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Imageboards are online forums that exist expressly for the purpose of posting images or discussions. They usually have a variety of sub-boards, each with its own focus. Unlike most forums, imageboards don't archive threads, so if nobody posts in one for a while, it will eventually be deleted. The imageboard as it's usually thought of today began in Japan. Futaba Channel, a spin-off of the popular text-based discussion board 2channelnote Officially pronounced "ni channel", and shortened to "ni chan" (2ch) by the Japanese, but most English netizens are comfortable with just calling it "two channel" (2ch) made when the latter was in danger of being shut down, is probably the best-known. Imageboards that take after Futaba Channel are sometimes described by the blanket term "Futaba style", futaba referring to the software the board is normally based upon. These imageboards traditionally allow anonymous posting and have a self-enforcing theme and standard that hopefully keeps it from collapsing. The best-known imageboard in the U.S. is probably 4chan, created in 2003 to serve as an English-language version of Futaba Channel. Especially among American otaku,note Or "weeaboos", as they're sometimes known, although it's a much more negative term it's quite popular for the huge numbers of memes it generates and, due to anonymous users and loose moderation, its extremely variable quality as well as its questionable political stances. For these reasons, one could see imageboards to be the antithesis of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Most American wakaba boards trace their heritage to 4chan, as many of them were alternative boards formed in 4chan's formative years when the latter site would periodically be forced offline. The successful ones tend to cover more specific niches, like Meganekko or sad girls in snow. Or guro hentai. Or Lolicon and Shotacon. Or guro hentai with underage meganekkos in snow. Weeping profusely over image boards. It's kinda like that. The only real standing rule of just about every imageboard site in existence (besides topic-specific rules for subforums) is that its users can't post anything considered illegal in a site's area of hosting. Enforcement of this rule can vary wildly between imageboards, and many admins turn a blind eye to things like unauthorized filesharing. And no matter how vigilant the mods are, users often take delight in posting dodgy to outright highly illegal material just to subvert this rule; mods will counter with anything from warnings to reports to the FBI. Almost every imageboard uses the same simple yet distinctive layout and interface as 2ch, with a sidebar on the left, bottom, or top (but never the right) that lists each board on the site in a simple URL theme. The board's URL contains a contraction of their topic name, a scheme pioneered by 4chan, whose major boards are indicated by only one or two letters (e.g. /v/, /m/, /tg/). As such, you can usually count on entirely different sites to have the same general setup. Not to be confused with our own Image Links Wiki, or Image Booru. |
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7chan, considered in many ways to be 4chan's luckless spinoff. It's most popular with ex-/b/-tards annoyed with what they perceive as 4chan's decline. Its boards mostly mirror those of 4chan, but its lower visitor numbers tends to mean it's less chaotic. It really doesn't like Something Awful, or the notion that it's a 4chan snowclone. It maintains a lolicon board (among other things) but will ban anything that even smells funny of child porn. | |
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789chan was an imageboard with a focus on technology, whose most famous board is /cwc/, which is entirely about Sonichu and its creator Christian Weston Chandler. Despite the title, though, very few threads were about Chris, and it generally discusses other people on the Internet the users don't like. It was shut down in November 2012. | |
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Ponychan (found here) is the result of a merger between two imageboards devoted to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The original Ponychan was entirely worksafe and known for being (comparatively) something of a "hugbox" with a strangely tight-knit community (for an imageboard). The other was MLPChan, which was created as a counterpoint to Ponychan's "hugbox" nature (and the comparative chaos of 4chan's /mlp/ board). The modern site allows NSFW content only on its /anon/ board, as long as it is properly tagged. | |
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