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July 25, 2013 08:05 pm -05

This Is What a 4chan Voicemail Sounds Like

4chan-voicemail

When 4chan pranksters started bombarding my inbox with spam emails for women's lingerie, I laughed. They were easy enough to ignore and made for interesting small talk.

When they ordered two large pizzas and more than three different magazines to my parent's home, I got little more annoyed. The jokes were jumping offline and landing on my doorstep.

Then they finally tracked down my cellphone number Monday and left me this voicemail.

This is what comes with reporting on the 4chan's most notorious community, /b/ — a pornographic pit of obscenities, controversial pranks and violent photos. It's nothing new. As Cole Stryker, author of Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, told me last year, he "received pizzas and death threats, the usual." Read more...

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