4chan 2025 MegaHack

This page is a gem.

The story begins on November 3rd, 2021, when Hiroyuki (Gookmoot) made the decision to close the /qa/ board. That decision set events into motion that few could foresee. It resulted in the birth of the Soyjak Party, a board that the jannies initially dismissed as a one trick pony, for how long could a site last based on one joke (see 8chan if you want an idea)? They had a comfy, tidy gig - /b/ was full of porn, /g/ was full of the same tedious arguments, /pol/ was just collective seething over Twitter screenshots, /r9k/ was one blackpill after another.

Sure, it didn't have the same vitality as before. But that didn't matter - the site was now at retirement age, and things were kept stable thanks to its band of devoted jannies (they did it for free). It didn't need any maintenance - because who knows or cares about PHP in 2025? They were confident that as things had been, so they would always be. 4chan had calcified, and that meant it was basically unbreakable.

On April 14th, 2025, 4chan was BRUTALLY hacked by a soyteen who promptly leaked images of the site's admin board. Emails, jannies' family info, and so on were all released to the public as well. As of April 15, 2025, 4chan is down. ~~And, hey.. maybe this is the end of 4chan. Hopefully it isn't 4chan's last gasp... But, if it is, so long and thanks for all the fish.~~ Jannies somehow rewrote the spaghetticode in 9 days. As is expected, they did that for free too.

How To

Elon Musk called in a favor.

The hax was achieved through an improperly sanitised upload of a PDF. It used an exploit in a hilariously outdated 2012 version of GhostScript that 4chan was using, whereby the hacker gained root. Other revelations include that the Yotsuba codebase is held together with prayers, duck tape and chewing gum, but it is now open source so you too can help fix it! The infrastructure is somehow worse than that of ED's, making it a wonder that this hack hadn't happened sooner. In fact, such lax security is clear evidence that 4chan was a CIA honeypot all along.

PwneD Forever

Soyjak.party has allegedly taken credit for the cyberattack.[1]

4cope pasta

Hordes of 4chan rapefugees descended upon the boards of soy, and this pasta emerged from the collective unconscious of the sharty:

You are all so fucking retarded. I was waiting for my favourite meetup thread to appear on /soc/, I was so happy to wait and see if there are any meetups next to me. And you know what? YOU HAD TO TAKE DOWN THE SITE!!!! I hope you all kill yourself, stupid retarded faggots. Your mothers should have aborted you long time ago zoomers.
None of you are funny. None of your memes will ever be popular. Nobody outside of your little circle jerk will ever like you. The soyjaks you love so much are ugly, retarded images that aren’t funny. 
This is your moment of glory, taking down a site that you’ll never rival.

There is a darker possibility that this was real, and some poor anon was stifled just as he was about to meet frens IRL and become normal. RIP.

The Fallout

Party Hard

Despite the fact that 4chan is eternal, many people came out of the woodworks to dance on its grave. Worse, people are trying to manifest 4chan's permanent downfall as if all the "Nazi CHUD" Anons won't just try to invade their spaces in due time. Have fun with that! And you've also got the people who are "worried" that le evil chuds will "infect" discord and other platforms, even though 4chan has been all normies for years.

Wishful thinking from someone who clearly doesn't work in IT

The Last Post of Anon

Since the hack initially took down all the boards BUT /qa/, it was trival to determine the last post made on 4chan before it went down. And that piece of wisdom from anon? Chicken Jockey [2].

If 4chan was gonna go out like that, it should've been "Skibbidy Toilet"

What's Next

So now what? Well, the site can't go back up because now everyone knows what system they're using as well as their keys. So Gookmoot and his crack team of jannies are probably just going to patch holes just enough to last the next 10 years until someone uploads a ZIP file to take it down again. They may also update their copyright notices.

Gallery

Cobson has root
Finally, a post from hiroyuki!
Full janny dox, why not send them a nice email thanking them for their generous voluntary work?
The Day of the Mop
AGH ME /SOC/!
NUKED FROM ORBIT