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| Anonymous |
| Has current status | Anonymous, though largely toothless, still … Anonymous, though largely toothless, still contains people with sufficient hacking and trolling prowess locked away in its tightest regions, most of them solely focused on the [[Wikileaks]] drama. In the last few years, [[4chan]] has become more mainstream and most posts are of the paint-by-numbers, insert-[[meme]]-here type, with less and less people supporting Anonymous then there used to be. This has lead "legitimate" Anonymous members to take up residence on other *chan boards as well as IRC networks such as [[AnonOps]]. well as IRC networks such as [[AnonOps]]. |
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| Has improper value forThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Has creation date +, Is known for + |
| Has main image | AnonymousBecause.jpg + |
| Has origin | In 4chan's early days, using a [[tripcode] … In 4chan's early days, using a [[tripcode]] and pseudonym wasn't just accepted, it was encouraged. Moderator [[Shii]], who had some experience with [[2ch]] wrote an essay on why this totally sucked, and [[moot]] made him a moderator because of it. Shii, as soon as he gained his staff powers, eliminated the name field on many of the boards, implementing forced [[anonymity]]. People who used tripcodes whined about the new forced_anon and began signing their posts with their old names, inviting ridicule from those who welcomed the changes. Regularly, there would by "tripfag vs anon" threads where the tripcode lovers would accuse the people who didn't use names of being a single person or hive mind. The meme continued to grow in popularity until it blew itself out of proportion and into the fragmented mess it is today. Anon Anonymous actually started out in 1993 with the launching of anon.penet.fi by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of [[Finland]]. An anonymous remailer whose members ran into the hundreds of thousands. Making it the very first and original Anonymous! It would strip technical information and than send messages to [[Usenet]] Groups. Many notable [[trolls]] were counted amongst its users. [[trolls]] were counted amongst its users. |
| Has summary | Often abbreviated as "'''Anon'''", '''Anon … Often abbreviated as "'''Anon'''", '''Anonymous''' refers to an indefinite collective centered around the [[chans]]. This group of internet users communicates without consistent usernames on various chans. Between posting gore and [[porn]] threads, Anonymous stages largely unsuccessful raids on other websites. Originally, the idea of Anonymous was to act as a hive mind as part of a meme. Enchanted with anarchy and convinced they were part of some Internet [[Fight Club]], 13 year olds everywhere took the idea of a faceless force of nature to heart. These diehards became convinced that Anonymous could enact real change, and the meme degraded into what is often referred to as "legionfaggotry" by /b/tards. In the old days of [[/b/]], not many people took Anonymous seriously, and they treated it like the joke that it was. Anonymous was more of a subculture than a definite group, a loose community where nobody had a name and were content to talk about random things and occasionally organize trolling attempts on other sites. This changed when Fox 11 decided to report on the trolls, and true legionfaggotry started to take hold. Some users took to writing up eloquent speeches about how much these guys they knew on the internet rocked. They romanticized Anonymous as a force of total nihilism or an unstoppable anarchic villain, when in reality it was closer to a group of disillusioned men and teenagers meeting up on the internet in flash mobs where they would either waste time or insult people who knew less about the internet than them. Because Anonymous is in essence a collective, ongoing [[flash mob]], there's no true hierarchy or organizational structure. The only real rule seems to be the understanding that messing with [[cat]]s is crossing the line. Because there's strength in numbers, especially numbers that include effective trolls, Anonymous isn't a completely powerless mass of offensive teenagers. However, disorganization and general incompetence ensures that Anonymous will never be an invincible internet powerhouse, and only as influential as any mob can be. It should be noted that [[4chan]] is one of the few chans that still openly embraces Anonymous. Even so, with the exception of /b/, the boards are much less sympathetic to calls for raiding and trolling than in the past, and some even ignore Anonymous outright. The rest of the chans try to separate themselves from Anonymous, and often take measures regarding the name field to do so. <center> <div style="clear:none; max-width:50em;"><div style="margin: 0 10%;"> {| style="border-collapse:collapse; background-color:transparent;" | valign="top" style="overflow:hidden; margin: 0 0 1em 0; color:silver; font-size:3.6em; font-family:serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:left;" | <span style="line-height:0.4em;"> </span><br />“ | valign="middle" style="overflow:hidden; padding:0 1em; text-align:left; font-style:italic; " | <br /><big><big>Despite all the verbal masturbation anonymous produce, they are really not scary or evil. Anonymous is a Panopticon in reverse. A group where everyone is invisible and appears to speak from the center. Anonymous collectively contains every belief, creed, cultural status, sexuality, fetish, hobby, job, likes, dislikes, (insert any quality), etc. They have collectively experienced every act of violence and kindness. They know every language, probably even the dead ones. They know everything that can be known, and can perpetrate any act a person can. However, because they dwell in a reverse-panopticon, the individual anonymous who "yell" the loudest, most often, or most provocatively will be heard and remembered the most. This is why the anonymous seems so cruel and disgusting. But for every grotesque abomination that posts anonymously, there are probably 100 more who are decent human beings that are just too lazy to post, or are indifferent to the topic at hand.</big></big><br /> | valign="bottom" style="overflow:hidden; color:silver; font-size:3.6em; font-family:serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:right;" | „<br /><span style="line-height:0.55em;"> </span> |- | colspan="3" | <p style="font-size:85%; line-height:1em; text-align:right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Anonymous</cite></p> |}</div></div> </center> |}</div></div> </center> |
| Is known for | Troll +, Lulz + |
| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. | 27 March 2012 23:33:40 + |
| Was first found | 2003 + |
| Was founded by | 4chan +, Hacktivists + |
| Categories | Subcultures, Anonymous |
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