Imageboards are a very broad category of Internet resources, which includes the portals “Dvach” and “Fochan”. The name comes from the English word imageboard, which translates as “image board”. This is a type of web forum that allows you to attach photos and other graphic files to your posts.
Imageboards appeared in Japan, and English-language forums adopted Japanese style and culture. The technology is based on the Textboard concept, which differs only in that graphic files cannot be attached to it.
The atmosphere on imageboards is relaxed and informal, thanks to the anonymous posting of messages. Sometimes this feature leads to aggressive and negative comments. Users can leave comments and messages without registering or creating accounts. Moreover, some sections imply exclusively anonymous comments and messages. If desired, the user can follow or use the same photo to stand out among anonymous people. But this is not necessary and is often frowned upon by other users.
Usually there is a file attached to each message, sometimes several files. More often, only images are allowed; less often, music can also be attached. All saved files are stored on the imageboard server.
Archiving is not enabled by default. Each section can contain no more than a certain number of threads. When a new thread (discussion) is created, the oldest one is deleted. If archiving is still necessary, it is carried out by third-party services, in which case old threads are transferred to a separate directory.
Imageboards differ from other forums in several ways:
- No archiving by default;
- Anonymity;
- Ability to attach files.
What is "Dvach"
The most famous, popular and demonstrative imageboards are “Dvach” and “Fochan”. Both sites have a large number of sections and are built on a similar principle. Discussions are posted in threads united by topic. Users discussing the topic are anonymous.
“Dvach” is a domestic imageboard, the idea of which was borrowed from a Japanese site with a similar name. The functionality and visual design are also similar. There are similar sites in almost all countries of the world where the Internet is actively used.
There are 40 sections on Dvacha. Among them:
- Cars
- Anime
- Design
- Job
- Series
- Space.
And much more. Only two of the sections are debatable; a few topics are devoted to politics and social issues. Most of the sections are general and dedicated to entertainment, such as anime.
A special feature of the site is an online graphic editor. Posters used it to create their own images.
On this resource, each section has a specific topic, which allows you to structure a large amount of information and discussions. These sections are called boards. Each board can only have a limited number of threads (discussions). This is due to memory savings and lack of archiving. The oldest, unpopular threads were deleted in favor of new ones. Otherwise, there are no restrictions on the site, and anonymity allows you to write witty messages with complete frankness.
What is "Forchan"
If “Dvach” is one of the most famous Russian-language boards, then “Forchan” was very popular in foreign countries. It was this site that gave birth to a huge number of popular memes, which then spread throughout the Internet.
This English-language resource appeared a long time ago and attracted a large number of users. The basic principles of its operation are the same as other imageboards: anonymity, no archiving, the ability to attach an image.
Fourchan was opened on October 1, 2003 by Christopher Poole. Japanese imageboards were also taken as a basis. First of all, sections were created for publishing images and discussing manga and anime. The site quickly gained popularity, new discussions appeared on various topics:
- Video games
- Music
- Literature
- Policy
- Fitness
- Sport.
In 2007, for a short time, the imageboard turned into a regular forum where you need to register to leave messages. This did not please the users of the resource, who openly expressed their indignation. It turned out that everything happened due to a hacker attack, the consequences of which were eliminated.
Another unpleasant incident occurred in 2009, when a user decided to joke and posted information on the site that a shootout would take place in one of the American schools. The police occupied this school, but the alarm turned out to be false.
Stylistics of communication on imageboards
There is a special atmosphere on imageboards, which is largely determined by the anonymity of users. This gives freedom, and in some cases, impunity. Such forums have moderation, but users are punished only for the most egregious violations that violate the law of the land. This is propaganda of violence, Nazism, insults. At the same time, even dangerous messages often go unnoticed by moderators.
Here they do not monitor the topic of discussion, so it is sometimes difficult to find useful information: it is lost behind hundreds of flood messages. Anonymity allows dangerous, usually hidden topics to be exposed.
There is also a special phenomenon of general stream of consciousness. When many messages come not from specific people, but from anonymous users, they are perceived as a general line of information. At the same time, the desire of a particular user to identify himself causes condemnation and seems to be a betrayal of general principles.
Imageboard sections
Imageboards are divided into sections by topic. In theory, this makes it easier to select a thread of interest and not interfere with users’ discussion of other topics. In practice, threads often intersect and in the movie topic they discuss, for example, kittens.
Therefore, the most popular topics are the forums “Brad”, “Chatter”, etc., which are intended for communication on any topic. Special rules of communication ethics apply here. In these sections you can even find pornography or other dubious content. On the other hand, future popular memes and viral content often appear here and spread throughout the Internet.
Some imageboards have boards for international communication, which is most often conducted in English. Here memes can gain worldwide popularity, and national cultures intertwine with each other and with Internet culture. On any board you can create a topic “for your own” and conduct a conversation in your native language.
Jokes involving flags and national attributes are especially popular in international discussions. For example, on a German website a popular image of the Polish flag is upside down; England is depicted in the image of a British gentleman - in a top hat and monocle.
Communication on imageboards is attractive due to its informality and breadth of topics. However, now the popularity of such resources has dropped significantly, and many young Internet users have not even heard of Dvach, Fourchan and other similar sites.
0 If you started asking the question “Sap Dvach”, what does it mean, you probably watched a very popular video in which Karina Strimersha shares his thoughts. This video sequence was skillfully set to music and became very strikingly different from the original, the unpleasant shrill voice disappeared somewhere, and the girl turned into a tube nurse. In one of her phrases, this squeaky beauty mentions Sap Dvach. What does Sap Dvach mean?? Most began to wonder what language she speaks, what kind of sounds come out of her mouth?
Sap Dvach- means hello forum!
What does Sap mean?
Glanders is a greeting that is very often used on imageboards (forums where you can not only write messages, but also attach graphic files to them ( image)), such as 2ch, 4chan(ch or chan is short for channel ( channel)). Many believe that the term "Sap" comes from the English expression " What's up", usually they say "wassup", after a while it became just "Sup".And the impetus for the emergence of this jargon was Budweiser beer advertisement, which was released in 1999 and played until 2001.
What does Dvach mean?
Now the time of anonymous imageboards is coming to an end, now only similarities, copies of the most “mighty and terrible” forum 2ch (dva.ch, dvach) remain. After he was solemnly buried on January 17, 2009, and the remains were scattered throughout the World Wide Web, his followers began to sprout, but it was not the same. The very name “2ch .ru” was stolen from the Japanese imageboard, which was called “2ch .net”, however, the people who created the Russian imageboard were more focused on the English-language analogue - 2chan, and this is understandable, because English is much easier to understand than Japanese.Imageboard Dvach had forty different thematic sections. However, /b/ (nonsense) was considered the most visited and in demand. There was no specific topic in this thread. It was in this section that the most famous memes on the Internet were born. Some believe that Dvach is the largest center of Russian Internet culture in RuNet. After the closure of Dvach, a good follower of the deceased imageboard, called Lurkomorye(Lurkmore), this site is built on the Wiki engine and is a modern encyclopedia of culture and subculture.
So, Dvacha users developed their own special language, which was incomprehensible to the uninitiated, until you yourself became a Dvacher; it was sometimes very difficult to understand the meaning of jokes and memes. Since now it has not existed for a long time, and the anons bitterly claim that the current copies are not at all the same.
An example of how Dvacha users communicated:
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“Dvach” is a site for anonymous communication, which is visited by 100 thousand users per day. The persecution of a teacher who starred in porn, the detection of crimes of the “Khabarovsk knackers” and the exposure of a pedophile - all these cases found their way into the media and to law enforcement agencies precisely thanks to the users of Dvach.
« Paper» spoke with dozens of active participants in such actions and their victims to understand what motivates the site’s users.
Last week, a trial began in Khabarovsk in one of the most high-profile cases of last year. Two local minor girls were in the dock (it was initially stated that they were over 18 years old). They are accused of insulting the feelings of believers, robbery and several other articles of the Criminal Code. But they became known as the “Khabarovsk knackers.”
In the fall of 2016, a wave of spontaneous rallies of animal rights activists swept across Russia. They came out with their pets to protests and stood with slogans like “They hurt too.” The reason for this was a scandal with two girls from Khabarovsk. They regularly responded to advertisements seeking new homes for cats and dogs and adopted animals from shelters. After that, they mocked them: they gouged out their eyes, cut off their paws and crucified them. The murder weapons were hammers, knives and even an air pistol. In personal correspondence, they exchanged photographs of murders and jokingly described the next crime. In total, according to investigators, 15 birds, cats and dogs became victims. The girls are also known to have tortured a homeless man.
As a result, the girls were detained. A young man who allegedly helped record a video of the man being abused went on trial with them. Now the knackers have admitted their guilt and the prosecutor’s office is demanding real sentences for them. And the investigation began with a post on “Dvacha” - the Russian analogue of the famous imageboard 4chan (a site where users can communicate and exchange pictures anonymously and without registration).
The girls’ correspondence and photographs of abuse first appeared on Dvacha. Its users figured out where the murders took place, began harassing the girls online (they wrote them threatening messages en masse) and began to organize information about the crimes on the Internet. This is how the media and law enforcement agencies learned about the situation, which ultimately led to a scandal and trial.
How does Dvach work?
Now the site is a system of several dozen forums; such “raids” make up a very small part of it. Users discuss memes and news, share rare porn and discuss where to buy weapons, argue about politics and football, comics and music, religion and programming.
However, Dvach is primarily known as a place for anonymous communication with harsh trolling and cynical jokes.
Screenshot from 2ch.hk
Screenshot from 2ch.hk
Screenshot from 2ch.hk
At the same time, representatives of the site assure that this is not the essence of its work.
Dvach is not only about gibberish and senseless throwing shit at everyone and everything. Dvach is not only a place where people look for “cute” pictures to like and tell their friends. Everything is much deeper and subtler. Here you can talk about all your problems, no matter how strange or scary they may seem. Tell dreams, fantasies, no matter how perverted they may be. Discuss any exciting event that happened at home or in the whole world,” explained 33-year-old administrator and alleged owner of Dvach Nariman Abu Namazov.
Indeed, the communication here is generally friendly, but due to anonymity, users do not hesitate to use insults and swear words. The imageboard also has its own slang using professional vocabulary, abbreviations, deliberate distortion of words and borrowings from other languages. There are both forms common on the “external” Internet (for example, “sap”, “chan”, “sych”), and internal forms for the forum (“divanon”, “brute force”, “target”).
The site is visited by 100 thousand users per day, who write 200,000 posts. The number of unique visitors per month exceeds a million, which allows the site to earn money from advertising. According to the creators, “Dvach” is the most popular imageboard in Russia and Europe and ranks third in the world.
However, Dvach is primarily known for the large-scale actions of its users outside the site. Thus, the “dvachers” solved crimes and identified porn actresses among VKontakte users, mocked patriots on Odnoklassniki and sought to block Nikita Dzhigurda’s Instagram, spy on people through web cameras, and sabotaged many Internet beauty contests, inflating the votes of applicants, not meeting the standards of model appearance.
At the same time, only since the beginning of 2016, Dvach users have created about 500 topics on the site with calls for “raids.” “Dvachers” harassed rapper Basta and famous porn actor Pierre Woodman. There were also “raids” on feminists and nationalists, “nasty fat women” and Caucasians, girls cheating on their boyfriends, and schoolgirls who killed a homeless man.
Dvach is a place where such demarches spontaneously arise, or, as they also say, raids on different people, on different events. On the normal Internet, so to speak. Starting with raids on a classmate’s VKontakte wall and calls to troll someone’s mother, ending with events with quite serious consequences. Basically, of course, these raids come with a minus sign, they carry negative energy, but sometimes, as with the beauty contest, they also carry creative energy. “We don’t want another glamorous TP to win the competition, but a happy, pretty and kind chick,” explained Abu, emphasizing that a small percentage of users participate in the raids.
From an in-depth interview with " Paper" Abu refused, explaining that the material could become a reason for him to be “harassed by people who are not happy” with him. Namazov previously stated that he received threats due to the activities of Dvach.
At the same time, he emphasizes that he tries not to interfere with “raids” of users and does this only at the request of law enforcement officers. However, there are no known cases of any high-profile trials or sentences against participants in such actions. The file of court decisions about Dvach only mentions demands to block certain topics on the forum due to “information prohibited for dissemination on the territory of the Russian Federation.”
Who participates in Internet raids
Vladimir was born and raised in a small town in Western Siberia. A population of 40 thousand people, an average salary of less than 20 thousand rubles, unemployment and an almost complete lack of prospects for the majority of residents. Vladimir was bored with his peers, and he preferred to spend his free time on the Internet.
In my hometown there were often only cattle houses. I spent my free time better and more usefully on the computer than in garages,” he recalls in a conversation with “ Paper" He valued the Internet precisely for the opportunity to find everything you want, you just have to look.
In 2007, 12-year-old Vova was once again scouring the Internet in search of “interesting topics for thought” and came across the Internet encyclopedia Lurkmore. Six months later, through a cross-reference in one of the articles, he first got to Dvach. The boy liked reading the opinions of anonymous users, and Vladimir began spending several hours on the site every day.
Ten years have passed since then. Vladimir moved to Novosibirsk and from a teenager running away from the reality of a provincial town, he turned into a typical young resident of any of Russia's millionaires. He dresses in H&M and listens to underground music, earns money through programming and design, and also grows his small business and unsuccessfully tries to launch startups. However, he still visits Dvach and actively participates in the life of the site. “This has already become part of everyday life,” he explains.
Vladimir left his first comment on Dvacha only in 2010, three years after appearing on the site. He was forced to join the discussion by discussing the case of the “wheel throwers” - two teenagers from St. Petersburg, who on the evening of November 8, 2010, fired a car tire from the fifth floor and accidentally killed a passerby with it. Dvach users were outraged by the “stupidity” of teenagers and launched “raids” on their pages on the “My World” social network. Vladimir then felt sorry for the “throwers”, and on the forum he stood up for them, but his message was ignored.
It seemed to me then that they were just stupid, and everyone should have a chance to make a mistake. But that's not true. “I was stupid myself,” he explained, “ paper».
Screenshot from 2ch.hk
Screenshot from 2ch.hk
Two weeks later, teenagers from St. Petersburg were detained by the police, and the discussion of the strange murder reached Channel One. In the episode of the show “Let Them Talk,” dedicated to teenagers who did not even think of repenting, Dvacha users appeared. Not wanting to reveal their identities, just like on the imageboard, they sat with paper bags on their heads.
27-year-old Sergei Konovalov was present at the same program as a friend of the suspect. During the show, Konovalov and Dvach users had a serious argument about whether the teenagers were guilty. The anonymous people did not like the opposition opinion, and after the broadcast, the “dvachers” hacked Konovalov’s email. There they found child porn he had filmed. Users passed this data to the Investigative Committee, and the man was detained. The next day Konovalov died in the bullpen. It is assumed that he committed suicide. “Dvachers” still remember this case as one of the most epic cases. The site administrator Nariman Namazov, who mentioned this story in an interview, agrees with this opinion.
Still from an episode of the “Let Them Talk” program
Vladimir did not participate either in the opening of Konovalov’s mail, or in the first raids on the “wheel throwers” themselves. His position changed in the spring of 2011, when, as a result of the investigation, one of the St. Petersburg teenagers received 1.5 years of house arrest, while the second went completely unpunished. Dvach users were not satisfied with this verdict, and they continued to harass the teenagers.
Then Vladimir came across data from the teenagers’ emails, hacked by “dvachers”: in personal correspondence, young St. Petersburg residents joked about the murder and did not think of regretting what happened. Then Vladimir decided that both teenagers deserved much more punishment, and entered into his first “raid.”
We wrote various insults to the parents, teachers and friends of these teenagers. They said they raised killers. They were burning, but we continued because we could,” Vladimir recalls with nostalgia in a conversation with “ Paper". Since then, the young man has participated in more than 50 similar actions.
Until now, on Dvacha, at least every week, another topic is created with a call to persecute someone, but, according to Vladimir, organizing a mass action is quite difficult.
Because this is not your personal army. Maybe people won’t be in the mood, or maybe a sense of justice will play out and because of your stuffing they’ll hound you. Maybe, on the contrary, they will react and hunt down the one you want. "Complete chaos," he explained. paper" These data were also confirmed by the administrator of Dvach.
Why do dvachers engage in bullying?
Vladimir emphasizes that users most often support calls for raids not for the sake of fighting for justice or other lofty motives, but in order to lift their spirits.
All this is just for the sake of lulz (fun - approx. "Papers"). And lulz can be brought about both by the victim’s reaction itself and by the process of bullying. We kind of manipulate, we decide destinies. Think about it, play with the person as you want,” he explains, adding that ideally every bullying should end in the suicide of the victim.
« Paper“I spoke with a dozen more active users of Dvacha who have been on the resource for at least five years. All of them confirmed that it was the “lulz” received during bullying that completely justified their actions.
At the same time, the anonymous respondents from Dvacha do not have anything in common. 17-year-old Vladislav from Moscow, for example, learned about the “raids” only a year and a half ago, and before that he followed other thematic sections of the site. Now the student actively participates in such events.
34-year-old Sergei, who works as a “typical middle manager with an income of more than 100 thousand,” said “ paper” that, on the contrary, he used to often “get tired” of bullying, but now he’s bored with it.
Bullying is a test of stupidity. The victims make excuses, bomb, break down, cut themselves out. If a guy is normal, he’ll just ignore him, and anonymous people won’t care,” he explains.
Sergei sees another reason for the popularity of such actions in simple envy: “There are a lot of hiccans at Dvacha (people who, for various reasons, lead a very secluded lifestyle - approx. “ Papers") and schoolchildren who have achieved nothing. And the targets of raids are often successful and fuckable people. Here the anons proceed from logic: I don’t have it, so even if they don’t have it either. Like making a trick."
However, sometimes users join the “raid” not out of a desire to assert themselves, but out of simple boredom. “Someone started it, and you sit at home, do nothing, whine. Well, you think: why not?” he explained. paper» 24-year-old Pavel, graduating from a pedagogical university.
20-year-old Karim from St. Petersburg has a completely different attitude towards “raids.” He studies at a university in the physical education department, dreams of becoming a football player and considers “Dvach” a “real outlet.” He only takes part in harassment when it involves sex workers. “It's a matter of honor. Such girls need to be kicked out of society,” he explains.
The heterogeneity of the audience and its motives is confirmed by the surveyed users themselves. Most of them explain this by the anonymity of the site. “Anon cannot be given a personality at all, because we are legion,” explained “ paper» 34-year-old manager Sergei.
The head of the imageboard, Nariman Namazov, also refused to somehow characterize the site’s audience, saying that Dvach is home to everyone who “truly values anonymity and impersonal communication, subtle (and thick) humor, as well as versatility.”
How do they become victims of “dvachers”
In March 2016, St. Petersburg programmer Andrei Mima
Various imageboards are a very popular topic on the Internet. But modern Internet users (read: schoolchildren) sometimes do not know what it is, since they have simply not seen the times of the popularity of such sites. Let's look at this topic in more detail. At one time, the two most popular imageboards were “Dvach” and “Forchan”. When analyzing the concept of “imageboard” we will analyze these sites. After all, it was they who at one time gave rise to a huge number of memes. Okay, let's start looking at this in more detail.
What are "Dvach" and "Fochan"?
These two sites, as we have already figured out, belong to one very large category of Internet resources, which are called imageboards. This is one of the types of forum that has advanced capabilities regarding attaching pictures. In fact, the term literally translates to “image board,” which makes it easier to understand this phenomenon, which has now almost disappeared into oblivion. Typically, imageboards are built according to the same scheme, full of a large number of sections.
These sections contain so-called threads in which people discuss certain topics. The remarks themselves (sometimes with pictures) are posts. A similar forum system still exists today. The advantage of the imageboard compared to other forums was that all users there are anonymous.
Some consider this a drawback that creates chaos in such systems. However, despite the absence of the need to register, on such sites it is often possible to identify and determine that posts were written by the same person. Let's look at the two most famous imageboards at the moment: “Dvach” and “Forchan”.
What is "Dvach"
"Dvach" is our domestic imageboard, which is an analogue of the Japanese site with a similar name. Sites of this type exist in almost all countries where it is possible to use the Internet. This site has more than forty sections. Only two of them are debatable. Most of them are general sections and those dedicated to anime.
In addition, this site has an online graphic editor. On this resource, each section had a clearly defined topic, which brought at least a little consistency to this chaotic forum. These sections are called boards. It should also be noted that all sections given on this site had a limit on the number of threads. This is another one of the few existing restrictions on this resource. Now you know what "Dvach" is. Now let’s move on to the English-language analogue, which produces a huge variety of Internet memes.
What is "Fochan"
We figured out domestic imageboards. Now you don’t need to ask the question “What is “Dvach”, you already know the answer to it. And now let’s answer a similar question, only with regard to the English-language resource. Almost all memes (those things that have become incredibly popular on the Internet) appeared precisely thanks to "Foceanu" In 2007, for a short time, this site turned into a very ordinary forum with registration, which caused a storm of indignation.
It turned out that the reason for this was a hacker attack. In 2009, a post was posted on this site that someone had decided to definitely stage a shootout at the school. Naturally, it was occupied by the police. It turned out that it was in vain, because this information was posted just to laugh.
conclusions
We figured out what “Dvach” and imageboards in general are. Now you have become a little more erudite in this matter. After all, now you don’t need to think, for example, what “Dvach” means. This answer is already clear.
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