Feeling the need to take matters into their own hands, a group of oldfag vigilantes decided to band together into a group who called themselves Operation Valkyrie. The name was based on the ill-fated attempt to oust Adolf Hitler from power in the Third Reich by members of their own inner circle.
The mission of Operation Valkyrie was to locate, raid, and eliminate as much of Boxxy as possible via hacking her YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and Photobucket accounts in order to find an identity and a specific picture that Boxxy mentioned in "FOAR 4DD1" which showcased the moniker 4DD1 written on her upper chest.
The initiative left some people bewildered. To them, it made no sense for people to go to such lengths to harass and destroy someone who had done no one any harm whatsoever and who had not been active in any of her accounts for nearly a year. They disliked this strange obsession. As one user stated, it was "proof that /b/ is full of thirteen-year-old boys."
Catie's already-known Gaia and YouTube accounts were quickly inundated with Operation Valkyrie's spam tag. With some quick detective work, two photographs were located and taken from her Gaia friends' Photobucket accounts. That was all that they had ever managed to find. Operation Valkyrie was a failure, like its real-life counterpart. Nothing had been found; no MySpace, no email, and no Facebook, aside from several charlatans.
Boxxy's location was still quite obscure. Some correctly guessed that she was somewhere in California, such as Palo Alto, San Diego, Santa Barbara, or Sacramento. Others suggested Florida, or even Australia. Trying to pinpoint her accent was of no help either. The majority consensus seemed to be that she was "anywhere down the West Coast," England, or any of the Eastern European states such as Poland and Bulgaria in particular. It was January 6 when a 4chan user who purported to be Boxxy posted two new photos on /b/.
Argument as to whether or not this person was merely a look-alike troll ensued. Boxxy's YouTube channel disappeared, and her Gaia account was rendered inaccessible except to her friends later that same day. Did Catie step in, or had Operation Valkyrie secretly succeeded in hacking into her online accounts to shut them down? No one knew.
Soon, an impersonation YouTube channel was created, BoxxyakaMoldyBread.
It was January 8 when the YouTube channel BoxxyBabee showed up. It featured the two original videos, coupled with a message in the channel comments: "i'm awsum, new video tommorrow 01/09/09." People weren't sure of what to make of this. Was this another troll account, or had the real Boxxy returned?
The next day, Boxxy's new video was uploaded onto the channel as promised. It was entitled "FOAR EVERYWUN FRUM BOXXY." Catie's hair had grown noticeably longer by approximately four inches and was parted on the right side. Her complexion was now a creamy white, and her eyeliner style had changed slightly, now extending a bit further down in the corner, giving her a slightly cat-like appearance.
Boxxy addressed recent events by confirming that she was not on any drugs, did not have ADD or Tourette's Syndrome, and confirmed that it really was her who had posted the photos on /b/. She had been watching the entire thing the whole time. Clearly, she enjoyed the attention.
On /b/, just about every thread was devoted solely to Boxxy and her new video. Over 70,000 views had accumulated within twelve hours, subsequently elevating it to the home page as the most viewed video of the day on YouTube. The next day, the video had reached number one, with more than 300,000 views, coupled with hundreds of subscribers every single hour.
On January 12, YouTube celeb Philip DeFranco included footage of Boxxy in the intro of his new video and even used her face as the thumbnail. Entirely ignorant of the back story, a wave of viewers sent from Philip commented with messages such as, "Wow, sxephil made you popular. Thank him in a video!" They were all wrong, as he had nothing to do with it.
The vast majority of viewers were clueless as to what Boxxy was talking about in her third video. A separate video explaining the subject matter was uploaded onto the channel SeanBoy80 and is now mirrored on TheBoxxyPhenom.
Boxxy's revived popularity was the spark that the oldfag community had been waiting for to wage a cyber-war on the newfag community. All of the Boxxy threads were under a virtual blitzkrieg, reminiscent of when the Nazis had carpet-bombed the city of London during World War II. The spam tag "DIE IN A FIRE," repeated to the maximum limit and posted ten times in a row, had quickly become a fixture on the threads.
Many of /b/'s patrons simply gave up in frustration and announced that they were taking leave for a week, month, year, or even perpetually. War had also broken out at 7chan, with its /b/ board inundated with Boxxy. On January 10, with Boxxy's videos and channel rapidly approaching 400,000 views and 10,000 subscribers, Boxxy haters then took a new approach which could be considered a form of terrorism with the now-infamous Operation Clampdown, a watershed in 4chan's history.
4chan owner Moot and the other administrators were warned that if they did not evict the users posting Boxxy threads on /b/, the site would be attacked and forcibly brought down courtesy of a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack, an effort to make a computer resource unavailable to its users.
Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of such an attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent the targeted site or service from functioning efficiently, or at all. It may be either temporary or permanent.
As the time of the strike neared, the instigators got ready by posting messages with several bad programs open as the clock ticked down. Soon after, the entirety of 4chan became slow, with pages taking minutes to open. Then, it subsequently crashed, resulting in a white 404 page. It was like a Net version of a Japanese kamikaze mission, with the Boxxy haters deciding to annihilate everyone and everything. Nothing like this had ever happened in the history of 4chan.
Several hours later, 4chan returned, with Boxxy threads populating /b/ again as if nothing had happened. This wasn't to last. Moot and the administrators had given in to the attackers' demands by banning users for two days just for even mentioning the name Boxxy or posting in a thread about her.
