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A Social Media and its Purpose

4chan
A Presentation by Kayla Nicoll

EDT 180
4chan
catalog.neet.tv
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4chan: a simple image-based


bulletin board where anyone can post
comments and share images
anonymously
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4chan is a place to talk about what interests you, where you can freely speak your
mind

There are several boards that you can interact with

or you can start your own thread of conversation.


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/adv/ /diy/ /fit/ /his/ /lit/ /mu/ /news/ /pol/

/sci/ /tg/ /toy/ /trv/ /tv/ /v/ /vip/ /w/

What are most people doing on 4chan?


/b/, a random board, is the most popular alongside /pol/, also known as Politically
Incorrect
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4chan Who?

White

Teen
The majority of 4chan users are young white males

Males Since the election of Donald J. Trump, the number of


visitors to the site has increased from a couple
thousand to hundreds of thousands of people.
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How does it compare to other
Social Media?

Unlike a majority of social media applications and websites, 4chan does not
require registration

Before posting, users must upload an image

You must verify that you are not a robot when posting and replying
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Why
4chan?
Browsing 4chan is a raw internet experience. Users experience uncensored,
intellectual discourse.

But there are plenty of other reasons to use 4chan too, of course. For other people, 4chans
radical anonymity also functions as something of a safe space, a place to discuss interests or
curiosities that would be taboo anywhere else. -The Washington Post

You can speak your mind.


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Why Use
4chan?
People use 4chan for
various reason:

To receive advice

To give advice

To start a conversation

To reply to threads and Length of line indicates higher number of user usage
engage in conversation
Click this icon to start a new thread with others

View archived posts

Have a unique social media


experience
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Legendary 4chan

Pepe, popular meme from 4chan

4chan is the original incubator for a huge number of


memes and behaviors that we now consider central to
mainstream Internet culture. The Washington Post
Thank you
Thank you for your interest and attention to my presentation

Contact Information:

E-mail: kjnicoll@asu.edu

Cell Phone: 480-555-0911

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