4chan's /vg/: A History Of Gaming's Most Notorious Board

14 years ago, someone posted to 4chan’s /v/ board about running into a strange humanoid entity in a minecraft cave after listening to music disc 13. Vague screenshots of “white eyes” lurking. Hackers deposited nude celebrity photos on the site over. 4chan is a platform that allows its users to post anonymously. It is divided into different boards, with all dedicated to a fixed topic ranging from video games, anime, politics, to even random.

Modern meme culture, remixing, and anonymous activism have roots in imageboards like 4chan's infamous /b/ board. The nintendo data leak, also known as the nintendo gigaleak, is a series of leaks of data from the japanese video game company nintendo on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. The phenomenon of rickrolling began in may 2007 when a link was posted on 4chan's /v/ (video game) board, claiming to be the first trailer for grand theft auto iv. The site's random board is by far its most popular and notorious feature. Known as /b/, there are minimal rules on posted content. Gawker once jokingly claimed that reading /b/ will melt.