4chan /pol/ General Threads Dataset
4chanContent moderationEntertainmentExtremismHate speechMemes & humourPolitical communication Posts from 329 thematically distinct 'general' thread collections on 4chan's /pol/ board, November 2013 to May 2019, released by Emilija Jokubauskaitė and Stijn Peeters (Zenodo 3603292). 13,756,579 posts in 58,687 threads, one CSV per general plus an index file. Each row holds the thread ID, post ID, timestamp, body text, subject, poster name, image file name and MD5, and the poster's country code and name. Suitable for studying recurring political discussion threads, propaganda, hate speech and online subcultures.
Cite this dataset at
4chan-pol-generals.echo.directory
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
4chan-pol-generals- Authors
- Jokubauskaitė, Emilija; Peeters, Stijn
- Year
- 2020
- Source paper
- Generally Curious: Thematically Distinct Datasets of General Threads on 4chan/pol/
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7351
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 13,756,579
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2013-11 to 2019-05 (2010s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/3603292 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.7 GB across 330 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Generally Curious: Thematically Distinct Datasets of General Threads on 4chan/pol/
Emilija Jokubauskaitė, S.C.J. Peeters
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2020
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Jokubauskait__2020,
title = {Generally Curious: Thematically Distinct Datasets of General Threads on 4chan/pol/},
volume = {14},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7351},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7351},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Jokubauskaitė, Emilija and Peeters, Stijn},
year = {2020},
month = May,
pages = {863–867}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Jokubauskaitė, E., & Peeters, S. (2020). 4chan /pol/ General Threads Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7351
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Jokubauskaitė, Emilija, and Stijn Peeters. 4chan /pol/ General Threads Dataset. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7351.