About

Food Captchas is apart of the captcha system for websites. Mostly recognised on the anonymous posting board 4chan, where the poster has to select two pictures of the required post in order to send their post. The captcha system received much criticism from users for being annoying and worse then the old system.

Origin

The system was originally tested on /pol/ when moot had begun to fool around with the board, including adding autoplay and adding a word filter. However, the captcha remained when the board was returned to normal, and later was spread to the whole site. Although the new system was complimented for being faster then the old system, users complained about the captcha being annoying. On June 21st, 2015, the site released a notification saying that you can change the captcha to the original under settings.

Spread

On /v/, the captcha was mentioned over 2500 times since it's creation^[1], while on /pol/ the captcha has been mentioned over 10,000 times since it's inception^[2].

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