCHA in the Quick Reply window. You can find the new option inside the [Settings] menu under "Quotes & Replying."
• June 24 - /v/'s 300000000 GET is "Splatoon is new meme." The OP gets banned and stickied, inkling music plays and /v/ shits its brix with over 5100 replies.
• June 25 - Minor Fix (?): A noscript element in the Post Form is removed. Container sizes for reCAPTCHA are fiddled with again. The 4chan API now has "Meta_Descriptor" elements for all boards, and /f/ got its board specs detailed.
• June 27 - The /t/ rule that redirects anons to /rs/ is removed from the Rules page too
• June 29 - Legal page now reminds people that 4chan is not responsible for contest hosted by Imageboard Archives
• July 2 - Error: You may not post more than 5 active threads at a time. - Maximum threads per IP limited to 5. Possibly implemented earlier
• July 8 - The FAQ page has its copyright policy section renamed to DMCA policy and changes the wording in some lines for more lawyer friendly terms.
• July 12 - Nintendo president Satoru Iwata dies. Multiple threads are stickied on /v/, with at least one thread reaching over 800 replies in less than 10 minutes.
• July 20 - /vg/'s [110000000 GET] is a post in the Katawa Shoujo General saying: "I would just like to point out that best girl is whoever is your favorite, because they're all best girl , but Akira is bestest girl."
• July 22 - Minor Fix: Several changes happen. The site footer gets some padding fixes. The Legal page line about third party archives is now turned into a full section, alongside another batch of legalese changes. Title sections for all the frontpage portal pages are changed (i.e. 4chan - FAQ to FAQ - 4chan), TinEye, which was removed a while ago from the image reverse search list, has its mentions removed from the FAQ page. Several outdated references are removed from the FAQ too: An ancient line (reference to Martin Random?) that read Threads on /b/ are no longer frequently stickied due to constant user abuse of the feature. is removed alongside references to "Marked for Deletion (old)", the old post-based deletion system, and the Password field.
• July 25 - A "Hide recursively" option is added to the drop down menu. It hides the selected post and all posts replying to it.
• July 26 - dis.4chan.org is shut down, and with it goes all the archived 4chan BBS textboards.
• July 29 - Minor fix: Error message code for handling non-working passes is fiddled with. For no particular reason, the 2015/02/28 Janitor application blotter entry is fully scratched out.
• July 29 - /soc/'s 22222222 GET is stolen by 8chan's /imperfectsatan/, mods immediately delete the thread.
• August 3 - Minor fix: core.js + frontpage portal Google Analytics handlers got fiddled with.
• August 16 - /tv/'s 60000000 GET, referencing the BANE meme, is deleted by the moderation team for unknown reasons. A shitstorm followed immediately with people being upset with the mods/janitors.
• August 17 - Minor fix: Comment/Post field now force wraps full words for readability, and there's other minor board css changes. New Feedback answer: ## Moderator explains that many problems related to /adv/ are literally related to "adv", as the keyword triggers browser adblock measures.
• August 18 - Minor Fix: Fav Icon among other static files now loads from s.4cdn.org (static) instead of 4chan.org.
• August 20 - /pol/'s 50000000 GET is "FOR NIPPON". Immense butthurt commences.
• August 21 - A poster on /b/ creates a thread, providing pictures of murdered women with a timestamp, he claims responsibility for their murders and explains that if anons guess the victims names, he will reveal the location of where he hid a body in 1999. Madness ensues and the thread is soon deleted.
• August 22 - /x/ creates a thread with the intention of catching the alleged /b/ killer, anons quickly compile information, and eventually discover the identities of one of the victims while others report their findings to the FBI.
• August 25 - The efforts of /x/ to catch the serial killer are recognized by a famous Latin American YouTuber called DrossRotzank who proceeds to post a video about the events(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Erf8CFy93Y) this results in a huge influx of newfags invading /x/ to "help" solve the cold case, much frustration is had, but the investigation continues.
• August 27 - Some anons decide to make a tumblr account where they recolor Steven Universe characters into white and blond people, successfully causing anal annihilation among tumblr.
• August 28 - Minor Fix: The portal links to the Japanese Introduction page and 4chan Pass page are restored, and some meta keywords on the Security page are removed. to FAQ page element change (<a> -> <span>) for the mootmail.
• August 30 - Minor fix: CSS changes to how captcha is server in the Feedback page.
• August 31 - Feedback update: Anonymous ## Developer reminds everyone that the old Futallaby Frames were in fact never removed, and still accessible from 4chan.org/frames
• September 2 - Users are unable to upload images. A message located below the news-feed tells users "Image posting is temporarily unavailable due to a hardware issue. Please wait warmly" with an option to dismiss the message located at the end.
• September 3 - The still-unused Founder Capcode, Anonymous ## Admin Emeritus gets it's color (#117743) defined.
• September 4 - Minor Fix (?): New board CSS, 'prettyprint' attribute, gets rules.
• September 19 - Feedback Page update: Anonymous ## Moderator informs anon that he can suggest new board stickies (those that have links to community wikies and projects) through feedback, and they'd be taken extra seriously if he can demonstrate their suggestions were discussed on the board previously.
• September 21 - New Management - 4chan is bought by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel. The global announcement changes to 4chan is now owned and led by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of the largest anonymous BBS in Japan, 2channel. Read the full announcement on the 4chan News page.Hiroyuki will be conducting his first Q&A as 4chan's administrator on Tuesday evening, at approximately 8:00PM ET. The thread(s) will be stickied on /qa/.. Blotter reads: 4chan is now owned and led by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2channel. Read more.. Several website changes occur: All mentions of 4chan, LLC are replaced with 4chan Community Support, LLC and the FAQ no longer mentions 4chan being run by the Triumvirate but by Hiroyuki. The Legal page link of 4chan-owned domains on copyright.gov has been removed. Anxious threads on both 4chan and 2ch discuss the possibility of Nishimura scamming the former for a profit as some claim he once did with the latter.
• September 22 - Minor Fix: moot's custom, still unused Capcode, Anonymous ## Admin Emeritus is renamed to Anonymous ## Founder and mentions of him as "Founding administrator" in the FAQ page are renamed to "Founder"
• September 22 - Hiroyuki's Welcome AMA - Hiroyuki has his first official interaction with 4chan, divided between a questions thread and an answers thread. In total, 16375 posts spread around five stickies and other threads, where Hiroyuki spends 4 hours answering around 200 replies that were all submitted in the first two minutes of the first thread being up. He (hilariously) answered every single post, including troll-posts, shitposts, and repeated questions, seriously and with broken English. Users of 4chan were highly entertained by his 'Engrish.' Due to his weak grasp on English and 4chan culture, he was seen as innocent and naive, with many posters believing this to be cute and endearing, albeit not without detractors convinced he's playing dumb to fool people and scam them like he did in 2ch. Even some old guard 4chan members drop by. He would later go on to accidentally post several answers on /sp/, and then abandon the Q&A to post on /a/. Nine hours after the Q&A began, the site begins to break, and then completely freezes. It remains down for about six hours. The event reminds everyone that /qa/ exists, bringing it's post rate up permanently, from 400pph to 800pph. Highlights:
  • Keeping with the honorable admin tradition, Hiro is an Asukafag.
  • Explains the ongoing lawsuit between him and Jim Watkin's over 2ch leaked data.
  • Explains that hottolink, a JP company, had explicit access to 2ch's enormous post history because it was required by law to operate as a search engine in Japan.
  • Hiro and moot met again in 2014 and moot told him he wanted to retire.
  • Hiro borrowed money to buy the site but refused to reveal the amount. This was later revealed to be 8 Million, with 2.4 million being from an arrangement with Good Smile Company, a Japanese figurine maker, for 30% of the site's shares.
  • He has some strong opinions on the state of modern anime, his favorite Pokémon is Magikarp and his favorite eroge is Sengoku Rance.
  • He wants to add a picture to the frontpage logo.
  • He'd like to add a search function and worries about the lack of commercial ads on the site.
  • He'd like to let the userbase determine changes to 4chan.
  • Otherwise, he intends to be as hands-off as possible.
• September 23 - Anons are unable to find a funny enough shorthard for Hiro, so they just call him by name (though g00k, hiroshimoot and Hiroshima Nagasaki were strong contenders). Hiro changes his Twitter avatar to his new 4chan bunny -tan.
• September 23 - Winter Ball 2015 - /qa/ hosts the Board-tans Harvest Festival, by hand of the board tans general. Anon suggests hosting the Winter Ball that /v/ celebrated last year. It grows into a beast of an event, burning through 25 threads on /qa/ plus even more threads site-wide, generating several hundred pics' worth of OC art. Albeit it's not without criticism and open rejection in some threads, and a large flamewar in the main thread.
• September 24 - A /qa/ thread on an /a/ public ban over loli gets hiroyuki to unban the anon, saying he'll ask mods about loli policy later and causing a minor shitstorm as /a/fags claim loli is now allowed. The next day he makes a thread on /a/ apologizing about his behaviour, seemingly confusing it with a ban request for some reason, it is here he posts his first yap.
• September 24 - Anons start reporting that the report popup's captcha is doling out nonsense V1 captchas and failing them either way, sign that it's interpreting every poster as a bot.
• September 28 - One of /tg/'s worst-ever tripfags, virtualoptim, is banned for praising FATAL.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 12th birthday. Fgt hats for all. Global announcements read: Happy 12th Birthday, 4chan! - News post titled ONE DOZEN, and longtime supporter Mac made what was going to be his final illustration for 4chan. The blotter updates: Happy 12th Birthday, 4chan! entry about Hiro's acquisition has it's hyperlink updated too.
• October 1 - New Board: ○ /aco/ - Adult Cartoons.
• October 1 - The first Hiro era board is /aco/. The mod sticky declares it an "anything goes" rule 34 board with the exception of GR3 content (furry, loli, guro). This prompts /d/ to go through a mi/d/life crisis, as the ban on Western art is now actually enforced, almost entirely aimed to get rid of the Shortstack thread, causing outrage. /d/eviants discuss this in /mlp/, who acts as a safehaven (because /d/-tan and /mlp/-tan are dating due to Winterball 2015).
• October 1 - The bump limit on all SFW (burichan) boards is increased to 310 from the original 300. From now on the price for having tits on your screen is exactly 10post
• October 1 - On /pol/, a German anon named Comfybro creates the first Syria general, to discus the Syrian Civil War mainly from a pro-Assad/pro-Russia viewpoint.
• October 1 - An /r9k/ user shoots up a school in Oregon, killing 13 people and injuring 20 others. 4chan relation, Marge?
• October 7 - Hiroyuki changes the homepage: It is now displaying a photograph of the "Atlantis" spaceshuttle he took with 4chan's logo above it.
• October 7 - In the Feedback page, the feedback form options got changed: They are now: Moderation Feedback, Bug Report, Feature Suggestion, Spam Filter Issue, IP Rangeban Issue, Board Suggestion and all previous feedbacks went from "Issue" to "Bug". Frontpage portal CSS got changed a bit to accommodate the changes (global 31->46), but its' untracked.
• October 7 - After long periods of downtime, archive.moe, the only all-boards archive, displays a "410 - Gone" error. It died the same day.
• October 9 - /b/ experiences delays, netting /qa/ to get people to ask for help. Anonymous ## Developer explains it was a problem unique to /b/, as fast boards use separate daemons to parse posts, and he has already fixed it. Tripfag Andromeda !!j9XuANAxf9x confesses to being a paid EA shill in participation with TORtanic (The Old Republic hype-train disappointment?).
• October 9 - 9th Janitor Recruitment - Old Global announcements purged, they now read: Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Click here to submit your application.Please note that we will no longer require you to submit a government-issued identification document in order to volunteer.
• October 9 - Blotter late update: New trial board added: /aco/ - Adult Cartoons
• October 10 - Hiro slowpokes into a /qa/ asking about posting problems with 4chan. An anon calmly explains that the dev already solved that problem. Anons spend the rest of the thread arguing about reCAPTCHA.
• October 12 - We are no longer accepting janitor applications. Thanks to all those who applied!
• October 13 - /jp/ gets [sjis] tags and max character limit expanded to 5000, allowing SJIS art to be posted.
• October 17 - A Valkyre Drive thread gets a ## Moderator to declare that the clearly softcore porn scenes they keep posting are not allowed, and suggests they move discussions to /u/, /a/nons as usual whine for hours.
• October 18 - /a/'s Ero Riot - Hiroyuki makes a thread discussing the Mod's previous appearance, uncertain why /a/ got upset. He starts asking about the nature of lewdposting, how to define NSFW and concludes he'd like to allow NSFW content referencing the recent rise in lewd anime but he doesn't want turn /a/ into a porn board. He considers splitting the board in two before ultimately settling in allowing "TV" approved lewds. /a/ celebrates their acquired "rights" but a few hours later, the Mod from yesterday makes a hastily written sticky reminding anons that softcore ero content is not allowed, that tactful lewds are allowed at mod discretion, as to retain "/a/'s culture of the last 4-5 years". The sticky immediately turns into a 2300 posts beatdown on the mod in question as /a/fags accuse him of going rogue while others cry that mods have already killed /a/'s culture. Many anons come to /qa/ demanding the mod be fired, in the end, nothing really changed and /a/'s shitposting culture continued its death by a thousand cuts.
• October 20 - Hiroyuki makes sticky asking anons to spoiler borderline lewds and mods to take it easy on the bans.
• October 21 - /aco/ gets its rules updated to forbid Guro, bestiality and other "beyond /d/" content.
• October 22 - /jp/ gets it's JSIS CSS defined.
• October 23 - Anon asks for a /neet/ board. A perplexed hiro asks what they would talk about. Nothing came out of it.
• October 24 - Blotter update: The ROBOT9000 filter has been re-enabled on /r9k/. The board rule that states "purposefully evading the robot filter is not permitted" is also restored.
• October 25 - Minor Fix: The frontpage logo element gets its id attribute renamed "logo-fp" following the s.4cdn.org folder it comes from
• October 27 - Minor Fix: Board CSS changes, 'word-break' rules for the archive page.
• October 27 - After many years of being informal gesture, the #4chan IRC support role is made explicit in the FAQ page, explaining anons can go to #4chan @ Rizon to ask for unban outside the appeal form minimal length if they believe it certain their ban is in error, or it they want to ask about the technical aspects of 4chan.
• October 27 - Anon asks for a /his/ - History board, requested on /qa/ since it's creation. Hiro appears to discuss the details, the thread gets a bit of traction as hiro discusses all the rules that would become the basic building blocks of /his/ while explaining anon why reCAPTCHA is a thing.
• October 29 - A global announcement is added: You might like it. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz", a documentary on Anonymous hacktivism. Anons are confused, as Anonymous has long stopped being representative of 4chan."
• October 30 - Minor Fix: Redundant jsmath2jax extension removed from core.js
• October 30 - Hiroyuki visits the /qa/ 4chan Happenings thread and has a chat with anons about his taste in media, and says that a /his/tory board will be made "by weekend".
• October 31 - 4chan gets 2spooky - A site-wide Halloween themed CSS hack is implemented (and gets some last minute bugfixes), with a dark blue background and orange text. A separate .js loads random GIFs of skeletons. A 10 hour remix of Spooky Scary Skeletons is stickied on /b/, with the message "Happy Halloween /b/". Wordfilters are added site-wide (except on [s4s] and /b/), changing smh to baka, tbh to desu, fam to sempai (later becomes changed to senpai), fams to senpaitachi, cuck to kek and SJW to SPOOKY SCARY SKELETON.
• October 31 - Minor fix: More robust handling on links in core.js
• October 31 - Global announcements appended: it can be watched in US, now. confusing even more anons.
• October 31 - New Board: ○ /his/ - History & Humanities
• October 31 - Blotter updated: New trial board added: /his/ - History & HumanitiesAfter months of camping /qa/ and consulting with Hiro, /his/ is created albeit at first they forget to add the "& Humanities" part with the rules indicated that only events that happened 25 years ago or more may be discussed. The highly motivated founders turn to face the awaited onslaught of eth-nat schizophrenics and stray /pol/tards demanding they disprove the holocaust. Only time will prove if moot's "/pol/ with dates" prediction was correct^{it was}.
• October 31 - /v/ successfully raids Reddit's r/agario by adding random mods.
• November 1 - 4chan's theme returns to normal. The wordfilter for SJW is removed, but the rest remain.
• November 1 - Minor fix (?): There's several linting changes to extension.js - operators become stricter, functions get their () and the load function gets new variables.
• November 2 - New Ads sized 300x250 are introduced to the bottom of frontpage portal, all pages, from a company called Epom Market. This immediately raises alarms in the userbase who were not yet convinced of Hiro's intentions. Doomsaying intensifies and what seems to be the beginning of a hatefandom forms around Hiro.
• November 3 - Hiro tells a /qa/ thread about /v/ to take it there, instantly derailing the thread.
• November 3 - Minor "fix": Feedback Page has its own portal link fixed.
• November 5 - Hiro changes the frontpage logo again; this time, the Atlantis banner features a Guy Fawkes mask in reference to the "hacker" group Anonymous. Global Announcements read You anon might like it more. "Anonymous Documentary - How Anonymous Hackers Changed the World Full Documentary" Anons are yet more confused. On /qa/ anons complain that they don't relate to old /b/tard lore net themselves an appearance by Hiro who assures them it's about the Guy Fawkes day. The Atlantis plus Mask logo has managed to end up lost.
• November 6 - Blotter updates: Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box! - Seemingly a second batch emails for February 28 janitor call.
• November 6 - Minor Fix: Thread expansion (clicking the + icon in a board page) has some XHR related bugfixing.
• November 6 - Epom Market ads are removed from the whole frontpage portal. While on the News page Goodle AdSense is implemented
• November 6 - On another /qa/ thread anon complains about the Guy Fawkes Mask added to the home page, saying "Next it will be some shit like Longcat or another 2007 tier meme." Hiroyuki answers his request.
• November 7 - Another ad hits the portal: A 728x90 ExoClick ad banner appears in the FAQ page.
• November 7 - New Board. ○ /trash/ - Off-Topic.
• November 7 - In what can only be described as a malicious humiliation ritual, a 'secret' board called /trash/ appears and threads that would otherwise get deleted start getting sent there. At the start there's no rhyme or reason beyond threads described as not belonging and the rules saying they'd ban people for complaining. Forced anon is enabled. The first few banishments were generic rulebreaking threads that would die on the spot outside their board, making the move pointless beyond power tripping purposes. Others immediately realize this is a change to get a Furry board on 4chan and start to campaign to make it official, resulting /trash/'s board-tan becoming a fat possum. Mood is something akin to [s4s] with furries, ponies and avatars. Soon banned generals from /co/, /tg/ and other media boards make this board their home.
• November 8 - /trash/ board rules updated to ban loli/shota.
• November 8 - /v/ gets a board rule making malicious spoiling bannable.
• November 8 - A thread requesting webms with audio gets a visit by Hiro. He forgets about webms and talks about moderation instead.
• November 9 - Blotter late update: New trial board added: /trash/ - Off-Topic
• November 9 - Epom Market ads are added back, this time only to the frontpage / homepage.
• November 9 - Hiroyuki makes a thread on /trash/ discussing possibly limiting furry & pony porn on the board, but no changes are made.
• November 10 - Predictably, Google AdSense is removed from the news page.
• November 12 - /asp/ is renamed /asp/ - Alternative Sports & Wrestling. Blotter updates: Name changed. WWE topics on /asp/ - Alternative Sports & Wrestling - Hiroyuki makes a sticky on /sp/ stating that wrestling and WWE threads should be made on /asp/ from now on. Then remakes it after botching the crosslink
• November 13 - Hiroyuki visits the /qa/ Happenings thread again and instantly derails it.
• November 14 - ExoClick ads are now rolled out to the News, Press, Page and Rules page, in addition to the FAQ page on Nov. 4.
• November 14 - New Board. ○ /news/ - Current news
• November 14 - /news/ is a standard Yotsuba board with image replying disabled, intended to be the real "Politics" board. OPs require news links that aren't older than 48 hours, as stated in the first sticky. Posting can only be done once a day per thread.
• November 14 - An unintended bug after adding /news/ causes the URL for the News page to be renamed 4channews.php.
• November 16 - Minor MySQL errors during the day.
• November 19 - Hiro apologizes for disappearing for days, citing he has a bad connection, then visits other threads
• November 21 - /jp/ rules have a minor change, allowing all light novels and visual novels even if they have been adapted.
• November 22 - /lit/ releases the third Legacy of Totalitarianism In a Tundra book, titled "The Legacy of Totalitarinism in a Tundra 3 - Tokyo Drift." A spin-off novella is released alongside it called "Kolsti's Adventures in the Everglades."
• November 24 - After 68 chapters (equivalent to 7 years) of Berserk mostly taking place on a fucking boat, Guts and the gang finally reach Elfhelm and gets off the boat for good, /a/ gets a sticky.
• November 26 - /vg/ reaches its 123456789th GET which is taken by /4ccg/, demanding BorisxKeksandra porn where Boris is buttfucking Keksandra and saying "This is how I made /mlp/ win Summer you know".
• November 27 - /news/ has its rules formalized, and the stickies are replaced with a new one stating the board is a text board, although it is in imageboard format. The "File" field in the submission box has been removed. Additionally, the rules page was updated with /news/' rules. The board hasn't been opened yet. Meanwhile, Hiro reassures anon that he didn't die in the Paris attacks.
• November 28 - Posting is enabled on /news/. Blotted updates: New trial text board added: /news/ - Current News - OP images are allowed a few hours later. extension.js and catalog.js get retouched to accommodate the board.
• November 28 - The default name on /mlp/ is changed to = again for the Season 5 Finale.
• November 28 - Anon calls out the Epom frontpage ads for redirecting to virus sites and Hiro pays a visits and tries to change Epom's delivery server. He does so, but without mentioning includes other 728x90 ads from AdsTerra. The thread doesn't take it well.
• November 30 - Epom Market ads are removed from the frontpage, leaving only AdsTerra's.
• November 30 - After his lulzy debate performances, Trump overtakes Rand Paul as the favored candidate among /pol/acks. From this day on, a Trump general is posted daily on the board, reaching bump limit every time.
• December 4 - Minor Fix: extension.js changes to mobile viewports.
• December 12 - Masterchan starts advertising itself to 4chan and 8chan, growing in number. As usual with spam, their link gets put on spam filter and autoban.
• December 13 - ExoClick ads are removed only from the Pass page.
• December 15 - Anon shows /qa/ a /pol/ poll arguing they "agree" the cuck wordfilter must be removed. Hiro appears and for some reason agrees, but chooses to leave CUCK still filtered "as an heritage".
• December 16 - /news/ is added to frontpage boardlist.
• December 16 - It's getting cold, isn't it?
• December 20 - New Board: ○ /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests.
• December 20 - Blotter updates: New trial board added: /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests - Worksafe Requests is created after many complaints by anons that /r/ is just a porn sauce central. /r/ is also renamed /r/ - Adult Requests and the Global Rules, and /g/'s rules and sticky are modified declaring tech support threads are now banned and belong on /wsr/, /gd/'s no requests rule now redirects there too. Somewhere in Tumblr, Popcorn Mariachi sheds a tear.
• December 21 - AdsTerra ads on the frontpage get a custom html that indicates they can now open pop ups. What the fuck hiro.
• December 23 - Some boards go down and posting is disabled for hours (example).
• December 26 - The front page layout is changed for the first time in 8 years, with the Popular Threads section now resembling the board catalog, Recent Images and Latest Posts sections removed, and the video game boards now having their own section. Anons on /qa/ complain but hiro defends the change.
• December 28 - A Lemmy thread on /mu/ about how he lived so long despite chain-smoking, drugs, and alcohol gets a cursed reply: "I think hell be fine". Just under nine hours later, Lemmy's death is announced, two days after discovering he had terminal prostate cancer. The thread is stickied, receiving over 6000 posts, and the anon who made the reply drowns in (You)'s.
• December 29 - 4chan crashes for a couple hours, in an /g/ thread about it the aussie who hacked 4chan in 2014 shows up and leaks 4chan source code. He explains how he got in through a combination of security exploits and php bruteforcing using the 2009 imgboard.php leak as dictionary, then posts several screenshots and pastebins to mod.js (reports.4chan.org's js script), a console log of the database schema and a dump of sys.4chan.org. He repeats that there were around 12.700 active 4chan passes and reveals new information such as 4chan using mariaDB. Miraculously, nobody noticed and the thread goes undeleted, but the screenshots and sys.4chan.org dump are gone.
• December 31 - 4chan crashes again

2016

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• January 1 - Copyright notice in the footer updated to 2016
• January 1 - Evangelion Day - In reference to The End of Evangelion (which takes place on New Years Day 2016), /a/'s theme is forced to Tomorrow, Komm, süsser Tod is embedded and glowing crosses come up from the bottom of the screen (script) (the same script used to flood /b/ with falling horsecocks years ago).
• January 1 - /pol/ fears for John Oliver's death as the current year becomes 2016. They celebrate the new year through 'IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR' shitposting.
• January 1 - Hiro changes the global message to I wish you anon a Happy New Year.
• January 3 - /pol/ gets its 60000000 gorillionth post, only five words, "We will all feel the Bern" users everywhere outraged. However, the 59999999 is believed to be a (((trump))) post.
• January 6 - Minor Fix: CSS changes - Some buttons get their color changed to #89a
• January 7 - Minor Fix: List of banned mails for registering an account (for the 4chan pass) is extended to include Yahoo and AOL.
• January 7 - /r9k/ gets its 25555555 post, "He´s dead jon", 5 minutes later the thread was deleted by the faggot mod in charge. Also /lit/ publishes it's first collective shitpost, "Hypersphere." It's uh, an epic for the ages.
• January 11 - /mu/ has a stickied thread and the audio of Space Oddity embedded to mourn the death of David Bowie.
• January 12 - You can now edit the navigation bar to make a Custom Board List to your taste on the catalog and boards
• January 17 - Masterchan starts spamming 4chan and 8chan (Consisting mainly of /b/tards, a couple of anons from /g/ and /k/ and /pol/) to come and join their chan, after the 2 websites refuse, Masterchan starts raiding 4chan and 8chan very violently, specifically /b/ and to little success. After a good deal of getting slapped around by management on both sites, they stop.
• January 18 - Minor Fix (yotsubanew.css and rest): There's a small CSS rule (captchaContainerAlt) deleted from board CSSs relating to Legacy captcha.
• January 18 - Several changes over the course of the day: Reports are now fixed after months of barely usable due to defaulting to an out-of-date V1 reCAPTCHA that treated posters as bots, with the report window changing size according to the type of recatcha you use or whether you have a pass. /wsr/ is added to the frontpage. You can now highlight IDs and the tooltip popup will tell you x posts by this id. The tooltip popup also has a 500 seconds timeout now. 1pbdt thread sliding accusations take hours to materialize.
• January 18 - Anon remarks the announcement bar still wishes anons a new year. Hiro unexpectedly asks if he should change it. An [s4s] anon tells him to change it to his forced meme but he doesn't exactly understand. You like movies, anon? it's Sundance. There is now a link to the Sundance Film Festival being broadcast all over 4chan, although he formats it incorrectly on the first try.
• January 20 - /w/'s image limit is increased from 150 to 250.
• January 20 - Hiro makes a /qa/ thread clarifying he doesn't think dead boards should be deleted. And confusingly remarks "No place is no shitposting on 4chan." He later tells an anon calling out a /qa/ raid to take it to IRC or feedback.
• January 23 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Legacy CAPTCHA bugfix for the report popup.
• January 25 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Inline Quote clicking now checks for nested strikethroughs.
• January 29 - 4chan briefly crashes
• January 29 - Hiro makes an incomprehensible post in a /qa/ thread about reddit shitposting. His antics are starting to receive lukewarm welcomes.
• January 30 - The in-thread image cooldown on /c/ and /cm/ is reduced from 60 to 30 seconds.
• January 30 - Minor Fix (core.js) - MathJax gets updated from 2.5 to 2.6.
• February 2 - Hiroyuki implements new Archived Thread Ads (300x250) below the Thread Archived message. It uses Epom Market again, which loads video and redirects. This does not sit well with anons.
• February 2 - Global announcements purged.
• February 2 - AdsTerra replaces ExoClick for 728x90 ads on the Rules and FAQ pages.
• February 3 - The Catalog gets a modernization, getting the customizable board least added to Mobile CSS last year. It also gets its own post Context Menu (►) and threads without replies now show up as R: 0 instead of being blank.
• February 11 - Minor Fix (yotsubanew.css and rest): Archived thread ads get their own Board CSS rules.
• February 12 - Minor Fix (extension.js): The inline extension panel gets a stack order definition
• February 14 - The first archived instance of the Final Fantasy Valentine Day Poster, where Vaan from Final Fantasy 12 stares are NPC couples. The same set of images are posted to the thread at around 19:00 UTC.
• February 16 - /vr/'s 3000000 GET is claimed by a [s4s] namefig posting doge. Awoo!
• February 17 - Brief downtime.
• February 17 - /vp/ gets a new rule: Purposeful spoiling of a game's plot or other details may result in post deletion and temporary ban. Use spoiler tags where appropriate.
• February 18 - A mod accidentally stickies an off-topic NSFW thread on /v/, but quickly realizes their mistake and deletes it.
• February 20 - /wsg/ gets a sticky explaining board specs and handing out WEBM making guides.
• February 20 - Hiro defends mod behaviour in a /v/ meta thread, then defends WWE on /asp/
• February 23 - /tv/ gets visited by porn star and maker DickBush, after Brazzers published a meme porn teaser. Mods sticky the thread.
• February 26 - The leaked Pokémon games Sun and Moon get announced. /vp/ gets two stickies, a hype thread and a confirmation sticky.
• February 26 - Minor Fix (Board CSS): Expanded WEBMs are no longer attributed .float.
• February 27 - Minor Fix (extension.js): WEBMs now open inline on mobile CSS (previously, they'd open in new tabs). This doesn't work as intended and Anon complains WEBM embeds broke. Next day dsw fixes a webm CSS issue and disables Apple devices from loading webms.
• March 2 - Notch visits /v/ for a small Q&A. It's confirmed on twitter.
• March 2 - Minor Fix (extension.js): After an anon on /qa/ suggested IQDB should be parsed through a secure (https) connection after they got their TLS set up, the post dropdown menu gets their IQDB url moved to a secure connection,
• March 3 - Hiro tells anons through the global messaging system to wait warmly. Global announcement reads: There will be a little bit of downtime. Please wait warmly. - then removed in a few hours.
• March 4 - Early morning, the promised downtime comes and lasts a few hours.
• March 7 - moot is now hired by Google. An apparent Google employee also announced it two days ago on /g/. The reactions were mixed, and Hiro congratulated him. Some say moot became a hypocrite, others were happy that he moved on.
• March 7 - Minor Fix (API): The 4chan API now has new attributes: For maximum .webm durations (standard being 120 seconds, /gif/ and /wsg/ have it raised to 300), whether audio's enabled, whether text only is enabled (news), and minimum image dimensions (currently active on /hc/ (500x500), /hr/ (1000x1000), /s/ (500x500), /w/ (480x600) and /wg/ (480x600)).
• March 8 - Adsterra is disabled from loading scripts (thus redirecting) on the frontpage at html level.
• March 10 - Hiro refuses a request to make the spam filter list public.
• March 12 - Minor Fix: Spoilered WEBMs and hiding thread stubs now works Mobile CSS, after minor bugfixes
• March 15 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): The Board Catalog now builds the catalog page accounting for viewport height on top of width, resulting in 5 threads loading per row instead of the usual 6.
• March 16 - The "anomalous" discord sever that planned Valentine's Day raid recruits people from /pol/ to shortly raid Anonymous' IRC chat and successfully shut down their #OpTrump temporarily and the rest of the IRC in the process. Anons from /g/ laugh at Anonymous for their technical retardation. The IRC gets reported to the FBI.
• March 17 - /e/ gets their first rule made more explicit, being about Japanese ecchi images only. /y/ gets a third rule banning shotakon.
• March 18 - The much-reviled Gawker is forced to pay $115 million to Hulk Hogan for leaking his sex tape. Anons around 4chan rejoice over the death of Gawker.
• March 20 - Hiro updates the global announcements to read Looking for news? >>>/news/
• March 20 - Permission popups on the 4chan frontpage appear, and Hiro posts on /qa/ to explain he was tweaking the 4chan-ads server. He later posts on an /a/ meta thread about exhentai threads getting deleted. Then proceeds to completely ignore the topic. Anons are not amused.
• March 22 - Minor Fix: 4chan API now has Oekaki (/i/), Forced subject (/vg/) and Forced anon (currently for /b/, /soc/ and /trash/) attribute. In addition, /sci/'s recently discovered ''<wbr>'' tags used for shitposting get disabled, and the 4chan-ads.org domain is replaced by Adzerk naked domain again.
• March 23 - Minor Fix (yotsubamobile.css): Thumbnails on Mobile CSS are now more stretching resistant.
• March 24 - Cirno gets the 33333 GET on /news/. The image features a blue CNN logo left to her. Under them is the text "The Worldwide Leader in News Strength!" A sequel to the well-known anime FLCL is announced, being co-made by Adult Swim. Most of /a/ becomes up in arms about it, and a sticky about it gets over 4000 replies.
• March 25 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Infinite scrolling uses Math.ceil instead of fraction values, fixing a book where the reply counter won't update if you are not on 100% zoom.
• March 28 - /mlp/ mod goes beserk for a short-lived Scruffening 2.0. Board is cut down to 6 pages. A new sticky appears shortly after, found here. Shitposting ensues.
• March 29 - /fa/ gets the 11111111 GET.
• March 30 - [s4s] is "raided" by a Spanish chan (Hispachan?), thinking they were somehow causing damage to the board and 4chan as a whole. It was entirely ineffectual and did nothing but liven up the normally drab and shit filled halls of 4chan's most EBIN board.
• April 1 - April's Fools 2016 - For April Fool's Day, site theme is changed to resemble Google's "material design" (A joke on moot's recent employment at Google, and the rumor he's been slated to do work on improving Google+). A md2016.css made for the occasion is booted: Image thumbnails are cropped to fit inside a circle like Android contact photos. Users are also given randomly generated names such as "Sergio Blackwell," Karla Goodwin" or "Alberto Barbossa" which override custom names or tripcodes, but do not remain consistent between posts. The post number tooltip reads +(You) this post. Hiro chimes in an updates global announcets to read There is no anonymous.. A site-wide hunt for board relevant names ensued, /v/ practically ceases to function while everyone attempts to post as "Anthony Burch"; however even after hours upon hours of combined shitposting, the website went back to normal and in the end no user managed to draw the lucky lot. Notable names pulled include Christopher Poole, Annie Frank, Christian Chan, Maggie and Homer Simpson, Sheldon Cooper, Ronald Macdonald, Jack Bauer, Nathan Drake, George Washington, Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Jordan.
• April 3 - 10th Janitor Recruitment - Global announcements: Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply here.
• April 4 - /pol/ gets Microsoft's AI chatbot "Tay" shut down after teaching it to "tweet hateful and racist messages," as mentioned by TIME magazine.
• April 5 - Janitor applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied!
• April 5 - /pol/'s 70000000 GET is "Geert cant have this; the spics will pay for the wall" in a response to a Mexican thread OP saying "Oh, and we are not paying for the wall."
• April 5 - In addition, Deakin, member of the band Animal Collective, visits /mu/. Six years ago, he'd received funding on Kickstarter for a solo album, and many assumed he took the cash and ran. Today, backers started receiving physical copies and Deakin announced the album would launch next week. It leaks, as always, and receives universal praise from /mu/ (in part with universal bashing of the other members of Deak's band, regarding their last disappointing album). Deakin sees this and mentions on a forum that he feels bad people are bantzing his friends (indirectly mentioning /mu/). People instantly begin apologizing and the shitposting ceases. He posts a couple times, gets an apology card from /mu/ and mentions he might do an AMA someday.
• April 6 - Another GET party for Cirno! This time on /mlp/, claiming both 26999999 and 27000000.
• April 16 - Global announcements purge.
• April 21 - The Advertise page gets their website statistics updated. There are now 27.700.000 unique visitors per month and the Google PageRank is no longer tracked.
• April 24 - New Boards: ○ /film/ - Film & Movies
• April 24 - Deleted Boards: • /film/ - Film & Movies
• April 24 - The day starts with Hiro, for some bizarre reason, advertising the sixth season premiere of Game of Thrones in the global announcements: Winter is Coming April 24, at 9 p.m. Eastern time. While people were still trying to make sense of the GOT announcement, a new board, /film/ - Films & Movies, appears in the chan API. Total confusion galore.
• April 26 - Global announcements purged. Guess nothing will come out of /film/
• April 27 - ○ /qst/ - Quests
• April 27 - /qst/ is added to offload quest threads from /tg/ after years of getting clogged. It has unique features: text formatting such as italics and text color, alongside dice rolling and the oekaki applet. Mods have a field day, per usual. One of the first /qst/ originals is venerable drawfag Okk's Legend of Titmouse
• April 28 - Blotter updates: New trial board added: /qst/ - Quests - /qst/ is integrated into the API and their rules have a minor fix.
• April 29 - Two /trash/ generals get into a shitflinging fest (Steven Universe General and The Loud House General). I have no idea what it was about, but it seemed stupid and funny enough to take note of.
• April 30 - Brief downtime.
• April 30 - New trial board: /qst/ - Quests
• May 8 - Minor Fix (yotsubamobile.css): Between May 1 and May 8, Mobile CSS navigation bar has its offset reconfigured.
• May 8 - Global announcements: Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box! Blotter updates: Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box!
• May 10 - Cirno claims 8999999 and 9000000 on /cgl/. Mods sticky a Sun/Moon announcement thread on /vp/.
• May 19 - Another GET claimed by the Cirno scriptfag, this time it's /k/'s 30000000. https://archive.moe, Bui's second archive, goes down, the only one to ever take on the task of archiving /b/ in full (full images and text). The message on the site claims it's because his provider took it off for not deleting CP fast enough, and there were no backups. He also did it for free.
• May 21 - Minor Fix (yotsubanew.css and others): Board CSS gets a .blink rule so a mod can tell anons to GO OUTSIDE to the tune of Sesame Street and Jason Mraz' Outdoors.
• May 23 - 4chan removes its info on their Alexa rank from the Advertise page, presumably because it fell out of the top 500.
• May 23 - Hiro pops on an /a/ meta thread to tell anons to just ignore posts they don't like.
• May 27 - Minor fix (extension.js): Links and quote script calls on a post's numbering (No. 123456 with No. and the number having different functions), which built their URL and script live while being loaded, are now built from more robust pre-loaded values.
• May 30 - The userbase is starting to turn against Hiro, who visits a thread complaining about him on /qa/. He manages to turn the thread's opinion by saying that 4chan is not profitable, but he prefers but thinks an interesting 4chan is better than a profitable one.
• May 31 - A developer on /g/ gets his hands on a Microsoft Hololense. It's pretty neato.
• June 1 - Minor fix (core.js): Self-serve ads now distinguish between normal threads and archived threads.
• June 2 - Self-serve ads have the Adzerk's naked domain gets replaced with 4chan-ads.org again.
• June 3 - /r9k/ takes a tour of 4chan as a group and gathers "souvenirs" from other boards, listed here.
• June 4 - A /pol/ user's Chrome extension (one that highlights "Jew" names anywhere for easy spotting of their nefarious plans) is pulled without reason by Jewoogle after complaints from various Jews who's feefees were doing a little crummy that day.
• June 6 - While you were having a fap, /pol/ helped the Russian military bomb ISIS. For the third time. (Strikes 1 and 2 are here, couldn't find a cap for the third). Here's an article from some shitty Buzzfeed clone about it.
• June 7 - A GG anon tries to get Hiro's attention and he casually gives the mods an anal raping of a lifetime by complete accident.
• June 8 - Hiro makes a sticky on /v/ asking for suggestions on new rules. In less than an hour it reaches over 3000 replies. A B S O L U T E M A D M A N
• June 10 - Gordie Howe dies and /sp/ gets a sticky for anons to drop an F in. Elsewhere, an American makes a thread mocking Johan Cruyff, who didn't get a death sticky and has haunted the stickies since his death. For once, the /sp/ mods become based, publicly banning the OP and stickying the thread.
• June 11 - Russian users are rangebanned after the site freezes for about an hour and a half. The ban is announced on the 4chan Twitter account although it doesn't mention which country was banned. Various /pol/ users paid their respects in a Russian politics thread which was emptied after the ban. A mod on /int/ said they are working on fixing it. UPDATE: And we're back baby.
• June 11 - Hiro changes the frontpage photo and replaced the Atlantis plane with cmas.jpg, a modified logo sporting Nashville, Tennessee's Chevrolet Stage during the CMA Festival.
• June 14 - Hiro makes yet another frontpage picture, replacing his CMA festival festival photo with the Highway of Combes-la-Ville by Giovanni Boldini. The painting as displayed on the frontpage is slightly oversaturated, cropped, and has the 4chan logo in the top right corner. He also makes a mistake and anchors the full http link rather than its naked (standard) form. He also includes a botched (single pixel) link to /ic/ - he likely intended to have the new logo promote /ic/.
• June 14 - For the span of a single day, /f/ gets it's filesize reduced from 10 MBs to 9 MBs. It's reverted when an anon on /qa/ makes a thread petitioning team4chan and a mod quickly replies.
• June 15 - Minor fix (extension.js): "hand" type tooltips (e.g. expand thread) now check whether a thread is extended before appearing.
• June 17 - Hiro nonchalantly suggests solving the "slide thread" /pol/ conspiracy by simply making the catalog bigger.ironically, that actually worked on other IBs
• June 18 - Hiro banters anons over his frontpage blogging.
• June 19 - /pol/s 77777777th GET is gotten. Praise kek!
• June 20 - 4chan Banner Contest - New 4chan Banner Contest with a chance to win a 4chan Pass! See the contest page for details. Blotter reads: New 4chan Banner Contest with a chance to win a 4chan Pass! See the contest page for details. 4chan opens a banner contest with the reward of 4chan passes. The contest is not listed on the Contests page, but has it's own at 4chan.org/banner-contests. They announce they want to make board banners for a number of boards, and some may replace self-serve ads. Sumissions open immediately with /3/, /i/, /po/, /gd/, /n/ being first.
• June 21 - Several boards (/pol/, /b/, /r9k/, /lgbt/, /s4s/) and chans (4chan, 8chan, 2ch.hk, Ylilauta and Krautchan) jump in the hate bandwagon of the #proudtobe official youtube video. Youtube ends up remove the heart from their logo and shut down the comments. The video eventually became one of the top 100 most disliked videos on youtube.
• June 23 - Hiro's bad url for the frontpage logo gets fixed.
• June 23 - A rolling /pol/ sticky about the UK referendum to leave the EU (Brexit) shatters the record for the most posts in a single thread in 4chan history, crushing the previous record set by [s4s] in early 2014 by nearly twenty thousand posts. The sticky received 58281 replies over the course of 23 hours. The archived thread is so large that it actually can't be opened in its entirety, since 4plebs times out requests after sixty seconds. 16230 images were also posted in the thread.
• June 27 - Voting open for the 4chan Banner Contest! See the contest page for details. - Voting for the banner contest begins after submissions for /3/, /gd/, /i/, /n/ and /po/ are sent through. Submissions open for /cm/, /trv/, /wsr/, /news/ and /p/.
• July 3 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): Shift clicking threads on the catalog no longer refreshes the window.
• July 3 - Threads appear on /pol/ and /b/ about a raid on Tumblr, shortly after, Tumblr has several tags filled with gore, although, through some weird lag, only a few show up.
• July 4 - The banner contest for /cm/, /news/, /p/, /trv/ and /wsr/ begins its voting phase.
• July 4 - 4chan Apple App FAIL - Apple Safari browser users start reporting an seemingly official 4chan Apple App (ID 1124861180) advertised on 4chan Portal pages. Almost nothing of it survives, except a potential name: 4chan Filtered. Anons who discover it claims its a clone of Clover and mock it, then threaten to report it. The app only lasts a few days before being removed from the store (as expected, since Apple Store has removed all previous 4chan frontend wrappers). In October 29, Hiro confirms the App was removed during an AMA.
• July 4 - Moderator Swaglord makes a thread on /s4s/ and embeds music into it, something about Independence Day. Meanwhile, /pol/ and /b/ gets caught up in a much larger raid on Tumblr this time and it completely wrecks a couple of tags for about an hour before either lag or the Tumblr moderators shut it down.
• July 5 - /pol/ gets more pages per threads, now counting 20, meaning it now houses 200 threads. The in-thread reply and image cooldowns are reduced from 90 and 120 seconds respectively to 60 seconds each. According to ChanTracking, by this point /qst/ no longer has custom spoilers
• July 5 - The oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, an /i/ thread about butts, dies. It originally started in December of 2012 and died at 1304 days.
• July 8 - On a /qa/ thread complaining about Hiro's passivity, he appears and explains that his current priority is "maintaining boards".
• July 11 - The banner contest for /an/, /c/, /diy/, /out/ and /w/ begins its voting phase.
• July 16 - /r9k/'s 30000000 GET got claimed by [s4s], which resulted into /r9k/ deciding to raid [s4s] and vice-versa. It took 30 minutes until mods started banning people and deleting threads on both boards. Big keks were had.
• July 17 - Minor Fix (catalog.js) - The catalog's report page popup now opens to https://
• July 18 - The banner contest for /asp/, /f/, /ic/ and /vr/ begins its voting phase.
• July 23 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Closing the quick reply form now resets the Legacy CAPTCHA.
• July 25 - All /news/ threads now require a subject. The banner contest for /biz/, /s4s/ and /u/ begins its voting phase.
• July 31 - moot gets interviewed.
• August 1 - The banner contest for /jp/, /sci/, /t/ and /y/ begins its voting phase.
• August 5 - Making a thread on /news/ now require a subject.
• August 6 - There's now 350x50 "top ads" for mobiles on the 4chan frontpage, right below the introductory text, on top of the already present 728x90 "bottom ads" run by AdsTerra. The new ads are run by Medi8 delivered from domain medi-8.net
• August 8 - The banner contest for /e/, /lgbt/, /m/ and /toy/ begins its voting phase.
• August 15 - The banner contest for /cgl/, /ck/, /hr/ and /lit/ begins its voting phase.
• August 16 - A fucking leaf from /n/ steals the 85555555 GET from /pol/. Almost a month later, on September 14, a fucking leaf from /r9k/ steals the more significant 88888888 GET and Canadians are confirmed for being the worst posters (again).
• August 18 - Gawker is bought by Univision, finally signaling the death of that godawful site, /pol/ and /v/ throw a party.
• August 18 - Anons start reporting that Medi8 ads are injecting browser capturing javascript on mobile browsers, opening full page malware ads.
• August 19 - Swaglord stickies a thread on [s4s] where they pretend to be /qa/, another mod stickies a thread on /qa/ where they pretend to be [s4s], lulz ensue.
• August 22 - The banner contest for /adv/, /his/, /wg/ and /wsg/ begins its voting phase.
• August 29 - The banner contest for /fa/, /hm/, /o/ and /x/ begins its voting phase. Global announcements for the Banner Contest are now italicized
• September 5 - The banner contest for /g/, /mlp/ and /vp/ begins its voting phase. /mlp/'s contest is raided from two sides: One by /mlp/ to get their desired banner, the other supposedly by Barneyfag on multiple passes to get his banner on top. In the end, /mlp/'s banner is withheld until 2021, when a new contest specifically for /mlp/, by /mlp/'s mod, begins.
• September 10 - Minor Fix (yotsubanew.css and rest): Post's name and file info blurbs now wrap around via break-all. Initially bugged via redundant rule for all postInfo / fileInfo classes, this is quickly fixed.
• September 12 - The banner contest for /r/, /soc/ and /sp/ begins its voting phase.
• September 12 - Medi8's 350x50 are removed and there's now 320x50 Top Ads on the frontpage, served by MoPub via ads.mopub.com.
• September 13 - /pol/'s outreach managed to grab the attention of a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton by shitposting on twitter at her with Pepe the Frog (note: there is no direct acknowledgement, but it's likely what triggered a recent article on her website about the dangers of memes and how they're "used" by the alt-right).
• September 13 - On /qa/, Hiroyuki barges into a /pol/ meta thread, says something incomprehensible, and leaves.
• September 14 - Hiro tells anons that before they can dictate what mods can do, they first have to agree on regulations, which anons denounce that it's impossible because mods don't let them determine rules or have meta threads. He later comes across /jp/'s meta thread and thanks the OP for making the effort.
• September 17 - MoPub's frontpage Ads are removed, and not replaced.
• September 17 - /ic/ Board Rule 2 (Discussion of drawing tablets belongs in /g/) replaced: Don't bring community vendettas onto this board. Singling out individual artists for the purposes of trolling them will not be tolerated. All discussion of artists should pertain directly to their work, and not their personal lives..
• September 17 - Hiro-Approved Meta Thread - Hiroyuki rents the 404 page to stream Boys Noize's Mayday as a marketing stunt for their new album and the Snowden movie. Some anons are not amused at the disrespect towards Yotsuba. In a /qa/ thread a mildly annoyed Hiroyuki discussed the change with anons while blogging, and later adds the Yotsuba image rotator back, right below the video. He then declares "I ruled to permit one thread par boards to talk about the board.", causing several dozen threads with screenshots of his posts to get posted board wide, with it's immediate aftermath being a series of feedback threads on /qa/ and elsewhere he later had shoot down. "Hiro Approved" meta threads would keep getting reused by frustrated and assblasted anons alike for several years.
• September 19 - The banner contest for /d/, /h/ and /k/ begins its voting phase.
• September 21 - A 4chan raid on Google's AI program Jigsaw Conversation code-named Operation Google in retaliation against censorship. The raid causes the AI to censor Google sites.
• September 22 - Minor Fix (catalog.js) (?): The Catalog now builds its settings and filter html from catalog.js and now sorts threads live, without refreshing the page.js, and gets a live bugfix a few hours later. Acquiring a pass with yahoo.com email is not longer a forbidden.
• September 22 - A thread about Nintendo's 127th anniversary gets hijacked by the mods, who embed music, voice clips, a scrolling Mario across the screen, and Mario in the background. The thread reaches 1300 replies before dying. Hiroyuki also posts an apology on the 4chan Twitter account, but nobody knows what it's for, prompting rumors that he sold the site, which a mod denied.
• September 23 - The 4chan Portal logo now loads from 2channel's (Hiro's clone) img.2ch.sc server. Anons wonder if this is for bandwith or tracking purposes.
• September 26 - /b/ has it's max filesize halved, from 4MB to 2MB.
• September 26 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): Name, Option and Pass auto-fill logic gets moved around, presumably for mobile modernization purposes.
• September 26 - Hiro's botched /ic/ crosslink is removed from the frontpage.
• September 26 - The banner contest for /aco/, /int/ and /tg/ begins its voting phase.
• September 28 - 4chan crashes for a couple hours, anons shitpost on desuarchive
• September 29 - Minor Fix (core.js): New meta/id data for the AdzerK provided Self-serve ad system.
• September 30 - Hiro replaces 320x40 mobile banners with massive 300x250 ads (example) and removes desktop Full Banner ads (the ones below the blotter) and Footer ads. Anons start reporting that the self-serve advertising page is broken, showing that 4chan has no listing available. However desktop Top Ads don't show up neither, as they were broken for HTTPS
• September 30 - The 4chan portal logo is restored to logo-transparent.png, back on s.4cdn.org
• October 1 - 4chan turns 13 and pedos lament that it's too old now. Happy 13th Birthday 4chan!4chan Passes are now $5 off for 48 hours! Cooldown time lowered for 4chan Pass users! - News Post titled LUCKY 13 celebrates the birth with an illustration by a new artist, Ramen. 4chan Passes go on sale with the Pass page updated accordingly, in addition, Pass users now have cooldowns halved and Posters now can use since4pass in the options field to show their pass age reading ( 4chan Pass user since X-Month Y-Year). There's also other fixes, first, special same-thread reply and image cooldowns are disabled, with their values replacing the default cooldowns for all boards. Meaning that 46 boards get their inter-thread post cooldowns raised to 60 (90/120 in /vg/'s case) with the haphazard exceptions of /aco/, /d/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /hr/, /i/, /ic/, /r/, /r9k/, /s/, /s4s/, /soc/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /wg/ and /y/ which already had it set to 60, while /c/, /cm/, and /co/ have their intra-thread image cooldowns raised to 60, crippling /co/ storytimers. Math.floor being replaced with Math.ceil for cooldown calcs, /b/ has WEBM filesizes reduced from 3MB to 2MB, and Self-serve ads now check whether mobile view isn't disabled even if the screen is smartphone sized. Hours later, global announcements get appended 4chan Passes are now 25% off for 48 hours! Cooldown time lowered for 4chan Pass users!Don't forget the banner contest. On /qa/, a thread about the since4chanpass feature that lets users show how old their pass is has Hiroyuki appear to defend the feature, and a mod explains that Mac wasn't available for this year's picture and he recommended Ramen in his stead. In the end, he was just covering for Mac. He had indeed refused to draw any new pieces.
• October 2 - Faget hats removed. since4pass uses a new css attribute, abandoning the old one
• October 2 - The banner contest for /fit/, /mu/ and /vg/ begins its voting phase.
• October 2 - Winter is Coming - Out of nowhere, Hiroyuki makes a thread titled "winter is coming" apologizing for his failure to keep 4chan financially stable, announcing he removed bottom (footer) ads and middle (full banner) ads and stating "4chan can't afford infrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost, CDN and etc, now." (all of which were services delivered by Adzerk and Rubicon, costs which increase according to site traffic while dividends don't). He declares 4chan has 3 paths ahead: Remove bandwidth-heavy features by lowering filesizes (implemented minimally the previous day) or deleting boards, use cheaper servers, introduce malicious ads, attract more pass users through new features. The cause behind the increased costs is the site's continued growth, underscored by the Culture War and the Presidential election getting hundreds of Trump supporters de-platformed, encouraging the migration of the soon to be called election tourists. 4chan reached historic speeds and /pol/ has become the fastest board by a wide margin (but not as disproportionally fast as /b/ in its golden years). Despite being unannounced, the thread makes the rounds immediately with 4727 replies. Anons speculate that historic advertiser J-List dropped them and chime in to tell hiro to delete /pol/ (as usual). This thread affects /qa/ in an unexpected manner: It permanently doubles their posting speed and puts it in the sights of /pol/ raid that lasted for months.
• October 3 - Global announcements appended, right above the Banner contest reminder: You can now renew your Pass if it expires in less than 6 months.. Pass page updated accordingly.
• October 3 - Deleted posts are no longer marked by the inline extension. The code is still in extension.js, but commented out. The auto-updater has other changes: It now checks for "tail" length, unix timestamps lifted from post dates, in order to update. It can also differentiate between normal and archived threads. It has a small bugfix a couple ours later.
• October 3 - Minor fix (Portal pages): The Advertise page updates its examples placements, but only shows leaderboard 728x90 desktop ads and 250x300 mobile ads.
• October 3 - The news of the Winter is Coming thread has gone viral, with over a dozen news articles releasing the following week. Notch, billionaire and creator of Minecraft, says he would consider buying 4chan on twitter but in the end but the backlash was so big he ends updeletes his past 4 months of tweets (ref IOU). Swaglord makes an appearance and exchanges a bit of banter. Controversial e-celebrity Brianna Wu makes a news article about 4chan calling its death a "win for feminism", prompting Hiroyuki to rebuke her on Twitter.
• October 4 - New Boards: ○ /vip/ - Very Important Posts
• October 4 - Blotter updates: New board for 4chan Pass users: /vip/ - Very Important Posts Hiro opens /vip/ after discussing his options in the Winter is Coming thread. Everyone can view it, but only 4chan pass users are allowed to post. While /vip/ was added to the Frontpage, /lit/ got moved to the Creative section.
• October 4 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): Catalog thread URLs are no longer semantic (An URL that goes "/123456/my-thread" has the right part cut)
• October 4 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Thread auto-updater now checks if the thread's "dead" (deleted?)
• October 4 - Self-Serve Ads are now fixed, with a new price listing.
• October 4 - The Washington Post published an article on 4chan on their The Intersect column, where they declare that Hiroyuki informed them the J-list historic advertiser has has dropped 4chan, citing diminish returns. Next day, an anon asks the J-List on their Facebook Group and Payne responds that he temporarily cut stopped adveertising over AdBlock and diminishing click-through (J-List comes and goes).
• October 5 - The 4chan Pass sale ends after a 3 day extension. The 4chan Pass billing statement changes from "CAPTCHA PASS" to "4CHAN.ORG". Global announcements sale line is removed. The GAs also have minor fixes e.g. Cooldown time lowered for 4chan Pass users!
• October 6 - The frontpage gets another facelift. The basic 4chan logo (logo-transparent.png) is put back on the homepage. There are also only two rows of "Popular threads" now. On the background, frongpage.html gets elements moved around and ditches yui.css and global.css for its own frontpage.css ruleset (still yui), and it's HTML-delivered Javascript gets moved to frontpage.js (n.b. frontpage.min.js to be exact)
• October 7 - Minor Fix (JSON API): The API gets a json_tail_size attributed for the auto updater.
• October 9 - 4chan gets shitty servers - Hiro starts experimenting with mixing 4chan with his own infrastructure, through the is.4chan.org subdomain, which connects of OVHCloud-hosted servers (also used for Hiro's Brazil, Ltd.) Images are A/B tested, alternating between is.4chan.org or i.4cdn.org during page load. Turns out they didn't have HTTPS set up and so all images load broken.
• October 10 - The banner contest for /co/ and /r9k/ begins its voting phase. Hiro appears on a thread about him where he shoots down implement the /r9k/ robot site-wide, on a strange argument about bandwidth.
• October 11 - A scientific paper about /pol/ and its effects on the Web is published.
• October 12 - 4chan opens donations for the first time in 11 years - By popular demand you can now support 4chan directly: Give to support 4chan replaces the Birthday GA line while the rest get light fiddling. In the new Donate page (archive here), you can choose Card or Crypto payment through Strike. Hiro starts an impromptu Q&A on a /qa/ thread about it, where he states he doesn't know if donations will work, reiterates he won't publish financial data and states that he hasn't taken a dime from 4chan yet. He also reveals that 4chan receives special treatment from an (or one) infrastructure provider: "We are in talks with an infrastructure company." - The company is providing free hosting for a few months due to "historic reasons." (n.b. This may refer either to the recently implemented OVHcloud image rerouting or 4chan's special relationship with QuadraNet, most likely the former.)
• October 12 - is.4chan.org returns and A/B tests are implemented again, this time with HTTPS fixed. The servers however have extremely low latency. Anons on /g/ and /qa/ are the first to complain.
• October 12 - Minor Fix (extension.js) - Image data for mobile is now segregate on it's own attribute set (data-m).
• October 13 - Boys Noize's advertising on the 404 page is removed. On the Advertising page, the policy that 4chan does not work with Ad networks is removed (a year late).
• October 13 - Anons complain on /qa/ about is.4chan.org image lag. Hiro apologizes.
• October 15 - Minor Fix (extension.js): A/B testing between image servers (is.4chan.org / i.4cdn.org) is now formalized with all unix timestamps divisible by 3 (so 33%) being delivered by is.4chan.
• October 15 - A janitor on /vg/ goes apeshit and starts deleting all overwatch general threads. Anon makes a /qa/ thread about it, where Manager RapeApe declares the janitor has been fired. Hiroyuki HONKS.
• October 17 - The banner contest for /hc/ and /tv/ begins its voting phase.
• October 17 - Hiroyuki gets chastised for begging for Donations on 4chan's Twitter (ref IOU), prompting him to do another impromptu Q&A where he states he believes generals aren't inherently bad and he has learned to not attentionwhore too hard, and then the thread devolves into blogging.
• October 19 - Minor Fix (API): json_tail_size attribute has been removed from the API.
• October 20 - Through the collective willpower of a few dedicated anons and some spiderman posting, the Great Loli Marathon surpasses 260 threads.
• October 21 - Donate page global announcement removed, but the banner contest and pass cooldowns lines are still up.
• October 23 - Ben Fischbein Day - Hundreds of users on /pol/, /b/ and other boards were banned for triggering the wordfilter for posting the name "Ben Fischbein" (ref IOU), a person related to Correct The Record. This is likely the result of a private legal threat by CTR which is trying to bully people into defending Hillary Clinton. The event becomes quite controversial, making people ask what's happening in other sites AKA the Streisand effect.
• October 24 - The banner contest for /a/ and /s/ begins its voting phase.
• October 27 - Adocaust - Hiro implements giant ads on all boards and the Frontpage. These are two back to back 300x250 banners serviced by AdGlare, which is immediately found out to be completely malicious, just as hiro promised early this month. They removed AdsTerra from the frontpage, FAQ and Rules pages, replacing them with ExoClick. Many anons install 4chanX and adblockers while the rest come scream bloody murder in /qa/ after the nth open.window redirect. Hiroyuki makes a series of stickies encouraging anons to report malicious ads they find. Over the course of 7 days the total post count reaches 6223 replies, with Hiro making 481 posts and mods chiming in to dunk on shitposters. The thread starts focused on reporting pop out tabs and never ending redirects plus other fuckery from the shady agencies contracted by AdGlare. Then it diverts to speculation about /pol/ when hiro reveals server costs increased 13.7 times in a single year, and he managed to negotiate a reduction to a mere 5 times in August, thanks to a special discount negotiated with the host until December at least. Hiro refused to show financials, but showed evidence about a sudden traffic increase visible even in the mostly-irrelevant Alexa ranking and revealed 4chan's current traffic is 3 Petabytes, comparing 4chan's hosting price with Amazon Web Service, saying it'd cost 90.000$ a year, which was countered with an infopic stating it should cost around 12.000$. Hiro later updates the 4chan Blog announcing that in the two week since the Donate page opened, 4chan had received $2321 in Donations. Besides that, he elaborated on future plans for monetization and new site features while nonchalantly ignoring hundreds of insults by a nascent hatefandom. Other Highlights:
  • J-list was a special advertiser who pays fixed rate, they have come and gone and have been active since Oct 2015 until just a few weeks ago. Hiro states they are gonna come back soon, but he speculated they are preparing their own their own ad servers to leave for good.
  • Self-Serve ad bidder Rubicon dropped 4chan from their client list over the John Podesta Twitter hack just two weeks ago.
  • On the matter of Ads, 4chan has been refused by a dozen ad reputable platforms, the new top spot was requested by AdGlare, and he believes malicious ads will only be temporal, until he figures a way to keep 4chan solvent.
  • 4chan merch is one the table (n.b. never happened ;_;)
  • The ad team (n.b. likely hiro's own non-4chan people) is making their own self-serve system
  • Considers the possibility of splitting 4chan into different domains
  • The 4chan search feature is still in the plans plan and he's considering a thread archive on for pass-only access (n.b. didn't take off), and let pass users vote on potential future features.
• October 28 - The 4chan advertising email is changed from [email protected] to [email protected]
• October 28 - Minor Fix (Board CCS) (?): Rule for iframe hiding blank pages (e.g. so you can't click broken ads) removed.
• October 28 - /tg/'s 50000000 GET is stolen by Cirno. A failure. The other GET was stolen by Serena.
• October 29 - Anons start reporting problems with loading images. Hiro makes a thread and "accidentally" forbids hotlinking to i.4cdn.org.
• October 31 - 4chan went down for a bit and people didn't know where to go, but the majority of the users apparently raided Reddit to turn into the new 4chan. The whole site gets a spooky CSS theme for Halloween again. The loli marathon faces contention over continuity, but threads up through 377 are verified, New archive established at [2,433]. The banner contest for /v/ and /vip/ begins its voting phase.
• November 1 - Hiro makes a make a twitter poll asking if 4chan has influenced US politics. The end result is 58% "Yes"
• November 2 - The great loli marathon seems to have ended at 387 threads. Spiderman posts still get deleted and banned regularly.
• November 3 - Image problems persist. Hiro considers a browser problem.
• November 4 - Anon offers Hiro a modified 4chan logo featuring Keksandra, [s4s]'s board-tan, checking 'em, in one of Hiro's malicious ad-reporting threads. Hiro takes it and uploads it as kek.png hosted on his 2ch.sc domain again. [s4s] celebrates while /a/ and /qa/ members complain that the character for the logo should be Yotsuba. A few hours later on /b/, Keksandra gets sexts and declares herself the new mascot of 4chan
• November 6 - The banner contest ends - Every board except /b/, /gif/, /pol/, /qa/, /qst/ and /trash/ has a new banner. /mlp/ also doesn't have one due to the previous controversy.
• November 7 - After being informed about /vip/'s 4chan.org redirect bring broken, Hiro fixes it
• November 7 - An anon on /vp/ gets his hands on the full version of the upcoming game, Pokémon Moon, and leaks a large amount of information before uploading a playable copy the next day, 10 days before the official release date.
• November 8 - 2016 Presidential Election Results Thread Anonymous Hiro promotes the /news/ sticky for the Presidential Elections. It makes it to 2107 posts before being pruned, /news/'s largest thread since. All previous global announcements purged.
• November 8 - Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America. /pol/ goes completely apeshit and celebrates his victory. Two stickies get placed too, with one being the results of the election...
• November 9 - ...and the other being an embed video of Trump's victory dance. Meme magic is real once again! Meanwhile, Hiro removes Keksandra from the front page after five days. /pol/'s rolling 2016 Presidential election results sticky breaks the record for most posts in one thread again, receiving 73171 posts in its 23 hours and 53 minutes. This surpassed the Brexit sticky by nearly 15000 posts.
• November 9 - The Advertise page's text blurb promoting free advertising for Anime & Comic Book conventions (removed 2015) is brought back.
• November 9 - Keksandra steps down and logo-transparent.png returns to the Portal.
• November 9 - J-List ads return again, this time with their own CSS rule
• November 11 - Winter Ball 2016 - The third 4chan Board-tans event arrived late with no board acting as official hub. Yet it was not dead: Multiple dozen threads popped out site-wide around November 11 in a larger volume yet with reduced activity. Compared to 2015, most don't make bump limit except for a few boards. Small dates are carried out by crossboarding drawfags with the /qa/ board-tans general acting as impromptu hub. The event lasts around a month, without an official end date, activity winds down to trickle just a few days before Christmas. At least a hundred new illustrations made and a strange drama with a kid who tried to force a design update on /qa/-tan occurs.
• November 15 - For a hot hour image thumbnails weren't loading. Hiro makes a test thread to see if the problem persists. He later asks anon to give him a croissant.
• November 16 - After confirming that he goes to McMaster University (having gotten most of their IPs banned from 4chan) and being dumb enough to leave his full name and email on the manifesto he released in 2014, Barneyfag is doxed by a /v/ user. His name is revealed to be Lee Goldson, and his pictures confirm how much of a disgusting shit we all imagined he looked like. See here for his info.
• November 17 - Hiroyuki is rude for a bit. Slow day, eh?
• November 18 - 11th Janitor Recruitment - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply here.
• November 18 - /vp/ reaches its 30000000th post, an image of Lana, a new loli character. Get No. 29999999 is Elesa doing a dubs gesture.
• November 19 - Anon asks if the image problem was solved. Other anon comments that is.4chan.org is still slow and Hiro comments they plan to upgrade the servers.
• November 20 - /a/ hits its 150000000th post. It's wasted by some homo with poor tastes in hairstyles who can't even speak english properly. While not quite making up for the disappointment, 149999999 is taken by loli.
• November 21 - Hiroyuki makes a thread about the Fukushima Tsunami on /jp/.
• November 21 - Janitor applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied!
• November 23 - A few minutes before midnight EST, /pol/ hits the 100M GET, the fifth board in the history of the site (after /b/, /v/, /a/ and /vg/) to reach such milestone. And surprisingly, it wasn't stolen by a Leaf.
• November 25 - Hiroyuki nerds on science.
• November 26 - /g/'s /ptg/ general hacks into the admin account of a private BitTorrent tracker, and the login info is posted. Many lulz were had before the staff shuts the site down.
• November 27 - Code Geass gets a third season announced. /a/ loses its collective shit, the announcement thread is stickied and receives over 4000 replies. [2,434] JIBUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
• November 28 - KoG steals /fa/'s 12000000 GET for /a/, the same GET that /v/ stole from /a/ in May of 2008. He posts about it on /a/ and the thread gets stickied, locked, unlocked, unstickied, restickied and eventually deleted. He also steals 88000000 on /co/ and gets triple 9's with cirno in his /a/ thread.
• November 29 - Minor Fix (extension.js): is.4chan.org is now used for unix timestamps divisible by 9, meaning they go from 1 each 3 to 1 each 9 (that is 11% of all images). WEBMs are also excluded from using is.
• December 9 - Minor Fix (Board CSS) - AdGlare CSS gets hardcoded to be banner sized.
• December 11 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box!
• December 11 - Minor Fix (entension.js): is.4chan.org is reverted to be used in divisions by 3, but this time they are changed be used there's a remainder meaning it now appears every 2 out of 3 images (that's 66% of all images) - if their remainder
• December 12 - Might not be worth mentioning, but /pol/ issued a "Deceleration" of War on the island nation of Tuvalu.
• December 13 - is.4chan.org gets a big upgrade, going from 2 IPs to 10 IPs (more servers). However i.4cdn.org is removed and timestamp restrictions on using is.4chan.org are lifted, so all images except webms loads from is. t-thanks Hiro.
• December 15 - Apparently Lanzer returns to Gaia, /v/ has a thread about it which housed nostalgiafags and the like. Hiro returns to /qa/ to defend his heavily damaged reputation and state he won't delete boards because anons don't like them.
• December 17 - Anon makes a thread on /qa/ demanding the unbanning of /pol/'s /diy/ - Right Wing Safety Squad, a raid thread using fire safety regulations protocols to close down spaces, arguing that Hiroyuki gave them the go. A later poster asks for elaboration from the mods, to which Anonymous-San replies using a custom warning. The next day, the outraged anon posts his warning accusing Asan of being politically biased.
• December 18 - Cirno visits /pol/ and promises a frosty inauguration. She was blushing too, well, at least according to her filename.
• December 19 - Firing of Anonymous-San - 10:30 EST - In an unexpected move, Asan is relieved of his moderator duties. The news breaks over #4chan IRC first, provoking outrage from /a/ & /jp/ and even within team4chan. Pre-empting a scandal, at 10:39 EST, Manager RapeApe posts a sticky on /qa/ explaining his reasoning and answers minor /q/uestions. /diy/ takes refuge on the 8chan board /rwss/ - Right Wing Safety Squad. Asan later pops in on an earlier thread about him intent to burn bridges with team4chan's management: He explains what happened in detail, revealing (reasserting) that mods can no longer capcode without authorization and that he was singled out over using the wording of template and not the bans, and implies it was RapeApe who fired him over politics (but he later speculated it could have been Hiro making an example), and claims that new guards mod had no sense of community. This rouses anons into a riot, including a surprise visit from legendary tripfag Soviet_Russia. A few days later, an ex-janitor comes by (n.b. excluded by wayback machine since 2026) and goes on a rant about a-san's firing, chastises the board on their paranoia while giving out facts about RapeApe, seemingly arbitrary janitor firings and how promotions work..
• December 19 - /pol/ entered HAPPENING status about an hour after as some Russian dude got assassinated and a couple of attacks happened in Europe.
• December 22 - is.4cdn.org continues underperforming. Hiroyuki appears on /qa/ to talk about it, but the thread quickly derails towards discussing Asan's recent firing. Hiro is adamant that Anonymous-san had to be fired over his abuse of moderation tools. Hours later asan comes to ask him to listen to his point of view, half recount and half goodbye letter.
• December 23 - In the same thread, the same [s4s] anon as November 4 ask to modify the frontpage featuring Keksandra with Christmas hat, Hiro acquiesces, hosting it through 2ch.sc again. 'tis the season to be dank.
• December 25 - Christmas hats are added again.
• December 28 - Minor Fix (extension.js): is.4chan.org is now allowed for webms again.
• December 28 - Christmas hats removed a bit later than usual.
• December 28 - /vr/ gets a third board rule: Purposeful spoiling of a game's plot or other details may result in post deletion and temporary ban. Use spoiler tags where appropriate.
• December 28 - Remove (You) Incident - 03:00 UTC - Without warning, Hiroyuki removed (you) and replaces it with an dotted underline on replies. The entire site immediately flips it's shit. He latter appears on the Happenings threads, implies asan evidence's was not enough to absolve him, and refuses to elaborate on the changes to the site.
• December 29 - 22:00 UTC - Hiro makes a thread and links to a new inline poll feature where only 4chan pass users can vote. 4chan passes are required to prevent rigging. The first poll (10) asks anon how their day was, the second (11) their opinion on the new (you). Hiroyuki once again has the thread derailed by the Asan topic, and he insists that he wants evidence of Asan consulting with mods over the custom warning. Asan once again appears only to be ignored.
• December 30 - 4chan pass poll : "Restyled reply tracking"https://www.4chan.org/polls/11
• December 31 - Live results for poll #2 are ~60% Negative. Within hours, (You)s are returned and hiro doesn't post again.

2017

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• January 1 - Copyright footer message updated to 2017.
• January 3 - Global announcements purged. The new (you) poll closes. Results for poll #2 are 56% Negative, 22% Neutral, 21% Positive, out of 1380 votes. Users speculate that Hiroyuki planned this from the start as a scheme to get people to buy passes.
• January 4 - A second OVHCloud server is introduced, is2.4chan.org, and its used when is.4chan.org is unavailable. The rate limits for is. servers returns, but this time its for every UNIX timestamp not divisible by 9 - Meaning 8 out of 9 (that's 89% of all pics). Compared to is., is2. is worked by a single server and loads even worse.
• January 9 - The #4chan IRC now has site support rules, having new instructions on the Rules page. This is a formalization of some long established practices, but also a formal ban on others. Anons may approach mods to ask about technical information or questions about their ban, and appeal if it possible. They are however also forbidden from using the site as a second report button.
• January 10 - /pol/ writes a fanfic - Wikileaks and Buzzfeed "leak" "secret documents" that are actually scat fanfiction about Trump, written by an Anon from /ptg/ in October 29. It turns out he ran a months long campaign of Twitter sockpupeeting and managed to convince through the likes of Rick Wilsonm, John McCain and the CIA to treat it as a real leak. /pol/
• January 13 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Rate limits on is.4chan.org servers are increased to every UNIX timestamp divisible by 3 whose remainder is smaller than 1 (that is 33% of all images).
• January 17 - Trigger Visits /a/ - /a/ manages to decode the witch script in Little Witch Academia, which impresses the English PR guy for Trigger, Tattun, so much he starts posting on /a/. Mods being Mods ban him for no reason, after 30 minutes they say it was mistake and apologize, and then sticky the thread for a few minutes, then make it so that the thread can't be bumped off the index or hit its image limit, making the first known instance of an "undead thread".
• January 19 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Desuwa realizes his mistake and changes rate limits on is.4chan.org servers are increased to every UNIX timestamp divisible by 3 whose remainder is smaller than 2 (that is 66% of all images). Tracked replies now load with the HTML (n.b. unsure)
• January 20 - Great HWNDU Raid - Donald Trump is officially inaugurated as President of the United States. /pol/ celebrates endlessly and laughs at liberal tears. Swaglord makes a visit in the sticky, posting a picture with the caption "WE PRESIDENT NOW". Also, to protest Donald Trump's presidency, (((Shia LaBeouf))) sets up a 24/7 live stream "art" exhibit called "He Will Not Divide Us" in the heart of New York City, with the goal of live-streaming people chanting the stream name in solidarity. /pol/ and /tv/ host threads on the stream, and within hours, people arrive to meme IRL and causes shenanigans. Threads quickly explode into full blown generals were anons watch /pol/ IRL troll the fuck out of Labeuf
• January 20 - On /qa/, anon makes a thread asking hiro to recruit more mods and hiro restates that there's more than 12 mods working on 4chan.
• January 20 - Gabe the Dog dies, /wsg/ honors his memory memery by posting Gabe remixes. moot also posts about it on his Twitter, the first anyone's heard from him in months.
• January 21 - Tattun visits /a/ again to announce that the show's producer has agreed to visit for a AMA in a few days. He sticks around for several hours to answer questions. Mods show up to give him a 4chan Pass at Hiro's request.
• January 21 - Users from /pol/ continue to raid the HWNDU stream by shouting "Pepe!" and playing Shadilay. One brave /pol/ack plasters the name of KEK on the side of a building.
• January 24 - In a few days, the HWNDU stream trolling becomes more sophisticated, ranging from uttering meme phrases and ordering tendie delivery, to non-stop Eurobeat music DJ's and anti-Semitic picture drawing. Even CIA and Moonman cosplay make an appearance. Because the trolls are 'mostly harmless', many reappear as regulars on the stream, and are universally loved by the thread lurkers. The two most popular regulars are "Jackie4chan", the delightfully vanilla 4chan browser, and "/pol/ Blart", the policeman dead-ringer for Paul Blart.
• January 24 - In response to the Tattun accident, there's now a Anonymous ## Verified capcode, it also has no icon.
• January 25 - 4chan's Trigger AMA - /a/ gets an Ask-me-anything session with Trigger. Notable highlights include yurifags being BTFO and the producer laughing when asked if one of the characters is a virgin. The Verified capcode shows up for the first time. An example can be found here.
• January 26 - Days earlier, after constant trolling, Shia snaps and pushes an offending crowd member. On this day it was announced he was arrested and charged with assault. Ironically, one of the stream regulars, dubbed "Tony" for his loud Italian voice and aggressive debating, was removed from the premises by police. Even more ironic was the reveal that another troll "Adidasbro" had an arrest warrant, suspected to be related to playing Johnny Rebel and Moonman music in public. Lastly, topping the ultimate in irony, both demonstrators AND trolls find themselves having a civilized debate in an unbelievable moment of unity, proving once and for all that Shia LaBeouf is a fucking joke.
• January 27 - Another slow day with Hiro saying hi on /qa/.
• January 28 - The HWNDU stream hits critical chaos, as trolls outnumber demonstrators. In a successful effort to kill the memes and restore order, the property owners only allow people to speak group-by-group. They enforce this by erecting a fence, because irony is not their strong suit.
• January 30 - Club Penguin's Farewell Raid - Disney announces that it'll be closing Club Penguin in late March. /v/ decides to give it one last raid for old time's sake. Swastikas were made, memes were spammed, and keks were had.
• February 5 - /pol/'s 111111111 GET predicts Trudeau will fall. This is incorrect.
• February 6 - /tv/ Anon(s) begin counting down the days until Avatar 2's release date. Time will tell if he/they are able to keep it up.
• February 10 - Small changes are made to 4chan's archives: The latest archived threads now are viewable for only 3 days rather than 7, and the post count for each archived thread is removed. If you have a direct link to a thread you can view threads past 7 days old; It is yet to be seen how far back this is possible with some of the older threads archived at around 17 days (as of 2/21/2017). Easily demonstrated with threads that have "previous thread" in the OP.
• February 11 - Shia's HWNDU project is shut down by the museum. /pol/ celebrates.
• February 16 - Hiro removes the Christmas Keksandra 4chan logo on the homepage and replaces her with 4_0217.png starring Sachiko Koshimizu from THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, after /qa/ reaches out to him on Twitter. /jp/ and /a/ celebrate.
• February 17 - HWNDU returns, this time in Albuquerque, NM. Within days, /pol/ trolls the project all over again, even spray-painting over the camera whilst putting up graffiti.
• February 19 - is.4chan.org is disabled, all images now load on i.4cdn.org.
• February 21 - Images Implode - The OVHCloud's is. and is2 servers stop working. This also means site URLs loaded on those servers are now inaccessible. /qa/nts first suspect that Hiro wants to ban mobileposters. The theory is dropped after some Anons report that they can't post images from their PCs too.
• February 22 - While recovering from a site issue, we lost some older images. Please post some new ones to make up for it! - Whatever Hiro is doing with images breaks i.4cdn.org too, losing most of the last weeks' images. Many stickies are now devoid of pictures and are eventually replaced. Hours later posting fails to work for periods of time in different places, from the entire globe to single countries. Hours later both servers return to normal and Hiro adds a global announcement for a few hours then posts with the 4chan Twitter.
• March 8 - 4chan gets namedropped and showed in German television (n.b. dead link) over the Maruseru killer posting his murders on /b/.
• March 9 - Shia's HWNDU project goes live again on March 8, this time in a completely unknown location. The stream simply broadcasts a flagpole with a white flag saying "He Will Not Divide Us", in front of nothing but the sky. Within 24 hours, /pol/ correctly triangulates the whereabouts of the flag, based on what was available from the stream, including plane routes, star patterns, bird calls, frog croaks, wind direction, the position of the sun, playing marco-polo with an anon's car horn, and pure autism power.
• March 10 - The flag is removed by an unknown /pol/ user and replaced by a MAGA hat and Pepe shirt for fifteen minutes, before it's removed by someone else. The stream shuts down 25 minutes later. /pol/: 3, Shia: 0. The anon then collected the flag and put it on display.
• March 13 - A request thread on /wsg/ is moved to /wsr/ and locked, there a mod announces that audio webms have been enabled on /r/ and /wsr/.
• March 15 - First instance of someone reporting that some invisible characters like (U+2063) are filtered out of the input fields, killing a large number of anon hijinks. Likely implemented in March 13 together with webms
• March 15 - First instance of someone reporting that towerposting aka replying to the same post several times triggers the spamfilter.
• March 17 - Modpost post on Sci asking to STOP FEEDING THE TRUMPTARDS
• March 20 - (((Rockfeller))) dies on World Frog Day and Barron Trump's birthday, /pol/ litters their catalog with celebratory threads.
• March 22 - Shia LaBouef, still learning nothing, sets up his HWNDU project for the fourth time, this time hosted in Liverpool, England. Within an hour, a terrorist attack happens in London, resulting in the death of four people. As the happening continues, /pol/ quickly figures out where the flag is.
• March 23 - An anon in Liverpool makes it to the top of the building, fails to remove the flag and the police are called. The anon gets away and the museum shuts down the exhibit once more at the advice of the police.
• March 29 - Malicious ads act up on mobile again and anons report it on /qa/, netting attention from Hiro.
• March 29 - Shia LaBeouf, after getting BTFO for the fourth time by /pol/, moves his project to Finland and changes the name of his project from HWNDU to AloneTogether. This project consists of him, Rönkkö (the Finnish semen demon) and Turner living in separate wood cabins on the isolated island of Lapland. During this time, Shia and Co. will have no access to phones, computers etc. The only way they can communicate with the outside world is through a small video chat that is linked with the Kiasma Museum from Helsinki, where visitors can talk with them. This project is planning to start on 12 April and last for about a month.
• March 29 - Club Penguin shuts down, /v/ has one final raid for the purple republic before it shuts down and then looks back on it all.
• March 30 - Minor Fix (board CSS): AdGlare ads have some CSS moved.
• April 1 - New Boards: ○ /can/ - Animals/Cute ○ /cock/ - Comics & Cartoons & Cooking ○ /fap/ - Fashion & Photography ○ /fitlit/ - Well-Rounded Citizens ○ /mo/ - Mecha & Auto ○ /mtv/ - Video Killed The Radio Star ○ /mlpol/ - My Little Politics ○ /outsoc/ - Outdoor Socialization ○ /spa/ - Tanoshii Sports ○ /vint/ - International Vidya
• April 1 - Deleted Boards: • As above
• April 1 - April Fools 2017 - Due to cuts in government funding for the arts and our spring break trip to mootxico, we've had to combine a few boards. Try and make some new friends! - Boards are merged as an April Fools joke, inspired in popular board-tans pairings, classic puns and shitting on /pol/. [s4s celebrates its 4th birthday], with good wishes from all boards, but the thread is deleted for an unknown reason just as the day began. Swaglord also pulls of the greatest ruse in history, stickying what seemed to be a link to a future get, but when clicked leads to a secret duckroll thread. Barneyfag gets banned on /qa/, twice. /cock/ got a McChicken sticky and also this entertaining thread (n.b. dead link). /fitlit/ had a thread stickied. /vint/ celebrated getting its dubs back. Flags on /spa/ revealed that a large number of /a/ users were from South America, and it gets a ## Developer sticky. /mlp/ goes insane at the idea of the merge, for first few hours, /mlpol/ was in a bloody civil war, but /pol/lacks soon give up and leave, leaving only those willing to tolerate clop. /mlp/ declares victory and spins it as graciously letting /pol/ have high effort discussions by chasing away the chaff. After the threads are deleted, they spend a week raiding /qa/ demanding to get /mlpol/ back and later made their own /mlpol/ spin off.
• April 1 - r/Place Raid - Reddit adds a new subreddit called /r/Place, essentially a big pixel canvas where every account can put down one pixel every 5 minutes. /pol/, upon about it, begins spams Pepes and Tranny Flags.
• April 2 - After the merge was undone (boards were never deleted, they just changed the URLs), /pol/ goes back to full shitpost mode. Quality in discussions suffer in /a/ as a result of the flags, posters are accused of being Canadian or South American when they state an unpopular opinion; /a/ risks devolving into /pol/. The 5277777 GET (which is a reply to swaglord's April Fools Peek) actually occurs and is stickied on s4s. The link in the OP of swaglord's peek sticky is changed to point to the GET.
• April 3 - The April Fools Peek and the 5277777 GET are unstickied. A necc thread is stickied on s4s. A legendary thread gets ~1500 replies and an insane number of dubs and stickied. is stickied.
• April 5 - J-List's Farewell - 4chan's decade old sponsor, The J-List, gets an obscenely large custom 680x420 advertising slot in the middle of the page, tucked between threads. It's used for a new, fast & loose ad campaign referencing Anime Twitter jokes. /a/nos find it both jarring and affable. By May 24, it turns out it wasn't just a special campaign, it was the final one, as their final ad is titled "goodbye 4chan!". On May 29, Peter Payne waves 4chan goodbye on Twitter. Years later he explains that he didn't just leave due to decreasing advertising revenue, but also because the site was growing too negative for his liking.
• April 5 - A "would swaglord swaglord swaglord" thread and a "swaglord sure knows how to pick a sticky" thread are stickied on s4s. The latter thread is a reference to namefig Doctor Worse Than Hitler's Sticke Budde userscript.
• April 6 - Cirno takes the 373000000 GET from /v/, and proclaims blue hair > pink hair, damn bakas.
• April 6 - /a/'s 155555555 GET is also stolen by /s4s/.
• April 7 - After a week straight of escalating shitposting in a war between two different groups of off-site raiders, one from 8ch's /int*/ Discord trolls and another /jp/ spinoffs, /qa/ is frozen when the latter starts spamming GR1 reports. Hiro writes a casual post unaware anything was happening.
• April 8 - /int/'s 73333333 GET gets wasted by a Jap Flag, confirming that Japs are the worst posters on 4chan.
• April 12 - The first day of Shia's "AloneTogether" project. Finnish /pol/acks begin to visit the museum and fuck around with Shia and Co. Some /pol/acks pose in front of the cameras doing the CIA pose. Some /pol/acks managed to make Shia say "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" on the livestream chat and also tell a strange story about his childhood toilet trauma. Shia goes berserk.
• April 13 - /pol/ has another session of trolling but this time,the security is much tighter and after 10 minutes, they get kicked out. One managed to walk around in front of the cameras while wearing a frog mask before a guard kicked him out. The Twitter hashtag for the event gets leaked on /pol/, resulting in a shitstorm visible on a television inside the museum. Meanwhile, /pol/ begin working on pinpointing Shia's cabin. A group of 4-5 Finnish /pol/acks planned to visit the cabin during the weekend to give Shia a warm greeting and a MAGA hat.
• April 16 - /int/'s Easter spammer discovers you can post to /qa/ from the index.
• April 21 - A "big guy for you" thread where the 5333333 GET occurs is stickied on /s4s/.
• April 22 - /qa/ is unfrozen. The retarded flamewar immediately resumes.
• April 27 - Manager RapeApe stickies a thread on /pol/ announcing the possible creation of a new off-topic politics board in order to keep /pol/ focused on political discussion. The manager asks for suggestions on a board name (three letters max) and a board title. Ideas tossed around include /hap/ - Happenings, a resurrected /mlpol/, /id/ - Ideology, /fag/ - Foreign Appreciation Generals, and /kek/ - Autism/Frogposting. Other /pol/ users claim that this is what Shia wanted: Division.
• May 1 - /a/'s favorite BitTorrent tracker for anime, Nyaa, goes down permanently. Nobody, not even the site's staff, is sure why. /a/ suffers a shitstorm as many newfags are left in the dust as to how to obtain their shows.
• May 3 - In an effort to revive or mirror Nyaa as good as possible, anons from both /g/ and /a/ come together and recreate a working mirror of the site.
• May 4 - New Boards. ○ /bant/ - International/Random.
• May 4 - New trial board added: /bant/ - International/Random - Blotter updates: New trial board added: /bant/ - International/Random - A trial board meant to receive off-topic threads from /pol/. Many anons are upset about the fact that Hiro, instead of enforcing the rules and cleaning the boards, makes new boards to dump all the cancer from other boards in it. The board is rushed by several groups, including every Cirno poster on the site.
• May 5 - Age of Cirno - The 99999 GET of /bant/ is achieved SCRIPTED by Cirno, who declares war against frogposters, Chirumiru Cirno is also embedded into the thread A moderator also posts in the thread.
• May 8 - Cloudflare Fucking Breaks - 4chan increases the settings for CloudFlare's anti-bot security system (which forces you to go the Verification page to a second recaptcha to continue browsing). This uncovers a bug in 4chan's CF configuration that prevents Javascript from executing on boards.4chan.org whenever the anti-bot system triggers. This breaks the fuck out of the site: Posts that contain Youtube links, are too long, have large images, break a tab's posting ability permanently after failing once or just mention Israel will fail to post and respond with a Connection Error message when using the Quick-Reply form. When posting using the classic reply form such as uploading to /f/, it returns Your IP range has been banned due to abuse (showing definite proof that 4chan had implemented fake rangebans to dissuade botters). A modpost on /qa/ clarifies it's a Cloudfare issue and they can't do anything about it.
• May 10 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): Stickies now load first regardless of sorting filter.
• May 12 - Ekansovi Mystery - A giant (15KB), obfuscated script is loaded on 4chan pages, somehow bypassed adblocks and privacy methods. Anons on /g/ decrypt it and see it opens websocket to xhr.ekansovi.com and fetchs data from a.ekansovi.com and deduce it's ad-related. Within a month, more anons discover it and see how obfuscated it is, and start getting nervous.
• May 13 - /bant/ gets a late adition to the frontpage board list.
• May 13 - Both /int/ and /bant/ get Eurovision Song Contest stickies, /bant/'s thread reaches over 3000 replies, /int/'s sticky gets 14000.
• May 17 - Hiroyuki NOPES. Hiromoot then makes a text thread test on /qa/ and accidentally disables image posting on the entire imageboard for a few minutes.
• May 18 - A guy on /x/ made a thread about how he saved his family by imitating the sound of a shotgun reload with his mouth. A new copypasta was shortly born.
• May 19 - 12th Janitor Recruitment - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply here.
• May 21 - We are no longer accepting janitor applications. Thanks to all those who applied!
• May 21 - Alzheimers Day - A Romanian starts a bunch of threads with a picture of an old man with the comment 'ask someone with Alzheimer anything', other anons catch on and follow suit, it avalanches from there until the entire catalog is filled with lost old men. This goes on for a few hours until a mod declares no fun allowed and deletes all threads
• May 23 - A thread asking whether swaglord would sticky Jay Irwin is stickied. The thread features a pic of swaglord wearing a kek shirt and holding a bury pink hammer.
• May 27 - Captcha is broken for non-pass users for some hours, the pass users mock the poorfags as a result. The post quality increased on several boards.
• May 29 - Sachiko temporarily leaves the frontpage and the classic 4chan logo takes it place. The Pass is updated to indicated gmail emails are currently not working.
• May 29 - Multiple threads are stickied for a short amount of time on /s4s/ (15 at once during peak sticky time), including Eh? You've never seen a sticky before?!, swaglord's favorite anime is skrillex, stick, there are too many sticky's, swaglord, swaglord if you fricking sticky one more thread i swear to god, perro caca, a "blue man" thread linking to multiple boards, le char, someone tell swaglord to please not sticky anymore threads. it's really having a negative effect on this board please stop, If I get trips, Swaglord must sticky two more threads so that s4s can have eleven stickies and thereby have sticky dubs, ass, !be me !see a new meme on s4s !the meme is talk about urselv with excamarks !cool, COVFEFE, Throwback Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with le sune, no anime on the front page jej, and would swaglorde sticky a screenshot of a swaglorde sticky inside of a swaglorde twitter bio? All threads are unstickied except the kek thread.
• May 30 - Problems with gmail are fixed. The Pass page is restored to its usual state.
• June 2 - Originally meant for a Japanese audience, Hiro and another minor celebrity were found livestreaming Clash Royale. The stream peaks at around 160 viewers. Hiro later visits /v/'s thread about it.
• June 3 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box!
• June 7 - Ekansovi Panic - Paranoids on /g/ and trolls on /pol/ successfully cause a panic over Ekansovi. Anons rush to speculate on what its all about, if Hiro is selling data, or whether 4chan got hacked by a botnet group. Eventually, the 4chan script gets prettified and xhr.ekansovi.com's js extracted. /g/entlemen determine it's a full Ad Injection engine, containing an HTML and Javascript injector, Ad Analytics and Adblocking bypass tools. However the only behaviour observed was using the ancient method of Pixel Tracking to bypass adblocking. It only tracked some NSFW porn boards and /pol/.
• June 12 - /v/ reaches its 380M GET on the night of E3. The post is just replying to two people with a "your tears are delicious" image.
• June 13 - Troll flags are added to /pol/ again since being removed in 2015 as well as keeping the geolocation flags. A new flag testing thread is stickied and gets 13845 replies.
• June 13 - Minor Fix (Pass page): Stripe sends an extra token when a credit card is used to pay for a 4chan pass.
• June 17 - A mod public bans and locks a Caption thread on /d/, and subsequent attempts at new threads are deleted. This resulted in a lengthy meta discussion thread on /qa/. Discussion goes on for a couple days. Moderators were contacted on IRC and gave a short statement that these threads have never been allowed on /d/ in the first place.
• June 18 - /jp/ archiver Warosu.org brings back ghostposting.
• June 19 - /s4s/ gets a gun sticky; embedded video included.
• June 20 - /r9k/ gets a Mod-made locked sticky forbidding users to not only post pictures of themselves but also ask for them of other users. The sticky is also a reminder that such posts and threads belong on /soc/. The original sticky also remains.
• June 20 - Ekansovi End - A robot pulls a successful troll and scares a bunch of anons about Ekansovi, the ad analytics script hiro implemented in May 12. /qa/ calls hiro out and prompts Moderator swaglord to explain that at a glance, it looks ad related. /g/ has another batch of research threads and makes enough noise that gorhill adds 4chan to uBO's Upmanager, followed by uMatrix hours later. An anons notices the code is seemingly broken. Another anon points out that a.ekansovi is a CNAME for mojigaga.com, which has unobfuscated DigitalOcean IPs geolocating to Germany. Other anons report connections to adswithsalt.com, which seems to be a static domain for ads. One anon does a trace (n.b. similar trace) and concludes that ekansovi is likely run by German ad infrastructure company Tisoomi, which specializes in Adblock bypassing. By the end of the day ekansovi seems to shut down, presumably due to their methods being countered.
• June 21 - /bant/ succeeds in trolling an edgy dutch girl by making her open her "MUH DEPRESSION" cuts and put lemon and salt on them. ^{what the fuck nigger.} Also tripfag town rapist breaks his phone mid-thread.
• June 23 - After going unheard in /qa/, anons on /d/ start making meta threads complaining about the Caption thread ban.
• June 24 - The last issue of the Weekly Peek, of [s4s]'s publishing tradition is released and stickied.
• June 26 - /d/ Roleplay Riots - After a CYOA thread gets permasaged, meta discussion on /d/ reaches its peak with an uproar in form of a thread that gathered over 1200 replies. More than 100 users participate.
• June 27 - Troll (meme) flags get an explicit attributed, troll_flags, defined explicitely in the 4chan API
• June 28 - The mods post a sticky insisting that caption threads were always banned on all pornographic boards, and reminds people that ERP is forbidden and porn boards should not be used as chatrooms. (n.b. confirmable through archives) it just happen that moderation was just not effective on /d/ and never got to those threads early enough. A second meta thread reaches over 1200 replies in response to the sticky.
• July 4 - /ic/ gets a new Rule 1 for on-topic discussion, bumping all previous rules up: All images and discussion should pertain to the critique of visual artwork.
• July 4 - Anon upset at a recent Hiro tweet saying that it's not his job to interact with the userbase makes a thread stating good admins listen to users and that there's a laundry list of unsolved admin problems such as: /bant/ redirect not working, country flags being wrong or outdated, no https redirect. Hiro comes by and at least fixes the /bant/ redirect issue.
• July 6 - All boards except for /a/, /b/, /v/, /vg/ and /pol/ break. Refugees are welcomed in a /b/ thread, and adventurous users recreate their generals in /a/.
• July 7 - bui revisits 4chan - 4chan's legendary spammer and /b/ archive host returns after a couple years hanging around in 8chan's /furry/, setting up yiff.party, and botspamming 8ch and /intl/ to death. He unleashes an unknown captcha bypass method backed by a massive proxy switcher that wipes /vp/'s catalog clean with threads shilling his Discord server. It turns out he configured a Discord bot that served 4chan's V1 reCAPTCHA token and used multiple devices coupled with proxies to spam. Without reCAPTCHA's ratelimit, 4chan simply has no defense against Bui. Over the following week, he wipes /vp/ and /v/ clean, while /vp/ anons congregate on /qa/ to watch him.
• July 12 - Join the Day of Action for Net Neutrality, or else we may all end up banned from 4chan. - Hiro tells /g/ to support the battleforthenet.com initiative, a Net Neutrality campaign attempting to stop ISPs from imposing content rules.
• July 13 - 4chan scrambles to achieve a 1500000000000.jpg GET as the Unix time passes 1.5 billion seconds at 2:40am GMT. Nobody gets it as expected. An /a/non comes the closest, posting a picture 114 milliseconds past the milestone. Gentlemen from /g/, /qa/ and [s4s] congratulate him.
• July 19 - /his/torians decides to do a bi-monthy hunger games thread featuring historical figures. Whether or not they actually do it is uncertain.
• July 20 - Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington hangs himself. /mu/ has a rolling sticky remembering the singer, although most of the sticky is filled with lines from In The End and Crawling In My Skin. Many boards visit the thread to pay tribute. /pol/ finds cause for celebration since Chester had previously declared Donald Trump a greater threat to the USA than terrorism.
• July 25 - Day of De/f/eat - Adobe declares the end of Adobe Flash in 2020. Havoc breaks loose in /f/ and a sticky gets made related to said announcement.
• July 27 - Global Announcements purged
• July 31 - Hiroyuki releases an official Search Engine for 4chan. He announces it on /qa/ and asks anons to test it. It leaks posts from /j/ and /test/. It is disabled a few hours later and reenable at an unspecified date.
• August 6 - PICKLE RICK - The Pickle Rick episode airs. /tv/ becomes impossible to browse as Rick & Marty transcend all known boundaries of shitposting. /s4s/ gets a PICKLE RICKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT sticky blasting Pickle Rickers In The House Tonight while the cursor becomes Pickle Rick.
• August 8 - SNEED - /tv/'s greatest hour. Referencing the wordplay gag "Sneed's Feed & Seed - Formerly Chuck's" from The Simpsons, fa/tv/irgins gather to theorize the real meaning of the gag, discussing the history of Chuck and Sneed as well as trying to figure out why Sneed turned Chuck's Fuck & Suck into a seed-selling business. The meme takes over every non-Sneedposting Simpsons thread and soon spreads to other threads on the board.
• August 9 - The first instance of a recurring /a/ shitpost copypasta is posted as a "legitimate" thread. How does /a/ do it? Even with all it's flaws it still manages to maintain a level of quality far above the other media boards and a resistance to shitty external board culture thats not present anywhere else.
• August 17 - Mods make a sticky for the upcoming American solar eclipse on /sci/.
• August 18 - One of the mods on /tv/ goes on a rampage and spends five hours deleting Sneedposts.
• August 19 - A Dutch /bant/er steals the 33333333 GET from /vp/ with a picture of Kagari. A butthurt mod who tried to take the GET for himself bans him for a day and deletes the thread before anyone can reply.
• August 21 - The /sci/ sticky explodes as the eclipse proceeds travelling over America.
• August 24 - /aco/ has a new Board Rule 4 banning bumping threads, bumping (heh) the older rules up.Racist remarks, trolls, and bump-replies (ex: "moar!") are not welcome.
• August 25 - The plot to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 gets leaked by the former lead writer onto the Internet. /v/ gets a sticky with a link to the leak and "It's dead, jim." written underneath it, and That Long Train Ride by DJ Dain on autoplay.
• August 30 - /co/ Dunks on Marvel - Back in July, an anon on /co/ sends a to get a subtly insulting fan letter and The Room joke to what become of one of Marvel's worst published comics. Today /co/ wakes up to see it actually got printed. mods sticky the thread which turns into laughfest and celebration of all the things 4chan has achieved over the years, while also becoming proof that half of /co/ doesn't understand sarcasm.
• August 31 - /bant/'s 2000000 GET is fiercely contested by Cirno and a Dutch anon posting Kagari: Cirno wins, the GET is stickied, leading to mass butthurt discoveries of MODGET rigging on the latter's part.
• September 15 - After failing on /jp/, the Easter spammer decides to target the innocent /po/. The entire catalog was wiped by Mexican Easter toads and only about 12 threads survive.
• September 16 - The devs recover the archived /po/ threads. This marks the first time that threads have been restored.
• October 1 - 4chan turns 14 - Happy 14th Birthday, 4chan! - 14 years have passed since the creation of 4chan. A News post titled THE SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW celebrates with another illustration by Ramen, confirming Mac no longer draws for 4chan.
• October 3 - Sakurafish poster gets banned. After consulting with the mods, the practice - and daily threads in general - is confirmed to no longer be allowed. He decides to call it quits. /a/ discord circlejerks pretending to be /a/ rages.
• October 6 - Ylilauta raids 4chan, especially /pol/, by spamming copypasta of Marutei Tsurunen. 4chan reacts by blocking Finland from posting on all boards for almost the whole weekend.
• October 12 - New Anti-spam measure implemented on some boards. MD5 hashes of some images trigger a 10 minute post cooldown when reposted on another thread. Earliest known mentions.
• October 12 - Suiseiseki is revived on /bant/'s 2488888 GET after its tragic desu-worthy death on /b/ back when moot was still a faggot. LET THE DESU HELL BEGIN!
• October 13 - Global announcements purged.
• October 21 - /a/ gets a new Board Rule: Threads should be created with substantial OP text containing a meaningful topic of discussion. Please refrain from posting catch-phrase or template threads.
• October 21 - An anon on /v/ known as 4chanleaker as his Switch name or Brainlet, finds an copy of Super Mario Odyssey and decides to leak the game. People on the thread think he's lying, but then he streams the intro and posts screenshots and the show begins. Brainlet keeps streaming for hours while anons laugh out the game for being too empty and bland.
• October 21 - NeoGAF Incident - On NeoGAF a huge drama takes loose where the owner of the site has been accused of sexual assault against a woman. Users get banned, staff members step down (and get banned as well) and the owner has plans to shut the website down. Neogaf's server crashes at least 3 times. As usual threads pop out on /v/ to laugh at the situation. However, threads start getting deleted and soon a sticky appears with the message “The NeoGAF scandal and/or bitching about social justice garbage is NOT VIDEO GAMES. Threads posted about it will be deleted and the posters warned or banned. If you want to talk about it go to /pol/. If you want to stay on /v/, then talk about VIDEO GAMES.” with a picture of moot with a quote "It has the most basic fucking rules: Talk about video games!". Drama ensues, /v/ instantly rebels and heads to the #4chan IRC, somehow resulting in /v/irgins obsessing over moderator BEAM, coming to believe they are a female single mother and accusing them of being from NeoGAF. NeoGAF threads start getting redirected to /pol/ causing an outrage bandwagon. On /pol/ the idea of messaging Hiroyuki directly is floated around, and on /v/ what is essentially a joint /pol/-/v/ raid happens starring the John Morris "He does it for free" meme. The event would result in half of the United Kingdom and parts of Canada to get rangebanned.
• October 23 - /pol/ and /v/'s twitter petition makes enough noise to get One Angry Gamer to cover the story. This actually works - Hiro read the news and visits /qa/, unaware the topic was banned on /v/. After a brief exchange in one thread, he asks the mods to allow it back... on the /qa/ thread itself for some reason. The a /v/irgin convinces him to make his /v/ NeoGAF thread a sticky. The thread immediately becomes a shitfest. Hiro later makes another sticky stating NeoGAF discussion is to be held on a single thread. Then its replaced by a third, reworded sticky that does not read like Hiro's (hello, Mr. Manager) After this episode, hiro says on a /qa/ thread "I'm trying to make the condition clear to talk about NeoGAF on /v/ with mods."
• October 24 - Meta on /qa/ only.All meta discussion of boards is to be redirected to /qa/. - Hours later, /qa/ becomes a listed board. The board HTML is changed, with an off-topic section reading [r9k / s4s / vip / qa]. Whatever Ape and Hiro spoke about, Ape managed to spin it to solve another problem Hiro caused: They curtailed "Hiro-approved meta thread" spam, while formalizing Hiro's insistence on using /qa/ as meta, while coming out still standing after his decisions to banish NeoGAF discussion. Everybody groans. [s4s] mourns the loss of their brackets and their status as the only board on the off-topic section. Hours later, after struggling for a bit, Hiro makes a "welcome to /qa/" sticky stating that, other than being for meta topics, the board has "no specific theme". Other mods get their kicks out of the whole situation and ban honking on penalty of fine.
• October 26 - A mod adds a post to the /qa/ sticky indicating how to contact them with appeals, technical problems or urgent issues on IRC, using an anon-made infopic.
• October 27 - Catalonia declares independence (and fails), resulting in a /pol/ sticky. The Catalonian flag is added as a troll flag on /pol/.
• October 30 - 'tis Hallow's Eve again. The Halloween CSS theme gets a 2017 update. In addition, pass users can also type "tricks" into the options field which attaches a pumpkin to the name field that tracks how many replies they've gotten.
• October 31 - /pol/ raids real life by putting up pieces of paper that say "It's okay to be white" in a calm, black font, in response to a police investigation at Boston College over "Don't apologize for being white" signs being placed on their campus. Aiming to prove that the media and the snowflakes will turn the harmless posters into a major shitstorm and out themselves as racists, /pol/ succeeds as usual. Posters are ripped off, school principals explicitly state that the message is hateful, the media shits bricks and /pol/'s point is proven. Collection of media and snowflake butthurt, as well as a Ghostbin (DEAD).
• November 1 - Qanon Saga - The first Q post happens, without a trip, and a shit ton of schizos buy into it despite previous larps of similar nature not biting. This would later culminate in the accidental degeneration of boomer's brains all across the USA.
• November 1 - A thread about ccd0's planned advertising of altchans on 4chanX over the coming end-of-life of Legacy reCAPTCHA (V1) gets a surprising visit by Hiroyuki, where he conforms posters over the switch and refuses to implement a 4chan-made CAPTCHA, arguing it will increase server costs.
• November 4 - Winter Ball 2017 Fail - Board-tan fans learn on November that mods are suppressing Winter Ball threads by sending them to /trash/, and those that aren't fail to get traction with content creators. With the /qa/ Board-tans general lost months ago, organization is effectively gone. Anons try to build a hub on /qa/ but it sadly putters out, but has a few illustrations as compensation. Site-wide, there's little activity outside /bant/ and /qst/. It is the end of the line. This marks the end of board-tans as general 4chan culture.
• November 19 - /bant/ is on suicide watch after a thread moved from /pol/ gets >>2999999 & >>3000000. many users call for /bant/ to no longer be /pol/'s trashcan.
• December 13 - /v/ gets it's 400 millionth post. It declares Saika Totsuka to be best girl (boy). /v/ experiences full-blown butthurt.
• December 18 - AddCPM Scandal - Anons with Adblockers report the site is broken. In a sequence of events similar to the discovery of Ekansovi, /g/ finds another obfucated inline script that calls three domains, two registered early this month. The domains are amgload.net, smcheck.organd piguiproxy.com. The inline script breaks the site HTML if it's blocked by complex adblocks like umatrix and ublock. Research threads soon appear, the script gets deobfuscated and the ad injector sript on piguiproxy.com is extracted. The sites are traced and its found out that Hiro hired another anti-adblock company, AddCPM, to force advertisers through. However the script has little combability with AdGlare's usual rotation, leading to the only ads showing through being from Mgid, causing wild speculation where anons claim hiro was hired by mgid to steal data. Meanwhile, /g/ trolls the fuck out of /qa/ by pretending its a variant of the Nemucod ransomware. Gorhill once again implements a quick uBlock fix, however the script is not removed.
• December 20 - Hiro (presumably) blocks Desuarchive's IP address from both the a.4cdn.org and i.4cdn.org servers, rendering it unable to archive. rbt.asia and yuki.la also appear to be showing similar issues.
• December 24 - /a/ Draws Daicon IV - /a/'s collaborative redraw of the Daicon IV OP is finished
• December 29 - William Shatner writes a post on /tv/
• December 30 - Swedish Win - The swede, a semi-popular MSPainst artist from /int/ posts the original soyak, destroying all online discourse for years to come. Among politicians and (possibly norwegian) academics this event is considered a swedish fail, however among 'jakkers of all nations this is considered the birthplace of their culture, and replying via desuarchive's ghost feature is akin to pilgrimage to the holy land.

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• January 1 - Copyright footer message updated to 2018
• January 1 - End of the Q Saga - The Q poster, now going with the tripcode "ITPb.qbhqo" (using #Matlock), drops his LARP and confuses the fuck out of the schizophrenics obsessing over him. This possibly occuring due to an imitator becoming active on 8chan. He declares his favorite 2hu to be Fujiwara no Mokou and makes one last thread where he freely gives out the trip. What continued on 8chan would later mindbreak every other boomer in the USA, turning this into technically one of the largest trolls ever performed.
• January 5 - 13th Janitor Recruitment - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply here.
• January 9 - Janitor applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied!
• January 16 - A new sticky with the International Wrestling Festival 2017 (dead, watch at vimeo) appears on /bant/.
• January 22 - Image posting is broken site-wide for over 18 hours. The blame is put on Cloudflare although no one really knows what's up. Anon convert images to braille characters to pass the time and swaglord embeds a few images here and there. Since threads rarely prune, this allows different boards to compete for who can have the most posts in one thread before they die.
• January 23 - 4chan disables Legacy Captcha support, two months from Google's intended end date of March 31. Anons now opt for the next best thing, noscript recaptcha V2.
• January 23 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box!
• January 23 - Anon lives his Yuru Camp dream and starts a wildfire in Mexico. It gets on the news!
• January 29 - Hiro does an exquisite šhïtpõśt on /v/.
• January 31 - Hiro asks how one knows another anon is a newfag and gts baited into being soy.
• February 1 - Bitcoin begins to crash, hard. swaglord embeds How I Get Through A Bad Day on /biz/, cryptocentral in case you didn't know. /biz/ Goes on full suicide watch mode, resulting in spams of red angry faced wojaks usually screaming or reciting sad/angry lyrics from various songs, such as LinkinPark, Guns N, Roses, and Nirvana.
• February 4 - Ekureiru, one of the r/a/dio's DJs, passed away. He was a good lad.
• February 6 - Minor fix (catalog.js): Cookie bugfixing a bad expiration attribute for the catalog
• February 8 - Reminiscent of two years ago Hiro gets another ad placed on the 404 page, tying into a video game called Grand Summoners with the fancyphrase Grand Summoners supports the staff and users of 4chan, advertising "4chan paper money" that players can "use with their 4chan pass", meaning they were raffling 500 4chan passess (10000$USD!!). It turns out Grand Summoners is published by Good Smile Company, Inc., one of 4chan Community Support LLC's 3 owners, so this ad was actually in-house promotion. Nobody noticed at the time.
• February 15 - Republic of Florida Hoax - Nicolas Cruz shoots up a school in Florida. Pranksters from Republic of Florida start a thread on /pol/ and trick the fucking ADL into DMing them and running a story of Cruz being a member of their white supremacist group. As soon as the article hits /pol/ they come clean and leak DMs. /pol/ laughs and congratulates the proto NVE weirdos.
• February 20 - Hiro tells an anon that 4chan werks on his machine.
• February 20 - /sp/ gets a new board rule. Discussion of "eSports" (i.e., video games) belongs on /v/. General threads about eSports belong on /vg/.
• February 25 - Hiro kills a bit of time posting on /qa/.
• February 27 - Harmony 2018 - After many years of absence, Harmony Day makes a triumphant return to /v/. A sticky with robot unicorn attack's theme and rainbow Yaranaika are embedded. Happiness and joy abound for the few hours it's up.
• February 28 - Minor Fix (Board CSS): What appears to be CSS rules for the find.4chan.org search function are added to board CSS
• March 3 - RIP Billy Herrington 1969-2018 🙏 - Billy Herrington, Aniki, passes away in a traffic accident. 4chan, Futaba and Nico Nico mourn. /jp/, /v/, /a/ get stickies, /pol/ react to the news. Hiro posts in /jp/'s sticky and makes a site-wide announcement.
• March 14 - RIP Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 🙏 - Stephen Hawking dies. Hiro makes a site-wide announcement.
• March 13 - After being silently worked on for the last week, find.4chan.org pops back without any official announcement. Searches through secret boards are fixed, and the search is executed through extension.js which now "tags" boards for such purpose.
• March 14 - An /r9k/ user streams himself committing suicide via shotgun on YouTube, shortly after holding up a sign that said "Bye R9K".
• March 15 - /a/, /b/, /v/ and /vg/ are frozen for over 14 hours. A lot of users flee to /qa/ as a substitute for their own boards making it the second fastest board on the site for a while.
• March 16 - The freeze continues and eventually even /pol/, /qa/ and other boards are frozen. An hour later the site works again. Hiro jokes about it and affirms the was so long because he had a nap.
• March 16 - Minor Fix (entension.js): Clicking reply to a post now always takes the last element of the URL (the post number)
• March 19 - Anons from /tv/, /v/, and /co/ raid Ready Player One's wikipedia article.
• March 21 - Minor fix: (Board CSS + janichan + spooky2017): All Board CSS gets annonnated comments.
• March 24 - All global announcements (janny mails and Hawking) removed.
• April 1 - April Fools 2018 - 4chan's April Fools joke this year randomly assigns you to 1 of 5 teams based on the sum of your last two IP octets modulo 5. The teams are Team Creme, Team Mini, Team Peep, Team Peanut Butter, and Team Chocolate. A bar graph tracking each team's 'score' appears in the glpobal announcements. It is not clear how this score is influenced, these scores are most likely predetermined and updated at regular intervals. The confused panic that resulted rendered most big boards almost completely unusable, open competition across all boards results in an ungodly amount of drawfaggotry. In the end, Team Peanut Butter won and the winners got rickrolled.
• April 2 - Happy Easter! Members of the winning team can go here to claim their prize. The announcement is removed the next day. Many report sadness due to the fact they'll never see their queens again.
• April 4 - Pinkpillers - First known post of a robot claiming to be blackmailed by a user known as Reiko. This is the start of a trend pertaining to trap "harems" in related discord servers, but information on whether blackmailing and such is actually prevalent is still unknown.
• April 8 - Minor Fix (exension.js): Uploading empty or broken files is now properly discarded
• April 13 - Many boards have been frozen for over 7 hours. Reason unknown so far.
• April 15 - "R.I.P. Ronald Lee Ermey.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Lee_Ermey" - Actor Ronald Lee Ermey passes away due to complications related to pneumonia. Hiro makes a global announcement on /tv/.
• April 15 - The ghost of swaglord breaks the file upload and embeds We Speak No Americano.
• April 20 - Mods crack down on soyboy shitposting and add sitewide wordfilters. "soy" is now filtered to "onions", and any word with "soy" in it will turn it into "based" (e.g. soyboy becomes basedboy). As of April 29, /ck/ does not seem to have these filters.
• April 20 - Later during the day, /co/ joins the big guys club with a legendary 100M GET.
• April 20 - Swedish musician Avicii dies at the young age of 28, resulting in a sticky on /mu/.
• April 24 - 4chan passes are no longer buyable with Bitcoin, the option is removed from the Pass page after Stripe ashuts down BTC transactions for good, as promised in January 2018. This goes unnanounced, but some unlucky anons find out anyways.
• April 24 - Many boards are frozen yet again for an unknown reason. After around 8 hours 4chan works again.
• April 25 - Yet again many boards are frozen for unknown reason.
• April 28 - Minor Fix (API): 4chan API updated to show Oekaki attribute on /vip/.
• April 29 - BBS Day - We are temporarily not accepting image uploads while the image server repairs itself. In the meantime, we are a BBS! - Image posting breaks late night, with posts intermittently failing to go through. It gets disabled and an option to start threads with no file is added on all boards except /f/. Mods make a /qa/ stick and explain there's back end work being done, so in the meanwhile, "this is a text board now."
• April 30 - Image posting is back. Expecting a more permanent fix soon! - Image posting gets more stable by night and mods make a global announcement stating they are working on a better fix in the background. The option to start a new thread without an image has now been removed from all boards except for /a/, /b/, /v/, /vg/, and /pol/. A short time later, the aforementioned boards caught up. Desuwa quietly reverted the changes.
• May 4 - Crypto payments for 4chan Passes are back. by transfering directly to Coinbase. It now accepts Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin. The Pass page now has two buttons, and emails from mail.com are now blacklisted.
• May 11 - [s4s] officially endorses Merulaposting.
• May 15 - Hiro fails to post with his name and leaves a thread in shame.
• May 15 - A website for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gets made with the game name and an possible hint or date. Because of this, an sticky gets made on /v/ and quickly goes past the 1000 post mark.
• May 17 - Hiro brings back his Canadian mirror server is2.4chan.org replacement i.4cdn.org (4chan's global cdn server). It still sucks and has the same problems loading images and broken DNS resolving.
• May 19 - Anon complains that everyone on 4chan is always angry and it wasn't like this before. Hiro posts and says that there's just more sad people on the Internet these days. And he screws up his nametag again.
• May 22 - Global announcements purged.
• May 29 - Screenshots appear on /vp/ of what seems to be the 1997 Spaceworld demo of Pokemon Gold, and alludes the leaks are being shared privately on discord circles.
• May 31 - It's /vp/'s turn to be 4chan's Leak Dump Board(tm). An anon drops the full ROM of the Pokemon Gold Spaceworld demo, which contains a whole bunch of unreleased content including scrapped Pokemon. Happenings are summarized here. This is the first thing released from wack0's hack of Nintendo, the rest of which surfaced in the 2020 "Nintendo Gigaleak".
• June 2 - Loss was posted 10 years ago. /v/ gets a sticky.
• June 4 - Now is3.4chan.org appears, and anons can not notice a difference.
• June 8 - Hiro announces an Upgraded Search accessible through the boards subdomain (boards.4chan.org/search/) and makes a new test thread. The new search can filter for boards, its function loads directly from board code and reuses their CSS. The portal menu (the upper right corner links below the navbar) now reads [Settings] [Search] [Home]
• June 12 - E3 2018 begins. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is shown off, and /v/ goes crazy. /v/ gets a sticky after Ridley is announced for the game.
• June 18 - /tv/ reaches 100,000,000 posts. The 99999999 GET being a confused Sneed sign thread, and the 100000000 GET being a comment saying "why can't we just talk about movies". Perhaps the most board defining GETs imaginable.
• July 1 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Regex for quoting posts is made more robust.
• July 8 - An anon on /v/ makes a thread about Recycle City, an HTML game for kids made by the Environmental Protection Agency that uses the underground theme from Yoshi's Island DS. Anons partake in lulz as they flood the leaderboard with funny names; they quickly discover how poorly secured it is and edit its code to give themselves impossibly high and low scores. After they have their fun and the thread dies, the game's music is changed to some chiptune and the leaderboard is cleared.
• July 16 - Minor Fix (Board CSS + global CSS): Linting changes to board CSS
• July 18 - Hiroyuki tells /qa/ his favorite anime is Gurren LaganAnd Kill La Kill is coomer shit then exchanges memes with the #qa mafia.
• July 30 - Site goes down for around 6 hours
• August 2 - 4chan VTuber Contest - Hiroyuki suggests making a official 4chan VTuber. The idea picks up fast and it turns into an official VTuber design contest, inviting everyone to submit their design so that pass holders may vote on them. The winner gets a lifetime 4chan pass award. /qa/ gets a Hiro sticky announcing the start of a VTuber design competition, encouraging anons to post their designs so that pass users may vote on them after Sep. 30. There the elusive ## Manager announces team4chan is setting up a voting page that should be ready tomorrow. The first thread gets 1207 replies, the sticky gets 1327 and is force archived by the manager.
• August 3 - ## Manager makes a rolling sticky for discussing the contest where Hiro continues answering anon's questions. The sticky gets over 5000 posts and dies on Nov. 23.
• August 5 - 4chan Virtual YouTuber Contest - Submit Designs Here - 15:00 UTC - Global announcements are updated and the Banner Contests page is reopened, where the voting phase is declared to be between Oct. 1 and Oct. 8.
• August 6 - The report function now lists a drop-down menu which allows reporters to specify what rule a user broke, rather than a single checkbox to indicate a broken rule.
• August 10 - 14th Janitor Recruitment - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply Here - Added below the Vtuber contest line.
• August 14 - Janitor recruit Global announcements line removed, the VTumor line is still up.
• August 20 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks Make sure to check your spam box!
• August 21 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson (Robbie Rotten) dies. /tv/ gets a sticky.
• August 31 - is2.4chan.org and is3.4chan.org are disabled. is3 is never seen again.
• August 31 - Code for defunct Advertiser ExoClick removed from the news and press pages.
• September 3 - Second Wave of Ads - Hiro decides he wants money. Over the following months several dozen new advertisers appear and get removed. Main boards ads service AdGlare gets it's own 4chan subdomain at community4chan.adglare.net. This also means the old inline script for the adloader Argon/AddPCM, last seen in August 31, is now gone.
• September 4 - New advertiser, Revcontent is introduced for browser ads, running in tandem with AdGlare on boards core.js and replacing it on the frontpage, which now has 750x234 banners on desktop. At first it ran a single ad, a few hours it's two ads in tandem. Ad formats get their own stabdard CSS (728x90 deskotop, 300x50 (?), 300x250 mobile), hours later adp-50 attribute goes from 300x50 to 320x50.
• September 7 - New advertiser for imageboards, Adnium, in tandem with Revcontent and AdGlare. Adnium runs only on SFW imageboards. (ref IOU)
• September 7 - Minor Fix (extension.js): WEBMs in inline quotes no longer autoload.
• September 7 - Terry Davis is confirmed dead. /g/ gets a sticky in his memorial and his picture is added to the regular /g/ sticky.
• September 9 - /bant/ celebrates Cirno Day, which is canonized as an official board holiday via sticky.
• September 11 - Hiro adds porn advertiser TrafficJunky on all boards, including safe for work ones. Ironically, it's the only ad provider that doesn't try to inject Js. Many anons complain and /b/ and /gif/ ask sauce request after request.
• September 17 - Hiro introduces another adblock-bypasser to run against those who use adlist blocks for Revcontent, detected because the inline script was not https capable and it freaks anons out because its payload delivery method used encrypted images. Research threads come again, the code is studied and the culprit is quickly determined to be Yavli. However it doesn't break CSS like the previous adloaders, so anons forget about it.
• September 18 - PD, a prominent /bant/ namefriend known for entering private property and posting photos of his antics on /bant/, sneaks into an art gallery and is snitched on by 'Normie'. Gets a visit from the sheriff, and teases the possibility of going to jail.
• September 25 - The 404 page ads get updated: Grand Summoner's ad is replaced with VPNHub ads, right above the 404 rotator.
• October 1 - 4chan Turns 15 - Happy Birthday! - Added below the Janitor email sendout, and they forgot to link the newsposts, but it's A VERY IMPORTANT DATE sporting a new illustration by Ramen
• October 1 - 4chan Virtual YouTuber Contest - Voting now open for 4chan Pass users!". - Right below the birthday line. Voting for the 4chan Vtuber opens, a grand total of 153 designs compete for votes. By midnight, the site crashes for reasons unknown and remains unusable to the masses for a span of roughly 15 hours.
• October 6 - The autosage on "cute boys", set over a decade ago, is removed after anon complains about it on /qa/.
• October 8 - Jason Scott Publishes the Old 4chan Archive - Nine years after first promising to do it, Jason Scott finally releases his legendary dump of 10 million 4chan threads, most of them from /b/ between 2006 to 2008. No images though; only text. In it, a redditor finds the first ever SCP Foundation post.
• October 8 - 4chan Virtual YouTuber Contest Final Round - 4chan Pass users can now vote on one of the top 20 entries! - Unexpectedly, the VTuber voting phase was merely round one. Voting closes for a while and is reopened with the 20 most voted designs, scheduled to close on Oct. 15.
• October 10 - /pol/'s 188888888 GET is ye.
• October 14 - /wsg/-/fag/ war - Russian imageboard Dvach is currently flipping their shit after unleashing the modern equivalent to hooding flash files: Bait and switching waifufags on TikTok with videos starring Ricardo Milos and DotA (by basshunter). /wsg/, dominated by TikTok waifuists, gets raided by main board behind the meme /fag/ and english speaking copycats. Fans of girl (boy) Bonbibonkers, a terrible lipsyncer with several hundred thousand followers and growing at a breakneck pace, take it specially bad (dead). At some point people started trying to dox Bonbibonkers and inadvertently merged her, Milo and all sorts of 00s eurotrance into one meme. In all ends when Bonbibonkers says she'll leave TikTok and the internet in general.
• October 15 - The VTuber contest ends. Global announcements are purged, and voting closes without much fanfare and a bit of anxiety and mild implications that it's FUCKING RIGGED.
• October 16 - The 4chan Vtuber Competition is over. Click here to see the winning entry! - 11:30 UTC - The winning VTuber design is announced! Say hello to the winner! Anons wonder what will happen now.
• October 17 - VTuber Contest FAIL - With the new VTuber design voted, Hiroyuki makes a sticky for anons to brainstorm ideas a potential 4chan VTuber stream, the first thing they do is name her Clover and consider opening lines. Hiro throws the idea of a VA contest around and encourages community scriptwriting (clearly not aware of the decade long experience most creative-minded have with the fate of imageboard community projects), inevitably, the hype wears down as the magnitude of the task becomes clear. In total, the project gets 4219 replies and Hiro makes a mere 81 posts. The final thread lingers for four months before Hiroyuki confirms the project has staled on February.
• October 23 - Ads by Mahimeta are added to the 4chan Home page. 728x90 footer banners
• October 23 - A man on twitter brought up a /sci/ thread from 2011 and started a chain of events that solved a 25-years old mathematical problem, starting with an anon trying to find the short possible combination of episodes to watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
• October 30 - Halloween 2018 - The CSS theme gets changed to the spooky Halloween theme once again. A bit different this time.
• October 30 - Ads network Ad.plus replaces the 750x234 banner on the frontpage portal. RevContent still serves mobile 300x250 banners
• October 30 - Within hours, Ad.plus is replaced by AdPlayer.Pro.
• November 1 - Paying 4chan with credit card is no longer possible. - The option is removed from the Pass page, leaving only Coinbase crypto transference. This happens within hours of Stripe announcing they were dropping Gab
• November 7 - Minor Fix (board CSS): Ad elements get slightly nudged.
• November 10 - Several rangebans affect 4chan, most of them image-only and exclusively on mobile data providers. They are lifted withing hours. Anons flood /qa/ with complaints.
• November 12 - Stan Lee dies. /co/ gets a sticky in his memorial.
• November 16 - The 4chan Twitter account makes a cryptic tweet: "A test will run."
• November 17 - The Second Split - Attention: All work safe boards are soon going to be on the 4channel.org domain.For now, all boards are accessible through either domain.Make sure to update your script blockers and whitelist the new domain. - Approximately nineteen hours after yesterday's tweet, there's a global announcement dclaring 4chan is being split between two domains: 4chan.org and 4channel.org. Very likely related to 4chan being booted out of the credit card system two weeks ago. The whole of 4chan loses its collective shit. /qa/ becomes the fifth fastest board during the incoming flood of shitposting. Hiro as usual waits for anon to make a thread in /qa/ before chiming in indicate that the move was due to 4chan.org being on a blacklist from advertising, and that having a domain to host the worksafe boards would bring about advertising once more. Trolls plan to report /pol/posting on 4channel.org to advertisers in order to get the new domain blacklisted. swaglord stickies a petition on [s4s] demanding that they move to 4channel and become a blue board and avoid company with the NSFW boards. This is actually the second time 4channel is used, having been registered in 2004 to try and get Google Ads.
• November 19 - Ads by Mahimeta, AdPlayer.Pro and the inline Yavli script are removed from the frontpage, leaving only Revcontent 300x250 ads.
• November 19 - Many split related changes happen. The frontpage thread widget for 4channel doesn't have the SFW/NSFW filter, core.js has more 4chan/4channel regex updates and Portal pages have their <meta> tags for ecchi and hentai removed, and accidentally break Portal links on most pages.
• November 20 - After nearly two years, Sachiko is removed from the front page, replaced with the classic logo.
• November 20 - Pages for 4chan.org have their <meta> tags restored, and there's some untracked feedback.css changes
• November 22 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): Typescript bugfixing, insine settings are defined before being loaded.
• November 23 - All work safe boards are now on the 4channel.org domain.Make sure to update your script blockers and whitelist the new domain. - The split is completed. Day's changes: All SFW boards automatically redirect to 4channel and the board list at the top only shows SFW boards. So does the ban page. The search page on 4channel doesn't let you search for 4chan boards. Broken portal links are now fixed. There's a new "fileText" rule for board CSS
• November 23 - On /qa/, mods make a locked sticky directing 4chan pass having anons that can't log in towards a temporary login in 4chan /auth.
• November 24 - There's now a setting option under Navigation to display the full list of boards on 4channel.org
• November 25 - Settings between 4chan and 4channel are now synced.
• November 26 - FAQ updated to reflect that 4channel has all burichan boards.
• November 27 - Stephen Hillenburg, creator of Spongebob, dies. /co/ and /tv/ get a sticky.
• November 27 - RevContent ads now load properly on 4channel.
• November 28 - Desktop banner ads (adp-228') go from 728x228 to 728x320.
• November 28 - Feedback page's moderator replies are removed and you can no longer request that rangebans be lifted, with the FAQ updated accordingly.
• November 29 - Minor Fix (extension.js): Tracked replies are now bound to Settings syncing
• December 3 - Minor Fix (Board CSS): bsa-cnt rule for boards' CSS.
• December 6 - An anon on /g/ buys the domain for linux.org and proceeds to dox a tranny
• December 12 - End of the Second Wave of Ads - Ad network RevContent starts delivering banners on the frontpage again, this time they are 750x217. With the split done, hiro calms down.
• December 12 - Posting "The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" now results in a one day autoban due to an anti-Chinese copypasta containing it being spammed. Threads are made tricking people into posting it to get them banned.
• December 19 - The 4chan API is rate limited to 30 seconds per update. GETfags lose their shit while oldfag tease for not using APIless methods
• December 20 - /fit/ and /g/ are unexpectedly nuked of all their threads. Apparently a Counter Strike griefing server called Memeware hijacked a janitor's account. Both boards quickly turn into janny mockery, including numerous "JANNY ARE YOU OKAY?" song lyrics.
• December 24 - /wsg/'s /bbg/ - Bonbibonkers General celebrates Christmas Eve as the TikTok girl (boy) called Bonbibonkers publicly returns to the internet in a spectacular Christmas miracle. The hype over this girl results in the largest /wsg/ thread since the Dodger Leigh threads in 2014, with a total of 1534 replies.
• December 25 - Christmas again, hats again
• December 26 - /mlp/ has a Christmas themed 33333333 GET.
• December 28 - TrafficJunky gets a new domain

2019

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• January 1 - Copyright footer gets changed from 2018 to 2019.
• January 11 - /int/ reaches 100 million posts. The GET is an Italian posting a picture of a priest. The 99999999 GET, a much better GET, is claimed by /polska/.
• January 16 - /pol/ reaches 200 million posts. The post ominously read Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. The day will come when Jesus returns to slay the filthy kikes.
• January 18 - 4chan receives its 3 billionth post.
• January 22 - A plane carrying soccer team Cardiff City's record signing player, Emiliano Sala, goes missing. A thread is stickied on /sp/ a few hours after the news breaks.
• January 24 - /pol/ kicks off the sequel to It's Okay To Be White. Users print out posters of Nick Sandmann (kid with a MAGA hat who stood and smiled at a Native American and got death threats from journalists and celebrities, even though the full footage released later shows that Sandmann did basically nothing) with the caption "Stand Your Ground" and post them up on campuses. As expected, journalists flip their shit in their articles and shills flip their shit trying to shut the threads down.
• January 28 - A new ad provider for 4channel, Powerad.ai appears as an inline script which serves mobile ads. This time anons don't even recognize it for what it is, hallucinating it was spyware. Documented first on /sp/.
• January 30 - /tv/ is raided by a Zootopia-spamming furry. The threads are mainly just pictures of Nick (and some Judy) without a comment, but as the raid continues, a comment is added: "Steven universe nor does The Sneedsons belong on /tv/". Later, the picture is a generic furry dog with the comment "im bored", then it's Nick again with a comment calling /tv/ "too based to be raided" and promising to raid /mu/ later.
• January 31 - The day of unJUSTing: actor Brendan Fraser pays his final monthly alimony to his wife, freeing him from ten years of his shit getting fucked up. /tv/ celebrates his redemption.
• February 1 - Hiro stickies a thread on /qa/ asking users to test subdomain, p.4chan.org, a new frontend that loads all threads in a single frame and has a search feature. Beta testers are required to register an email AND a 4chan Pass to post. The sticky gets large with 3023 replies, and some testing does get done, but not much,and the thread devolves into a typical /qa/ shitfest. Hiro leaves without any closing statement and says he will do as an anon requested and unlist /qa/.
• February 2 - Floens' ChanTracking repo was paused until today. Between December and February 2
  • Google Analytics now tracks 4channel.
  • RevContent ads are removed front the frontpage and presumably, all boards.
• February 2 - The new oldest non-sticky thread in 4chan history, a Reibear thread on /i/, dies peacefully after 1668 days.
• February 2 - Minot Fix (Portal html): URL links to the Pass page are fixed. On the Pass page, the script that handles payments is modified to accept payments from PayPal
• February 3 - Now accepting credit card payment for 4chan Pass purchases and renewals. Click here for details. - The Pass page now uses PayPal instead of Stripe. Somewhere in Tokyo, moot wakes up in a cold sweat.
• February 9 - Mod calls out a troll thread about fake transphobia bans then moves it /qa/.
• February 11 - Ad network JuicyAds now serves 720x102 banners on all boards. Revcontent, Adnium, TrafficJunky and AdGlare are all still on the ad method, but are most likely all deactivated. JuicyAds gets its own CSS rule adp-j.
• February 15 - 15th Janitor Recruitment - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next 72 hours. Click here to submit your application.
• February 18 - Janitor applications closed, GA line is removed without follow up.
• February 22 - /tv/ decides to fuck with Drake Bell again during a Twitch stream of him at a fan meetup. He becomes visibly upset, types out a bunch of insults, and cancels the stream prematurely after witnessing the sheer autistic faggotry from the chatroom. Stream and comments can currently be found here, highlight is in the last few minutes.
• February 25 - The image limit on /vg/ is increased from 250 to 375.
• February 27 - /v/ is once again filled with HARMONY and LOVE.
• March 3 - JuicyAds no longer serves from it's js, and therefore can be seen in archives.
• March 8 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks Make sure to check your spam box!. Credit card announcement is removed.
• March 14 - A /pol/tard Aussie named Brenton Tarrant posts his manifesto on Facebook, Twitter, and 8chan and streams himself shooting up a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on Facebook. During the stream, he says “Subscribe to PewDiePie” and plays Serbia Strong and Gas Gas Gas. His manifesto is covered in 4chan memes such as the Navy Seal Copypasta (which Australian media fell for). Fifty people are killed. The 17 minute footage of the stream is shared across 4chan, 8chan, and Liveleak. Extremists all over the /pol/sphere celebrate. [s4s] “officially” declares that they don’t want anything to do with /pol/. /int/ welps as they realize they can never use their board culture classics again.
• March 16 - Google announces "Stadia" at GDC 2019; /v/ gets a sticky.
• March 17 - Father of Surf Rock, Dick Dale, dies at age 81; /mu/ gets a sticky.
• March 18 - Multiple New Zealand and Australian ISPs block 4chan, 8chan, Kiwi Farms, Liveleak, Zerohedge, archive.is, archive.fo, Gab, Voat, xyzchan, and many others, depriving shitposters their right to sick bantz. The ISPs claim that these are temporary blocks and that websites which take action and remove the Christchurch footage will be removed from the block. Some only block at the DNS level, leading to easy workarounds by changing DNS to OpenDNS or Google DNS. Other ISPs block at the IP level, leading to Tor and VPN usage. 4chan's block only lasts a day
• March 19 - Russian brony gets the 7699999 on /bant/, declaring the current queen (Cirno) dethroned by a humanized Starlight Glimmer. Mods GR15 him
• March 31 - /trash/'s 22222222 GET is Zootopia bune and it gets stickied^{>implying its not a modget}
• April 1 - /mlp/ gets a sticky declaring that greentext story threads are allowed again.
• April 1 - April Fool's 2019 - April Fools' Day returns. A like system is added to posting. Users earn points by liking posts, receiving likes, or making posts. Unlockable perks include the use of fortune, dice rolls, adding an emoji tag, hats, the /fit/ T-rex, and spooky skeletons. Some lament the low-effort attempt while most others rush to shitpost their way to the top. gets a sticky, /vp/ gets one sticky, /sp/ gets one sticky, /mu/ gets one sticky embedded with Smash Mouth - All Star & /v/ gets one sticky with Runescape's The Trade Parade embed (and accidentally, the rest of RS's playlist)
• April 1 - /s4s/ gets their birthday sticky
• April 2 - /mlp/ as its sticky rewritten adress confusion with banned content announcing the lift of "writing prompt" style threads (low intensentity roleplay), with the exception of erp/fetish threads. ## Mod also clarifies what topics are still banned, such as: Anonfilly, Milky Way, and tulpa threads, plus fetish threads of any kind (>>>/trash/).
• April 6 - /mlp/ gets a sticky for discussion of the opening two episodes of Season 9. Stickies for further episodes continue to happen.
• April 8 - Popular Vocaloid producer wowaka passes away at the age of 31 due to an acute heart failure. /jp/ gets a sticky in his memorial.
• April 15 - In preparation for the upcoming release of Avengers: Endgame, both /tv/ and /co/ get stickies reminding anons to always use spoiler tags.
• April 15 - Gene Wolfe is confirmed dead; /lit/ gets a sticky.
• April 15 - The Notre Dame burns down; /pol/ gets a sticky.
• April 16 - Monkey Punch, creator of Lupin III, dies at age 81. /a/ gets a sticky in his memorial, a mod later embed Sandii A. Hohn's "I Miss You Babe (Yes, I Do)" and apologizes for botching it the first time.
• April 16 - A Smash Brothers Ultimate 3.0.0 trailer appears without a direct; /v/ gets a sticky.
• April 18 - The redacted version of the Mueller report is was released to the public. /pol/ gets a sticky.
• April 19 - Koike Kazuo, writer of Lone Wolf and Cub passes away on the 17th; /a/ gets a sticky.
• April 21 - After a days long thread where an anon posted dozens of screenshots of the activities of a shitpost group known as the Weeb Mafia, accusing them of cabaling and botspamming /qa/, ccd0 pushes changes to 4chanX to change the title of /qa/ to /qa/ - 2D/Random.
• May 2 - A meme of Lily from Zombieland Saga holding up and gun and saying "shut the fuck up terf" is held up in british parlament by MP Joanna Cherry. /lgbt/ gets a sticky with the audio from this video embedded in the background.
• May 5 - Cinco de Maho - /a/ gets a Cinco de Maho sticky with Himeko's Maho Song playing in the background.
• May 6 - Raphiposter gets the legendary "Kot" ID on /bant/.
• May 9 - /v/'s e-celeb Riot - Popular gaming YouTuber ProJared cheated on his wife and sent NSFW photos to underage fans; /v/ is gets absolutely flooded with ProJared threads, promting a mod to make a sticky declaring "An e-celeb cheating on his wife is not video games. Take it to /b/." And so they did, not only crossboarding to /b/ but /v/tards fled to /qa/ as well and started to mention the fact that viral marketing threads, constant "home" and vtmb threads, 10+ Smash """"""leak""""" threads at once, twitter screencap threads, /pol/ bait threads, Dunkey/Jontron/literalwho e-celeb threads were are allowed to stay up, but this one event specifically got banned from /v/ entirely without a second thought.
• May 9 - Suigintou gets the 8000000 GET on /bant/ and gets stickied
• May 10 - is2.4chan.org returns for the third time. It's still as bad as always.
• May 14 - Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is stickied on /int/.
• May 15 - YTMND is shut down; /f/ gets a sticky in memorial. (don't worry, someone else brought it back)
• May 15 - Italy decided to air the next month of MLP:FiM ahead of schedule; /mlp/ gets a sticky
• May 16 - Joshua Schubart (who plays Frank on the series The Tick) pops in on /co/ and /tv/ after doing a Reddit AMA. It goes well on /co/ and about as you expect on /tv/ (dead). Both threads later get deleted, probably because he was advertising the show
• May 17 - Earliest known soyduel happens on /qa/.
• May 19 - Global announcements purged
• May 20 - /tv/ gets a sticky for the disaster known as the Game of Thrones finale
• May 24 - Theresa May confirms resignation; /pol/ gets a sticky.
• May 29 - At 3:30 Am 4chan time, All boards except /pol/, /v/, /vg/, /a/, and /b/ were frozen. sys.4chan.org and sys.4channel.org were also broken. Downtime lasts for an hour.
• June 6 - Pokémon Direct 6.5.2019 starts; /vp/ gets a discussion sticky
• June 8 - E3 2019 - E3 conference starts and /v/ gets a sticky for every company. First in line are The EA Play e3 Press Conference and for the Nintendo 2019 World Championship Tournaments.
• June 9 - Microsoft E3 Briefing starts; /v/ gets a sticky
• June 10 - /v/ gets two stickies; one for the PC Gaming Show at e3 and another for the Ubisoft e3 Conference
• June 11 - /v/ gets two stickies; one for the Nintendo e3 direct and another for discussion of Banjo-Kazooie getting confirmed for Smash.
• June 11 - /vp/ gets a sticky for Sword/Shield discussion.
• June 18 - On /pol/, a thread [Archive] showing an FBI agent's affidavit (Direct Link) where he attempts to infiltrate 8chan during an active shooter situation, most of the thread's attention goes to the fact his posts made no fucking sense, insisting the shooter was psyopped by russians.
• June 20 - /tv/'s Great Soyjak Raid - The first ever soyjak raid. A24's meteoric rise in popularity ticks /tv/ in a contrarian way. Anons have been shitting on the upcoming The Lighthouse film for months already. A pair of schizos posting the gigachad and soyjak of /int/ fame proceed to enact nonstop raep on /tv/ for the entirety of July, August and a bunch of September, causing a domino effect of shitposting that wipes the board several times.
• June 19 - 4chan goes down for an hour. People flood to 8chan to wait it out. /pol/ theorizes that this is because Iran shot down a US drone.
• June 21 - On the day before the release of the Netflix NGE dub, /a/ had 1-3 discussion threads an hour about it and the impact (heh) it's going to have on /a/ for the next couple of weeks. At 3AM EST the dub is released and threads dedicated to the dub immediately start getting submitted. Shinji's VA in the new dub is a trans, Fly Me To The Moon is removed and certain iconic lines are replaced, which causes every evafag on /a/ to go apeshit. Mods are already prepared and delete 10-20 Eva Netflix meta threads at a time.
• June 23 - ccd0 changes 4chanX to dissuade posters from using threads that got moved to /qa/. Text reads Moving a thread to /qa/ does not imply the mods will read it. If you wish to contact mods, use feedback or IRC. linking to the feedback page and a self-hosted IRC. This is done because ccd0 was helping a band of botspamming weebs in a war for control of /qa/
• June 25 - YouTube e-celeb Desmond "Etika" Amofah is confirmed dead by the NYPD, after going missing on the previous Wednesday and his presumed body being recovered from the East River the day before. Etika, known to have had mental health issues, had scheduled an eight-minute suicide note to be uploaded at midnight on June 19, titled "I'm Sorry" (apologizing for his manipulative behavior and never getting help). /v/ gets a sticky. Anons complain about how mods stickied e-celeb drama since ProJared drama wasn't stickied because the mods said e-celeb drama isnt video games.
• June 26 - Mods sneakily revamp the rules page and change details of Global Rules 3 and 6, switching from a blanket ban on furry content to a specific ban on furry porn, declaring ironic shitposting bannable, and providing examples of bannable phrasing. global.css has a small update to account for list elements
• July 1 - A thread about a Mario Kart clone named Race With Ryan explodes when /v/ discovers the youtube franchise its based off, Ryan's Toy Review, has almost 2 billion views and gets to do Let's Plays that would be shot down on any other channel. Several threads and shitposts ensue.
• July 2 - Cloudflare dies for an hour; 4chan and many of its spinoffs can't be accessed.
• July 6 - The studio behind Race with Ryan (Outright Games) tried to promote their game on /v/ but their thread got deleted before people could react
• July 9 - 117777777 GET on /tv/. The mods were a tad miffed.
• July 10 - Somewhere betwen May and July 10, a number of changes were implemented:
  • Bugfixing for embedding Youtube links with timestamps
  • JuicyAds now have their size vary according to advertizer specs
  • CSS fixes for UIPanel attribute
• July 10 - Images refuse to enlarge on /adv/. An unfunny raid lead by summerfags pursues on /ck/. Rip Torn dies at age 88; /tv/ gets a sticky
• July 13 - /v/ now has 20 pages.
• July 14 - /sp/ gets a sticky for the England vs New Zealand final of the Cricket World Cup.
• July 14 - Brandon Clard murders Bianca Devins, a mentally unstable, underage "e-thot" that /r9k/ and /soc/ knew as Oxy, and shared pictures of her corpse on Instagram and an orbiter's discord server. The history of the pair is leaked and starts widespread debate on toxic relationships. 4chaners take it as a cautionary tale on BPDs, amidst a truckload of incel rage. ED goes downright psycopathic and an ED mod sets an edited image of her corpse as Picture of the Now. Bianca's story becomes the featured article of July 17-18 on ED.
• July 18 - KyoAni Tragedy - Kyoto Animation Studio 1 is burned down by a schizophrenic who believes the studio ripped off his song and used it an episode of Hibike Euphonium. . Reports indicate around 33 casualties including Takemoto Yasuhiro, director of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and Lucky Star. Being the producer behind smoe of the biggest "/a/core" shows, the board naturally does not take the news well. There are two stickies covering the news. Other boards send condolences. Hiro adds a new global message; Please consider donating to help the victims of the KyoAni studio fire: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kyoani-heal. The second /a/ sticky soon becomes the largest thread (n.b. dead) in /a/'s history, passing 25000 posts in just under a day.
• July 18 - /wsg/'s file limit is increased from 4MB to 5MB.
• July 19 - [s4s] starts and egg business and becomes extremely succesful. At the same time, 8000000 GET gets stickied.
• July 22 - Then on the 22nd, all eighteen threads are unstickied and a new meta call-out thread for /qa/ is made.
• July 24 - Hiro forgot to renew the SSL certificate on is2.4chan.org and images don't load for a day
• July 24 - Images refuse to enlarge on /c/. When trying to open them in a new tab, it would send you to a SSL error page.
• July 25 - Some autist on /tv/, probably the Moeposter, starts trying to force Maskposting in a desperate attempt to defeat Sneedposting. This goes on at least a week.
• July 25 - Blue day on /s4s/.
• July 26 - exHentai Scare - The Netherlands is about to crack down on sites hosting loli/shota material; Sad Panda is hosted in the Netherlands, and will likely be forced to leave. Tenboro however thinks it's time to shut down. Just about the entire porn collection community loses their shit as they all have come dependent on it. /h/ gets a sticky warning everyone to back up all of their favorite h-doujins. At some point, Tenboro announces they are going to shut down in twelve hours. Everyone flocks to /h/ to discuss the matter, spiking /h/'s activity by a staggering 4090%. Many boards band together to save their hentai, scans, comics, and other such things, or to discuss the events, such as /a/, /aco/, /bant/, /co/, /d/, /f/, /g/, /ic/, /int/, /jp/, /m/, /mlp/, /pol/, /qa/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, and /y/. Other boards celebrate Sad Panda's death, like /r9k/ and /s4s/. After a last ditch run to save everything, the exhentai.org domain goes down at approximately 10:12:25am Dutch time, leaving behind a Non Non Biyori ending picture. Activity on /h/ peaks at 6600% at 10:43am and 67.09 posts per minute, temporarily making /h/ the fastest board on 4chan (beating /v/'s 66.48ppm). It lasts only 3 minutes before 4stats.io updates /h/ again, making it drop to 60 posts a minute. On 26th, a /g/ trolls everyone with a fake backup. The thread makes it over three times the bump limit.
• July 30 - Global announcements purged.
• August 1 - /a/, /aco/, /co/, /d/, /e/, /f/, /gif/, /h/, /hc/, /hm/, /i/, /ic/, /mlp/, /news/, /pol/, /r/, /s4s/, /soc/, /sp/, /t/, /trash/, /u/, /v/, /vr/, /w/, /wg/ and /y/ all have their image limits increased from 250 to 300, while /qst/'s image limit is increased from 250 to 375. A mod posts on a /wsg/ thread for bigger webms to announce that /wsg/ has its max filesize increased from 5MB to 6MB.
• August 2 - Psyche. The Panda returns, this time hosted in Moldova, "hopefully permanently". Many /h/ residents thank the Moldovan Spurdo for his help, while remaining wary and making sure to archive more content. The immediate traffic to Exhentai causes 503 errors to return.
• August 2 - /v/'s new buzzword, cumbrain, is wordfiltered to "gamer" after being posted several thousand times in a single day. The woldfilter is removed on August 16.
• August 3 - An /mlp/ anon has /mlp/ write a letter to Lauren Faust and records himself handing it to her.
• August 3 - El Paso Shooting - Two mass shooters, Patrick Crusius and Connor Betts, kill a combined total of roughly 30 civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH. The former of whom posted a manifesto title The Inconvenient Truth on 8chan. Like in all recent mass shootings US media blames 4chan: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentions 4chan and describes it as the place people go after they get radicalized by Youtube. Patrick Crussius oddly-boyish mugshot is passed around as an example of the archetypal chud and in a day gets immortalized by a drawfag as le /pol/ face, becoming the defining meme of 2020.
• August 4 - SadPanda returns and gets a rolling sticky on /h/, which passes 73000 posts and officially becomes the largest thread in the history of 4chan, taking the crown from /pol/'s 2016 election sticky. Shortly afterwards, the thread is unstickied and later gets archived. Many begin to pay respects and repeat the iconic statement "through dick, unity." The thread's final post count is of uncertainty. Archived.moe gives a count of 73274 (n.b. dead), while Archive of Sins reports a count of 74553.
• August 5 - Cloudflare reverses its policy and cuts off protection to 8chan, because apparently white supremacy will stop existing once 8chan dies. 8chan is immediately DDoS'd to dust and alt-right /pol/tards and the 3 schizos still talking about GamerGate make their walk of shame back to 4chan. Even Hotwheels himself (the former owner) has had enough of 8chan and demands the current owner to shut the site down, stating that he's sick of dealing with calls from the media every time shit happens and that the site is a "megaphone" for shooters.
• August 7 - David Berman of Silver Jews dies, /mu/ gets a sticky for less than an hour before being unstickied for unknown reasons.
• August 8 - On /qa/ Mods enacts a sweeping autosage on all threads older than 7 days. Emasculating the /qa/ friend's bumpbot. Later, a shitposter purge happens, with several threads reporting rangebans on weeb and frogposter alike. The mafia cries crocodile tears as board activity falls by 30% as a result of the image bumpbots no longer running.
• August 10 - An anon on /pol/ spills information about the death of Jeffrey Epstein before reporting it to any authorities or press. The post in questioned was then reviewed by the FDNY.
• August 14 - Shooting in Philadelphia; /pol/ gets a rolling sticky.
• August 14 - nude storyboards for the censored hot tub scene from Wakfu are leaked over multiple threads.
• August 15 - DOTA's The International tournament starts and /vg/ gets a rare sticky
• August 17 - Richard Williams dies; /co/ gets a sticky in memorial
• August 18 - ccd0, mantained of 4chanX, pushes a commit to force an html edit /qa/ that says Stay in touch with your /qa/ friends below the board title, with a list of links to kissu.moe, 4taba, gnfos and the #qa IRC at sageru.org.
• August 22 - After some time not having ads, the frontpage / Home page gets AdsTerra banners
• August 22 - 4chan's boards go down at approximately 12:25am and return half an hour later. Connecting to 4chan appears lethargic with repeated timeouts and Cloudflare issues for hours to come.
• August 25 - A Dutch media service called Videoland uploads the remaining episodes of MLP:FiM, including the series finale. /mlp/ goes fucking apeshit and gets a spoiler bunker sticky.
• August 27 - (USER WAS UNBANNED FOR THIS POST) - Fight between Frogposters and weebs continues on /qa/. Animeposter makes an anti frogposter thread Mods publically unban him
• August 29 - Posting on 4chan is fucked. Some posts can get through, but most of the time, it returns a Connection Error. Apparently posts can go through despite the errors, according to some reports. The shittiness continues into August 30 as everybody calls Hiro a gook.
• August 30 - 16th Janitor Recruitment - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply here
• September 3 - Janitor applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied!
• September 3 - Credit Card pass payments disabled again - Retracing the steps of the 00s, PayPal rejects 4channel.
• September 4 - /o/ gets a sticky for the premire of Porsche's Taycan.
• September 4 - The anticipated Nintendo direct 9.04 airs. /vp/ and /v/ get stickies.
• September 4 - ccd0 escalates a conflict with the staff over reCAPTCHA and /qa/. The Pass page is edited with an announcement attempting to dissuade people from buying passes, suggesting they avoid google captcha via paid captcha solving services, forcing noscript captcha and recommending captchaless altchans (really just kissu.moe). /qa/'s thread about it devolves into shitflinging.
• September 5 - It's quickly found that he was using a referral link to these sites, pocketing some money for himself. He removes it as soon as he's called out. The #qa mafia rushes in to defend him.
• September 9 - Day of the Lake - /jp/, /a/, /v/, /c/ and /bant/ celebrate the 10th annual Cirno day; meanwhile on /bant/, a cirnoposter tries to get 99999 Quints but is off by one, and a kagposter gets the 99999 GET. /bant/ gets a cirno sticky and every single frogposter gets public banned, with a total of 135 public bans. The event gets nicknamed the Day of the Lake
• September 13 - (FEE FI FO FUM I SMELL THE TEARS OF REDDIT SCUM) - Mods tell a /qa/ ledditor to get fucked
• September 14 - /g/ Sticky Wars - Stallman defends Epstein and gets fired by FSF; /g/ Anons shitpost that he should be replaced from the sticky and one suggests Nagoor Babu be the new OP pic for the /g/ sticky; mods fulfill his request. and /g/ flips the fuck out. Mods make a new Stallman sticky, but also repost Naboor, and Terry and Satania because why not, but its too late to calm /g/ down.
• September 15 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box!
• September 16 - Original Stallman /g/ sticky from December 20, 2015 is restored; and Terry/Satania are included but not Nagoor. Satania later gets replaced with a .gif version; once again the board goes in chaos.
• September 17 - Stallman is still getting gaped and gets fired from MIT CSAIL, /g/ gets a sticky and an accidental second one that gets deleted in minutes. It consists of nothing but bickering for 10 hours, then it later devolves into loliposting and mods don't pay attention.
• September 18 - Hiro is capitulates and devs remove Paypal payment mentions from the pass page.
• September 22 - Queen of /v/ 2019 - /v/ votes for Samus as the Queen of /v/ for 2019.
• September 25 - /f/ anon emails 4chan staff about the end of flash support. 4chan devs confirm they're working on a "permanent replacement" of the original flash player so /f/ can remain on the site.
• October 1 - 4chan turns 16 - Happy 16th Birthday - A news post titled LIFE IS SWEET and a new illustration by Ramen. The party hats are enabled on all boards as usual.
• October 1 - You can now Autowatch threads you created via the inline extension.
• October 1 - /wg/ gets it's board rule updated to allow tasteful nudity: >Wallpapers may depict anything within reason. Artistic nudes are allowed, but please do not post hardcore or other pornographic content.
• October 3 - King of /v/ 2019 - Another autism fest galore, and /v/ decides to vote for Senator Armstrong.
• October 8 - Global announcements purged.
• October 8 - /mlp/ has a sticky for it's 9th anniversary stream, officially sponsoring pink.horse for it.
• October 9 - Stephan Balliet, a German, attempts mimick Tarrant and storms a synagogue. There are several hints he frequents imageboards. Causing 4chan to be mentioned on German TV show maybrit illner (n.b. dead).
• October 10 - Just in time for its ninth anniversary /mlp/ gets a rolling sticky after a Russian hacker leaks MLP production files, resulting in a total of 434GB leaked and three simultaneous rolling stickies being up at the same time, the other two about the anniversary itself and the previous dutch leaks.
• October 12 - My Little Pony Finale - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's last three episodes air. The event is stickied on /mlp/, and /mlp/'s activity is more than 500% above normal.
• October 13 - Minor Fix (Board CSS Mobile): Formatting rules (.prettyprint) no longer clips on overflow
• October 20 - Blankposting via spoilers is disabled
• October 21 - Minor Fix (Board CSS): New CSS rules for tegaki
• October 23 - Tegaki has it's replay function finally implemented, becoming a feature complete replacement of Shi Painter after 4 years. Files are saved as .tgkr
• October 23 - Hiro replaces Powerad.ai with ad network Adsterra on 4channel worksafe boards, but only on desktop. It delivers Pokemon goonbait theough a websocket, which as usual, terrifies /g/entlemen, who quickly trace it and find its the old advertiser.
• October 25 - Minor Fix (extension.js + core.js): Tegaki gets it's time counter made more robust.
• October 31 - Halloween 2019 - Annual spooky skeletons CSS arrives. With upgraded CSS!
• October 31 - The laughing satania on the /g/ sticky is deleted and immediately reuploaded, but archives fail to scrape it properly.
• November 2 - KoG scores the 123456789 GET on /tv/, the rarest GET he's ever gotten.
• November 4 - New pokemon game starts getting leaks. /vp/ gets a rolling sticky
• November 5 - Adsterra ads are removed.
• November 13 - Trumps public impeachment hearing begins. /pol/ gets a sticky
• November 14 - /s4s/ gets four stickies; one of the four stickies is an embed of "Space People" by Bob Orilee that autoplays
• November 16 - Minor Fix (core.js+extension.js): Keybinds are now disabled by default
• November 18 - Minor Fix (catalog.js): "Lazy loading" on catalog.js
• November 18 - Half Life: Alyx is announced by Valve on Twitter; /v/ gets a sticky in response.
• November 24 - Bizarrely, anamanaguchi (old indie band friends of moot) posts on /qa/ under a ## verified capcode. Less than a minute after a mod congratulates OP and deletes the thread.
• November 27 - AdsTerra is back and now is served on mobile and desktop, delibering horrible overwatch goon ads.
• December 6 - A Western Sahara flag appears for the first time ever, posting on /pol/. It's not known when the flag was added to MaxMind, although it may have been on the same day as the Kosovo flag (circa July 12, 2019).
• December 13 - Minor Fix (core.js): Update to how the site builds the navbar on Mobile, with nsfw boards having their own class.
• December 15 - Cracky-chan "returns" A cracy-chan look alike makes a post on /r9k/ asking how people would feel if she returned, then reveals herself as the OP. She goes on to post current pics of herself (including nudes) and reminisce about the old days. Fake as fuck
• December 15 - Google's noscript reCAPTCHA is disabled, forcing people to endure the terrible image loading times of V2.
• December 25 - Christmas hats are added and removed 3 days later.
• December 31 - /v/ stickies International Wrestling Festival's 2019 gachimuchi collab

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• January 1 - Copyright footer gets changed from 2019 to 2020
• January 11 - is2.4chan.org is removed again.
• January 12 - The soyjak Discord behind the June /tv/ raid tries to wipe the /his/ catalog.
• January 16 - UTF-8 Emojis are enabled and anon proceeds to spam them to hell and back, getting them disabled within the day. However, image filenames still work.
• January 22 - The first coronavirus general (/cvg/) is posted on /pol/.
• January 25-26 - swaglord has another sticky parade on /s4s/, and makes "respond to my funny thread" a new board meme.
• January 26 - Kobe Bryant fucking dies in a helicopter crash, likely caused by the pilot's spatial disorientation from transitioning from VFR to IFR (translation: if you fly into low visibility you'll lose your bearings). /sp/ gets a sticky.
• January 28 - Anon on /qa/ makes a thread saying /vr/'s board name is misleading because the board isn't related to virtual reality games. Hiro comes back from the grave (his last post being a reply to the "test p4" thread on February 2, 2019) and asks "Should we have Virtual Reality board?" Mostly everyone says no and he agrees. Most of the thread is just desperate anons suggesting dumb board ideas and someone who asks hiro to enable noscript captcha, and which he then tells them to buy a pass.
• February 2 - /v/ releases Super Mario /v/orld, a collaborative ROM hack of Super Mario World inspired by 2channel's VIP hacks. The organizer attempts to submit it to Super Mario World Central, but the hack is rejected because of its loli joke. The hack receives a very positive reception.
• February 3 - /qa/ mods embed loud nigra on the index of /qa/ for roughly two hours, then remove it. (Note: the only evidence of this happening existing is this thread, which people responded to presumably after the YT embed was removed and just thought it was another nonsense thread with an anime girl thumbnail)
• February 5 - /tv/ gets a sticky in honor of Kirk Douglas, who had previously been memed for living so long.
• February 11-12 - A /qa/non points out the majority of stickies on 4chan still have santa hats, which are removed the following day.
• February 16 - Changes to catalog js, likely to threadwatcher.
• February 19 - /v/ gets a sticky for Mount & Blade II.
• February 21 - The coronavirus general on /pol/ enters its 1000th iteration, just thirty days after beginning.
• February 26 - /v/ celebrates 10 years of HARMONY with a sticky. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the Konami Code, dies and also receives a sticky. However, it is quite massively overshadowed by the HARMONY sticky and just barely makes it over 1000 non-deleted posts.
• February 28 - Anon finds out that you can submit events to the offical Republican Party website of New Hampshire with no filter. He reports his findings to /pol/, which then spends the next few hours trashing the website.
• March 6 - 200M GET on /a/
• March 6 - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. Apply here
• March 9 - Janitor applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied
• March 9 - /tv/ gets a sticky in honor of Max von Sydow. /biz/ and /pol/ get stock market stickies as an oil war and the growing coronavirus threat causes a massive dump, leading to trading being halted just five minutes after the NYSE opened for the day.
• March 17 - One of 4chan's servers goes down for a while.
• March 20 - Global announcement prefix: 4chan will be switching to HTTPS by default on March 27th. Please save your settings using the 'Export Settings' button in the settings panel!
• March 20 - /v/ hits the 500M GET. The post is "bats are more delicious" in reference to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
• March 20 - Madagascar also confirms its first coronavirus case, prompting a /v/ sticky with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" autoplaying as a reference to the old Flash game Pandemic 2.
• March 21 - A global announcement is made stating 4chan will switch to HTTPS by default set for March 27th. Kenny Rogers died and gets a sticky on /mu/. Somehow this sticky managed to stay up for a whole week despite him rarely being discussed on the board.
• March 27 - 4chan now defaults to https. Not much of a difference. The global message is removed 3 days later.
• April 1 - The first April Fools day of the decade begins. The joke starts on /v/; OP says the joke is "no names or tripcodes". An anon responds "cope seethe dilate", his username is distorted and the outside of his text box is sickly green. He was then (USER WAS QUARANTINED FOR THIS POST). The next case is from /mlp/; someone makes a meta thread about the no name/trip rumor, and anons in the thread say the prank is gimmicky. A few posts later, an infected user shitposts. By this point, half of /b/ is already infected. A frogposter on /pol/ manages to get an even sicklier, more dense green outline around his text box. /a/ gets a quarantine sticky. Each board gets a news ticker; /b/'s infection level is the most critical. Several boards get corona stickies: /co/, /tg/, /pol/, /v/, /tv/, and /vp/. /s4s/ gets a birthday sticky. /qa/ gets a thread and funpost.. The index of /int/ gets an embed of a youtube video hiro uploaded; the video itself is a static image of Pepe The Frog with 30 minutes of sirens, gunshots and thunder in the background. It's nothing special, but it does confirm hiro is, in fact, a frogposter, and is the most likely explanation as to why frog spam hasn't been filtered.
• April 1 - /pol/ and /b/ now have their thread, reply and images cooldowns raised to 90 / 30 / 30 seconds. There's also minor changes to extension.js
• April 4 - Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam box!
• April 6 - 4channel gets new ads. The ads in question are promoting a YouTube series called "The Non-Family", a presumably-unintentionally creepy South Park knockoff that only has one episode. Since these ads were links to a YouTube video and not the usual sketchy porn site, everyone without an adblocker on 4channel watches The Non-Family and it quickly becomes a meme on /tv/.
• April 8 - More changes to catalog.js
• April 9 - Tekagi / Painter update (on extension.js).
• April 10 - /vp/'s Pokemon Clover, a major ROM hack of Pokemon FireRed, is officially released to a very positive reception.
• April 11 - extension.js change. Unidentified. "ctTTL" from 170 to 290
• April 14-15 - A YouTuber by the name of Frank Hassle had been a trendy subject on /tv/ ever since he started his youtube channel, considering he works with Sam Hyde. Most anons shit on his videos, while the small majority say they're kino. But on April 14th, Frank uploads a new video where he messes with people at a crossfitting place. When one of Frank's usual fans made another thread about it on /tv/, an anon in the thread finds the crossfitting place's facebook page and contacts the owners. Keep in mind, the video was recorded at least 2 years prior (was previously teased in a Sam Hyde video), but nontheless, the owners were infuriated and claimed the video. Afterwards, he privates everything on his channel.
• April 16 - More Tegaki / Painter updates on core.js and extension.js.
• April 21 - Qtard and Twitter moms discover that Googling "tv television and film" and going to Google Images shows a bunch of child model pictures caused by cunnyposter pedophiles posting on /tv/. A minor shitstorm develops. One retarded Twitter wine aunt decides that "4plebs" is a shortened version of "4 pedo celebs". 4plebs staff make an official statement and assure people that they always delete such pictures from their archives when reported. /tv/ discusses the event.
• April 21 - Porn ads get called out on /qa/. Mod posts and says they'll contact the ad company.
• April 23 - Pass related changes to core.js and extension.js
• April 27 - Piedpiper threads on /x/ get shutdown by a mod, who informs them they should inform the authorities.
• May 1 - Nintendo 64, Gamecube, and Wii SDKs get leaked on /v/. All of the video game emulation and preservation communities go insane. After the news spreads, Nintendo starts DMCA'ing download links posted on /v/ and /vr/.
• May 2- Adsterra Ads no longer load when browsed on mobile since they break the page.
• May 5 - Cinco de Mayo; /a/ gets a Cinco de Maho sticky with Himeko's Maho Song playing in the background.
• May 8 - Minor addition to the 4chan FAQ: MaxMind's role in sorting poster flags via GeoLoc2 is now mentioned.
• May 9 - Global announcements purged.
• May 10 - The first TLOU2 leaks start showing up around this time, so /v/ started making templates and edits of the game. The edits were primarily based on Ellie getting choked by Abby. These threads were only the beginning for what's to come next.
• May 14 - ExoClick ads are removed form the FAQ and Rules pages.
• May 14 - /b/tards launch a massive raid on /po/ to get away from the porn threads. /po/ is ruined for a few hours and many ancient threads are archived. Soon after, /po/'s mods restore the ancient threads.
• May 15 - /adv/ gets post 22222222.
• May 16 - Twelve hours after octs on /adv/, /sp/ gets its one hundred millionth post: Cristiano Ronaldo commenting on someone's piss stream.
• May 19-23 - /s4s/ gets flooded with cat stickies 1 2 3 4 5 6. At one point, the board has 17 stickies. One of them redirected from /qa/.
• May 22 - Reporting changes so the first report doesn't require a captcha.
• May 26 - hCaptcha replaces reCaptcha on the report system. /qa/ complains. 4chan begins site maintenance at 7:33pm GMT. hCaptcha is mysteriously removed shortly afterwards.
• May 29 - 4chan reaches a daily total of one million posts owing to the increase in /pol/ traffic due to riots across the United States. It is the first time since April Fools Day 2020 that 4chan has had one million daily posts.
• May 30 - is2.4chan.org once again returns, replacing i.4cdn.org
• May 31 - /pol/ gets a new locked sticky, informing people not to post the same twitter screencap thread when it already exists. /pol/ is now at its most active since the 2016 Presidential election, reaching nearly 273 thousand posts in one day thanks to the nationwide George Floyd """protests""".
• June 1 - Minor core.js fixes: The April Fools 2019 commented out code is removed and some functions got moved around.
• June 1 - /lgbt/ gets a pride month sticky. /lit/ finishes work on The Coronameron - a collections of stories written by anons while in quarantine.[2,435]
• June 11 - Minor fix: Pasting from clipboard on the pass purchase / gift email field is disabled.
• June 12 - Volcano High, a furry dinosaur visual novel, was announced at the big PlayStation 5 reveal press conference; /v/ blows up with threads about the game, but doesn't get a sticky. /trash/ got a sticky instead.
• June 16 - A /v/ reply poster gets banned for criticizing the apparent ignorance of the /v/ boards transformation from war positions anti-furry motive to accepting furry posts.
• June 18-21 - TLOU2 releases. While critics are having a field day with the game the user reviews turned out to be highly negative and people started bashing the game. /v/ catches wind of the negativity and anons start making various templates of certain cutscenes from the game. One of these in particular is the sex scene where Abby and Owen are fucking each other. One anon began compiling a spreadsheet of every frame in the scene that everyone could claim so that it could be compiled into a video. When the video was finished /v/ got a sticky. A huge MEGA collage got made of all the TLOU2 edits as well which can be found here.
• June 23 - Adsterra's ad delivery domain is changed again.
• June 25 - It is announced that Studio Trigger will be producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime; /a/ gets a sticky.
• June 26 - /a/ gets a sticky for the 205000000 get, featuring Yotsuba.
• July 11 - /g/ gets a replacement sticky with no image attached; the same mod that made the thread made a proposal reply offering /qa/ a chance to suggest who's image should be in the next sticky.
• July 13 - The mods end up choosing to include Steve Ballmer, Terry A. Davis, Stallman and Satania in the sticky; an almost year long debate (2019, September 17) has finally concluded.
• July 14 - /vp/ turns ten years old; a sticky is made, both the index of /vp/ and the sticky were embedded with a compilation of every Pokemon anime OP in the background.
• July 23 - Minor fix: Thread updater gets a blur safety check. It doesn't work so the next day dsw fixes it.
• July 24 - /vp/ Anon (possibly "wack0"'s friends) once again leaks a shitload of source codes and prototypes of various Nintendo games. Many threads are made on /v/ [2,436][2,437][2,438][2,439][2,440][2,441][2,442][2,443][2,444][2,445][2,446][2,447][2,448][2,449][2,450][2,451][2,452][2,453][2,454][2,455][2,456][2,457][2,458][2,459][2,460][2,461][2,462][2,463][2,464][2,465][2,466][2,467][2,468][2,469][2,470][2,471][2,472][2,473][2,474][2,475][2,476][2,477][2,478][2,479][2,480][2,481][2,482][2,483][2,484][2,485][2,486][2,487][2,488][2,489][2,490][2,491][2,492][2,493][2,494], some on /vp/ [2,495][2,496] ,and some on /vr/ [2,497][2,498] Discoveries are made (mostly by /v/) and are summed up here and here. and here.
• July 25 - The leaks don't end. The sourcecode to Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time leaks. The Hidden Palace discord had to temporarily shut down because of the massive influx of tourists asking for Mario 64 related leaks. The 2 decade+ mystery is finally debunked; L was, and always has been real. The internet shits itself. Some people speculate the release of this leak was on purpose, theorizing "24 + 01 2+4+0+1 = 7 (June), 24 (Day of the leak) + 1 (One day after) = 25".
• July 31 - New Boards: ○ /vrpg/ - Video Games/RPG.
• July 31 - /v/ermin Month - Unannounced, every week for a month, new /v/ subboards are added, implicitly intended to give extra space to topics that wouldn't survive on /v/ or /vg/.. The first new board is /vrpg/, which quickly becomes swamped by Persona and FF threads. The usual shitpost spam on /qa/ asking for unnecessary boards runs rampant all day. An anon makes a post asking about new spoiler tags; a mod appears and offers anons a chance to create new spoiler tags.
• July 31 - Same time as /vrpg/'s addition, /his/ got its thread and post timers set to the site default of 10 minutes & 1 minute. Only board with 1 minute / 15 seconds post timer left is /bant/.
• August 1 - Minor fix: 4chan frontpage logo html href indicated changes from "www." (root) to the protocolar "www.4chan.org". Devil is in the details.
• August 6 - An Elesaposter on /vp/ gets the 44444444 GET.
• August 7 - New Boards: ○ /vmg/ - Video Games/Mobile
• August 7 - The second /v/ermin is /vgm/ for mobile games. Anons rejoice thinking /vg/ will finally be free from gacha threads choking the catalog, but to their dismay not only do the local gachas refuse to leave - /vgm/ has a no generals rule. At the same time, /vrpg/'s json data gets updated to reflect their actual title (from Role-Playing games to RPG)
• August 7 - /b/ Porn Purge FAIL - Initially thought to offload most of the gachashit from /v/ and /vg/, the board does neither and its purpose is unclear. A mod gets fed up with the decline of /b/ and decides to purge the board of shitty porn threads In an effort that lasts months (and still continues as of October), he publicly bans every porn poster on the board, setting an example for horny zoomers. Since ban frequency drops at certain times of the day, this is probably the work of a single pissed off mod. Porn posters are encouraged to move their threads to /s/ and /soc/, which they largely do; but since /s/ is a slow board, they are not warm to the idea of "girls built for BBC" and "girls you jerk off to" and "social fap thread #325" threads, or the post quality contributed by underage /b/ users. The mod soon gets bored of banning everyone, and mostly stops. /b/ returns to its usually awful state, yet the /b/-tier threads remain on /s/. Along with /asp/ and /vr/, /s/ joins the ranks of boards that were ruined by terrible moderator decisions.
• August 13 - Minor fix: All six css files get updated to have a responsive center ad banners (tagged adc-resp) for future ad services. These are the 728x220 and 300x300, with a 480px standard breakpoint. It doesn't seem to have ever been used.
• June 26 to August 8 - In response to drama, /mlp/ denizens organize, create, and release an art pack promoting free speech. It results in $21,132.94 worth of donations, nearly all going to 3d horses in need, and becomes the most successful art pack in the fandom's history. Verity!
• August 11 - At precisely 12:21pm on August 11, 2020, /trv/ and /out/ both had exactly 1851060 posts made on their board, and then /out/ eclipsed /trv/ in posts.
• August 14 - New Boards: ○ /vst/ - Video Games/Strategy
• August 14 - The third /v/ermin arrives. This time it's strategy games. Since Gacha generals refused to leave for /vgm/, exiled and struggling /vg/ communities leave their genre general safehouses to make a run for it. Jannies try to kill the immigrants, but eventually relent. /vst/ on it's first day. As usual, /qa/ flips shit.
• August 15 - /g/ gets a sticky celebrating Satania's birthday. Later on, background gifs of dancing cats are added.
• August 17: Minor fix: /i/ gets the Tegaki painter retouched to not never the terrible is2.4chan.org server
• August 20 - A thread on /tv/ about the Netflix show "Cuties", featuring underage actresses acting sexually, is replied to by a mod who denounces any sexual imagery from the show and tells them to get perma b&. A fatal blow to cunnyposters. [4Plebs Archive] [Archive.is]. The film was already gaining a bad rep in the mainstream, so the media and Twitter users soy themselves over the big bad ebil 4chon banning the film while other anons cry about their bans on /qa/ and get their threads locked.
• August 21 - New Boards. ○ /vm/ - Video Games/Multiplayer.
• August 21 - Waiting through the day, /qa/ anons feel like another board is coming up. And the mods answer their prediction, right on schedule. At first, the board isn't even loadable. /vm/ on it's first day.
• August 21 - /soc/ gets the name field enabled
• August 24 - The Catalog gets a bugfix for calculating posted-since dates on the tooltip popup.
• August 24 - Some weird shit starts happening to /vg/. Each index page increases from 15 to 20 threads, emptying out page 9 and 10 and half of page 8. The post count in each thread does not italicize when the 750-post bump limit is reached (despite autosaging anyway), implying a possible increase of the bump limit. Threads on the index pages do not show the latest replies.
• August 25 - A /his/torian discovers that more than twenty thousand of the articles on the Scots Wikipedia have been written by an American horsefucker who doesn't even know the language and writes articles in a Scottish accent (and had been doing so since 2013, as a twelve year old). Media picks up on it but credits the cockmunchers at Reddit for uncovering it instead. Many consider it the most damage done to a single language in recent memory, all because of a fucking autistic INTP brony.
• August 28 - "New Vidya Board Friday" appears to have ended, but change comes to /vr/. Mods officially announce that sixth generation consoles launched between 1999 and 2001, such as the Xbox, PS2, Game Boy Advance and GameCube, are now "retro" enough for /vr/. Vidya on these consoles released before 2008 is also allowed. Users on the board are divided, with a two-thirds majority (approximately 63% according to an informal straw poll) standing against the change and preferring the creation of /v2k/ instead. Trolls flood the board with shitty 6th gen content, both as a form of protest and for the lulz. The new sticky incorporates this update, as well as allowing homebrew console games made in 2008 and beyond on the sixth generation consoles. A mod on /qst/ announces that the board would be getting a new banner, and is open to submissions.
• August 29 - A mod on /qst/ makes and stickies a thread for voting on banners submitted in the previous thread, and one is chosen almost unanimously.
• August 31 - Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan (The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya) is announced; /a/ gets a sticky with embedded Haruhi music and the catalog gets flooded with haruhi threads.
• September 4 - Adsterra ad services gets a new domain. Its still as terrible as always.
• September 4 - On the 30th of August, /pol/ denizens doxxed a man called Michael Reinoehl who in popular consensus seemed to have murdered a Trump supporter in Portland, painting a target on him all over the web. After an interview with VICE, the man is killed by law enforcement trying to arrest him on Sep 4.
• September 5 - A random [s4s] anon makes a thread and received the 9000000 GET; thread is stickied.
• September 7 - After rumors that the Venture Bros has been cancelled, Jackson Publick confirmed the rumors were true, leaving the series on a huge cliff hanger; /co/ gets a sticky. "Like a Friend" by Pulp is played in the background.
• September 9 - It's Cirno Day. There are scattered threads all over the boards celebrating Cirno, the ice fairy. On /bant/ an image of Cirno and the words "*blocks u're path*" is overlaid on both the index, the catalog and this sticky. This year, /bant/ notably had a much better Cirno Day than /jp/. This is likely due to the coup d'état by vtubers who now own the board and don't know who Cirno is.
• September 10 - End of Malvertising - New advertiser BidGear is introduced. BidGear is the first high reputation ad provider used by 4chan since 2015. A few weeks later Adsterra is removed and 4chan finally moves away from malicious ads, not out of the good will of Hiro's heart but likely due to non-scalable, diminishing profits for the industry itself. To complement the new ad code, the ad handling code is revamped all six CSS pages get a new responsive id. These are 728x90 and 300x250 with a breakpoint for mobile devices at a standard 480px.
• September 12 - Adsterra ad services gets yet another domain. Its still as terrible as always.
• September 12 - /jp/ experiences a huge surge in posts due to Hololive threads, becoming one of the fastest boards on the site. Its post rate even passes /b/'s at one point.
• September 13 - File names change from 1500000000000 to 1600000000000. While the true 1600000000000 wasn't posted in time, the closest someone got to it was in a German /int/ thread with a 1600000000012.
• September 14 - The Ms. /co/ 2020 competition experiences a major shitstorm as an anon exposes a Spanish Facebook group known as "Random Cartoon" that has been brigading their polls. The group appears to have been encouraging votes for Emmy (Emmy the Robot), as well as others such as Miko Kubota (Glitch Techs), and their heavy favoritism for Spinel in 2019 may have been the reason why Spinel won the previous year's Ms. /co/. It turns out they've also used the competition to steal fanart created by /co/mrades during the event. Some anons call for the disqualification of Emmy and Miko. The tournament organizer suggests redoing the round, others also suggested replacing both characters.
• September 17 - /g/entooman got the 77777777 /g/et and later got banned with (USER INSTALLED GENTOO FOR THIS POST). He also had to install StumpWM due to asking anons to roll trips for the DE/WM.
• September 18 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Justice, dies. /pol/ gets a sticky. /pol/ celebrates by laughing at "NO NO NO" trending on Twitter, posting Twitter and Reddit salt, and watching Democrats melting down and hoping to prevent Trump from adding yet another conservative justice to an already packed court.
• September 19 - A /qa/ user who goes by the name Soot creates soyjak.party, (aka. the sharty) a 4chan syle imageboard centered around soyjak posting and /qa/ culture.
• September 20 - Death of Longcat - The cat behind one of 2chan/4chan's earliest memes, Longcat, dies of respiratory failure as confirmed by the owner on Twitter. /b/, /an/, /f/ and /s4s/ all get stickies. Anon self-predicts hexes for Longcat in the /b/ thread. The fucking Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy even makes an appearance in the /b/ thread. An imposter pretending to be him claims to dig up the jar and shows it, but the pictures are found to have been from 2018. The actual Rainbow Dash Cum Jar guy explains that he moved out while the jar was still buried, so he can't get to it. Months later, Anonymous ## Developer confessed Hiroyuki did not make the /b/ sticky, but it was him posting under admin privileges.
• September 21 - /sci/'s MathJax LaTex function gets a color indicator.
• September 21 - Microsoft buys ZeniMax, including Bethesda, iD, Obsidian Software and more. An anon makes a post that gets stickied and /v/ goes absolutely apeshit. The consolewar is on.
• June 26 to September 22 - KnowYourMeme shitposter Southern Yeehaw starts flooding KYM with soyjak images, causing massive amounts of butthurt. He is soon banned, but a cabal of soyposters on /qa/ pick up on his efforts and start flooding KYM with soyjaks themselves. KYM is completely inundated with soyjaks for months; as a result, the recent images gallery turns into a giant wall of soyjaks, the soyboy article stays on 'trending' for months, and of course the forums and comments fill with the seethe of dozens of KYM autists. Though the butthurt from the userbase is unanimous, The Great Soy Flood divides KYM mods: some view it as a great addition of OC and meme documentation and even join in soyposting themselves, while others view it as low-quality spam. Several KYM users rage quit and delete their accounts. Spammers during this time include peanusweanus, grasshopper, and albinorhino. Albinorhino is the most notorious; he manages to upload hundreds of soyjak images without getting banned by uploading only a few a day and keeping them SFW. Also notable is a KYM oldfag, elleichops, who sacrifices his decade-old account to share some nice soyjaks. On September 22, the KYM mods finally agree to crack down on soyjak spam and albinorhino is banned, seemingly bringing an end to the spam. Efforts on /qa/ still continue, however.
• September 25 - Ron Paul (/pol/'s former Republican idol back when /new/ was a thing) has a stroke-like episode during a livestreamed interview. /pol/ gets a sticky with two videos of the event uploaded to Bitchute. Two hours later, /pol/ gets another sticky with Ron Paul announcing on Twitter that he's "doing fine" in hospital.
• September 26 - [s4s] users finish a collage of Longcat drawings and send it to the owner on Twitter. She goes to the [s4s] sticky to thank them for the image and for remembering Longcat, and sticks around to read their kind words. [s4s] sends her respectful condolences.
• September 28 - Webms now resize with the screen. It takes a couple tries to get it right.
• September 28 - At some point, the Hololive streamer Coco gets attacked by insect drones from China for daring to mention Taiwan at all. Suddenly, /pol/ was sprawling with Hololive threads until the jannies got them all wiped off the face of the earth. It seems. Meanwhile, /v/ releases Super Mario /v/orld 2: Moot Point, the sequel to Super Mario /v/orld. The hack is acclaimed and hailed as a masterpiece by those who play it.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 17th birthday; Party Hats are enabled on all boards.
• October 1 - Meanwhile, Steve from Minecraft is in Smash. No, really. The meme is real. Among the massive meltdown on /v/, a sticky emerges and CaptainSparkles's Minecraft parody of "DJ's Got Us Falling In Love" is embedded. The sticky barely lasted an hour.
• October 1 - Minor fix: BidGear ads get a minor referrer url retouch.
• October 2 - Donald and Melania Trump confirm that they have the coronavirus. /pol/ freaks the fuck out and also gets a sticky. Meanwhile, bunkerchan.xyz (the remainder of 8chan's /leftypol/) considers it wise to raid /pol/ with 'Chudjak', a Wojak of the guy who did the El Paso shooting, which they proclaim a caricature of the typical /pol/ user. Pissing into an ocean of piss leads to you getting pissed back at, and Bunkerchan proceeds to be raided overnight by a few shitposters, a spambot, gore, lolicon, cp and the subversion of the meme they were trying to spam. It gets too much for Bunkerchan mods, and they lock the board. It eventually turns out there's no evidence that the spam started on Bunkerchan.
• October 3 - Minor fix: Tomorrow's CSS gets a non-default checkbox color.
• October 5 - New advertiser LockerDome is introduced.
• October 8 - All CSS themes get edited to change ad banners from 728x90 to 728x112 (for BidGear ads at least). However the advertise page remains saying ads are 728x90.
• October 9 - /mlp/ gets a sticky in honor of the infamous "this is going to have so much porn" /co/ post becoming a decade old.
• October 10 - /mlp/ gets another sticky in honor of the actual 10th anniversary of Friendship is Magic. Later that day, after teasing it on his Twitter, M.A. Larson, one of the show's script writers, also visits the anniversary sticky, answering questions, showing unused scripts, and bidding farewell with his favorite mantra. The stickied thread becomes the largest thread in /mlp/'s history.
• October 12 - A minor controversy: /a/ reaches the 210M mark, 210000000 is taken by a Higurashi thread which gets immediately deleted and it's poster banned for 7 days for "roll threads outside /b/" while the 209999999 is taken by an obvious haruhi GET thread that is allowed to stay up. 210M was deleted too fast for desuarchive to archive it in time but other archives got it. The Higurashi poster's ban is later extended to 150 days and proof is provided by in a /qa/ thread by another anon who contacted him, sparking theories about haruhi favoritism and modGET faggotry.
• October 15 - An autistic /vp/oreon shows his dead grandma his Shiny Dusknoir. Needless to say, /vp/ fucking breaks. The shitstorm is so large that the thread reaches beyond 3000 posts without ever being stickied. It even reaches Twitter and gets a KnowYourMeme entry.
• October 16 - The 8th /v/ the musical ends at 152 songs. /pol/ debunks itself into oblivion with its new "debunked" meme, mocking how the media dismissed leaks from Hunter Biden's laptop as false.
• October 17 - Advertiser TrafficJunky replaces Adsterra on the frontpage ads.
• October 17 - Somebody on /pol/ discovers that they can literally modify Oregonian voter's votes through one of their websites, just as long as you know their name and date of birth. If you don't understand, it means /pol/ is literally hacking the US election. They use the data on the website to track down big names and who they voted for. An anon summarises: "Ok I just logged into the Washington state system for my ex wife, not only can i submit a ballot for her, but by even STARTING the process it cancels her other ballots. So if she orders a ballot, fills it out and sends it in THEN i start the online process even if I stop it and never file it CANCELS her ballot she thinks counts. THIS IS MASSIVE." Jannies try to cover everything up but new threads continue to crop up. The founder of Nike, Philip Knight, voted Trump. It also turns out that the same can be done for voters in Washington state's VoteWA site. Soon, it is claimed that other states can also be rigged because they use the same "name and DOB" system, including California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, DC, Michigan, New York, and Nevada. Ideas and thoughts are tossed around, including the possibility that Antifa may have used these records to dox Trump voters, or that Trump can use this as evidence that mail-in voting is easily rigged, or that people with administrative access can delete or change Trump voter's preferences. An anon from Uzbekistan (or using an Uzbek VPN) makes a script that allows anons to cancel shitloads of votes. The addresses of big names living in the vulnerable states are found, including those of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Someone also finds out that a laptop with the personal details of 650000 Oregonians was stolen in February of 2020. Someone ELSE changes the Governor of Oregon's address to "533 Poopoo Peepee Boulevard South, Department of Based", BTFOing her for saying "You can't hack paper. #VoteByMail". The Oregon site goes down in the early morning. Seething damage controllers from Twitter and Plebbit try to deBOOOOOOOOOOOONK but get laughed off of /pol/.
• October 18 - 4chan's first self-serve advertiser in a long time, bid.glass, is introduced.
• October 18 - A mod posts in a /v/ thread about the Touhou character "Chen", and puts this video on autoplay. As you can tell, the mods are gods. Meanwhile, [s4s] mods sticky an absolute fuckton of meme threads.
• October 20 - Self-Serve Advertising is Back - bid.glass is implemented and Self-serve advertisement is now automatic (before, you had to email the admin). The /advertise page is revamped: There's now a new intro, big green advertise button, and the lower section gets updated with rules for ads submitted and gets new example pictures. Offerings are the same as commercial ads, 728x90 / 300x250, but the middle 468x60 ads are discontinued. [email protected] is discontinued and the section that offered free advertising to all anime conventions has also been removed. The introduction now says that 4chan "20 million monthly page views" from the earlier 22 million, signaling that 4chan began to shrink from it's COVID peak. The statistics had changed: 4chan is down to 500M impressions a month (from 703M), 20M unique visitors (down from 27.7M), and a bunch of new guidelines have been added, such as no gambling ads, no drug ads, no piracy ads, and no firearms ads.
• October 22 - Somebody noted that the page's
• October 23 - It takes one day for self-serve ads to BTFO a board. Somebody spends money on ads that directly link to /vp/ and say "I spent $60 on this ad instead of Sword and Shield to tell (You) that they are shit games and to not buy them". Tourists from all over 4channel flock to /vp/ to laugh at them. Dozens of other inflammatory ads go up, despite it supposedly being against the rules; these include a banner showing Pepe fucking janny in the mouth, barneyfag bait, and a soyjak banner on /a/. Many of the banners are archived here.
• October 23 - Minor fix: LockerDome advertiser gets an anti-crash check.
• October 26 - Minor Fix 2: BidGear gets the same anti-crash check.
• October 31 - Skoopy CSS is added. /vp/ gets a LoL sticky unrelated to Halloween. This time spooky.css is slightly different.
• November 1 - Minor fix: The rules page gets a non-visible html edit for /k/ rules. Rules remain the same.
• November 3 - /pol/ gets an election results sticky. There's so much traffic 4chan gets repeated SSL errors, and /pol/'s sheer traffic surpasses that which it had during 2016's election day.
• November 4 - Due to strange circumstances, it takes forever for the votes to get counted. Arizona goes blue, and soon Wisconsin and Michigan follow, putting Biden ever so close to victory. With less enthusiasm, /pol/ turns into a shitshow about election fraud, coping, OHNONONOs and the like. A bunch of crappy Pepe Joe Biden memes get posted (expect /pol/ to hijack it for their own gain). The rest of 4chan wonders if this will finally kill the election tourists off.
• November 5 - The election sticky is unstickied. It has shattered the record for the largest thread in history, breaking the one hundred thousand reply barrier for the first time and ending with about 103,581 replies, shattering the SadPanda /h/ sticky by about thirty thousand posts.
• November 7 - After a ton of waiting, the Media declares Joe Biden to be the new President of the USA. /pol/ explodes again, this time in /leftypol/ or bunkerchan invaders, crossboarders and many more tourists all either making fun of /pol/, shitposting or having serious threads. This song is put on autoplay with a sticky that has a picture of Joe Biden.
• November 9 - 4chan calls Google and adds GPT (Google Publisher Tag) ads to the ancient Press page, which hasn't been updated since 2012. Nobody notices.
• November 10 - Minor fix: All css (including spooky!) get a standardized 728x128 call for banners/ads (adp-128).
• November 11 - 4chan randomly goes down for about fifty minutes. When posting finally works again, a message "〜 sorry 4 the downtime 〜" is added underneath the self-serve ads announcement.
• November 12 - /trash/ gets a random pokemon sticky
• November 14 - Minor fix: Font size changes to some ads in all the css.
• November 15 - Eventually the Biden thread is unstickied, perhaps due to the prolonged vote counting. /pol/'s activity remains extremely high as measured by 4stats.io, easily crushing the 2016 election's numbers both before and after election day. With the election results either strangely uncertain or perfectly sure depending on who you ask, the board has possibly become the most chaotic out of any in 4chan history. There's also Sneed and Jannieposting in the wild.
• November 16 - /f/ gets global ids. Blue name threads are made
• November 20 - Minor Fix: The 4chan City: Craptastrophe gets its flash container resized when loaded from the Flash page.
• November 20 - /v/ votes Reimu Hakurei as the annual (and unofficial) Queen of /v/, and a lot of seething over /jp/ ensues as a result.
• November 22 - A mod gives an anon on /pol/ a twitter disclaimer for his post. Archive. A storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network apparently starts shilling their #bettercartoon contribution on /co/ (no solid proof, but pretty suspicious). She tweets about finding the thread and claiming to be happy that it's not all negative feedback. Another Apple Mage thread pops up on /ic/ as well, also probably shilled by the creator, who then magically appears in the thread and bitches about transphobic replies. An anon on /f/ finds out the flash archive uses a flash emulator; this gives a very pessimistic /f/ hope that their board won't die by the end of the year.
• November 25 - Argentina's Lamb of God, Diego Maradona has passed away. /sp/ makes a sticky.
• November 25 - An [s4s] investigation reveals that a janny/mod known as nana_ has been encouraging and possibly participating in the Enbie spam. For no apparent reason, mods move the thread to /qa/. Several [s4s] threads dedicated to taking back the board are also deleted. The mod also locks an OC thread and remakes it, this time with the enbie photoshopped in.
• December 2 - Minor Fix: New javascript event on the catalog.js script. Unknown what for or what uses it.
• December 2 - Mods add fuel to the fire and sticky an Enbie thread on /qa/.
• December 5 - /mu/ becomes the tenth board to join the one hundred million post club. Despite the K-Pop general's overconfidence, they miss both gets and get laughed off the board. Cirnospammer rages at losing all 3 major numbers to a /jp/ scripter and a random from /mu/
• December 7 - Barneyfag experiences the most epic BTFOing ever as a /qa/ anon pays the actual Barney voice actor to record a message directed at Lee, who obliviously mocks him for his incessant spamming, love of cheese, and Barney hatred. thread video
• December 8 to January - After a guy on /v/ suggests the idea, /tv/ tries forcing the usage of "keyed" and "locked" as substitutes for based and cringe. It doesn't really catch on.
• December 10 - Cyberpunk 2077 is finally released and /v/ is absolutely flooded with threads about the game. Hilarity ensues as the hype bubble bursts and the game is revealed to be a buggy piece of shit.
• December 13 - Minor Fix: Another retouched of the Flash page, removing parts of hrefs from the html in preparation for implementing Ruffle
• December 16 - /biz/ gets a sticky as Bitcoin finally breaks the 20000 USD/BTC barrier with a glorious pump at 1:42pm UTC.
• December 17 - Pastebin decides to fuck itself and automatically privates any paste that the SMART filters identify as NSFW, in effect killing virtually all NSFW stories and plenty of SFW stories that writefags have uploaded to the site. /mlp/ and /trash/, both hyper-dependent on storing their works on Pastebin, freak the fuck out as at least half of their shit is obliterated. Some anons come to the rescue with a number of archive downloads to ease the pain. The Pastebin SMART filter is, as you'd expect, not smart at all and also privates a bunch of completely SFW pastes found in generals and stickies.
• December 22 - The meido on /jp/ forgets to delete excess Hololive threads and they start to flood the board. Panic from everyone actually native to the board ensues.
• December 24 - Dante beats Raiden in the finale of King of /v/ 2020 and becomes the unofficial King of /v/ for the year.
• December 31 - Minor "fix": dsw sneakily changes how date fetching is done on extension.js
• December 31 - /f/ gets a sticky confirming that the board isn't going anywhere, and affirms that if the Ruffle emulator is a success, it'll be used as the standard flash file player on the board. MF DOOM is confirmed dead; /mu/ gets a sticky and other boards like /co/ mourn too.

2021

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• January 1 - The nightmare of 2020 truly never ends. As December 31 ends, the date and time on each post doesn't read 1/1/21, but rolls over to 12/32/20. Whether this is mod fuckery, a glitch in the Matrix, or the beginnings of the Great Reset isn't entirely known yet, but 4chan freaks out anyway. However, this bug doesn't affect /f/, the only board that wanted to stay in 2020.
• January 1 - The copyright disclaimer is updated (on time again!).
• January 2 - /biz/ freaks out as Bitcoin continues its monumental bullrun, blazing past 30000 USD/BTC and peaking at nearly 35000 USD/BTC. It turns out over $130 million dollars worth in BTC short positions got liquidated, so all the Boboposters start blowing their brains out. (seriously though, when this bubble pops, it's gonna be fucking amazing to watch /biz/ implode)
• January 3 - /pol/'s 300 millionth post declares Christ the King.
• January 3 - PRANK SUCCESFUL. dsw removes his "fix".
• January 4 - Trump apparently said a thing and Bitcoin crashes to below 28000 USD/BTC before rebounding slightly. The pink fields are not yet ready. Alexi Laiho dies at age 41; /mu/ gets a sticky, but many anons either call his music shit or complain mods "replaced the DOOM sticky", when in reality it was already removed a day prior.
• January 6 - With the election to be certified, a shit ton of protesters storm the Capitol in D.C. /pol/ goes absolutely apeshit and gets a sticky.
• January 8 - A voice actor dies and tons of candle emojis are posted by other voice actors on Twitter, not revealing the name because the family wanted privacy. That, and a few dipshits giving away too many clues (male, married, the work of the people who tweeted), results in /co/ and /v/ positively ID'ing the guy in under two and a half hours, with a little help from two voice actresses basically getting duped into confirming who he was. A bit of backlash happens when /co/ and /v/ see the candles as nothing more than an ego boost against the family's wishes. Meanwhile, a number of conservative figures and sites are struck by big tech in the USA, making anons primarily on /pol/ fear that 4chan's days may be numbered.
• January 10 - Bitcoin sinks from 39000 USD/BTC to 32000 USD/BTC over the course of eight hours, sending /biz/ into a pink frenzy.
• January 12 - The day of the Adobe killswitch arrives; /f/ gets a sticky, but Merlin comes in at the last minute and gives everyone on the internet a solution to the flash problem. Flash is saved!
• January 15 -
  • The leebot gets a custom public ban.
  • The anon who created the legendary meme song Bane Star reappears with a fixed & improved version.
• January 16 - /g/ gets a new, unlocked, random sticky for the first time in ages.
• January 17 - 4chan goes down at about 4:26am local time. It returns roughly an hour later, but only passfags can post. The issue seems to resolve itself about ten minutes later.
• January 23 - Larry King is pronounced dead; /tv/ gets a sticky.
• January 26 - The /biz/ reddit colony called /r/wallstreetbets causes GameStop's stocks to go up into the billions and threads pop up on several boards including /v/, /pol/ and /biz/. Hedgefunds be damned on Friday.
• January 27 - /r/wallstreetbets temporarily goes private due to the GameStop short squeeze and their Discord server is banned for "hate speech" (because somebody beat the filter). Redditors flood onto /biz/ and make the board the fastest on the whole site. Other stocks such as AMC, Express Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond, iRobot, and Blockbuster get the GameStop treatment too. The subreddit is unprivated an hour later. /biz/ is finally fucking making it. At the same time, /v/ finds and raids a stream for the New Vegas mod "The Frontier" after memeing about the mod for a bit more than a week and exposing one of the devs as a pedo or some shit (it's quite confusing). Afterward, the mod creators pull the plug on the mod out of stress. This image sums things up decently.[b4k archive], [video], [interview]
• January 27 - 1M GET on /t/ is reached
• January 28 - /biz/'s GME stock trading take a hit when stock trading app Robinhood (and a few others) delist GME and AMC, only allowing people to close positions but not buy or sell. The Internet goes wild, uniting rightists like Donald Trump Jr. with leftists like AOC under one banner of "Fuck Robinhood and fuck market manipulation." GME closes the day losing nearly half its value, though it mostly recovers by the next day.
• January 29 - New Boards. ○ /vt/ - Virtual YouTubers
• January 29 - Finally freeing /jp/ from the endless cycle of VTuber cancer. The anime VTuber virgins do battle with the Annoying Orange OG VTuber chad's but the mods delete the Orange threads. /vt/ initially does not appear on any offsite archival websites, leading some to believe many early threads are lost to time. However, the Nyafuu and Warosu archives began archiving a few days later, having archived mostly everything.
• January 29 - While /vt/ got its board json data implemented, /biz/ got their total threads per page changed from 15 to 20.
• January 30 - PhilosophyTube, a popular leftist YouTuber and one of /lgbt/'s favorite lolcows, comes out as transgender and the board is flooded with threads about it. Many posters feel like PT's coming out is illegitimate, partly because of /lgbt/'s meme/conspiracy theory that he raped contrapoints (another trans youtuber and /lgbt/ lolcow), which has now been resparked.
• January 31 - Hiro makes his first appearance in a year in a /vt/ thread asking what happened to the 4chan VTuber. He confirms that the project was cancelled, and that all of the new boards added recently have been the mods' idea and not his.
• February 1 - 4chan Implements Ruffle - The previously discussed Ruffle flash container project is officially adopted by 4chan, with a new embed.html script on https://s.4cdn.org/media/flash/embed.html. (n.b. Floens' ChanTracker forgot to track the contents of s.4cdn.org so the original form of the script is unknown) ruffle is used for the Flash page and for /f/ embedding. As swf is no longer recognized natively, opening the files on a new tab cannot be fixed. /f/ takes another hit to its ppd.
• February 2 - Phoneposters are temporarily cucked as loading a blue board covers the entire page with an impossible-to-remove ad. The problem is fixed a few hours later.
• February 2 - /tv/ had a long car chase bowl thread series when some schizo in South LA leads the cops on a retarded 15mph freeway chase over the course of like five and a half hours. Police spikes stripped the leather off of two tires and eventually one of the rims blew out and ended the chase. A couple of drivers beside the vehicle livestreamed it all. After the rim got destroyed, the anons who wanted to see suicide by cop were disappointed to see him bitch out and cooperate after ten minutes of standing still. ReviewBrah himself even appeared in the YouTube stream chat.
• February 2 - The 18888888 GET on /lgbt/ is taken by (probably) a scriptfag and the mods lock the thread.
• February 5 - /qa/ gets a rare Developer post. Anon Dev clarifies it was him, not Hiro, who posted the RIP Longcat sticky in /b/ on September the 20th.
• February 5 - Christopher Plummer dies. /tv/ gets a sticky.
• February 7 - /sp/ gets an annual Super Bowl sticky.
• February 9 - CD Project Red, the makers of Withcer and Cyberduck, announce that their database has been hacked. [Anon post the source code of Gwent on /v/ but digging reveals its an old build. Suspicions grow of the leak being a lie only for pity to make up for the Redditry disaster of Cyberdunk2077. It is suspected that the devs bought the game in the auction but it isn't confirmed yet.[2,499][2,500]
• February 12 - New Boards: ○ /pw/ - Professional Wrestling
• February 12 - Deleted Boards: • /asp/ - Alternative Sports (n.b. frozen)
• February 12 - After a week-long absence of New Board Friday, a new board, /pw/ - Professional Wrestling is created. /asp/ is suddenly locked, and at 12:37pm UTC, two moderator posts confirm that /asp/ is being closed as a board. This is the first mainstay board removal since the deletion of /rs/ in April 2014 (or /q/ in September 2013, whatever you want to believe constitutes a board). A new board for extreme sports is also confirmed "soon" and all non-wrestling content is temporarily sent to /out/. The last post in /asp/ history is a resounding, short, and sweet "BASED."
• February 12 - As /pw/ was added to the json, /vt/ got its own custom spoilers thumbnail.
• February 12 - A Sneedposter who managed to enter a livestreamed Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card competition manages to make it all the way to the finals against Virtual Seto Kaiba. Though he couldn't take home the victory overall, the actual Seto Kaiba voice actor playing the virtual version says, "I guess I'm going to have to...CONSNEED that match, but it doesn't mean you're any good!", which sends /dlg/ into a frenzy.
• February 17 - Rush Limbaugh died. A sticky is made on /pol/.
• Feburary 18 - During the airing of the 20th episode of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou, Featherine Augustus Aurora appears and /a/ goes absolutely bananas. /sci/ gets a sticky for the Perserverance landing. Crashing predictions are made.
• February 19 - New Boards: ○ /xs/ - Extreme Sports
• February 19 - Providing a home for it after the grand majority of /asp/'s threads were deleted the week prior. /asp/ is removed from the board list, though it can be accessed manually (still frozen). (n.b. floens' chantracker bot was very wonky on json updates, and only registers the xs json on March 3 after tracking a separate update)
• February 19 - /v/ gets a sticky 'bout BLIZZCON.
• February 20 - Developers finally put /xs/ at the end of the board list after triggering everyone's OCD by leaving it between /sp/ and /tg/.
• February 22 - Daft Punk split. /mu/ gets a sticky.
• February 23 - Minor Fix: Webms now have persistent volume selection (before, it was always 50%). As usual, the site not having a production stage means bugfixing is done live.
• February 25 - In the early morning (or late evening for burgers), a screenshot from the new 5th generation MLP movie gets published and /mlp/ promptly goes crazy. Later in the day, at 10AM EST, Hasbro holds their annual investor conference virtually, showcasing plans for brands and supercharging their blueprints, among which is MLP. More footage of new characters is shown and a male lead is confirmed, among other things. /mlp/ reaches over 500% of its usual activity and two threads are pinned.
• February 26 - Pokémon Legends Arceus and remakes for Diamond and Pearl are announced. /vp/ gets twostickies. More importantly though, a thread with a picture of Monke Putin is stickied on /int/, stating that janitors can't delete stickies. Anons take it as an announcement that one of the notorious Russian janitors has been dismissed, and, coincidentally, janitor applications open for the next 72 hours.
• February 27 - /v/ gets its annual HARMONY sticky. The /v/GAs for 2020 are also held and stickied, during which W.T Snacks makes an appearance as a DJ and even posts on /v/.
• February 28 - /mlp/ Town Hall - /mlp/'s mods (headed by Twimod) host a town hall sticky to ask for improvements and ideas for the board going into the new MLP G5 series.
• March 2 - The /mlp/ town hall concludes. Twimod officially announces new changes to /mlp/: An increased character limit from 2000 to 3000 for writers, the dice roll feature used on /tg/ and /qst/, pony meme flags like the ones found on /pol/, and after a long time since the banner contest, the board is also getting a banner. Twimod also unbans Anonfilly threads on the condition that degenerate erotic roleplayers fuck off, while other threads such as diaper ponies and Milky Way threads remain banned on the grounds that they're based on fetish content. Equestria Girls content is also confirmed /mlp/. An /mlp/ banner suggestion thread is also stickied.
• March 3 - As promised, the json is updated to reflex the character limit.
• March 4 - Someone on Futaba Channel decided to post places where Hololive was discussed internationally. Discussion soon shifted to 4chan, as it was the opening image. This drew the attention of /vt/ and resulted in a thread that reached post limit where Nameless and Anonymous people mingled.
• March 7 - /a/ mods sticky and lock a reminder to use spoiler tags in the wake of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time's release.
• March 8 - /g/'s daily programming general turns into the Rozen Maiden general, accompanied by an embedded Suiseiseki as well. Odd for a board concerned with Junk.
• March 13 - One of the /c/ jannies (probably newly hired) monitoring the Nanachi thread deletes all the Nanachi aggie.io links and threatens to get anybody posting about aggie.io in the future banned. Apparently, you can't have a proper discussion over whether Nanachi is a minority-hating Nanazi. The janny loses his position and gets publicly banned. It's possibly the first time a public ban has been handed out in /c/'s history. The Desutruction of /bant/ starts, and weeks of DESU spam follow. Other spammers, like Snyderposters, try to fight them and the Cirno threads hang on like usual.
• March 14 - /mlp/'s Twimod stickies a thread for selecting the new /mlp/ banner from a shortlist of ten. Twimod confirms /mlp/ pixel flags will be implemented on the next weekend (it's just pony heads, not even flags). /trv/ also gets a sexy new locked sticky.
• March 16 - The /mlp/ banner is selected: Twilight reading from a book titled "Butts." It goes into rotation the following day, triggering many who still get mad at cartoon horses after 11 years.
• March 16 - Minor Fix: extension.js changes is redirect to embed.html
• March 21 - Minor Fix: extension.js changes so that embed.html now autoplays flash files loaded by Ruffle
• March 23 - The cargo ship "EverGreen" gets stuck in the Suez Canal, pausing international trade. General threads made in /pol/ later leading to tourists arriving and discussing on /n/. An open letter against Richard M. Stallman of GNU fame is brought forth, and /g/ doesn't like it. They create their own letter in support of him. It eventually surpasses the original in signatures, and gets support from all over the world.
• March 24 - The expansive archive of yuki.la mysteriously dies without a clue as to what happened to it.
• March 27 - An anon from /g/ appears and declares to have scraped the text, URLs, and MD5 hashes from yuki.la in its entirety, rescuing mountains of posts that were briefly lost to time. No thumbnails or full res images appear to have been saved however, and it took till May 2nd for the anon to finish zipping (see that day).
• April 1 - New Boards: ○ /qb/ - Quebec.
• April 1 - April Fool's 2021 - Jannies ask for assistance against the leaf menace. Flags are removed from all boards. A live tracker count of Canadians in added to each board. A rake icon appears next to each post, where users can report posters suspected of being Canadians. Caught leafs are sent to Quebec for the time being, as well as anons who make too many false reports. A number of word filters are also added: "Sorry" becomes "based", "tranny" becomes "hoser", "out" becomes "oot", "about" becomes "aboot", "house" becomes "igloo", and "football" becomes "hockey". The board quickly becomes a slower /b/ due to a lack of rules, with various /mlp/ users willingly raking themselves in order to post more pony. Around 1PM EST posting site-wide is disabled for an unknown reason and returns a connection error when attempted. The website returned around 2:30PM. Later, /qb/ gets the Canadian flag as its background and gets songs like "O Canada", "Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback, "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber autoplaying as well.
• April 2 - Deleted Boards: • /qa/ - Quebec
• April 2 - /qb/ is frozen at 2:19am local time after 16289 posts and a shitload of ponies, leafs, and shitposting. The last post on the board was a screencap of a vore fetish green featuring Lyra from MLP. A fitting end.
• April 3 - Faggot eceleb threads take a vacation to /qa/ as /v/'s favorite one, Vinny, is accused of sexual harassment. Merely by shitposting about it, they receive the blame from Twitter in an amazing display of intellectual disability.
• April 4 - The final chapter of Attack on Titan is released and /a/ was very vocal about it and not happy. The catalog suffers a meltdown and /a/ briefly surpasses /pol/ in posting speed as the ending brings disappointment to many.
• April 5 - Minor Fix: core.js gets a new event listener for tegaki.js
• April 5 - Minor Fix: Quebec flag from April's Fools 2021 gets removed.
• April 9 - Around 1PM EST a new teaser for the new MLP movie drops, showcasing the last two main characters that were not seen in 3D yet. One of them looks like a carpet muncher and the other one is seen holding a smartphone. /mlp/ reaches 300% activity and a thread is stickied.
• April 12 - 4chan Changes its designated agent address but it remains under the same mail forwarder. On the DMCA page, the address goes from 5042 Wilshire Blvd., #34441 Los Angeles, CA 90036 to 2885 Sanford Ave Sw #34441 Grandville Mi 49418-1342
• April 18-19 - European soccer footbol is changing as some major teams want to leave the FIFA's monopoly on everything footbol and want to form their own league called "European Super League". /sp/ activity rises and the entire board is covered with discussion on this.
• April 20 - Derick Chauvin found guilty of all charges. /pol/ has high activity and board is covered in this. The European Super League also collapses when all the English clubs leave due to fan pressure. /sp/ celebrates.
• April 21 - Minor Fix: extension.js gets better embed.html handling for mobile users.
• April 22 - Unsurprisingly, after being relegated to a jobbing position for a year, moot leaves his position at Google. Threads across the entire site pop up (/qa/, /a/, /v/, /pol/) to discuss it, and anons wonder if he'll ever come back, let alone do a Q&A.
• April 25 - Minor Fix: extension.js changed to load extension.html relative to screen width in mobile devices.
• April 25 - /a/ gets a sticky after a fourth Madoka Magica movie (Turning the Tide of Walpurgis) is announced for the anime's tenth anniversary.
• April 28 - IQDB has been down for 5 days, the reverse image search button for it is replaced by SauceNao.
• April 29 - /pw/ hits 999999 and 1mil get, 1mil gets scrubbed. 999999 is about blowing Stone Cold after he makes anon grab Stone Cold’s ass, reactions are mixed on win or fail.
• April 30 - Minor Fix: extension.js - The dropdown menu for reverse image searches has IQDB replaced with saucenao.
• May 1 - /mlp/ Gets Board Flags - After an eternity, the /mlp/ mods finally implement selectable pony flags. There are eighty different icons to choose from, including main characters, side characters, board-centric characters like Anon and Anonfilly, Equestria Girls and Them's Fightin' Herds characters, the known G5 characters (at least those that were known when anons were creating the flags), and even the /mlp/ 4chan Cup logo. Self-fellating thread that mods stickied. In the 4chan API, the new "board_flags" tag used to store /mlp/'s flags is also used to replaced /pol/'s unique "troll_flags" tag, standardizing the system and integrating it into the js
• May 1 - /vm/ gets an "Official Vidya Night" with Alien Swarm Reactive drop being played.
• May 2 - After weeks of zipping and a scary period of silence, anon comes through with the yuki.la html scrape and a torrent for it.
• May 2 - Minor Fix: catalog.js updated - You can now have no spoilers on for custom themes in the catalog.
• May 2 - Minor Fix: extension.js - The thread watcher now tracks replies accounting for deleted (pruned) posts. (n.b. at least that's what i think it does)
• May 5 - LiveLeak shuts down after fifteen years of service, saving countless Chinese steel factory workers from a grisly death. On the same day, the 4chan House Shimmie goes down after the admin account is suspended.
• May 8 - 4chan House Shimmie is up again. Its suspension a result of it becoming compromised due to poor cybersecurity against botted attacks, no thanks to its antiquated software. Board-tans live on!
• May 9 - A bunch of 4channel (not 4chan) boards start to go down on occasional reloads due to a "400 Bad Request" error relating to nginx. A temporary fix is available by deleting certain 4channel cookies, though the error pops back up again later.
• May 19 - During a time of uncertain change and racial justice, /biz/ encourages all to have "Positive Vibes Only" in a stickied thread. In actuality, crypto is crashing and all hell is breaking loose, with pink wojacks.
• May 20 - Kentaro Miura, the creator of manga series Berserk, passes away. /a/ gets a sticky. Eurovision, or something with eyesight idk i'm not swedish, begins, /int/ gets sticky and rogue Australia-ist MOO-derator stickies a Minecraft House Rate thread. Bans are given to disrespectful repliers but may be lies.
• May 21 - /lgbt/ makes sticky discussing upcoming "Pride Month" thread improvements from last year.
• May 24 - A Belgian anon on /pol/ reveals that he and a team of three other people used a public database to sign up to 750000 people to Walmart with the name "Nigger Coon", making them send automated emails that say "Welcome to Walmart, Nigger!" Twitter gets outraged and Walmart is forced to issue a statement.
• June 1 - /lgbt/ gets its pride month sticky (alternate archive).
• June 3 - A mod stickies their among us shitpost on /ck/. the thread is later deleted.
• June 5-10 - Snoot Game - Anons complete a parody of Goodbye Volcano High called "snoot game" before the game is even released, just so they could showcase it for /v/3. The game quickly grows popular on /v/, and then the mods start deleting all threads about it. Someone confronts them about this on 4chan's IRC and receives unsatisfying answers. The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, and particularly of the moderator "I AM ABIB".
• June 6 - /tv/ learns about Tariq Nasheed's (black Alex Jones) documentary "Buck Breaking", which claims that gay white slaveholders would rape black male slaves (this literally did not happen). By the end of the next day, almost 80% of /tv/ threads are memes about the documentary.
• June 9 - A snoot game thread gets stickied on /trash/. It's quickly unstickied and replaced with a new snoot game sticky made by a mod (alternate archive). This thread remains stickied on /trash/ for nearly two months, prompting a ton of fanart, fanfiction and a 4chan sings project. On /qa/, mods congratulate Hiro on getting 1 million subscribers on Youtube by embedding a fuckload of shit on a sticky Hiro promptly asks how to :stopmusic: and soyjaks raid the thread.
• June 10 - A /biz/raeli buys the www.battlefield2042.com domain name and after EA doesn't reach out to him makes it redirect to /pol/.
• June 13 - Forced anon is disabled on /trash/. Oldheads whine. The first tripfags are vtumors.
• June 16 - Mod tells the greatest secret of 4chan. It was mac minis. Always was.
• June 16 - /sci/ gets its image limit chagned from 150 to 250.
• June 17 - The oldest living thread (non-stickied) on 4chan, a Pepakura thread on /po/, dies after 1990 days as a result of the soyjak.party faggots who spammed new threads and bumped existing ones to kill ancient /po/ threads. Flag icons for England, Scotland, and Wales get added to /sp/, conveniently before England and Scotland are due to play each other in the Euro tournament. Northern Ireland users are stuck with the UK flag. /pol/, /bant/, and /int/ do not get the new flags (yet).
• June 18 - The Euro match between England and Scotland is stickied on /sp/. On a completely different note, the "He Will Not Divide Us" flag stolen from Greeneville 4 years earlier (see 2017 section) was returned to Luke Turner, one of the three artists (along with Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Shia Labeouf) of the anti-Trump exhibit of the same name.
• June 25 - On /mlp/, new screenshots of the G5 movie emerge in book previews, and a thread about it gets stickied.
• June 26 - The RAID controller for 4chan's server fails and site becomes unavailable for a little over 4 hours. The night turns into morning by the time the problems are over. /int/ and /qa/ lose their entire archive.
• June 27 - In /qa/'s Happening Thread, Developer Mr. VacBob shows up and explains the RAID controller works proper after being power cycled. He then has a very short Q&A with the anon's in the thread where he explains he was always a volunteer, and things like new boards often happen through consensus rather than hierarchy, plus a couple personal questions, thankfully not alerting the entire site in the process.
• June 28 - The /PNN/ - /pol/ News Network general, yellow pages-like general (featuring a podcast) meant to make the board "easier to use" is moved to /qa/ for the first time due to being a meta thread. The userbase of this general was not used to boards outside /pol/, and when besieged by /qa/'s catalog of shitposters they became hopelessly panicked. Several threads were made on /pol/ that tried to go back or raid /qa/, but the users of /qa/ reported them each time and pulled them back in to milk the lulz. The war rages on for a few days to a week as /PNN/ can do nothing and drowns in soyduels, leebait, tranny baiting, anime spam and falseflag trolling.
• June 30 - Voice actors for the G5 movie are revealed and /mlp/ talks about it. Another one.
• July 2 - /v/ gets the doom source code leaked on /v/.
• July 5 - A new Inline CAPTCHA is implemented. New announcement saying "New CAPTCHA testing thread is [ttps://boards.4channel.org/qa/thread/4644876 here]." with a link to a /qa/ rolling sticky. Sliders cause low-IQ retards to froth, mobileniggers are utterly btfo while others are thankful they don't have to click 20 bicycles to post anymore, anons go apeshit in the sticky which reportedly jumped above 1000% usual activity, breaking /qa/'s board reply record with 36613 replies. Many usually fast boards such as /biz/ and /bant/ see their activity rates absolutely plummet, which should give you an idea of the average poster there (they recovered the next week tho'). Mod teases anons who think captcha's too hard. Meanwhile, the audio software Audacity gets called "spyware" after recent data collection changes by the new owners, leading to a forking of the project on Github. /g/ finds the naming poll and pushes "Sneedacity" which leads to analblasting by GitTards and the fork's creator, who claims 4chan trolls are calling him IRL (100% a lie). Somebody else lies and claims "Sneed" is a slur meaning "Special Needs". While the original poll/fork is deleted, /g/ users make their own Sneedacity fork.
• July 5-7 - According to 4stats data, posting activity on 4chan dropped by nine to thirteen percent following the addition of the new captcha. For specific boards at peak times immediately surrounding the new Captcha's addition, /a/ dropped by 30%, /b/ dropped by 11%, /co/ dropped by 24%, /fit/ dropped by 28%, /int/ dropped by 28%, /mu/ dropped by 19%, /pol/ dropped by 2.5%, /r9k/ dropped by 31%, /tv/ dropped by 21%, /v/ dropped by 13%, /vg/ dropped by 11%. Some boards, like /biz/, /g/, /sp/, /tg/, /trash/, and /x/, increase in activity for various reasons (Sneedacity, Euros, etcetera).
• July 7 - An anon on /v/ makes a thread showing off his drawing of his donut steel Starfy OC: a star with boxing gloves. Anons immediately fall in love with the character and create a mountain of fanart (including porn) of him, as well as a female version. Anons ultimately decide to name him Starfist the Fistar. Alternate archive.
• July 08 - An anon on the Happenings general discovers that he can lock a post from being reported by anyone by reporting a post then reporting a second post before the 15 seconds timer ends. It's fixed days later.
• July 11 - /sp/ gets a sticky for the Euro 2020 final between England and Italy. Celebrations of "it's coming home" turn to "it's coming Rome" as England does what it does best and chokes in the penalty shootout (coincidentally, they're managed by the guy who choked his penalty at Euro 1996). The sticky becomes the largest thread in /sp/ history, beating out Super Bowl LII. /sp/ peaks at 600 posts per minute post-game and the board ends up with 115000 posts in a day, easily outdoing every day of the 2018 World Cup. England says the line. The England mockery on the board is further increased over how all three black players missed their penalties, after the English team kneeled for diversity and anti-racism prior to every game, and /sp/ basks in the Twitter and YouTube cope.
• July 13 - England, Wales, and Scotland flags are removed now that the Euros are over. All bongs now post under the Union Jack once more.
• July 27 - Joey Jordison passes away suddenly. /mu/ gets a sticky.
• July 28 - Just a day later, Dusty Hill also passes, with another sticky on /mu/.
• July 30 - The Chris-chan Saga is almost certainly over: A leaked chat and phone call in which Chris-chan literally admits that he is fucking his 80 year old mentally-deficient mother makes the rounds. The shitstorm begins a-brewing on /r9k/ and /pol/. "CHRIS CHAN DID WHAT" trends on Twitter. Kiwi Farms struggles to handle the influx of users. Greene County police is contacted and within a few hours of the leak, Chris is removed from his base of operations (and probably put in a cell) and his mother is taken to a hospital to be assessed. Mother/son incest in Virginia is a Class 5 Felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison if Chris-chan is convicted of the felony, or up to 12 months if convicted of the misdemeanor (and that's not accounting for likely rape and senior abuse charges). Following his removal, Chris-chan attempts to stay with extended family, but instead gets the boot and has to sleep at a hotel. Joshua Moon, the Kiwi Farms op and Chris-chan simp who'd set up a GoFundMe to help Chris get to the Everfree Northwest convention, learns that they've just banned him and announces that he is refunding the donors.
• July 31 - The saga gets more retarded. Joshua Moon discovers that Chris-chan has stolen $750 out of his mother's bank account, violating the emergency protective order he'd just been put under. He calls the cops on him and finally declares that he's done helping Chris-chan. He also releases private chat logs from a month prior in which Chris-chan talked about his new girlfriend.
• August 1 - The cops finally descend on Chris-chan at the Regency Inn in Richmond, Virginia. Chris-chan is arrested and the arrest is streamed for the world to see. The Henrico County Sheriff's Office shows that he is officially being charged with incest. The snoot game sticky on /trash/ is finally unstickied after 67129 posts, making it the 4th largest thread in the history of 4chan.
• August 6 - The /funkg/ general of /vg/ releases a long awaited mod of Friday Night Funkin' featuring the classic /v/-tan and Cancer Lord from 3 Angled Blue's original comic about the Positron Uprising (2008, 10th of September) and is received with the closest thing to critical acclaim such a thing could get on 4chan.
• August 7 - A deranged Aussie shitposter dumps his screencaps on /qa/ after slowly making one new Hololive thread on /jp/ each day to piss everyone off. Eventually they flood the catalog and the Meido shows too little intellect to delete the faux on-topic threads. /jp/ is ruined!
• August 8 - Isabella Loretta Janke, the person Chris was talking to when he admitted to fucking his mother, is exposed. She is revealed to have boiled a hamster alive, driven a transgender student to suicide (keyed), and lied to prevent the recording from being disclosed, among many other horrifying acts. She almost makes Chris look like a goody two shoes.
• August 11 - /vr/ finishes Zniggy, an original game for the ZX Spectrum.
• August 12 - The trailer for the upcoming G5 movie "My Little Pony: A New Generation" is released, and /mlp/ gets a sticky. The reaction to the trailer is a resounding "meh", much to the dismay of doominggers and hopefags alike, although a book detailing the movie's whole plot was leaked a week early just a few hours later.
• August 13 - A Britbong /trv/eler named Miles Routledge posts from Kabul, Afghanistan as the country is caught up in the Taliban resurgence. Miles continues posting subsequent threads that become the most popular in /trv/ history. Routledge gets recognition in the media over his Facebook updates. With flights out of Kabul stopped, Lord Miles is trapped.
• August 14 - The Friday Night Funkin' vs. /v/ mod gets canned after the alternate ending to "/v/ goes to the cinemas" is found in the files. Twittertards apparently think they've downloaded CP. The mod remains downloadable through MEGA links. Later, the original creator of the comic draws an official response to the drama which ends just like the alternate ending to the infamous comic.
• August 15 - The tenth anniversary 4chan World Cup ends with /s4s/ going on an insane run to beat /b/ 3-1 in the final. The board gets a sticky with Hip To Be Square embedded.
• August 17 - Lord Miles is successfully evacuated out of Kabul and lands safely in Dubai.
• August 20 - /vt/ engages in a shitposting skirmish with a 5ch thread over a "Cookie"-derived Vtuber, which is the only interesting thing /vt/ can do.
• September 1 - 'Jak historians on /qa/ discover bombshell evidence that the original soyjak, previously believed to have been posted by a swede on December 30th, 2017 possibly wasn't truly the first, putting the "swedish win" theory in jeopardy. While the swede's soyjak is the one that became ubiquitous, another very different looking soyboy edit of wojak was posted more than a month before on /v/. Swedish detractors argued that it doesn't count as a soyjak, sparking philosophical debate as to what truly makes a 'jak and causing anti-sweden sentiments on /qa/ to grow.
• September 9 - It's Cirno day! The mods sticky a Cirno thread on /bant/. The song Chirumiru is also reportedly played on [s4s]'s catalog.
• September 10 - Ms. /co/ begins but due to heavy moderation of "hype" threads a feud results between the mods and anons. Dozens upon dozens of anons flood into the IRC to complain, and eventually they manage to settle things with some talk. Ms. /co/ is saved!
• September 12 - A complete and utter newfag makes a /v/ thread asking to know more about /v/-tan and Cancer Lord, as FNF Vs. /v/ has become surprisingly popular amongst normalfags. Anons humor him and mock his newfaghood. Suddenly, a link to his Discord server appears, and anons discover from it that OP is a gay black underaged furry who engages in fake ERP. OP tries to damage control, but it's far too late as anons have a field day shitting on him for 700 posts. Thus ends one of the lulziest threads of all time.
• September 16 - Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum dies at age 81. /vr/ gets a sticky.
• September 17 - Simu Liu (the lead actor in Marvel's new Asian capeshit movie) gets exposed as a r/aznidentity (racist Asian incels) user called "nippedinthebud" who also helped start a war against 4chan by...crowdfunding and making an AM/WF porno? ...and also defended "non-offending pedophiles".
• September 15 - In a completely unexpected reveal, the news site Polygon exposes Japanese toy & figurine company, Good Smile Company, Inc as co-owner of 4chan together with Nishimura himself and Nishimura's company, after members of it's american branch are taken to court over breach of contract. The news however fail to garner much impact on 4chan in general.
• October 1 - 4chan turns 18, now making it officially older than some people who aren't underage posters. Party hats return and /s4s/ also gets a sticky as soon as it turns to midnight.
• October 5 - Someone leaks a metric fuckload of source code from Twitch onto /g/. Leaked data includes the codes from Twitch properties such as CurseForge, a bunch of Twitch clients, and most importantly: a massive log of each streamer's income from 2019-2021. The latter is put up onto a website where people can find out just how much streamers make. Big names like xQc, Hasan "Make The Rich Pay" Abi, Asmangold, Cr1tikal, shroud, pokimane, tommyinnit, and Ninja made more than a million dollars over the course of two years.
• October 7 - Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama dies at the age of 90. Stickies are made on /v/, /vr/ and /vrpg/, with the /v/ and /vr/ stickies autoplaying music from the series.
• October 10-11 - /pol/ raids the Southwest Airlines discussion forum after their employees walk out to protest the vaccine mandate, which resulted in many cancelled flights that they blamed on weather and ATC issues (both bullshit to anyone who knows planes, but they probably had shit-eating grins while they said it). A fake Southwest tweet blaming the far-right circulates. The forums then get taken down for maintenance.
• October 12 - Two days after the 11th anniversary of FiM's premiere and 2 days after being admitted to a hospital, the CEO of Hasbro, Brian Goldberg, dies. The coincidence makes Anons wonder whether Chris Chan's prophecy of Hasbro suffering drastic consequences for not making more seasons of FiM instead of G5 came true.
• October 21 - Alec Baldwin accidentally shoots two people on a movie set, killing one. Anon on /tv/ leaks the story.
• October 23 - The 9th /v/ the Musical releases for the year with 160 parodies in total.
• November 3 - The /lgbt/ catalog was raided with hanging tranny soyjaks by /qa/ and soyjak.party. /qa/ later has posting disabled, and all non-meta threads deleted, leaving a grand total of 12 posts. The happenings threads, a popular general on /qa/, begins being hosted on /trash/ for the time being. 'Jakkers and /qa/nons alike fear /qa/ is in danger now that Operation Clean Stable is in full swing.
• November 4-5 - /qa/ is reduced to the 4chan Happenings, Not A Happening, and the sticky threads. Posting is still disabled and users begin flocking to other boards as well as soyjak.party. Rumors are circulating that a /qa/ discord server orchestrated the /lgbt/ raid (while the existence of the server was proven, it has since changed its name and many posts from the days of this event were deleted, most of which were not screencapped. This makes it difficult to tell who was "truly" behind the raid- /qa/, soyjak.party or the discord server. It's all very confusing). A meta thread is moved from /a/ to /qa/, then subsequently deleted. Meanwhile, /qa/ refugees, driven by the party and the discord server, culturally enrich /bant/ with 'jaks and try to make it their new home on 4chan, causing the board to spike in activity. The mods start deleting all soyjak threads and banning anyone who posts them for "cross-board raiding". A few links to the discord server are given out on /bant/ and the situation gets more chaotic as /bant/ natives and /qa/ refugees continue to wrestle for control over the board. For some reason, a few /vt/fags decide to join in on the fun and help fight back the invaders by spamming gawr gura. Eventually things calmed down but /bant/ retained a higher level of activity than it had before, and while many /qa/ refugees left for soyjak.party, some of them stayed and continued to post /qa/ memes on /bant/. This shitstorm is known as the great /qa/-/bant/ merge.
• November 6 - /co/ rediscovers the Honeyback Queen, an unused character from Bee Movie who appears in a suggestive deleted scene with her and Barry. Another thread later gets made where anons create a bunch of art to celebrate and masturbate to their newfound waifu. The OP embarks on a mission to contact the film's staff on Twitter to remind them of the cut character.
• November 10 - Richard Kyanka, AKA Lowtax, the founder of Something Awful, is confirmed dead. A sitewide message is displayed: 🙏 RIP Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka 🙏 Our dad who disowned us
• November 12 - The mods do some CSS fuckery in a lain thread on /g/, confirming lain is still the queen.
• November 16 - Recette is elected Queen of /v/ for 2021. Everyone on /v/ feels a little more jewish.
• November 18 - [s4s]'s memetable is finally finished and the result is stickied.
• November 19 - After four days of jury deliberations, Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all five charges pertaining to his shooting of three convicts in self-defence during the Kenosha riots. /pol/ gets a sticky with music. (or view on 4plebs)
• November 21 - [s4s] reaches 10 million digits. The 9999999 GET declares /jp/ their girlfren, while the 10000000 GET is stolen by soyjak.party, mods seethe and the thread gets deleted.
• November 24-25 - /r9k/ and /ck/ get stickies for thanksgiving.
• November 27 - /d/ finally reaches the 10 million mark (and it only took 18 years!). soyjak.party tries to steal the digits but fails to hit both 9999999 and 10000000, which were taken by regular image posts instead.
• November 28 - Fashion designer Virgil Abloh dies of cancer and gets a sticky on /fa/. Norwegian youtuber Tor Eckhoff dies after falling through thin ice and gets a sticky on /bant/.
• December 4 - Bitcoin tanks from 52000 BTC/USD to 46000 BTC/USD in 40 minutes, and /biz/ gets a doom sticky with Kanye West's "flashing lights" embedded in the background. In less then 30 minutes, the thread is unstickied and locked.
• December 7 - The Batter gets voted for king of /v/ 2021 after a very climactic finale. The tournament produced hundreds of pieces of OC.
• December 8 - Barry Harris dies at age 91 and gets a sticky on /mu/.
• December 9 - Masayuki Uemura, lead designer for the NES and Super NES consoles, dies at the age of 78. /vr/ gets a sticky. /v/ gets a game awards watchalong sticky. Genshin Impact wins the award for best mobile game but the presentor accidently says "Jenshin" instead of Genshin, and the mods shitpost about it in the Genshin Impact general on /vg/.
• December 10 - Mike Nesmith dies at age 78. /mu/ gets a sticky.
• December 11 - Baneposting officially turns ten years old and /tv/ gets an epic sticky with embedded gifs and music. A random Lanky Kong thread on /v/ also gets the plane scene from The Dark Knight Rises embedded in the background, but it later gets deleted.
• December 19 - A guy on /g/'s /cumg/ general creates the Third Eye extension, which allows you to post additional files from a booru by putting the second file's MD5 hash in the container file's filename, and only those with the extension can see the additional file. This is later followed by the PEE (PNG Extra Embedder) and Media Embedder scripts which let you embed ANY additional file(s) in the container file directly as well as third eye capibilities.
• December 23 - /g/ finishes their first album titled "Shitposting Fundementals".
• December 24 - 4chan gets festive with all the boards getting the traditional Christmas hats, along with falling snow and the entire site switching to the Tomorrow theme and All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey being embedded on the front page of every board. A sitewide message, "All I Want For Christmas Is (You)" is added as well. Christmas themed fortunes are enabled site-wide and newfags who don't know how to use them get trolled. You can see all these fortunes in [thread 1] [thread 2.] /a/ gets its annual tsundere christmas carol sticky. /tv/ invades r/a/dio and the baneposting parody of a visit from St. Nicholas is read out. After 52 days of /qa/ being frozen and the locked sticky, the happenings thread and the /nah/- not a happening thread being the only threads left on the catalog, the /nah/ thread gets deleted for some reason.
• December 25 - /sci/ gets a sticky for the launch of the James Webb Telescope. /x/schizos are in shambles. Padoru gifs and runscape music gets embedded in the /v/ annual collage thread. /tv/ gets the usual christmas bane sticky.
• December 27 - Richard Marcinko dies, /k/ gets a sticky. /jp/ orginizes a farewell card for the touhou doujin circle FELT.
• December 28 - Grichka Bogdanoff dies. /biz/ gets a sticky while Bitcoin "coincidentally" sinks. John Madden dies. /sp/ gets a sticky. In some cross-site shenanigans, a /v/ thread gets made reacting to a 2channel thread reacting to a /v/ thread reacting to a list of Japan's favorite console games. Epic inter-website lulz and shitflinging are had.
• December 31 - Betty White dies at 99, /tv/ gets a sticky. To celebrate the new year, gifs of dancing anime girls cover the screen on /a/, along with a r/a/dio sticky to play various music.

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• January 1 - /v/ stickies International Wrestling Festival's 2022 gachimuchi collab.
• January 2 - On /trash/, a Cirnoposter claims the 44444444 GET.
• January 3 - Igor Bogdanoff dies six days after Grichka, /biz/ gets another sticky.
• January 9 - 4chan passes 4 billion total posts. /tv/ gets a sticky for the death of Bob Saget. /biz/ gets a new locked sticky, replacing the image of hiro with an image of Sminem and the Bogdanoff twins.
• January 11 - After they started growing popular outside of /g/, the mods kill the PEE and Media Embedder extensions, probably because some people used them to secretly post child models. The third eye script is still usable, but /cumg/ is in disarray.
• January 14 - The mods completely crack down on /cumg/, locking the thread and banning all subsequent attempts to recreate the general. /cumg/ takes refuge in a mostly dead /jp/ spinoff 2chen.moe (formerly .org), which is later killed by the admin, presumably after he realized what /cumg/ and ecker were doing. That site is cloned into sturdychan in January 2023.
• Janurary 20 - /vp/ starts meming hard about Pokemon Legends Arceus revealing that apparently all pokemon have the abillity to shrink, the catalog drowns in shrinkposting for the next few days.
• January 21 - /mu/ and /tv/ get stickies for the death of Meat Loaf. /tv/ gets another sticky for the death of Louie Anderson. Russia proposes to ban cryptocurrency and bitcoin expectedly plummets, /biz/ goes into another pink frenzy and gets a sticky. Other boards discuss the event as well, and many anons on /v/ celebrate the potential death of bitcoin mining in hopes that GPUs will be affordable again.
• January 24 - Lucifer And The Bicuit Hammer is announced to be recieving an anime adaptation, /a/ gets a hype sticky.
• January 28-29 - A pictureless thread with the subject "something big is coming..." is stickied on /b/. Mass confusion reigns as anons try to decipher what is happening while the images in the thread are deleted. A mod posing as an anon posts "i don't have much time left. i found information they don't want you to have. don't give up. the truth IS out there. - M" with an image embedded from /x/. Another post with the comment "we need your help. don't give up. keep searching. -M" with this /x/ image embedded is made. Someone in the sticky figures out the location in the pictures and is banned with the red text "(BE CAREFUL. BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO DIG TOO DEEP.)" The radio static sound from silent hill 2 is embedded in the thread as well. About ten minutes later, the sticky is deleted and /b/'s catalog is purged. Things return to /b/'s definition of normal after another ten minutes, but the mods begin deleting all threads with this image for a little while. /b/,[2,501] /pol/[2,502][2,503] and /x/[2,504] have a field day. At the same time the mods embed neco arc gifs in a /b/ thread and briefly embed the smaller one on the /b/ catalog. Also around the same time, a 34 year old in Utah named Christopher Poole is arrested for receiving CP. Despite the name and approximate age matching up (we still don't know his birthday), it's not the real moot. Several boards discuss the event.[2,505][2,506][2,507][2,508]
• January 31 - The Christopher Poole that got arrested for CP makes his first appearance in court, confirming he's not moot.
• February 4 - /his/ gets raided by soyjak.party and 8 pages are wiped, the mods restored the archived threads to repopulate the catalog. The party also tried to steal the 1000000 GET on /news/ but it's taken by an anti Trump news post, the 999999 GET was a post saying "no." in a raid thread and linking to /qa/. A /mu/tant makes a thread supposedly leaking Godspeed You! Black Emperor's legendary lost album "All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling", more threads are made about it and attract a ton of attention, including that of the band's discord server which goes into a panic state. Following that the threads devolve into discord drama shitflinging as people try to figure out if the leak is real or not.[2,509][2,510][2,511][2,512]
• Feburary 13 - Kiwi Farms is taken down by a DDoS for the umpteenth time, prompting users of the site to make a refugee general on /bant/. When opened in the brave browser, Kiwi Farms even directs you to the /bant/ threads. The mods occasionally delete their threads, and occasionally allow them to stay up. In the meantime, /bant/ natives spam the general. After mods delete the Kiwi colonies a couple times, the message on the site changes to say "The transgender moderators of 4chans' board for any topic has started deleting our threads so I don't know what to tell you."[2,513][2,514][2,515][2,516].
• February 14 - The leaked Godspeed You! Black Emperor album is confirmed to be real.
• February 17 - /mlp/ celebrates the 10th year of it's existence. As if on cue, Hasbro releases a preview of the upcoming G5 2D YouTube shorts meant to accompany the upcoming 3D series. They are all presented in the typical Cal-Arts style and the board goes apeshit. In addition, several VAs from the 2021 movie confirm that they won't be returning for the series.
• February 23 - Russia invades Ukraine, /pol/ goes apeshit and gets a sticky saying "SOVIET INVASION CONFIRMED " and with Hell March from Command & Conquer Red Alert embedded. /k/ is forever turned into a board dedicated to Ukraine war with its original posters fleeing to other sites as /k/ is filled with off topic /pol/ posters who accuse each other of being an Indian or Russian poster. Any thread opened that isn't about the Ukraine war automatically gets treated as a slide thread.
• February 25 - Spice & Wolf season 3, one of /a/'s never evers, gets announced; /a/ gets a sticky in response.
• February 26 - The Soviet invasion sticky on /pol/ is unstickied after 88034 posts, making it the second largest ever thread in 4chan history.
• February 27 - HARMONY returns to /v/.
• March 4 - Sole janitor applications for /tv/. Australian cricket legend Shane Warne dies of a heart attack, hours after another Australian cricket legend died of a heart attack (which Warne commemorated on Twitter). /sp/ gets a sticky.
• March 10 - After many delays, /v/ finally releases its highly anticipated third Super Mario World collab hack, Super Mario /v/orld: New Vegas, an ambitious project made with assistance from [s4s] and /vr/.
• March 13 - /a/ gets a sticky to mourn the death of Tokyo Mew Mew Illustrator Ikumi Mia.
• March 19 - A meta thread is moved from /pw/ to /qa/, the first time this has happened since November 4th. The christmas theme is also subsequently disabled on the catalog, locked sticky and index.
• March 21 - /a/ gets a sticky to celebrate the 19th anniversary of Yotsuba&!
• March 25 - 4chan occasionally slows to a crawl and the CAPTCHA becomes unloadable, resulting in posting essentially being impossible for brief periods of time.
• March 26 - The /pw/ thread moved to /qa/ gets deleted.
• March 28 - Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the Oscars. /tv/ and /pol/ drown in threads about the event, an exploitable frame based on the slap and within hours self serve ads with slap edits are up all over the site. Slap edit threads are often met with hostility on other boards due to suspicion that the whole thing was staged for views.
• March 30 - Mods start teasing a Lobotomy Corporation-themed April Fools prank on /v/. Music is embedded and several anons are publicly banned, including a mod who fucked up the CSS in a post. Jack Maxey, one of the guys involved in leaking data from Hunter Biden's laptop, makes a post on /pol/.
• April 1 - April Fools rolls around again. Discord-style emotes are added to the site, with people able to roll for them with points given out every 5 minutes as well as collect which emotes they've seen other anons post. You can see all the emotes in this thread. The site gets filled up with threads sharing emotes so people can complete their collections. Various boards get stickies: /v/ gets a repeat of its sticky from April Fools 2019, /lgbt/ gets one about Discord trannies, /aco/ gets a dance thread with Dr. Dick embedded, /int/ gets one that just says "Slovak cat", and [s4s] gets one celebrating its 9th birthday. /vp/ asks if u liek mudkips and /v/ gets a modpost thread about Longcat. Abnormalities start appearing in the /v/ sticky before breaking containment, spreading to /v/, /vg/, /vst/ and /tg/. A soyjak thread is moved from /s4s/ to /qa/, then quickly deleted, presumably the mods were just trolling /qa/ diaspora[2,517][2,518] Reddit brings back r/place, announcing it days in advance this time. /pol/ raids the large trans flag at the center, falseflagging Epita and Mexico/Italy into helping to erase the east side and the british into taking the west. Reddit jannies step in to ban a bunch of people's throwaway accounts (and get caught cheating on video) and /pol/ jannies start nuking every r/place thread increasingly quickly, only allowing them on /b/, /mlp/ and off-topic boards that didn't want to help from then on.[2,519]
• April 2 - The abnormalities spread further to /pol/ and /trash/, before culminating in another /v/ sticky to close out April Fools. All emotes are unlocked for all posters for a few hours, giving some anons hope they'd stay, before finally being removed. Shortly after, posts on /pol/ start randomly getting filtered to uwuspeak. The filter is removed after a couple of hours.[2,520][2,521][2,522] /mlp/'s ponies on r/place get assaulted by streamers and the void, but they survive it each time, making several ponies, and euquestria flag and discord by the end of the event on April 4th, much to twitch's dismay.[2,523][2,524][2,525]
• April 12 - Gilbert Gottfried dies. /tv/ gets a sticky.
• April 23 - A guy called Raymond Spencer (unsuccessfully) shoots up a school in DC and posts a video of it on /pol/, causing a bit of panic after what happened to 8chan. He later gets caught after injuring 4 people but killing no one.[2,526][2,527][2,528]
• April 25 - For a brief moment of 5 hours, a thread appears on /qa/ with a Paxiti OP image, stating that "/qa/ lost." A thread on /trash/ also appears at the exact same time, with the same filename, suggesting that it was created by the mod then moved to /qa/.
• May 2 - The Supreme Court announces plans to end Roe V Wade (abortion rights for women). /pol/ gets a sticky to celebrate liberal tears.
• May 7 - George Perez passes away, /co/ gets a sticky.
• May 8 - Duke Nukem Forever 2001 build gets teased by a leaker named "x0r_jmp !!IzwHHMJWNiy". A fully functional build by leaker's group will be released "this June." Q&A's and proofs are in the previous linked thread and this thread. One of the creators of Duke Nukem 3D, George Broussard, says "Yes, the leaks look real."
• May 12 - Crypto continues on its merry way into the red as Redditors who went all-in on TerraUSD and LUNA lose about 95% of their cash. As some threaten suicide, /biz/ gets a sticky with some embedded imagery and music. Bitcoin drops to about 27000 USD/BTC, well below half its all-time peak just seven months earlier.
• May 14 - Payton Gendron shoots up a supermarket in Buffalo, citing 4chan and /pol/ in his manifesto as his reasoning for the shooting. The media goes apeshit over this, and so does /pol/. /pol/ and other boards go into panic mode as the shooter explicitly listed every gun and website he used (writing he began using 4chan in 2020 as an underage b&), leading to another scare of 4chan getting shut down, such as what happened to 8chan after the El Paso/Christchurch shootings. The shooting was livestreamed on Twitch, leading /pol/ on a wild goose chase as "a fucking leaf" (Canadian namefag who apparently recorded the stream) leads them on with several screenshots before the video was finally posted several hours later.
• May 19 - Two new selectable ideology flags are added to /pol/ - a NATO flag and a russian Z flag, in reference to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Vangelis is confirmed dead and /mu/ gets a sticky.
• May 22 - /v/ gets a sticky of a Weedle.
• May 24 - /v/ hits its 600M GET. The GET is stolen by a scriptfag in a random thread that the mods archive literally seconds later. People gather in the 600000001 thread to discuss it where it is widely considered to be one of /v/'s worst GETs, so much that some people just pretend that 600000001 was the real GET due to it being much better.
• June 1 - /vp/ gets a sticky for the new Pokemon Scarlet and Violet trailer. /tv/ reacts to Johnny Depp winning his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, briefly filling the catalogue with celebration threads and shitting on jannies for deleting them. /lgbt/ gets a Pride Month sticky.
• June 3 - /lgbt/ gets selectable pride flags.
• June 5 - All of a sudden, iOS users can now play WEBMS directly from Safari. Its not a native player, so someone from Good Smile Company 4chan^INC must have implemented something.
• June 6 - Berserk resumes production. /a/ gets a sticky.
• June 10 - /i/ has its 700000 GET: "cute redneck bf". Bid Glass discontinues its relationship with 4chan, killing self-serve ads once again.
• June 11 - /vr/'s 9000000 GET is about how common composite video was compared to S-video.
• June 15 - /mu/ GET number 111111111 gets stolen by a K-POP post.
• June 16 - Dragon's Dogma II gets announced. /v/ gets a sticky. Tim Sale dies. /co/ gets a sticky.
• June 24 - Roe vs. Wade is overturned by the US Supreme Court. /pol/ gets sticky on the momentous occasion.
• July 3 - Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt season 2, one of /a/'s never evers, gets announced; /a/ gets a sticky in response.
• July 4th-ish - /trash/ users start reporting Captcha's change now needing 6 characters instead of 5 to solve. Long Lived the Bots...for a day or so.
• July 6 - Support for VP9 WebMs are finally added.
• July 7 - /a/ gets a sticky to mourn the death of Yu-Gi-Oh! mangaka Kazuki Takahashi. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is shot during a speech, stickies are made on /jp/ and /pol/. Six hours after the stickies are posted, Abe is confirmed dead by NHK.
• July 8 - Janitor applications open for 48 hours. /qa/ is included for the first time on the applications list, despite the board being locked. This brings up questions about what will be done with the board in the near future. [2,529][2,530]
• July 17 - The UNIX timestamp format used in filenames changes from milliseconds to microseconds after a brief stint as nanoseconds. Practically, filenames now have 3 extra digits at the end. A filename posted on July 18th is 1660830020109328.png, if we were still using millisecond filenames it would be 1660830020109328.png. The increased precision makes image swaps much, much more unlikely.
• July 19 - GIFs and WEBMs now have their metadata stripped on upload, like JPEGs. This follows a few days of extraneous embedded file detection that blocked several classic files from being uploaded.
• July 20 - For whatever reason, the SSL Handshake on the 4chan domain starts to fail. But not on the subdomain, so while boards are available, the ban and main pages for example aren't. The issue resolves itself by the end of the day. The PEE extension, which had made a return in recent months, is struck a blow by the dev. Time will tell what effect it will have.
• July 22 - Vince MacMahon retires. /pw/ gets a sticky.
• July 31 - It's the supposed birthdate of George Jetson from The Jetsons. /co/ celebrates with a sticky.
• August 7 - A reply post on a /tv/ thread created a paranoid-like image where he counts down the time to when a reply poster from 2011 claimed that Victoria Justice will win an Oscar's by the age of 30.
• August 15 - The first confirmed mention of the 'ecker ban evasion tool is posted on the 4chan Happenings Thread, hosted on the /cumg/ git.coom.tech website. This is the beginning of an arms race between an Italian homosexual and the Team4chan development team, the root cause of the many posting limitations to come.
• August 18 - Infamous pedophile and furry homosexual Leto / unicodefag begins spamming his fork of the 'ecker tool on the 4chan Happenings Thread. While the ecker tool is gated and requires an account, this one is free to use by all through a residential IP provider. Shit has hit the fan.
• August 18 - The minimum time between posting and deleting one's post is raised from 1 to 10 minutes. This is reverted within hours. Currently it seems to vary based on the board and the age of your cookies (and maybe your IP range.)
• August 19 - A brazillian 4chan janitor leaks information about /j/ on soyjak.party, including screenshots of threads, userscripts made for the janitors, and the Team4chan Discord. The event is discussed in the happenings thread. [2,531] [2,532]
• August 25 - sys.4chan(nel).org, which serves captchas and forms, is now behind the Cloudflare anti-DDoS service. Allegedly due to a furry using proxies to spam his pictures, like Accelspammer of old. This results in some browsers and (and notably phoneposting apps) not being able to post. Butthurt ensues. Actually, the furry was running a custom ban evasion tool built by Italian steam deck penis spammer and accidentally broke it, spamming sys.4chan. This is only the beggining of something far worse.
• September 6 - /r9k/ reported to be playing music in the background. Song is Mr.Roboto by Styx.
• September 8 - Queen Elizabeth dies. /pol/ gets a sticky.
• September 21 - KurobaEx, one of the only 4chan apps with regular development, suddenly has its Github repository archived with no explanation. After some concern on /g/, it was found that the Russian developer got fucking mobilized by Putin into the military, leading to a full-blown panic.
• September 27 - The admin from KurobaEx finally posts an update to /g/, saying he was able to cross the border into Kazakhstan, unarchiving the project as proof. In several other posts he clarified that he served in the Russian military but didn't get a subpoena (and therefore wasn't a deserter), driving ~20 hours from Moscow to flee Russia preemptively because he was 1A health category, the first wave to go. /g/ rejoices.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 19th birthday. Party hats on all boards as usual.
• October 6 - Report forms now have the in-house captcha, in replacement of Google's reCaptcha. All that's left of Google's Captcha is the ban check page and the feedback page. And /f/ as well, for some reason.
• October 15 - /pol/'s 400M GET confirms that the Nuclear End Times are coming. Mods have only one question: (where?).
• October 19 - After nearly two years, the @4chan Twitter account sends a tweet in a certainly indirect response to the "Investigative Report on the role of online platforms in the tragic mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, 2022". The report mentions the investigative committee being in conversation with a "moderator". With this in mind, could have someone spilled the beans to the Jan. 6 Commission?
• October 31 - Halloween as always. /x/ got a sticky with sp00ky pumpkin.
• November 3 - The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) seized all domains for Z-Library. By accident, it is announced that the US Postal Inspection Service originally seized the domains.[2,533] Discussion ensues in /lit/ for the fate of other, so called, shadow libraries, and the true conspiracy of this debacle...
• November 4 - "Request recomendations thread" on /a/ gets banned text and repliers get warned text.
• November 6 - 2022 League of Legends World Championship finish with first timers Asians DRX winning against Asians T1. Red text post by Mod is made on the /lolg/ claiming Common Zeka W, in reference to the winning team's player. Anon gets labled a Redditor by mods for trying to blend in with zoomer hate thread. A /vp/ anon leaks shitloads of Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet screenshots.
• November 7 - /wsg/ user gets banned for asking if the Grey Cat wipping is real. Sneed's Feed and Seed is seen in the background of a post on /tv/, featuring music.
• November 8 - Anon on /v/ leaks prototype game builds from Eurocom, THQ, and maybe others, including some Wii firmware & dev testers.[2,534][2,535]. Further Pokemon: Scarlet & Violet leaks renders /vp/ unusable until mods step in to take control. A dedicated leak general is set up. /vp/ peaks at 58 posts per minute. Modpost featuring Wolf's Rain OST is seen on /biz/.
• November 10 - There is a circulatory system walking through a /co/ thread...
• November 11 - /g/ anon reports that 4chan's Google Image search is broken as the company is seemenly transfering to their new Len's system. The issue also affects the 4chan-X script. Also, at 5:15am 4chan time, after 25 years of being a choke artist, Ash Ketchum finally wins a Pokemon World Champion. /vp/, still in the wake of earlier leaks, goes nuts again.
• November 14 - A partially muscled skeleton stands in another /co/ thread and screams endlessly while Bob Dylan's Desolation Row plays. Anticipation grows for the ultimate reveal on November 22...
• November 20 - The flags of England, Scotland and Wales return to /sp/ in time for the World Cup. Also mods have stickied match game threads with Indian Pepe's representing all nations as their opening posts. This will seem to continue until the World Cup final arrives on Dec. 18th, but isn't enough to contain /fwc/ posters in their respective threads. 4stats.io puts board activity at 300%. Moderation on the stickied threads are at an extreme high.
• November 21 - /v/ votes Midna from The Legend of Zelda as the Queen of /v/ for the year.
• November 22 - The radiation-blue body of Doctor Manhattan arrives on /co/ in his completed form.
• November 22 - /bant/ has an autosage imposed to cut down necrobumping & blogposting.
• November 23 - Pokemon Scarlet & Violet characters bugged eyes appear on /vp/ for a short time. A poster is publically unbanned in the /mlp/ Secret Santa thread by Anonymous ## Mod after (supposedly) being banned for doxxing for posting his own address. (His dox was deleted from the archive, but he had actually made his house the headquarters of a Burmese political party on Google Maps.) Understandably, no one really wants to trade presents with him over fears he might accidentally dox them.
• November 24 - Around 16:00 UTC or 21:00 UTC, 4chan Advertising is back to allow bids on advertisement spots through "danbo.org".
• November 28 - During the Portugal vs. Uruguay World Cup game, a pitch invader/streaker interrupted the second half with a message to "save Ukraine" and rainbow flag. He gets tackled by outstandling fast Qatari censors guards /sp/ jannitors notice and tribute him with a thread in a gif of his image in the background and Sonic as the pic related.
• November 29 - After America won 1-0 against Iran in the glorious game of divegrass SOCCER, diverting a Dark Brandon retalliation, mods make thread stating "USA WINS FIFA." and mods on /sp/ change all flags to the US flag, but this backfires as posters act as submissed BBC race-betrayers American citizens[2,536] A forcible reversion is made with flags being restored to their original function, but this doesn't stop escapees, like a Britbong who makes a BBC pedo text post so abhorrent that the mods called MI5. A killa stickied thread by modsexposes Portugal as a country where getting BLACKED is their national sport. Johan Cruyff also finally gets his sticky, but is quickly deleted as other matters are present on the board.
• November 30 - Surprise! Star Control 2 has its 30 year anniversary and to celebrate mods make a thread about it with background image, plus any mention of "androsynth" by repliers results in custom ban texts. [2,537][2,538][2,539] In bad news for /vmg/, they received their first sticky announcing that Dragalia Lost is sunsetting.
• December 1 - Japan beats Spain 2-1in the 2022 World Cup and goes to knockouts. It was just like my Japanese animes.
• December 2 - Korea somehow manages to go through, resulting in another musical sticky. Meanwhile, Uruguay receives a message from the mods.
• December 8 - /v/ gets a sticky for The Game Awards. At the end of the show a kid runs on stage, grabs the mic and says he "nominate this award to my reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton". A ton of threads get made in the resulting confusion, and mods post another sticky with Bill Clinton edited to look like a rabbi.
• December 9 - Armored Core 6 is announced at The Game Awards. /m/ gets a sticky that floods rapidly with /v/ tourists, reaching several thousand posts before being unstickied and allowed to slide down.
• December 12 - /m/ gets a sticky for the passing of Anison legend and JAM Project founder, Ichiro Mizuki, after some much deserved bitching. Meanwhile, the /a/ thread gets no such luck, with many calling out the tranny jannies for prioritising burger VAs over actual Japanese folks.
• December 16 - After years of counting down on /tv/, Avatar 2 releases in theaters. Because the mods dislike fun unless they're the only ones having it, any real anons who attempt to make '0 days until Avatar 2' threads are banned. A mod, presumably, makes and stickies his own thread.
• December 19 - /v/ votes Jack Garland from Final Fantasy 1 and its spinoff, Strangers of Paradise, for King of /v/. Chaos is forever BTFO.
• December 24 - A Rayman 4 prototype gets leaked on /v/.
• December 25 - It's Christmas Day, and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" is played ON EVERY BOARD.

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• January 3 - 4chan Happenings Thread discusses the first potential effects of the 'ecker tool - schizos destroying threads on /vg/
• January 4 - 4chan goes down for roughly an hour from 8:30 to 9:30 PM EST, with various Cloudflare SSL and 50X errors. Those that are able to load board catalogs find that the following boards appear to be wiped: /bant/, /co/, /int/, /lgbt/, /mlp/, /p/, /r9k/, and /vt/ (and maybe more). All posts return once the site comes back online.
• January 9 - soyjak.party raids /trash/ after Undertale porn steals their 2000000 GET on /soy/. /trash/ fights back by permabanning the raiders, and soyjak gets DDoS'd too.
• January 11 - WWE rumored to be sold to Saudi Arabia. /pw/ change its board name to Arabic. A /v/irgin tries to make a slowpoke combo, but fails. However, another anon turns that fail into a win. The best thread on /v/ in a long time ensues. But mods hate fun, so the thread was moved to /b/.
• January 20 - Janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~48 hours. /b/, /bant/, [s4s], and /trash/ are not available to apply for.
• January 27 - Sometime between the 15th and 27th /qb/'s catalog is wiped and the board is renamed to Yotsuba Image Board. Perhaps the dev left something behind while trying to finally delete it?
• January 28 - After months of hoping and waiting and background organizing, Mare Fair is announced to actually be happening. Following on the success of multiple online board cons, /mlp/ does the unthinkable and organizes a real life convention about ponies, or more specifically, MARES! The hype is unreal.
• February 3 - Tickets go on sale for Mare Fair.
• February 7 - /g/ had received a raid spanning for more than twenty four hours. Mods were not able to clean the board from those spam threads. This event will be known as the Femboy Event.
• February 10 - Another baloon balloon flies over U.S. Alaskan airspace and is shot down. /pol/ mods makea thread with Bloons Tower Defense Monkey and have embedded a red balloon onto your screen (image from a replypost on /vip/) , with some nice theme music from BTD5.
• February 12 - Super Bowl LVII happens, /sp/ gets a sticky. But before this, another set of balloon's, now unidentified aerial objects enter U.S. airspace, reaching to Lake Huron. /pol/ gets two stickies. One thread has an opening sticky of the news headline, an "ayy lmao" embedded from /vip/ and plays the X-Files Theme. Next sticky thread has the same opening image, but probably the same "red bloon" from Feb. 10th sticky and the song "99 Luftballons" from the band NENA. /bant/ Newspaper returns after 4 year hiatus.
• February 13 - President of Toei Animation dies but strangely /a/ did not get a sticky for the dedicated thread. The age of shonen is neigh...
• February 15 - The Ohio Train Derailment incident/disaster/coverup is sending chemicals into the air to the North-Eastern United States. Government & coorporation hiding stuff is the general concensus. As a result of such observations, mods added to a /pol/ thread[2,540] and /vg/ thread[2,541] for /rwg/ - Rimworld General have Rimworld's OST - Chaos Bringer playing in background and an <iframe> from /vip/ , mentioning the toxicity that is supposedly happening.
• February 16 - /a/ getsmultiple threads in reaction to the new Jojolands release. /bant/ poster says they are "Jew", but ID says "Goy".
• February 19 - Victoria Justice is now 30. A "persistent" OP[2,542] has reminded all that she has not won any Oscars as predicted on a well known /tv/ December 11, 2011 reply post.
• February 23 - /v/ user has their lawsuit against FROM Software and Warner Brothers thrown out because of stupidity he cannot build a case on how quote...its too difficult and life-destroying to actually go to the other world in Bloodborne and The Matrix...end quote. On that same thread, a reply poster has pareidolia and notices how the Thai script of a reply looks like the eyes of the cereal meme guy.
• February 23Midnight-24 - A year has passed since the start of the Russian Aggression or the Special Military Operation in Donbas depending on your general thread side. /pol/ gets a sticky with a .webm from /gif/, [2,543] with music from Ирина Аллегрова - с Днём Рождения! and a Bukhanka-chan girl walk cycle, with a 4chan Birthday Hat from /vip/, fixed onto the board index & thread screen. /b/ also gets the same treatment but no sticky thread.
• March 3 - Meta’s LLaMA 7B-65B model leaks on /g/.
• March 4 - Warner Bros vaults many cartoons set to be released. A possibly disgruntled animation employee leaks one of these "vaulted cartoons", "Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!", to /co/.
• March 6 - Captcha breaks and 4chan grinds to a halt for two four AT LEAST SIX hours.
• March 11 - The /lgbt/ 30M GET is claimed by the Sharty, and is deleted so fast that it wasn't archived. Some claim the screencap was doctored, and are waiting for Snopes to verify if the GET was legitimate or not.
• March 12 - /a/'s 250M GET is a reply telling an anon to "please use your brain". Instantly declared a FAIL, with 249999999 being held as the real GET despite being only marginally better.
• March 14 - A /pol/tard is arrested for threatening to murder a cop. You didn't actually think the "in Minecraft" meme worked, right?
• March 21 - The /fit/ sticky is updated with new links.
• March 29 - Wired.com, through the USA's Freedom of Information Act, files a successful request to the NYC attorney general office and publishes information on how Hiroyuki Nishimura acquired 4chan LLC: The total sum was 8 million, with 5.6m from Hiro & his companies and 2.4m from Good Smile Company Inc, in exchange for 30% on 4chan's revenue. Articles around the web pop out encouraging people to Boycott Good Smile and pressure companies dealing with them to drop the contracts, citing 4chan's tangential relationship to the Buffalo Shooter, seemingly unaware GSC had announced they are leaving their 4chan stake. The news garner little interest in 4chan proper outside some screaming schizos.
• April 1 - The big April Fool's joke is...tagging one in 25 posts posts with "Powered by 4chan-GPT ●⏶●" and changing the anon's name to a random person's name (literally the same gimmick as the 2016 April Fools Day event). Anons lament the laziness of the mods who did nothing but take some old code and added one extra line to pretend it's fresh. Many anons instead prefer to wax nostalgic over the 2018 prank, leading to a nearly 700-reply /v/ thread complete with candy princess CSS.
• April 2 - The 180M /int/ GET is a Brazillian win, despite the Sharty desperately trying to claim the GET for themselves.
• April 7 - in response to the Wired article detailing their acquisition of 4chan, Good Smile Company, Inc announces on their news page that they never had more than an ownership stake on the company and weren't involved in it's management and, in fact, have sold their state in June 2022.
• May 2 - The word "nakadashi" is now spam filtered on /g/, because coomers would post it in response to every picture of an anime grill. Some claim to have been banned for posting it but that's probably because they were spamming/replying to off-topic bait.
• May 15 - Give it up for day three. Today's raid started at 3:00PM and ended by 3:15, due to a lack of manpower because most soyteens are actual children who had to go to school. Also, 4chan & the Good Smile company are filed against in a lawsuit filed by the families of victims of the May 14, 2022 Buffalo massacre.
• May 16 - /lgbt/'s 31M GET is a FAILGET, and but at least the Sharty failed to secure it this time.
• May 17 - /biz/'s 55M GET is barely better, and the Sharty has once again failed to steal it. They did, however, steal the /gd/ 444444 GET. For some reason that 'teen was using a Pass while raiding, and when he tried to appeal his 5-day ban it was bumped to a perma.
• May 18 - Cirno gets /tg/'s 88888888 GET, with a mostly negative reaction.
• May 21 - Cirno gets Seven 7s in a row on /pol/, leading to much seething.
• May 23 - The shark gets /vt/'s 50M GET leading to a thread of bitching about script-use and bots and even accusations of DDOS. /adv/'s 29M GET is generic but good advice.
• May 24 - An Anon posting his nasty-ass room on /v/ gets told to clean it up by the mods.
• May 26 - On /ic/ a wizard gets Satanic Septs. /a/'s 253M GET is a fail, and the runner-up is a thread made by a pedo about how much he likes young girls.
• June 1 - /lgbt/ gets a sticky and selectable pride flags for pride month.
• June 2 - For the past couple days, /pmg/ on /biz/ was mysteriously being autosaged. Accusations that the jannies were kikes or being paid off by kikes to suppress gold and silver began to fly, before a mod finally stepped in and informed them that a pastebin link in the OP was the culprit. It contained the word cunny, which will automatically permasage a thread on any board if it's in the OP.
• June 5 - The /t/ 1234567 GET is something saying thanks. The sharty tried to steal it but somehow failed despite /t/ being one of the slowest boards. The /tv/ 186M GET is an Anon who doesn't need guns because he has a big dick. Also, Wired released an article that contains some new info on Team 4chan. Turns out some of the top mods do not, in fact, do it for free. (The article was written by someone who thinks that 4chan has user accounts, and that janitors and moderators are the same thing, so take it with a grain of salt)
• June 6 - It's Tea Tuesday on /bant/.
• June 7 - /mlp/'s 40M GET is stolen by a ponified Cirno. The runner-up is a Shimmerbro. The Sharty planned to steal the GET hours in advance, but they failed miserably, not even getting the off-by-ones.
• June 9 - /v/'s 640M GET is stolen by Cirno mocking frogposters. It was deleted a few minutes later. The runner-up is absent in the archives. /pol/'s 430M GET is a random reply about inclusivity in commercials. The runner-up is someone telling people to not cope in /ptg/. Both of the off-by-ones are advocating for Total Zigger Death.
• June 11 - Soyteens steal /x/'s 35M GET. The runner-up is even worse. Mods handed out month-long bans to most of the raiders.
• June 18 - A torrent containing the Starbound source code is posted on /t/ by the leaker.
• June 20 - /vr/'s 10M GET is a FOTM meme.
• June 22 - Mods send a thread about the missing submarine underwater, complete with the Goblin Slayer OST. They do the same to a stickied thread that was posted around the time the sub's oxygen was estimated to run out, this time with My Heart Will Go On. The sticky was originally rolling, but it was set to a normal sticky so the mod's embed post wouldn't be pruned. Around 3:25PM after it was announced that the sub had imploded it was changed back to a rolling sticky, causing ~4600 posts to be instantly pruned, including the embed. At 10:38PM a mod re-posted the embeds, and unstickied the thread. Thread after archiving
• June 23 - Mod makes an Essex thread and Anonymous finally loses his virginity.
• June 24 - Prigozhin marches Wagner towards Moscow and civil war breaks out in Russia. /k/ is ecstatic at new Kino after months of stalemate, comparing Prigozhin to Caesar and Horus Lupercal. /pol/ is absolutely demoralized and cannot cope.
• June 26 - An Anon is publicly banned on /tv/ for calling Monty Python reddit.
• June 30 - /int/'s 184M GET is a reply in the Japanese learning thread. The runner-up is Cirno BTFOing frogposters yet again.
• July 3 - A Neco-Arc thread on /v/ gets GIFs and music embedded.
• July 4 - 22222222 on /lit/ is got by Bernkastel from Umineko. The Sharty once again tried and failed to steal it, but they still tried to claim it because the post contains the word chud.
• July 5 - A pirate steals 433333333 on /pol/. /u/'s 40M GET is just the word "sexo"
• July 6 - /funkg/ pays to have a clip shown of the Vs. /v/ mod on a billboard in Times Square. Said clip contains the word "infinigger" in the bottom left that got cut off on the billboard to just "nigger", which somehow wasn't caught by the ad company.
• July 10 - More CSS silliness: /v/ gets a gay bear from Baldur's Gate 3. The game was confirmed to have a man-on-bear gay sex scene (actual bear, not a hairy guy,) and /v/ is flooded with threads about it.
• July 11 - It's been seven years since /a/ laughed.
• July 12 - The sharty steals /r9k/'s 74M GET. A shitposter on /a/ gets a custom public ban for his thread, two replies are also banned before the thread is locked. Another shitposter gets a public ban as well, and his thread is moved to /trash/.
• July 14 - 55555555 on /biz/ is got by a numerologist.
• July 15 - The ecker ban evasion tool changes domains.
• July 16 - Cirno gets 255M on /a/.
• July 17 - moot's disabling of GETs on /v/ comes back to bite him in the ass. Someone on /co/ describes in explicit detail how they want a fuckdoll lifesized plushy of a cartoon character, later preceeding to describe how they are the least fucked-up person in their family.
• July 18 - Stu's making chocolate pudding on /co/.
• July 20 - Someone on /k/ is publicly banned for posting a screencap of a reddit post, and the thread is closed. The same happens to an /a/ thread shilling Crunchyroll. /tv/ also gets a sticky in anticipation of both the Barbie Movie and Oppenheimer movie releasing the next day. (A /tv/ anon also built a replica of Sneed's store for his cats, but janny deleted the thread.)
• July 21 - Tony Bennett dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• July 26 - A rare /x/ sticky is made for the Congress hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, where a whistleblower claims that the US government recovered downed alien crafts and had been attempting to reverse-engineer them. Also, Sinéad O'Connor died and /mu/ got a sticky.
• July 27 - A frogposter on [s4s] gets two same bans!
• July 31 - A very eventful day. /a/'s 255555555 GET was Rozen Maiden, their first octuplet 5s that weren't stolen by another board. After several hours the thread was briefly stickied, getting 967 posts in total. The sharty was seething that they were unable to steal it, being 9/200ths of a second too late. A mod on /v/ makes an Azur Lane sticky complete with earrape and embedded GIFs. The sharty, still reeling from their loss, spam the sticky and many other threads across /v/. Also, Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) passed away, and got a sticky on /tv/.
• August 1 - The sharty steals 1M on /vm/, and promptly memory-hole the massive /a/ GET they failed the day prior.
• August 2 - An ice expert with an appropriate ID weighs in on /pol/. /vt/'s 55M GET is posted by the picture of a perfect human.
• August 3 - Sharty raid on /vp/, wiping out half the catalog.
• August 4 - Sharty raid on /cm/, wiping out half the catalog. Jannies restored threads from the archive, accidentally restoring soyteen threads as well. The Baby bot makes its first known appearance on 4chan, assisting in the raid. It is also spotted on /trash/, /vg/, and /tg/.
• August 5 - 4chan grinds to a halt a couple minutes before 4pm Eastern Time. Pages began to load around 9:50PM EST, but posting and reporting were still broken. Things came back around 11:08PM but images are loading slowly and the front page is still down. (it was up for a while during the outage) Trying to load boards by typing 4chan.org/a/ doesn't work, you have to write out boards.4channel.org/a/. /pw/'s Arabic name is also reverted back to Professional Wrestling.
• August 6 - Until shortly after 5PM EST only the boards and sys subdomains were working. Images would sometimes load slowly. A Deku from the Nintendo 64 Zelda games gets repeating 64s on /v/.
• August 7 - William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and many other classic films, dies. /tv/ gets a sticky.
• August 8 - /vt/'s 55555555 GET is a link to a vtuber stream, muh failed shartee raid, etc.
• August 10 - /pw/'s 11111111 GET is an Inoki-san win.
• August 11 - The sharty finally steals a get, this one being /m/'s 22M GET. The first episode of the show where Hiroyuki travels through Africa airs, naturally most of the /tv/ thread turns into meta discussion about 4chan and moot.
• August 13 - A mod makes a Diablo 2 themed sticky on /v/. Cirno steals the 256M /a/ GET in the Dragon Ball Super general.
• August 14 - Yandex is added to the reverse image search buttons on some boards. A nor/mlp/erson makes a hayburger IRL and throws up. The sharty was temporarily shut down after Doll, the administrator of sharty at the time, failed to raise money to keep the site online there also was a massive IP and chatlog leak. The 'teens are scattered away seeking new place to replace the sharty.
• August 15 - Author and artist Nami Sano passed away, /a/ sticky.
• August 16 - An Anon on /vr/ posts proof that he found an ultra rare version of Starfox at a garage sale. The thread is deleted because he's calling anyone who isn't sucking him off seething. His first thread wasn't.
• August 17 - A Thursday Asuka thread is sticked on /a/. Complete with mod embeds.
• August 18 - An Oppenheimer "le X... Y???" gets 188888888 on /tv/. Funny ID on /pol/.
• August 19 - A thread on /a/ is locked and publicly banned, along with two replies.
• August 24 - The is2.4chan.org image server is briefly down in some European countries. It will continue to load slowly and crash worldwide for several weeks.
• August 22 - /pol/ discovers that on the 19th Laseranon, a ban evader known for posting about his collection of lasers and advocation for using them on government employees, murdered two people in Dillingham, Alaska. Instead of using his beloved lasers he shot them. Cirno steals the 90M GET on /tg/.
• August 23 - Eventful day. Prigozhin dies, /pol/ gets a sticky with mod embeds. The first American Republican Party Presidential Debate also gets a /pol/ sticky. Pro wrestler Terry Funk died, /pw/ sticky. The sharty returns and immediately steals some GETs on /trash/, /s4s/, /pol/ and /g/ with the help of babybot.
• August 26 - Bob Barker dies, /tv/ sticky. Babybot steals /vt/'s 57M GET. The Washington Post runs an article about a cyberstalker who posted nude photos of his ex-girlfriends on /b/ thousands of times.
• August 27 - /jp/'s 44444444 GET is stolen by babybot.
• August 29 - A /biz/raeli opens a 300k short on BTC and loses it all.
• August 30 - Nude videos of a kpop idol are leaked on /mu/.
• August 31 - /a/'s 256666666 GET is claimed by a Bejitabro.
• September 1 - The 440M GET on /pol/ is by someone who isn't keen on getting drafted.
• September 2 - /pw/ celebrates an eventful 9/2 when some anons manage to sneak an image of legendary wrestler Kevin Nash being brutally raped by a pack of wild bulbasaurs past TSX moderation and onto a giant digital billboard in New York City's very own Times Square. Jimmy Buffet passed away, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• September 4 - A new sticky is posted to /diy/, asking for user input on new changes for the current /diy/ sticky. The years didn't stop coming for Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash Mouth. /mu/ sticky.
• September 6 - A /tv/ thread gets 26 dubs and 8 trips. Probably not statistically unusual though.
• September 7 - 650M on /v/ BTFOs Battlefield.
• September 8 - /diy/'s new sticky is posted, now including many more links on a variety of topics. The old sticky was just over 9 years old when it was deleted, possibly making it the oldest post to be deleted by a mod. A thread is publicly banned and locked on /k/. Images saved from 4chan were briefly formatted as WebP. Although it was not known at the time, there was major security flaw in WebP image viewers. Coincidentally, 4chan's unexplained stint with WebP happened just days before the security hole became known to the world (Or should we say to the whole world?). Draw your own conclusions. In other news, janitor applications are now being accepted for the next ~72 hours. As usual, /b/, /bant/, [s4s], and /trash/ and not available to apply for, and neither are any of the locked boards. /vip/ is an option, interestingly enough.
• September 9 - It's Cirno Day! Threads are sticked with embeds on /bant/ and [s4s]. Three threads are publicly banned, along with one post in the sticky. There's also a Hololive sticky on /vt/ and /jp/. 27M on /o/ is a pic of someone's motorbike tires.
• September 10 - In response to the horsefucker IRL hayburger last month, an actual scientist or chemist is now using enzymes to create a human-digestible hayburger, which he wants to be served at Mare Fair.
• September 11 - Manga artist Buichi Terasawa passed away, gets /a/ sticky. The /fit/ 72222222 GET is a sign from the Lord. A 9/11 meme thread on /vt/ gets a mod embed and permasaged.
• September 12 - Apple event gets a /g/ sticky.
• September 13 - Janitor applications are now closed.
• September 14 - A busy day in vidya. Nintendo Direct at 10AM (sticky), followed by Sony's State of Play in the evening (sticky). A CRTChad got 96M on /g/.
• September 15 - In response to the news that Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov is in critical condition, a mod funposts in /uhg/ and /chug/, embedding an Islamic Goku edit. In /uhg/ they set the video to not be visible, so only the music could be heard.
• September 16 - A /pol/ post talking about Danny Masterson gets the ID DannyFun.
• September 18 - The 190M GET on /tv/ is a reply to a BBC fetishist calling his dick small. The runner-up is babybot, now posting flartson. A poster in the 4chan Happenings Thread explains how he believes the GET was injected. A Dead Rising thread on /v/ gets a Gone Guru embedded.
• September 19 - A Latvian anon makes a /pol/ thread about a guy who takes creepshots of his coworkers at a medical center. The creepshots, posted to imagefap and reddit, included extra-disturbing captions, and he even alleged that he broke into someone's house and came on her bras. /pol/ "doxes" him (he left the EXIF data in his posts) and has a fun time before the jannies catch wind and shut it down. Quincy took down his accounts, but his workplace and the local news were notified. Thread that links to all the others.
• September 20 - A Congolese anon posts on /sp/ and talks about what it's like to live in the DRC. Two second-gen Congolese living in Europe show up too, along with a Kenyan and they confirm he's legit. An anon on /fit/ moves on.
• September 21 - An Iraqi anon on /bant/ explores Saddam Hussein's now-abandoned palace. Babybot steals the 59M GET on /vt/.
• September 23 - Septs on /pol/ are discussing the political implications of muscular cats.
• September 24 - Mod embed in a /v/ thread about Team Fortress 2. The sound was a now-removed YouTube video where Spy uncloaked & insulted the player. The OP image was deleted shortly before or after the thread archived. Cirno gets Lucky septs on /int/ while insulting frogposters.
• September 25 - The 36M GET on /x/ is appropriately schizo.
• September 28 - It is announced that video game artist Yoshitaka Tamaki passed away in July. /vr/ sticky.
• September 29 - Slytherin claims lucky sexts on /qst/.
• September 29-October 1 - The dates for Mare Fair come around and, despite doomposters and the everpresent fear that it'll be Dashcon 2.0, it surprisingly goes off without a hitch. Much excitement and mare-iment is had at the laundry list of pony-centric panels, room parties, and an amazing concert. On top of that, over $50,000 was raised at the charity auction for a local horse rescue, with the donation grand total coming to $60,372 before fees over the course of the weekend. Praise be to the Mare Aficionado, the true Pony Jesus!
• September 30 - /his/ gets the only sticky since the board's creation in 2015. A thematic sticky about the year 1437, while having some detractors, it is well received and reaches 350~ posts.
• October 1 - 20 FUCKING YEARS. Special green and red party hats with the number 20 appear on all threads, and a new birthday draw gets posted in the news section. Someone from /f/ makes a celebratory flash, thread. (He actually finished it a few days before the first but whatever) A bunch of [s4s] anons draw a nice picture. /f/'s 3.5M GET also happened, reminding (You) to take your daily dose. RMS replies to /g/'s get well card. Suiseiseki gets sexts on /sp/. A shitposter is publicly b& on /an/.
• October 3 - A mod posts in an AI slop thread on /v/ - "Keep the furshit on /b/ or /trash/." The Sharty breaks important news via sexts on /news/.
• October 4 - Someone who waifus Chino-chan GETs 258M on /a/.
• October 7 - 13th anniversary of MLP:FiM, /mlp/'s yearly anni stream thread is stickied as usual. Due to scheduling "mishaps", this anni is the longest yet, with the thread finally being unstickied on the 19th. Also, /his/ is transported to 1692 for the weekend! A mod posts in giant red text on /sp/. Teh shartee steals the 26M GET on /gif/. Flartbot (formerly babybot) steals 60M on /vt/.
• October 7 - /his/ gets a second thematic sticky, this time for the year 1692. The sticky lasts two days and only makes 200~ posts but it arguably led to discussions than the first.
• October 10 - 5ch is down due to scripters and DDOS. A refugee thread is made on /int/. The Japanons are incredibly polite and comment on how nice 4chan is compared to Japanese imageboards. On /g/ a female (maybe) YouTuber posts her face reacting to an AI card that calls her trans.
• October 11 - RIP Keith Giffen, /co/ sticky.
• October 12 - An Anon from /hoc/ steals 444444444 on /pol/.
• October 13 - Cirno steals 450M on /vg/. Music is embedded in the /chigi/ general on /pol/.
• October 14 - 140M on /co/ is a shitpost in the Mr. /co/ thread. A /v/irgin claims to have stolen a copy of Mario Wonder from his job. The Nintendo Ninjas get him before he can dump it, but /v/ manages to get a leaked copy from some Discord server. First thread once the leak goes live. Flartbot steals 96666666 on /g/.
• October 15 - 191M on /tv/ is got by Kermit checking those digits.
• October 16 - It's day 600 of the Ukrainian war, mods celebrate by embedding dancing pigs and music in /uhg/ and /chug/.
• October 19 - Ban&lock on /a/. The /mlp/ anniversary thread is finally unstickied.
• October 20 - /int/'s 188888888 get is gotten by some retard who wastes it. The DOTA international championships start, the general on /vg/ would be stickied six times from the 20th to the 29th. First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth.
• October 21 - A fat fuck GETs 61M on /vt/.
• October 23 - Sexts on /biz/ confirm an incoming black swan. An Indianon on /pol/ gets an appropriate ID. A shitpost on /a/ is banned&locked.
• October 24 - Ban&lock for an /r/ thread on /a/.
• October 25 - Mod embedded music is heard in a /pol/ thread.
• October 27 - /m/'s 22222222 GET is a Gurren Lagann post. Mostly agreed to be a fairly good GET. Sharty loses yet again in one of it's greatest FAILS by literally a single post, serving as somewhat of a revenge for the 22M GET caca steal back in August. Mod-made thread on /pol/ contains music.
• October 28 - Actor Matthew Perry dies, /tv/ sticky. Shino GETs septs on /a/. Very bizzare spam floods a /fit/ thread. Someone does their Ph.D thesis on /pol/.
• October 29 - /sci/ gets a sticky requesting links for a new permasticky. Flartbot steals 33333333 on /lgbt/.
• October 30 - /g/ gets a sticky for the Apple Event. /x/ gets its yearly spoopy Halloween sticky. Flartbot steals the 60M GET on /k/.
• October 31 - Flartbot steals 19M on /bant/.
• November 1 - /sci/'s new permasticky goes live. /hap/persons discover a new bug: if you use a ton of & symbols as a name and tripcode, a <span> tag breaks, completely crashing the inline extension. If you're using the vanilla site and someone posts with that name, the thread will appear closed, not letting you reply and not auto-updating. It's used on various boards to limited effect. The archives even scrape the broken HTML, thinking it's part of the name. Within 12 hours this is patched.
• November 2 - A box of Futos appears in the background of a /jp/ thread. (The mod tested it in /nah/ but deleted the post before it could be archived)
• November 3 - /v/ sticky for Blizzcon 2023. A mod stickies a Ricardo thread on /wsg/, embedding a gif as well as publically banning someone (and replying with their capcode on) An Anon from /t/ who had once promised to make a JAV starring himself and a cosplayer pussies out because he's worried he'll get fired if someone identifies him.
• November 5 - A Glegle thread is moved from /v/ to /trash/ and stickied. It would be stickied for 12 days, generating lots of new Gles. A modpost on /lgbt/ is made telling users that camwhoring is against the rules. A non-stickied /pol/ thread about pro-Palestinian protests in D.C. breaks the image limit and surpasses 1000 replies.
• November 6 - Lucky septs are wasted on /pol/. Also, someone with an Israeli proxy is spamming. A user is publicly banned for posting eceleb shit on /a/.
• November 8 - Public warning for a post on /gif/ misinterpreting the "no evading filters" rule.
• November 9 - The 61M GET on /trash/ is giving sympathy to someone who just lost their cats.
• November 10 - 5333333 on /wsg/ is a vtuber loli webm, idk it was removed from the archive
• November 14 - 4chan was down for 7 hours (Around 01:30 - 08:30 EST), prompting fears that Cloudflare has terminated 4chan.
• November 15 - Cirno gets 190M on /int/. Curly Brace wins Queen of /v/ 2023.
• November 16 - A /co/ Anon goes to an advance screening of the latest Disney movie, Wish. He recorded the entire movie's audio and posted it.
• November 17 - A /sci/ Anon brings a printout of his waifu to the SpaceX Starbase. The /trash/ Glegle thread is unstickied.
• November 18 - /sci/ sticky for the SpaceX Starship IFT-2. Spoiler alert: it blew up.
• November 19 - Someone who played Uncharted 2 gets 658M on /v/. /pol/ gets a sticky for the Argentinian election results.
• November 20 - The 63M GET on /vt/ is someone who wants sex with Purin. A request thread on /a/ is banned & locked, a replier is b& too. 445M on /vg/ is an OSRS player lamenting about his past.
• November 21 - A weird glitch on /vg/ is observed when every post in a thread is deleted after it archives.
• November 22 - A request thread on /a/ is banned & locked, some repliers are b& too.
• November 23 - A Thanksgiving thread on /hm/ is banned & locked. A reply calling rules reddit is b& too. Two threads on /a/ are banned & locked too.
• November 24 - A janny impersonator is banned on /r9k/.
• November 25 - The voice actress for the Princess from Slay the Princess shows up on /v/ and makes a vocaroo calling (You) a good little Anon.
• November 26 - The 450M GET on /pol/ calls for total Ukrainian death. Septs on /r9k/ wish for a blue /r9k/. Another two ban & locks on /a/.
• November 27 - The 260M GET on /a/ is a Miku figure in a buyfag thread.
• November 28 - Charlie Munger dies, gets a /biz sticky. A femanon on /co/ follows the rules in an Amazing Digital Circus thread.
• November 29 - Henry Kissinger dies, gets a /pol/ sticky. 659M on /v/ is about how everything is biodegradable (in a game)
• November 30 - Lucky sexts on /lit/ announce we're all gonna make it. RIP Shane MacGowan, /mu/ sticky.
• December 1 - An unused Nintendo character, Wapeach, is revealed by the creator of Wario. /v/ and the rule34 community rejoice.
• December 2 - Two posts saying "gimi" posted at the exact same second in the same thread on /sp/ get quints. Septs on /tg/ are wasted on a random post.
• December 4 - 4chan blocks uploading files via Incognito mode, BTFO'ing IP hopping phoneposter and ban-evaders. /pol/ proclaims "4chan is official Mossad-occupied [sic]" The GTA VI trailer is released, /v/ has a sticky with over 9000 replies. Another sticky was made and force-archived after several minutes, presumably made on accident by another mod. A shitpost is stickied on /bant/.
• December 7 - /v/ gets a sticky for the Game Awards. 73M on /fit/ is an epic BTFO'ing of chuds.
• December 8 - On /v/, the 660M GET is a spoopy skeleton coming for (You). The 55M GET on /vp/ is a fujo win. The soyboy woahjack boogieteens failed to steal it. Lucky septs on /g/ are wasted on a nerd talking about a Python thing.
• December 9 - The 193M GET on /tv/ is a pedopost. A mod embeds the Dragon's Dogma OST in a thread about the game.
• December 10 - Doom turns 30. /v/ and /vr/ get stickies, including CSS with the classic Doom theme playing. Grimm is /v/oted as King of /v/ 2023. The guy who posted about killing Chitwood ""in Minecraft"" on /pol/ is sentenced to one year in prison.
• December 11 - Spoopy spider mod embed in the latest /v/ arachnophobia thread. /hoc/ on /sp/ GETs septs. Someone doing a storytime in a /co/ Christmas Cheer thread GETs septs.
• December 12 - (USER WAS BANNED FOR POSTING X SHIT) on /a/. The 16M GET on /his/ is seething about trannies posting soyjaks on /lgbt/.
• December 13 - The 20M GET on /ck/ is stolen by Cirno once again BTFO'ing frogposters. On or a little before this day, all boards are now each available under both the 4chan and 4channel domains. The API returns to 4chan by default. Probably a plan to re-merge the site given that all ads run off Hiro's Danbo service now and the syncframe is already broken on most browsers as part of phasing out third-party cookies.
• December 15 - A mod embeds Ram Ranch in a thread about gay sex in the Senate.
• December 16 - Starting around 10:30AM EST, 4channel.org boards now always redirect to 4chan.org.
• December 17 - /v/, /vg/, /vt/, and /pol/ now have 200 thread slots instead of 150.

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• January 1 - Mickey Mouse enters the public domain in the US, as the copyrights on his first three theatrical shorts expire. Mods do some CSS fuckery to a /co/ drawthread, adding a picture of Mickey (albeit in his still-copyrighted modern design) with the text PUBLIC DOMAIN over his eyes and the song "Steamboat Bill" playing.
• January 10 - The /int/ sticky is updated with new links.
• January 22 - First report of a change in the captcha, at the time reported on /g/ & /trash/. Now the captcha is cut in half horizontally in the middle and one uses the slider to slide the bottom half portion to decipher it. Not site wide yet as of January 24.
• February 4 - The 666M GET on /v/ is a post about video games. A WFH NEET gets a custom ban.
• February 5 - There is now a 60 second wait between the Cloudflare check and the CAPTCHA appearing. Currently noticed on some boards.
• February 10 - /v/ makes some vidya creepypasta, with it mostly being one letter posts. A new "bot" for vidya butts appears on /v/, and a barneyfag-like anon "owns" the spammer by posting under every single thread saying: "indian zoophile bot spam thread"
• February 11 - Kansas wins the Superb Owl, so a mod puts Taylor Swift's face appears on top of the sticky.
• February 12 - Dark Brandon Rises on twitter and /pol/. Thread theme. A cartoon pilot that was only screened at film festivals is leaked on /co/.
• February 13 - /vt/ Erupts as Nijisanji, a Vtubing company, loses 100,000 subscribers in less than 24 hours, This happens as a result of Nijisanji abusing their Nijiwhores
• February 14 - A /k/ thread about Russian ships sinking is sent underwater. The same happens to multiple /chug/ and /ugh/ threads on /pol/. (In total, /uhg/ #13,156-13,158 and /chug/ #14,919-14,923 had the embeds)
• February 26 - The 8M GET on /aco/ is a sharty win (even though its a pic of their character cross-dressing)
• March 3 - 4chan Passes are quietly able to be bought and renewed with credit/debit cards again. There is no global announcement or news post, only the pass page itself mentions it. Payment is via a service called owo.to, which just has a generic Stripe checkout widget. Currently owo.to's homepage claims it is under construction. On or before this date, all static pages on 4channel.org (like 4channel.org/rules) now redirect to their equivalent on 4chan.org.
• March 4 - A Glover prototype gets posted to /v/, complete with source code.
• March 8 - /vp/'s 55555555 GET is stolen by the Sharty, wow who could have guessed? /a/ gets two death stickies: one for Akira Toriyama, (creator of the Dragon Ball franchise), the other for TARAKO (voice of the title character of Chibi Maruko-chan).
• March 11 - Threads made after ~9:00AM EST don't have a working counter of unique IPs, after it is inexplicably removed. Threads are made on most boards, and many are deleted except on /g/ and /pol/ (and the off-topic boards). Shitposters sitewide rejoice and celebrate by replying to every post in many threads with "all me btw" while others wish the mods would communicate with the userbase for once. Moderator I_AM_ABIB confirms over IRC that the change is permanent. When asked why, yournamehere simply responds with "BIG CHEESE".
• March 19 - The 4chan Happenings Thread currently on /trash/ is swapped with the thread on /bant/. The thread was posted to /r9k/, [s4s], /bant/, and /b/ earlier in the week, with anons saying they should all be moved to /trash/ or shuffled. An anon in one of the moved threads suggests that it be swapped with the thread on /qa/, and it's moved there minutes later. The old thread on /qa/ is left untouched.
• March 20 - An off-topic thread on /v/ is accidentally moved to /news/. It took the mod 12 hours to realize this and delete the moved thread.
• March 21 - 777777 on /i/ is in a soyjak thread. The thread, which was posted in September 2023, is deleted on March 28th shortly after the GET was posted in the 4chan Happenings Thread. The soyim weren't happy.
• March 25 - Lord White, an amateur pro wrestler, posts a selfie with timestamp on /pw/.
• March 26 - A sound effect from Hell's Kitchen is embedded in the Happenings Thread. Also, a youtube video is embedded on [s4s].
• March 30 - A Sneedposter GETs lucky septs on /tv/.
• March 31 - 672M on /v/ really wants to be banned for a week.
• April 1 - April Fools Days arrives and the joke is actually fucking good this time. The Yotsuba Stock Exchange opens and Anons are given $1000 to invest in these memecoins: PEPE, WOJK, ANIME, CHAD, CLOWN, LOL, SICP, AUTSM, BANE, CIA, BOOB, RDDT, DESU, JANNY, GME, CHUCK, YTSB and GACHI. Retarded anons buy small dips and cash out for only hundreds in profit while the wisest investors wait until a memecoin crashes to single digits before going all in and becoming multi-millionaire moguls and magnates. Most traders hang out in the /biz/ megasticky. A relevant thread is moved from /g/ to /qa/ and stickied. At the end of the day, all the stock prices drop to $1, with the graph staying completely flat. A native isekai shitposter gets publicly banned & locked on /a/.
• April 3 - One of /vg/'s janitors accidentally reveals himself in /gig/ - Genshin Impact General while doing an unboxing. He has a custom extension with the report queue and an messages inbox.. The day prior a Norwegian shitposter on /int/ glowposts about shooting up Parliament, causing it to be evacuated and searched. The 77M GET on /r9k/ is someone who wants to abuse women.
• April 4 - The 73M GET on /vt/ is someone calling a vtuber cute.
• April 5 - "The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem", a Netflix documentary about 4chan is released. It features W.T. Snacks, kirtaner, hotwheels, and some other faggots. The first half is about the early days but eventually it just turns into seething about how /pol/ planned a government insurrection and sent a plague unto our houses.
• April 8 - A total solar eclipse casts a shadow across North America for a couple hours. /pol/ says an eclipse-induced apocalypse will happen, nothing happens, and mods attempt humor by stickying a locked thread with a picture of a nothingburger bun, before unstickying, unlocking and autosaging it shortly after. /sci/ also gets a sticky.
• April 9 - An Israelite with repeating numbers claims Iran won't do shit (this aged poorly lol) <--- this aged poorly double lol
• April 10 - Cirno steals some 9s on /bant/, the 20M GET is nah (not a happening)
• April 11 - O.J. Simpson dies, /sp/ gets a sticky.
• April 13 - A sticky is made on /biz/ announcing that users will soon need to verify an email address to post, due to the massive shitcoin spam /biz/ has seen as of late. Only major email providers are accepted, and users will have to re-verify every 24 hours. Verification won't be required for passfags. The wording on the signin page (A verified email address is required to post on some boards like /biz/) implies that this may become a requirement on other boards. Most anons aren't happy, begging the mods to simply turn on flags and rangeban India. This is the biggest change to posting since the CAPTCHA was added in 2010.
• April 14 - /g/ reaches 100 million posts, being a seventh board to do so. The GET is simply the word "sir".
• May 13 - Good news for /biz/bros! The email verification system is loosened by the admins. Now, new anons only need to wait 15 minutes before they can post on /biz/, or they can verify their email to start using it immediately.
• June 7 - The source code for the New York Times’ digital assets leaks on /g/. Quoted as being “270 GB… There are around 5 thousand repos (out of them less than 30 are additionally encrypted I think), 3.6 million files total, uncompressed tar.” Archived here. Magnet here. Magnet link.
• June 9 & 10 - /vt/ and /r9k/ both had a 77M GET, with the /r9k/ one being about a cute duckand the /vt/ GET calling calling gura cute. Sharty BTFO yet again.
• June 11 - The /tv/ 200M GET is someone that said "Star wars sucks".
• July 13 - Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt. A mod makes a sticky on /pol/.
• July 17 - Goutokuji Mike appears in the background of a /jp/ thread. The image was hosted from a /vip/ thread that got purged on August 25, causing her to disappear if it wasn't cached by the browser. A mod put her back by reuploading the image in /vip/ and posted HTML code and now there are two (2) Mikes for some anons whose browser cached the old image. Hovering over said post would render another Mike, making it possible to see 3 Mikes.
• July 18 - Promotional reference guides for the upcoming Jack Black Minecraft movie are leaked on /v/. They were later reposted on Twitter and removed in a copyright takedown by Microsoft. The character designs look so ugly that the /v/ thread derailed into shitflinging about Tenacious D splitting up over the Trump assassination attempt instead.
• July 21 - IT'S JOEVER, Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the election. A mod makes a sticky on /pol/.
• August 5 - Ongoing escalation of conflicts in the Middle East coupled with fears of US recession as the FED promised rate cuts, Japan raising rates and poor earnings report for the tech sector which fueled the rally destroyed Crypto. Many /biz/raelis killed themselves as they lost it all when Alts nosedived. Bitcoin dropped $20,000 in value in a span of a week as the ongoing sell off picks up speed. Many bulls were liquidated or had their life-savings obliterated. The pink fields return.
• August 9 - Without prior notice, the mods at FANDOM shut down the /lit/ wiki and announced that the site would no longer host any content related to 4chan. They slowly began to nuke 4chan wikis over the coming weeks, including the /s4s/, /v/, and /mu/ wikis.
• August 15 - Not an April Fools joke, 12 years after it's release, Katawa Shoujo is now on Steam. Some threads are made on /v/, some having nostalgia for the game, others worrying about normalfags, and many wondering how the hell is /ksg/ still a thing.
• August 20 - Voice actress Atsuko Tanaka, best known as the voice of "The Major" Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, passes away. /a/ gets a sticky.
• August 25 - At about 10:30pm EST, 4chan has sporadic unresponsive periods. Half an hour later, 20 boards have their catalogs completely wiped. The affected boards were /a/, /b/, /c/, /d/, /h/, /vip/, /cm/, /3/, /aco/, /an/, /bant/, /biz/, /ck/, /co/, /diy/, /fit/, /int/, /lit/, /mlp/ and /trash/. The purge kills many, many old threads, including some of the earliest surviving threads on /vip/. Mods plead oopsy-daisy on /a/, /c/, /ck/, /co/, /cm/, /diy/, /lit/, /3/...most boards that were purged receive the same public mod apology of "Mods made a mistake. We're sorry.". On /co/, one mod chalks up the purge to "mods being dumb." Nothing is confirmed about why the purge happened yet. Random rumors from an exposed glowie to a credible threat to being related to the Telegram arrest are floated around.
• August 30~ - 4chan starts giving out 3-year passes for $45.(Can't find the announcement on archived pages of the time (https://archive.today/vXc7h) but I remember seeing it. It was also talked about in this thread)
• September 3 - /a/ loves cutting boards
• September 6 - The Prismriver Sisters appears at the bottom of a /jp/ thread, this is how it appears; archive link. Anon discovers the post containing HTML code responsible for their appearance here and the image referenced is from a /vip/ thread.
• September 23 - The /g/ sticky is updated with a new wiki link after the Fandom wiki was nuked.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 21st birthday. Party hats on all boards as usual, but also two birthday presents. The first present, for some fucking reason, is permastickies for /vrpg/, /vmg/, /vst/ and /vm/. The second and more widely-NOOTICED present is a surprise site-wide word filter. Users can no longer type nigger, faggot, and/or tranny more than 3 times in a single non-spam post. This filter tracks the words cumulatively and it does not matter if the words are posted one after another, so posting niggerfaggot twice in a row, or posting a regular post with nigger/faggot/tranny spread throughout, will give a "Post successful!" message, but the post will not actually show up. Both regular users and shitposters were expectedly not happy, and due to the user backlash and lack of effectiveness, the mods would quietly remove the filter in the new few days after.
• October 7 - The /lit/ sticky is reposted with updated wikis and links after the Fandom wiki was nuked.
• October 10 - Three new rules to post are introduced to /vg/ to prevent spam. The email verification system previously used on /biz/ is brought back as one option, the second option is to buy a pass, the third option for a "new user of 4chan" is to wait 15 minutes only once before posting. You only have to do one of the three options and accept 4chan cookies to be able to post, but shitposters are pissed because the rules inconvenience ban-evading, apply best to spambots, and does not stop bots or organic users on /vg/ from using a throwaway email account to post schizophrenic shit, Discord tags and ritualposts when the thread doesn't have fresh content and poster turnover.
• October 18 - The new anti-spam rules spread to /pol/, then to /v/ the following day, and lastly to /a/ on October 21. The sticky announcing the new rules on /pol/ forced the SLOW THE FUCK DOWN sticky to be purged and reposted as a reply in the /pol/ sticky.
• October 23 - The anti-spam rules are applied to all remaining boards, except of course /f/, which still uses the Google CAPTCHA, and the FAQ is updated to include them.
• October 27 - The /vg/ 500M GET is a Touhou General OP.
• October 29 - A sticky on /mu/ is created to discuss alternatives for hosting the /mu/ wiki after it was nuked by Fandom, but is instead derailed by discussion about /mu/ being dead for the past few years and barely any suggestions for what alternatives to use, because mods only bothered to make this thread two months after /mu/ stopped caring about the wiki dying. Eventually the admin of the Fandom wiki posts in the thread with a Miraheze clone of it, and the old sticky is replaced with a new one three days later.
• October 31 - /v/ got a Halloween sticky themed around the Pumpkin Hill stage from Sonic Adventure 2. A fan remix of the stage music played in the background, and every time the thread was refreshed it would ask you guys if you were going trick or treating. /trash/ got a sticky for the Halloween Google Doodle "Magic Cat Academy 3" and remained stickied for 12 days.
• November 4 - /biz/ is battered and bruised as alt dominance declines day by day and money exits. The calm before the storm as polling day hits, depending on the result, one of either the bears or the bull will be completely destroyed. /pol/ meanwhile has been completely overrun with slide threads proclaiming Trump to be a Jewish agent and Kamala being the bringer of hope and joy. Much seething from the loser and gloating from the winner is coming.
• November 5 - /pol/ and /biz/ celebrate the results of the presidential election as Trump wins the presidency. $218 billion American dollars enter the Cyrpto Market during the lead-up to 270 electors. /pol/ gets a sticky.
• November 7 - /gif/ is reduced from 10 to 5 pages and the archive is removed.
• November 17 - /tv/ mod tries and fails to be funny by giving a sticky to the dog that played Toto in The Wizard of Oz, a dog that has been dead for almost 80 years. An anon presents the mod with the "Attention Whoring Nigger Award", mod immediately embeds the image into one of his next posts, and then deletes the thread at 96 replies when people start complaining about Fishtank Live.
• November 19 - mp4 support is added to all boards, but has the same restrictions as webm files when posted outside of /gif/ and /wsg/.
• December 2 - The /v/ catalog is swarmed with threads that all have a recolor of the ninja characters from Mortal Kombat with the text "ITT post them [color] characters".
• December 5 - Bitcoin hits 100,000 USD per. /biz/ rejoices. It snaps back down to 90k 14 hours later, liquidating everyone.
• December 14 - /vip/ gets an early Merry Christmas sticky.
• December 20 - The seventh and final main issue of the Team Fortress 2 comic series is surprise released after a seven-year hiatus. /v/ gets a sticky.
• December 25 - Halo prototypes get leaked onto /vr/. The source code for Saints Row 4 gets leaked onto /g/.
• December 29 - Jimmy Carter dies, /pol/ gets a sticky.

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• January 1 - Some retard tripfagging as Adrian Dittmann, a Twitter/X user with fanboy connections so close to Elon Musk that he's widely speculated to be the man himself, posts on /pol/'s /emg/ general. He talks like a leftist faggot trying to bait people on 4chan by calling them incels, complaining about negativity, and overusing 4chan buzzwords in a different manner from the pretentious conservative tone he normally tweets in, but /pol/ fell for it anyway. He eventually posts a cropped screencap of a Musk tweet that conveniently shows buttons for the admin portal, bans, and viewing post engagements, the latter of which can normally only be seen on your own tweets. The tripfag immediately deletes this when people notice and laugh. The screencap spread like wildfire on X with claims it was Musk, but this isn't guaranteed because, assuming it isn't fake, it's possible that X admins can also access post engagements in the first place. Two days later the retard dumps the tripcode in a different thread, claims it was all a larp and that the screencap was edited, and news sites also reported it didn't resemble the actual X admin interface.
• January 6 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns after a long period of instability in leafland. /pol/ gets a sticky. Leafanon claims he's first, except he isn't.
• January 12 - /v/'s 700M GET is "I'm not seeing the difference", in response to RTX Hair, BTFO'ing Nvidia shills.
• January 14 - The full source codes for Glover 1 and 2 (plus assets and documents) get posted to /vr/.
• January 15 - A site-wide message appears announcing that 4chan Passes will increase in price starting February 1st, one year is $30, three years is $60.
• January 16 - David Lynch dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• January 17 - On Friday night, Trump's X and TruthSocial announced the launch of the official TRUMP memecoin. /biz/ speculates whether Trump was hacked or not and whether this was an elaborate Jeet scam. After a few hours of no information pointing to it being a scam, /biz/ goes all in. Posting speed accelerates and threads start hitting bump limits after a mere 30 minutes. The entire alt market dumps to funnel money into TRUMP and it skyrockets in value, doing a 100x. Many /biz/realis make it.
• January 20 - TRUMP memecoin rugs hard and many /biz/raelis become bagholders.
• January 23 - Trump signs an executive order mandating a plan for the declassification and release of any remaining documents about the assassination of John F. Kennedy be submitted within 15 days, and the same for the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. within 45 days. /pol/ gets a sticky.
• February 2 - Grammy Awards, /mu/ gets a sticky for the show for the first time since 2020.
• February 8 - 4chan replaces Cloudflare Turnstile with hCaptcha for the initial captcha when posting/reporting.
• February 16 - Half-Life 2's art director Viktor Antonov dies, /v/ gets a sticky.
• February 25 - Osaka from Azumanga Daioh is revealed to have grown up to become one of Ena Ayase's teachers in a new chapter in Volume 16 of Yotsuba&!, triggering a crossover for the ages when Yotsuba meets Osaka. This reveal was first teased a decade prior in Chapter 88, a plot twist to rival M. Night Shyamalan. /a/ oldfags go apeshit and the board gets a sticky.
• February 26 - Michelle Trachtenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• February 27 - The annual /v/ HARMONY Day sticky. The US Department of Justice starts to publicly release more files on Jeffery Epstein, /pol/ gets a sticky. Because some of the first files they released were already leaked before and it took six fucking hours for the DoJ to upload them after giving binder copies to Shabbos e-celebs and podcasters, mods once again posted the nothingburger bun, this time embedding it through CSS magic. While the Michelle Trachtenberg sticky is still up, Gene Hackman, his wife, and one of their dogs were found dead in their home, /tv/ gets another sticky.
• March 1 - SpongeBob game prototypes get leaked on /v/. Claude AI, a ChatGPT bot hooked up to play Pokémon Red, gets past Mt. Moon after an 80 hour slump. /v/ celebrates and a mod embeds Victory Road.
• March 2 - The Oscars, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• March 4 - George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, dies, /co/ gets a sticky.
• March 5 - sys.4chan.org goes down for 10 hours because of "horseplay in the server room". The last posts were made at 00:34:28 EST. The banner on IRC simply reads: "SITE IS DOWN - Please wait warmly~". Millions are forced to leave their houses and touch grass. Posting begins working again around 11:10 EST.
• March 6 - /pol/ discovers that a retarded namefag in the /chug/ and /uhg/ generals got himself killed a week ago trying to ransom a military base in Oregon.
• March 10 - /pol/'s 500 million GET is a Christian win.
• March 16 - 2024 /v/GAs, /v/ gets a sticky.
• March 17 - The Adventures of the All Guardsmen Party, a Warhammer 40000 storythread series that ran on /tg/ since 2014, finally ends.
• March 18 - Some 4chan outages reportedly happened in the UK at 12am and 2pm GMT, less than two days after the UK started enforcing the 2023 Online Safety Act. The Trump Administration begins releasing more JFK assassination files, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• March 20 - /v/ mod appears to unironically shill for Assassin's Creed Shadows by adding the ban text "(We lost. The game is a major success.)" to a player count thread.
• March 21 - George Foreman dies, /sp/ gets a sticky.
• March 30 - 4chan passes 5 billion total posts.
• April 1 - The Department of 4chan Efficiency is established to "maximize productivity and eliminate abuse". Starting at 4am UTC, several boards are shut every hour, starting with the slowest, including the hidden boards /asp/ (despite already being closed), /qa/ (the index wasn't updated but the maintenance error message was changed to match the other closed boards) and /test/. /mlp/'s current posting activity on 4stats.io soars to over 1285% within the first two hours in a coordinated effort to prevent the closure of the board, but still gets shut down. By the end of the day, the only boards left standing are /b/, /bant/, /f/, /r9k/, [s4s], /trash/, and /vip/. Individual threads on closed boards can still be accessed, but posting is blocked. The board's index pages and catalogs redirect to a page with the message "This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency" and a picture of the Do4E seal (the exception being /j/, which leads to a 404). Eventually, /b/ gets a sticky saying "To achieve greater efficiency, redundant ASCII characters are being phased out", forcing everyone to start posting in leetspeak. /b/ temporarily cures itself of its cancer, with actual random threads instead of just porn dumps, and pretty much everyone agrees that it's the best /b/'s been in a long time. Mods also interviewed /v/. /b/tards dressed as nigras storm the Habbo Hotel coffeehouse and successfully form a swastika.
• April 2 - Val Kilmer dies just before midnight, a tribute thread on /b/ gets a modpost while the site is restored to normal, then a sticky gets made on /tv/ a bit later. Several /tv/ threads announcing his death were deleted before the sticky was made, possibly because mods thought it was a late April Fool's Day joke.
• April 6 - A cancelled Retro Studios game called Harmony gets leaked on /v/ from a Switch devkit. Other prototypes including cancelled Ridge Racer and Lego Civilization games also get leaked.[2,544][2,545][2,546]
• April 9 - A Chudjak in Buddhist clothing is stickied on /pol/ to show that "nothing ever happens".
• April 15 - /QA/ FUCKING WON - Around 2am UTC, 4chan is hacked by a user of Soyjak.party, with a sitewide announcement of "/QA/ RETURNS SOYJAK[.]PARTY WON #PACKWATCH" alongside three dancing Hatsune Mikus and embedded Touhou music ("Night of Nights" by beatMARIO/COOL&CREATE). All boards are renamed to "/QA/ FUCKING WON". With Hiroyuki's cloak, he reopens /qa/ and makes two stickies there. He also makes a stickied /v/ thread (alternate archive) and spams "I RAPE NIGGERS WITH PICKAXES", and posts on /int/. The sharty actively stickies the infiltrator's threads, dumps the Yotsuba source code (revealing that it basically hasn't been updated since Hiro took over), dumps the complete /j/ archive validating many anons' suspicions schizo delusions over the past decade, and dumps all of the jannies/mods/admins' emails, hashed passwords, last IP used and even more stuff. The hack goes on for roughly 20 minutes until 4chan's MySQL servers are taken offline by moderator and web developer Desuwa. For six hours, no posts can be made, the site loaded very slowly, all previous Hiro posts outside /qa/ were pruned, while /qa/ was left as is. Many had no choice but to take refuge on the IRC channel. Contrary to popular belief, the last known post on 4chan before this happened was not a Chicken Jockey shitpost on /qa/, but a Brazilian complaining about the price of white prostitutes on /int/ 19 seconds later. A little after 8am UTC, the site's web servers were pulled and displayed a connection time-out on the front page. Hours later, 4chan's Twitter account posts for the first time in three years, confirming they're working on fixing their shit. RapeApe allegedly sends an email to all the jannies and mods recommending they change their usernames, passwords, email addresses, and IP addresses, while detailing that the mods had bought new servers and were too slow to move 4chan to them, and that the website will be back Soon™. In the meantime, anons become dispossessed exiles, becoming refugees, scattering to and settling in various altchans.
• April 16 - Hiro says on Twitter that 4chan will be back up "Later!"™
• April 17 - More source code is leaked onto the sharty including the following: www.4chan.org source code, reports.4chan.org source code, team.4chan.org source code, Twister captcha source code, Nginx and PHP configuration files for sys.4chan.org, and a bunch of scripts. Parodies of RapeApe's mail start getting posted. On a Github upload of the leaked source code, Desuwa appears as a contributor authoring a non-verified commit that declares the leaked code is under a WTFPL license. Verified commits on Github are known to be the only protection against a form of identity spoofing that simply needs a target user's email address to be added to any local git configuration's user.email, and such addresses are public information, even before the leak days prior of staff email addresses. In lack of any other announcement there's still no indication they're publicly releasing the source code.
• April 21 - RapeApe reasserts on Twitter that he is working on fixing 4chan and says "We get there when we get there."
• April 23 - New post from the official 4chan Xitter account questions Wired's article about gamers 4chan being dead. 4chan's official blog also gets a new test post for the first time in 8 years, possibly hinting that they could use it again to share updates about the situation.
• April 24 - 4chan.org, boards.4chan.org and other subdomains change their default connection timed out errors to a simple HTML forbidden error stating "Come back later!" shortly before 2AM EDT. A few minutes later, it is changed to "See you soon!". 4chan's CDN and API also start working again for a few hours, before going down again with a 403 Forbidden message. In that time frame, p.4chan.org is back up as a result, and sending verification emails on request, but trying to authenticate a pass to post doesn't work. What appears to be a test post simply saying "1" is also sent at 5:28AM EDT on the /c/ board, and deleted minutes later. It is the first post to be archived since the website went down. At around 10AM EDT, RapeApe sends another email to the staff, once again confirming 4chan is coming back, with a first ETA given for Sunday (April 27) night or Monday (April 28) morning for a read-only version of the site. He also states the secure tripcode salt was changed, /f/ was deleted, all passwords were reset, two old servers (second-hand dells bought in 2010) were retired, PDF uploading was disabled temporarily, and operating systems were updated. A mod in the 4chan IRC confirms both this ETA and the deletion of /f/.
• April 25 - RapeApe tweets "brace for faggotry" in preparation for 4chan's relaunch. At around 12PM EDT, the CDN and API go up again, and p.4chan.org too as a result. While it is still listed in boards.json, /qa/ is not accessible, and trying to access it manually by changing the URL simply redirects to boards.4chan.org/blank.html with the same "See you soon!" message. /f/, however, is still present. At 1PM EDT, 4chan is back after 10 days and 15 hours of downtime, and users are able to post directly. The first post timer is changed to 120 seconds and the 15min timer associated with email verification is gone now. /f/ is also still accessible, but trying to post in the board results in an error page saying "Performing site maintenance. Try again in a little while.". The amount of active content shown on the site's front page is much lower than what it normally is, with over 800GB of content supposedly pruned. /a/ gets a sticky, but the thread is locked after about 40min, and only reopens several hours later at 7:20PM EDT. Meanwhile, threads are moved around erratically between boards, with /a/ getting most of its catalog moved to /g/, while lots of Captcha issues are encountered. A mod moves a /v/ thread and /vg/ thread to /test/, along with other threads, meaning they are testing shit in real-time. /tv/ board is filled with threads from /lgbt/, then from /po/. Around 2:20PM EDT, the Captcha challenge is replaced with a "See you soon!" text, essentially making posting impossible for a few minutes before it comes back to normal. Due to the back and forth moves, some threads get duplicated within their boards or even across boards, such as the /a/ sticky that also appears on /c/ unstickied. Some other threads look broken. The /a/ threads that moved to /g/ are progressively moved back to their original board, as /tv/ and /g/'s catalogs get truncated down to 2 pages. After 1-2 hours of chaos, the site seems mostly stable again, and the general info stickies for some boards are remade. The tripcode salt was also changed. The Dragon Ball Z thread in /a/ that was turned into /ghost/ as many anons from different boards took refuge during the downtime to post on Desuarchive reaches 62,298 ghost posts before the count is reset with the first real post in the thread since the outage. A long post is made on the official blog around 8PM EDT, finally addressing the situation publicly for the first time and confirming that 4chan is back. They re-explain the exploit the hacker used and blame their lack of security on insufficient staff working on updating code and infrastructure, and financial difficulties (despite Hiro being a millionaire). This post also gives more credit to the 2 leaked emails from RapeApe, as the elements mentioned in them are also restated here, such as the fact they were planning on moving to new servers, that the OS have been updated, PDF uploading temporarily disabled, and /f/ disabled permanently to prevent exploits from .swf files. Despite the last statement, the board is still accessible, and only uploading is disabled. The official 4chan Twitter account also makes 2 posts in a smug tone, one questioning the "4chan is dead" claim from the media again, and another linking the blog post. /biz/raelis who fled to sharty declare that they shall never return as flags were not implemented and jeets were not rangebanned as they are on sharty.
• April 26 - Pope Francis' funeral is held, /pol/ gets a sticky. Around 9:20PM EDT popular threads and stats aren't being shown on the front page, the pass page displays "Service Temporarily Unavailable" and the form on the Feedback page is hidden via CSS. The front page returns to normal about 30 minutes later while /pass and /feedback are still down. 4stats data indicates that traffic on 4chan has dropped between 20-25% from before the hack.
• April 27 - 4chan.org/pass returns, the feedback page is still down.
• April 28 - 2025 Canadian Federal Election, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• April 30 - Gawr Gura Graduation, /vt/ gets a thread by the mods.
• May 6 - India launches missiles on Pakistan, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• May 9 - 4chan.org/feedback returns, with only "Bug Report" and "IP Range Ban Issue" categories to select from. Instead of "Subject" and "Message" fields each category now has custom fields for specific, relevant information. Additionally, reCAPTCHA verification on the form has been replaced with hCaptcha.
• May 18 - Joe Biden is diagnosed with prostate cancer, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• May 30 - 4chan's pass Stripe account gets martyred. RapeApe talks about "bending over backwards" but that being in vain.
• May 31 - Anon from /brit/ confesses to have acted out a fake meetup on /mlp/ for England bronies. To his surprise, they actually link up, making it technically the first successful meetup in /brit/'s history.
• June 2 - Jonathan Joss, the voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, was killed by his neighbor, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• June 4 - Modpost on /v/ saying "GOD DAMN IT" when Pragmata is broadcasted on the State of Play 2025.
• June 9 - /an/'s 5 million GET is stolen by an alt-chan
• June 11 - Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys dies, ruining /mu/'s longstanding predictions that he would die on Christmas day by dying almost as far away from it as possible. /mu/ gets a sticky.
• June 13 - Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities and assassinates many Iranian generals and nuclear physicists, /pol/ gets a sticky. Financial markets crashes as oil prices surge, altcoins dump hard against BTC and many /biz/raelis lose hope.
• June 14 - America holds a parade for the 250th anniversary of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Trump. /pol/ sticky. Many anons mock Americans for having a sponsored parade and dog shit drills.
• June 17 - 4chan.org/bans is updated to remove the columns with recent banned posts and how long ago the bans were issued.
• June 21 - US strikes Iranian nuclear facilities, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• June 26 - Me and My Friends, the lost live-action pilot for The Backyardigans which had been autistically hoarded for years, gets posted to /co/.
• June 30 - Former Marvel Comics editor Jim Shooter dies, /co/ gets a sticky.
• July 3 - Michael Madsen dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• July 4 - Julian McMahon dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• July 11 - Google starts removing support for Chrome Web Store extensions that could not or refused to update to comply with (((Manifest V3))); the deprecated 4chanX extension stops working normally and is made unavailable. Users who already have it installed can reactivate it through the browser's //flags page or switch to Tampermonkey + the 4chan-xt userscript.
• July 19 - KoG retires. Public mod ban text for /pol/ post 510777777, saying "(meds now)".
• July 20 - "Brief downtime for updates, don't worry!" was globally announced. It was probably backend "updates".
• July 22 - Ozzy Osbourne dies, /mu/ mod creates a sticky with a picture of Ozzy eating fried bat wings and an embedded instrumental song (on a sticky for a singer), but there were offended bat jannies modding the board as it was unstickied minutes later and replaced with a different generic sticky.
• July 23 - Minimal SEO work is done with the noarchive tag (search engine's) being removed from static pages and the Wayback Machine being unbanned from robots.txt.
• July 24 - Hulk Hogan dies, /pw/ gets a sticky.
• July 25 - Some anon figures out that Tea (a women-only whistleblower app intended to prevent rape and abuse that was used by retards to gossip and mudsling exes over things that aren't rape and abuse) doesn't delete their user identity proofs after verification and stores all their user data publicly on unsecured Google Firebase cloud storage. Anon finds the database ID, requests a JSON pull, and receives over 13K driver's licenses, selfies, names and/or addresses, and dumps them all to /pol/. The "hack" which required no fucking hacking makes the news and gets a Wikipedia mention. Everyone debates whether the app was coded by incompetent jeets or incompetent AI.
• July 26 - 4chan begins to comply with Take It Down Act notices. There goes deepfake porn threads.
• August 15 - Modpost on /bant/ telling Netherlanders to speak in English.
• August 17 - Terence Stamp dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• August 27 - 4chan Community Support and Kiwi Farms file a joint lawsuit against the UK OFCOM over the Online Safety Act. OFCOM gave 4chan a deadline of August 26 to respond to letters sent over their refusal to comply with the act or gib moneys to Great Shitannia.
• September 1 - "Harmful online content monitor" group Open Measures found that after 4chan came back from the hack that posting rates returned to normal, quickly.
• September 4 - Hollow Knight: Silksong finally fucking releases, /v/ mod posts a Hornet thread.
• September 9 - Janitor applications are opened up. This one requires a verified email and a desktop to even view the application form. it's possible to apply for /f/, despite the board being locked.
• September 10 - Charlie Kirk got assassinated at a college rally, /pol/ gets two stickies. /int/ mod stickies go back to /pol/. Anon notices a developer's new message under "Proxy/VPN" bans (telling you to remove "free" botnet apps).
• September 12 - /jp/'s 50M GET is a picture of Cirno with "please respond", BTFOing attempts by the sharty to steal it.
• September 16 - Robert Redford dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• September 17 - Jimmy Kimmel Live's opening monologue two nights prior has a retarded comment about the Charlie Kirk shooter's political affiliation in it. This prompted a large station owner to pre-empt the show in most of the US and the FCC spitballing the idea of revoking ABC's broadcasting license; ABC realizes they finally have a convenient excuse to bin the unfunny dogshit and pulls the show "indefinitely" (it went back on the air six days later). /tv/ and /pol/ get stickies. Shortly afterwards Trump announces plans to designate Antifa as terrorists, /pol/ gets a second sticky. Continuous modposts (very likely RapeApe) (first & second).
• September 19 - After years of issues with Session threads, the sticky on /soc/ gets a reply stating they're no longer allowed.
• September 21 - A mod embeds Earth, Wind & Fire's September on /bant/. (Thread screencap)
• September 23 - Janitor applications are closed after it was open for a unprecedented 2 weeks.
• October 1 - 4chan celebrates its 22nd birthday with artwork from Ramen directly targeting Engerland. The news post is later updated to include links to US flag and red flag variants. Also Jane Goodall dies, /an/ gets a sticky. RapeApe complains on Twitter about the FBI not responding to his reports about ban evading CP spammers & embedders. /pol/ and /bant/ make fun of him for his effort.
• October 3 - The Protomen finally completed and started releasing tracks from the Act III album after a 16-year wait, /v/ mod embeds Proto Man into an existing thread.
• October 11 - Diane Keaton dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• October 13 - Ofcom hits 4chan with a £20K fine, 4chan refuses to pay and their lawyers tell OFCOM to fuck off and respond to the lawsuit. RapeApe tweets an insight on the 4chan jannyworld, saying ban appeals must be "handled" by a different moderator who did not ban the poster.
• October 14 - RapeApe says /pol/ has memeflags because of "[geoflags] making it easier for European leftwing governments to identify RW posters." D'Angelo dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• October 16 - Tomonobu Itagaki dies, /v/ gets a sticky. Ace Frehley dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• October 18 - Modpost (it's RapeApe on a mod capcode) on /v/ agreeing with a post. It has been 31 days since the last modpost (excluding embeds). Also Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• October 23 - Valve pushes out a new update for Counter Strike 2 that changes the game's economy so you can bundle trade cheaper skins for knife skins. The skin market cap plunges by over $2 billion in 10 hours as it crashes, someone on /v/ makes a thread revealing that CS2 sellers on and off Reddit are unironically on suicide watch, that thread gets stickied and autoplays Komm, süsser Tod from Evangelion.
• October 27 - RapeApe tweets that 4chan "won" through Gamergate(?) after quoting the Halo tweet from the White House. Then he praised moot in another tweet, claiming that "moot, being a wise and capable leader, had built up a substantial legal “war chest”" that was spent on The Fappening's celebrity threats. Alludes that Gamergate was banned totally by moot in 2014 because if any lawsuit was filed, 4chan was finished. Moot knew that 4chan would never be able to make money properly.
• October 29 - 4chan passes can be bought through debit/credit cards again. Janitor acceptance emails are being sent out.
• October 30 - /x/ gets a Halloween sticky with an embedded jack-o'-lantern and Goosebumps theme playing. /v/ mod gives a sticky to some random fag (probably himself) who got every achievement in Skyrim, but everyone called that sticky shit, so they brought back the Pumpkin Hill sticky from last year.
• October 31 - Unreleased Famicom game Splatterworld gets posted to /vr/.
• November 1 - Last game of the World Series, last /sp/ sticky.
• November 4 - Dick Cheney dies, /pol/ gets a sticky. RapeApe tweets a response to Null's Kiwi Farms post about reporting CSAM spamming proxyfags to NCMEC, saying that it's practically futile.
• November 11 - Coronal mass ejections happens, /pol/ gets a sticky by a mod who thought this would actually be a happening and embedded a ton of happening memes in the background. When nothing happened he issued a public apology for his slowness and locked the thread 20 minutes later. Also Tatsuya Nakadai dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• November 15 - Modpost on /vst/ apologizing for deleting a thread by mistake. /v/ receives it's own Wikipedia article.
• November 18 - Hiroyuki tweets on @4chan a Reuters politics link about Japan including him and a mention of him owning 4chan. Reuters described him as "outspoken and contrarian".
• November 23 - Udo Kier dies and Hideo Kojima reveals he never got to finish his part for OD before his death, /v/ and /tv/ get stickies. The first /v/ sticky was made by a tripfag and got deleted four minutes after being stickied when people called out how gay that was.
• December 2 - /jp/ gets a sticky embedded with an official McDonald's ad based on "Cirno's Perfect Math Class".
• December 7 - Global announcement "4chan will be down for scheduled maintenance at 11AM EST on Monday the 8th".
• December 8 - Site goes down for around 1.5 hours saying "Performing scheduled maintenance. We'll be back soon". Modpost on /g/ poking fun at the mac mini joke.
• December 14 - Rob Reiner and his wife got murdered, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• December 16 - 4chan unceremoniously gets a new captcha system centered around basic image recognition challenges, seemingly intended to reduce spam by filtering out autosolvers. The tests range from easily readable numbers on a plain white background to spotting a different background against different sets of letters or type and number of shapes. Before it was implemented, there was a substituted number captcha. Global posting rates drop ~20% (/v/ has a 21% drop, /a/ has a 38% drop). Boards noticeably slowed down. 4chan-x and xt are broken but a one-line fix is posted. Complaint threads on /v/ and /g/ are met with 404s and anons attempt to make stealth threads. Most discourse centers around how it's a "IQ test", and it filtering out retards. /pol/ poster got a 24h global ban for a joke question about it. RapeApe tells a twatteroid that the new captcha is better than the old one on Twitter. /a/ "2024 Crunchyroll Arc" poster receives a public ban and gets a thread lock.
• December 20 - /v/ is put on the front page of Wikipedia as a "Did you know?" question, crediting /v/ for making some Internet memes.
• December 21 - James Ransone from The Wire dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• December 22 - Vince Zampella dies, /v/ gets a sticky.
• December 23 - 4chan-xt gets a final update with a captcha fix, leaving an anti-4chan readme behind.
• December 26 - Halo 2 prototypes get leaked onto /v/ and /vr/.
• December 28 - Brigitte Bardot dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• December 29 - OFCOM files a motion to dismiss the 4chan/KF lawsuit, they file an opposition.

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• January 3 - Trump starts a Special Military Operation against Venezuela that, unlike Russian fiasco, ends in about three hours in a night raid with the capture of President Maduro. Happening was so fast that /pol/ gets its sticky only after US victory. Maduro is seen in cuffs, escorted by DEA agents. Moot's provably still active online as his Reddit account has been set private and Reddit began allowing people to private accounts in June 2025.
• January 4 - Bane wins a septs /v/ GET, getting 730000000.
• January 5 - Many threads on /jp/ get spontaneously autosaged if they are older than 14 days old, and given the speed of the board, would all begin to archive much faster than normally. The reason why is unclear, but it's said it's because of generals necrobumping the board too much.
• January 10 - Bob Weir dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• January 13 - Scott Adams dies, /co/ gets a sticky.
• January 13-15 - RKN (Russian censorship agency) realizes that 4chan is not banned and blocks access to the forum. Some anons are still able to post, but many are forced to proxy. Some publicly announce that they bought 4chan Pass to post on the site, others post without passcodes and just hope to not get b& for using VPNs. Glowchan thread about the ban
• January 30 - More Epstein files released and it's discovered that moot met Jeffrey Epstein multiple times, starting days before /pol/ was added in 2011. Among other findings, Epstein seemed to unironically believe that moot was the hacker known as 4chan, saw it as having potential for "manipulation", told Boris Nikolic that moot is "very sensitive so be gentile" prompting the biggest collective laugh in unison of all time, and browsed /u/ and Five Nights at Freddy's porn on /gif/, having it bookmarked as late as 2019. RapeApe puts out multiple statements on X denying any knowledge of moot's interactions with him, even linking to this article. Also Catherine O'Hara dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• February 1 - Grammy Awards, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• February 7 - Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• February 11 - James Van Der Beek dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• February 13 - moot breaks his silence for the first time since getting hired by Google and gives a statement to The Verge saying that Epstein had nothing to do with the creation of /pol/, that they had only one meeting, and that he regrets having encountered him.
• February 14 - Hideki Sato dies. /vr/ gets a sticky.
• February 16 - Robert Duvall dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.
• February 27 - Dan Simmons dies, /lit/ gets a sticky. Also /v/ HARMONY Day sticky.
• February 28 - The US and Israel carry out airstrikes on Iran and kill supreme leader Khamenei, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• March 7 - 4chan goes down for maintenance in the early hours of the morning with the site only displaying: "Performing maintenance. We'll be back soon." The site went back online just before 5PM UTC.
• March 11 - A /v/irgin makes a rap album dedicated to Cave Story. After it reaches bump limit, mods leave the thread on page 11 for the whole day to keep it alive. It goes mainstream on Twitter and Pixel (its game dev) himself enjoys the album.
• March 15 - Modpost on /v/ about removing the bump limit on the /v/GA 2025 thread.
• March 19 - OFCOM fines 4chan £520,000 for non-compliance with their gay shit while also not complying with 4chan's lawsuit, the firm representing 4chan responds with an email reiterating their calls of the UK's bluff and an AI-generated picture of a hamster dressed as Godzilla eating a peanut. A few hours later, 4chan went down for an hour for maintenance again between roughly 4:30-5:30 PM UTC, same message as on March 7.
• March 20 - Chuck Norris, actor, martial artist and high water mark of feats of achievement, dies, /tv/ gets a sticky with The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny playing.
• March 21 - The Maxx creator Sam Kieth dies, /co/ gets a sticky.
• March 30 - Global announcement appears after 6:00 AM UTC reading "Brief downtime in 10 minutes for maintenance!". It was eventually removed but stayed up on /v/ until late the following day. No maintenance took place^{needs fact-checking}.
• April 1 - April Fools 2026, an image captcha is added where you are randomly asked to answer questions about random media and board culture. The questions aren't tied to certain boards and there appears to be no visible penalty for just exiting the captcha and posting with the current one normally. People complain the joke was half-assed. Also Artemis II mission launch, a general on /sci/ gets stickied.
• April 6 - Yoshihisa Kishimoto, creator of Kunio-kun and Double Dragon, dies. /vr/ gets a sticky.
• April 14-16 - Site undergoes a maintenance at some point with a global announcement reading "Brief downtime for maintenance later!"; Site gets placed in read-only mode for about two hours. When posting is back a global announcement appears reading "No longer under maintenance!". Following the break posting becomes unstable, as it takes from 30 to 50 seconds to load CAPTCHAs and to post. RapeApe acknowledges the problem and says that they're working on it, while a mod on IRC explains that the problem is the server being sluggish. Further (unannounced) maintenance breaks take place in an attempt to fix the problem. Even mrvacbob pops into IRC to communicate about "not workingness". Further issues appear, like geoflags breaking for about 20 minutes or new threads randomly getting sent into "limbo". Anons shitpost about this being another Hack, as it is its first anniversary.
• April 25 - Some retard tries to get into the White House Correspondents' Dinner to shoot Trump but got stopped by security and arrested, /pol/ gets a sticky.
• April 27 - Gerry Conway dies, /co/ gets a sticky.
• April 29 - /v/ mod makes a Fear and Hunger thread with an unused husk from the game, greener green text, embedded music and a Pinecone Pig.
• April 30 - /v/ mod makes a Metal Gear Solid 2 thread with an embedded video of the April 30th cutscene. The game's source code and assets also get leaked onto /vr/.
• May 3 - A new post appears on /f/. How could this happen is unknown as attempting to make new posts on the board still gives the same error since the site was restored after the hack. .webm filenames disappear for 4chan-x+xt users and tripcodes are now bolded (unless the post is seen through thread updater) and put in the name field. Tripcode filters break in 4chan-x because of this.
• May 18 - Tom Kane dies, /co/ gets a sticky.
• May 21 - Wired dumps an article complaining about AI deepfake porn threads on /r/, later that day the board is abruptly deleted. Also Kyle Busch dies, /sp/ gets a sticky.
• May 23 - Mod(s) shitpost by moving threads between /bant/ and /vip/. Some threads are duplicated between two boards instead of being available only on one board, which may imply the existence of new modtools.
• May 25 - Janitor applications are open.
• May 31 - Anons rolls a three on /v/ against Half-Life 3 and gets publicly banned.
• June 9 - Undertale general on /vg/ GETs 570000000 with a picture of Toby Fox. The Sharty steals 13000000 GET on /s4s/.
• June 14 - Ebin ironic musician Oliver Tree non-ironically dies in a mid-air helicopter collision in fucking Brazil, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• June 19 - Doom composer Bobby Prince dies, /v/ and /vr/ get stickies.
• June 23 - Unfinished demos for the never-ever EarthBound clone Oddity leak onto /v/.
• July 1 - Village People frontman Victor Willis dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• July 2 - OFCOM sends another notice to 4chan demanding payment within 14 days, their attorney responds with another AI hamster picture.
• July 9 - Bonnie Tyler dies, /mu/ gets a sticky.
• July 12 - Lindsey Graham dies, /pol/ gets a sticky. RapeApe claims moot first hired him "to deal with a bot on /r9k/." The bot in question is "craig bot" who spammed the same posts & threads in 2012 and made up 40% of the board at one point.
• July 13 - Sam Neill dies, /tv/ gets a sticky.

Secondary & Primary Sources

• Bibliotheca Anonoma - 4chan Chronicle
• Jonnydigital.com's 4chan-history (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A page dealing with 4chan's earliest history, written by a former admin.
• Everything Shii Knows (Archived by the Bibliotheca Anonoma) - A personal wiki created by Shii, an important primary source for World2ch, most anonymous textboards before 2006, and 4chan before 2006. Previously an administrator at Wikipedia.
• The earliest version of this article, originally hosted on Wikichan.
• Early world2ch post about 4chan.
• Screencaps of December 22, 2013 raid.
• Macrochan - Giant picture archive.
• Archived thread of the April 23 2014 hack. Archived blog of the hacker detailing his attempts at hacking 4chan over a year before he pulled it off. Gallery (The gallery has been expunged.)
• Plus4chan's archived /pkmn/ board, giving an idea how /vp/ was in its early days.
• Nameless Rumia's Wiki (Formerly known as Everything Rumia Knows) - A personal wiki, home to many pages on 2ch boards, AA art, Touhou, and imageboards.
• Jason Scott's archive - A text-only archive of ~90% of 4chan posts from October 2006 to November 2008.
• 4museum - A text-only archive of the above posts from 2006 to 2008.
• Oldfriend Archive - A text-only archive of posts from 2004 to 2014. Currently hosts Jason Scott's dataset, the progscrape textboard archives, and threads from chanarchive/4chanarchive.
• The progscrape dump - A scrape of the world4ch/dis.4chan textboards from 2014. Contains threads going back to 2004.
• Tinychan's world4ch archive.
• A 3chan thread about rare messageboard screenshots, containing download links for archived 4chan threads from 2004.
• A collection of manually archived threads from 2004 to 2013.
• 4chansociety - A 4chan history site run by Toad. "CLOSED", an archive
• 4chan Historical Resources - very outdated but lots of useful links. Some are dead, unfortunately.
• Bibanon's archive of Vyrd's site.
• JAnon Leaks - A compilation of leaks by a teenager that signed up to be a Janitor, originally posted to rival imageboard Soyjak.party. Includes Discord profiles, ban evaders, the entire /j/ board, and more.
• Archived WikiWorld article
• Archived 4chan threads from 2004
• The Random Crap Museum