/trash/ History

Early History

On Saturday, November the 7th, 2015, Gookmoot made one of his patented bad decisions and created /trash/. It was intended, as the name would suggest, to act as a place for the rest of the site's garbage; off-topic threads from all over 4chan would be moved there, and it would act as a chaotic free-for-all where anons could shitpost freely without fear of thread removal. This utopian ideal, however, could not survive the furfag hordes. Barely two hours after its creation, /trash/ saw the first instance of furry porn on the board, and it was all downhill from there.

Visual representation of early attempts at a /trash/ 4chan Cup team

Attempts to bring the 4chan Cup to /trash/ began shortly after the founding. Several threads were held on the board's first day of existence trying to scrounge together a roster and aesthetics, and eventually, a manager core of Janitor, Rum Dumpster, and Cousin Vinny was formed. A (mostly) functional team was able to take the pitch during the 2016 4chan Winter Cup Unfriendlies, beating the also recently formed  /his/ 3-2 on January 30th. The future of the humble /trash/man looked bright; resentment over /trash/ as a board, however, had already been brewing.

More so than even now, the /trash/ of 2015-2016 was a hive of furries, horsefuckers, and avatarfags. The lack of Global Rule 15 on the board meant that almost any thread created there could and would be flooded with smug ponies and the genitalia of cartoon animals, leading to a perhaps not unwarranted bad reputation on the rest of the site. Many in the 4chan Cup community, especially those near the top, were at least outwardly opposed to the existence of such a board, and were especially opposed to such a board being included in the Cup. Adding to their collective anger,  /mlp/'s recent victory in 2015 Summer led to concerns over the so-called "imaginary red /mlp/" of /trash/ becoming nothing more than a satellite state to the almighty horse. This was such an issue, in fact, that the aforementioned Winter Cup Friendlies squad had to be edited to remove any mentions of My Little Pony. Despite this mandated board culture removal, however, /trash/ continued their quest for legitimacy.

As Spring 2016 approached, the way forward appeared murky. Numerous /trash/ Cup threads were being invaded and derailed by anons from the popular Hunger Games RP threads, confusion over whether or not /trash/ would be allowed to play in Spring, and a host of other factors led to declining interest in the team. The managers, seeing the current state of the threads and the team as a whole, made the decision to skip the Spring Babby to try and improve the quality of the team and put forward a better product in Autumn.

On Monday, May 16th, 2016, the sky fell. A new tradition began; after every official 4chan Cup, the last place team would face off against /trash/ in what was called the Wooden Spoon Match. The team, however, was not the one voted upon by the denizens of the board. Instead, an idea from one of the threads was expanded upon, and every roster slot was filled with a player that had once played for another team. To make matters worse, the players were shortened and weakened as badly as the game allowed, making the Wooden Spoon Match a glorified massacre. Four times a year, a team is trotted out under the banner of /trash/, and four times a year, they lose. At the same time, edit wars raged on the wiki as the /trash/ faithful tried to control the damage caused by the above match and certain Seinfeld enthusiasts. The battles were only ended when administrator f4r stepped in, leaving the quote:

"/trash/ will never play as a regular team. Don't bother getting into an edit war with an admin, you won't win."

— f4r

The /trash/ managers fled the page, seeking to preserve their work elsewhere, but the damage had been done. Some of these splinter pages can still be found, but they were never able to ascend to the same momentum the movement once had. The threads on /trash/ fizzled out, and despite brief revival attempts during the Summer of 2017 and Winter of 2018, the dreams of /trash/men everywhere to see their team take the pitch appeared to be well and truly dead.

Modern Times

Four years passed, and the 2021 4chan World Cup was drawing to a close. Garbage Week, a multi-day edition of the Garbage Day celebrations that had been the home of /trash/ for more than half a decade, was in full swing; a tournament of losers was taking place, and  /pol/ was losing slightly too efficiently for the tastes of the rigger who shall not be named. Perhaps as a joke, or perhaps as an act of divine intervention from RNGesus himself, the rigger issued a declaration; if /pol/ won the Garbage Day tournament and then lost to /trash/, /trash/ would be permitted to take /pol/'s place in official tournaments. Thunder cracked the sky, and an unstoppable series of events began. /pol/ did indeed win that Garbage Day tournament, but on the day of their duel against /trash/, a Faustian bargain took place. The rigger broke his promise and denied /trash/ their destiny, instead replacing /pol/ with  /fit/ in the final match.

"[Sick Bassline]"

— Spic

Mere minutes after the betrayal, a strange thing happened. Instead of the final breaking of the /trash/man's resolve, the board of degenerates grew wings and began to fly. Threads were created decrying the rigging of /trash/'s fate, and calls to form a new team began anew. Several threads and no small amount of autism later, a new squad emerged. A new era of /trash/ had begun, an era of which the history is still being written.