About
Goodnight 4chan Threads are threads on the imageboard 4chan where the original post simply says “goodnight”, followed by the name of whatever board the thread was posted on. These threads are often accompanied by several recurring kinds of images.
Origin
Goodnight threads have been posted to 4chan for a very long time, reaching back to at least 2008.[1] Over time, the images accompanying these threads have picked up two trends: one based on a drawing of a man made in MS Paint sleeping in a bed, and the other one based on an image of the character Mona sleeping on a futon. The Mona variant is the older variant, dating back to 2009 and originating on /a/ (Anime & Manga).[3] The MS Paint variant dates back to 2011.[4]
Spread
The MS Paint variant image has been posted over 900 times on 4chan. The Mona variant image has been posted nearly 500 times. A screencap of a thread featuring the MS Paint drawing was posted onto the subreddit /r/4chan in 2015, where it gained over 2000 upvotes.[2]
Example Images
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Search Interest
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External References
[1]Archive.moe – Search: goodnight /a/
[2]Reddit – Anon wishes /b/ a good night
[3]Archive.moe – More searching
[4]Archie.moe – Even more searching