>>1964293>>1964288>>1964132>>1964067>>1964018>>1963986>>1963962>>1963702>>1963658alright, this is extensive, but here goes:
4chan was made in 2003 by m00t, a teenage programmer. It's an anonymous imageboard that encourages free speech and wide varieties of humor. 4chan discourages outsiders, called "normies" (derived for normal people, or people with normal senses of humor), and browsers usually consist of "neckbeards" (you should know what those are) "chads" (douchebags) "racists" (hates non whites) and other people from around the world.
Now to answer some frequently asked questions
>>1963658No, you should be somewhere in the purple area. Normies usually have bland senses of humour and get offended by lots of stuff.
>>1963962leddit is a mix between reddit and le (le is often used in rage comics, which is considered normie by 4chan standards). Browsers of 4chan don't like reddit because of it's large community of normies.
>>1964293In world of warcraft, if one race were to use the text chat to say the word "lol", it would come out as "kek" to other races.
>>19642884chan memes are so finetuned and developed that when a person who doesn't know the memes gets on, it's really cringy