/z/
/z/'s origins can be traced back to September/October 2004. At that time, moot came upon the idea of creating a themed board whose mod was to be chosen from the userbase, similar to the concept of the IK (Idiot King) in Something Awful's FYAD (Fuck You And Die). At the end of a certain amount of time, the title of usermod would be rotated to another user. however, moot made the unfortunate decision of appointing Soviet Russia to the title.
Soviet Russia, being a denizen of /b/, immediately set into motion a series of dubiously sane events such as the institution of his brother Dash Billions as a "nigger", the creation of the nonsense word harbl, the backgrounds which became progressively creepier, and random CSS changes.
At some point, /z/ degenerated into a cesspool of gay porn (very much due to both Soviet Russia and Dash Billions being homosexuals - true story), and borrowed memes from iichan and SA, as well as instituting a few of its own (Conan O'Brien, and the Pip Pip dog from iichan) - basically making it a cheap knockoff of /b/.
A pseudo-rivalry came about between the /b/tards and the self-named /z/idiots.
New users, completely unversed in the proper etiquette of 4chan (the beginning of the end of lurking -- see LURK MORE), jumped into the fray, declaring Soviet Russia to be their personal Lord and Savior.
After a period of time, Soviet Russia 'resigned' as /z/ usermod, and after a few usermod rotations, the board was deemed by moot and Snacks to be a failure. WTSnacks had already implemented the option to ban users to /z/-only access, similar to the concept of the new FYAD Jr. board on SA, and so the imageboard /z/ was removed, and the page was changed to display the image of the beecock with text saying "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE" -- yet another reference to FYAD.
Related articles
