Independence Day Invasion

Independence Day Invasion
Part of the 4chan - Tumblr War
Date	4 July 2014
Location	Tumblr
Result	Decisive 4chan victory
Belligerents
	4chan
	Tumblr
Commanders
	/pol/ - Politically Incorrect
	/b/ - Random
	Various prominent feminists and bloggers
Strength
	~20 shitposters
	500+ feminists, hamplanets, hipsters and beta whiteknights
Casualties and losses
	~2 hours of time 9001 sides
	37 resurfaced awful memories 16 large-scale panic attacks ~3 alleged suicides

Masses of feminists and beta whiteknights weep the tears of anal annihilation.

The Independence Day Invasion was a counter-raid of Tumblr by 4chan that occurred on July 4th, 2014 in response to an alleged attempt by Tumblr to "correct" /b/ - Random. It began when feminists and whiteknights, prompted by Shutdown4chan, went to /b/ and started shitposting about feminism. 4chan would later respond by posting triggering content such as gore, porn, and rape to Tumblr's most popular tags, including #feminism, #fatacceptance, and various fandom tags.

Tumblr's attempt to raid and Politically correct /b/ went about as well as you'd expect.

Beginning of the Battle

The battle began when /pol/ decided that it would disrupt the activities of Tumblr. In an attempt to do this, they manipulated /b/ 4Chan posting a message on Tumblr. This post made it appear as though Tumblr wished to "raid" 4Chan. Many internet users saw through the ruse (with the exception of some SJWs who actually started threads on /b/, but the majority of /b/ that knew chose instead to enjoy the excuse for chaos.

/b/ begins the raids

/b/ chose to retaliate to the obviously false threat by posting pictures of "extreme" pornography and gore. Tumblr reacted in return by making many attention-whoring claims that the raiding had caused PTSD, trauma, and several false rumors of suicide surfaced.

Tumblr users countermeasures and their failures

1. In an attempt to get 4chan to stop, some users began trying to spam the tags with their own selfies. Only to have those selfies be shooped into porn and posted there as well.
2. Others tried to spam the tags with cute pictures, but 4chan users joined them, realizing it was a way to fuck up the tags without being banned.
3. Some users made lists of raider's blogs to block and report, but those lists were posted on tumblr and their creators got spam and gore sent directly to their personal inbox, asks and submission box.
4. Someone started a petition to get the government to shut down 4chan, to which 4chan responded with their own petition to classify all tumblr users as cripples, which got about 10 times more signatures (even more than ten times if you consider most people who signed the first one were trolls who were doing it for the lulz).
5. One user who tried to upload a video warning people about 4chan, but hours later was forced to remove it and spent the rest of the day turning away pizzas that were being sent to her house.
6. As a last resort of some tumblr users turned to the classic collection of useless anti-trolling tactics which included: Trying to guilt them into stopping, threatening to call the cops, threatening to call the FBI, saying shooping minor's heads onto porn is CP and threatening to call the partyvan, threatening to an hero, threatening to "hack" 4chan, spam it with gay porn, tell its mods and get the raiders banned, hack its user's account or any other tactic that displays a fundamental lack of understanding as to what 4chan is or how it works.

The "suicide"

In an attempt to end the onslaught one user made up a story about the raid leading her friend to kill herself. This is obviously not true since, if it was, someone on the news would have fucking noticed, but tumblr gobbled it up and 4chan users rode the wave by spreading the rumor. A video of a girl cutting her wrist began circulation under the false pretense that it was shot and uploaded by the girl in question (after she died?) that was actually a video of some other random girl who would slit her wrists on tumblr anyway until she lost the use of her hand. So now a large part of tumblr is utterly convinced that someone has died as a hilarious results.

	“	I want to tell you that one of my followers committed suicide last night. I'd talked to her before and she was the sweetest girl you could ever meet. She saw two gifs that triggered her to a point that nothing I said helped. i have her my phone number and talked to her over the phone. I told her to call the suicide hotline. She called me back 20 minutes later and told me that she'd taken an entire bottle of pills. SHE DIED ON THE PHONE WITH ME. This is real you guys	„
	—i-wasnt-always-an-angel

Round 2 - July 7th

A second raid was planned for the 7th, with users already making new accounts with scheduled posts of gore so that on D-day they don't even actually have to do anything. Information about the resounding failure will be posted here at that time.

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Excecution

On Independence Day 2014, a group of about 15 brave anons from /pol/ and /b/ began spamming popular hashtags such as #feminism, #attack on titan, #dr who, and other lulzy targets for maximum effect. Of course, the crazed beasts at Dumblr sperged out, with at least a few cutting themeselves, and three reported suicides. The raid is still ongoing, and anons are encouraged to queue gore posts to dates moths ahead so that Tumblrfags are always on their toes, never knowing when the next "trigger" will come.

External spectators

While the conflict was, for the most part, between the two groups, other sites chose to get involved by posting typically humorous remarks about the event. The main sites involved in this were the sites Reddit.com and Imgur.com, posting gifs, stories, and images to mock and summarize the events of the battle. http://i.imgur.com/jjTwR9l.gif :One Imugurains take on the events in GIF format http://i.imgur.com/C3fZKHX.gif :Another remake of a popular GIF to fit the event http://i.imgur.com/chdgavW.jpg :An attempted retaliation from Tumblr

Rebbit summarizes the events

Several Reddit users summarized the entire saga as it was occurring. Rather than attempting the impossible task of copypasta-ing the entire text, an Imgurian screen capped the entire Reddit text, as seen here in the following citations: http://i.imgur.com/mu0nyOI.png" http://i.imgur.com/VRzl4GU.png http://i.imgur.com/jRKBtc0.png http://i.imgur.com/aHhJMJe.png

Summary

In summary, the /pol/ board of 4Chan wished for chaos, as it does in general. /b/ went along with the scam unknowingly, and those that did know enjoyed the opportunity for chaos. Tumblr was raided, and feebly attempted to defend itself (unsuccessfully). One of the best summaries can be found on Imgur: http://imgur.com/gallery/1376pJm

See Also

• Shutdown4chan
• Raid backfire

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