4Chan is now completely down and has been for several hours. So if you're bored like me, and striking up conversation on SC doesn't seem to work, pretend this is you favorite board.
ROH ROH FIGHT THE POWAH
ROH ROH FIGHT THE POWAH
master5o1 wrote:
superarmy wrote:Found this, don't know if it's true...
"/b/ went down at 04:52 on May 2 2009. This was entirely due to technical difficulties. However, as a million 13-year-old boys flooded every other board on 4chan asking what had happened to their /b/, the mods started trolling 4chan's IRC claiming to have taken it down themselves because they were pissed at a shitstorm of CP. Despite the obvious flaw in this story (mods are the first to fap to CP on /b/), it took root and soon developed into an elaborate claim that the FBI had partyv& the IMG server in order to identify and prosecute all those who had posted, requested, downloaded or looked at CP in /b/.
Many people were fooled by all this **** and, taking it as a challenge, began spamming the rest of 4chan with actual shitstorms of CP. Meanwhile other users, believing it to be important to follow Moot's supposed example and co-operate fully with the authorities, began reporting the new CP threads to the FBI. The **** got serious and this time it was real. The FBI swept in, arresting Moot and impounding all the 4chan servers for analysis. 4chan was taken offline at 02:06 on May 3 2009, never to return