Hello s4sAt the risk of rewarding an attention seeker with attention, I think it might be interesting to analyse a specific s4s user who has been spamming us recently.Josh AKA Josh poster is recognised by his bot-like responses to threads which address an OP by name, as "Josh", often with belittling, insulting retorts. Typical examples are "Weird self-hate thread, Josh" "Stop trying to force memes, Josh." "We know you don't have any friends, Josh."This obviously begs the question, who is "Josh"? Joshposter doesn't answer these questions, and would prefer to continue his act, accusing anyone who approaches him as being "Josh". This naturally led to much annoyance in the s4s community, like an annoying fly in the room. But, I hope this thread offers some peace to such people by answering these questions.
Move aside little girl, this is a job for the Star Detective Precure
>>>>>>Who is "Josh"?At first there were many theories, as documented by the Esforesquire (>>12930129).Such as:Josh from Drake and Josh Josh S AKA Akko posterJoshua Conner Moon AKA null (kiwifarms admin)While Joshposter won't answer this question directly, the clues are hidden across his post history. He describes someone who was in prison during 2021 (>>12996952) and has posted their mugshot (>>12921638). As some had already worked out, this matches Joshua Ryne Goldberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_GoldbergThis person was arrested in 2015 for trying to orchestrate terrorist attacks, and given a 10-year sentence in 2018. But was released in 2024 and is somehow allowed to communicate freely on sites such as soyjak party and even here on s4s. Apparently he had some rivalry with Taco Kid (>>12924077). It's a shame Taco Kid is not around any more to ask. According to one user, Josh once claimed he was responsible for 50% of posts here (>>12918256). Scary stuff! Please stay safe on s4s!
>>>>>Who is the Josh poster(s)?Well, now we know who "Josh" is. But who is Josh poster? Are there multiple josh posters? As mentioned, I've done some digging, and I have analysed the posting patterns of josh posting. I collected almost 2,000 posts, and here's what I've found.Firstly, the hourly cycle of josh posting reveals something typical of a single user with a regular sleeping pattern. Hours here are shown in UTC, but this matches someone in the US, most likely east coast. From this we see he likes to post a lot before he goes to bed.Note on usual s4s activity, it's roughly constant throughout the day, due to there being posters all over the world: https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/statistics/activity/
Next, the weekly cycle. Things are roughly well-distibuted throughout the week, which may suggest the person is a NEET, though there is a slight rise at the weekend. Not easy to say much here.
Finally here is both daily and weekly activity shown as a 2D graph. While the data is being stretched quite thing here, we do see some sporadic peaks outside of sleeping hours, but no obvious deviation seperating weekends from work/school routines. One more thing to mention is that I noticed joshposter has been hit by bans with deletions to all his posts within a time range, but he resumed posting shortly after, which would suggest ban evading.
boring self post it's Joshua Ryne Goldberg>>12788082
>>13013623>>13013622>>13013620>>13013618>>13013616Joshposter is the living embodiment of esfores: a simple phrase of, "good post" followed by a name and it worked brilliantly. he now has people working overtime on the beautiful oc he has produced. God bless you Joshbestposter <3Your fortune: （ ´_ゝ`）ﾌｰﾝ
>>13013631should be obvious to anyone here before summer
:^(Your fortune: ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!
>>13013631>>13013632I can see this unmasking makes you a little uncomfortable, but I just think it's important that s4s users are well-informed. The fact that psychopath criminals exist in our home is not good.
I feel sorry for severely autistic people like him
>>13013636In my research, only 2 s4s posts mentioned the correct Josh, so perhaps not as obvious as you think. May I ask, do you discuss this elsewhere perhaps? I don't think it's fair to consider that s4s to the point where you believe s4ssers *should* be aware of such off-site discussions
>>13013640>>13013640>>13013640>>13013640>>13013640youre work only highlights the fact that Joshposter has been warning us all along. he truly is the savior of ñüfores who will bring us back to the golden age of ol'fores Your fortune: Reply hazy, try again
>>13013666Well not really, he deflected and obfuscated when pressed on what he was talking about. He's not interested in saving s4ssers, he'd rather they were caught in the cross-fire of his rudeness in the hopes that at least one of his posts hits his josh target. He has also revealed he doesn't know or care much about s4s in his responses, which lack full context of s4s culture or history
>>13013651Something tells me the guy posting his own name for hours per day might want attention being brought to his name, I'm not certainYour fortune: Reply hazy, try again
>>13013651you missed a bunch of threads and discussion then you sillyhead he was brought up a fair bit
I believe the guy who they call Josh is the person who posts shitty /pol/bait on [s4s] and /bant/. The people who respond to threads with 'Josh' are probably just random people doing it because it's funny.
>>13013691Are you implying the Josh poster is in fact the criminal known as Joshua Goldberg, whom he accuses others of being in a strange self-hateful display? And how is this relevant to the post you are replying to?
>>13013704lolnoYour fortune: Godly Luck
>>13013704I think Bob Marley literally is Josh. He posted his picture and they even look the same. As for making 50% of the posts on 4chan? I think that was a massive exaggeration by a pathological liar and narcissist
I don't think the original Joshposter is Josh. Half of this thread is Josh, howeverbiet.Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>13013704Bullshit joshposter is against polTo pol thread he usually reply "go back there, Josh"
>>13013698
>>13013705>whom he accuses others of being in a strange self-hateful display?Cross-reference the earliest instances of people replying with Josh(ua) to his threads, it starts with bewilderment and inability to figure out how people are identifying him to him sperging out and plastering it across irrelevant threads
>>13013721So the accurate and real josh accusations were buried under fake josh accusations created by josh himself? Is that what you're saying?
>>13013719Ok, but the guy he is calling Josh is the one making the /pol/threads I think. So Josh and Joshposter are different people? IDK man
>>13013731The data in this thread indicates that josh posting belongs overwhelmingly to a single person in US East
>>13013728Why does every post of yours end in a question mark?
>>13013741I'm very inquisitive
>>13013746Then my answer is indubitably yes
>>13013720lol
>>13013759>>13013759>>13013759>>13013759>>13013759correct me if im wrong but i believe its pronounced undoubtedly Your fortune: Outlook good
>>13013777 (trips)Shut it, Doc.Your fortune: Godly Luck
>>13013777Indubitable trips of a funny word that mean "no doubt"
>>13013795>>13013791>>13013795>>13013791>>13013795>>13013791excuse me but youre turgidity is showing...Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
I originally thought that this was some sort of Xitter meme that immigrated to esforechanes, though some h4xx0r1ng Internet searching and nitter didn't bring anything up.Your fortune: Average Luck
Goldberg, eh?
>>13013622nice investigative dubs>>13013666>>13013777i like the triplesYour fortune: Good Luck
>>13013910>>13013910>>13013910>>13013910>>13013910thank you for checking my're trips fren, your the real winrar in my're eyes <3>>13013910>>13013910>>13013910>>13013910>>13013910Your fortune: ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!
Weird post, Josh :^D
>>13013616Nice investigatory work, OP.Your fortune: Outlook good
idgi
Great detective work, Josh. :^)Your fortune: Godly Luck
idgaf
>>13015032hey, i didn't get a fern either! >:(
bro thinks anyone gives a shit about a malformed human
>>13015040like fr on a board where wish cado seuss and bavi neet post all day were supposed to be surprised malfunctioning losers post here lol
>>13015055Someone from here being arrested for terrorism is pretty significant and surprisingYou are just jealous nobody has taken similar interest in you
>>13015302>Someone from herelol
>>13013616my balls are itchy
crazy stuff
>>13015480bananas.
>>13015055dubs of correct
Remember that Anya could expose any one of you so be nice
>>13015040>bro thinks anyone gives a shit about a malformed human
>>13015055>malfunctioning losers post hereLMAO that's true but that includes you
>>13013620I still don't get why this guy would come here though. [s4s] is small potatoes compared to all the other places you can shitpost these days.
>>13013616If I may offer a guess, let me add that Joshua is a aramaic name that means "The Lord saves" in Greek, it was written as Jesus.
Is it Wednesday?
>>13016154Not anymore.
>>13013616i dont give a shit, fuck josh and fuck the joshposter i hope he dies and never post that unfunny shit ever againYour fortune: You will meet a dark handsome stranger
>>13016135its because the esfortres is such a smoll forest that evil abusers comehere, they feed on the pain and tears of little bearysYour fortune: Better not tell you now
>>13015712I'll be nice then.
>>13016913Oh fuck
