4Chan once again used their nearly infinite power to juke the stats and promote Pedobear to the #1 spot in a contest to find Miley Cyrus' biggest fan. Kudos anonymous.
Twitter should have known better than to screw with 4Chan, but at least it's got somebody to get it through the hard times ahead
“Look mommy, just like the man that comes over when daddy is out of town.”
Tech Buzz 4Chan's /b/ board discovers fake account creation, and suddenly a random Australian epidemiologist has 130,000 followers and counting. Their simple goal? Get Basementdad more followers than CNN or Ashton Kutcher. Godspeed, b.
The names of the 21 leaders of the Time Top 100 most influential people are an acrostic for “Marble Cake Also the Game”. It seems like getting their fearless leader moot to the top spot on the list wasn't 4chan's only agenda in this sinister piece of manipulation. Marble Cake was also the game. WTF is “marble cake”? And why does 4chan CONTROL OUR LIVES!?
Looks like the 4chan army is out and at the polls for Dear Leader over at Time's “World's Most Influential” voting site. moot was at #1 earlier today, but by the time I got the screenshot he was holding it down at #4 with an average rating of 73 and a whopping 248,718 votes. Update: He's back on top! Go moot go!
Tech Buzz Internet pranksters got an image of an airplane and two towers to register in Google Trends today. Last July, a swastika showed up and 4chan were the culprits. Are they behind it this time too?
Those fun-loving pranksters over at 4Chan have been busy today. In addition to (allegedly) getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to rise to the top of Google Trends, they managed to take over the live feed for the MacRumors live-blog coverage of today's Macworld keynote address. After announcing that Steve Jobs had died, they moved on with lightning speed to an endless string of penis jokes (which may have undermined their credibility somewhat).
Culture Buzz Commenters on 4Chan, eBaum's world and other sites rile up the internet by getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to the top of the Google Trends page. So okay, this only affects the infinitesimally small number of people that know/care what Google Trends is — but you may be one of them! But you probably also won't be offended.
Politics Buzz Internet hooligans Anonymous somehow hacked Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo account and posted the user name / password on 4chan (they’re now deleted)! Now, Gawker and Wikileaks have some of the emails archived and posted for all to see.
Tech Buzz Great piece on web trolls in New York Times Magazine. I bet this article gets turned into a book or movie - who can resist the human drama, the shady subculture, and the cast of interesting, smart, amoral characters? Nice reporting Mr. Mattathias Schwartz!
Tech Buzz The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger? have launched their sixth comedy site where readers juxtapose celebrity faces with their unlikely doppelgängers. Oh, those LOLcat guys really know how to help you waste more time at work.
Tech Buzz Mischievous geeks are manipulating Google Trends to make offensive words appear to be hot search trends. First the number one result was a swastika symbol. Then the words “fuck you google” flipped backwards to get past the spam filters. Some say the 4chan bulletin is causing the problem by picking offensive words and getting the whole community to search for them — thereby creating a self-fulfilling Google trend. Personally we would never do anything like that because we think sʞɔoɹ spuǝɹʇ ǝlƃooƃ.
Tech Buzz The man who started the internet meme-machine and creator of LOLcat, 4chan, at age 15 was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. He's a mystery wrapped in an enigma. In researching him, I feel like I've delved into the seedy internet underground of teenage boydom.
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