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Happy 20th birthday, 4chan. You've definitely...had an effect. (feddit.de)
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[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago

Christopher Poole founded 4chan because some hentai-relates things were banned on something awful. 4chan's /pol/ was an early seedbed for right wing extremism. Also the first QAnon posts came from 4chan.