As of 2022, 4chan receives more than 22 million unique monthly visitors, of which approximately half are from the United States.
Registration is not available and users typically post anonymously.
Launched by Christopher 'moot' Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from anime and manga to video games, cooking, weapons, television, music, literature, history, fitness, politics, and sports, among others. 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website.