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The 4chan murder was real—and the suspect has been arrested
A Washington man suspected of murdering his partner and posting photos of her corpse on 4chan has been taken into custody. The suspect, now identified as David Kalac, 33, seemed to have discussed the...
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4chan trolls are gaming a poll to ban the word 'feminist'
Children raking leaves, a display of seasonal gourds at the farmer’s market, and the crisp chill of fall in the air can mean only one thing: It’s time for 4chan’s annual rigging of Time's year-end...
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After 11 years, 4chan founder Christopher 'moot' Poole is stepping down
After more than 11 years of managing 4chan, the searchable Internet’s most controversial site, founder and sole administrator Christopher “moot” Poole is stepping down. Poole made the announcement...
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Gamergaters are turning their pain into a musical extravaganza
At this point, it's difficult to tell what Gamergate is parodying: progressive ethics in the gaming community, or just themselves. First, Gamergate proponents decided to move their campaign over to...
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4chan is trying to rig Time's Person of the Year poll—again
4chan’s merry schemers are cooking up a Thanksgiving appetizer sure to make Time magazine sick once again. A group of anonymous users from 4chan’s imageboard /b/—the searchable Web’s premier pit of...
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The painful and hilarious story of a man who got his penis stuck in a roll of...
This article contains sexually explicit material.People occasionally ask me why I still go to 4chan. It’s a fair question, because there are plenty of icky, uncouth, depressing corners of the site that...
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How one brave brony turned The Sims into a virtual horse-fetish palace
Adult male fans of My Little Pony, commonly known as bronies, have found a home on 4chan, the 11-year-old forum that remains among the most bizarre and influential places on the Internet. One brave...
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4chan trolls hijacked a funeral-home page to post 'Dragon Ball Z' memes
Trolls are hijacking a funeral home page to leave comments, memes, and other nonsense for the recently departed.Where did this raid start from? 4chan, of course, the forum best known for launching some...
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The story behind 4chan's Pepe the Frog meme
There’s a veritable meme meltdown going on at the infamous imageboard 4chan, and it involves an odd-looking anthropomorphic frog named Pepe. The chaotic site has been ground zero for countless Internet...
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4chan's latest obsession is the darker side of 'Sesame Street'
Members of 4chan, a no-holds-barred online message board, are on a constant, unwavering quest to destroy everything. This includes Mountain Dew promotional campaigns and the sanctity of the human body...
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Dude who requested Photoshop help gets royally trolled
Rule number one: Never, ever ask the Internet to Photoshop you. Remember that kid who wanted Reddit to place the sun between his fingers? It didn’t end well. When you summon the dregs of the Web to...
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Behind the vicious campaign to strip Caitlyn Jenner of her Olympic medal
An army of 4chan trolls have fooled the mass media in reporting on a bogus petition to have Caitlyn Jenner stripped of her Olympic medal.The trolls—from 4chan’s politically incorrect community, /pol/,...
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Does 4chan have its own Robin Hood?
The beauty of 4chan is its deregulated mystery. It’s a place where anything, no matter how silly or dumb, canpotentially happen. Moderators only swoop in when real, constitutional laws are being...
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Christopher 'moot' Poole sells 4chan to 2channel founder Hiroyuki Nishimura
It's the end of an era for the Internet.4chan, the most complicated corner of the searchable Web, has just been sold to the businessman who owns 2channel, an equally controversial image board.In a...
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4chan 'beta uprising' spreads countless threats of more school massacres
The 4chan imageboard at the center of at least one FBI investigation relating to the Oregon college massacre has come completely unhinged under a spate of media scrutiny.The head-first descent into...
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No, 4chan did not convince feminists to pee their pants for equality
Users of 4chan and other sundry men's rights activists claim to have duped feminists into making the hashtag #PissForEquality trend on Twitter.There’s only one problem: No feminists actually...
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4chan Photoshops ISIS as rubber ducks for operation 'Allahu Quackbar'
A group of 4chan pranksters have taken up the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) with their favorite weapon—Photoshop.In what has casually been declared operation “ALLAHU QUACKBAR,” 4chan users are...
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4chan boarders weigh in on the state of memes in 2015
My brother is on 4chan. Or rather, for the past two years, he has produced, directed, and edited the annual 4chan /v/ (i.e., video game) board’s “Vidya Gaem Awards.” “It’s weird to talk about,” he told...
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The Internet crusade to bring down Ted Cruz with a sex scandal
Can 4chan and Reddit manufacture a tabloid sex scandal that takes down a presidential candidate ?They're damn well going to try.Donald Trump is incredibly popular on the social platforms, both of which...
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There will never be a more hipster meme than Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the...
For better or worse, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is an indie-rock classic. Not in the Slanted & Enchanted or Bee Thousand sense: Those are both records made by human beings...
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The 12 greatest stories ever told on 4chan
4chan’s greentext stories are a vital subgenre of Internet folklore. Somehow, over years and years of collective, unconscious evolution, the boys and girls of 4chan established a formula for reciting...
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How 4chan trolls plan to help Donald Trump win the White House
The 4chan troll factory is hard at work trying to put Donald Trump in the White House.A new effort from the famously pro-Trump community is aimed at provoking deeper divides among fans of Democratic...
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Meme porn is coming whether you like it or not
First of all, have a look at the SFW trailer for Meme Lover 2: Dawn of Just, apparently the second “meme-themed” porn film ever developed.Some scattered thoughts:Are people who love memes a real,...
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The refined, sophisticated art of dipping your d**k in wine
Are men really dipping their dicks in wine and discussing it in an online forum dedicated to their niche sexual fetish? Katie Notopoulos, BuzzFeed's expert chronicler of the internet's worst things,...
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4chan has always sucked—but now it sucks worse than ever
Nobody should ever defend 4chan—we’re talking about a bitter image board where the absolute worst instincts of the internet can fester in horrifying symbiosis—but we’d be lying if we said it was never...
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