4chan is an anonymous English-language website launched in October 2003. It hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime and television to cooking, weapons, history, fitness, politics, and sports, among others. Registration is not available, and users typically post anonymously.
As of 2022, 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, with approximately half coming from the United States. The site was created as an unofficial English-language counterpart to the Japanese imageboard 2chan, and its first boards were originally used for posting images and discussion related to anime.
4chan has been described as a hub of internet culture, with its community being influential in the formation and popularization of prominent memes, such as [en.wikipedia.org Hayao Miyazaki], [en.wikipedia.org John Cusack], [en.wikipedia.org Leonardo DiCaprio], [en.wikipedia.org Arnold Schwarzenegger], as well as and [4chan.org www.4chan.org].
