Kuvalauta

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Kuvalauta
Type of site
Imageboard
Available inFinnish and English
Country of originFinland
Founder(s)"Gabo"
RegistrationNone
Launched10 November 2007; 17 years ago (2007-11-10)
Current statusInactive

Kuvalauta (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkuʋɑˌlɑu̯tɑ], lit. 'Image board') was a Finnish imageboard. Kuvalauta was originally founded on 10 December 2007 and was shut down on 31 August 2010 following disputes with the service provider and police investigations.[1][2] Kuvalauta was founded by "Gabo", whose real name has never been published.

Kuvalauta operated as a successor to Finnchan, another Finnish imageboard that operated from 2006 to 2009.[3] It was one of the most popular websites in Finland, being within the top 200 most visited websites in Finland.[1]

Publicity

Kuvalauta first gained public traction in September 2009 following the publication of a threat against the Harju vocational school in Jyväskylä.[4] In October 2009, a traffic camera pole in Rovaniemi, Lapland was bombed by a user of Kuvalauta and the video of the bombing was subsequently uploaded on YouTube.[5][6] In March 2010, over 120,000 passwords were published on Kuvalauta, the passwords were obtained from a data breach against Älypää [fi].[7]

Impact on Finnish internet culture

Kuvalauta was a site where many viral Finnish internet memes were born, such as Spurdo Spärde, which was born out of the Pedobear meme.[8][9] Kuvalauta made Jonne, a boys name, into a nickname for an awkward teenage boy.[10] In 2010, Kuvalauta managed to make the Kari Tapio song "Juna kulkee" the most listened to song in Finland on Spotify.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tarjouspyyntö www.kuvalauta.fi -sivuston hostaamisesta". nybergh.net. September 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Partanen, Tatu (4 September 2022). "Internetissä vaikuttaa monille tuntematon voima – näin "laudoilla" masinoidaan kampanjoita". Ilta-Sanomat (in suomi). Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Räty, Panu (4 July 2024). "Peppukipua luvassa". Mikrobitti (in suomi). Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Linnake, Tuomas (17 September 2009). "Poliisi takavarikoi tietokoneita koulu-uhkauksen vuoksi". Ilta-Sanomat (in suomi). Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  5. ↑ "Kameratolpan räjäyttäjä kertoi aikeistaan etukäteen". Lapin Kansa. 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
  6. ↑ anonuploads (7 October 2009). Traffic camera. Retrieved 4 July 2024 – via YouTube.
  7. ↑ Ketola, Ilkka (4 July 2024). "Yli 120 000 suomalaisen salasanat hakkeroitu - lista netissä". AfterDawn (in suomi). Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  8. ↑ Bernstein, Joseph (10 February 2015). "How A Leftist Finnish Meme Became A White Supremacist Comic Strip". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  9. ↑ Holopainen, Simo; Kauppinen, Ina (23 August 2016). "Kiitos tästäkin internet! 16 ikonista kuvaa ja videota, joita meillä ei olisi ilman nettiä". Ilta-Sanomat (in suomi). Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Hän on alkuperäinen Jonne". iltalehti.fi (in suomi). Retrieved 4 July 2024.

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