Why 4chan's overlord Christopher Poole walked away

March 15, 2015 00:07

At 11 am on January 21st, Christopher Poole posted a note online saying he was retiring as the administrator of 4chan, the notorious website he had founded as a high school student in upstate New York 11 years earlier.

The news was as shocking as some of the site's content: The Zuckerberg of the online underground was walking away.

Poole had started 4chan as a way for fellow anime obsessives to post and discuss images. But over the next decade, it morphed into the Net's greatest factory of memes and mayhem.

LOLcats and Rickrolling started on 4chan. So did Anonymous, the international collective of hacktivists and geeks.

Most recently, 4chan has been in the crosshairs of two of the biggest controversies on the Web: the celebrity nude leaks called the Fappening, and Gamergate, the increasingly vicious battle over sexism in the video-game industry.

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