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4chan rises from the dead: How the imageboard moves crypto markets
10.5.2025
After 4chan was hacked on April 14 and vast troves of user and moderator data were leaked online, the controversial website quickly went down, and many believed it would never recover. However, less than two weeks later, the imageboard was back online, defiant as ever.“4chan is back,”...
4chan rises from the dead: How the imageboard moves crypto markets
10.5.2025
After 4chan was hacked on April 14 and vast troves of user and moderator data were leaked online, the controversial website quickly went down, and many believed it would never recover. However, less than two weeks later, the imageboard was back online, defiant as ever.“4chan is back,”...
This Was Never About Anything Other Than Hate
23.7.2024
On July 23, in response to the ongoing backlash against a Black lead character in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows, developer Ubisoft released a lengthy statement. The responses on X (formerly Twitter) were exactly what you’d expect: racist images, slurs, and calls for historical accuracy in...
BlackRock's BTC ETF investors keep buying despite ‘plummeted’ Bitcoin outlook
19.7.2024
The amount of positive Bitcoin commentary on social media is just a third of what it was four months ago, according to Santiment
Accused Pelosi Hammer Attacker Confirms In Court He Was A Gamergater
15.11.2023
On November 14, the man accused of a 2022 hammer attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband pleaded not guilty, apologized in court for his actions, and explained that Gamergate first exposed him to right-wing conspiracies. Read more
Dear Video Game Industry, Please Name A Woman
14.11.2023
It’s been nearly a decade since GamerGate, the misogynistic game industry tantrum that harassed women under the guise of demanding journalistic ethics—yet 2023 has felt like we’re not that far past it at all. Read more
GTA VI Superfans Hopeful The Big Reveal Is Imminent (Again)
17.10.2023
A 4chan user alleges they’ve watched a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar Games’ years-in-the-making action-adventure game that’s already been leaked so hard we might as well call it a river. And GTA fans, always eager for the smallest morsel about their upcoming obsession, seemed ready...
AiDoge, Scam, Planet, Unleash, 4Chan, 5 Top Trending Uniswap Coins On DEXTools Above Pepe
20.6.2023
The five top trending cryptocurrencies on DEXTools today are 4Chan, Unleash, Planet, AiDoge and Scam - meme coin favorite Pepe is in the #7 position.
Some altcoins are catching a bid after a strong weekly close from Bitcoin well above the 21 EMA, even though altcoin dominance has been declining...
Nintendo Demands Discord Reveal The Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Leaker
10.4.2023
A massive The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom artbook leaked in February, and Nintendo hasn’t forgotten. The Switch maker is currently trying to subpoena Discord, where images from the artbook first started making the rounds, to force the social media platform to disclose the identity of...
The 4Chan Creepypasta That's Taking Over The World (And You May Not Even Realize It)
4.4.2023
The Backrooms began as an image. Posted on April 21, 2018, a small thumbnail picture appeared on 4chan’s /x/ board showing a yellow room, its walls all in the wrong places, with gold-yellow carpets and fading yellow flock wallpaper. It was at once entirely innocuous, and somewhat unsettling. And...
Man Arrested After Making 'Minecraft' Death Threat To Sheriff
19.3.2023
A 38-year-old man has been arrested in South Brunswick, New Jersey after allegedly posting a death threat targeting a Sherriff in Florida, and ending his statement with the words “In Minecraft”.Read more
GameStop Meme Stock Movie Dumb Money Out Later This Year
13.3.2023
GameStop’s Hollywood moment is finally coming this October. Sony announced its dramatization of the video game retailer’s meme stock explosion will hit theaters in October, starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson and more. It’s called Dumb Money. I hope it lives up to it.Read more
The Anti-Fan Game: PlayStation Developer Defies 4chan Harassment Troll Project
2.11.2022
Don’t be fooled: the image above is not from Goodbye Volcano High, the yet-to-be-released queer-representing visual novel from indie studio KO_OP. It is in fact a screenshot from a fan project, Snoot Game, created by an anonymous developer, and released last November. Although “fan” might not...
Report: Man Behind Pelosi Hammer Attack Was Radicalized By Gamergate
31.10.2022
On October 28, San Francisco police arrested a man for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer. Now it’s been reported that he may have been inspired by the far-right movement Gamergate.Read more
New video revives debate over Bored Ape Yacht Club's alleged 'racist' imagery
21.6.2022
A new video examines the alleged racist and white supremacist symbols hidden in plain sight by Yuga Labs in its most popular NFT collection
New York Attorney General Investigating Twitch, Discord Following Buffalo Shooting
18.5.2022
In the wake of the horrific shooting that took place in Buffalo on May 14, New York Attorney General Letitia James has officially launched an investigation into the role social media companies may have played in the attack on a supermarket that took the lives of 10 people and is now being...
Mass Shooting Apparently Planned On Discord, Streamed On Twitch, Investigated As Hate Crime
15.5.2022
Tragedy struck New York on May 14 as an 18-year-old white male shot and killed at least 10 people in Buffalo, New York, police said. The shooter, whose online username is reportedly “jimboboiii”, has been taken into custody after live streaming the whole thing on gaming platform Twitch, the company...
Massive Leak Claims To Be 2001 Build Of Duke Nukem Forever
10.5.2022
Duke Nukem Forever began development in 1997 and was supposed to be out in 1998. It wasn’t released until 2011, and when it did, it fucking sucked. But what if the game had come out in 2001, like it was at one point supposed to?Read more
Internet Horror Legend Sees Incredible Reimagining After Over A Decade Of Tensions
16.2.2022
The SCP Foundation—the grassroots, collaborative, creepypasta-adjacent writing project that largely inspired 2019 third-person shooter Control—recently removed the image associated with its first and most popular entry, prompting artists to reimagine the monster at the center of one of...
The ‘Feels Guy’ Gets Blockchained — Rare Wojak NFT Project to Launch 4,000 Randomly Generated Wojaks
25.9.2021
While Pepe the frog and Doge made it into the limelight with unique and rare non-fungible token (NFT) assets, another NFT meme collection tied to the infamous 2010 meme “Wojak” has entered the fray. A new NFT collection stemming from the web portal called rarewojak.com has leveraged...