A few days ago, on April 14, the infamous internet forum known as 4chan.org was subjected to a major hacking attack, which took down the site and made it inaccessible. As of this writing, the site remains down.

4chan has been embroiled in a long series of controversies since its launch in 2003. As an anonymous forum, it has developed its own unique flavor of edgy internet counterculture. You may have heard 4chan mentioned in relation to QAnon, with one anonymous user (going by “Q”) fabricating claims of a deep state conspiracy.

But 4chan isn’t the only of its kind. An anonymous user fr