@Crossword:
Some of the stuff I see and read on 4chan alone nearly destroys my will to live on a weekly basis. I can hardly imagine what 2ch must be like.
I've always wondered how long it takes them to come up with those elaborate ASCII arts.
There codes to copy images into ASCII text format. You open the image and it generates an ASCII approximation of the image.
Here is one website who does that: http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/
And here is my avatar in ASCII (80 characters) as an example:
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