4chan

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4chan
FoundationOctober 1, 2003
Major Boards/qa2/, /pol/, /a/
Website4chan.org

4chan is an imageboard website created in 2003 by Christopher moot Poole, who has done an AMA on /qa2/. P

History

4chan started out as a copy of another site known as 2chan (which is based because all gooks should kill themselves). In January 2015, the admin moot announced his retirement; 9 months later, he would sell the site to an individual known as Hiroyuki Nishimura.

Downfall

4chan got it's first surge of mainstream attention when Fox News did a report on them, describing the site as an underground hideout for malicious hackers. This brought in a wave of newfags, but the final nail on the coffin was when GamerGate happened, also bringing in a wave of newfags. Ever since that, 4chan is now exclusively populated by bots, shills and feds.