Internet pranksters and philanthropists 4chan has successfully trolled this vote. In the poll, Taylor Swift would perform at the most voted school as presented by Chegg and Papa John’s. Thousands of 4chan’s users voted the most for Horace Mann School For The Deaf. The poll is being tracked on the Twitter hashtag #TSwiftonCampus. [BuzzFeed]
4chan has announced that they have hit over 1 billion posts as of August 2nd. 4chan does not know which post was the billionth one. Between June 4th and July 4th, 4chan received 22 million unique visitors and 620 million page views. Those users were posting around over one million times each day.
UPDATE: Over $200,000 has been raised for Klein as of 6/21/2012!
Over $540,000 as of 6/22/2012!
Yesterday there was a video that gained national attention. A group of 12 and 15 year old children teamed up and heavily abused bus driver Karen Klein in Greece, New York. The entire 10 minute event was caught on video. Storify user Ben Doernberg put together the responses to the video from Reddit, 4Chan, Twitter, and the media. Klein is a hearing-impaired grandmother of eight and she was hired to keep the kids safe on the school bus. The students mocked her weight, low income, threatened to hurt her with weapons and vandalize her property. At one point, one of the kids said that her children should “kill themselves” for being “ugly.” Klein said that was the most hurtful comment because her son took his own life 10 years ago.
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4chan founder Christopher Poole (known as Moot) is joining Lerer Ventures, a New York City seed funding company started by Ken Lerer and Ben Lerer. He is not a formal partner, but he was be instrumental in greenlighting certain deals. Other advisors include Eric Hippeau (Huffington Post CEO) and Jonah Peretti (Buzzfeed CEO).
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Tumblr and 4Chan are in the middle of a DDoS attack war. Users at 4Chan and Tumblr have been attacking each other’s servers. 4Chan was down today and it is a possibility that Tumblr decided to push up their attack time to earlier. Tumblr founder David Karp said “As always, we’re aggressively suspending any accounts encouraging DoS attacks or other illegal behavior.” The conflict between the two took place when a 4chan user accused Tumblr users of stealing meme ideas from their forum boards. Check out the DDoS attack war graphics below:
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Earlier this week 4chan took down the MPAA website and now the group known as “Anonymous” has taken down the RIAA website as part of “Operation Payback.”
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4chan users have coordinated an attack against The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) website. The assault on the MPAA website is suspected to be in retaliation to an Indian tech firm that bragged about how they launched similar attacks on several torrent websites. The following message appeared on 4chan before the attack took place:
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4chan is a forum where hackers make designated online attacks on celebrities and popular services. Recently 4chan users were notified about Salma Hayek’s MobileMe Account login information. 4chan users also built a Twitter bot that gathered thousands of followers in an attempt to beat Ashton Kutcher and CNN to the first million followers. This time 4chan users decided to attack YouTube.
Anyone that searched for Hannah Montana or Jonas Brothers may have noticed some inappropriate content show up. 4chan planned this attack on YouTube as a protest against the removal of audio from copyrighted music videos. Some of the links connected to those videos were linked to websites that asked visitors to download malware too.
Google responded quickly in removing the offensive videos but warned that there could be a few videos left. About 20 hours of video are added to YouTube per minute so it is difficult to keep tabs on every single video being uploaded.
[via TechWorld]
