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4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, including video games, television, literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, technology, anime, physical fitness, politics, and sports, among others. Registration is not available, except for staff, and users typically post anonymously. , 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, of whom approximately half are from the United States.
Omegle
Omegle ( ) was a free, web-based online chat service that allowed users to socialize with others without the need to register. The service randomly paired users in one-on-one chat sessions where they could chat anonymously. It operated from 2009 to 2023.
Belle Delphine
English Internet celebrity, pornographic actress, and model (born 1999)
lolicon
thumb|A manga-style depiction of young girls wearing lingerie. Lolicon artwork often blends childlike characteristics with erotic undertones. In Japanese popular culture, is a genre of fictional media which focuses on young or young-looking girl characters, particularly in a sexually suggestive, fetishistic or erotic context. The term, a portmanteau of the English-language phrase "Lolita complex", also refers to desire and affection for such characters (, "loli"), and their fans. Associated mainly with stylized imagery in manga, anime, and video games, lolicon in otaku culture is generally und
Innocence of Muslims
2012 film by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula
shotacon
thumb|A manga-style illustration of an adult woman with a young boy
Encyclopedia Dramatica
controversial, satirical and intentionally offensive wiki devoted to documenting Internet culture and memes
shock site
website intended to offend and/or disgust its viewers
Chatroulette
Chatroulette is an online chat website that pairs random users with a choice between two other users for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website begin an online chat (audio and video) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat by initiating another random connection.
8chan/kun
8kun, previously called 8chan, Infinitechan or Infinitychan (stylized as ∞chan), is an imageboard website composed of user-created message boards. An owner moderates each board, with minimal interaction from site administration. The site has been linked to white supremacism, neo-Nazism, the alt-right, racism, antisemitism, hate crimes, and multiple mass shootings. The site has been known to host child pornography; as a result, it was filtered out from Google Search in 2015. Several of the site's boards played an active role in the Gamergate harassment campaign, encouraging Gamergate affiliates
Character.ai
character.ai (also known as c.ai, char.ai or Character AI) is a generative AI chatbot service where users can engage in conversations with customizable characters. It was designed by the developers of Google LaMDA, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas.
Terry A. Davis
American computer programmer (1969-2018)
Tay
chatterbot made by Microsoft
deepfake pornography
pornography generated using deepfake technology
Elsagate
Elsagate (derived from Elsa from the Frozen franchise and the -gate scandal suffix) is a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were labelled as "child-friendly" but contained themes that were considered inappropriate for children and younger audiences. These videos often featured fictional characters from family-oriented media, sometimes via crossovers, used without legal permission. The controversy also included channels that focused on real-life children, such as Toy Freaks, that raised concern about possible child abuse.
bestgore.com
shock site
Bonnie Blue (actress)
Tia Billinger, known professionally as Bonnie Blue, is an English pornographic film actress. After attending 2023's schoolies week, she had sex with large numbers of students at both spring break in Cancún and freshers' week in Derby and Nottingham and went viral for discussing her sex life on GK Barry's podcast Saving Grace. She was criticised during this period for the age of her co-stars and for comments that critics have described as promoting misogyny and the sexual objectification of women.
Rotten.com
Rotten.com was an American photographic sharing shock site, promoting morbid curiosity and death, active from 1996 to 2012, known for hosting macabre images of blood and gore, death and decomposition, and graphic violence. Founded in 1996, it was run by a developer known as Soylent Communications. Site updates slowed in 2009, with the final update in February 2012. The website's front page was last archived in February 2018.
The Janoskians
Australian entertainers
Congratulations
2019 single by PewDiePie, Roomie and Boyinaband
Shukusei!! Loli Gami Requiem
2022 song by Ui Shigure
Bitch Lasagna
song by PewDiePie
Zoombombing
thumb|Internet meme portraying a Zoom meeting with an unwanted intrusion Zoombombing or Zoom raiding is the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call. In a typical Zoombombing incident, a teleconferencing session is hijacked by the insertion of material that is lewd, obscene, or offensive in nature, typically resulting in the shutdown of the session or the removal of the troll. The term is especially associated with and is derived from, the name of the Zoom videoconferencing software program; however, it has also been used to refer to the phenom
Libs of TikTok
far-right and anti-LGBTQ Twitter account
Gay Nigger Association of America
defunct internet trolling group
The Next Day
song by David Bowie
XXX: Uncensored
web series by Ken Ghosh
Seedfeeder
thumb|right|300px|Seedfeeder's illustration of a Prostitution|prostitute soliciting a potential client in a stopped vehicle
Kunal Kamra
Indian stand-up comedian
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Alvin Tan bleh
Malaysian blogger and pornographic actor
Dvach
Dvach ('', from dva'' "two" and "chan"), also known as 2ch, is the largest Russian anonymous imageboard. It is a successor to an older Russian imageboard with the same name that was launched in 2006 but shut down three years later in 2009. As of 2024 the imageboard can be accessed via the 2ch.hk domain name. It is owned and run by Russian-born Azerbaijani Nariman Namazov, nicknamed Abu.
StoneToss
StoneToss is a pseudonymous American neo-Nazi political cartoonist who publishes a webcomic of the same name. Launched in June 2017, the comic espouses racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial.
2012 Kohistan scandal
honour-killing case
A Suitable Boy
2020 miniseries series