Chapter 2

Sunday, August 29, 2010



Chapter 2

As the days rolled by, interest in just who Boxxy was increased more and more. As speculation grew, threads dedicated to discussing the girl began to dominate the /b/ board of 4chan.

Boxxy threads inundating /b/.

Not since the days of Cracky-Chan had there been such a beautiful, curious, and enigmatic figure to fill /b/. Boxxy was everywhere, yet nobody knew anything about her.


Why was she suddenly such a hot topic when her videos had been gathering dust for nearly a whole year? Who was Boxxy in real life? Was she a paid actress in a similar vein as the well-known lonelygirl15? Why did she act the way she did in her videos? Drug abuse? Attention-Deficit Disorder? Tourette’s Syndrome? All of the above?

In any case, none of it really mattered, as Boxxy had become the biggest thing on the Internet since the discovery of wireless connection. Unfortunately, a huge division had begun appearing between the users of 4chan: the newfags and the oldfags.


Within the last five years of the existence of 4chan, the said two rival factions had been fighting each other for dominance over /b/. Each side hated the other for what was a perceived decline in the quality and content of posts on /b/.
Using context clues, it seems that newfag is the pejorative term used to describe a person who is new to 4chan and inexperienced with its inner workings. Oldfag refers to those who are far more experienced with the site’s inner workings in that they know how to post, what to post about, and what and what not to talk about.


Yes, this really happened.

Newfags are often notorious for annoying oldfags with what are perceived to be stupid and pointless threads, excessive camwhoring where pictures of themselves in stupid positions are posted, turning the /b/ board into their own personal twitter account, and attempting to use the notorious Anonymous, known for hacking and leaking the personal information of those who cross them, as their own personal army.

Frustration and tensions had been building up on the oldfags’ side, as they felt that /b/ had been hijacked by the overwhelming numbers of newfags from its original purpose and was now being used as a canvas for stupidity. Newfags on the other hand felt that the oldfags were stubborn, boring haters who could not accept the ever-changing realities of internet fads, or, put simply, felt that they were holding /b/ back from progressing.

The oldfag community’s positions summed up perfectly during the "Bring Back Snacks" campaign.

The oldfags did not have a legitimate reason or excuse at which to try and pummel the newfags out of 4chan permanently, as nothing they posted about could effectively rally the entire base. However, Boxxy would become their trump card, or the spark needed to ignite an all-out war.

To the newfags, Boxxy was the messiah who could enrapture and unite all of 4chan into one with her charisma, innocence, beauty, and bubbly personality. Her videos were the equivalent of the New Testament, a divine revelation to those who watched and listened. There was even a Church of Boxxy dedicated to her.

Blog posts about this savior started appearing all over the Internet as an effort to uncover the truth behind this mysterious figure and to spread the word. The newfag community and some oldfags, who had defected, were unanimous in deciding to name her the queen of /b/.

All hail Queen Boxxy of /b/.

The oldfag community, on the other hand, had had enough. Boxxy, to them, personified everything they had grown to hate about the Internet, as well as /b/'s current state.


The oldfags' response to the Boxxy phenomenon.

It also didn’t help matters that nearly every thread on /b/ was about Boxxy in some way, and the fact that there was absolutely no moderation by the administrators of 4chan. To them, Boxxy was a forced meme and the poster girl for attention-whoring; she had single-handedly dispossessed them of their ability to do what they enjoyed doing the most on /b/ and acquired seisin of /b/.

Whether she intended to or not, Boxxy became a meme.

By Anonymous



Boxxy is a teenage girl whose YouTube videos caused an Internet sensation in early January 2009. This website chronicles her mysterious tale.