Over the last 24 hours, one portion of what's purportedly a huge, months-old cache of private celebrity nude photographs—the product of an "underground celeb n00d-trading ring," according to one anonymous 4chan poster—was leaked to anonymous image boards like AnonIB and 4chan.

Someone trying to prove a point about the nature and value of art—or about the remarkably steady birth rate of suckers (still approximately one per minute!)—has printed out a screenshot of a 4chan post and sold it on eBay for nearly six figures.

4chan's /b/ imageboard was where modern Internet trolling was practically invented, so when a user showed up late Friday night claiming to be Jenna Jameson, /b/tards were understandably skeptical.

An Occidental College spokesman confirmed to Gawker what was suspected earlier today: Online trolls from Reddit and elsewhere disrupted their online anonymous sexual assault reporting system with hundreds of sarcastic, caustic false rape reports.

A gym rat in the most literal sense of the term found himself banned from an entire chain of gyms thanks to Internet vigilantes who decided to punish him for mocking members on his Facebook page.

The sterling reputation of America's oldest and most mystical tradition—the radio station contest—was forever tarnished this week, when Boston's Kiss FM pulled the plug on its "Taylor Swift's Biggest Fan" contest after Taylor Swift's Biggest Fan was revealed to be a 39-year-old man named Charles.

If the Internet has one hard-and-fast rule, it's this: If you're hosting a contest involving Taylor Swift, prepare to have that contest's results rigged by trolls.

Minutes before an unidentified gunman opened fire at a Virginia mall on Friday afternoon, a user of the 4chan message boards seemingly announced his plans to undertake a mass shooting, providing exact details of the location and timing of the coming spree.

A Redditor who claims to have grabbed this photo from 4chan's fashion boards (/fa/) swears this is definitely not Christian Bale but just some dude who dressed up as Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho for Halloween.

A few months back, emissaries from infamous Internet troll nest /b/ tried to convince Justin Bieber fans that their idol had cancer and that they should cut their hair in solidarity.

You'd think that after 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole was voted 2009's Most Influential Person in the World thanks in overwhelming part to a flood of 4chan users looking to game the system, Time magazine would quit handing the decision to Internet users.

No one is quite sure what 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole is doing hanging out on Rick Santorum's website, but BetaBeat has confirmed that visiting Patriot Voices does in fact yield a pop-up with the infamous troll-father's smiling mug.

Internet trolls earlier this week launched a concerted effort to get Justin Bieber fans to shave their heads for the bubblegum pop star by assaulting every social network with the "shocking news" that Bieber was diagnosed with cancer.

The Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Allston, Massachusetts, became the target of an Internet prank last month, when it was picked by 4chan trolls to win a contest to host a concert headlined by singer-songwriter-Kennedy-dater Taylor Swift.

4chan, Reddit, and the Internet's other well-regarded troll havens are once again colluding to send a celebrity somewhere they didn't expect to go.

Mountain Dew — excuse me, Mtn Dew — reached out to Internet users for assistance in giving its new green-apple-infused beverage a name by launching a viral contest called "Dub the Dew."

As people cast about for some explanation for the horrific shooting in Aurora, Colo., rumors have spread on Twitter and other social networks that the meme-swapping message board 9gag was somehow responsible, and that the 24-year-old suspect James Holmes had posted about his plan to shoot up a theater yesterday. They're almost certainly false.

After a Burger King employee posted a photo of themselves or a colleague stepping on a tub of lettuce accompanied by the warning "this is the lettuce you eat at Burger King," 4chan users immediately jumped on the opportunity to ferret out the location of the OP's branch for great justice.

Yesterday I wrote a a post about the decline of the message board 4chan as a cultural force on the web. This sparked an unusually well-reasoned email from a 4chan browser explaining why 4chan's newfound obscurity is 'great news' for its users. Here it is, with a few annotations.

At the internet culture conference ROFLCON in May, the assembled geek digerati were asked during one panel if they were readers of 4chan, the legendary butthole of the internet. A bare smattering of hands went up in the MIT lecture hall.