Type of site | Imageboard |
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Available in | Japanese |
Revenue | Advertisements |
URL | www |
Commercial | No |
Registration | None available |
Launched | 30 August 2001 |
Current status | Active |
Futaba Channel (Japanese: ふたば(双葉)☆ちゃんねる, Hepburn: Futaba Channeru, "Double Leaf Channel", "Two Leaf Channel"), or Futaba for short, also sometimes called 2chan, is a Japanese imageboard.
Futaba Channel started as a textboard but eventually added imageboards based on the GazouBBS software. This would later become inspiration for the English-language imageboard 4chan website, which was based on Futaba.[1][2]
4chan, an American anonymous image-sharing site that is based on the Japanese Futaba channel, [sic] itself an offshoot of the enormously popular Japanese 2chan [sic] site.