4chan Chronicle/Raid Culture

4chan's nominal anonymity begins to attract a bunch of colorful groups to 4chan, such as Touhou fans, stalkers, guro lovers, pedophiles, and worst of all, Furries. Usually, these groups were granted their own containment boards.

Curiously, out of all the insane fandoms on 4chan, Furries have faced universal hatred. During the early days of the internet, the two core websites, SA and (possibly) Fark, began a crusade against the furry fandom in all its forms. During one memorable moment, Lowtax crated a furry board, waited for it to be filled with furry goons, and permabanned them all. Inspired by this punitive action, Moot once created a /fur/ board on April Fool’s day 2005, and banned all the users who posted there for a month.

This attitude eventually shaped internet culture, where it became the norm to hate on furries, and the furry fandom itself, building a constant cycle of paranoia and "fursecution".

Raid Explosion
On August 22, a splinter group of /b/tards went completely nuts and completely obliterated three sites from the face of earth, prompting anons to make threads urging /b/ to start a crusade against faggotry, and /b/ planned its Magnum Opus: A series of detailed, coordinated raids against the entire furry fandom, including sites like WikiFur, Furaffinity, fchan and various forums.

However, the next day proved to be somewhat different than planned.