What is a "get" thread?

[Darth Avlectus]

I once saw something on 4chan of "4m Get", but the only thing I saw of it was that the post was numbered exactly 4 million...what is the "get" part all about exactly? Would anybody care to explain it to me?

[Hallucination]

Here's a 4chan approved answer, don't click if you like your current level of sanity:

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http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Get

[Darth Avlectus]

Everything on encyclopedia dramatica is unresponsive...?

(Looks up and finds Oh internet)

 

So...it's more or less a competition to make a quota# for replies?

(And it unsurprisingly originated from 4chan)

That's IT?!

 

I want to start one here on LF but I'm not sure it could "GET" the traction required...