Criticism of Boxread

The discussion website Junkread has hosted numerous controversial boards, with topics ranging from entertainment to outright violence.

j/furryass
On February 1, 2017, more than 200 users were kicked off the board j/furry by moderators for spamming uncensored -related images, which violated the board's rules.

On February 2, one of the kicked users, p/yiffyou, made a board called j/furryass, dedicated to posts about yiffing. As of February 7, 194 users had joined. The board also spawned many Internet memes, including the " created furries" meme.

On May 19, 2018, the board was deleted by administrator p/chris due to complains about discrimination and the board's explicit sexual content.

j/hatedoms
On September 7, 2019, an El Kadsreian user on j/hatedoms called p/cancerzodiac wrote a rant on Sotoshi School, saying:


 * sotoshi school is gay. fucked. like, really fucked. superfucked. bitched to infinity. seriously, i'm sick of this lgbtabcxyz community making cartoons like steven universe and sotoshi school. sotoshi school is just awful and I'm disappointed in cheesenova. cheesenova needs to fucking get fucked.

The "bitched to infinity" portion spread around the board, becoming a j/hatedoms phenomenon.

The term became controversial after a user called p/cocainetelevision released an image of Bluey Heeler, the main character of the Australian animated preschool television series , stabbing his sister, Bingo, and at the bottom is the text "Bluey: Bitched To Infinity" in red Arial Black. Versions of the image with different fonts spread around the Internet, including one posted by a Junkreader called p/sloshyworstchannel, with the text "Stabber Bluey" in the image. The term Stabber Bluey was then used to refer to these images. Although the Stabber Bluey meme died down in popularity after Bluey distributor began sending cease-and-desist letters to various websites the meme was spreading around (as well as sending a letter to the original fan artist, a Bluey fan on j/cartoons called p/goat17383 who drew it as a joke), the "bitched to infinity" meme continued in popularity, even after p/cancerzodiac got their account suspended for hate speech on another board, j/animanga.

j/leadeaters
On June 21, 2015, administrator p/tony deleted the board j/leadeaters, a board dedicated to posting footage of suicide attempts. The board had become infamous in the years leading up to it's ban due to the toxic mentality of the users that inhabited the board (one of the most popular posts on the board was a picture of a transgender woman who had hung herself, captioned "Burn in hell, tr***y"), with p/tony citing the toxic userbase of the board as the main reason it was banned.

j/liquidsoap
On May 3, 2013, a Kuboia-based Junkreader identified as p/stylisedtitle created a board titled j/liquidsoap. Despite reaching 1.1 million subscribers, the board was criticized due to its discussions of controversial topics, including Nazis, neo-Nazis, and racial stereotypes. According to Shut Up News, the board was reported 1,286 times, with 539 reports marking as "inappropriate topics", 637 marking as "harassment", and 110 marking other reasons. On April 22, 2014, Junkread deleted j/liquidsoap board and released an apology via j/Junkread.

j/NinjaSaladOfficial
In January 2014, a documented 128 posts were reported on j/NinjaSaladOfficial due to the posts containing pornographic images. The users that created the posts, p/SIKUFUR and p/BadKidHotBoy, had their accounts suspended.

j/SecretFuckerSociety
On May 1, 2021, a user called p/Death2Brian_123 created a board called j/SecretFuckerSociety. Although p/Death2Brian_123 was the only user part of the board for a while, on May 19, 2021, over 20,000 users joined reportedly within the span of six seconds, and these users began making racist and homophobic posts. The board was deleted on May 20, 2021 at 12:13 PM EST.

j/ATCO
j/ATCO was a board that was created to post "articles" that parody BlueAuto's perceived liberal bias; the name of the board is an initialism of "after that came out", a phrase frequently used by BlueAuto's writers. Users are warned that by joining j/ATCO, they will be banned from other Junkread boards such as j/PersonalOpinions (a board based around expressing opinions, as well as confessing personal thoughts), j/SRAPOP (a discussion board for fans of the cartoon She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), j/LiberalsForChrist, and j/SocialJustice, the latter of the four being a discussion board for social justice activists that had been targeted for brigading by j/ATCO users. Throughout the late 2010s, j/ATCO has been criticized for the toxicity of its comments, some of which containing far-right and pro-Trump themes. More than 200 j/ATCO members have had their accounts suspended for hate speech on the board.

j/noreastersunite
On June 15, 2015, a native named Roger Knickerbocker (a voice actor and multimedia artist in the  area), going by the handle p/professionalagawamman, created a board titled j/noreastersunite as a discussions place for people living in the Northeastern United States, Central Canada, and the Canadian Maritimes.

On August 12, 2015, a Junkreader from named p/electricboogaloo611 posted a drawing of Eckhart, the main character of, shooting people with an AK-47. Versions of the image spread around the board, some even layering the heads of the people Eckhart was shooting at with the names of some of their real-life rivals; the situation became so severe that within an hour, p/professionalagawamman and fellow moderators p/quebecnordiquesfan and p/hiimpaul kicked 35 accounts off j/noreastersunite.

A day later, the Presque Isle police went to p/electricboogaloo611's house, and p/electricboogaloo611 was revealed to be a 26-year old artist named Alan le Gall (better known on as TheGrimlockFanboy). He said he drew the original artwork as a response to a troll telling him to "grow up and stop watching stupid-ass baby shows". Alan was let off with a warning from the police.

j/furrierass
On September 20, 2018, five Junkreaders (p/freespeechbro, p/slimshady69, p/iloveliberty, p/topsyturvy, and p/turvytopsy) joined j/furrierass (a "more controlled" remake of j/furryass by p/elkadsreiscommunist and ex-j/furryass moderator p/opalotterfan23). The group then posted various far-right Krumberpuck strips throughout the evening, which stirred controversy with the userbase and even spread to other boards.

At midnight on September 21, all four accounts were IP-blocked by p/chris, along with various other spammers. p/krumberpuck (the creator of the original Krumberpuck strips) issued a statement through j/StarTrek saying in part:


 * "I can't believe that some people use the dark humor of Krumberpuck strips to promote actual far-right beliefs. I cannot approve of Krumberpuck strips that encourage racism and violence."

Unlike j/furryass, j/furrierass wasn't deleted following the incident.

p/behonest
In August 2019, ETVKK After Hours was criticized for endorsing the doxxing of Morgan Debney, a 30-year old British Junkreader living in, ; when fans of the website revealed him to be the true identity of user p/behonest, who made several posts and comments on j/rockandmetal critical of Christian rock artists such as Stryper and Skillet, as well as a few other bands. Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld, himself a rock music fan, stated it was "repellent to unleash the resources of a social media brand on some unemployed, anonymous man for the misdemeanor of trivially mocking musicians and bands". ETVKK host JP Reeve criticized ETVKK After Hours fans for "wanting to take out a hit job on somebody with a opinion, no matter how worthless said opinion is."

Debney stated he would sue El TV Kadsre Television Network for "believing the rubbish ideal of hunting down somebody for having an opinion is true", and created a GoFundMe page to raise money for legal costs, with a goal of £62,000. As of September 1, 2019, he had raised £2,000.

p/coolcathatesyou
On September 26, 2019, the headquarters of  (the regulatory and competition authority for the British telecommunications industry) was evacuated due to a perceived shooting threat posted in a comments thread on j/movies by an American Junkreader from,  named p/coolcathatesyou, wherein he threatened to "bust a cap" in a UK internet network hub if British Junkreaders didn't "quit with saying things like rubbish" and "learn that britannia stopped ruling the waves eons ago".

Two hours later, the went to his house, and p/coolcathatesyou was revealed to be a 19-year old boy named Joshua Polaris Orr. Joshua was subsequently hospitalized at a mental health facility in due to severe stress and anxiety.

p/WH1T3_B0Y
On January 31, 2019, a Mantralian white nationalist called p/WH1T3_B0Y was banned from j/stupid for spamming far-right content. In February, the user created three boards respectively named j/fucktheleft, j/rightwing4ever, and j/rightwingboys; they used these boards to spam far-right posts that promoted violence and discrimination. Although they were the only j/fucktheleft and j/rightwing4ever member, j/rightwingboys reached more than 2,000 members before all three boards were deleted on February 20, 2020, and p/WH1T3_B0Y had their account suspended.