/b/ imageboard

The "random" board, /b/, follows the design of Futaba Channel's Nijiura board. It was the first board created, and is by far 4chan's most popular board, with 30% of site traffic.[58][59] Gawker.com's Nick Douglas summarized /b/ as a board where "people try to shock, entertain, and coax free porn from each other."[3] /b/ has a "no rules" policy, except for bans on certain illegal content, such as child pornography, invasions of other websites (posting floods of disruptive content), and under-18 viewing, all of which are inherited from site-wide rules. The "no invasions" rule was added in late 2006, after /b/ users spent most of the summer "invading" Habbo Hotel. The "no rules" policy also applies to actions of administrators and moderators, which means that users may be banned at any time, for any reason, including no reason at all.[60] Due partially to its anonymous nature, board moderation is not always successful—indeed, the site's anti-child pornography rule is a subject of jokes on /b/.[22] Christopher Poole told The New York Times, in a discussion on the moderation of /b/, that "the power lies in the community to dictate its own standards" and that site staff simply provided a framework.[61]

The humor of /b/'s many users, who refer to themselves as "/b/tards",[61][62] is often incomprehensible to newcomers and outsiders, and is characterized by intricate inside jokes and black comedy.[62] Users often refer to each other, and much of the outside world, as fags.[22] They are often referred to by outsiders as trolls, who regularly act with the intention of "doing it for the lulz": a corruption of "LOL" used to denote amusement at another's expense.[61][63] The New York Observer has described posters as "immature pranksters whose bad behavior is encouraged by the site's total anonymity and the absence of an archive".[54] Douglas said of the board, "reading /b/ will melt your brain", and cited Encyclopedia Dramatica's definition of /b/ as "the asshole of the Internets".[3] Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times likened /b/ to "a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line",[61] while Baltimore City Paper wrote that "in the high school of the Internet, /b/ is the kid with a collection of butterfly knives and a locker full of porn."[22] Wired describes /b/ as "notorious".[62]

Each post is assigned a post number. Certain post numbers are sought after with a large amount of posting taking place to "GET" them. A "GET" occurs when a post's number ends in a special number, such as 12345678, 22222222, or every millionth post.[64] A sign of 4chan's scaling, according to Poole, was when GETs lost meaning due to the high post rate resulting in a GET occurring every few weeks. He estimated /b/'s post rate in July 2008 to be 150,000–200,000 posts per day.[38]
Internet memes

Internet memes are catchphrases or images that spread quickly, peer to peer, across the Internet.[65] Many Internet memes have originated on 4chan, usually /b/, as its fast moving, crowd psychology nature enables content to quickly be passed on to large numbers of viewers. Other memes originating on the site have gained media attention of a lesser degree. These include "So I herd u liek mudkipz" [sic], which involves a phrase based on Pokémon and which generated numerous YouTube tribute videos,[7] and the term "an hero" [sic] as a synonym for suicide, after a misspelling in the MySpace online memorial of seventh grader Mitchell Henderson.[66] 4chan, and other websites, such as the satirical Encyclopedia Dramatica, have also contributed to the development of significant amounts of leetspeak.[67] Adult fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are also known to frequent 4chan, having had a board dedicated to their interest.[68][69][70][71][72]

inside 4chan memetic culture

bronies

Online invasie.

Waarom:

"for the lulz"

Kracht van een gezamelijk idee om een reactie op te wekken.

Beperkt hier nog online.

Eerste AFK moment ( away from keyboard )

Project
"Chan"ology

anonieme 4chan gebruikers vs. church of scientology nav. video van tom cruise over dit onderwerp die razendsnel viral ging.

Guerilla acties.

Men spreekt af met anderen die men eigelijk nog niet kent. De groep waarmee je schijnbaar veel gelijkenissen mee vertoond word opeens zichtbaar.

De subcultuur word opeens concreet en er ontstaat een mogelijkheid voor het vormen van een ideologie.

Bekende voorbeelden:

Hieruit zijn onder andere grote bijdrages ontstaan aan de occupy beweging en steun aan organisaties zoals wikileaks.

Global

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If you are under the age of 18, or it is illegal for you to view the materials contained on this website, discontinue browsing immediately.
Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry"), grotesque ("guro"), post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.
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hedendaagse 4 chan regels

"de rotterdammer"