On July 20, Max added advertisements[1] sharty and disabled User CSS in an attempt to prevent 'teens from blocking the ads. He claimed he did this out of necessity, and that the ads are a temporary requirement to cover the costs of Kuz 's cancelled return and the transfer.
Stages of the incident Stage 1 At first, the ads were just floating banner ads[2]
Around the same time, he also put ads for a Russian imageboard called 2ch.hk at the start of every thread.[3]
Stage 2 The ads at their peak After Max saw that 'teens were using adblockers, he manually put an ad for blacked.com, making it bypass default adblocker settings.
Stage 3 Shortly after, Max doubled down and put blacked.com under every thread.
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Stage 5 Max's last measure was to add a second [Reply] button that leads to an ad, hoping you would accidentally click on it.
Aftermath Approximately one hour and a half after the incident started, Max gave up and removed all of the ads, claiming that the necessary fees have been paid out of pocket.[4]
