Chan

Chan could refer to many things:

1. A popular Chinese surname (traditional Chinese 陳; simplified Chinese 陈) in Cantonese transcription. The Mandarin transcription of the same name is Chen (surname).
   • Jackie Chan - Popular Kung Fu expert and actor.
2. Ch'an (chi. 禪) (pinyin: chán), a sect of Buddhism cognate to Zen in Japanese Language.
3. A Japanese honorific (like san) used to refer to children, girls, and young women. Often used in naming notable camwhores on chan imageboards (see below).
4. Any number of channels (usually in the form of textboards and imageboards) for anonymous posting with a noted disregard for common decency. Often popular amongst Weeaboo (or in some cases, Elevens) basement-dweller on the Intarweb.

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ED readers are most likely interested in #3 or #4.

#3: chans (aka camwhores)

Moar info: Camwhore.

Camwhores need to learn this.

How sick fucks appreciate camwhores.

Since the dawn of the interwebs, there have been attention whores. With the easy availability of webcams/digicams/cellcams, these attention whores have more and more ways to seek attention and (d-)evolved into today's camwhores. Here are a few (semi-)notable ones.

1. Cracky-chan - Attention whore and wank material for pedos.
2. Loli-chan - Attention whore and wank material for pedos.
3. Stoner-chan - Attention whore and 7chan's official camwhore.
4. Acky-chan-cray - Attention whore and someone Peter cares about.
5. afro-chan - Attention whore, with the notability of 4chan's first camwhoring Black
6. Sub-chan - Attention whore, noted for her sagging, torpedo-shaped tits.
7. Office-chan - Attention whore, who delivered tights for a sick bastard on /b/ from her office on 06.02.09.
8. Rat-Chan - Winrar and true /b/tard, will kill your rats.
9. Martini-Chan - /b/ ruined her life.
10. Chin-chan - Self explanatory, made of fail and AIDS,but not chin (possibly Hep C and Fœtal Alcohol, this has yet to be confirmed)
11. Charlie-chan - (link doesn't work) An ancient "Chinese" detective; counter to Fu Manchu but still pwoof of dweadfull wacism
12. Phoenix-chan - A girl who was bored one night on /b/ and posted pics of herself in a quest to become a chan. She even put shoe on head. That's what I call a true Femanon amirite
13. Can-chan - A cumdumpster that was on /b/ the morning of November, 24th 2008. Apparently, she only did it for the lulz. However, all women are attention whores.
14. Maru-chan - A motherfucking gutless whore that likes to be fucked in the bathroom along with Damnixa K-Sexres Hilarious, playing with her pussy and making blowjobs to JC the dick FTW. She also likes to make fucking good threesomes in Charli's room FTW :3.
15. Mensa-chan - A curvy intellibitch who followed instructions, delivered, and even got respect from some upstanding gentlemen.
16. Fire-chan - An AIDS-infested shitfaced attention whore who left many an Anon with blue balls. May your red hair devour you in your sleep.
17. Flat Chan - A very flat chan.
18. Pear Chan - A chan with a very odd shape. Must be viewed to be appreciated.
19. Puff(y)-chan - A puffy chan that arose in the early morning of July 16, 2009.
20. Operation_Fat_Fuck - Lulz from a person who looks alot like Bobby hill Operation FAT FUCK was a success
21. Creepy_Chan - A creepy teenage girl who actually went on to be in the 12th Americas next top model
22. Chris-chan (WARNING: BRIX SHITTING CONTENT INSIDE!!!) A faggot of epic proportions who created the Sonichu franchise. It should be noted that he is a 30 year old, autistic, virgin manchild with strong pedophile tendencies who deserves to be hated and trolled. He is desperately seeking a "boyfriend-free girlfriend" through means of fapping to Sonichu, fucking an imaginary twin sister, or through taking pictures of himself with his medallion of power.
23. Easter-chan
24. Schoolchan
25. Limberchan
26. 32" Waist Chan - AKA: Fivehead
27. Suicide-Chan
28. Scar-chan

#4: *chans (websites)

A comparison of some of the chans out there today.

Moar info: List of *chan boards.

Once upon a time, some hikikomori Elevens got the brilliant idea to make the Internets equivalent of writing naughty messages and phone numbers on a greasy bathroom wall and made an enormous fucking website about it (completely unaware of Usenet). Some weeaboo basement-dweller went off to make an English version because he thought it was the hottest shit around. Since 4chan is the largest of the English-speaking chan sites, it has spawned millions of ugly, disgusting, retarded children that exist either to support furfags or to cater to some geniuses who wish to get away from 4chan's fascist rules or dumb moderators.

1. 12chan - A shit site for pedophiles.
2. 2chan (Futaba Channel) - The father of all *chans
3. 2ch.ru - A chan for Russkies.
4. 24chan - A shit site about nothing (doesn't even exist anymore).
5. 315chan - A shit site that wishes it was 711chan (also doesn't exist).
6. 4chan - The mother of all English *chans. Once kind of good, but is shit now.
7. 420chan - A shit site for stoners.
8. 5chan - A shit site for Furries (gone the way of the dodo bird).
9. 55chan - A shit site for niggers (same fate as 5chan).
10. 6-chan A shit site full of Mexican (not sure dammit). FUCK HYPHEN
11. 7chan - A shit site that wishes it was 4chan.
12. 711chan - A shit site that wishes it was 420chan.
13. 76chan - A shit site that wishes it was old b.
14. 78chan - A shit site that wishes it was 7chan.
15. 808chan - A shit site for W.T. Snacks.
16. 808chan - A shit site that wishes it was 888chan.
17. 888chan - A site originally made for maintaining a chan basis on Project Chanology.
18. 99chan - A shit site that wishes it was 78chan.
19. Additional Pylons - A shit site about pylons.
20. Anarchochan - a site for anarchists
21. AnokChan - another shit site for anarchists
22. AnonIB - A shit site full of AIDS and Spywarez where your pr0n gets covered with pop-ups the same way a women's face gets covered with cum
23. BBWchan - A shit site about fat women.
24. Britchan - A shit site intended for britfags but full of stormfags.
25. Desuchan - A shit site for Desufags. (Currently LOL V&).
26. Diochan - A shit site for Italianfags.
27. Fapchan - A shit site for pr0n.
28. Fchan - A shit site about 4chan, with a higher furry - mundane ratio.
29. Futabachannel - A shit site that copied 2chan/4chan and tried to kill Tom Cruise.
30. Gurochan - A shit site for...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T GO HERE.
31. Hurrchan - A shit site for technology and /g/ rejects run by a female tripfag.
32. ImageBoard4Free - The mother of most *chans, where at least 90% of chans are born.
33. Killchan - A shit site that wishes it was 420chan.
34. Konatachan - A shit site for Lucky Star.
35. Krautchan - A shit site for general German faggotry.
36. Legi0n - A shit site devoted almost entirely to Chris-chan.
37. Newfapchan - A shit site for fapping and porn.
38. not4chan - A shit site that wishes it was 12chan.
39. OPERATORchan - A shit site for /k/ommandos
40. Renchan - A shit site for sick fucks.
41. RockstarChan - A shit site for Rockstars.
42. Wakachan - A shit site for weeaboos (aka iichan or idlechan).
43. Wikichan - A shit wiki for faggots (not to be confused with the above).
44. WTFchan - A shit site for... wtf.
45. Ychan - A shit site that wishes it was Fchan.
46. Ylilauta - A shit site for Snowniggers.
47. Yuchan - A chan for yugoslavs.
48. Revoluchan - A chan where HOLY SHIT WHAT ARE THEY SAYING I DON'T EVEN

More Info

• List of *chan boards - For other *chan boards not notable enough for their own article.
• The xchan effect

External Links

• WP's article on imageboards/chans
• Ukrainian ED's article on imageboards/chans

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