4chan Users Declare War on Tumblr

A 4chan user declared war 2 days ago against Tumblr, a blogging platform favored by the young and net savvy. And by 4chan of course I mean /b/, the site's anarchic no-rules subforum famous for trolling and "raiding" websites and organizations.

Because Tumblr users (like many other sites) constantly post memes that often originate on /b/ without giving credit, the people behind this movement feel that Tumblr needs to be punished. "These hipsters constantly steal our memes and claim them as their own," says the angry poster.

So what are they going to do about it? For starters, they (and again, "they" simply means anyone who agrees with the guy posting this on /b/) plan to set up dummy accounts, attempt to garner a ton of followers, and then surprise them by flooding their dashboards with gory photos, bizarre fetish porn and other unsavory images.

Now, they insist this is only phase one, but it's a pathetic start to a half-baked idea. First, memes belong to everyone and /b/ is full of content reposted from elsewhere. But more practically, Tumblr is built so that if you don't like what someone is posting, you can "unfollow" them immediately. So, the worst these trolls will do is expose a few bloggers to one or two gross photos before they get unfollowed.

[UPDATE: 4channers planned a denial-of-service attack and Tumblr users planned their own raid. Sunday night, they both struck and Tumblr seemed to win, but 4chan exposed some information.]

The angry /b/ users also plan to hack into the accounts of popular Tumblr users, which would be way more effective a troll but of course more difficult to pull off. I'll believe it when I see it.

Another user suggests pointing their LOIC's at Tumblr. LOIC stands for Lower Orbit Ion Cannon, the nickname of a program that will DoS (Denial of Service) attack a targeted site.

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Web War I: 4chan Goes Down in War Against Tumblr

As of 5:34 PM EST, 4chan is down, and we can only assume this is the first major disaster in Web War I (WWI) – a war 4 chan’s anarchic /b/ messageboard declared on the microblogging/sharing platform Tumblr early last week.

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But Tumblr is wise to /b/'s ways--the servant becoming the master, etc.--and sent around survival guides warning fellow users against clicking links and tips on changing passwords so as not to get hacked. Users also planned a counterattack. It made for a fascinating contrast: ammunition of porn/gore and cute animals to be lobbed back and forth.

But here's where things got especially interesting: Right around the 14th at 5 p.m., 4chan instead went down. Users managed to bring down Tumblr later that day, and someone posted the home address for Tumblr founder David Karp's parents. (Which, for the record, is way too far.)

Now both sites are functioning fine, and something surprising has grown out of the rubble: A romance known as 4chumblr or tum/b/ler, already gaining in fans. The Facebook page went up on the 14th, and there's, appropriately, also a Tumblr dedicated to this OTP. This forbidden love has spawned quite a bit of fan art in the last few hours, a lot of it really good.

WAR .... WHATS IT'S GOOD FOR ?