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Joshposter investigation thread

By Anonymous | Updated 06/16/26(Tue)11:41:47

Joshposter investigation thread

Hello s4s
At the risk of rewarding an attention seeker with attention, I think it might be interesting to analyse a specific s4s user who has been spamming us recently.

Josh AKA Josh poster is recognised by his bot-like responses to threads which address an OP by name, as "Josh", often with belittling, insulting retorts. Typical examples are "Weird self-hate thread, Josh" "Stop trying to force memes, Josh." "We know you don't have any friends, Josh."

This obviously begs the question, who is "Josh"? Joshposter doesn't answer these questions, and would prefer to continue his act, accusing anyone who approaches him as being "Josh". This naturally led to much annoyance in the s4s community, like an annoying fly in the room. But, I hope this thread offers some peace to such people by answering these questions.

Move aside little girl, this is a job for the Star Detective Precure
>>>>>>Who is "Josh"?
At first there were many theories, as documented by the Esforesquire (>>12930129).
Such as:
Josh from Drake and Josh
Josh S AKA Akko poster
Joshua Conner Moon AKA null (kiwifarms admin)

While Joshposter won't answer this question directly, the clues are hidden across his post history. He describes someone who was in prison during 2021 (>>12996952) and has posted their mugshot (>>12921638). As some had already worked out, this matches Joshua Ryne Goldberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg
This person was arrested in 2015 for trying to orchestrate terrorist attacks, and given a 10-year sentence in 2018. But was released in 2024 and is somehow allowed to communicate freely on sites such as soyjak party and even here on s4s. Apparently he had some rivalry with Taco Kid (>>12924077). It's a shame Taco Kid is not around any more to ask. According to one user, Josh once claimed he was responsible for 50% of posts here (>>12918256). Scary stuff! Please stay safe on s4s!
>>>>>Who is the Josh poster(s)?
Well, now we know who "Josh" is. But who is Josh poster? Are there multiple josh posters? As mentioned, I've done some digging, and I have analysed the posting patterns of josh posting. I collected almost 2,000 posts, and here's what I've found.

Firstly, the hourly cycle of josh posting reveals something typical of a single user with a regular sleeping pattern. Hours here are shown in UTC, but this matches someone in the US, most likely east coast. From this we see he likes to post a lot before he goes to bed.
Note on usual s4s activity, it's roughly constant throughout the day, due to there being posters all over the world: https://archive.4plebs.org/s4s/statistics/activity/
Next, the weekly cycle. Things are roughly well-distibuted throughout the week, which may suggest the person is a NEET, though there is a slight rise at the weekend. Not easy to say much here. Finally here is both daily and weekly activity shown as a 2D graph. While the data is being stretched quite thing here, we do see some sporadic peaks outside of sleeping hours, but no obvious deviation seperating weekends from work/school routines. One more thing to mention is that I noticed joshposter has been hit by bans with deletions to all his posts within a time range, but he resumed posting shortly after, which would suggest ban evading. boring self post
it's Joshua Ryne Goldberg
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Joshposter is the living embodiment of esfores: a simple phrase of, "good post" followed by a name and it worked brilliantly. he now has people working overtime on the beautiful oc he has produced. God bless you Joshbestposter <3


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>>13013631
should be obvious to anyone here before summer
:^(


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>>13013632
I can see this unmasking makes you a little uncomfortable, but I just think it's important that s4s users are well-informed. The fact that psychopath criminals exist in our home is not good.
I feel sorry for severely autistic people like him >>13013636
In my research, only 2 s4s posts mentioned the correct Josh, so perhaps not as obvious as you think. May I ask, do you discuss this elsewhere perhaps? I don't think it's fair to consider that s4s to the point where you believe s4ssers *should* be aware of such off-site discussions
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youre work only highlights the fact that Joshposter has been warning us all along. he truly is the savior of ñüfores who will bring us back to the golden age of ol'fores


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>>13013666
Well not really, he deflected and obfuscated when pressed on what he was talking about. He's not interested in saving s4ssers, he'd rather they were caught in the cross-fire of his rudeness in the hopes that at least one of his posts hits his josh target. He has also revealed he doesn't know or care much about s4s in his responses, which lack full context of s4s culture or history
>>13013651
Something tells me the guy posting his own name for hours per day might want attention being brought to his name, I'm not certain

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>>13013651
you missed a bunch of threads and discussion then you sillyhead he was brought up a fair bit
I believe the guy who they call Josh is the person who posts shitty /pol/bait on [s4s] and /bant/. The people who respond to threads with 'Josh' are probably just random people doing it because it's funny. >>13013691
Are you implying the Josh poster is in fact the criminal known as Joshua Goldberg, whom he accuses others of being in a strange self-hateful display? And how is this relevant to the post you are replying to?
>>13013704
lolno

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>>13013704
I think Bob Marley literally is Josh. He posted his picture and they even look the same. As for making 50% of the posts on 4chan? I think that was a massive exaggeration by a pathological liar and narcissist
I don't think the original Joshposter is Josh. Half of this thread is Josh, howeverbiet.

Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>13013704
Bullshit joshposter is against pol
To pol thread he usually reply "go back there, Josh"
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>whom he accuses others of being in a strange self-hateful display?
Cross-reference the earliest instances of people replying with Josh(ua) to his threads, it starts with bewilderment and inability to figure out how people are identifying him to him sperging out and plastering it across irrelevant threads
>>13013721
So the accurate and real josh accusations were buried under fake josh accusations created by josh himself? Is that what you're saying?
>>13013719
Ok, but the guy he is calling Josh is the one making the /pol/threads I think. So Josh and Joshposter are different people? IDK man
>>13013731
The data in this thread indicates that josh posting belongs overwhelmingly to a single person in US East
>>13013728
Why does every post of yours end in a question mark?
>>13013741
I'm very inquisitive
>>13013746
Then my answer is indubitably yes
>>13013720
lol
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>>13013759
correct me if im wrong but i believe its pronounced undoubtedly


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>>13013777 (trips)
Shut it, Doc.

Your fortune: Godly Luck
>>13013777
Indubitable trips of a funny word that mean "no doubt"
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>>13013791
excuse me but youre turgidity is showing...


Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
I originally thought that this was some sort of Xitter meme that immigrated to esforechanes, though some h4xx0r1ng Internet searching and nitter didn't bring anything up.

Your fortune: Average Luck
Goldberg, eh? >>13013622
nice investigative dubs
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i like the triples

Your fortune: Good Luck
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thank you for checking my're trips fren, your the real winrar in my're eyes <3
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Weird post, Josh :^D

Josh is a reporter from /s4s/


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