The Founder Of 4chan Is Stepping Down After 11 Years
Christopher “Moot” Poole announced on Wednesday that he would be leaving the site to a team of volunteers. Christopher "Moot" Poole, the 26-year-old founder of the influential, controversial, and...
View ArticleAfter People Tried To Body-Shame This Guy Dancing At A Concert Something...
Thousands of people are trying to invite this guy to a dance party. UPDATE: Pharrell, Moby, and Andrew WK have all said they want to perform at Dancing Guy’s party. Last month, a user on the anonymous...
View Article666 Reasons To Listen To The Debut Episode Of "Internet Explorer" Podcast
Welcome to the first episode of BuzzFeed’s Internet Explorer, a new and probably ill-advised podcast. reddit.com Hey! It's Katie Notopoulos and Ryan Broderick and we are insanely pumped for our first...
View ArticleThe Internet Has Been Hilariously Photoshopping This Guy's Vacation Photo
This is pretty weird and great. Belgian food blogger Yves Van De Ven has an inside joke with his friends where he tries to do super lame tourist photos at famous places around Europe. instagram.com...
View Article21 Stories From 4chan That Are Masterpieces Of Literature
Throw out all the books on your shelves because they’re hot stinking garbage compared to these. A story with the most unexpected twist ending. reddit.com Pepe the frog, patron saint of the Green Text...
View ArticleA Man Body-Shamed For His Dancing Has Had The Last Laugh With His Own...
Moby played a DJ set, Monica Lewinsky turned up, and Pharrell recorded a special video message for Sean O’Brien, the “Dancing Man” who became the centre of an online manhunt. Sean O’Brien has had...
View ArticleA Bunch Of Trolls Are Trying To Convince People To Take The #PlasticBagChallenge
Here we go agaaaaiiinnnnnn. Thursday night, users on the anonymous messageboard 4chan came up with the idea of the #PlasticBagChallenge. It’s a parody of the #CharlieCharlieChallenge, which trended...
View ArticleThis Teacher From An Indian Village Will Have His Class Read Out Any Message...
What could possibly go wrong? Fiverr is an online marketplace where you can hire or offer professional services for a fee. Fiverr.com A couple of months ago, an Indian user, Quazihaque, posted a gig...
View Article4chan Set Up A Fake Feminist Event To Scam Women For Money
The event charged people $50 to attend. In an elaborate fraud attempt, 4chan users attempted to scam women out of money by setting up "FemCon", a fake event for feminists. BuzzFeed News The event,...
View ArticleRemembering Jenkem, The Greatest Internet Hoax
The teen drug panic that was started by a prankster on a messageboard. Behold: the greatest trolling effort to make local news believe that teens were doing a new dangerous drug called "jenkem"....
View Article4chan Is Currently Hacking This Girl After Daring Her Brother To Put On Her...
The person who hacked the girl’s account told BuzzFeed News he did it because he could. WARNING: This post contains graphic content. On Monday, a 4chan user started this thread, asking the other...
View ArticleWatch People Struggle Trying To Guess Urban Dictionary Terms
“I love bringing people together.” BuzzFeed Blue / Via youtube.com
View ArticleTrolls Are Trying To Trick Bernie Sanders Supporters Into Blowing Themselves Up
Do not make this Bernie Sanders-themed “glowsticks” recipe — or any variant of it — if you see it! It's possible you've seen this infographic on Facebook or Twitter in the last month or so. It says...
View ArticleTotally Looks Like
The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger? have launched their sixth comedy site where readers juxtapose celebrity faces with their unlikely doppelgängers. The Best Links: Totally Looks Like - The Site...
View ArticleSarah Palin's Hacked E-Mails
Internet hooligans Anonymous somehow hacked Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo account and posted the user name / password on 4chan (they’re now deleted)! The Best Links: Bristol Palin’s Voicemail Group...
View Article✈▌▌ Search Hoax
Commenters on 4Chan, eBaum’s world and other sites rile up the internet by getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to the top of the Google Trends page. The Best Links: 4Chan: Go To Google, Search For...
View ArticleMacRumors Hit by Hackers
Those fun-loving pranksters over at 4Chan have been busy today. In addition to (allegedly) getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to rise to the top of Google Trends, they managed to take over the...
View Article9/11 Google Trends Symbol: ✈▌▌
Internet pranksters got an image of an airplane and two towers to register in Google Trends today. The Best Links: Swastika On Google Trends Why is This Plane Symbol On Google Trends? Unpleasant...
View Article4chan's moot on the Time 100?
Looks like the 4chan army is out and at the polls for Dear Leader over at Time’s “World’s Most Influential” voting site.
View Article4Chan Plays With Twitter
4Chan’s /b/ board discovers fake account creation, and suddenly a random Australian epidemiologist has 130,000 followers and counting. The Best Links: Cache of the 4Chan Twitter Account Creation...
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