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Raspberry Heaven

Raspberry Heaven (RH) is an anime-focused IRC community and former DC++ hub, which split from SADCHUB,1) that was closely related to Something Awful's ADTRW subforum and their 'Studio ADTRW' fansubbing group. All that remains is the IRC channel, which is still active.

Connection to 4chan

“4chan isnt ADTRW or RH. It once mostly was, but it stopped being so a week after it was created. I'm sure it would be a much better place if it were more private, but we all know that is impossible, and honestly it would probably suck more than it does now. No new content would ever be circulated.”
– Christopher Poole2)

The role of Raspberry Heaven in 4chan's history is *often* exaggerated. Poole was a member3)4) and 4chan was offered a spot on Raspberry Heaven's servers.5)6) However, people stretch the “original users (RH)” quote,7) not realizing 4chan left their in-group after a week8) or month,9) and Poole would reiterate that 4chan wasn't this insular “secret club” for anime,10)11) nor refuge for banned Something Awful users.12)

Much of this false narrative alleges that Raspberry Heaven are the 'true founders' and 4chan only grew after Something Awful's crackdown on 'suspected pedophiles', not realizing that the aforementioned crackdown happens a full year or two after.13) When Cottle was banned around August 24, 2005,14) the 4chan thread had about 41 pages.15) Are you sure nothing happened before then?

Notes

  • The name 'Raspberry Heaven' (ラズベリー天国, Razuberī Tengoku) is a reference to Azumanga Daioh's ending theme, and their website's front page used to house 50×5016) and 100×10017) avatars until “Hannibal” accidentally deleted the front page by late 2003 for unknown reasons.18)
    • By the late 2000s, they switched to a Haruhi Suzumiya theme19) that lasted until the site died. There is a high chance that they were influenced by the VIPPERs.
  • 420chan was created by Aubrey Cottle in April 2005. It's often forgotten that he was banned from the Something Awful forums on August 24, 2004 for associating with “Marshall Banana”.20)21)
  • Danbooru was an IRC bot that posted random images that Albert Yi discovered, before it became that tag-based 'imageboard' for archiving and cataloging artwork in a pre-Pixiv internet.
  • At one point, there was a Raspberry Heaven Wiki, but it turns out that nobody has ever made a full archive despite being online for over a decade, so only a few pages were salvaged.22)

See also

1)
The “Something Awful Direct Connect Hub” (SADCHUB) was a general file sharing hub and chatroom.
2) , 8) , 10)
""teh" is translated to the on the discussion boards. It's probably something you can do with PHP and I'll have Snacks look into it when he has time." (August 12, 2004). Something Awful.
3)
"UPDATE #1" (October 1, 2003). Something Awful.
4)
"Shingo and Marshall Banana have become "janitors" (board mods). Still need a few more, b/h/w all need a janitor. E-mail me at moot@raspberryheaven.net if you'd like to apply." (October 6, 2003). Something Awful.
5)
"ichibanMuffin (Dr. Goku S. Gohan) and I got a new server together. It will house RH.net and everything associated with it, as well as 4chan." (October 23, 2003). Something Awful.
6)
"Update: 4chan is dead pending future revival. There isn't much to say but the server couldn't take us both and the descision was willingly made to drop 4chan in the great name of RH. Sorry guys. Note: I DID ACTUALLY GET A BACKUP THIS TIME! Maybe with my own server I can keep the insanely long boards too ;)" (November 20, 2003). Something Awful.
7)
"4chan.net - English 2chan.net!" [Archive] (October 1, 2003). Something Awful.
9) , 11)
"4chan history" (September 10, 2013). 4chan /q/.
12)
"No it didn't." (September 4, 2013). 4chan /q/.
13) , 20)
"Pedo drama". Raspberry Heaven Wiki.
14) , 21)
"ITT we stalk marshall banana (pro click zone)" (August 24, 2004). Something Awful.
15)
"Excellent. In a matter of only 2 weeks (give or take), 4chan is back to what it was before it died. 95% trolls, people posting nasty or inappropriate shit on all the boards and mods apparently oblivious to it all. Well done." (August 26, 2004). Something Awful.
16)
"Raspberry Heaven" (June 5, 2003). Raspberry Heaven.
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"Raspberry Heaven" (October 22, 2003). Raspberry Heaven.
18)
"Raspberry Heaven" (December 30, 2003). Raspberry Heaven.
19)
"Raspberry Heaven" (December 29, 2010). Raspberry Heaven.
22)
The Raspberry Heaven Wiki had many pages, but the only archived ones were: Eronarn, Full Metal Panic, Hannibal, JC KR3W, Mdl, Moé, Pedo drama, and Raspberry Heaven.
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