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U-18chan

U-18chan is an English furry-focused bulletin board whose community had began on Aurorachan's /fur/ board in 2009, slowly migrated to IB4F, then went independent on December 2, 2010. According to the staff, U-18chan is mostly focused on furry pornography.

History

2009–2011

In 2009, the “Furry” (/fur/) board on Aurorachan gathered a sizable community, the AuroraFurries,1) who were known to raid 4chan's “Random” (/b/) board. On June 26, 2009, “Filthy” and “AlienSloth Man” (later “Jay” or “JKMittens”) set up FilthySlothChan at IB4F,2) which later became U-18chan on October 22, 20093) as a way to avoid retaliatory attacks, joking that their U-18 submarine could not be detected.4)

Over time, the AuroraFurries and U-18chan gradually merged around November 29, 2009,5) but not all parties were on the same page.6)7) In 2010, they purchased three domains,8) then the IB4F closure9) forced them to settle at “u18chan.com” with a fresh Kusaba X install on December 2, 2010.10) They'd also borrow Krautchan's mascot, before settling on the sergal mascot, Valkyria, on July 13, 2011.11)

2011–2025

The U-18chan staff then asked “Infinitus”12) for IB4F's Kusaba X fork on July 28, 2011.13) At some point, their programmer “Di” was doxed and left, which made co-founder “Jay” uncertain about the website's future on March 27, 2013.14) Instead, they powered through, until the hardware failure on July 8, 201615) forced them to rebuild from a backup,16) then they came back online on July 24, 2016,17)18) not 2012.19)20)

A few months later, U-18chan published a statement on their 'Pawstika' logo on April 18, 2017 and denied the political implications.21) In 2023, there was a server failure and the staff, unable to send an announcement through FurAffinity or Twitter, advertised an official Discord server.22) By this point, U-18chan began rebranding efforts, but this was delayed to April 2025.

List of Boards

Notes

  • The co-founder “Filthy”, also known as “Abitfur4u”, had the tripcode of “!zIArsem5L.” (#0GGo).
  • Valkyria was designed by “YuuriArtz” (“Yuuri”),23) and named by a community vote.24)
  • From December 25, 2012 to approximately July 15, 2013, the Wayback Machine was banned.
  • In the past, they had a “Scalies” (/scale/) board, but it closed in 2017 and was removed.

See also

  • Aurorachan - The original home of said furry community.
  • Fchan and Lulz.net - Similar furry-themed websites from the 2000s.
  • U-18chan - The front page of U-18chan.
    • @u18chan on Twitter - The official U-18chan account, though it hasn't updated since 2019.
  • U-18chan on WikiFur
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1)
"AuroraFurries chat group" (March 10, 2009). Xat.
2)
"Them Patriotic Nigras" (June 29, 2009). U-18chan.
3)
"WTF is with ur URL changeing again?" (October 22, 2009). U-18chan.
4) , 21)
"U-18Chan Does Not Condone Nazi Ideology" (April 18, 2017). U-18chan.
5)
"Ethnic Cleansing" (November 29, 2009). U-18chan.
6)
"Let me clear some things up" (December 1, 2009). U-18chan.
7)
"ughh shit it's been a while" (January 27, 2010). U-18chan.
8)
"10/09/10 - You can now access this site at u18chan.co.uk, u18chan.net and u18chan.com!" (September 10, 2010). U-18chan.
9)
"*sigh*" (November 22, 2010). IB4F.
10)
"Good New!" (December 2, 2010). U-18chan.
11) , 23)
"New Mascot!" (July 13, 2011). U-18chan.
12)
"@JKMittens Hows that IB4F software holding up? :3" (March 3, 2012). Twitter.
13)
"Things Are About To Get German" (July 28, 2011). U-18chan.
14)
"Thoughts About Closing U-18Chan" (March 27, 2013). Tumblr.
15)
"Hello fellow users, we have unfortunately experienced a catastrophic failure at our datacenter we host at." (July 8, 2016). U-18chan.
16)
"Hello all, due to recent unfortunate events we have been forced to rebuild everything from the ground up. This is not the end but a new." (July 13, 2016). Twitter.
17)
"We are alive~" (July 24, 2016). Twitter.
18)
"For more information about what happened please visit the news section under the homepage http://u18chan.com" (July 24, 2016). Twitter.
19)
"Online~" (July 24, 2016). U-18chan.
20)
For some reason, the first news post is dated September 24, 2012, rather than July 24, 2016, which might have to do with the fact that they tried to salvage their previous instance.
22)
"Hi there, This is the "shits borked" page I had to make because I have had no way to otherwise put out a message." (September 12, 2023). U-18chan.
24)
"Valkyria" (August 28, 2011). U-18chan.
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