On all those millions upon millions of posts the author’s name was simply, “Anonymous.” Users began referring to each other by that name.
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The software displayed a default name for posters who didn’t sign up - which was everyone. Perhaps the most appealing part for users was that you didn’t have to make an account. People had so much fun using it, threads became ephemeral, growing wildly within seconds then disappearing minutes later, pushed out of the way and into oblivion by new threads and so forth, ad infinitum.
The key to 4chan’s popularity (and what distinguished it from its progenitor Something Awful) was the Japanese-style bulletin board Poole had adapted for English use. (Much to the dismay of its millions of users, who desperately tried to keep the site a secret.) Their user base had grown exponentially and it was obvious they were about to explode into the mainstream. But around 2008 I decided to do a story on them. I knew they were a group of teen anime fans who met to party awkwardly like so many other teens at nerd-themed conventions. In the beginning I didn’t pay all that much attention to 4chan. This essay is an attempt to untangle the threads of 4chan and the far right. How did we get here? As someone who has witnessed 4chan grow from a group of adolescent boys who could fit into a single room at my local anime convention to a worldwide coalition of right wing extremists (which is still somehow also a message board about anime), I feel I have some obligation to explain. And the week before that, in the wake of the fire at Ghost Ship, 4chan decided to make war on “liberal safe spaces” and DIY venues across the country. The week before that, 4chan claimed (falsely) that it had fabricated the so-called Trump “Kompromat”. The week before that, neo-Nazi Richard Spencer was about to explain the significance of his 4chan-inspired Pepe the Frog pin when an anti-fascist protester punched him in the face. This past week, there were riots at Berkeley in the wake of the scheduled lecture by their most prominent supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos. These two types are becoming increasingly rare, subsiding to the first type mentioned.These days, 4chan appears in the news almost weekly. In addition, a trap can also refer to when one senses Count Dooku, to which the other replies, "I sense a trap." In these cases, the next move is to spring the trap.
This type is generally announced by one's unknown sister as she is taken away by a bounty hunter. Less commonly, a trap can refer to when the Force is with someone, but they are not a Jedi yet, and a second party wishes for one to join him, and together they can rule the galaxy as father and son. Often known to take place when that blast comes from the Death Star, leading one to believe that thing's operational. Also occurs when one has enemy ships in Sector 47. Coincides with the deflector shield being quite operational when one's friends arrive.
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Generally characterized by allowing the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator, and the said shield generator being safe from one's pitiful little band, due to the fact an entire legion of another's best troops awaits them. What one's friends up there on the sanctuary moon are walking into, as is one's Rebel fleet.