The NPC meme started off as a harmless joke among 4chan users about how people connect with the world around them. It quickly became something far more harmful, that only spread after media scrutiny.

4chan was hacked by users from Soyjak.Party, leaking janitor emails, restoring the long-dead /qa/ board, and exposing the site's creaky old codebase.

When I was at Know Your Meme, I was doing physical cataloguing. Like, “OK, Advice Dog started on this blog, here’s the first post if we could find it, here’s the next six, here’s the big ...

Probable origins: The 4chan meme-machine. As a true cultural meme, Deus Vult has survived extinction for almost a millennium, as it is still found on online forums. Like many Internet memes, the ...

4chan’s /pol/ boards have, for much of the 2016 campaign, felt like an alternate reality, one where a Donald Trump presidency was not only possible but inevitable. At some point Tuesday evening ...

4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack. Per Downdetector, reports of an outage began circulating late Monday ...

The two-year-old 4Chan post, despite its laughable premise, fueled a meme last month that has some scary implications. “How to tell when someone is an NPC,” wrote anti-SJW alt-right journalist ...

Bell curve meme spread @The4thWayYT/X. Interest in the IQ bell curve meme began to spike in 2020 as it emerged from the sewers of 4chan and into the sewers of Twitter and other social media platforms.

4chan’s /pol/ boards have, for much of the 2016 campaign, felt like an alternate reality, one where a Trump presidency was not only possible but inevitable. At some point on Tuesday evening, … ...