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Washington Post:johnokonkwo, A 4chans Agent? by zyphr(m): 6:13pm On Sep 23, 2014
Somone whth the username johnokonkwo posted this thread stil in the trending section https://www.nairaland.com/1906849/white-demon-worshippers-trying-spread

4chan is an English-language image board website. Users generally post anonymously, with the most recent posts appearing above the rest. 4chan is split into various boards with their own specific content and guidelines. Registration is not required, nor is it possible (except for staff).
4chan has been instrumental in hijacking Internet destinations for pranks, so that, for example, images of Rick Astleyappeared instead of the page that was searched for; the coordination of attacks against other websites and Internet users; and reactions to threats of violence that have been posted on the site. The Guardian once summarized the 4chan community as "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming.

4chan are attempting to propagate another tasteless meme: She’s called Ebola-chan, and she’s some cross between a prank, a witless joke and a truly vile strain of racism.
“Have you welcomed her into your heart yet?” Asks one post on 4chan’s “politically incorrect” message board,. “I’m talking, of course, about Ebola-Chan. The viral goddess of love and Afrocide … Our shrines and incantations give her strength.”
Ebola-Chan is not, needless to say, a goddess anywhere outside of 4chan’s diseased imagination: The character is a invention, a cartoon mascot for the virus that could infect half a million people within the next four months.
In fan art — of which there is, surprisingly, quite a lot — she’s depicted as a pointy-chinned, wide-eyed anime character with pink pigtails that curl into the shape of the virus. Wherever she’s posted, users are expected to replywith choruses of “I love you, Ebola-Chan” or “thank you, Ebola-Chan.” But of course, they reply with all kinds of stomach-turning stuff, as well: hopes for Ebola to wipe out all of Africa, to strike other continents or demographics, and to otherwise “remove … [the] subhumans,” as one particularly racist post put it.
It’s hard to tell how much of the chatter is genuine: 4chan, with its reputation for both ammorality and mischief, has always attracted a crowd of lolz-seekers along with the sincere racists, misogynists and homophobes.
But regardless of whether the fine people of 4chan actually hope Ebola kills more people, some seem bent on helping it do just that.

ON SUNDAY, AN ANONYMOUS 4CHAN USER TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR A SERIES OF FAKE POSTS about Ebola-Chan on the NIGERIAN WEBSITE, NAIRALAND, which claimed, among other things, that Ebola was a demon sent by a “new racist cult in Europe and in the USA.” The posts also claimed that some Western Ebola doctors belonged to the cult. While the “rumors” were reported by outlets like Vocativand the International Business Times, Nairaland users promptly called out the trolling — much to the prankster’s disappointment.


4chan pranks usually unfold in predictable stages: an inside joke of some kind is born on the boards, its participants invent fake handles on forums or social networks to propagate it elsewhere, and everybody dances in the resulting confusion. (“It made it into the news in my country,” one man wrote of a Swiss article on Ebola-Chan. “Pretty funny.”)
It stops being funny, of course, the instant that anyone misses the “joke” and takes it seriously. In January, 4chan’s bikini bridge “joke” went viral within the Internet’s pro-anorexia and -bulimia communities, to the enormous alarm of the National Eating Disorder Association.
In Africa, where misinformation and superstition about Ebola flourish, that risk could be particularly high: As Reuters reported in late June, suspicion and fear of doctors has already undermined efforts to fight the disease — and that’s without rumors that said doctors belong to some Ebola-worshipping death cult.

*I am of the opinion that mods should screen all threads and their op thoroughly before aproval. Johnokonkwo should be banned and the post taken down.
Source: wikepedia and http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/09/22/4chans-latest-terrible-prank-convincing-west-africans-that-ebola-doctors-actually-worship-the-disease/

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