Have you ever wondered where those dank crypto memes come from? Have you ever inquired about the peons trading shitcoin after shitcoin on Binance? Have you ever thought mainstream crypto social media seemed too sanitized and devoid of a wider spectrum of opinions? If you’ve had any of these questions itching in your mind, the answer to one and all of them lies in the deep, dark digital chasm of the 4chan /biz/ sub-board.

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The Primordial Soup of 4chan Memes

The lurkers of /biz/ are collectively known as “anon” whom you have doubtlessly heard of before. These are the individuals that vibrate one stratum of the crypto world. If /biz/ was a crypto subreddit, it would be the within the top 10 most actively engaged in terms of post/comment volume. For perspective, on October 16th the ethereum subreddit generated 8,768 posts/comments while /biz/ generated 11,504.

A casual perusing of /biz/ will lead one to find multitudes of popular memes such as pink wojak, pamp it Bogdanoff, and the much more recently spawned NPC. Did the market take a dip? Expect some pink wojaks to saturate your twitter feed. Did an inorganic pump and dump occur on some coins? Get ready for some pamp it Bogdanoffs to be gif’d by those you follow. What about a furious debate around development roadmaps? It’s likely that each side will utilize the NPC as a caricature of their opposition.

Anons chisel away on MS Paint or Adobe Photoshop, creating these post-modern works of art. This is the factory that produces memes that become ubiquitous throughout crypto parlance. Any social media forum will include these memes when a correspondingly appropriate topic or event occurs. Whether or not you’ve read /biz/, or just stick to Twitter, you’ve been touched by the work of these anons, and more likely than not, shared one of their memes yourself.

Insults and Insights

These anons aren’t just in it for the memes and laughs though. They want to make money. One popular blog post discusses how an anon used 4chan to learn about investing in crypto. After going off of a /biz/ tip regarding Digibyte, an anon claims to have turned $100 into $10,000. He concludes the post by referencing /biz/, stating: “you get the latest insight into which coins to invest into and which ones to avoid.”

While this anon’s story represents a positive outcome, there are ignorant assertions and outright scams that proliferate across the board. It’s up to the individual anon to sort out this mess for themselves, but once filtered, the large stream of information can be more valuable than the more sanitized information sources constrained within the various Overton windows.

That unrelenting torrent of unrestrained discussion might be the most intriguing aspect of the /biz/ anons. As one might expect, the lack of identity on the board created an atmosphere as famed for its vitriol as for its honesty. The sparring within threads of competing comments resembles more of a Socratic seminar or PhD dissertation cross-examination (well, maybe not all comments). Whether out in the open or even behind a popular sockpuppet account, people often reveal nuanced opinions they feel unable to publicly disseminate in the crypto herd.

By and large, a /biz/ anon isn’t investing millions of dollars in crypto hedge funds or building the next unicorn crypto app. They are the ones that use those apps or get rekt by those funds. They are the ones that make up the likes and the retweets of any crypto thought leader. They are the grassroots community of crypto that contribute to the feedback loop of the individuals with higher rank in the space. Perhaps you’re already a /biz/ anon or, whether you know it or not, there could be one sitting right next to you. Whatever your crypto allegiance, /biz/ surely has room enough for you.

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