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Apr 5, 2024 · Poole, known by his online pseudonym “moot,” witnessed rapid growth and engagement on 4chan, transforming it into a vibrant online hub where social norms were often disregarded and humor knew no bounds.
Christopher Poole founded the messageboard site in 2003 as a 15-year-old under the pseudonym “moot” and it quickly became one of the most influential online communities ever.
- Time Magazine Poll
- Canvas
- DrawQuest
- Closure
- Chris Poole Announces Retirement
- Moot's Final 4chan Q&A
- Employment at Google
- Advocacy of Online Anonymity
- Stature Within 4chan
- Dispute with Moot.It
In April 2009, a website was launched for the annual Time 100 poll to decide who would be given that year's title of World's Most Influential Person. After the link was posted on 4chan, Anons decided to work together to skew the results. Eventually they were able to vote moot to the top of the list, and also managed to vertically spell out “marblec...
Canvas is a social web application focused on remixing media (mostly images) using a built in image editing tools. On May 14th, 2010, TechCrunch reported that Poole had managed to raise $625,000 in funding for the project. A private beta was launched on January 31st, 2011, with only 4,000 invites. On September 6th, 2011, Canvas announced on their o...
DrawQuest is a mobile gaming app that allows users to participate in drawing challenges on their smart phones or tablets. In the game, users would be presented with quests, or prompts, that often involved a single doodle given to the user that they would have to draw a scene around. The app was originally launched for the iPad in February 2013 and ...
On January 21st, 2014, Poole announced on his blogthat DrawQuest and Canvas had failed as business ventures and both products would be closing. In the blog post, he explained: The same day, similar announcements were made on the official blogs of DrawQuest and Canv.as to notify all users that they would try to keep the service up for a few months, ...
On January 21st, 2015, Poole published an update on the 4chan news blogannouncing his retirement as site administrator after eleven-and-a-half years, assuring that 4chan would continue in his absence. Furthermore, Poole stated that he felt it was time to move on and that he needed "time away to decompress and reflect" from the pressures of being th...
On January 23, 2015, Poole hosted a "goodbye" livestream on the official 4chan YouTube channel, during which he answered questions from the /qa/ board. The Q&A lasted 8 hours and reached 12 threadsduring the stream, which averaged 40,000 viewers during it's length and had a view count of over 1.5 million after it finished rendering on YouTube. Duri...
On March 7th, 2016, Poole published a post on his Tumblr blog announcing he had accepted a position at Googleand was looking forward to contributing his "experience from a dozen years of building online communities." On March 7th, 2016, Google Plus'vice president of streams, photos and sharing Bradley Horowitz confirmed Poole would be joining his t...
Poole spoke during the TED2010 conference about the importance of online anonymity on February 10th, 2010 (shown below, left). He contrasted anonymous websites like 4chan to sites like Facebook and Twitter that encourage the sharing of personal information. Poole expressed a similar sentiment during his keynote presentation at South by Southwest In...
On 4chan, specifically within the random "/b/" board, moot is regarded as a celebrity of sorts and is often featured in threads dedicated to posting various images of the site's creator. Several exploitables exist that use photos of moot. As of November 2012, there are more than 23,300 Chanarchive threads that mention moot. Additionally, a Facebook...
In late November 2012, Christopher Poole's lawyers sent a formal letter (shown below) to Moot.It, a San Francisco-based startup company planning to release customizable commenting software. The letter states that "moot" is part of Poole's right of publicity under New York State law as well as a trademark of 4chan, arguing that since the name repres...
Sep 28, 2018 · Christopher Poole, known online as “moot,” founded the forum-based social network 4chan when he was 15. Coding in secret, he spent late nights in high school hiding his online life from his...
Sep 3, 2014 · At the time, ‘moot’ — as Poole is known on 4Chan — was a 21-year-old still living at home, $20,000 in debt and unable to monetize his site, despite hosting 5 million monthly users. The ...
Jun 2, 2010 · http://www.ted.com The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launche...
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Mar 14, 2011 · Canvas, a new Web site by Christopher Poole, the founder of the notorious 4chan site, has attracted interest and financing from respected venture capitalists.
