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		tannhaeuser on April 15, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak Why are we speaking in the past tense here? Is it established that 4chan is going down?

geor9e on April 16, 2025 [–]

It is down. It was up in the past. Past tense seems to make the most grammatical sense. But I get why it adds ambiguity about it's future.

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