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The Backrooms: how Kane Parsons turned creepypasta into cinema

When a meme about architectural dead space went viral as lockdown bit, Kane Parsons knew exactly what to do: here, the teenage YouTube star turned A24 prodigy takes us down to The Backrooms, his nightmare vision of a ‘no-clipped’ world without end

Film & TV

Mar 07, 2024

Jack Mills

Life & Culture

How 4chan users are using AI to ‘dignify’ your thirst traps

‘Women who dress modestly are getting unclothes with AI, while those who dress immodestly are getting clothed with AI’

Life & Culture

Feb 06, 2024

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

Demons, blood harvests and occult rituals: inside the new Satanic Panic

From Doja Cat and Lil Nas X to Balenciaga and Addison Rae, Satanic conspiracy theories are spreading across social media like hellfire – but where have they all come from?

Life & Culture

Dec 02, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Beauty

No, people aren’t shaving their heads for Black Lives Matter

The hoax, #BaldForBLM, has been propagated on 4Chan and spread through Twitter amid worldwide support for the movement

Beauty

Jun 06, 2020

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel

We speak to those who self-identify as gaycels about dating apps, gay stereotypes, and body shaming

Life & Culture

Feb 19, 2020

Jake Hall

Science & Tech

8chan: the hateful far-right site linked to mass shootings kicked offline

The anonymous messaging board has been linked to at least three mass murders including the recent El Paso shooting

Science & Tech

Aug 06, 2019

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Life & Culture

The story behind Instagram star Bianca Devins’ grim, viral murder

The 17-year-old’s death has been shrouded in misinformation and contradictions, trolling, and graphic images of her corpse online

Life & Culture

Jul 16, 2019

Brit Dawson

Arts+Culture

How The Matrix was adopted by 4Chan and the alt-right

The groundbreaking sci-fi philosophy thriller had its narratives adopted by Pepe-loving Redditors – now it’s returning at a time where the Neos of this world aren’t exactly heroes

Arts+Culture

Mar 24, 2017

Brian O'Flynn

Arts+Culture

How pro-Trump trolls took LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s flag

4chan users went after HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US, tracking down its secret location to replace the piece with a Trump hat and shirt

Arts+Culture

Mar 13, 2017

Anna Cafolla

Arts+Culture

Shia LaBeouf is now being targeted by 4chan racists

White supremacists are trying to disrupt LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US using secret message boards

Arts+Culture

Jan 27, 2017

Dominique Sisley

Arts+Culture

4chan mocks Isis with hundreds of rubber ducks

Will this trolling ever stop? Members of the bulletin board are relentlessly photoshopping duck heads onto terrorist fighters

Arts+Culture

Nov 30, 2015

Hannah Rose Ewens

Arts+Culture

Threats of school killings flood 4chan after Oregon shooting

Universities in the UK and US ‘targeted’ by anonymous users mimicking the post that preceded last week's massacre

Arts+Culture

Oct 07, 2015

Hannah Rose Ewens

Arts+Culture

4chan users encouraged the Oregon school shooter to kill

The alleged shooter warned people not to go to school just hours before the Umpqua Community College massacre, later being heralded a leader of the "beta uprising"

Arts+Culture

Oct 02, 2015

Hannah Rose Ewens

Music