Get ready for the newest trend: A “*chan” is any image-board ending in the suffix “chan.” The most famous example is 4chan, but there’s a host of *chan boards out there – so many that directories are popping up. Here’s a comprehensive one. (And be warned, many image boards host indecent, NSFW, shocking, or downright pornographic content. You’ve been warned.)

Image boards exist in the underbelly of the Internet, and yet they set a surprising amount of the standard in web culture. Remember “rick-rolling?” They started that. They started LOLCats, too. As UK paper The Guardian put it, image board culture is “lunatic, juvenile… brilliant, ridiculous and alarming.”

But since image board software is easy to set up and use, and is really nothing but a bulletin board with image uploading, it’s a good fad to jump into. It’s an economical way to add content and fun to a site, provided you can moderate things so they don’t get out of hand.

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