This company claims to have done marketing jobs for some very big companies, ranging from NASA to McDonald’s. This led people to find that the server of this website was hosted on the servers of a certain company called ‘Rantic Media’. The website FoxWeekly linked to,, forgot to mask their server address. I’m not really technically gifted, so I might make a few mistakes in trying to convert the specifics to layman-terms. This is where things get kinda technical. Perhaps a bit more of them reside on 4chan. This isn’t to say 4chan is truly misogynist, but with all communities, there’s bound to be a few rotten examples. Therefore, creating a hoax and pointing to 4chan as the culprit, is at first glance, based on earlier events, actually quite believable. This animosity, as well as a WHOLE lot of other things (such as the leaking of earlier celebrity nudes, which was attributed to 4chan but actually happened on Anon-IB), has led to 4chan gaining somewhat of a misogynist reputation. This netted a few results in actual people shaving their heads, before word got out it was only a hoax. They even set up the twitter hashtag ‘Bald4Bieber’, to encourage young fans to shave their heads to show sympathy to Bieber. One example, (October 2012) was spreading misinformation through social media, in which tween-star Justin Bieber was announced to have cancer. This ranges from attacking comment sections of individual videos, to setting up elaborate and large-scale hoaxes. Even their trolling-motto, ‘Trolling is an art’, is meant to induce rage. These are then shared back at 4chan, and the more outrageous a statement you could get someone to agree to, the better.Ĥchan has a long history of trolling. As some kind of weird joke, they’d for instance post a quote from Adolf Hitler and say it came from Martin Luther King Jr., to try to get these people to agree with them for their own enjoyment. Partly because they are easy targets, getting upset at even the tiniest mention of an opposing viewpoint. These people congregate on websites like LiveJournal and Tumblr and create a microcosm in which their own first world problems are the centre of attention.Ĥchan, in turn, likes to mess with these people. These kind of feminists rarely use sound argumentation structures, often based on logical fallacies, to attack matters that aren’t even in such a dire need of addressing as compared to other problems that actually occur world-wide. A longer explanation of this conflict can be found here. Most of the internet, and especially 4chan, has a long-standing conflict with ‘RadFem’ (Radical Feminists) and ‘SJW’s’ (Social Justice Warriors). These instances indeed need fixing, so why then would 4chan try to blackmail miss Watson with nude pictures to pull her support from the campaign? Spoiler: they don’t. Or Saudi Arabia, where women aren’t allowed to even drive a car. Countries like India, where rape is the fourth most common crime. Many countries around the world, mostly non-Western states, still feature oppressed women who are handled as objects rather than individuals. The speech (which can be found in this link) advocated for the participation of boys and men alike around the world to better the position of women in their respective communities. ![]() This coincided with a speech Watson gave a day earlier at the UN, at the start of the ‘HeForShe’ campaign of which she is a representative. You can find a screen cap of the original post by FoxWeekly linked here. Fingers were therefore quickly pointed at 4chan as the responsible party, and a social media initiative called ‘#ShutDown4chan’ re-emerged. The site linked to a page titled ‘Emma You Are Next’, and featured a four-leaf clover – the logo of 4chan (nowadays often referred to as halfchan, since the exodus to infinitechan/8chan started). The topic being a story about alleged leaked nudes of Emma Watson. On the 21st of September a fairly unknown site called went viral. This article tries to find some truth in all the rumours. The hoax itself, however, was another hoax, orchestrated by someone or some group. It turned out to be a hoax, and was widely reported. ![]() Emma Watson, star of movies like ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’, was rumoured to have her nudes leaked.
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