420chan

Work in progress.

About

420chan is a English imageboard created by Kirtaner.^[1] Mostly focused on the discussion of recreative drug use (mostly cannabis) and professional wrestling, the board has become one of the most popular alternate imageboards to 4chan in the English net.

History

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420chan was created in April 20th, 2005, by Something Awful forums member Kirtaner, when he registered the domain “420chan.org” as a joke. However, the administrators of the already existing imageboard 420chan.net complained about Kirtaner using the same name for his domain, resulting into the developement of 420chan.org as a real imageboard.^[2]

Features

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Highlights

TCC-Tan / Mascots

TCC-Tan is the main mascot of 420chan, represented as a stoner girl in underwear with a giant water pipe on her back. Originally created by vanessie from Something Awful, she was added into 420chan’s deafualt theme as titled background image.^[6] This inspired fan art of her, along with the use of the original ilustration as exploitable.

Aside of TCC-Tan, the site has several mascots, mostly for individual ones, some of the most notable ones include:

“Bikko”is the unofficial mascot of /smoke/, the tobacco discussing board. Originally made by the doujin artist ‘Romantic Fool Since 1995’ and featured on the hentai manga Kesson Shoujo, she gained a fanbase on several communities.[7]

Traffic

According the net analysis page Alexa, 420chan is among the 30,000 most visited pages in United States, and among the 60,000 most visited pages worldwide.^[5]

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