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I blame it on what I call the 4chan effect, or Godwin's Rule, or the Usenet effect, or the Virtually Every Open Forum on the Internet Effect Since I Started Using It Back When Gopher Was a Good Place to Find Content.
Chicago Reader 2009
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I know what 4chan is etc., but am unclear what is going on in the picture.
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Possibly inappropriately. 4chan is unusual in several ways.
The Master Of Memes: The Most Powerful Person on the Web You Have Never Heard Of | Disinformation 2008
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By some metrics, 4chan is the fourth largest bulletin board on the Net.
The Master Of Memes: The Most Powerful Person on the Web You Have Never Heard Of | Disinformation 2008
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I believe 4chan is raiding you for “stealing” its meme.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Did someone steal my bacon joke? 2007
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Fox News has called 4chan "the rude, raunchy underbelly of the Internet," and its sibling group Anonymous has recently made waves for everything from waging war on Facebook to hacking into Sarah Palin's email account.
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Anonymous grew out of an online message forum formed in 2003 called 4chan, a popular destination with hackers and gamers.
Authorities in Europe Extend Probe of Hackers Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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Anonymous grew out of an online message forum formed in 2003 called 4chan, a destination for hackers and game players fond of mischievous pranks.
Inside the Anonymous Army of 'Hacktivist' Attackers Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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Poole: The decision to do a venture-backed startup was that I know what it's like to start a company with no resources, if you can call 4chan a company, so this a new experience.
Wired Top Stories Angela Watercutter 2011
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Well, Pedobear started on 4chan, which is this sprawling, vastly unpoliced place where people post messages and pictures of whatever they want-sort of like the Wailing Wall, if the Wailing Wall was for pleasure instead of prayer, and if everyone got to read the stuff people put there, not just God.
Gawker Maureen O'Connor 2010
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