the chan

Has anybody ever heard of 4chan? some of you might, as it's the most known of 'the' channels. A chan is a message forum where you can post pictures along with text, even a story and others can reply to your post with the same. Really simple, isn't it? So what does the chan have that regular message forums don't? there is a certain board, the /b/, random, where the moderation and rules are at lowest level that international laws allow. The result is that many people come there to blow of steam. To act like assholes and enjoying themselves. You could say the whole thing is a never ending joke laughing at racism, misfortune of others, celebrities, religion, politics, pop-culture you name it.. many have related /b/ as cancer that spoils all that is beautiful and nice in the world. on the other hand it's just mindless babble, a noise coming from the head when all reason is abandoned. then there is porn.. and cats.. and mutilated bodies.. and other weird stuff as well.

What is so very interesting about the chan as part of internet culture is that it seems that the users are very aware of the internet and what it holds and is capable of doing. what ever happens in the world that is at least minorly globally interesting /b/ most likely has some sort of bad goof or joke about. Then the anonymous, as the /b/ users refer to themselves, go around raiding other internet communities and individuals they find annoying. The impact of 2,000 evil nerds making fun of your existance is quite tremendous, and it's said that on some instances this has even lead to suicides, but this has never been verified.

So, now I invite you to look at some stuff that will spoil your mind forever, and you'd wish you'd never seen.

http://4chan.org/ , the most known, but as the place what it is, has drawn a lot of bad reputation to itself, so the moderators are really strict in enforcing even gray area illegal material posters (child pornography, drug selling etc..) with lifetime bans.

http://7chan.org/ , originally established to improve the humoric value of /b/, since 4chan /b/ is really messy and bad most of the time. But then again the original idea is that you post what you like and don't give it a second thought.

http://www.420chan.org/ animu, drugs and dongs as they refer to themselves, but really what's different there is the vast selection of drug related discussion boards.

http://www.2chan.net/ the original concept, but this is in japanese, so don't bother if you don't know the language.