4chan hacked, obliterated and unlikely to be back soon

To quote the immortal words of a well-meaning but ill-informed CNN reporter, “just who is this 4Chan?”

To paraphrase the immortal words of Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, “4Chan’s dead, baby. 4Chan’s dead.”

If you’ve been around on the Internet for any length of time, you’ve heard of 4Chan, the infamous anonymous message board that has (among other things) made groundbreaking strides in mathematics, popularized just about every meme you’ve seen online since its founding in 2003… oh, and radicalized thousands of young men into the alt-right. — Read the rest

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