The anonymous imageboard community remembered the Iron Lady with their usual tact and reverence.
Via replygif.net
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4chan's Touching Tribute To Margaret Thatcher
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This Is Not The Boston Marathon Bomber
The man in the white baseball hat, whose photo the New York Post published while suggesting he was a target of the Boston bombing investigation, has been cleared.
Seventeen-year-old Boston-area resident Salah Barhoun has been cleared of any connection to the Boston Marathon bombing.
According to ABC News, after being singled out as a suspect by online message boards, Barhoun himself went to the police to clear his name.
Thursday morning, Barhoun and a still unnamed spectator in blue next to him were identified as possible suspects by the New York Post.
Investigators probing the deadly Boston Marathon bombings are circulating photos of two men spotted chatting near the packed finish line, The Post has learned.
In the photos being distributed by law-enforcement officials among themselves, one of the men is carrying a blue duffel bag. The other is wearing a black backpack in the first photo, taken at 10:53 a.m., but it is not visible in the second, taken at 12:30 p.m.
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5 People The Internet Was Obsessed With Who Aren't Boston Bombing Suspects
Now that the FBI have photos of their two main suspects, we can sort through the five people Reddit and 4chan were convinced had something to do with Monday’s bombing.
The Running Man
He was running away from the scene of the explosion. Also, The Daily Mail picked up the theory.
Amateur pictures taken by someone in a nearby office building may show the man responsible running away from the scene - though this is only speculation.
'I went to the window and I was looking in the direction of the finish line. I saw simultaneously a runner go down, a huge explosion, and then a deafening roar,' Benjamin Thorndike said. 'I had my camera in my hand, and I just pushed the rapid-shutter button down and just took 25 pictures over the course of what felt like a long time, but I think it was only 15 or 20 seconds.'
Roof Guy
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Chinese Photoshop Trolls Are Way Funnier Than American Photoshop Trolls
The lesson here is you should never ask Weibo users to make you look cooler in a photograph.
Photoshop Request: “I want to look more dangerous.”
Photoshop Request: “I want to look like the son of a powerful politician!”
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Bringing Back "Arrested Development" Might Ruin It
There’s a very good chance that the internet’s favorite show might go the way of “The Harlem Shake” or planking.
Without too much effort, you can find Arrested Development GIFs and pictures organized into almost every conceivable order and theme you can think of.
The first DVDs of Arrested Development shipped to homes in the fall of 2004. By the end of 2006, DVDs of the original three season run had been distributed to fans all over the world. After the show's cancellation, those DVDs were especially important — they were the only tools fans had to fuel a fanatic screencap culture driven by a sense that with enough enthusiasm and devotion, they could will their little critically-acclaimed TV show back to life.
Google Trends data for "Arrested Development" shows a peak in online interest when the show was cancelled in 2006, as fans flocked to blogs and messageboards to commiserate.
Via google.com
That two-year period between 2004 and 2006 is an interesting one in terms of online culture. Myspace was still a few years off from becoming a dominant social network, hitting peak user numbers in 2008, and Facebook wasn't yet a force for sharing. Facebook wasn't even available to people who didn't have a college email until the end of 2006.
Instead, an unregulated meme culture was growing at an exponential rate. Messageboard users were sharing early versions of what we now classify as "viral content." That usually meant usually weird songs, clunky flash cartoons, terrible GIFs and more than anything, silly images.
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4chan Rigged A Radio Contest To Allow A "Fat Old Creep" To Meet Taylor Swift
Thanks to the anonymous image board, a 39-year-old man named Charles is currently in first place in a contest to to meet his favorite pop star. NSFWish
Boston's Kiss 108 is running a contest that allows people to compete for a chance to meet Taylor Swift.
Via kiss108.com
4chan discovered the contest and are now working to move a "creepy 39-year-old" named Charles into first place so that he can sniff her hair.
• Tell us in 137 characters or less why you are Taylor Swift's biggest fan. You'll get tickets to her sold out show PLUS meet her! (all entries must end with #ad by default)
• You will receive a unique URL that you can post on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or blog - wherever people will see it - get your friends and family to vote for you!
• The eligible person with the most votes once verified will win and get hooked up for the Taylor Swift concert at Gillette Stadium.
As of 8 hours ago, 4chan users successfully moved Charles into first place.
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Pizza Place Flooded With Hilarious Yelp Reviews After Footage Leaks Of Employee Possibly Masturbating In Kitchen
“Great pizza, ask for the special white sauce.” NSFWish
Wednesday night, 4chan found an unsecure webcam they claimed belonged to Jersey Joe’s Pizzeria, a pizza restaurant in San Diego
Via reddit.com
As 4chan took over the webcam, users discovered that one of the employees was apparently masturbating in the kitchen.
Some comments have questioned the validity of the footage, pointing to the timestamp at the top of the screen saying 2007.
Via reddit.com
Either way, people are now posting the screenshot in the photos section of the restaurant's Yelp page.
Via yelp.com
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4chan Is Currently Entering A "Fat Creep" Named Charles In Radio Contests All Over The Country
Oh, this will end well.
Last week, 4chan users decided it would be funny to vote for a 39-year-old man named Charles to win a chance to meet Taylor Swift in a radio contest so he could sniff her hair.
Charles made it to first place and stayed there for a considerable amount of time.
That is, until the radio station, Boston’s Kiss 108, ended the contest because it was "compromised."
Via kiss108.com
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26 Undeniable Facts About Having An Online Best Friend
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There's A Internet Hoax Going On Right Now To Convince Everyone That Miley Cyrus Contracted HIV
If you see #CureForMiley online today, it’s fake.
Wednesday night, anonymous users on 4chan came up with the #CureForMiley campaign.
The idea behind it is to trick the Internet into thinking that Miley Cyrus contracted HIV.
The Cure For Miley Facebook page includes fake tweets from Liam Hemsworth and a "Miley fan" to spread around.
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Meet The Men's Rights Activist Who Left An Ohio University Student Too Scared To Leave Her House
Ohio University student and sorority sister Rachel Cassidy had to delete all of her social media accounts after she was labeled a “false rape accuser” and flooded by threatening messages.
Skype
Peter Nolan refers to himself as the public face of Crimes Against Fathers, a site he runs with an anonymous partner who goes by the online handle John Rambo.
For the last two years or so, he's been using Crimes Against Fathers to "name and shame" women who he believes commit perjury against men, usually in cases involving rape allegations, pedophilia, and divorce.
"It's a site that men could come to had they been a victim of a crime," he says, speaking with BuzzFeed via Skype from his current home in Germany. "The family courts are used to destroy men like this."
He got involved with the site after fighting and winning two perjury cases against his ex-wife during their divorce. The process, he says, made him feel suicidal.
Nolan first learned of the alleged sexual assault on a sidewalk during Ohio University's homecoming when he saw a video of it on 4Chan. Users on 4Chan were outraged over the footage that was uploaded to viral video site World Star Hip Hop Uncut. It showed over a minute of an extended recording of the alleged rape. Users were furious that it didn't look like the sexual assault Ohio law enforcement was reporting it as.
"This kid Vance, I think he's 18 or 19, was pillared in the Daily Mirror for not helping the quote rape victim," Nolan says of Vance Blanc, the student who reportedly filmed the now-infamous video of the public sex act. "But when the video came out, whoever the woman is, is clearly not being raped."
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The 22 Most Shining Moments Of Brilliance From 4Chan
Have you always been curious about 4Chan, but too afraid to go? Let me be your guide. (Safe for work, believe it or not.)
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Doge But Were Afraid To Ask
Much informative. Very knowledge. Such facts.
The word "Doge" comes from this 2005 Homestar Runner clip.
It didn't really pop up again until 2010, when someone made this very weird, but very popular Tumblr post.
It was supposed to be like you were playing a weird role-playing computer game where you get to pet a dog.
Jokes based on the weird Doge Tumblr post floated around for a few years...
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A College Student Reportedly Lit Himself On Fire While 200 People Cheered Him On Via Webcam
It appears as though he’s okay, however.
A 20-year-old, who only identified himself as Stephen, announced on 4chan Saturday night that he would be committing suicide by setting himself on fire.
Stephen then set up a livestream on chateen.com under the username LOLdoge. During the suicide attempt the audience of the chatroom maxed out at 200 people.
The graphic 40-minute video was recorded and uploaded on Liveleak.
It shows Stephen walking around what appears to be a dorm room or small bedroom as smoke starts to grow. He then crawls under his bed and types "#imdead #omgimonfire."
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Internet Trolls Are Trying To Make The #BikiniBridges Trend Go Viral And It's Unfortunately Working
If you haven’t heard yet, a bikini bridge is when a woman is so skinny her hip bones lift the front of her bikini up when she lies down.
This is a "bikini bridge":
On Sunday, a 4chan user came up with the idea of creating a viral hoax around the idea of a "Bikini Bridge," which is when a woman's hip bones lift up the front of her bikini.
Phase 1:
The premise is simple. Create propaganda parading the "bikini bridge" to be the best big thing... Circulate it throughout the Internet. Simultaneously, we create reverse propaganda, denouncing the bikini bridge as an unhealthy obsession. This, too, we circulate through the Internet. Our mission during phase 1 is to garner support for these social outlets. The more followers/subscribers the better.Phase 2:
After a fair amount of circulation has been accomplished, we circulate the images throughout parts of the Internet know to be biased on the subject of weight (i.e. thin privilege, fat shaming, etc.). This should cause large enough of a stir to snowball into a fairly big subject.
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Is The Internet's Most Baffling Mystery About To Be Solved?
Cicada 3301 is a mysterious organization posting highly complex puzzles across the net. After two years, the answer may finally be in sight.
In January 2012 this image was posted to 4chan's "random" board.
Via en.wikipedia.org
He knew it was an example of digital steganography: a way of hiding an encoded message in an image. A sender might, for example, start with an innocuous image file and adjust the color of every 100th pixel to correspond to a letter in the alphabet.
Eriksson tried decoding 3301's message. After only a few minutes work he'd got somewhere: a reference to "Tiberius Claudius Caesar" and a line of meaningless letters.
He worked out it was a "Caesar cypher", as used by Julius Caesar in private correspondence. From that, he found a new web address.
Via en.wikipedia.org
It led to this picture. He ran it through a decryption programme, and found another link to a Reddit messageboard. There were encrypted links to books on it, along with lines and dots.
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Here's How A Fake Feminist Hashtag Like #EndFathersDay Gets Started And Why It'll Keep Happening
One of the big problems with hashtag activism is you’re never sure if it’s genuine or not.
It often starts on a forum like 4chan.
Anonymous image board 4chan has a section called /pol/. Sometime around Thursday or Friday of last week, users on /pol/ decided to try and get the hashtag #EndFathersDay trending on Twitter. Users at the time compared it to similar fake activism tags like #WhitesCantBeRaped, which, as a quick search on Twitter reveals, appears to have been a failed prank attempted last week.
The above account was debunked by David Futrelle, the writer behind the men's rights activist watch-blog, Man Boobz. Futrelle tracked the account's avatar to a stock photo website. Also, as Futrelle points out, in her Twitter bio, "Phoebe Kwon" spelled her hometown wrong.
wehuntedthemammoth.com / Via wehuntedthemammoth.com
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Activists Are Outing Hundreds Of Twitter Users Believed To Be 4chan Trolls Posing As Feminists
It looks like Twitter’s social justice community is cleaning house in a big way at the moment.
Over the weekend, the hashtag #EndFathersDay was revealed to have been orchestrated by 4chan users posing as female social justice activists on Twitter.
As more details emerged, it became more clear that #EndFathersDay was actually part of a larger project called "Operation: Lollipop."
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4chan Tried To Get Women To Share Nude Photos In Solidarity With Jennifer Lawrence
4chan attempted to encourage women to share their own nude photos using the #LeakForJLaw hashtag on Twitter. It didn’t work.
4chan, the website that appears to have coordinated the publication of hacked celebrities' nude photos, attempted to get ordinary girls to take and share their own nude photos to stand in “solidarity with Jennifer Lawrence”.
Danny Moloshok / Reuters
The 4chan users coordinating the Twitter hashtag #LeakForJLaw commented that it would be the "worldwide trolling of a lifetime". Here is the 4chan post in which an anonymous user discusses the idea:
Here's another 4chan thread in which another user comments that the trend idea is "genius".
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Apple Silent As Blame For Nude Celebrity Leaks Remains Unclear
Security researchers say Apple may not be directly at fault in what some have called an “iCloud leak.” Key new features depend on a safe and secure cloud. Update: Apple says there is no wide iCloud breach.
Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group / MCT
We wanted to provide an update to our investigation into the theft of photos of certain celebrities. When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately mobilized Apple's engineers to discover the source. Our customers' privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet. None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple's systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone. We are continuing to work with law enforcement to help identify the criminals involved.
To protect against this type of attack, we advise all users to always use a strong password and enable two-step verification. Both of these are addressed on our website at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4232.
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