Various imageboards are a very popular topic on the Internet. But modern Internet users sometimes do not know what it is, since they simply did not see the popularity of such sites. Let's look at this topic in more detail. At one time, the two most popular imageboards were “Dvach” and “Forchan”. When analyzing the concept of “imageboard” we will analyze these sites. After all, it was they who at one time gave rise to a huge number of memes. Okay, let's start looking at this in more detail.
What is an imageboard?
Imageboard(English image board, “board for images”, also chan from English Channel) - a type of forum with no registration and organization of communication in a section-thread way. The informal definition also includes the concept that it is a site where users conduct lively conversations through messages with attached graphic files.
An imageboard consists of thematic sections or boards (also sometimes the imageboards themselves are called boards). The discussion on each board is divided into separate threads, consisting of posts - sequential responses to the first (initial) message. Any visitor to the imageboard has the opportunity to create their own threads or respond to existing ones, anonymously or by subscribing.
Stylistics of communication
The main essence of communication on imageboards, and what made them popular at one time, is anonymity. Here, not only is it not required, it is not even necessary to sign messages. Existing only for the convenience of users’ statements, the conditions of anonymity laid the foundation for an entire qualitatively new segment of culture. The consequences of anonymity include a wide range of characteristics that have emerged during the development of imageboards.
1. Firstly, they result in absolute freedom of expression, they ban anonymous people only for things prohibited by the law of the IRL country: child porn, propaganda of violence, Nazism, however, on most image boards there is a /b/ section created for any topics, but on In practice, all prohibitions come down to only the first, everything else is possible! This creates a special type of thinking in the minds of users, when you can not be responsible for your words, your own creativity, or your behavior. The negative consequence of this is the formation of preconditions for total flooding, purposeless (spam) and off-topic (offtopic) messages. It also opens the door to the formation of a “cancer that kills /b/” community.
2. Secondly, anonymity, in the absence of fear of condemnation from society, allows you to raise topics that are prohibited or unacceptable in real society, and even on forums, such as planning a murder or homosexuality. This also has a positive effect: topics for communication are arbitrary, there is no fear, conscience is away, which allows image boards to become a place of free cultural perception, awareness and combination, turning them into places open to all thoughts and all possibilities, something that is in the understanding of culture The world's IRL cities can be compared with online cities, of course only psychologically.
3. Thirdly, the anonymization of communication has led to the creation of the illusion of Anonymous. The essence of Anonymous is that you not only don’t know who is answering you and from where: the very thought of different people is not shared - the flow of information forces participants to contribute the first thing that came to mind, or at least not thought about it for too long, usually this is not very good things. If you forget that anyone can post from anywhere, then dividing the message into “us” and “not yours”, you may get the impression that you are communicating with one person, while an outside observer gets the impression of an instant blog of one person - Anonymous . And everything would be fine if people did not always go further - amazed and enchanted by the beauty and aestheticism of anonymous culture, people who do not have their own culture in real life begin to create, which as a result resembles only an imitation of creativity. Anonymous himself calls them cancer. In fact, cancer is people for whom the process of communication itself one day becomes more important than its content. The first steps towards cancer, apparently, were those who, only after the emergence of this type of communication, began to create parodies and various macros of this, write pasta, most likely his name is hidden to us forever. But the thousandth, well, maybe the millionth, Anonymous continues in the best traditions the development of a topic that has long tired of everyone, and has exhausted itself, it would seem, but the direction of culture continues to live, developing. Well, I wonder what will happen next.
4. Fourth, in the already established anonymous culture itself, the identification aspect of posts often causes a lot of drama and lulz, giving rise to such terms as “neimfag” (named), “seimfag” (Semyon, also a male) and “trypfag”. The latter arise due to the presence of the ability to enter an individual tripcode in the name field - a pseudo-registering set of numbers and letters to identify messages from one person. You can simply subscribe in any way and any number of times.
5. As already mentioned, the only real alternative to anonymous communication on an imageboard is a tripcode. To use the tripcode, write in the nickname field after your nickname, the # symbol and your password (without spaces). For example: Nickname # tripcode → Nickname! 3GqYIJ3Obs After this, do not forget to put in the name field after the name of the symbol # with the SAME password, which you do not disclose to anyone, do not forget
6. Due to the presence of numbering of posts, the concepts of “get” (taking) are common - a deliberate post with a get number, and doubles - on very fast boards, the requirements are a post number with the same two last digits.
7. The last, and perhaps final, investigative property is the length of time that different anonymous people communicated on the imageboard. Unlike a forum, where one user cannot be confused with another, on an imageboard it is impossible to distinguish one unsuccessful meme user from another, so drama is often caused by the sadness of users with experience in communicating in the community - oldfags, over misinterpretations, too much passion, or simply themselves the desire to immediately add something of their own by newly arrived users - newfags. Unlike frequent myths, memes are ubiquitous, from the very essence of humanity, and are not a feature of imageboards.
What are “Dvach” and “Fochan”?
These two sites, as we have already figured out, belong to one very large category of Internet resources, which are called imageboards. This is one of the types of forum that has advanced capabilities regarding attaching pictures. In fact, the term literally translates to “image board,” which makes it easier to understand this phenomenon, which has now almost disappeared into oblivion. Typically, imageboards are built according to the same scheme, full of a large number of sections.
These sections contain so-called threads in which people discuss certain topics. The remarks themselves (sometimes with pictures) are posts. A similar forum system still exists today. The advantage of the imageboard compared to other forums was that all users there are anonymous.
Some consider this a drawback that creates chaos in such systems. However, despite the absence of the need to register, on such sites it is often possible to identify and determine that posts were written by the same person. Let's look at the two most famous imageboards at the moment: “Dvach” and “Forchan”.
What is "Dvach"?
Dvach is a popular site 2ch.ru, which had a variety of forums where people could communicate on popular topics and express their opinions. A lot of memes and slang words came from this project.
Story
Dvach consisted of 40 thematic sections, the largest of which was /b/ (nonsense) - a section without a specific topic. Most of Dvach's memes originated from there. In turn, these memes were borrowed both from abroad and from RuNet memes in general; however, many memes were of local origin and were popular only on Dvacha. Dvach has become one of the largest centers of development of Internet culture in Runet. Lurkmore was created as a continuation of Dvach: one of its founders, Zoi, was the hoster of Dvach, and most of the words of Lurkmore came from the Dvach jargon; In addition, Dvach and his memes are one of the few things that are almost not ridiculed in Lurka.
Dvach was an anonymous imageboard and preached “forced anonymity” (that is, the fundamental impossibility of registering), but sometimes it is not difficult to understand whether two certain messages were written by the same person or by different ones. However, it was possible to fill in the “Name” field (when publishing a post with an empty “Name” field, “Anonymous” was indicated in the title), but those who did this were persecuted, calling them neumphags. The lack of moderation (since 2007) and anonymity were the reason for the impunity that reigned on Dvacha, which attracted many notorious trolls or people who, hoping for anonymity, were not afraid to disgrace themselves on Dvacha, but there were frequent cases of so-called. “de-anonymization”, when, according to some indirect indications in posts or images attached to them, it was possible to establish the name of the anonymous person in real life, and sometimes some other data. If the de-anonymized person was disgraced on Dvach, then there could well be a wave of persecution of this person outside of Dvach. A similar anonymity system is common on other imageboards, but it was on Dvacha that the largest de-anonymizations in the history of the Runet at that time took place.
Due to the same anonymity and impunity, obscene and unparliamentary expressions were extremely common in the Dvach culture, including insults of opponents as such, so Dvach regulars rarely took these insults seriously, but were merciless in them towards newcomers, who were called newfags (nowadays the offensive connotation of this word has been lost). The images published on Dvach were also often extremely naturalistic and often consisted of shock content.
In the last days of Dvacha’s life, he was flooded with the so-called. “cancer” (there is an opinion that Lurkomorye is also to blame for this, but there is also the opposite opinion). According to one version, this was the reason for the closure of Dvach. According to another version, the closure occurred at the request of the owner of Dvach (in addition, the owner does not want to part with the domain itself, as evidenced by the extension of the domain twice already, after Dvach ceased to be available, proofs in the whois and alexa history). conspiracy theorists claim that the destruction of Dvach was not least the work of the special services. Many dvachers switched to other imageboards, some of them became regulars of Dvatirech.
What is Fochan?
4chan(Japanese 四葉 yotsuba, “four leaves”, Fochan, Forchan) – an English-language imageboard and anonymous web forum, created under the influence of the Japanese futaba channel. At the moment, it has surpassed the futaba channel in traffic and popularity and is probably the largest imageboard in the world. Fourchan was opened on October 1, 2003 by Christopher Poole (moot). On January 21, 2015, 11.5 years after its creation, moot announced that it was leaving the position of resource administrator. On September 21, 2015, 4chan founder Christopher Poole announced that the site was being taken over by 2channel founder Nishimura Hiroyuki
Organization
4chan contains over 60 imageboard-style sections, including one oekaki section and one flash section. Previously, on the world4ch domain, and then on the dis.4chan.org subdomain, there were also exclusively text sections, similar to Japanese forums like 2channel, which were later liquidated.
Each section has a short letter code (for example, /a/ for anime and manga, /k/ for weapons, /mu/ for music, etc.) that is usually used as the section name. Each section has its own topic (except for /b/), its own rules, and its own subculture. All sections allow you to send anonymous messages.
Moderators and cleaners monitor activity on the site. The first - they are called mods - post content, delete posts, communicate with users and, if necessary, ban them. Cleaners are selected from ordinary users. They monitor individual sections, but do not have the right to ban users. Moderators and cleaners must remain anonymous. Those who reveal their identity or status are kicked out without warning.
/b/
The most popular section on 4chan is /b/ (random), recently receiving an average of 200,000 messages per day. Users of the section call themselves /b/tards (from the English retards or bastards; can be translated as “/b/olvans” or “u/b/lyudki”; the Russian transcript equivalent is “/b/tards” or “bitards”). Unlike other sections, it does not have a specific topic. The section does not have local moderation rules, and only a number of global ones apply. Due to the rapid flow of messages and the high density of original memes, it can be difficult for newcomers to the section to understand the meaning of the discussions. Due to the number of users, some memes originating on /b/ are widely shared and even received publicity in the press.
Character of users
Despite the anonymity, analysis of publications and behavior of /b/ users suggests that:
- The age of the majority of users publishing posts is between 18 and 30 years old. This statement is based on an analysis of references to pop culture phenomena that mainly date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s;
- they belong to the white race or to people who, consciously or not, demonstrate a “white” mindset: /b/ is characterized by trolling people of color in general and African Americans in particular;
- the majority are Americans living in the suburbs and belonging to the middle class. How to read 4chan?
The anonymous image board 4chan, needless to say, can be a truly terrifying and disgusting place! However, if you get used to it and survive the first shock, then everything will go like clockwork. This article will teach you how to use 4chan.
Steps
1. Find out if you can join 4chan. If you are under 18, if you are offended by innocent jokes about your mother and her sex life, pornographic content, racism and all that, or if you are... ahem... a representative of the intellectual majority (however, even in this case, 4chan will be interesting to you - but only /b), then you shouldn’t go to 4chan or boards in general.
2. Read the rules. As a rule, “newfags” are banned precisely for ignorance of the rules. Bans on 4chan are a thing that are very, very difficult to remove. Remember, however, that even following the rules will not save you from a ban - for some phrases, images and tripcodes you can be banned forever. And remember that 4chan has two sets of rules: the 4chan rules and the /b (non-topic) rules.
3. See which discussion board is more interesting to you. Of course, the most popular is /b, where there is no topic. It was there, by the way, that most of today’s popular memes appeared (it was there, and not on the RuNet). However, if humor, porn and other “cancer that kills boards” are not particularly interesting to you, you are welcome to the topic.
4. Lurk. Don't immediately start new threads without knowing the local rules, otherwise you will rightly be called an idiot. Do everyone (and yourself too) a favor - sit in the “ridonli” for at least two weeks. Look at how the board lives, how it breathes, how it speaks. Make sure you know the basics of how to leave messages, how to unfollow threads, how to quote, how to spot trolls, etc. before you actually start posting.
5. Learn local slang. Does anyone remember some Muta? If you come across a word you don't understand, look it up on, say, Lurkmore.to to understand what it actually means.
6. Don't be a cancer killing /b! Cancer threads on /b are the plague of 4chan and many other boards. These immensely disgusting and annoying threads created by newfags, these endless “platinum threads” - threads like “newfags can’t play triforce”, “roulette”, “copy-paste threads”, “laughed - lost”, etc. In general, don’t create them, don’t subscribe to them, drive them away, despise them!
7. Start unfollowing. If you read the article carefully and didn't miss anything, then you're now ready to dive into the vat of g... that is, 4chan. Good luck, and remember the rules!
- Type carefully. Illiterate people are not liked on 4chan.
- Learn the slang (OP – original poster, author of the thread).
- Don't click on all the links, no matter how tempting they may sound. Don't know what this site is? Don't go there.
- Don't be afraid if the thread disappears from zero. Even good threads sometimes get washed away.
- Remember that for some words and images the ban occurs almost instantly, and forever.
- Don't be afraid to respond to anonymous people. You can have a very sincere conversation with them.
- Of course, you shouldn't put personal data in /b. Be anonymous, don't give yourself away.
- Don't take advice from /b. Seriously.
- What you see cannot be unseen! What you see may be removed from the board... but not from your head.
- Remember, no matter what anyone tells you, don't delete system32.
- Don't fall for the old tricks like “open a picture and save it as 4chan.jse” etc. Such viruses can seriously damage your computer.
Even if you’ve been wandering around on all sorts of Internets like forums, contacts and other chats for ten years, this does not mean that at dvach you will easily join the team, and in general you will understand what they are talking about there. But don't be upset! There is this list especially for newfags like you.
Sap dvach- greetings
Anon(pineapple, antoine) - anonymous, user dvacha
Abu- admin and owner of Dvacha
Achievement- achievement
Thread- topic\topic\discussion thread
Kun- boy
Tian\Eot(there is one chan)\Aphid(tnya)- young woman
Bump(Bring up my post) - raising a thread when sending a response, a sign of interest. A kind of like.
Sage- Anon's dissatisfaction with this thread.
Wipe- active posting of various kinds of material, mostly repetitive or united by a common theme, with the goal of lowering or further destroying the thread by lowering it to a critical level. Where the critical mark is the limit after which threads are automatically deleted by the system as no longer relevant.
Bitard- a regular on the /b/ section of imageboards, well versed in local slang and behaving appropriately.
Buhurt- ass pain, negative reaction to a sore subject.
Buhurt thread- a thread in which anons tell unpleasant stories from their lives on a certain topic.
Camwhore- a whore in front of the camera. A girl who fulfills requests (requests like show your breasts) from anon, providing proof (a photo with the inscription “sup /b/” with the current date).
Wangyu- from Wang, I predict
TNN- no pull needed
ITT(“in this thread”) - in this thread
IRL(“in real life”) - in real life
Diskach(diskas) - discussion
Lulz- lol
Lamp– cozy, warm, homely
Erokhin- alphach (alpha male), successful guy
Sonny basket(Sychev, omezhka) - mother’s son
DS(default city – default city) - Moscow
DS-2- St. Petersburg
Mukhosransk- a city in the depths of Russia
Pic related- a standard phrase that is written if the image uploaded by the op in the first post of the thread matches the subject. In the case when an image is selected randomly according to the principle “to be” (since on many image boards opening a new thread without attaching a picture to it is prohibited. This, for example, is the /b/ dvacha section), the opposite phrase is written - pic unrelated or pic not related .
Condensed milk is shining- time in prison is shining
inb4 (In before)- waiting for something
Hikka– a person who consciously and purposefully isolates himself from society
Lost from this(capitulated, “out loud”) - laughed
Karlan- a short guy
Peka(bakery) – PC - computer
Fap(fap, fap) - masturbate
Bioproblems- problems with sex
Paste- copy-paste - copied content
Sauce- source - source
Force(force) - impose
Malafya(fapcha) - sperm
Empire- Russia
Liberator- Putin
Vatnik- a patriot of Russia, a person with a pro-Russian point of view
SHIN- WIN - win - victory, something worthy and suitable
Moralfag- moralizer
Oldfag- old-fashioned
Newfag- newbie
Sosnitsky's theorem- fat trolling of schoolchildren asking their exam questions on the Internet.
What is "Dvach"? 2ch.ru is a popular image board site of domestic origin that existed until January 17, 2009. This resource stood out among its competitors in that it had no registered users, and all publications were anonymous. The web forum gained fame thanks to its resonant content, which was uploaded by the users themselves.
What is "Dvach"? What was the popular Internet resource like?
The imageboard resource contained about 40 thematic sections, the most notably popular category was “Nonsense,” which did not belong to a specific genre. Most of the popular Internet memes were posted there, which were often borrowed from foreign analogue sites (for example, “Forchan” - 4chan.org). All the trends and jokes that gained popularity on the world and Russian Internet were related to the Dvach imageboard.
What is "Dvach" /b/?
The well-known category on “Dvach” was completely copied from the Japanese imageboard “Forchan (4chan.org)”. The content knew no boundaries or rules - absolutely everything was published, contrary to universal human values and moral principles. In the /b/ section it was possible to “post” everything that did not contradict the current legislation (however, this rule was not always taken into account). The forum was not much different from the forum - almost everything was borrowed, even jargon and slang.
Jargon and slang of Dvacha users (2ch.ru)
The Russian-speaking public communicated with each other in a distorted language with great enthusiasm, exchanging sharp jokes and various kinds of content. It would be extremely difficult for an uninitiated person to determine the semantics of the words of the regulars. For example, new guests to the web forum often had the question: “what does sap dvach mean?” And the explanation is quite simple - this is a common greeting from forum users. The particle “sap” meant an abbreviation for the English expression “what’s up,” which translated means the usual “how are you?” Among the inhabitants of the forum (in particular, the /b/ section) it was customary to greet people with the phrase “sap dvach”.
Also within the image board one could find the phrase “dvach thread”, which is also not immediately clear to a new user of the web forum. Thread in English means “thread”. In Dvacha it was used as a figurative designation of the direction of discussion (branch of discussion).
Regular guests in the Delirium category called each other “/b/tards” (which read as “beatard” and is close to the English “retard”). Users, endowed with self-irony, ridiculed themselves and each other in the sense that the type of their interests was nonsense on Dvacha. There is another version of the origin of the word “beatard” - translated from English the word “bastard” means “bastard”.
Records of Runet and the world
The category “nonsense - /b/” was the most viewed and active on Dvach. By 2009, the number of publications in this section reached six million. Every schoolchild and teenager knew what “Dvach” was! Every new day, the category was replenished with thirty thousand new messages. The second most popular category was /vg/ (very good), in which various life hacks (helpful tips) were posted, and the number of publications did not exceed 250 thousand. The Internet community “Dvacha” was one of the largest imageboards in the world (“Dvach” ranked second in popularity in the world after the Japanese “Forchana”).
Anonymity on "Dvach": what does it mean?
The most important and notable difference between Dvach and its analogues and competitors was its anonymity. The ideology of the imageboard was based on this - the forum preached anonymity. If other sites provided the opportunity not to register on their resource, but simply to be able to view pages and make any publications, then the developers of Dvach literally forced their community to anonymity. Given these connotations, the concept of “anonymous” was born within the site. However, if desired, in all categories (except for the section /b/ (“Nonsense”)) it was possible to leave information about yourself: the author of the publication could write his name and leave his trip code along with his email address. The inhabitants of the Dvacha web forum did not welcome such users, because such actions were considered contemptuous. Within the same site, the concept of “trypfags” was born, that is, people who do not adhere to the unspoken ideology of the site - anonymity.
There was also the concept of “deanonymization,” that is, calculating the identity of an anonymous person. They did this in many different ways. Some may have deliberately given out information about themselves in order to publicize their person for the purpose of publicity. Basically, such upstarts were subjected to mass condemnation and ridicule (sometimes “harassment” outside the web forum, this was called “raids”), because the advanced Dvacha society was difficult to outwit.
How has anonymity affected the life of the imageboard?
Anonymity gave users complete freedom of opinion and speech, they were proud of their forum. You can say absolutely any thing, regardless of morality and universal order! More often than not, this led to endless disputes and mutual insults among the dvach public. It was believed that an anonymous dispute is the fairest way to allow people to express their arguments and dissatisfaction with their opponent; it is impossible to “crush” them with your life authority and status.
The ideology of anonymous permissiveness has turned the site into a real dump of negativity, black humor, trash, immorality and extremism. Often, all the insults addressed to each other and other resonant information on the site were not taken seriously. Not everyone understood this kind of atmosphere, and this only added fuel to the fire of Internet trolls and rare “rednecks.”
The grief of "Anonymous"
On January 17, 2009, the most popular Russian-language Internet resource “Dvach” (2ch.ru) was closed (more often they say “cut down”) forever. In the last years of the resource’s life, many “oldfags” (people who remember “Dvach” from the very beginning) often complained that the forum had turned into something other than the previously successful imageboard. Many fierce conflicts and phrases “Dvach is not the same anymore” led to the fact that the site’s owners decided to close it. There is an alternative version about the cessation of the 2ch.ru website - they say that this decision was caused by pressure from federal services.
