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Apr 5, 2024 · Today I announced my retirement from @4chan, a community I founded at the age of 15 and have served for 11.5 years: https://t.co/jEMsDf5nfz. — Chris Poole (@moot) January 21, 2015. In September 2015, he officially passed the reins of 4chan to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of 2chan.
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website launched by Christopher Poole, also known as "moot", in 2003. It hosts various topics, from anime and gaming to politics and sports, and is known for its Internet subculture, memes, and controversies.
- English
- Christopher Poole
- October 1, 2003; 20 years ago
- Hiroyuki Nishimura
- Forget College, Start in High School
- Growing Up Online
- Not Just Bronies
- Protecting Our Online Anonymity
ReadWrite:What’s it like to be a founder and a coder at the same time? Chris Poole:Actually, I would say I don’t even fall into that bucket. I was probably a better programmer as a teenager than I am today. Which is kind of like the inverse of I guess what’s normally the case. I don’t count programming as one of my talents. So I spent a number of y...
RW: So why did you keep it on anonymous? Why didn’t you tell anyone? CP: It was a privacy and safety thing. I was young and wasn’t even 18. The site had some, even in the early stages, inappropriate content like the pornography would be posted to it and choice language. I just didn’t think it would be appropriate if others found out about it. Later...
RW:4chan has become a springboard for many memes. Did you ever imagine that it would be so influential? CP:No I didn’t imagine it. But I think that it makes sense [because] the two things that really define 4chan are its anonymity and the ephemerality of its content. So the anonymity I’ve advocated in the past for allowing people to share using a p...
RW:Let’s touch again on the anonymous thing. You’ve been a large proponent of maintaining anonymity online, and even the hacker group Anonymous was formed on 4chan. Is there a message that you want to give people regarding Internet privacy, especially now with the NSA and big Internet companies coming under fire for user privacy? CP:Yeah, I’ve alwa...
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. 4chan allows users...
Apr 22, 2021 · Chris Poole, also known as "Moot", created the controversial online community 4chan in 2003 and sold it in 2015. He joined Google in 2016 as a product manager, but his roles and reasons for leaving are unclear.
Mar 13, 2015 · Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, the notorious image board that became a hub of memes, mayhem and controversies, reveals why he walked away from the site in 2015. He talks about his personal struggles, his vision for 4chan and his legacy in this interview.
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Sep 3, 2014 · Meet Christopher Poole, the mysterious founder of 4Chan. By Thomas Johnson. September 3, 2014 at 1:01 p.m. EDT. Hundreds of racy pictures of big-name celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence...
