4chan is an online image board website where people are able to post anonymously on many different image boards about topics such as anime, video games, music, politics, to more… risqué topics.
4chan receives around more than 27 million monthly users, as well as approximately 800,000 posts made each day by its users.
Since 4chan allows its users to post anonymously onto its message boards, users are not required to register and make an account, unlike most social media platforms, although users have the ability to give themselves a nickname when posting if the chose to do so. Uses can also bump up posts and threads to the top of message boards by replying and interacting with them, and older, inactive threads get deleted automatically, making room for new posts.
4chan could be described as a hub of internet subculture, with its community having been able to form and spread popular and prominent internet memes like rick-rolling and rage comics, as well as its movements of activism and politics, such as Anonymous and the Alt right.
When 4chan was first launched in 2003 as a western equivalent to a Japanese image board website, it only contained a single message board about anime. Today 4chan has about 70 different message boards about a wide range of topics and interests.
Pros: It allows people to post on message boards that revolve around topics that they are interested in without people knowing who they are on the website as the websites allows its users to post anomalously.
Cons: The look and display of the website itself looks dated in comparison to other social media platforms, and looks as if the website has never had a visual update since its launch in 2003. The website is also home to some of the most toxic people on the internet due to the anonymity that the website offers to all its users, so users can be as nasty and hateful as the want with virtually no consequence, and the website has also been tied up in quite allot of controversy over the years.
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