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4chan users hijack Mountain Dew contest
All PepsiCo wanted was to get the Internet community to come up with a clever new name for a Mountain Dew flavor. Instead what they got were names like “Gushing Granny,” “Fapple,” and “Hitler did...
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4chan wants Taylor Swift to perform at a school for the deaf
For the second time in the last two weeks, users of the 4chan imageboard have gamed a public online vote for the lulz. Only this time, their online vote hijacking of the 2012 Taylor Swift on Campus...
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4chan massacre threat shuts down high school
A threat posted to imageboard 4chan closed a Washington State high school Thursday. The threat was posted to site’s infamous random imageboard /b/ by an anonymous user who promised to take his fathers...
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Taylor Swift donates $10,000 to school for the deaf after 4chan prank
Who says 4chan never does anything nice? Thanks to the prank-loving imageboard, Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf is $50,000 richer. In August, the public school made headlines when 4chan...
View Article4chan's 9 most memorable controversies
4chan, the imageboard that brought you popular memes like lolcats and Rickrolling and helped spawn the hacker collective Anonymous, celebrated its 9th anniversary this week. Started by Christopher...
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4chan sends death threats to director of 4chan serial killer flick
When aspiring director Michael Gallagher decided to use 4chan as the inspiration for the villain in his new horror movie, did he really expect the pugnacious community to be OK with that? Gallagher...
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Justin Bieber fans shave heads after Internet cancer hoax
Hoards and hoards of Justin Bieber devotees got thrown for a loop this week after a couple bad apples on the Internet had the brilliant idea to start a rumor that the pop prince had cancer. The hoax,...
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Meet ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º), the 4chan emoticon that spammed Israel
Who is “Lenny” the emoticon? Although the origin of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is still unclear, it caught the Internet’s attention on Nov. 18 when the r/israel subreddit was reportedly overrun users from 4chan’s...
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4chan tries to make Kim Jong-Un Time's Person of the Year
For the second time in the last three years, 4chan’s most notorious imageboard is harnessing the power of the hivemind to manipulate Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The imageboard’s top choice,...
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4chan helps Kim Jong-un top Time's Person of the Year poll
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has shot to the top of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year poll—thanks to some funny business by 4chan users. In the last two days, Kim, 29, has overtaken President of...
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4chan tries to send NFL player to Pro Bowl after murder-suicide
For the second time in the past week, users of 4chan’s most notorious imageboard have decided to game a public poll for the lulz. Days after a Kansas City Chiefs football player shot and killed his...
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4chan ruins NBA All-Star Game with racist voting
In 1992, the world was introduced to the Dream Team, the first American Olympic basketball team made up of NBA superstars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Patrick Ewing. Now, 20 years and one...
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4chan petitions the White House to build a Death Star
Could the United States be the new center of the Galactic Empire? On Dec. 9, an anonymous 4chan user posted a link to a White House petition that formally requested the Obama administration complete a...
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White House forced to respond to Death Star petition
We are days away from knowing if the United States will be building a Death Star before 2016. A 4chan-backed campaign on the White House’s We The People petition website has gained the 25,000...
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Obama, not Kim Jong-un, is Time's Person of the Year
President Barack Obama was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year Wednesday. But according to Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong-un was the real winner. An article posted on the government-run...
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I reported on 4chan—and all I got was this lousy pizza
Two large pizzas. A year-long subscription to Lucky magazine. A catalog for Enhanced Vision, an organization that creates product for the visually impaired. What do all of these things have in common?...
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Forget QWOP: 4chan discovers the most frustrating kids' game ever
Reddit and 4chan have discovered the most difficult children's game ever created. In Winnie the Pooh Home Run Derby, you play as Pooh himself. The objective of the Disney-produced game is to get as...
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4chan sparks sick #cutforbieber trend, reaches new low in trolling
Warning: This story contains graphic images that may not be suitable for children. The absolutely terrible #cutforbieber hashtag became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter on Monday, an unfortunate...
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Putting the "hash" in "hashtag": 4chan wants Beliebers to try pot
The schemers at gratuitous content hive mind 4chan countered their own overly successful foils Monday evening when members pulled the ultimate Justin Bieber bait-and-switch—repurposing the same...
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The anatomy of a 4chan hoax
When the 4chan imageboard community helped make #cutforbieber a trending topic on Twitter and the subject of more than a half dozen news stories Monday, the world collectively gasped at the thought of...
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