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A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good
Could this really be the end of one of the internet's most notorious websites?
Vice called it "the internet’s favorite hotspot of moral bankruptcy" in its report on the hack, and that seems about right: There are certainly worse places to go in the digital world, but none that are so singularly famous for it. A 2018 Southern Poverty Law Center report cited "participation in the rampantly racist and misogynistic online trolling culture of 4chan and its offshoots" as a notable influence in the rise of the alt-right. Its reputation was ugly enough that in 2021 Minecraft scrubbed a decade-old reference to 4chan's /v/ board, where creator Markus "Notch" Persson had heavily promoted the game in its early days.
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