Imageboard
In Japan, where imageboards are more common,[citation needed] topics will vary widely, ranging from trains to current news.
Most imageboards and 2channel-style discussion boards allow (and encourage) anonymous posting and use a system of tripcodes instead of registration.
[9] In September 2016, a pro-Russian government organisation,[clarification needed] Mail.ru, helped to organize a "defense" against alleged DDOS attacks that took place during the same month.
These events raised concerns and speculations among users, who grew suspicious of an alleged takeover committed by Mail.ru, and who criticized the owner's controversial decision to accept "help".
[citation needed] An English-language imageboard based on cannabis culture[12] which was created on 20 April 2005 by Aubrey Cottle.
This imageboard is based primarily upon the posting of pictures (generally related to a wide variety of topics, from video games and popular culture to politics and sports) and their discussion.
"[15] The site and its userbase have received attention from the media for a number of reasons, including attacks against Hal Turner on his Internet shows,[16] distributed denial-of-service attacks against eBaum's World,[17][18] taking part in Project Chanology,[19] and multiple cases of anti-animal abuse reports.
8kun also claims to have a strong dedication to freedom of speech and allows all content—so long as the discussion and board creation abides by United States law.
The administrators claimed the thread was deleted immediately, and the site had its primary web domain taken offline following the attack.
Its boards usually do not distinguish between not safe for work and clean content, but there is a strict barrier between two-dimensional (drawn) and three-dimensional (computer graphics (CG) and photographic) pictures that is heavily enforced and debated.
Vice Magazine described it as "a site for completely anonymous Spanish-language discussion that has proven popular among hackers since its launch in 2012.
[34] In a June 2019 article, Elena Rue of Vice Spain described various Hispachan threads as constituting "collaborative misogyny" for allowing the dissemination of intimate images of women without their permission and online harassment of those objecting to their photos being shared.
"[36] In May 2022, Hispachan officially announced its closure on Twitter; it was temporarily available for a few days until all of its content was permanently deleted.
[48][non-primary source needed] Its name comes from the Polish word karaczan, which means cockroach, an insect that is used as Karachan's logo.
[55] The site has been linked to the 2025 Antioch High School shooting, with the Anti-Defamation League describing it as a "far-right reactionary imageboard filled with crude racist and antisemitic humor".
[56] Wizardchan was an imageboard primarily dedicated to male culture and topics including anime, hobbies, and depression.
