April Fools' Day/4chan
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OH MY JAPANESE CULTURE!!!! THIS IS JUST LIKE MY TRANIME GREENTEXT VIDEOS!!!!!! FUCK WOJACKSPAMMERS BTW I <3 LESBIAN HENTAI OF TWO DUDES DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU SUDE
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2004[edit | edit source]
Moot says he’s Robert Bopkins, and posts a picture of some guy in another blogpost next to an aztec statue along with "GREETINGS FROM MEXICO!". This started mootxico which is a SNCA oldfag meme.
2005[edit | edit source]
/fur/ is created, which acted as a honeypot that banned everyone who posted on it for one month.
2006[edit | edit source]
Site’s formatting got fucked up.
2007[edit | edit source]
Techno music added to /b/.
2008[edit | edit source]
Clippy is added to 4cuck.
2009[edit | edit source]
Text font on /b/ changed to Comic Sans.
2010[edit | edit source]
4cuck introduces "4chan 2.0 with Facebook Connect".
2012[edit | edit source]
/pol/ is given a communist theme with the USSR anthem playing.
2013[edit | edit source]
/s4s/ is created, mirroring the subreddit shitredditsays which had gained significant notoriety on 4chan at that time.
2014[edit | edit source]
Japanese captchas were implemented.
2015[edit | edit source]
An office assistant called Sticky was added to the bottom right of the screen.
2016[edit | edit source]
4chan is stylized to resemble Google+, and every post is given a random name. This led to anons hunting for certain name combinations, most infamously game writer Anthony Burch, which nobody managed to achieve.
2017[edit | edit source]
The following boards were merged together:
- /mlp/ + /pol/ -> /mlpol/ - My Little Politics
- /v/ + /int/ -> /vint/ - International Vidya
- /fit/ + /lit/ -> /fitlit/ - Well-Rounded Citizens
- /fa/ + /p/ -> /fap/ - Fashion & Photography
- /co/ + /ck/ -> /cock/ - Comics & Cartoons & Cooking
- /c/ + /an/ -> /can/ - Animals/Cute
- /m/ + /o/ -> /mo/ - Mecha & Auto
- /mu/ + /tv/ -> /mtv/ - Video Killed The Radio Star
- /out/ + /soc/ -> /outsoc/ - Outdoor Socialization
- /sp/ + /a/ -> /spa/ - Tanoshii Sports
2018[edit | edit source]
Each poster was randomly assigned to one of five teams themed around common Easter candies based on their IPv4 address[1]: Team Peanut Butter, Team Chocolate, Team Peep, Team Creme and Team Mini, and were tasked with earning points through an undocumented metric.
2019[edit | edit source]
A like button was added to posts.
2020[edit | edit source]
In response to a certain pandemic, users are randomly infected, and can spread via other posters replying to the infected post.
2021[edit | edit source]
A rake button gets added in every post, /qb/- Quebec is created, a counter on how many canadians there are on a given board shows up (some speculate this number was autogenerated), and flags were removed from every board that had them. A user could click on the rake to report canadians to 'deport' to /qb/, although a warning before doing so warned that false reports will result in deportation as well. /qb/ was a red board with no topic with every post having a canadian flag, that had the anthem of Canada sounding in the background.
2022[edit | edit source]
A system of emoticons was introduced were an user could click on emoticons on a post to 'witness them', to buy with points given on random intervals later.
2023[edit | edit source]
A random chance of getting a "Powered by GPT-4chan" watermark at the bottom right of a post, along with a randomized name.
2024[edit | edit source]
The Yotsuba Stock Exchange is launched with 18 stocks available to trade. Users were given special titles based on the total value of the user's portfolio.
| Title | Total Portfolio Value Needed |
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| Destitute Investor | <1,000 |
| Helpless Investor | 1,000 |
| Poor Investor | 2,000 |
| Fledgling Investor | 5,000 |
| Aspiring Investor | 50,000 |
| Rich Investor | 500,000 |
| Anonymous Magnate | 2,000,000 |
| Anonymous Mogul | 5,000,000 |
Once a user has at least 10 shares of a stock, they would be able to publicly display it on their post by adding the name prefixed with a $ symbol in the options field. In addition to an image representing the stock, certain stocks were given bonus effects.
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| PEPE |
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| WOJK |
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Extra padding is added around the post |
| ANIME |
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Hovering over the image reveals an alternate image |
| CHAD |
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Post is desaturated including the image |
| CLOWN |
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>greentext becomes >rainbowtext |
| LOL | 😂 | |
| SICP | λ | Text is presented in a monospace font |
| AUTSM | 
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| BANE |
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Text size is slightly increased |
| CIA |
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Name and image are given a slight glow (Tomorrow theme only) |
| BOOB |
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| RDDT |
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 A non interactable upvote and downvote button is added to the left of the post
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| DESU |
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Post is signed with DESU |
| JANNY |
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| GME | 🎮 | |
| CHUCK |
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| YTSB |
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| GACHI |
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Hovering over the image reveals an alternate image |
2025[edit | edit source]
A bunch of boards are shut down by order of Department of 4chan Efficiency. Boards get shut down slowly throughout the day until only /b/, /s4s/, /vip/, /bant/ and /r9k/ remain open by the end of the day. Al5o p0sts st4rt t0 g3t le77er w0rdf1lt3r3d to num83r5 4t 1 p01nt.
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A message that shows up on the open boards -
DO4CE emblem -
How board looks after being shut down.
2026[edit | edit source]
The captcha is very occasionally replaced with a prompt with a picture of an anime character which asks who it is, or asks a question about oldfag 4cuck culture. At least it didn't make every board anyphono cared about completely unusable for the day.
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Azumanga Daioh -
Argentinian skin colour -
A cat is fine too -
Norf FC -
The man nicknamed CIA
