The Day the Internet Died

Today, 4chan was hacked. 4chan used to be the scaly, armored ramming prow of the internet, where spooks blew whistles and trolls called them larpers. The 1337 H4x0r posted caps of various proofs on SoyJackParty, which is pretty much the ultimate teabag.

IMG source Soyjack.st

Osint guys have deeply valued 4chan, at least prior to 2015, and less so afterwards as it was serially degraded by shills and bots, but in a sense this is the death of the old internet. The one that grew out of the Libertarian Phreaks and BBS scene, morphed into Warez, and defeated the studios by trading mp3's on IRC and adopting torrents en masse. It seems to have just over-ripened on the vine until the Zoomers over at SoyJackParty just couldn't stand to let those insufferable Boomers keep on droning their bourgeois prattle.

This is a serious hack. The operative that executed it claims to have had access for over a year, and prepared the takedown with care. The crown rests on another brow now.

An era has ended. The king is dead.

Long live the king.