4chan is that guy you kind of know, you see him around because he keeps getting invited to the parties you go to but you’ve never really talked to him. There’s something about him that seems kind of off, maybe it’s his social skills that he seems to have learned from a book, or his inability to follow a conversation without interjecting with comments like “MOAR” or “TITS OR GTFO”. Every now and then you spot him off on his own, giggling to himself at some private joke. You think maybe he’s retarded, or he has Tourette’s or whatever, then one day you hear he has an IQ of 180, or you see a masterpiece of a painting lying around that he casually mentions he painted, or it turns out he’s built a functioning steam-powered difference engine in his basement that runs off the water heater and you’re not as surprised as you think you should be because you realise that actually seems like something he could do. Then one day after not seeing him for a while you hear he’s been arrested for killing six guys with an axe and feeding their remains to bears and this doesn’t surprise you much either.
