‘The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem’ Review: A Netflix Doc Smartly Tells an Internet Hate Story: When 4Chan Met QAnon 4Chan was like the original TikTok, and it spawned QAnon as a goof.

The infamous image board, 4Chan, is back online after several weeks of downtime following an extreme hack that saw its source code leaked, alongside personal details for many of its admins ...

The post is very long, and some of it is too confusing to bother with; the author claims to have pieced together the theory from ideas shared by anonymous users of 4chan’s paranormal section and ...

An antisemitic post on Elon Musk’s X is not exactly news.But new research finds the site has emerged as a conduit to mainstream exposure for a fresh wave of automated hate memes, generated using ...

As the president’s hopes looked increasingly doomed, the same Internet cesspool that took credit for his 2016 win found a new scapegoat.

This is how the most popular memes spread: Just look at the rise of Minions on Facebook. Pepe was popular with trolls on 4chan, but it had mainstream appeal, too.

More meanings followed, like sad Pepe. In the “rare Pepe” crisis of 2015, Pepe even became the center of a self-aware 4chan joke about the impossibility of controlling a meme, even one as long ...

Thanks to 4chan trolling, this hand gesture is a now symbol of hate, according to the Anti-Defamation League Credit: Getty Images This is why we can't have OK things. The Anti-Defamation League ...

It's called Hate on Display, and it includes the Aryan fist, the burning cross, the swastika and the (((echoes))) symbol. The ADL added Pepe the Frog, a once-innocuous 4chan meme, to that list ...

The internet’s most racist frog has croaked. Innocuous cartoon turned co-opted hate symbol Pepe the Frog is dead, according to his long-suffering creator — an attempt to lay to rest mon… ...