Rex Sorgatz (Fimoculous) has posted an interview he did with Christopher Poole (who goes by the name “moot”), the founder of the infamous internet forum and imageboard 4chan, the birthplace of popular internet memes such as LOLcats, RickRolling and the radical online community Anonymous.
4chan’s original forum /b/ is it’s most popular and controversial.
The Washington Post recently did a profile on Christopher Poole and 4chan and The Wall Street Journal and Time have done stories as well.
See Previously:
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- Rick Astley Does Live Rickroll At Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Anonymous vs. Church of Scientology
UPDATE 1: Rex notes that 4chan’s /b/ forum has responded. This should be interesting.
UPDATE 2: Jason Scott, who was quoted in the Washington Post article, shares his thoughts about moot as well as pointing out a correction on being misquoted in the article.
photo by Rex Sorgatz
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Unfortunately, anyone that has ever gone mainstream or received death threats like me Effing hates 4chan.
you actually posted a link to a thread on /b/?
you must be new… they don’t stay alive for very long.
Links break and go bad all of the time. I don’t try to fix them, they are just part of the historical record. Even if the link is only good for a while, there’s no reason not to post it.
Anon was being nice-4chan threads last at most 2 hours and that’s very rare and only if they don’t get many posts in them…most 404 within half an hour if lucky….the upside is that you haven’t been on there long enough to know this tho’ which is a good thing…
Also there’s people that will give you shit for linking direct to /b/ and not warning that it’s NSFW/”a terrible terrbile place” or linking to it at all-like in this atricle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/20/internet
(note the amount of omitted comments)..
Good links tho..