The Nyūsu Sokuhō(Breaking News) (VIP) (ニュース速報(VIP(びっぷ))) board, also known as the VIP Board (VIP板, Bippu Ita), NewSoku VIP (ニュー速VIP), or /news4vip/, is the 2channel board which emerged from a failed /news/ experiment on June 18, 2004,¹⁾ but eventually became its own thing over time.

Like its predecessor board, anything can be discussed, but you don't have to insert a link to start a thread anymore. The board used to be extremely popular, as the original home of the VIPPERs, but the 'quality' of discussion has mostly waned since then.

On June 14, 2004, an experimental feature was added to the /news/ board,²⁾ giving users the ability to move 'shitty' threads to what became the /news4vip/ board on June 18, 2004.³⁾ The feature was deemed a failure due to heavy misuse, so it was disabled the next month. However, the board remained, and rose to popularity since it was a chaotic board with unthinkable momentum from the moment that it was created.

It was believed to house the 'perfect' mix of good and shitty threads, on top of 2channel gaining traction from being more well known, so the 'VIP Quality' (VIPクオリティ, Bippu Kuoriti) phrase was born. However, the quality started to decline around 2006 since the internet was becoming more accessible and the whole influx of newcomers supposedly dragged the quality down over time.

Much of the decline was blamed on affiliate-funded VIP blogs, which sparked this 'anti-commercialization' war that led to the creation of /poverty/ around late 2007.⁴⁾⁵⁾ Then in 2012, the /livejupiter/–/news4vip/ rivalry had began since they now shared the 'hayabusa' server on January 4, 2012, which became a problem because live commentary baseball threads would 'explode' and take down the entire server with them.

By 2014, /livejupiter/ and /news4vip/ boards on 'hayabusa5' were properly split into 'tomcat' and 'viper' servers respectively, then /livejupiter/ had took the title of 'fastest 2channel board' away from /news4vip/ until 2022. Most of the 2010s wasn't very interesting, as cynicism and politicization now plagued the board, which was not helped by the fact that 2channel was in an actively decline.

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• Big Four VIP Bait Characters (VIP釣りキャラ四天王, Bippu Tsuri Kyara Shiten'nō)
  • Akane Miura (三浦茜, Miura Akane) - A fictional K-On! character. Pink ponytail, has a large bust, plays the tuba, and nicknamed 'Debi-chan' (デビちゃん) after 'dekobitch' (デコビッチ).⁶⁾
  • Asumi Kanna (神名あすみ, Kanna Asumi) - A fictional Madoka Magica character. Short grey hair, attends elementary school, and her magical girl outfit is a wedding dress.
  • Mitori Kawashiro (河城みとり, Kawashiro Mitori) - A fictional Touhou Project character. She has a red ponytail, half-human half-kappa, and has the 'ability' to prohibit, ban, or block things.
  • Teto Kasane (重音テト, Kasane Teto) - A fictional VOCALOID character, released April 1, 2008.⁷⁾⁸⁾ Red twintail drills, an '04' on her arm, and she initially had a UTAU library.
• Oniko Hinomoto (日本鬼子, Hinomoto Oniko) - The gijinka of a Chinese insult, 'Rìběn Guǐzi' (日本鬼子, lit. “Jap Devil”), from October 18, 2010⁹⁾ after the 2010 Senkaku boat collision incident.
• ISIS-chan (ISISちゃん) - The ISIL gijinka from January 24, 2015,¹⁰⁾ intended to flood search results after the Kenji Goto hostage situation. However, the character is meant to be 'non-offensive' and has a number of guidelines. Typically seen cutting a melon with a knife.

• VIP Mario (VIPマリオ) - This is a series of VIP-themed ROM hacks of Super Mario World.
• VIPRPG - This is a general term or general tag for VIP-themed role-playing games.

* Shame☆On (しぇいむ☆おん, Sheimu☆on) - Released around 2006 or prior. * Get☆On (げっと☆おん, Getto☆on) - A collaboration between /news4vip/ and /gal/, intended to be a sequel to Shame☆On. Development started March 11, 2011, with a full version being released on July 4, 2015, though it did get more updates after that. The game takes place in a coffee shop. * My Older Sister is a First-Class Architect! ~Buried Structural Design~ (姉は一級建築士 〜イケない構造設計〜, Ane ha Ikkyū Kenchikushi 〜Ike nai kōzō sekkei〜)

• Oricon Rank Manipulation - In the mid-2000s, /news4vip/ had attempted to launch anime songs, like Happy☆Material (Negima) or Hare Hare Yukai (Haruhi Suzumiya), into the Oricon chart, but these operations always fell short and they eventually gave up.
• First 'Coil' Shock (第一次コイルショック) - In 2008, /news4vip/ tried to rig the Yahoo! Kids poll for Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior for Magnemite,¹¹⁾ then Shaymin won since this was all predetermined, but Magnemite did take second place. 4chan also tried their hand, but lost.
• Inazuma Eleven Popularity Poll Frenzy (イナズマイレブン人気投票騒動) - In 2010, /news4vip/ tried rigging a popularity poll for the first Inazuma Eleven movie to upset fujoshi.¹²⁾ The poll ended with Gojou Marasu in first, followed by three girls and some unremarkable male. These antics goes on for a number of years and, unexpectedly, affected the franchise's history.¹³⁾

• VIP Sensei (VIP先生) - Mariotropolis (マリオトロポリス) was a brief Flash by Argentinian user “tamat”, looping a Metropolis scene with the Super Mario RPG inspired song, "Geno's Forest".¹⁴⁾ It somehow found its way to /news4vip/ on May 8, 2005,¹⁵⁾ where the VIPPERs famously misheard 'peeps insane' as 'bippu sensei', thus giving it the name of 'VIP Sensei'.
• VIP STAR - A trolling-themed parody of Ken Hirai's Pop Star that was sung by “kobaryu”. Many were impressed at the simililarity that he was invited to Livedoor's New Year's Eve Party.¹⁶⁾

• They used to end their sentences with '-dao' (～だお) or '-o' (～お), but this is extremely dated.
• It's believed that 'VIP' (Very Important Person) is used ironically since it was intended to be a 'special' board considering the original context. Jim Watkins allegedly confirmed this in 2010.

• NewSoku VIP - The front page of 2channel's /news4vip/ board.
• VIP on Niconico Encyclopedia
• Breaking News (VIP) Board on 2channel's Wiki
• NewSoku VIP on Japanese Wikipedia

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