Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.
The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or “the sharty”. They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I’ve heard and seen from the website.
Yeah - the real freaks left because moot dated like Brianna Wu or something stupid and weird like that. 8chan was the place for a bit.
4chan is owned by an anime figma company at the moment - i think Nendroid?
I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.
It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.
The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.
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Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting
I looked at some of the leaked source code
Where? I’d be interested in looking through it too
Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?
Is that the average 4chaner?
Above average.
Is this the end of 4 Chan?
4chan died a long time ago.
yet the rotting carcass is still around stinking
Sort of like US Democracy.
Who is this 4chan guy?
No, the people who come there are retarded. They will still be retarded in a week or a month from now.
Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.
It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.
I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/!SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/
Allegedly Elon’s account.
Pools closed
Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I’m just asking questions.
You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It’s fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don’t doubt for a second that Elon didn’t try to co-opt it at some point.
What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares
He would certainly take credit for it.
someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds
Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/!SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksAndRumors/comments/1jzqr8c/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_account/ (archive) summarizes these posts
As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he’s behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it’s far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world
If you look trough the posts, people were slowly claiming it to be musk and he was slowly confirming it.
That could ofcourse be a troll too.
I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.
I mean, the same will happen here if you post the wrong opinion. It’s not that different from Reddit. (See how I used to word and nothing happened, btw?)
They were hacked by Soyjak https://www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html#10615802 / https://archive.ph/fxB6N
the mysterious hacker known as
4chansoyjack.Is that a person?
And nothing of value was lost
Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.
No. For the same reason that they didn’t demolish Auschwitz. We must learn from our follies, lest we repeat them.
Bro you’re giving 4chan waaaaay too much credit wtf, comparing it to literal genocide?
Come on.
Ya. It’s a joke, and that’s how jokes work. In this essay, I will explain, examine, and critique every known form of Homo sapiens humor.
In the beginning…
I doubt there’s any such thing as backups, nothing on there is permanent that’s why so many archive sites exist.
Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?
ok ok I’ll do it
So, a bunch of trolls got hacked? I’m not sure how I’m expected to feel about this, but frankly, I’m not feeling anything at all.
As someone who has never actually used 4chan, I have popcorn and am just sitting back and enjoying the shit show
That’s the best way to consume 4chan content.
well thing is, they might be searching for a new home
Oh many of them are here already.
It’s like a circus, grab popcorn and watch.
