What if 4chan never existed?

The thing is, 4chan is not 2chan's offspring, it's a direct copy, more or less. As long as 2chan exists, 4chan, 8chan, 69chan will be born, and they all will be exactly the same as today's 4chan, seeing how they are all photocopies.

I see what you did there.

Well, there would be another website containing Anonymous. Or Anonymous would be free as a bird in every website existing and everything would be like a mini-4chan...

2chan's awesome influence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densha_Otoko

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4chan: ???

I haven't been on 4chan a lot, because it's always the same stuff, rehashed. :/

4chan exists because of 2chan.

This thread is now invalid.

2ch <3

its not like 4chan absolutely had to come into existence because 2chan existed. There could have been a 3chan made instead that would be moderated by more sane people who saw something similar to Anonymous gathering to their site, responding with a very appropriate 'oh helllllll no.' and pretty much destroying anything posted that was extremely creepy. But i think this 2ch making the thread null thing has been overthought by now.

Though i do believe at some point in time, we would have seen the eventual creation of some site that allowed 'anonymous' to come about. giving the internet a reputation for being creepy as heck.