What is The Chads of /a/?

It's a bundle of 4chan /a/ board slang and image macros tied to Dragon Ball Super threads, used to shitpost or rank things above others in catalog arguments.

Where did The Chads of /a/ come from?

The exact phrase surfaced in a 2017 /a/ reply to a poster who had complained about duplicate threads; the responder called the DBS threadgoers the "Chads of /a/".

What does The Chads of /a/ mean?

It's a half-ironic badge /a/ posters use to crown Dragon Ball Super (and themselves) as superior to other shonen and moe anime on the board.

How do you use The Chads of /a/?

Posters invoke the phrase or related bits like "Enter CHADren," "I Kneel" Vegeta and Gohan Blanco edits to mock rivals or hype Super inside any /a/ debate.

Is The Chads of /a/ still popular?

The DBS thread culture that spawned it is still an /a/ fixture, with "I Kneel" alone logged at over 14,000 posts on 4chan since the original reply.

The Chads of /a/

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Published November 12, 2026

"The Chads of /a/" is a bundle of shitposting slang and image macros that grew out of 4chan's Dragon Ball Super threads on the anime board /a/. The titular phrase first surfaced in a 2017 /a/ post sniping at a user who complained about duplicate threads1. By 2019, that posture had spawned recurring bits like Gohan Blanco, "I Kneel" Vegeta and AIIIEEEEEEEE-posting, which spread to other 4chan boards3.

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Overview

Posters on /a/ use Dragon Ball Super thread slang to rank one anime, character or faction above another during catalog arguments, often to bait replies from rival fandoms3. A typical post places Super above other shonen and moe anime, with the "Chads of /a/" label worn half-ironically by Super fans. Two warring camps inside the DBS threads earned their own insults, "Toyotard" and "Toeipedros," slurs tossed between opposing fans during any argument about the show3.

Posters expanded the bit with new copypastas and reaction images. Jiren spawned the "Enter CHADren" copypasta, a wall of text praising his strength that often appears alongside the kneeling Vegeta image3. Gohan Blanco, a bootleg Latin-American Gohan edit, became a thread mascot alongside spin-off characters like El Hermano and El Grande Padre2. Together, these bits work as shorthand for the /a/ in-group inside any Super thread.

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Origin & Background

Platform

4chan /a/

Date

2017

An anonymous /a/ poster first used the "Chads of /a/" line in 2017, inside a thread where one user scolded another for not checking the catalog before starting a new thread; the reply flipped the complaint by applying the label to the DBS threadgoers themselves1. Dragon Ball Super thread-style posting had been building for months before that line appeared. The slurs "Toyotard" and "Toeipedros" trace back to December 2016, with the second word landing about ten days after the first3.

How It Spread

DBS thread culture bled outward as Super approached its finale. During the Tournament of Power arc, Jiren memes jumped to other 4chan boards, and the "Fine, I kneel" Vegeta image became an exploitable with pop-culture faces swapped in; archives log over 14,000 related posts on 4chan since the first one3.

On September 22, 2018, YouTuber Arioch Capi "The End" Joseph Caiaphas uploaded an explainer about the Gohan Blanco meme's origin on /a/, and the video sits at more than 52,700 views2. AIIIEEEEEEEE-posting surfaced around August 2019, lifted from a Portuguese Dragon Ball Z dub where Vegeta screams during his defeat by Frieza3. That scream caption became a go-to for mocking any character or company getting humiliated, and it travelled from /a/ to /v/ and other boards4.

Timeline

2016-12

"Toyotard" slur appears in /a/ Dragon Ball Super threads, followed by "Toeipedros" about ten days later.

2017

The exact "Chads of /a/" phrase is first used on /a/, in a reply ribbing a poster who complained about duplicate threads.

2018-09-22

YouTuber Arioch Capi uploads a long explainer on the Gohan Blanco meme's origins inside /a/ DBS threads.

2019-08

AIIIEEEEEEEE-posting takes off in /a/ DBS threads, drawn from a Portuguese Dragon Ball Z dub of Vegeta's death scene.