Definitions
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- noun A type of
Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Bean came upon comments about the photos on 4chan - a so-called imageboard site notorious for its lack of rules and adult supervision - he sent an e-mail with the images of
Phillies Zone 2011
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The site is primarily an "imageboard" site used for posting and discussing images, often photoshopped fakes of a topical nature created for a joke.
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His sign shows "longcat," an elongated white cat that exists as a cybercharacter from the Internet imageboard 4chan.org.
Show of Farce: On the HuffPost bus to the Stewart/Colbert rally Julia Duin 2010
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It's meant to be eyecandy that appeals to the like-minded clique of whatever imageboard the artist wanted to show off to.
Gotta Have Faith SVGL 2008
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Christopher "m00t" Poole is the founder of an online community called 4Chan, the largest online community in the English-speaking world, essentially an imageboard website where people post and discuss pictures.
Courtney Boyd Myers: The New Kids on the Internet Courtney Boyd Myers 2010
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Your fears of posting IM information on a completely public imageboard are completely unfounded, there is no reason to be frightened.
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The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank originating from the imageboard 4chan called duckrolling,2 in which a link to somewhere such as a specific picture or news item would instead lead to a thread or site containing a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels.
Barack Rollin 2008
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Modern/b/tards are parasites trying to gain a sense of validation and worth from the rotting husk of the reputation of a formerly great imageboard.
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All I know is on some particular imageboard sites, >
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All I know is on some particular imageboard sites, >
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