4CHAN PARTY VAN STRIKES AGAIN! I NEED /B/LACKUP!
This is Serious Business! Some true lulz to be sure, Fox News does a piece on, get this... 4chan. I've been a /b/tard for years and this has got to be the most delicious cake you must eat ever, ~desu.
Do a barrel roll.
For anyone that doesn't know, 4chan is the epicenter of internet culture. It is where every meme you've ever encountered comes from. Those captioned cat pictures your mom found out about last month and forwarded you in an email? 4chan. Parody motivational posters? 4chan. And really, that's just our table scraps.
4chan is an image board started by former Something Awful forum goon by the name of m00t. An "Image Board" is kind of like a traditional web forum, except the purpose is just to share pictures about any given genre. It differs in functionality from a forum in that you are required to post a picture in order to start a thread. 4chan's /b/ section which is titled "random" has forced anonymity, and there are almost literally no rules -- it is completely unmoderated. This has contributed to exponential growth, which has in turn encouraged a paradigm of user created content that is truly unique on the internet, and from a point of view of "digital anthropology", quite beautiful, despite the content.
These "raids" the news piece speaks of really are just done for laughs -- there's nothing personal about it. Many a /b/tard (the self adopted name of participants) have even fallen prey to it themselves. The point is, as the piece said, to invoke lulz, but also drama. "The Internet is Serious Business" for example, is a common meme. The meme pokes fun at those who take things that happen on the internet way too seriously, and really are ultimately the ones to initiate the drama. A 4chan raid is really meant to be a bit of performance art in which the target is an unknowing writer, director, and lead actor in their own play about internet drama, which in actuality it is their own actions that are exacerbating more drama. The irony is delicious to true /b/tards.
tl;dr version:
Don't take things too seriously and things won't take you too seriously..
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rembarlolwut?
I'm normally against mixing 4chan and VideoSift, but this is just fucking hilarious. Especially DRAMATIC MUSIC and ANONYMOUS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.
...ohmigod, did he just say "truly epic lulz"?!?!?!?!
P.S. Nice description, by the by, just don't forget about goatse and delicious CP.
Cronyxsays...lol exactly, all they needed to make it complete was a picture of Pedobear and a 4 year old with the caption "dramatazation"
Traconsays...Why didnt they just come out and say it was 4chan.
Fluobecause foxnews aren't great at looking into info. Most the time they bs :e
legacy0100aahahah awesome.
dude i almost missed this in queue.
And I support their cause in their crusade against Tom Green.
"4 CHAN!!!!!!!!"
mlxBwahahaha!
Cronyxsays...YES! They got him!
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Alex_wuori
From Encyclopedia Dramatica (just reporting on it, I did not write this) :
"Alex Wuori is an obese, acne-ridden faggot who lives in his mom's basement. After a 16-year-old girl rejected him, he asked Anonymous to raid her. After his personal army request was denied on 7chan, Alex continued to bitch until his identity was outed by an Anonymous at his school. After realizing that Juden like him produce more lulz than his proposed target, Anonymous used his magical powers to obtain more information so Alex could burn in the oven where he belongs.
He has broken nine codes of Anonymous:
* Being a lulzkiller.
* Failing to post tits of potential raid target.
* Faggotry of previously levels that were previously thought to be unattainable.
* Using Anonymous as a personal army.
* Absurd amounts of fail.
* Spitting, rather than swallowing during fellatio.
* Not lieking mudkips.
* Breaking rules one and two to the media.
* Appearing on FoxLA Channel 11 to discuss Anonymous
He is a prime example of how Anonymous does not forgive and should be an hero ASAP."
rembarOh, oh no. The winds of destruction are blowing...
Nebosukesays...It's kinda crazy that 4chan gets media attention...
bigbikemanjesus christ....
BrknPhoenixsays...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... HAHAHAHAHA....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*dies*
bamdrewoh this blasted 'anonymous' hacker-gang! how many myspace pages must be utterly pwned 'afore their vicious thirst for lulz is quenched?! intolerable!
... I hope that kid is starting to dig man-on-man action, because me-thinks he'll be seeing a lot of it for the next year or so.
LePierresays...Boo to everyone breaking the rules.
nickreal03says...I found a terrorist in my soup!
antHeh, this was on FOX 11 News in L.A.
jmdsays...mind blowing, you fail for thinking the news broadcast was 4chan exclusive. 4chan is pretty nonviolent, with invasions and personal info getting deleted by mods. Infact it looks like 7chan removed their invasion board too. So invasion message boards are currently exhisting outside of most popular image boards (can't blame them, bad enough trying to pay the bandwidth bills and deleting CP as fast as you can without the fbi breathing down your neck).
entr0py0:26 A dog : the only thing that can protect you from the internets
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/0/0d/Machine-code-fox.jpg
ajkido1. Destroy
2. Attack
3. Die
4. ???
5. Profit!
Yeah they showed several *chans, not only 4chan.
EDD"truly epic lulz" did it for me. that alone deserves the top15 spot.
AnimalsForCrackerssays...Oh noes...they spoiled Harry Potter! Arrest them for great justice! Tom Green still can't get away, even on his own show...
theo47I love the repeated use of the file footage of the exploding truck.
cheesemooBest thing that's been on FOX in a long time.
pragmaticksays...Although they bleeped it out, the HP spoiler sentence did it for me.
legacy0100HA! Didn't realize they bleeped out the Harry Potter endings.
Now they're freaking out about something Kevin Pereira said on Attack of the Show.
I'm starting to think they're going power crazy with all this recent media attention. I mean sure, Kevin is a douchebag, but he didn't really say much...
SilentPoetsays...lol
Anyone who actually read the 7th book would realize that they didn't actually spoil the ending. They just made stuff up.
antBTW, when was this aired?
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