OPERATION: STOPTHEIRSCHEME Fellow anons, While we haven't even noticed, big corporate money has silently crept into these hallowed halls of lulz. A company called Rocketboom, armed with MILLIONS of dollars per year in Sony Entertainment capital has been appropriating our culture by starting a website called Knowyourmeme. Rocketboom literally gets OVER 9000 a week from Sony-- totalling millions of dollars: http://brofi.st/u/http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/05/rocketboom-inks-seven-figure-distribution-deal-with-sony/ Chans like ours scrape by completely unprofitable while these goddamned Jew york city kikes get MILLIONS to steal our work and slap some fucking advertisements on it. Knowyourmeme, backed by fucking JEW money, is making MILLIONS and not giving a goddamned thing back to the sites that generated its content. Fellow anons, this is the worst thing for our people since Jews flew an airplane into the world trade center to get us to foot the bill for their empire-building in the middle east. This is worse than Ebaumsworld, even. This is big multinational corporate theft of the products of our culture. Let's show them that we won't stand for it.
I dig KYM. As they said, to assume that 4chan is some sort of secret is to be a noob
You go back to /b/ right now with your invasion trash.Reported for illegal content.
I love the smell of a morning raid. You people should enjoy it after all this will probably be the last of the 4chan ddos attack raids before Moot sells the site to Google or worse Viacom.
>>7911305why do you say "our" memes, i mean, did you help to create them or something?LOL ANON IS LEGION XD!!!
Seems like a worthwhile business. If they can do it, it is good. Free market, ftw.
>>7912208This. Did you know they don't allow JB in /s/ anymore? What the fuck? moot, I am disappoint.
>>7912208Explain! Now!
>>7912281>>7912208I agree with these Anons.
everybody has smallpox I SEE IT I HAVE MY CHEM MASK ON
If you're so jealous of these jews making a bunch of money off of shitty memes, then start your own godamn company, make your millions, and quit bitching.What a fucking self-righteous, fight-club mentality, egoic asshole.
How can we make sure that they don't make any money of of this shit?
>>7912447you can't, according to OP contract is already signed
I don't understand, so they are basically going to make news reports on new memes? ...that's just retarded.
>>7912447see>>7912389ljslflshfslblox
The solution is simple:Make LOL Cocks the new mass meme.Get them to spend their millions spreading pictures of Niggercock with funny text, and lobbying to allow full nudity on the mainstream media.Someone should sneak over to AnT and see about getting them started making LOL CP; let the two groups fight.
>OP pic has a Habbo Hotel niggerI thought EFG was the /b/ mascot
>>7912561whats an efg lol???ROW ROW
HEY GUYS. REMEMBER HABBO RAIDS?Can't believe it's already 2010.
>>7912685Rapetime.jpg
I don't see these underage kids invading lolcats for doing the same thing.They probably think lolcats came up with their own stuff, damn kids.
The degradation of the community of this site makes me very sad. Still, this place got big, and face it, society sucks. With everyone and there grandmother on here, if course it's stupid.
...do you really think KYM is the first site to do this? ED, Lurkmore, and Wikichan have been doing it for like, 4 years now.But yeah, the propagation of memes is a horrible thing. It used to be they served as sort of a bar for entry, and you had to spend some amount of time absorbing the *chan culture to use them without being laughed off the boards.Nowadays every annoying kid can just go look that shit up.
What a bunch of faggots. You have no idea of how much I loathe the 4chan community.
Just be glad you were apart of the generation that actually created memes like lolcats and habbo raids. It is long gone and there is no getting it back. Everything has a beginning, a golden age and a dark age, then end.
>>7913590Butthurt. You are the faggot for even posting here if you loathe it.
I can't hear a meme without cringing anymore. It's even got to the point that I hear shit like "fail" in real life doing my day to day tasks.I'm not going to support this "raid" if you will by partaking in it, but you do what you gotta do. I won't condemn it.
There's another company making millions off the original content of others. The Oxford English Dictionary. Lets firebomb Chapters!
our 4chan forefathers would have stood up to this bullshit!
>>7913682I agree. They would have already had that site extorted by a few hundred before the night was over. What ever happened to them?
>>7913682no they would not, because they were college kids that didn't give a shit
>>7913695they must be rolling in their graves!
>>7913699remember what this place was like before the thieves came in and stole it all? i do.
>Jew york city kikes>Moot is a New Yorker
>>7913655I swear to god if anything ever drives me to open up in a crowded building with an automatic weapon this will be it.In one day, in ONE CLASS, I usually hear at least "fail", "win", "epic", "lulz", etc. It takes a lot to even slightly aggravate me, but goddamn something about that shit really makes me lose faith in humanity for some reason.
>>7913682Forefathers have to fuck foremothers to make presentchildren. You must mean breathren.
just the other day i saw that one guy named snacks. he used to be respected around here. now he gets treated like dirt but he still keeps doing his music threads.things have changed and not for the better but i bet he still keeps up hope. what about you?
>>7911305I agree with you. I've grown up with 4chan, and I've used it's fun colloquialisms in everyday life very often. To see this whole subculture go mainstream, with a bunch of idiots profiting from it, is almost disgusting.You have my sword, OP.
I remember a time where it was almost magical. 4chan was an essential role in my mid and late teen years and we were brothers, we raided and conquered for lord afroduck.
we need to reunite the chans or our culture is lost!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5D9AI2oRlc&feature=relatedmy god.
4 years ago that site would be ddosed to death.Even though it's stupid and won't accomplish anything I'll DDOS it for the old fags, and old times.bawww
It'll take more than throwing the word jew around to get me to give a shit about someone making money with some clever videos.
the chan culture is dead. full of 12 year olds and teenage girls and scenefags. all the older generations of /b/tards are long since gone and are in college or have families now.
I am shocked and appaled sirs. THEY WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS.
>>7911305I support this.It pisses me off when I see videos of douche bags such as Ray Williams using memes and calling it an INTERNET meme.The chans created the memes, the chans own the memes.
There was a time where every 4channer was essentially eric cartman. 4chan created every single meme, ever. hands down. as lazy basement dwellers we are all that we have to do to impact the modern world is keep doing what we do best, watch animu and talk bullshit all day.e/b/aums did it.
I dont mind the fact that they steal content.I sort of mind the fact that they are making memes mainstream.I also am slightly miffed at the thought of people discovering 4chan by way of that site.But what I cannot accept, is that moot's mom had to take a loan to pay for 4chan's bandwidth, and now this faggot is going to get a SEVEN FIGURE distribution deal with sony.
>>7913931I am bothered by the fact that the soon to be new comers of 4chan will have absolutely no grasp of our culture and will most likely be soulless and unfunny. Hell even this generation refuses to take part in raids.
>>7913908nobody owns a meme accept for the original creators.4chan rarely creates it's own meme's. Usually they're something taken from something else and thrown some text on them. Like millhouse is not a meme.... guess what, 4chan didn't make millhouse.Also, if Moot wanted to, he could make money off of 4chan by posting more adds and shit in /b/. He doesn't want to though, and you all should accept that you're not entitled to shit for repeatedly posting meme's all over the goddamn internet. You are just being cancerous.
>>7913946holy shit, that's chelsea from oklahoma. she used to send me noodz.
I miss faggots not talking about 4chan in class as well. The Scientology raids brought a big bad of suck to this place, you better habeeb it.
>>7913952Got any of those saved that you can post?
>>7913952mind sharing?
>>7913881And two years before that, you'd have been kicked out of /b/ for even thinking that. That is, AFTER being dogpiled for not capitalizing "bawww" and forgetting the period.
>>7913958on my phone but i have no way to get them off of there. it was all picture messages.
>>7913931>moot's mom had to take a loan to pay for 4chan's bandwidthWait.. you mean someone actually believes this? Are you kidding me? Moot is probably making a decent income - nothing great, but enough money to pay for his education and such. Why else wouldn't he at least open up a donation link? Why wouldn't he pursue additional ad revenue? He has a website with extremely good traffic, he's doing alright for himself, faggot.
>>7913971find a way!
>>7913946are you fucking kidding me. it's already happened. You ever seen someone type "u mad?" yep thats them. the faggots that use the same line that's already been used 1000+ times that day.
>>7913982To be honest I can vaguely recall what it was like 5+ years ago in 4chan. I know the atmosphere and feeling was different, very different. Not sinister by no means but very determined and no one was safe.
Sony should have made a contract with ED instead, they're worth a lot more in real world money.
>>7913978you're missinformed, Moot tries to keep ad's and shit off of 4chan as much as possible. He doesn't keep 4chan around for income.
>>7913996dude even 2 or 3 years ago it was better. It slowly degrades as faggots continually post shit on social networking sites... dragging these fucking casual computer using faggots along with them. Notice that now a raid or an epic thread or an EPIC get is simply rare? Instead we're overthrown with fucking aim threads, camwhore threads, general pic whoring, hookup threads which are indescribably useless. Back 5 years ago all the things that are rare now were common then, all the common cancerous shit that is common now was extremely rare back then... i remember a time when mother fuckers were afraid to post their picture on 4chan in fear that their entire life would be ruined. We've been over-run by social networking niggers and faggots. People who NEED and crave attention. 4chan is dogshit now. I only lurk a few channels. They are even turning to shit given our new year of 2010.
I like Rocketboom. Good for them.
although that site yes makes me honestly raeg and although i support any /b/ raid that they want to do over this, i'm not moving an inch for any cause brahi am not anon and anon is not legion.
if you can show that the memes are registered or protected under creative commons then the most you can do is make sure that it stays free and the jews at Sony can't trademark it. that's about all, otherwise they aren't really doing anything really despicable.
Stay racist, stay anti-Semitic and stay stubborn. They will not win.
>>7914052hell, I'm still afraid of it as well they should be. I found out that someone I used to talk with on a social site got her life fucked over by /b/ after she posted nudes.
this has been happening since ever.do you know how much the icanhascheezburger guy makes?
>>7914100If she posted nudes on /b/ she deserved it.
>>7914128I don't know the exact number, fill me in.
What the fuck is wrong with you?You have a overblown sense of entitlement on something that is born of free speech and thought.
I can't bring myself to hate Rocketboom - they're just trying to make some money. But I do feel that it's fairly explitative of Moot's, "don't exploit 4chan for cash" self-issued rule - he should definatly be recieving some kind of kickback from this considering he's directly/indirectly responsible for 99% of their content (although whether he'd even accept the money is another matter).TL:DR - they're funneling cash out of 4chan while 4chan is struggling to stay in the black, and they're raping their own future profits.
>>7915296Addendum:Moots either eventually going to have to give up on 4chan or find a way to make it profitable. It's fairly obvious that the site is worth A LOT OF BUX but Moot hasn't found a way to profit yet without compromising his beliefs and the sites integrity. Meanwhile, the money that Moot could have been making if he was a souless bastard is funneling it's way into the pockets of assholes like Ebaum etc.The best way to STOP THIS SHIT is to help Moot find a way to make 4chan more profitable (morally).
I AM CHRISTOPHER POOLE, AND I'M HERE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION: IS AN ANON NOT ENTITLED TO THE LULZ OF HIS MEME?"NO," SAYS THE MAN IN WASHINGTON, "IT BELONGS TO THE POOR.""NO," SAYS THE MAN IN THE VATICAN, "IT BELONGS TO GOD.""NO," SAYS THE MAN AT ROCKETBOOM, "IT BELONGS TO EVERYONE."I REJECTED THOSE ANSWERS. INSTEAD, I CHOSE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. I CHOSE THE IMPOSSIBLE. I CHOSE...4CHANAN IMAGEBOARD WHERE THE PEDOPHILE WOULD NOT FEAR THE CENSOR, WHERE THE /B/TARD WOULD NOT BE BOUND BY PETTY MORALITY, WHERE THE OLDFAG WOULD NOT BE CONSTRAINED BY THE NEWFAG. WITH THE LULZ OF YOUR MEME, 4CHAN COULD BECOME YOUR IMAGEBOARD AS WELL.
>>7915332There's no way to make it profitable without really going mainstream and hosting parties, events, etc.
>>7915378a 4chan classy party at a mansion? FUCK YA I'M THERE.
>>7915407What person on 4chan would go to a mansion or afford one? Thing a little bit more realistically. I'm talking about renting some places out, and charging people a bit to go there and have a fun time. People from 4chan could help organize them all over. They can be 4chan themed, or if you find that gay, it can be a normal place that people from 4chan could just come and hang out at. That way, it can stay relatively unique to the 4chan community, yet the revenue can go to the site if necessary.
>>7911305STOPTHEIRSCHEME is a retarded name for an operation. Couldn't someone have expended a modicum of effort and thought up a better name?
>Rocketboom literally gets OVER 9000>OVER 9000I literally stopped reading there. Fuck off.
You guys are pretty delusional if you think you're gonna have any effect on this site. 4chan can't even fucking take down anontalk, how do you suppose we take down a website that is backed by SONY and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? Do proceed, because I want to hear your plan. I'm pretty sure our DDoS attacks will do fuck all.
Dude, YTMND probably creates as many memes as 4chan.
Get a life and live it, losers.
There's a sucker born every minute. Of course, why get things for free when you can buy them from a corporate giant?
Well, that's capitalism for you. Go someplace... rape the people, take all their shit for free, ship it somewhere else and sell it to a bunch of faggots.
You know, people from 4chan could do the same thing... Why don't one of you guys make a site, and put all the memes there, then with our large userbase among the chans, we can spread it faster than knowyourmeme can spread. That way, that site could be more popular.
>>7915516http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Main_Pagehttp://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Main_Pagetoo bad they already exist.
>memes>belong to usWhat in rotten seeping anus Wisconsin are you fucks on?>sees piracy debates in /v/NO SERIOUSLY WHERE DID YOU COME FROM
>>7912447Make really retarded unprofitable memes.