4Chan, the anonymous message board linked to targeted harassment campaigns and the alt-right, is currently offline for thousands of users amid unverified reports on social media that the site has been ...

4chan, the infamous forum known for its anonymous user base posting unhinged material, has made its comeback. A post on the website’s official blog, titled “Still Standing,” detailed the timeline of ...

New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac and internet culture critic Rayne Fisher-Quann look back on the platform’s ...

4chan’s extended disappearance led to at least one premature obituary, with journalist Ryan Broderick writing for Wired that “what began as a hub for internet culture and an anonymous way ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

4chan, an online forum mainly used by young males and gamers, experienced an outage in April 2025. The outage came months after multiple other social media platforms went down for a variety of ...

Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening and remains mostly unreachable as of this writing. DownDetector showed ...

My earliest memory of 4chan was sitting up late at night, typing its URL into my browser, and scrolling through a thread of LOLcat memes, which were brand-new at the time. Back then a photoshop of ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. 4chan appears to be down following a major hack that reportedly exposed its source code. A user on a competing messaging board claimed ...