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Former Finnish imageboard website
Kuvalauta
Type of siteImageboard
Available inFinnish and English
Country of originFinland
Founder(s)"Gabo"
RegistrationNone
LaunchedNovember 10, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-11-10)
Current statusInactive

Kuvalauta (Finnish pronunciation: [kuʋɑlɑu̯tɑ], lit. 'Image plank') 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. 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. It was one of the most popular websites in Finland, being within the top 200 most visited websites in Finland.

Publicity

Kuvalauta first gained public traction in September 2009 following the publication of a threat against the Harju vocational school in Jyväskylä. 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. In March 2010, over 120,000 passwords were published on Kuvalauta, the passwords were obtained from a data breach against Älypää [fi].

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. Kuvalauta made Jonne, a boys name, into a nickname for an awkward teenage boy. In 2010, Kuvalauta managed to make the Kari Tapio song "Juna kulkee" the most listened to song in Finland on Spotify.

See also

References

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  2. Partanen, Tatu (2022-09-04). "Internetissä vaikuttaa monille tuntematon voima – näin "laudoilla" masinoidaan kampanjoita". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  3. ^ Räty, Panu (2024-07-04). "Peppukipua luvassa". Mikrobitti (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  4. Linnake, Tuomas (2009-09-17). "Poliisi takavarikoi tietokoneita koulu-uhkauksen vuoksi". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  5. "Kameratolpan räjäyttäjä kertoi aikeistaan etukäteen". Lapin Kansa. 2009-10-08. Archived from the original on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  6. anonuploads (2009-10-07). Traffic camera. Retrieved 2024-07-04 – via YouTube.
  7. Ketola, Ilkka (2024-07-04). "Yli 120 000 suomalaisen salasanat hakkeroitu - lista netissä". AfterDawn (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  8. Bernstein, Joseph (2015-02-10). "How A Leftist Finnish Meme Became A White Supremacist Comic Strip". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  9. Holopainen, Simo; Kauppinen, Ina (2016-08-23). "Kiitos tästäkin internet! 16 ikonista kuvaa ja videota, joita meillä ei olisi ilman nettiä". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  10. "Hän on alkuperäinen Jonne". www.iltalehti.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-07-04.

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