BoxxyGate
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Prologue

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By the time that the authors of this blog had first encountered Queen Boxxy of 4chan /b/, the war which had been fought mercilessly by vi...

Chapter 1

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In April 2006, a fifteen-year-old Catie created an account on the popular anime-themed social networking site Gaia Online with the rather ...

Chapter 2

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As the days rolled by, interest in exactly who Boxxy was increased more and more. As speculation grew, threads dedicated to discussing the...

Chapter 3

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Feeling the need to take matters into their own hands, a group of oldfag vigilantes decided to band together into a group who called thems...

Chapter 4

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Between January 17 and 18, a splinter group of approximately eleven users from /b/ had formed with the intention of halting the Boxxy craz...

Chapter 5

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In April 2009, BoxxyChan.tk was founded. It was one of the first websites entirely devoted to Boxxy, and all images on the site were suppl...

Epilogue

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Looking back on what made the Boxxy controversy as big as it was, one can see an emerging pattern in Net phenomena. Catie was by no means ...
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