4chan

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4chan is a 2chan style art community founded by Something Awful goons, with English content. Visitors submit content in various categories, such as: /h/ for Hentai, /d/ for alternative hentai (subtypes of hentai such as Futanari), /y/ for Yaoi, /t/ for torrents, etc.

Prior to 2005, it also allowed Lolicon and Shota, however, these categories were moved to not4chan.org, due to TOS violations. 4chan also incorporates other categories such as "Papercraft and Origami", "Videogames", "Animals and Nature", and "Mecha", as well as many others.[1]

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[edit] 4chan and furry

Typical furry friday image macro.
Typical furry friday image macro.

For the first year or so of its existence, the majority of people on 4chan look down upon furries, even funny animal cartoons, as a nuisance that does not belong on an anime board. A moderator may ban a user who posts furry material, for days or much longer.[2]

However, /b/, a random board where anything can be posted within U.S. law, is centered around anonymity and is rebellious against any sort of rules imposed on it from outside. Furry Friday used to be a regular feature of /b/, as every Friday /b/tards and furries flood the board both with clean and pornography furry media, to the disgust of some other /b/ users (who invariably complain that it is the "wrong day" if furry art is posted on any other day). Images and "siterips" from furry paysites (such as SexyFur) are often reposted on Fridays. Over a month ago Fur Friday was offcially replaced by F40PH Friday. This spark a huge protest by the 4chan furry community which to this day has refused to recognized the change.

Today, approximately 15% of /b/ users identify themselves as furries, and another 30% enjoy furry artwork.[3]

[edit] April Furs Day

On April 1, 2005, 4chan administrators pulled a stunt called April Furs Day[4][5], in where a /fur/ board was created, and people were informed that from now on, furry images should go in there instead of /b/. Some users assumed it to be an April Fools' Day joke, and expected it to be gone the next day[6], while others complained about it in both /b/ and /fur/.

By April 2nd, it remained and people against it tried to flood it with non-furry images, such as EroGuro -- the moderators immediately banned those people. Finally, on April 3, the moderators removed the board, and banned every person who had posted in it -- including those who complained about it in the /fur/ board. The banning almost completely eliminated all furry postings for the next several months. This prank was not repeated again in 2006.

[edit] 4chan and Fchan

Months prior to the April Furs Day event, to balance the growing demand for furry art and to provide a place for furry artwork to be posted without risk of removal or banning from an admin (as 4chan's owner proclaimed it was an anime website and would never add any furry or cartoon board), a user named Dr. Pon found hosting for and founded Fchan, one of the first and most popular furry image-boards.

[edit] 4chan and WikiFur

On several occasions since 4chan began, some members of the /b/ community have organized raids against WikiFur utilizing the message board as a communications medium. Typical punishment consisted of a forum ban that could last for two weeks or longer, or be permanent, depending on the offense. Such vandalism is similar to pranks on Wikipedia and other wikis.

[edit] 4chan and the 2006 /b/ exodus (/b/-day)

/b/ drama
/b/ drama

On 2006-08-23, the 4chan moderators started to strictly enforce its previously neglected rules on posting illegal content, private forum/wiki raids (such the ones on Wikifur,) and posting personal information. This caused a great deal of unrest within the /b/ community, with many expressing their discontent. Ultimately, most users stayed, accepting the new rules, while some left to find other image boards at which they could post such content without punishment.

A new home was found at the 7chan image-board, and a new /b/ community was recreated there with less restrictive rules, and a dedicated board for the posting of calls to invasion, /i/. Thus, any clash, raid or interaction between /b/ users and furry most likely originates from this new board, instead of 4chan's (still operational) /b/ community and/or users.

[edit] /b/ terminology (partial)

Both 4chan and 7chan /b/ communities share some of the following terms. These examples are some of the most relevant when involving furry, with some appearing during /b/ invasions (raids.) Many other examples can be perused at WikiChan.

  • /b/tard: Both a derisive ("retard") and a self-identifying term for /b/ users.
  • Anonymous Does Not Forgive: The battle cry of many /b/ raiders. The anonymous users of /b/ commit to a course of action and retaliate against perceived insults and attacks.
  • F40PH Friday: Every Friday, /b/ users mass post images of F40PHs. Furry Friday is now canceled.
  • Caturday: Every Saturday, /b/ users mass post images of cats and kittens to /b/.
  • GTFO FURFAG ("Get The Fuck Out[,] Furfag"): A memetic net slang term used on anybody posting furry art on 4chan, specially /b/.
  • DESU: A catch phrase used by Suiseiseki in Rozen Maiden. It is a Japanese sentence closure and literally means "it is". /b/ has taken and exaggerated this catch phrase: it is often spammed to make up meaningless replies, a rotated version nsәp and ASCII version are also used. "Desu" may also refer to the character Suiseiseki. Furry Desu, or Furseiseki is a furry fan creation, where she's drawn as an anthropomorphic fox counterpart to Suiseiseki.
  • Harbl: Slang for testicles or male genitalia.
  • Pool's Closed: Notification that a pool (as on Habbo Hotel) or other public area is blocked by raiders and inaccessible. The "pool" may be closed due to disease.
  • Nigra: The image or avatar of a cleanly suited black man with an afro hairstyle that many raiders adopt. Also known as /b/rothas.
  • /r/: Request (i.e. "/r/ backup, /r/ the following image")
  • CP: Child Pornography, Captain Picard, Captain Planet, Clown Porn and Corn Porn.
  • JB: "Jailbait" (underage [ "tween" ] porn.)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑ 4chan's FAQ page
  2. ↑ 4chan's Rules page
  3. ↑ Results from a furry survey conducted in /b/ (Excel document format.) View original results here.
  4. ↑ http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/April_Furs_Day April Furs Day at Encyclopedia Dramatica
  5. ↑ April Furs Day at Trendpedia
  6. ↑ April Furs Day at CYD

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