To /b/ or not to /b/.  That is the question.  Well, obviously the answer is to /b/. 

That's right, 4chan Friday has reached it's climax.  The Random Board.  And just because I love (or hate, depending on how you look at it) you guys, I made a video.

Just so you know, trying to censor out all of the random penises and naked pictures on /b/ without motion tracking is really annoying.

As I said in the video, /b/ is far from the only worth-while board on 4chan. Unlike the old days, it's hard to find stuff that isn't copypasta and general newfaggery. It's more for shock value and to call other people fags. It's basically the condensed version of the internet.

And now you know everything you will ever need (or want) to know about 4chan. Now go out and troll some people, you faggots :D.

We've done a lot of exploring of the internets here on 4chan Friday. Sadly, unlike the internet, 4chan has a finite number of boards, which means the end was inevitable, but before that, let's take a look at what we saw and did.

Well Trollers, 4chan Friday is almost over and I don't know if I have any more witty ways to start off.   But to make it up for you guys, I'm doing 3 board tonight.

Tonight we have /ic/ /toy/ and /x/.  I tried to make an anagram out of this, but the best I could do was cix toy.  (It sounds like sex toy, get it hahaha?)

Paranoia,  or /x/ is kind of like Bill O'reilly, it's the place for all the stuff you can't explain.

But it's more like those goth kids at school who pretend that they're vampires and werewolves, and go around in their Twilight-like fantasies of biting each other.  Also there's people who play Amnesia.  Now that definitely will make you become paranoid.

/ic/ is a pretty cool guy.  I don't know if it's intentional or not, but it's the Artwork/Critique board (ic/I see d'oh).  Let me tell you something.  Everyone is a critic.  Especially 4chan.  And it probably sucks.  Go back to photoshopping random faces on people.  Hey, that remind me of something- I got a Canvas invite today, which means I can do just that!

Toys.  I think we've done this far enough to know that this is what /toy/ stands for.  And guess what they talk about?  You know, as these boards start to dwindle down, they seem to be less and less mysterious.  But there is something I want to bring up.  Why are grown men (no women on the internet) playing with toys?  Unless those toys are big and gas powered, or have the possibility of destroying something.  

Last week's 4chan Friday sadly got taken over by Justin Bieber, another reason to dislike him.  However do not fear, for it is back!

This week on 4chan Friday, I'm doing two board that involve two things that I will be doing soon:  /trv/ and /cgl/

/cgl/ stands for Cosplay & EGL.  I actually don't know what EGL stands for, but for you normal non-anime watching people out there, cosplay is dressing up like a character from an anime.  Which might seem kind of weird, especially if you're doing it just to go out shopping or something.

Or if you do this

But I'm not that into making a fool of myself (at least in real life, in a fairly small town).  No, I'm going to Fanime con, at the end of May.  It's still kind of far away, so my cosplay isn't quite ready, but I will update as it comes closer.  Speaking of being far away...

/trv/ is the Travel Board.  The anime convention is in San Jose California, about a 5 hour drive.  Which means me and at least one other friend on a long road trip to an anime convention with Jpop and other anime music blaring the whole way.

It's funny that Travel has its own board.  Some people consider the trip half of the fun, but I actually consider it more about 67% of the fun.  The other however much percent involves being able to go around in a strange city, trying not to get lost and/or killed, preferably dressed up as a random androgynous looking anime character.   San Jose here we come!

Today is Friday, and since I didn't spend my day trying to figure out which seat to pick, I was able to just be lazy the whole day and browse 4chan. This is what I found.

/sci/ Stands for Math & Science, basically everything that pretty much makes no sense to me. Math has lots of numbers and stuff, which I really don't like. I know the entirety of Hiragana and Katakana by heart, but I really don't know shit about deriving or anything. It's all Greek to me. Until I actually go out and learn Greek, at which point it's something else. Probably Klingon.

Don't even get me started on Science. The only thing I know about science is the fact that it works a lot better than religion.

Torrents, or /t/ is the best way to get anything.  Porn, free software and games, viruses, you name it.   Except on 4chan.  Sadly, one rule of /t/ in no warez, in other words software. That’s right, no pirates here. You’re better off heading over to a certain site that might get me into some trouble if I mentioned it, but I assure you it's on the high seas.  However, what this means that it is actually one of the safer boards to be on, being that you won’t be getting any surprise visits from the FBI.  And now that I have a ton of red-flags here in my post, it's time to set up the tinfoil. 

It's Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday/Everybody's Looking forward to the weekend.

Haha, just kidding, Friday is for 4chan.  If we replaced every tweener girl who somehow became famous despite not having any musical talent with a /b/tard, the world would be so much better.  On a semi-related note, we have more porn and giant robots.  No giant robot porn though.

/gif/ is one of those misleading ones.  No, it actually has gifs, but one would think that they would be more... innocent.  Like this.

*Haruhi poke*

Except that Gif is mostly filled with porn.  Because watching the same few frames over and over again is so much better than watching a whole movie.  Most of the time it's not even the money shot.  What is wrong with people nowadays. 

Now, who likes big robots?  I guess the guys on /m/ do, since it is the Mecha board.  Unless by mecha they mean big mechanical penises.  Then they can head to /gif/.

Mecha are really big in Japan actually.  And not just because Japanese people are equally small.  Ever since the days of series like Gundam, people have loved really big robots that destroy shit.  They even made a life-size model of one (which happened to be knocked down by the earthquake, where is your savior now, Japan?)

I kind of like the various cockpit designs, it's interesting seeing the various ways that they are controlled and so on.  Mechs can be controlled in ways that range from mashing a huge panel of buttons, connecting to your brain and nervous system, or just screaming really loudly while yanking around a couple of ambiguous looking handles.  Nevertheless, it seems to work just fine anyways...

Well, since today isn't my birthday, I guess 4chan Friday will do.  Can't buy $15 worth of drinks every week to make Epic Drink Time.

If you haven't been under a rock for the last 24 hours, you should know that a huge earthquake + wave hit Japan, the first step towards end of the world.  I just hope I can finish this 4chan Friday series before that happens.  So, in light of what's happening over there, I'm doing /jp/.

/jp/ actually stands for "Otaku Culture", and not Japan (much like how /ck/ stands for cooking and not cocks).  But I figure Japan is mostly Otakus anyways, so it works out.  I think the question on everyone's mind right now is, when Japan sinks, how do we get our moé? Other anime too.

What about Pakistani animes?

Japan is also rich with different types of Transportation.  Except now their airports and subways are under water, and to tell you the truth, riding a bike through a massive puddle sucks as well.  But /n/, or Transportation, has that covered.  Kind of.
 Japan is an island country, get over it.  They have boats.  At least it wasn't Godzilla this time.

Today, I told myself "Self, today is 4chan Friday, so I'm gonna be sure to write something extra funny."  But now that it's past midnight making it Saturday, I guess you'll have to deal with the regular B.S. I throw at you.  But I am doing /3/ and /rs/, so cheer up! 

No, /3/ isn't another chan.  After visiting 7chan, I don't think I could bear to leave the safety of my home.  /3/ actually stands for 3DCG.  Great, another acronym to further confuse me.  Although I think it does actually stand for 3d computer grapics.  Or 3 dudes cutting grass.  I'm not entirely sure though.  There are a lot of 3d looking pictures though.

You ever wonder how they get realistic looking models into video games and stuff?  They skin a person, and then lay it out flat, then take a picture of it.

This... really creeps me out.

Then you can wrap it around a human-head shaped 3d wireframe and create the model.  That or they just take a bunch of pictures from different angles and stitch them together.  That probably works better, in a much less manslaughter sort of way.

/rs/ stands for Rapidshares, aka the quickest way to spread viruses, porn, and pirated versions of software.  Unlike torrenting, you don't even have to download any other software to get it.  Which means only downloading from your browser, which pretty much sucks.  But then again, you will have less of a paper trail of sorts when downloading pronz and warez.  When the feds (or your mom) shows up at your door, you don't have to clear your uTorrent stats, you just have to delete the illegal shit and plead the 5th, whatever that is.

I've been doing this 4chan Friday thing now for a couple months now, and it has come to my attention that not many people around here actually are familiar with 4chan.  Like, at all.  I know it's kind of late to explain it by now, but better late than never I guess. Some people call it hell on the internet, akin to getting raped to satin's penis, while others may say it is the best place ever. Some even call it home. I call it writing material, but that's probably just me.

4chan, in the most basic terms, is an image board.  More accurately, "the largest English imageboard on the web,"  at least according to them.  I wouldn't doubt it thought.  The idea behind an imageboard is that you are required to post a picture to open a post (OP), and then post pictures if you feel to reply.  Whether these pictures are relevant, irrelevant, or contain genitals is completely up to the poster.

This is what the main page looks like.  To the untrained eye, it looks innocent, but that would be horribly wrong for the most part.  What you see here is the list of boards, along with random stats and the three most recently added pictures.  The boards have two different ways to be identified; with the full name as seen above, or the more popular way, by the tags.  Most tags have the format of slash-letter-slash, which is how they are displayed in the index at the bottom of the boards, as well as in a URL (4chan.org/[letter]/).

The most well known board is /b/, or Random.  If you don't know what is in here already, you shouldn't go.  It will get explained when I do my 4chan Friday Finale.  Most other boards contain what they say (for the most part) but there are always people who want to cause shit and post stuff that violates the rules.

Yes there are rules.  Even on /b/ (sometimes).  Some of the boards are even considered work safe, identifiable by the blueish background.  Why people are browsing 4chan at work is beyond me, but if you can get away with it, all the more power to you.  Sometimes I feel like my job IS to browse 4chan, except that I don't get paid.  

As for the people, there are a lot of them.  It wouldn't be the biggest imageboard if it wasn't for them.  Some of them are nice, some of them are trolls, and some of them are there to just make you go "wtf".  And yes, the trolls there are much worse than me, and probably sneakier too.  But if you assume that everything is a troll, you should be safe.  With that, I better not say anymore for fear of getting ripped a new one by my fellow channers, especially after revealing their secrets.  They were never really that secret or special to begin with though.

4chan Friday. Because any other day wouldn't create an alliteration. Besides, 4chan Wednesday would take to long to write.

Tonight, /e/ and /r/ lose whatever mysteriousness they had, because obviously they hold something other than what the title suggests (not).

I thought I would work on finishing off the "Adults Only" section, because I tend to get distracted while browsing them, case in point me posting this at 1am (it isn't even Friday anymore.) /e/ or Ecchi would be one of these.

Ecchi is the Japanese catch-all word for any pornographic, including perverts. Gee, I wonder what type of people go here [don't answer that]. This board is kind of like /h/, except with more of a soft core feel.  It's more of eye candy rather than sex, with some self-censoring.  It's similar to what I explained in my Fan-service post.  In most anime, any real money shots get covered up by random pieces of clothing, arms and legs, surprisingly murky water,  random items in the foreground flying through the air, or whatever the animators dream up.

Even tails.  And what a nice piece of tail it is...

/r/ is the request board.  What people are requesting on 4chan is beyond me, but I can probably guess whatever they get in return isn't what they wanted.  Unless you really were searching for some big hairy guy to come violate you.  But then again you might just be asking a simple question. 

Herp derp i wuznt paying attention when this show was on it was like some fighting and this blue guy nyone know the name of it?

Isn't this the kind of shit Google is for?  But since you can get banned for requesting on other boards, I guess  it can be useful.  There is even incentive for posting accurate information, and this is boobs.  You can even post them to open and to bump as well.  Don't let me stop you.

You know what day it is.  You know!!!!  Don't look at me like that.  It's 4chan Friday.

Tonight, we have /y/ and /u/.

No, this has no connection to the creepy "y u no" guy.  It's actually about homosexuality.  Yes, they stand for Yuri and Yaoi.  If you don't speak Japanese, then you're probably better off.  Yuri and Yaoi stand for gay relationships in anime between women and men, respectively. 

Yaoi is a funny word, but after scrolling quickly through one page of penises, I quickly closed it.  I prefer Yuri, even though the word isn't as commonly used or nearly as funny sounding.  As I've said before, boobs usually rank higher on the interest scale than other things. 

Of course there is no shortage of boobs in anime.  It's common in animes to see many males (and some females)  get a nosebleed whenever they happen to see them as well, sometimes causing them to become "overdrawn at the blood bank."
I just gave blood today, so I'm familiar with donating, but Characters like Zoro from One Piece need to think about a withdrawal program, especially after losing five or six pints of blood in one fight, despite the human body only containing that much.  But as long as he has enough bandages, he should be fine.

This week, prepare for 4chan Friday- in the THIRD~~~~DIMENSION~~~~~~.

Ok just kidding, there would be no way for me to do that.  But I did go see the Green Hornet in 3D earlier tonight, and the whole 3D thing kind of annoys me.  It seems like it's the new thing now especially in movies, which is brings me to the first board, Television & Film, or /tv/

I personally dislike 3D, it makes my eyes hurt and gives me a headache.  Then when you put the glasses on, it seems like everything is flying at you. My typical response to 3D is something like this:

Oh wow I feel like I can reach out and touch it, WHOA it tried to attack my face make it stop make it stop *bleh*.

Kind of like this.

I nearly shit myself during Avatar when I thought a fucking piece of burning ash fell on my lap.

Hell I don't even really go to watch movies.  I only went to the one tonight because my friend works at the theater and he got us in for free.  I'm pretty sure the last movie I saw was a porno.  What I really like is pictures.  Big, pretty pictures.

That's what /hr/ is for.  HR kind of sounds like some law firm to me, but it actually means High Resolution.  I was even lucky enough to stumble upon a Victoria's Secret thread.  Oh internet, you're so good to me.  Except when you airbrush out all the good stuff.  I'm pretty sure they even hid the chick's bellybutton.
What the hell, is that like plaster or something?  With high resolution, you can see everything like this.  I especially like goosebumps.

Ok guys tonight I have something special for you all.  Instead of 4chan Friday, tonight I'm going to 7chan.  Thats right, hold on to your fuckin magnets, cause here we go.

I've long kept 7chan at an arms reach.  Why?  Well, I figure that is 4chan is bad sometimes, what am I going to do with seven of them?  Ok just kidding that was a joke.  The truth is, I actually came here a while ago, before I became immune to the freaky shit on the internet [those were pretty bad days if you ask me].  So I was kind of chillin and looking around, and I notice a board called 'Cake'.  I thought to myself, "What could go wrong?"  Oooooh no, let me tell you something.  When they say the cake is a lie, you better believe them.  What did I find in cake you ask?  CP central (link sfw).

Long story short, that day I found out I was a pedophile.  Some people say that watching anime will turn you into one, but I want to call bullshit on that because I was a pedo long before that.  Anyways, I think some time ago 7chan did get in trouble for having underage children up, so nowadays cake is just for anime.

Ignoring my childhood trauma, 7chan isn't really as horrible as people say, but it probably is worse than 4chan.  As far as the setup goes, it is very similar to 4chan, with a lot of the same board, such as Random, Anime, Wallpapers, and of course porn.  But they also have a board dedicated to minecraft.  How freakin' sweet is that?

So anyways, that's about it.  This place also gets a lot less traffic than 4chan, and you will tend to see the same old threads laying around.  Just remember, go here at your own risk.

It's 4chan Friday.  I think you could have guessed that by the title though.  And the date, being that it's Friday and all.  Yes, this blog can be pretty predicable.  But that's why I thrown in stuff like this to throw you off. 

A new board came out earlier this week, and I though I would jump on it before it all went to shit like some other boards.  Oh wait, too late.  Anyways, Social, or /soc/ is ind of like the 4chan version of Facebook, so basically you can stalk people and look at their pictures that they post.  It's like a stalkers dream!

You can assume a lot of stuff about a person just from the fact that they browse 4chan.  But here on /soc/ you actually have a face to point and laugh at.  Or a pair of tits to fap to (if you're lucky).  Or a penis to quickly scroll past, telling yourself you are secure in your masculinity.  You can also look for a hookup thread to find people who might be in your area, and are probably 40 year men who want to rape you.  But you can never be sure!

Since I did /h/ last week, I thought I would do it's other half, /d/ or Alternative Hentai.  Basically, hentai that is a little... different.  Soimething you normally wouldn't see, nor want to see unless you have a craving for something weird and out there.  Something like...
Ah yes, this fits perfectly.

Welcome again to another issue of 4chan Friday. There are still many places we have yet to discover, let us go.

picture is unrelated

Robot 9000, or /r9k/ is a forum that I have been to before, but I still can't seem to figure out out.  On the surface, it seems like it's just another /b/ but I know there should be more.  For instance, robots.  Lots of them.  I know at some point there were robots.  I think.  Their motto is "together alone," which could point to the fact that they are refugees of some sort from /b/, or I may be just over thinking it.  I looked through all the pages, yet there is no sign of robots or DBZ references.  It seems like a mystery for another day...

And while we're trying to figure it out, let's look at some boobies.  Cartoon boobies to be exact.  /h/ stands for Hentai, a certain guilty pleasure of mine. 

I finally got to use this picture I shopped a while ago.

One time me and my friend had to describe hentai or "cartoon porn" as it was so accurately described to this girl in our small group communications group.  I don't think she got the full gist of it, and probably thought we were kind of weird, but we definitely made an impact.

One of my new year's resolutions is to visit 4chan more so I can become a better troll. What better way to add to my knowledge than with some 4chan Friday?

Literature, aka /lit/ is a place where people go to read books. Personally, I haven't read any books since I've been out of high school, but I do write. It's hard to believe, but people actually have time read even when they lurk the internet for hours at a time.

/lit/, where the classy trolls abide.

I do enjoy language though. A thread I found here on /lit/ happened to discussing the difference between the phrases "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less." If you could care less, then you're obviously not at the point of least caring; in other words, you have some care. If 4chan can get it right, a normal light dwelling person should be able to.

Animals & Nature, or /an/ might seem scary at first. Oh yes, we all know how much these 4channer like their bestiality. Wrong! (We love it. j/k) Not even channers are bad enough that they could hate animals.  In fact, 4chan even invented the lolcat. Think about that before you say that this site has never done anything good.

Now let me ask you a question. Have you ever seen a spider eat a bird?  Well now you have.
 Think about this and try to sleep tonight.

It's Christmas tomorrow, so as a Christmas present to you all, I will write a post with completely accurate information and absolutely no sarcasm. Haha, just kidding, screw that.

Instead of doing a specific forum tonight, I thought I would look at what some of them are doing for Christmas.

/a/ has been preparing for a while now... like since last year.

Yes, almost every time I got on /a/, I came across this on one page or another. Well guess what bitches, it's Christmas, so it's time to get something new. And don't say until Christmas 2011.

/co/, or Comics and Cartoons, pulled out pretty much every cartoon Christmas special ever. Nostalgia, man. Then there was a bunch of "where was this when I was a kid."

Seriously man, Christmas with Kiss

I hopped on /ck/ to see if there were any good recipes going on, but what I found was a bunch of poor people living alone making frozen pizzas and canned beans for themselves.  I'm not sure whether to feel ashamed or proud.

International /int/ actually had a good thread listing different ways to say Merry Christmas (or something similar) in various languages.  In Japanese it listed "Shinnen Omedeto" which actually means happy new year.  As a fun fact, in Japan, Christmas is more of a casual holiday for parties and friends, and New Year's is a family occasion- it's just the opposite here in the states.

To round out my night (like I usually do) I headed over to /b/, which had it's own set of Christmas hats, accompanied by a really horrible song playing in the background.  I thought of going through and looking for other small hints of Christmas like this, but once I opened another tab and the song started playing on that one as well, over and over off sync, I kind of gave up.

Well channers, it's that time of the week again. They day I stop luring the same old, same old, and go off to explore the unexplored. Yes, it's 4chan Friday.

Some of these 'unexplored' boards stay this way for a reason. Why?  I really don't want to see what's in there. But since it's inevitable, I'm going to get some of them out of the way. Tonight's taste of the unknown comes from /cm/ and /fa/.

/cm/ stands for cute male. I like anime cute styles and stuff, but only to a point. Something like "she has really bit cute eyes" or "that's a cute pair of panties that she's wearing" (insert pedobear pic here). What I can't understand is that this forum is more aimed at girls, which makes no sense, because there's obviously no girls on the internet... Anyways, this isn't too bad, I found a thread on Daft Punk.

 I'm really not sure what to think about this, but I'll let it pass just because of the fact that it's Daft Punk.

/fa/ stands for fashion, and it's totallllllly like, fabulous.  It makes me remember the time I bought a plain white shirt for $10, just because I liked it (and because it was a V-neck.)  Then I put an iron-on Gurren Lagann emblem on it.  It's still pretty awesome though.  But forget that.  Look at this guy!
He's pretty fashionable in my opinion.  Just look at those suspender, they perfectly match his pants.  Once I become a hipster next semester, I'm probably going to come here more to check out what everyone is wearing, so I can go to the thrift store and choose the exact opposite.

Yay I'm not sick anymore just thought you should know that OK no more rambling here's the post. *Deep Breath*

I don't really have a theme tonight, but I do have /tr/ and /mu/, imagine that.

Yes, /tr/ stands for Team Rocket.  Fuckers be taking over my pokemans.  And what great pokemans they are.  I have this one, and his name is mudkip, and everyone seems to like him for some reason.  Well, it's probably because he says "mud" and "kip" all the time.  You guys must be jealous that you can't catch a pokeman as good as Mudkip.
It's obvious that this child is overjoyed to have a such a huge Mudkip show up at his door.  It can be yours too, for just several thousand hours of grinding, shuffling through the long grass back and forth until your power level allows you to fight and capture this epic pokeman.  Now go out and get one for yourself!

/mu/ stands for music.   I like music.  I just downloaded a bunch of Beatles today for great justice.  I like the songs where they're on drugs.  Some people probably think I'm on drugs while I'm writing posts like this, but I'm really just in my experimental stage, just as the Beatles were in their last stage of composing.  Speaking of composing, I wrote a song kind of.

Ok so first the bass would come in an be all like “bwo bwo bwo bwo bwo” then the rhythm guitar would have this low riff and be all “mahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh chika chicka chicka chicka” then the main guitar would have this awesome thing (still deciding between a variation of "Smoke on the Water" or "Crazy Train," but it's going to be awesome either way). Then, get this.  Didgeridoo solo.  How totally bad-ass would that be?  That's as far as I've gotten, but I'll be sure to keep you guys updated.  Oh ya, /mu/-- It's about music and stuff.  Rock on.

Okay listen up you wanna-be channers, today is motivation day.  As in, I had to motivate myself into writing this post even though I feel like shit, so I'm gonna motivate you guys too with a little /fit/ and /s/.

/fit/ stands for, you guessed it, Health and Fitness.  I know you fat-asses out there know noting of either, but 4chan is here to possibly help you out.  While half of the people here are people looking for advice (on the internet, no less), on the other side of the spectrum there are slightly less chunky people who give out bad or biased information.

We will turn you from this...

...to this.

Yes, you're going to turned into a freaking dog.  Or you will be stuck doing sit-ups for the rest of eternity, fatty.

Nothing motivates better than boobs.  It's a fact.  For that reason, /s/, or "Sexy Beautiful Women," is the perfect board to cure things such laziness, erectile dysfunction, cancer, and aids (but may actually increase the chance of herpes).  Unfortunately, in order to keep this blog out of the nsfw zone, I can't post just any regular picture.  However, one caught my eye, which is kind of relevant to the board itself. 
Yes, Emma Watson.  Everyone called me a freak when I said "she's gonna be hot one day."  Now look at her (pre- unfortunate haircut). Who's the creepy pervert now? Oh ya, that's still probably me. ..

Well my head is currently spinning, and I feel like I'm going to pass out, but if the motivation worked for you, at least I did something.  Now go out there and do some push ups over your favorite playboy.