Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

a year ago by INACTIVE to c/technology

Though the exact details of the situation have not been confirmed, community infighting seems to have spilled out in a breach of the notorious image board.
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illegible 58 points a year ago

Are we going to find out the history of q-anon?

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Agent641 48 points a year ago

Turns out it was Bernie Sanders all along. Finally, the deep state megajew lizard retreats to his orbiting space station with the breakaway civilization and starts charging up the 5G covid laser while petting his chemically gay frog. Blissful oblivion is only moments away for the hairless ape race, unless the tall plieadian archangel Mick intervenes.

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illegible 9 points a year ago

That’s a lot to unpack.

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markovs_gun 24 points a year ago

I hope so. Textual analysis suggests a "2 Q" theory where the earliest posts were mostly one author on 4chan (interestingly not all, several early drops are believed to be from different users) and then another person (who I believe wholeheartedly is 8chan administration Ron Watkins) started posting as Q and moved to 8chan. I'm interested in knowing who the earliest Q was and what the content of the very first Q drops was, given that there are believed to be several that didn't get archived. Several people have claimed to be 4chan Q but none of their stories are particularly convincing. My guess is that it was a bunch of random trolls at first and then one of them just went with it when they started getting a following.

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Raiderkev 12 points a year ago

A person in my discord (with no source, so keep that in mind) sent the attached. He was theorizing that Q-anon was a Mossad operation based on this chart saying Israel has the highest quantity of posts after 2014. He's fairly left leaning, and not one of the crazies on 4 chan yelling "the joos!" Having said that I have no idea if this chart is even legit.

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Valmond 10 points a year ago

Lots of swedes are radicalised, just imagine a country of under ten millions being seventh place.

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starsailover 6 points a year ago

I have also seen this image but the question is what did they try to accomplish? If anything cesspools like 4chan have radicalized guys to the far right and increase antisemitism.

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RedditIsDeddit 1 point a year ago
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And009 1 point a year ago

Why's it only white dominated countries?

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pjwestin 8 points a year ago

Not really. QAnon was only on 4Chan for the first year, then it migrated to 8Chan. But the tl;dr is it was probably started as a joke, taken over by bad-faith trolls, and has been under the control of Ron Watkins and his creepy son for a significant amount of time. QAnon Anonymous (now named QAA) is a great Podcast that's been tracking the Q movement and other right-wing extremists for years.

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driving_crooner 5 points a year ago

I think q-anon was in another chan

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Peer 8 points a year ago

It started on 4chan, only moved to 8chan (likely a different poster) much later.

See for example: https://www.nbcnews.com/...

Q posts moved from 4chan to its more toxic offshoot 8chan in November after a post claiming the original board had been “infiltrated.”

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HerrBeter 3 points a year ago

The chan is closed

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littlewonder 1 point a year ago

8chan

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antonim 3 points a year ago

No. Qanon stuff mostly happened on 8chan, and even then there's no secret "historical" data to access. It was one or multiple obsessed and/or manipulative people spreading insane ideas anonymously, and idiots falling for it. There's no secret inside some system out there, it's essentially just organic stupidity. Some believe the guy who owned 8chan was "Q", it's not an unreasonable idea, but it changes nothing.

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RedditIsDeddit 1 point a year ago
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