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4chan is an English-language imageboard website. Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards are primarily used for the posting of pictures and discussion of manga and anime. Users generally post anonymously and the site has been linked to internet subcultures and activism, including the Anonymous meme and Project Chanology.

The site has generated broad media attention. One article focussed on how an internet destination was hijacked for a prank, so that images of Rick Astley appeared instead of the page that was searched for, so creating a 'rickroll.' In this context, The Guardian once described the 4chan community as "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming."^[2] 4chan members have been responsible for the formation and popularization of Internet memes such as lolcats, rickrolling, and the popularity of the Tay Zonday song "Chocolate Rain". 4chan has also received media attention for its attacks against other websites and Internet users, and for the threats of violence that have been posted on it. Its "/b/" board is by far its most popular and notorious. It is known as the "random" board in which there are minimal rules on posted content. Gawker.com once remarked that "reading /b/ will melt your brain".^[3]