Chan Shitpost Text Corpus From 11 Online Forums

A text corpus aggregated from 11 online forums, including lolcow.farm (248,497 rows), 4chan, and Hacker News. The dataset contains user-generated posts, or 'shitposts', compiled by author simonko912 and last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Train a text generation model on the aggregated forum posts to simulate 'shitpost' style writing.
• Analyze linguistic patterns and post frequency across different source sites like lolcow.farm and lainchan.org.
• Perform comparative sentiment or topic analysis on text from disparate communities such as 4chan and beehaw.org.

Strengths

• Aggregates data from 11 distinct online sources, providing diverse text samples.
• Includes a substantial volume of posts from major sources like lolcow.farm with 248,497 rows.
• Dataset is recently updated, with a last modified date of March 2026.

Limitations

• Specific column structure, data fields, and total row count are unknown, limiting immediate analytical use.
• Data sources vary widely in community norms, likely introducing significant heterogeneity and potential bias in content.
• Includes very small samples from some sources (e.g., 112chan.ro with 54 rows), which may not be representative.

Provenance

Source

11 online forums including lolcow.farm, a.4cdn.org (4chan), lainchan.org, news.ycombinator.com.

Collection Method

Scraped from listed websites.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-14.

Geography

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