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4chan culture itself is derived from polish, finnish and japanese imageboard culture and 4chan has always had a large international userbase.



I’m sure it had. It doesn’t mean it had equivalent influence. In many places people won’t name it in their top 10 cultural phenomena of Internet of that period even if they would remember it, which is far from guaranteed.




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