White House's Death Star response is the answer we were looking for
Budgetary concerns and the desire not to destroy other planets is why the White House shot down plans to construct a Death Star, after more than 34,000 people, mostly from 4chan, signed a petition to...
View Article4chan schemes to get rapper Lil B to the Grammys
If you happen to see rapper and social media sweetheart Lil B performing live on primetime TV this year with some Vans sneakers on, you can probably thank 4chan for that. The site's random imageboard,...
View ArticleNBA confirms: 4chan failed to whitewash All-Star game
The NBA All Star votes are in and 4chan's Operation White Man Can Jump has failed. The operation was launched on Dec. 1, and urged the community to vote only lighter-skinned players as starters in the...
View ArticleOklahoma man arrested for threatening entire town on 4chan
An Oklahoma man was arrested by the FBI Monday afternoon, about five hours after threatening to attack the town of Casper, Wyo., in a post on 4chan. The post Glenn Allen Kirkham, 34, made on the...
View Article4chan hunts down gearheads over highway holdup
A couple of muscle-car maniacs are under investigation by California police and 4chan's auto community after stopping traffic on a busy highway to do some donuts. The antics on California's Interstate...
View Article#Boobs4Bieber: 4chan's plot to flood Twitter with underage nudes
.teaser img { display: none; } Warning: This story contains NSFW text and images. The pranksters over at 4chan are doctoring photos of nude and seemingly underage girls to help make the hashtag...
View ArticleRelive Chris Dorner's final moments in this 4chan-made video game
The saga of Chris Dorner, a former LAPD officer turned murderer and fugitive, has been compared to video games like Call of Duty. Now one 4chan user has turned the comparison into a reality. The free...
View Article4chan votes for Hitler as the smartest person in history
Adolf Hitler has been called a lot of things—a monster, possessed, and insane. Now the mass murderer is being called the "smartest person in history," thanks to 4chan. The dictator has topped a public...
View Article#jail4bieber: 4chan spreads bogus Bieber rape rumors
Don't fret too much over the #jail4bieber hashtag that's been floating around Twitter this afternoon, devoted Beliebers. The whole gag is the charming little ruse of the perpetually disturbing content...
View ArticleInside 4chan's plot to get Adria Richards fired
With the #donglegate sagaerupting, it may come as little surprise that 4chan's anarchic /b/ forum got involved. At this weekend's programming conference PyCon, developer evangelist Adria Richards...
View ArticleWhat happens when the Web's most notorious troll forum pranks itself?
If the forum r/ShitRedditSays (SRS) is Reddit's rambunctious neighborhood watch, a place where users publicly shame others for misogynistic, racist, and just downright nasty content, 4chan's...
View ArticleLGBT movement finds an ally in the most offensive site on the Web
Whether you're black, white, heterosexual, or gay, on 4chan you're always some sort of "fag." 4chan's random imageboard, /b/, is one of the most vile and profane corners of the Internet. It’s...
View ArticleWhite House's Death Star response is the answer we were looking for
Budgetary concerns and the desire not to destroy other planets is why the White House shot down plans to construct a Death Star, after more than 34,000 people, mostly from 4chan, signed a petition to...
View ArticleDid 4chan find the Boston Marathon bomber?
The Internet hivemind continued its vigilante search today for individuals who planted the two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line. Some believe they may have actually found a culprit. Users on...
View ArticleDutch schools shut down after 4chan shooting threat
A Dutch student has been arrested and about 20 schools around the Netherlands were closed Monday after a threat made on 4chan, one of the Internet's most controversial forums. The decision to close...
View ArticleHow a 4chan raid ruined Samuel L. Jackson's Reddit debut
Actor Samuel L. Jackson's first experience on Reddit is one he'll never forget. And he has the notorious trolls of 4chan's /b/ to thank for that. It all started on Wednesday when the 64-year-old Pulp...
View Article4chan is crashing the George Zimmerman trial
The trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of murdering teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012, was interrupted Wednesday by the merry pranksters of 4chan's random...
View Article4chan rigs a contest so a "fat old creep" can meet Taylor Swift
For the second time in the past 11 months, a public contest featuring singer Taylor Swift has been infiltrated by the vote-rigging brigade over at 4chan's random imageboard /b/, the Internet's...
View Article4chan's favorite creep sets his sights on Selena Gomez
A contest to give one lucky Taylor Swift fan a chance to meet the singer was canceled after users from 4chan's /b/ forum successfully helped a "fat old guy" rise to the top. Undeterred, /b/ put the...
View ArticleJonas Brothers are 4chan's latest hair-sniffing target
What do Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and the Jonas Brothers have in common? They have all been the subject of 4chan's latest vote rigging obsession, perpetrated by members of its random imageboard /b/,...
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