April Fools' Day/4chan
FUCK WOJACKSPAMMERS BTW I <3 LESBIAN HENTAI OF TWO DUDES
DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU DESU SUDE
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
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Japanese captchas were implemented.
2015
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An office assistant called Sticky was added to the bottom right of the screen.
2016
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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
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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.
| Stock | Image | Bonus Effect |
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| PEPE | ||
| WOJK | Extra padding is added around the post | |
| ANIME | Hovering over the image reveals an alternate image | |
| CHAD | Post is desaturated including the image | |
| CLOWN | >greentext becomes >rainbowtext | |
| LOL | 😂 | |
| SICP | λ | Text is presented in a monospace font |
| AUTSM |  |
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| BANE | Text size is slightly increased | |
| CIA | Name and image are given a slight glow (Tomorrow theme only) | |
| BOOB | ||
| RDDT |  | |
| DESU | Post is signed with DESU | |
| JANNY | ||
| GME | 🎮 | |
| CHUCK | ||
| YTSB | ||
| GACHI | 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
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DO4CE emblem
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How board looks after being shut down.
2026
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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
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Argentinian skin colour
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A cat is fine too
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Norf FC
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The man nicknamed CIA
