Dvach mobile version. Dictionary of two nights

29.05.2023

Various imageboards are a very popular topic on the Internet. But modern Internet users sometimes do not know what it is, since they simply did not catch the times of popularity of such sites. Let's look at this topic in more detail. At one time, the two most popular imageboards were Dvach and Forchan. When analyzing the concept of "imageboard" we will analyze these sites. After all, it was they who at one time gave rise to a huge number of memes. Okay, let's start looking at this in more detail.

What is an imageboard?

Imageboard(English image board, "image board", also chan from English Channel) - a type of forum with no registration and organization of communication in a section-thread way. The informal definition also includes the notion that it is a site where users have lively conversations through messages with attached graphic files.

The imageboard consists of thematic sections or boards (also sometimes the imageboards themselves are called boards). The discussion on each board is divided into separate threads, consisting of posts - sequential responses to the first (initial) message. Any visitor to the imageboard has the opportunity to create their own threads or reply to those that already exist, anonymously or by subscribing.

Communication style

The main essence of communication on imageboards, and what made them popular at one time, is anonymity. Here, not only is it not required, it is not even necessary to sign messages. Existing only for the convenience of users' statements, the conditions of anonymity laid the foundation for a whole qualitatively new segment of culture. The consequences of anonymity are a wide range of characteristic features that arose during the development of imageboards.

1. Firstly, they have absolute freedom of speech as a result, they ban anonymous people only for things prohibited by the law of the IRL country: child porn, propaganda of violence, Nazism, however, most imageboards have a section /b/ created for any topic, but on In practice, all prohibitions are reduced only to the first, everything else is possible! This forms in the minds of users a special type of thinking, when you can not be responsible either for your words, or for your own creativity, or for behavior. The negative consequence of this is the formation of prerequisites for a total flood, purposeless (spam) and off-topic (offtopic) messages. It also opens up the possibility for the formation of a "cancer that kills /b/" community.

2. Secondly, anonymity, in the absence of fear of judgment from society, allows you to raise topics that are forbidden or unacceptable in real society, and even on forums, such as planning a murder or homosexuality. This also has a positive effect: topics for communication are arbitrary, there is no fear, conscience is away, which allows imageboards to become a place of free cultural perception, awareness and combination, turning them into places open to all thoughts and any possibilities, something that is in the understanding of culture world IRL-cities can be compared with the cities of the network, of course only psychologically.

3. Thirdly, the anonymization of communication has led to the creation of the Anonymous illusion. The essence of Anonymous lies in the fact that not only do you not know who answers you and from where: the very thought of different people is not shared - the flow of information forces participants to enter the first thing that comes to mind, or at least not thought out for too long, usually it’s not very good things. If you forget that anyone can post from anywhere, then by dividing the message into “us” and “not theirs”, you may get the impression that you are communicating with one person, while an outside observer gets the impression of an instant blog of one person - Anonymous . And everything would be fine if people did not always go further - amazed and fascinated by the beauty and aesthetics of anonymous culture, people who do not have their own culture in real life begin to create, which as a result resembles only an imitation of creativity. Anonymous himself calls them cancer. In fact, cancer is people for whom the very process of communication one day becomes more important than its content. The first steps towards cancer, apparently, were those who, only after the emergence of this type of communication, began to create parodies and various macros on this, write pasta, most likely his name is hidden from us forever. But the thousandth, well, maybe even the millionth, Anonymous continues in the best traditions the development of a topic that has already exhausted everyone for a long time, and it would seem that it has exhausted itself, but the direction of culture continues to live, developing. Well, I wonder what will happen next.

4. Fourth, in the most established anonymous culture, the aspect of identifying posts often causes a lot of drama and lulz, causing the appearance of such terms as “neimfag” (name), “seimfag” (Semyon, also male) and “tripfag”. The latter arise due to the presence of the possibility to enter in the name field also an individual tripcode - a pseudo-registering set of numbers and letters to identify messages from one person. You can simply subscribe arbitrarily and any number of times.

5. As already mentioned, only a tripcode can really be an alternative to anonymous communication on an imageboard. To use the tripcode, write in the alias field after your nickname, the symbol # and your password (without spaces). For example: Nickname # tripcode → Nickname! 3GqYIJ3Obs After that, do not forget to put in the field for the name after the symbol # with THE SAME password that you do not disclose to anyone, do not forget

6. Due to the presence of post numbering, the concepts of "get" (taking) are common - a deliberate post that has a get number, and doubles - on very fast boards, the requirements are the post number with two identical last digits.

7. The last, and perhaps final, in the investigative plan, property is the prescription of communication of different anonymous people on the imageboard. Unlike a forum, where you cannot confuse one user with another, it is impossible to distinguish one unsuccessful meme user from another on an imageboard, so sadness of users with experience in the community - oldfags, over misinterpretations, too high a hobby, or just themselves often leads to drama. the desire to immediately add something of their own by newcomers - newfags. Unlike common myths, memes are ubiquitous, from the very core of humanity, and are not a feature of imageboards.

What is "Dvach" and "Fochan"?

These two sites, as we have already figured out, belong to one very large category of Internet resources, which is called imageboards. This is one of the varieties of the forum, which has advanced options for attaching pictures. In fact, this term literally translates as “picture board”, which makes it easier to understand this phenomenon, which is now almost gone into oblivion. Usually imageboards are built according to the same scheme, full of a large number of sections.

These sections contain so-called threads in which people discuss certain topics. The replicas themselves (sometimes with pictures) are posts. A similar system of forums still exists today. The advantage of the imageboard compared to other forums was that all users there are anonymous.

Some see this as a flaw that creates havoc in such systems. However, despite the absence of the need to register, on such sites it is often possible to identify, determine that the posts were written by the same person. Let's take a look at the two most famous imageboards at the moment: "Dvach" and "Forchan".

What is "Dvach"?

Dvach is a popular site 2ch.ru, which had a variety of forums where people could communicate on popular topics and express their opinions. A lot of memes and slang words came from this project.

Story

Twoch consisted of 40 thematic sections, the largest of which was /b/ (nonsense) - a section without a specific topic. Most of Dvacha's memes came from there. In turn, these memes were borrowed both from abroad and from Runet memes in general, however, many memes were of local origin and were popular only on Dvach. Dvach has become one of the largest centers for the development of Internet culture in Runet. Lurkmore was created as a continuation of Dvacha: one of its founders, Zoi, hosted Dvacha, and most of Lurkmore's words originated from Dvacha jargon; in addition, Dvach and his memes are one of the few things that are almost not ridiculed in Lurca.

Dvach was an anonymous image board and preached “forced anonymity” (that is, the fundamental impossibility of registering), but sometimes it is easy to understand whether two of some messages were written by the same person or different ones. However, it was possible to fill in the “Name” field (when publishing a post with an empty “Name” field, “Anonymous” was indicated in the title), but those who did this were hounded, calling them namefags. The lack of moderation (since 2007) and anonymity were the reason for the impunity that prevailed on Dvacha, which attracted many notorious trolls or people who, hoping for anonymity, were not afraid to embarrass themselves on Dvacha, but there were often cases of the so-called. “deanonymization”, when, according to some indirect indications in posts or images attached to them, it was possible to establish the name of an anonymous person in real life, and sometimes some other data. If the deanonymized was disgraced on Dvacha, then a wave of harassment of this person outside Dvacha could well pass. A similar system of anonymity is also common on other imageboards, however, it was on Dvach that the largest deanonymizations in the history of the Runet took place at that time.

Due to the same anonymity and impunity in the culture of Dvacha, obscene and non-parliamentary expressions were extremely common, including insults to the opponent as such, so Dvacha regulars rarely took these insults seriously, but were merciless in them to newcomers who were called newfags (now the offensive connotation of this word has been lost). The images posted on Dvacha were also often highly naturalistic and often consisted of shock content.

In the last days of Dvacha's life, he was flooded with the so-called. “cancer” (there is an opinion that Lurkomorye is also to blame for this, but there is also an opposite opinion). According to one version, this was the reason for the closure of Dvacha. According to another version, the closure occurred at the request of the owner of Dvacha (besides, the owner does not want to part with the domain itself, as evidenced by the extension of the domain twice already, after Dvach ceased to be available, proofs in the history of whois and alexa). conspiracy theorists claim that the destruction of Dvach is not least the work of the secret services. Many dvuchers switched to other imageboards, some of them became regulars of Dvtirech.

What is "Foch"?

4chan(Japanese 四葉 yotsuba, "four leaves", Fochan, Forchan) is an English-language imageboard and anonymous web forum, created under the influence of the Japanese futaba channel. It has now surpassed the futaba channel in terms of traffic and popularity and is probably the largest image board in the world. Fourchan opened October 1, 2003 by Christopher Poole (moot). On January 21, 2015, 11.5 years after its inception, moot announced that he was leaving the post of resource administrator. On September 21, 2015, 4chan founder Christopher Pool announced that the site was being taken over by 2channel founder Nishimura Hiroyuki

Organization

4chan has over 60 imageboard style sections, including one oekaki section and one flash section. Previously, on the world4ch domain, and then on the dis.4chan.org subdomain, there were also exclusively text sections similar to Japanese forums like 2channel, which were later eliminated.

Each section has a short letter code (for example, /a/ for anime and manga, /k/ for weapons, /mu/ for music, etc.) which is usually used as the title of the section. Each section has its own theme (except for /b/), its own rules, and its own subculture. All sections allow you to send anonymous messages.

Activity on the site is monitored by moderators and cleaners. The first - they are called mods - post content, delete posts, communicate with users and, if necessary, ban them. Cleaners are selected from ordinary users. They monitor individual sections, but do not have the right to ban users. Moderators and cleaners must remain anonymous. Those who reveal their identity or status are kicked out without warning.

/b/

The most popular section on 4chan is /b/ (random), which has been receiving an average of 200,000 messages per day lately. Users of the section call themselves /b/tards (from English retards or bastards; can be translated as “/b/olvans” or “u/b/lyudki”; the Russian transcription analogue is “/b/tards” or “bitards”). Unlike other sections, it does not have a specific theme. The section does not accept local moderation rules, and only a number of global ones apply. Due to the fast flow of messages and the high density of original memes, it can be difficult for newcomers to the section to understand the meaning of the discussions. Due to the number of users, some memes that originated in /b/ are widely distributed and even get publicity in the press.

The nature of the users

Despite the anonymity, analysis of publications and user behavior of /b/ suggests that:

The age of the majority of users who publish posts is in the range of 18 and 30 years old. This statement is based on an analysis of references to pop culture phenomena, which are mostly from the late 1980s and early 1990s;
they belong to the white race or to people who consciously or not demonstrate "white" thinking: /b/ is characterized by trolling of people of color in general and African Americans in particular;
for the most part, these are Americans living in the suburbs and belonging to the middle class. How to read 4chan?

The anonymous 4chan imageboard, to be sure, can be a truly terrifying and disgusting place! However, if you get used to and survive the first shock, then everything will go like clockwork. This article will teach you how to work with 4chan.

Steps

1. Find out if you can access 4chan. If you are under 18, if you are offended by innocent jokes about your mother and her sex life, pornographic content, racism and all that, well, or if you are ... ahem ... representative of the intellectual majority (however, even in this case, 4chan will be interesting to you - but only /b), then you should not visit 4chan or the boards in general.

2. Read the rules. As a rule, “newfags” are banned precisely for ignorance of the rules. Bans on 4chan are such a thing that it is very, very difficult to remove. Remember, however, that even following the rules will not save you from a ban - for some phrases, images and tripcodes you can be banned forever. And remember, there are two sets of rules on 4chan: the 4chan rules and the /b (non-topic) rules.

3. See which discussion board you are interested in. Of course, the most popular is /b, where there is no topic. It was there, by the way, that most of the modern popular memes appeared (it was there, and not in Runet). However, if humor, porn and other “cancer that kills boards” are not particularly interesting to you, you are welcome to the topic.

4. Lurk. You don't have to start new threads right away without knowing the local rules, otherwise you will rightly be called an idiot. Do everyone (and yourself too) a favor - sit in the “ridonly” for at least two weeks. Look at how the board lives, how it breathes, how it speaks. Make sure you know the basics of how to post, how to unfollow threads, how to quote, how to spot trolls, and so on, before you actually start posting.

5. Learn local slang. Someone remembers some Muta? If you come across a strange word, look it up on, say, Lurkmore.to to find out what it actually means.

6. Don't be a /b-killing cancer! Cancer threads in /b are the plague on 4chan and many other boards. These immensely disgusting and annoying threads created by newfags, these endless “platinum threads” - threads like “newfags can’t triforce”, “roulette”, “copy-paste threads”, “laugh - lose”, etc. In general, do not create them, do not unsubscribe to them, drive them away, despise them!

7. Start unsubscribing. If you have carefully read the article and did not miss anything, then now you are ready to dive into the vat with g ... that is, 4chan. Good luck and remember the rules!

Print carefully. Illiterates are not liked on 4chan.
Learn slang (OP - original poster, thread author).
Do not click on all the links, no matter how tempting they may sound. Don't know what site? Don't go there.
Do not be afraid if the thread is washed away from zero. Even good threads sometimes get washed away.
Remember that for some words and images the ban goes almost instantly, and forever.
Don't be afraid to answer anonymously. You can have a very heartfelt conversation with them.
Of course, you should not put personal data in /b. Be anonymous, don't give yourself away.
Don't take advice from /b. Seriously.
What you see can't be unseen! What you see can be removed from the board ... but not from your head.
Remember, no matter what you're told, don't remove system32.
Don't fall for the old tricks like "open the image and save it as 4chan.jse" and so on. Such viruses can seriously damage your computer.

"Dvach" is a site for anonymous communication, which is visited by 100,000 users per day. The persecution of a teacher who starred in porn, the disclosure of the crimes of "Khabarovsk flayers" and the exposure of a pedophile - all these cases got into the media and to law enforcement agencies precisely thanks to the users of "Dvacha".

« Paper” spoke with dozens of active participants in such actions and their victims in order to understand what drives the users of the site.

Last week, a trial began in Khabarovsk in one of the most high-profile cases of the past year. Two local underage girls were in the dock (initially it was claimed that they were over 18 years old). They are accused of insulting the feelings of believers, robbery, and under several other articles of the Criminal Code. But they became known as "Khabarovsk knackers".

In the fall of 2016, a wave of spontaneous rallies of animal rights activists swept across Russia. They went out with their pets to protests and stood with slogans like "They also hurt." The reason for this was the scandal with two girls from Khabarovsk. They regularly responded to advertisements looking for new owners for cats and dogs and took animals from shelters. After that, they mocked them: they gouged out their eyes, cut off their paws and crucified them. The murder weapons were hammers, knives and even an air pistol. In personal correspondence, they exchanged photos of the murders and joked about the next crime. In total, according to investigators, the victims were 15 birds, cats and dogs. It is also known that the girls tortured a homeless man.

As a result, the girls were arrested. Together with them, a young man went on trial, who allegedly helped to record a video of bullying a man. Now the knackers have pleaded guilty and the prosecutor's office is demanding real terms for them. And the investigation began with a post on Dvacha, the Russian analogue of the famous 4chan imageboard (a site where users can communicate and exchange pictures anonymously and without registration).

Correspondence of girls and photographs of bullying first appeared on Dvacha. Its users figured out where the murders took place, started harassing the girls online (massively writing threatening messages to them) and began to organize information about crimes on the Internet. So the media and law enforcement agencies learned about the situation, which ultimately led to a scandal and a trial.

How "Dvach" works

Now the site is a system of several dozen forums, such "raids" make up a very small proportion of it. Users discuss memes and news, share rare porn and discuss where to buy weapons, argue about politics and football, comics and music, religion and programming.

However, Dvach is primarily known as a place for anonymous communication with tough trolling and cynical jokes.

Screenshot from 2ch.hk

At the same time, representatives of the site assure that this is not the essence of his work.

Dvach is not only hollering and senseless throwing shit at everyone and everything. Dvach is not only a place where they look for "cute" pictures to like and tell their friends. Everything is much deeper and thinner. Here you can talk about all your problems, no matter how strange or scary they may seem. Tell dreams, fantasies, no matter how twisted they are. Discuss any exciting event that happened in your home or in the whole world, - explained the 33-year-old administrator and alleged owner of Dvach, Nariman Abu Namazov.

Indeed, they communicate here in general in a friendly way, but because of the anonymity, users do not disdain insults and obscenities. The imageboard also has its own slang using professional vocabulary, abbreviations, deliberate distortion of words and borrowings from other languages. There are both forms common on the “external” Internet (for example, “sap”, “chan”, “owl”), and internal ones for the forum (“sofa”, “brute force”, “target”).

The site is visited by 100 thousand users per day, who write under 200,000 posts. The number of unique visitors per month exceeds one million, which allows the site to earn on advertising. According to the creators, "Dvach" is the most popular imageboard in Russia and Europe and ranks third in the world.

However, Dvach is primarily known for large-scale promotions of its users outside the site. So, “dvachery” solved crimes and identified porn actresses among VKontakte users, mocked patriots in Odnoklassniki and sought to block Nikita Dzhigurda’s Instagram, spy on people through webcams and sabotaged many Internet beauty contests, winding up the votes of applicants, not meeting the standards of model appearance.

At the same time, since the beginning of 2016 alone, Dvacha users have created about 500 topics on the site with calls for “raids”. "Dvachery" poisoned the rapper Basta and the famous porn actor Pierre Woodman. There were also “raids” on feminists and nationalists, “vile fat women” and Caucasians, girls cheating on their boyfriends, and schoolgirls who killed a homeless man.

Dvach is a place where such demarches spontaneously arise, or, as they say, raids on different people, on different events. On the normal Internet, so to speak. Starting with raids on the VKontakte wall of a classmate and calls to troll someone's mother, ending with events with rather serious consequences. Basically, of course, these raids come with a minus sign, they carry negative energy, but sometimes, as with a beauty contest, they are also creative. Not to allow another glamorous TP to win the competition, but a happy cute and kind plump, - Abu explained, emphasizing that a small percentage of users participate in the raids.

From a detailed interview with " paper" Abu refused, explaining that the material could become an excuse for him to be "harassed by people who are not enthusiastic" about him. Namazov has previously stated that he receives threats due to the activities of Dvacha.

At the same time, he emphasizes that he tries not to interfere in the “raids” of users and does this only at the request of law enforcement officers. However, no high-profile trials and sentences for participants in such actions are known. The file of court decisions about Dvacha only mentions demands to block certain topics on the forum because of “information prohibited for distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

Who participates in Internet forays

Vladimir was born and raised in a small town in Western Siberia. The population is 40 thousand people, the average salary is less than 20 thousand rubles, unemployment and the almost complete lack of prospects for most residents. Vladimir was bored with peers, and he preferred to spend his free time on the Internet.

In my hometown, there were often only cattle. I spent my free time better and more usefully at the computer than behind the garages, - he recalls in a conversation with “ paper". He valued the Internet precisely for the opportunity to find everything you want, you just have to search.

In 2007, 12-year-old Vova once again scoured the Internet in search of "interesting topics for thought" and came across the Lurkmore online encyclopedia. Six months later, through a cross-reference in one of the articles, he first got to "Dvach". The boy liked to read the opinions of anonymous users, and Vladimir began to spend several hours daily on the site.

Ten years have passed since then. Vladimir moved to Novosibirsk and from a teenager running away from the reality of a provincial town, he turned into a typical young resident of any of the Russian millionaires. He dresses in H&M and listens to underground music, makes money from programming and design, and also develops his small business and unsuccessfully tries to launch startups. However, he still visits Dvach and actively participates in the life of the site. “It has become part of everyday life,” he explains.

Vladimir left his first comment on Dvacha only in 2010, three years after appearing on the site. He was forced to enter into a discussion by discussing the case of "wheel throwers" - two teenagers from St. Petersburg, who on the evening of November 8, 2010 from the fifth floor of a car tire and accidentally killed a passerby with it. Users of "Dvacha" were outraged by the "stupidity" of teenagers and staged "raids" on their pages on the My World social network. Vladimir then felt sorry for the "throwers", and at the forum he stood up for them, but his message was ignored.

It seemed to me then that they were just stupid, and everyone should have a chance to make a mistake. But it's not. He was stupid himself, he explained. paper».

Screenshot from 2ch.hk

Two weeks later, teenagers from St. Petersburg were detained by the police, and the discussion of the strange murder reached Channel One. In the release of the show “Let them talk”, dedicated to teenagers who did not even think of repenting, users of “Dvacha” appeared. Not wanting to reveal their identities, just like on the image board, they sat with paper bags on their heads.

27-year-old Sergey Konovalov was present on the same program as a friend of the suspect. During the show, Konovalov and Dvacha users had a serious argument about whether the teenagers were guilty. Anonymous did not like the oppositional opinion and after the broadcast, the “dvachery” hacked Konovalov’s email. The child pornography he had filmed was found there. Users transferred this data to the UK, and the man was detained. The next day, Konovalov died in the bullpen. It is assumed that he committed suicide. "Dvachery" still remember this case as one of the most epic cases. I agree with this opinion and the site administrator Nariman Namazov, who mentioned this story in an interview.

Frame from the release of the program "Let them talk"

Vladimir did not participate either in the opening of Konovalov's mail, or in the first raids on the "wheel throwers" themselves. His position changed in the spring of 2011, when, as a result of an investigation, one of the St. Petersburg teenagers received 1.5 years of house arrest, and the second went unpunished. Users of "Dvacha" were not satisfied with such a sentence, and they continued to persecute teenagers.

Then Vladimir came across data from the teenagers' e-mails, hacked by the "dvachers": in personal correspondence, young St. Petersburg residents joked about the murder and did not think to regret what had happened. Then Vladimir decided that both teenagers deserved much more punishment, and entered his first "raid".

We wrote various insults to the parents, teachers and friends of these teenagers. They were said to have raised killers. They were on fire, and we continued because we could, - Vladimir recalls with nostalgia in a conversation with " paper". Since then, the young man has participated in more than 50 such actions.

Until now, at least every week, another topic has been created on Dvacha calling for harassment of someone, but, according to Vladimir, it is rather difficult to organize a mass action.

For this is not your personal army. Maybe people will not be in the mood, or maybe a sense of justice will play out and because of your stuffing they will hunt you down yourself. Maybe, on the contrary, they will react and hunt down the one you want. Complete chaos, he explained. paper". These data were also confirmed by the administrator of Dvacha.

Why "twice" bully

Vladimir emphasizes that users most often support calls for raids not for the sake of fighting for justice or other lofty motives, but in order to cheer themselves up.

All this just for the lulz (fun - approx. "Paper"). And lulz can bring both the reaction of the victim itself and the process of bullying. We kind of manipulate, decide fate. Consider playing with a person as you like, ”he explains, adding that, ideally, every bullying should end in the suicide of the victim.

« Paper"I talked with a dozen more active users of Dvacha, who have been on the resource for at least five years. All of them confirmed that it was the “lulz” received during bullying that fully justified their actions.

At the same time, the interviewed anonymous people have nothing in common with Dvacha. 17-year-old Vladislav from Moscow, for example, learned about the “raids” only a year and a half ago, and before that he followed other thematic sections of the site. Now the student is actively participating in such actions.

Sergey, 34, who works as “a typical middle manager with an income of more than 100 thousand,” said “ paper”that, on the contrary, he often “got away” with bullying before, but now he is bored with it.

Bullying is such a test for stupidity. Victims are justified, bombed, broken, cut out. If the dude is ok, he'll just ignore it, and the anonymous people won't care," he explains.

Sergey sees another reason for the popularity of such actions in simple envy: “There are a lot of hikkans at Dvacha (people who, for various reasons, lead a very secluded lifestyle - approx. “ papers“) and schoolchildren who did not achieve anything. And the targets of raids are often successful and fucking people. Here the anons proceed from logic: I don’t have it, even if they don’t have it. Set up some kind of trick."

However, sometimes users join the “raid” not out of a desire to assert themselves, but out of sheer boredom. “Someone started, and you sit at home, do nothing, hoot. Well, you think: why not? ”, - explained“ paper» 24-year-old Pavel, graduating from the Pedagogical University.

20-year-old Karim from St. Petersburg has a completely different attitude to "raids". He studies at the university in the physical education department, dreams of becoming a football player and considers "Dvach" "a real outlet." He participates in harassment only when sex workers appear in them. “This is a matter of honor. Such girls need to be kicked out of society,” he explains.

The heterogeneity of the audience and its motives is confirmed by the surveyed users themselves. Most of them attribute this to the anonymity of the site. “Anon cannot be endowed with a personality at all, for we are a legion,” explained “ paper» 34-year-old manager Sergey.

The head of the imageboard, Nariman Namazov, also refused to characterize the audience of the site in any way, saying that everyone who “really appreciates anonymity and impersonal communication, thin (and thick) humor, as well as versatility” sits on Dvach.

How do they become victims of "dvacherov"

In March 2016, the St. Petersburg programmer Andrey Mima

Imageboards are a very broad category of Internet resources, which include the Dvach and Fochan portals. The name comes from the English word imageboard, which translates as "image board". This is a type of web forum where photos and other graphics can be attached to posts.

Imageboards originated in Japan, and English language forums have adopted Japanese style and culture. The technology is based on the Textboard concept, which differs only in that you cannot attach graphic files to it.

The atmosphere on the imageboards is relaxed and informal, thanks to the anonymous posting. Sometimes this feature leads to the appearance of aggressive and negative comments. Users can leave comments and messages without registering and creating accounts. Moreover, some sections imply exclusively anonymous comments and messages. If desired, the user can follow or use the same photo to stand out among the anonymous. But this is optional and often frowned upon by other users.

Usually a file is attached to each message, sometimes several files. More often only images are allowed, less often you can attach music. All saved files are stored on the imageboard server.

Archiving is not enabled by default. Each section can contain no more than a certain number of threads. When a new thread (discussion) is created, the oldest one is deleted. If archiving is still necessary, it is carried out by third-party services, in which case old threads are transferred to a separate directory.

Imageboards differ from other forums in several ways:

No archiving by default;
Anonymity;
Ability to attach files.

What is "Dvach"

The most famous, popular and demonstrative imageboards are "Dvach" and "Fochan". Both sites have a large number of sections and are built on a similar principle. Discussions are posted in threads, united by topic. Users discussing the topic are anonymous.

"Dvach" is a domestic imageboard, the idea of which was borrowed from a Japanese site with a similar name. The functionality and visual design are also similar. There are similar sites in almost all countries of the world where the Internet is actively used.

There are 40 sections on Dvacha. Among them:

Cars
Anime
Design
Job
Series
Space.

And much more. Only two of the sections are debatable, few topics are devoted to politics and public issues. Most of the sections are general and dedicated to entertainment, such as anime.

Feature of the site - graphic editor online. It was used by post authors to create their own images.

On this resource, each section has a specific topic, which allows you to structure a large amount of information and discussion. These sections are called boards. Each board can only have a limited number of threads (discussions). This is due to memory savings and lack of archiving. The oldest, unpopular threads were removed in favor of new ones. Otherwise, there are no restrictions on the site, and anonymity allows you to write witty messages with complete frankness.

What is "Forchan"

If "Dvach" is one of the most famous Russian-language boards, then "Forchan" was very popular in foreign countries. It was this site that spawned a huge number of popular memes, which then spread all over the Internet.

This English-language resource appeared a long time ago and gathered a large number of users. The basic principles of its work are the same as other imageboards: anonymity, no archiving, the ability to attach an image.

Fourchan was opened on October 1, 2003 by Christopher Poole. Japanese imageboards were also taken as a basis. First of all, sections were created for posting images, discussing manga and anime. The site quickly gained popularity, new discussions appeared on various topics:

video games
Music
Literature
Policy
Fitness
Sport.

In 2007, for a short time, the imageboard turned into a regular forum where you need to register in order to leave messages. This did not please the users of the resource, who openly expressed their indignation. It turned out that everything happened because of a hacker attack, the consequences of which were eliminated.

Another unpleasant incident occurred in 2009, when a user decided to joke and posted information on the site that a shootout would be arranged in one of the American schools. The police occupied this school, but the alarm turned out to be false.

Communication style on imageboards

There is a special atmosphere on imageboards, which is largely determined by the anonymity of users. This gives freedom, and in some cases - impunity. There is moderation on such forums, but users are punished only for the most egregious violations that violate the law of the country. This is propaganda of violence, Nazism, insults. At the same time, even dangerous messages often go unnoticed by moderators.

Here they do not follow the topic of discussion, so it is sometimes difficult to find useful information: it is lost behind hundreds of flood messages. Anonymity allows you to reveal dangerous, usually hidden topics.

There is also a special phenomenon of the general stream of consciousness. When many messages come not from specific people, but from anonymous users, they are perceived as a general line of information. At the same time, the desire of a particular user to identify himself is condemned and seems to be a betrayal of general principles.

Imageboard sections

Imageboards are divided into sections by topic. In theory, this makes it easier to select a thread of interest and not interfere with users discussing other topics. In practice, threads often intersect and, for example, kittens are discussed in the topic of cinema.

Therefore, the most popular topics are the Brad, Chatter forums, etc., which are designed to communicate on any topic. There are special rules of communication ethics. In these sections, you can even find pornography or other dubious content. On the other hand, memes that are popular in the future often appear here and viral content that diverges all over the Internet.

Some imageboards have boards for international communication, which is most often conducted in English. Here, memes can gain global popularity, and national cultures are intertwined with each other and with Internet culture. On any board, you can create a topic “for your own” and conduct a conversation in your native language.

In international discussions, jokes with flags and national attributes are especially popular. For example, on a German website, the upside down image of the Polish flag is popular, England is depicted as a British gentleman - in a top hat and a monocle.

Communication on imageboards attracts with informality and breadth of topics. However, now the popularity of such resources has fallen dramatically, and many young Internet users have not even heard of Dvach, Forchan and other similar sites.

2ch.hk - Forum for everyone and everyone, everything is here.

From sections with games and anime, to sections about weapons and history. Sections where a discussion of some cartoon character can turn into a real political discussion.

The biggest and clearest rule for all forums of this type is anonymity.

You can not reveal your personality, the whole essence is built only on this. Without registration and SMS; D

Everyone will be able to find a suitable section for themselves, and if not, then you can always go to the most visited branch - Brad /b/ You will definitely find something to read there.

Each of the forums except Brad, has its own theme. There are discussions adhering to the direction precisely on their topic.

There is a column on the main page news, you can click on each of them and read more, or participate in the discussion.

There are only 15 points in the rules

Yes, and the bans themselves are standard, which all sites have, do not break the law, do not throw off malware, in general, blah blah blah ... They can still be banned only by IP, and at the same time the ability to read Dvach is not lost , only you can’t post - and many don’t need it anyway.

The form of posting and creating threads and for answers in them is the same:

In addition to the text, you can attach a video, picture, drawing.

There are also mobile clients Dvacha, for any platform, you can read more about this in - /mobi/ Mobile devices and applications .

Compare the view from the mobile application Dashchan and version for PC, using the Books section as an example - /bo/

In conclusion, we can say that Dvach is a platform for communication, information exchange, without being tied to a person. Here you can not be afraid to seem stupid, or ask some intriguing question. But you should understand that anyone can sit on the other side of the monitor. So it's better not to listen to advice from two