A full briefing on the Russian Chanverse is forthcoming, so here’s a bit of a taste to what’s to come.
Introduction
• Why it was formed?
• Most media is effectively state-controlled, with the exception of Russia Today.
• Much completely culture, more focused on anime and has an active meme culture.
• Little information in English. Most of the information is in lurkmore.ru and dramatica.ua
• Based on 4chan but it eventually evolved into it’s own chanverse.
• There are five major chans: 2ch.hk is the largest primarily due to it’s legacy.
• Very anal about archvial.
Brief History
• 2ch.ru came first
• Elitists, /b/tards, Animefags, and normals
• Amount of people increased dramatically
• Iichan.hk was for animefags and elitists founded 0chan
• The amount of spam and cp and morons was so much that 2ch.ru creator killed it’s own site. Was reborn as 2-ch.ru
• Imageboard war was commenced between 2-ch.ru and 0chan
• Russians eventually stuck at krautchan’s int /int/
• “Due to some retarded laws, many sites were banned if some illegal content (pedo, terrorism, suicide) was found. It could’ve been even a single random image (they banned Google for several days, for fucks sake, they’re completely incompetent). So I think 2ch.so got banned too and they changed the domain.” (http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/77888096/#q77890052)
Fun Facts
• Bridge to Tabathia is very popular
• A TO or “And Then!” is a forced meme around December 29 2009 (http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/29136518/#q29136587)
• The Oppressor
2ch.hk: (“Welcome back. Again.”)
• General Subjects. Games. Japanese Culture. Adult. Test/Trial. Other
• 2ch.hk (aka Sosach, Hikkach, Dvach.so, piratach, pratcham, tirech, dvatirech.) – Most visited mediaboard in the runet.
• Begun to gain popularity in May 2009. Triech tried to position itself as a full replacement as ofl dvachu.
• Most of Triech culture comes from and Dvach.
• 2ch.hk already has their own numbering system for /vg/ like threads before 4chan created it’s own /vg/ board.
• 2ch.hk is probably the most normalfag chan out there at this point. (http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/77888096/#77889998)
2ch.ru
• Based on 4chan and Futaba channel
• Dvach was killed in 1-17-2009
• Mascost of 2ch – dvach-chan, slav chan, ussr chan, russinia onne same, and tokarev and lyric
Iichan.hk
• Otaku oriented
• International board
• English menu
• Discussions, Experiment, General, Anime, Adult, Miscellaneous
• /b/ - Otaku Oriented
http://lulzne.ws
http://410chan.org/
http://0chan.hk
http://iichan.hk/
http://dobrochan.ru/
http://lenta-chan.ru/
http://overchan.ru/
http://dramatica.org.ua
Ndee “Jkid” Okeh
YSJkid@gmail.com