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Yotsuba Society

A website devoted to documenting and preserving the history of the imageboard/*chan culture/scene.

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2015

The Yotsuba Society's New Jekyll Website

The Bibliotheca Anonoma has put together a brand new, Jekyll (and Minimal Mistakes)-based website for the Yotsuba Society, which beats the rotting Drupal 7.x...

Is Gamergate A Class War?

VERSION 2: I’ve been thinking, and I’ve noticed two ways you might find this interesting, now that I thought of it. Inspiration came from the screencap fro...

2014

The Silent WebM revolution

On Saturday 5th of April 2014, a 4chan Developer posting under a regular user invited /g/eeks to post their WebMs. The thread was eventually filled with plen...

Basic Glossary of the Chanverse

Based on the Glossary of Imageboard terms from one of the more recently created imageboards in Spanish: hispachan. Updated on 4/19/2014 with new terms B...

The Complete History of 4chan

The YSwiki had a ongoing timeline of major events that occured on 4chan from 2003 to 2012. It was based on the former Wikichan’s The Complete History of 4cha...

2013

Two major updates

On 5/15/2013 an anonymous person on IRC contacted me regarding a little project he was running. The project consisted of two initial documents related to 4ch...

Review of the Chanverse

For the first time ever, Yotusba Society will do a full review of the known Chanverse. Looking at major each board of every major chan and where possible eve...

The Day 1chan.ru came

On February 28, 2013, I’ve uploaded a video of my third panel to Katsucon entitled The Imageboard World 2 – The Chanverse. A few weeks after the video was up...

Notes on the Russian Chanverse

A full briefing on the Russian Chanverse is forthcoming, so here’s a bit of a taste to what’s to come. Introduction • Why it was formed? • Most media is eff...

Two panels, Two Powerpoints

Shortly after the creation of the Yotsuba Society Websites in 2011 I applied to do a panel for Katsucon 17. The panel was called “The Imageboard World”. It w...

1chan – “Some Chinese train pics”

1chan is an imageboard solely for one topic: Railroads. Railroads of all types: Locomotives, subways, trams, commuter rail, Steamers, foamers. It has a smal...

"tuesday is backup day"

4chan /g/ - tuesday is backup day Anonymous 01/22/13(Tue)11:11 No.30914910 For anyone who owns a computer, even a netbook, it’s a no brainer to do regular ba...

"Computer games keep me mentally active"

4chan /v/ - Computer games keep me mentally active Anonymous 01/21/13(Mon)15:32 No.172521805 It’s very rare that a senior citizen (or a pensioner in the UK)...

2012

The Russian Occupation of /int/

On February 4th 2012, 4chan’s international board was invaded by Russian channers. Regulars to the board were confused with all the foregin trollfaces the...

If anyone cares

We do have our own following: Archives: archives.yotsubasociety.org Imageboards: YSchan.org and a Wiki: YSwiki.org That’s if anyone cares….

How to Cure Depression

Editor’s note: The work is a piece of satire showing how Western countries are practically lazy dealing with depression as a serious mental issue. If you hav...

Alternatives to Scared Straight

A&E’s Beyond Scared Straight has recently finished a third season of episodes in various prisons and county jails across the United States. For those who...

How to "lurk moar"

“Lurk moar” is the standard phrase said to many a newfag in the chanverse who does not know ever a simplest or common chan meme or tradition. This phrase has...

An America Where SOPA/PIPA is reality

Imagine an America where the internet is history. When I mean history I mean like a time capsule. No more innovation, no more evolution, just dead. No more f...

Briefing - 2011 /r9k/ and /new/ Diaspora

A Diaspora is a dispersal of a large cultural group via an external force. Often times a diaspora can result in the same groups of people moving from one pla...

2011

Yotsuba Society News Update 10-30-2011

It’s been a long time since I made a news update. I think the last one was about June or July, I don’t know. But a lot of stuff has changed, good and bad. T...

The Third Channel

As the Founder of Yotsuba Society, it’s a great pleasure that I’m finally publishing The Third Channel to the Yotsuba Society Front Page. Along with the Seco...

The Second Channel

As the Founder of Yotsuba Society it’s a great pleasure that I’m finally publishing The Second Channel to the Yotsuba Society Front Page. It’s been a long ti...

YS Archives Update for October 10, 2011

It’s been a while since I uploaded a large batch of 4chan threads to the Yotsuba Society Archives. The first batch of threads was from my collection of 4chan...

Television Mostly Sucks

Congratulations! You dropped out of college or high school, or you got fired off your job because of downsizing or whatever reason so that your employer will...

Briefing - Channer’s Age

Since the inception of 4chan’s /b/, /b/tards there have been calling themselves newfags and oldfags in order to gain a sense of superiority of one another. T...

A Briefing on Futaba Channel

Futaba Channel was created during the August crisis of 2001, when 2channel was in danger of being closed down due to overwhelming server load due to the ever...

A Briefing on 2channel

2channel is the largest anonymous forum in the world, where Japanese people can reveal their inner feelings and their true side in complete anonymity. 2chann...

Eternal Summer

Spring has come and passed, the peace can never last, wake me up when summer ends. You might as well wake up. Summer will never end. Especially for imag...

The Second Channel: 2channel - Part I

The following is part one of an ongoing series on the largest anonymous textboards (any by extension the largest forum on Earth.), 2channel. Because of the l...

All 4chan 2008 Threads Are Now Available

Yesterday marks a milestone for the Yotsuba Society Archives. That milestone is that all the 4chan threads I have uploaded on the archives are now viewable. ...

The Origins of Anonymous Part III

We know Anonymous as an average channer on the imageboards and textboards. We also know him as a unique net character manifested on the internet by the *chan...

The Origins of Anonymous Part II

Jkidnote: This the first time using a setting where beyond basic stuff, you need to learn html. I’m still going along with learning html as I go. So instead ...

The Origins of Anonymous Part I

There exist three forms of anonymous. The first form represents the legions of internet users who visit anonymous imageboards and textboards such as 2ch, 2ch...

What is Chanthropology?

The Western Imageboard Culture is the most underdocumented and misdocumented subculture in the early 21st century. Most of the misdocumentation and underdocu...

Yotsuba Society News Update

It’s been a few months and already we are making progress with the site. Staff additions, a slow but knowing userbase on the YS boards (even if it’s only one...

An Ode to the F40PH

At one point in the history of 4chan, there was a tradition of dumping pictures of furry art on Fridays. There was a mix of safe for work, but most of the i...

The Otaku Continuum

The otaku continuum is based four types of otaku. These four types are based on how they watch their anime or read their manga online. How these people on th...

Yotsuba Society Staff and Content Drive

Currently Yotsuba Society is doing two drives. The first one is for historians and archivers for the site, please note that these are not paid positions and ...

Introduction to Yotsuba Society

The Western Imageboard Culture is literally the biggest and most unnoticed cultural and sociological event in the early 21st century. Culturally, it is has r...