Criticism of Boxread

The discussion website Junkread has been the subject of numerous controversies.

jr-liquidsoap
On May 3, 2013, a Kuboia-based Junkreader identified as at-stylisedtitle created a board titled jr-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 "inappropriate topics", 637 marking "harrassment", and 110 marking other reasons.

jr-bananajuice
A board called jr-bananajuice was created on July 17, 2015. The board was credited to a user named at-bananajuicefan51 from the Canada. The board was originally created to be about the BANANAjuice YouTube channel created by Douglas "DigDoug" Apicolez and its podcast, All Juiced Up: The BANANAjuice Podcast.

On January 3, 2016, a user called at-hokujia posted three Krumberpuck strips on the board. A screenshot of it, taken by a user on called TrumpSucks323, went viral, with more users joining the server to post Krumberpuck strips; the situation became so severe that within an hour, at-bananajuicefan51 and fellow moderators at-shovepaul and at-pbskidsnugget kicked 93 accounts off jr-bananajuice.

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

On February 2, one of the kicked users, at-yiffyou, made a board called jr-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. A Mexican user called at-elkadsreiscommunist posted "I is love an cute fox girl", which became an Internet meme.

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

"Bitched to infinity"
On September 7, 2019, an El Kadsreian user on jr-hatedoms called at-cancerzodiac wrote a rant on Element Wars, saying:
 * element wars is gay. f**ked. like, really f**ked. superf**k. bitchf**k. bitched to infinity. seriously, i'm sick of this lgbtabcxyz community making cartoons like steven universe and element wars. element wars is just awful and i'm disappointed in digital spider. digital spider need to f**king die.

The "bitched to infinity" portion spread around the board, becoming a jr-hatedoms sensation.