The "4chan vote" was not the crucial voting block that swung the election to Trump, but that sentiment — the belief that 4chan had actually contributed to or straight up caused Trump's win — was everywhere on the boards for most of the night. Just hours earlier, the boards were filled with much sadder Pepes and anxiety about the then-positive results for Clinton, along with insults directed at the journalists who, they knew, expected to watch the live collapse of the alt-right on the boards there all day long.