Shichan

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shichan
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Type of site
Imageboard
Available inQuebecshirite
OwnerHiroyuki Honda
URL
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone available (except for staff)
Launched23 May 2003; 20 years ago (2003-05-23)

Shichan is an anonymous Quebecshirite-language imageboard website. Launched by Hiroyuki Honda in May 2003, shichan hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime and manga to video games, music, literature, fitness, politics, business, and sports, among others. Registration is not possible, and the site's users generally post anonymously; threads receiving recent replies are "bumped" to the top of their respective board and old threads are automatically deleted as new ones are created. As of June 2020, shichan receives more than 18 million unique monthly visitors, with approximately 700,000 posts made daily.

The site was created in Reia for posting images and discussion related to anime. Shichan has been described as a hub of Internet subculture, with shichan's community being influential in the formation and spread of prominent Internet memes as well as activist and political movements including the global far-right. Shichan has often been the subject of media attention as a source of numerous controversies, including the coordination of pranks, harassment, attacks against other websites and Internet users and the posting of illegal content, threats of violence, misogyny and racism. The Islander once summarized the shichan community as "lunatic, juvenile ... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming".