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Raspberry Heaven
Raspberry Heaven (RH) was the anime-focused Direct Connect hub, which split from the Something Awful Direct Connect Hub,1) and briefly shared their servers with 4chan.2)3) The website no longer exists, but their IRC channel shouldn't be that hard to find.
Connection to 4chan
“4chan isnt ADTRW or RH. It once mostly was, but it stopped being so a week after it was created.”
– Christopher Poole4)
In the beginning, 4chan founder Christopher Poole held a Raspberry Heaven email address,5) and Raspberry Heaven briefly shared servers with 4chan.6)7) However, Poole notes that Raspberry Heaven had “like 20-40 active members”, admittedly pulling some early moderators from here, but emphasizes that 4chan was never a 'secret club' for anime, and claims that most of its users didn't come from Something Awful.8)
Due to the frequency that Something Awful came up in early 4chan's verbal history,9)10)11) people would get a warped idea that 4chan was a refuge for banned Something Awful users12) and didn't catch the part where those 'suspected pedophiles' were banned in 2005,13) long after 4chan's creation in 2003. As a consequence, some error-filled book was published in 2019.
Notes
- 'Raspberry Heaven' (ラズベリー天国) is derived from the ending theme for Azumanga Daioh, and they once housed 50×5014) and 100×10015) avatars until it was accidentally deleted.16) They would later switch to a Haruhi Suzumiya theme after the 2006 trends17) before finally going offline.
- They used to have a wiki, the 'Raspberry Heaven Wiki', but it turns out that nobody has ever made a full archive despite it being online for over a decade, so only a few pages were salvaged.18)
External links
- Raspberry Heaven [Archive] - The front page of Raspberry Heaven, archived March 18, 2022.
- Christmas Card Time - A yearly tradition.