Oh God, is moot a hipster?

>>10795655
Dunno, looks more like a legion of child molesters behind him there.
Hipster in this one, perhaps.

>>10795655
>jeans and t shirt
>hipster

>>10795655

My meter detects a certain amount of nerd rage toward hipsters in your post.

That's a long fucking article.

Good. moot should finally make some money off 4chan.

>>10795718

>Implying he's not already rich

>>10795730
>Implying he's not in debt

that one bitch looks hot

i'd fuck her, if you know what i mean

i hate it that he literally did nothing, doesn't know how to code, copy and pasted this site, and got famous.

If there is a god, hes an asshole.

This is a rather good article, probably one of the first I've read that really succeeds in conveying the spirit of 4chan as a whole, without making it seem like something it's not.

>>10795736

>Implying you can be in debt if you own an Alexa ranked Top 1000 site

>>10795748

because initiative and vision are totally unimportant

Damn those guys look badass.

>>10795748
>implying 4chan is not your life

>>10795763
>implying companies would want to advertise on 4chan

>>10795763
>implying that you know what the fuck you're talking about

>>10795768
Dohoho

>>10795768
they're the mods arent they? which one is you?

>>10795768
Which one are you? I hope it's the /fit/ looking one on the right.

>>10795768
Except for the guy 2nd from the right

I want to be one of moot's hipster-follower-anons.

>>10795647
Is that a female?

>turtle feed

So...

Who are the people in the background?

>>10795797

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BRO FIST

IF YOU DONT POST THIS TO 5 BROS THEN YOU ARENT A BRO

>>10795768
lol ure a funy guyy

Fukcin lame.

>>10795802
Yeah, it is Spoony.

>>10795743

smudgling her cornhole dry of resources if thats what you mean

>>10795803
Mods I'm guessing.

that's a whole lot of words for basically a site that was started up because a bunch of teenagers wanted hentai

>First comment
>HURR TEENAGER MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY SAY ON INTERNET THEY ENTIRE LIFE
This article was posted on the wrong website.

>>10795788

>Implying they wouldn't
>Implying that they don't currently do so

>>10795802
yeah, he had to add a female for his image.
:D

>>10795806
>>10795768
Hey.
Hey.

Why are there no mods on /mu/?
Why don't you guys just ban all the tripfags?
What the fuck?

>>10795647
wow. Moot got fucking noodle-arms.

>>10795803


I'm guessing guys in the back are supposed to be 'anonymous' except instead of V. masks they have aviators. lol.

>>10795806
I HOPE THIS ISN'T BLOXD

helo I am moot welcum 2 my websight

>>10795835

This is what the photographer was going for. He had all the hats and glasses ready for us.

What are each of the mods names?

Which boards does the female moderate?

/d/?

Only 2 mods in this pic.

So I guess we really are getting a new version of 4chan. Eh, not too shabby.

>>10795887
Who are the other 3 then?
Obviously not Janitors, do they maintain the servers or something?

>>10795699
Not really, I dress like a hipster also, however my jeans are skinnier than his.

>>10795678
He lives in NYC. We have hipsters, EVERYWHERE.

>>10795905
Either admins or moots fluffers is my guess.

>>10795905

Goons

Hired goons

>>10795838
moot looks kinds like a raptor in this picture..

Speaking of hipster, I posted this a link on my Tumblr!

Am I cool yet?

"The time had come, he felt, for something like a reboot. After seven years of administrative and technological tweaks to 4chan, he no longer sees it as a project much in need of his creative attention."

Well, fuck.

>>10795905

Friends - this is the most obvious answer, but I guess we're on /r9k/ and the userbase doesn't have much experience with that.

I'm gonna guess these are the two mods. Both are rather scrawny, arranged directly behind moot, and the one on the right has a thin moustache.

Moot and his league of extra-ordinary gentlemen

>>10795944
HEY, FUCK YOU BUDDY.

Why would Moot bring his friends along anyway, it doesn't make much sense?

MODS ARE CUNTS

It's clear that the others are moot's blow up dolls

>>10795944

bullshit. my suffering is deep and unique and my status as social outcast is meaningful to me. i am both intellectually and morally superior to everyone else *because* i have no friends. by rejecting socialization i am not tainted by braindead popular culture and the sexual ball and chain that the rest of you are tied down to has no effect on me

i am anonymous. i am a hacker on steroids. I R LEEJUN

>>10795944

I lol'd.

If there was some cosmic rhyme or reason behind the universe, moot should be getting paid for this site soon. Think of all the hopeless basement dwellers that survive almost entirely by 4chan?

>>10795968

also, my dick is so far up my own ass it pokes out of my mouth.

>>10795968

You're on r9k - i hardly believe that you wholeheartedly believe this.

>>10795947

That was my guess too.

wishes

what the fuck is this shit
this article is almost sensible
not enough exploding vans

>>10795832
Here, again.
No, seriously. You guys need to get your act together on that board.

In the AMs today, I was able to drive a tripfag off of the board (so he said), because he was retarded and made it easy to find everything about him. But he came back!

So clearly, I can't solve 4chan's 'tard problem by myself. Which is why you guys need to remove the ability to trip (or just names in general, really).

I get that they're for identification when you're the OP of a thread or something, but there has to be a better way for that. Just have a little random number where the name place is, and the number stays on as long as you are posting in a certain thread. Changes for each thread, that way you don't have people being all "oh, look, it's 8792154".

I don't know.

>Mfw the mod anonymously made this topic

yup

captcha turned anynie

>>10796002
The guy who wrote it is an actual tech writer and wrote a book about how some people got rich off MMORPGs.

> Japanese cartoon erotica
> cartoon

Oh, you!

>The disease is a total lack of tolerance for the differing views of others in our society.

>4chan users don't agree with me therefore they are wrong

>mfw complete hypocrisy

>>10795647

AHAHHAHAHAA MOOT IS A FUCKING WEEABOO

>Japanese animation

HAHAHAHAH

Chiclets with onion sauce on the side with a dish of onions

>onion Chiclets

>>10796012

>still thinks forced anon will stop people from attention whoring

hey mods, why do you let so many non vidya related threads survive in /v/?
you could just go on a banning spree for a week and people would stop posting them.

also, when are you guys going to off kimmo so we can get rid of the captchas?

> 4CHAN INTO FORTUNE?

Ahahahaha. I get it 'Fortune' - '4tune' - '4chun' - '4chan'

>>10796069
herpaderpaflerpaslurp

>>10795944
Wait mods visit /r9k/? I thought this place was just a shit heap that was ignored as a failed project left to hemmorage and die on its own failure.

>>10796109
It'd be better than it is now.

I don't like mods. I don't know if they can but I get the feeling they know when i'm samefagging and lol at me.

>>10796151
moot loves /r9k/

The girl is MDGeist, isn't she? A lot of us are dieing to know.

>>10795947
I am pretty sure it's the girl, and the guy on the far right.

>>10796069

do you have any notion of how 4chan started?

protip: look at the banners

>>10796015
>>10796015

> mfw coming: duke nukem forever

>>10796163
sup mod, what'cha samefagging for?

>>10796121
Why don't you just post good threads yourself and encourage others to do the same.

Mods can't control the quality of posters.

>>10796069
this is an anime focused image board that was spawned of an anime thread. how could you not know moot was a weaboo.

>>10796169
what I thought he hated us.
hence beta as fuck.

Can we stop talking about the mod now and get back on subject.

>>10796211
And a 'gangbang of whing'

moot is clearly disapoint.

>>10796197
>>10796197

>moot
>weeaboo

AKAKIN YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART

>>10796190
I do, trust me.
But, I believe there should be a draconian law set up for people who post shit threads.

>>10796214
answer the questions faggot.

> whing
Whining...

Whoops.

>>10796178
The girl is Spoony, a moderator.

>>10796211
>>10796225
>>10796169
mootykins once had high hopes for /r9k/. In was sort of a prototype for changes to the board/new ventures (i.e. canv.as). He has since done this: >>10796151 and occasionally likes to torment the dying board.

>>10796190
I like to think that I do.
In fact, just a week or so ago I made a classical music thread that really went well, in my opinion.
Good amount of posts, and pretty much zero trolling (there was one dude who was a bit of a dick, but he left after a post or two). I was surprised.

Anyway, maybe not the general anonymous poster, but getting rid of some of the more useless tripfags would really be an improvement, in my opinion.

For example, there's a trio of tripfags that just post images from the anime "K-On!", I don't think that I've even seen them discuss music. Why shouldn't they be banned?

>>10796262
The problem was he trusted the 4chan community to come together and produce something that wasn't shit. He should've been able to tell by /b/ even at that point that it wasn't going to work. too many fags.

hmmm... he's making a new site? Canvas? I'm not sure what to make of this. I'll have looksy when it goes online I guess.

>>10796273
Here.

Whoops, I thought that he was responding to my /mu/ related complaints. Whatever, point still stands.

I was at the office interning when this was release and still at the office. Basically rehash of news from previous articles.

My Dad has been trying to get me to read 'Power Broker' since I started college thanks to my major. Robert Moses is a god tier troll. I wonder how much it costs on Amazon. I should take a look...

>>10796273
FORCED_ANON would help of course.. One less tripfag means one less ego. And I think they should at least have some of the boards FORCED_ANON[maybe split up the popular boards and have half of them have forced_anon]

But other then that and banning people there isn't much that team4chan can do to increase poster quality.

>>10796297
canv.as

It's already online, and we've known it was coming for what, almost a year now?

>>10796342

The kind of people who want forced anon are the kind of people that post more about tripfags than about actual on topic stuff.

Get the fuck over it, nobody cares. If you want a better board stop moaning.

Here's the mod on /sp/ confessing to having his fat ass fingers slip all over the keyboard while he was drinking his fizzy drink and swallowing his XBOX HEUGE Taco Bell Burrito

>>>/sp/7256404

>>10796370
I'm not one of the posters that constantly complain about tripfags. I honestly don't give two shits about you little faggots and your egos.

I was only replying to >>10796273

>Visited mostly by young men in their late teens and early 20s,

yeah no

I am fucking pumped for this Canvas shit. Seriously.
I can't wait to see what it is.

>>10796459
YFW its just a shitty tinychat alike that links with your facebook.

>>10796459
It's going to be another epic disappointment promised by our favorite webmaster

like eXeem

>>10796459
Same here.

I've been going to there just to see if they've done something or finished it for almost 6 months now.

... Always that same screen...

What I don't understand is why people are so vehemently against internet anonymity, I mean shit, the internet is the one real place where you have basically absolute control over how much those around you know about you. Really, the rise of social networking and people plastering their personal information freely all over the web is what made it seem dangerous to people. The same people who rail against anonymity on the internet are the ones who made it possible for it to be dangerous really.

>>10796503
True.

Most people just mark anonymous users as 'cowards'

>>10796370
Except that I hardly ever post off-topic (and I've never made an off-topic thread).
I mean, I'm not a nazi about it, off-topic stuff can be nice as long as it relates in some small way, and is only posted once in a while.

But you guys take it to another level, almost every single off-topic thread I see has a tripfag as the OP. Also, I'm not saying that all tripfags are bad (there was a really helpful and nice one in the classical thread I mentioned earlier), it's just that trips attract the most annoying people.

Also also, how will not trying to make the board better make the board better?

>>10796546
Having nothing instead of a name is almost as obnoxious as being a tripfag.

>>10796503
Also what the fuck is wrong with having a place where the word 'tolerance' means fuck all nothing, what exactly is harmful in having a place to talk without fear of someone labeling you a homophobe for calling something gay or something as ridiculous as that. It's therapeutic to have a place where you can actually talk freely without having to worry about who's listening or if anyone gives a shit what you're saying at all really. Why are people seemingly so scared of a momentary lapse in the bright veneer of 'tolerance'

>>10796546
but I love that. you never know where a thread is going to go.
a thread could be crap but be saved by some off topic shit going on that makes it epic.

>>10796606
> I like off-topic threads.

Really?? I mean... REALLY??

Those threads would be better off posted in /b/ rather then on a board with an actual PURPOSE.

>>10796592
I just use it to find my posts, and so that conversation is easier.

That's why I support thread-specific numbers along with forced anonymous.

m00t looks like a dyke bitch lesbian. Seriously, his hips are way too fucking big.

I'd fuck each and every single one of thems' brains out. nuff said.

>>10796641
yes.

If a threads good it wont go off topic. so its usually for the best when it happens.

also what is /r9k's/ purpose?

Anyone have more pics of Spoony?

I know that girl... She used to camwhore on here all the time, but I don't think she ever used a tripcode.

She's from Germany.

4chan = slow IRC + uploading pictures.

business potential = tolerance of user base to allow their efforts make investors above them, rich.

>>10796701
>Implying a camwhore from Germany travelled to New York to be photographed with the people who run 4chan
OR!
>Implying a camwhore runs 4chan in any way shape or form
OR!
>Implying a woman left the kitchen

>>10796689
We're not talking about /r9k/.

There can't be any off-topic threads on a 'misc.' board.

Only confirmed mod is on the right and he does /fit/ and /sp/

He's a dirty unshaven filthy hipster who lives off his trust fund.

>sumbale

>>10796726

She doesn't run it. Rich runs 4chan.

She came here to go to MIT.

>>10796755
Who the fuck is rich?

>>10796777
You haven't been here long, have you?

>>10796794
Not on /r9k/, no.

How many other female mods are there on 4chan?

>>10796747
Oh god, what happen moot?

>>10796745

I am a clean, unshaven, bro who has been working in advertising for 4.5 years.

>>10796807
If you add an S to Rich, then rearrange the letters, you can spell out "Chris."

Chris Poole is his alias. Do you think he'd want his actual name to be more public?

This is really old news.

>>10796857
I don't go out of my way to find out moot's real name tbh. Thanks for the info though, I wasn't actually expecting someone to help me out.

>>10796857
But the whole courtroom thing kind of proved his name was Christopher Poole.

I mean, he wouldn't actually have them put down a fake name in court.

>>10796503
hard to make targeted (and thus more profitable) advertising if you're anonymous

also the frat/sorority generation loves plastering their face everywhere

>>10796882
You mean what was released?

>>10796747

In a decade moot will be Dr. Claw.

And I will cherish every moment.

cathires popular

I've hobillud

Mods are all fags anyway

>>10796920
Quote:

Q. Good morning. Can you please state and spell your full name for the record.

A. Christopher Poole, C-h-r-i-s-t-o-p-h-e-r P-o-o-l-e.

>>10796951
I fucking lol'd.

>mauccot boil

>People will have the option of signing in, although Poole says he hopes to keep Canvas relatively free of "vanity and ego."
>free of vanity and ego

Is it too much to ask that he achieves this on 4chan before attempting it with the shiny new project? I can see why the tripcode functionality is very convenient sometimes, but today 95% of the time it's simply being abused, detracting from the only thing that makes 4chan, hum, occasionally worthwhile

>>10796747
Yeah fuck him wanting to make money without affecting the 4chan community with shitty ads, what a cunt!

Following on from last nights discussion (thread's dead) I'm starting to think mootykins has numerous t-shirts, all unbranded and plain in slightly different shades.

>>10796964
Okay. Believe what you want.

>>10797039
Because he isn't a mod anymore.

Newbie.

>>10796857
Nice conspiracy hypothesis you've got there.

>>10796964
That was fake.


moot is Christopher Poole. He tried to keep his name secret, but HACKERS ON STEROIDS managed to find it out.

>>10797039
snacks who?

Isn't that girl on the side the same one that took nude pics to encourage donations when 4chan almost died?

>>10797060
What's fake? The court transcript? Somebody wasted a lot of their time making up an awfully boring document.

>>10797084
>Somebody wasted a lot of their time making up an awfully boring document.

You think that would deter someone who spends their time here?

>distrustful raried

>>10797139
Where was this photo taken? Never seen that one before.

>>10797169
it was a speech at some university, I think it was after the TED talk

>>10796701
Who is this german camwhore you are speaking of?

>>10797169
>>10797182

way before ted talk, cambridge university

>>10795647
>>10796920

http://www.scribd.com/doc/35677919/4chan-Founder-s-Testimony-about-Sarah-Palin-E-mail-Hacking

>>10797184
Her name's Katrin. She's from Stuttgart, but came to the US to attend MIT.

>"Getting engaged users is the tough part," says David Lee, who invested in Canvas as a partner in Conway's SV Angel firm. Profit or no profit, he explains, 4chan shows that Poole "is the rare entrepreneur who can get engaged users

so, story tiem pls. how did you engaged users get engaged.

>>10797286
Not due to moot in any way apart from the obvious him owning this site. seriously he's riding off the back of somethign that took off, he got lucky his next project is doomed to fail because he doesn't know how he made 4chan so sucessfull (protip: he didn't)

>>10797320
Nah, he's fucking smart. I think he knows what he's doing.

I mean, there will always be a risk involved, but I think he has a good shot.

>>10797286
I'm sure for 90% of the users here it was the Faux News report on Anonymous.

>>10797383
He may be smart but 4chan is a one off. his next project won't be sucessfull on nearly the same scale but he will pretend its all going as expected.

4chan was pure luck on his part. name one thing apart from create this site in the first place that moots done to make it sucessful?

>>10797383
Well, that made 4chan originally famous was it's userbase.

And I'm not sure moot wants the same userbase we have here...

>>10797286
Came across someone mention it on an internet forum like 4 years ago, then just hung around ever since.

>>10797406
people actually joined because of that?!

>>10797320
idk, it's like mainstream advertisers trying to get the alternative crowd, not like it hasn't been done before (protip:hippies).

And reading that article made me cringe a few times. Happy prancing /b/tards, waitwut?

The only way his new project will succeed is if he takes down 4chan.org

And you know there's no way in hell he's gonna go that route.

>>10797424
You seem to have an unrealistically high regard for your fellow 4channers, dear Anon. Sorry to shatter your world, but it's the truth.

10hrs in photoshop

>>10797467
I lold

>a capics

>>10797450
I didn't notice at the time so the people who joined couldn't have been too bad.

I'm such a cool old fag been posting since towercat get

>>10797425
oh and also, I guess part of that reasoning is how fb and the like think of their users as a property of sorts, so they translate this to 4chan as well.

>>10797443

Exactly. The reason all of the other chans are so slow and boring is because 4chan exists.

When it comes to anonymous boards, there can be only one, really

this looks shopped

>torments lables

At least we get a photograph of moot facepalming and a series of photos that could be used in an "at first I was but then I" image...

>>10797515

It really depends on what your tastes or how moderation works that determines if you come to 4chan or venture to other *chans. Some people are quite comfortable with a slower chan so long as it means that their thread will exist for days. Sometimes the speed of this place is almost too much to deal with.

difien being

I wonder why no one has really ever commented on the fact that 4chan was a de facto illegal enterprise for its first three years, being an (ostensibly) adults-only website run by a minor.

Picturing little high school moot issuing underage b&s makes me lol.

That article was actually pretty well written. Though part of me wishes people wouldn't focus so heavily on /b/. I know that in order for it to remain the shit filter of the site, it needs to attract the most attention, but it really is one of the shittiest boards we have, and it gives off such a terrible impression to those who visit.

>>10797627

It's what sets 4chan apart from the thousands of other Futaba Channel-style message boards out there.

4chan without /b/ would be nothing special.

>>10797701
It was the first.

>>10797712

What about 2ch?

>>10797701
Fubata still has it's own /b/ and like 4chan's it's what drives the site's popularity.

just read the article. just a lot of cock sucking on moot the savior of the internet.

>>10797740
Did i really have to specify first english one?

>>10796337
Read the Power Broker!! Yeah it's 1300 pages, but it's well worth your time. You'll realize that Robert Moses is the reason we all live in suburbs and depend on our cars. The man built over 300 playgrounds in NYC and only ONE in Harlem. Fuck him.
I still can't believe the very first paragraph of this article is Moot talking about Moses. Moot's a dick.

>>10797750
I meant to say Futaba,

>>10797740
2ch was the world's first recognized anonymous imageboard. But the very first anonymous board has to be Ayashii World.

>>10795647
>>10795647
MORE PHOTOSHOP PICS OF MOOT

Just reading up on 2ch (not futaba)


In 2001, 2ch users voted en-masse for Japanese TV performer Masashi Tashiro as Time Magazine's Person of the Year. This act was soon dubbed the "Tashiro Festival" (, Tashiro Matsuri?) by 2ch users. Tashiro was infamous in the Japanese media for committing several crimes, including peeping up a woman's skirt using a camcorder, using stimulants twice, peeping in a male bath and causing a car accident.


LOL 2ch is better at trollling than 4chan.

Canvas.

If moot doesn't fuck this up he really will be the savior of the internet.

>not fuck up
like... keep it small and unprofitable?

I really do hope moot succeeds and gets corrupted by his new buddies. If he becomes a sell-out, then I will finally be free to leave this place and GET MY LIFE BACK. :D

imokwiththis.jpg

motivations amants

alsaff def

SI hotoyery

What is canvas?

>too lazy, didn't read shit.

Moot belongs to 4chan as much as 4chan belongs to moot.
The second his "canvas" site is online it will be nuked off the face of the Internet.

>>10798086
AHahahahahahaahahahaha

notiy fats

Gap Clothing

pacriabs and

First thing I thought of when seeing pic.

>>10798531

Holy fuck. That almost killed me.

>facing datteuf

moot ps thread yeah!

>>10797039
got too fat :(