Christopher Poole

In this three part interview, Ben Huh of Cheezburger and Chris Poole of 4chan, go head to head on hot topics like Reddit, the future of social media and meme culture.Read Full Story

Christopher Poole at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 4chan founder Christopher Poole (also known by his online pseudonym, “moot”) gave an interesting speech at the Web 2.0 Summit today, all about the tension that lies between identity and anonymity on the Internet. The talk was reminiscent of one that Poole gave at TED, in which he questioned whether users are losing the ability to make mistakes online without repercussions. But the crux of the speech was that Facebook and Google+ were mishandling the...Read Full Story

Almost overlooked from the trial of David Kernell, the 22 year-old hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's email back in 2008, is the below testimony of Christopher Poole. Poole, A.K.A. "Moot", is the founder and administrator of the image board 4Chan, on which Palin's password was posted. Moot was brought in to testify about 4Chan and the information that was turned over.  For some reason, though, the conversation evolved into a basic "intro to 4chan" discussion. This turned out to be the best...Read Full Story

Remember last April when 4chan's moot (A.K.A. Chris Poole) somehow managed to temporarily land at the top of Time's list of the 100 most influential people? Looks like they've finally figured out how it happened. The Time folks sent a tweet out earlier this week saying they had determined how 4chan manage to manipulate their system. The hackers adjusted the poll results to reveal the hidden message, "marblecakealsothegame". Watch the video below to see how it all went down: Related...Read Full Story

If you don’t know about 4chan then you know jack about the internet. It can be quite a doozy to explain, so rather than try to say it through words it’d be best if you just went there - 4chan.org. Anywho, the site’s founder and current administrator, Christopher Poole, otherwise known as moot, recently spoke at a TED conference on how the infamous site came about, as well as flaunt its 7 million unique visitors a month. Needless to say, it’s hit, however, has yet to make him any real money...Read Full Story

This morning we wrote about a new internet meme that has started from the Jimmy Wales personal appeal for Wikipedia donations. Steve Jobs was the appeal that we uploaded this morning, now its 4Chan who is adding to the meme. 4Chan is the birthplace for most internet meme’s and it seems like they really enjoy this one. 4Chan founder Christopher Poole has taken the whole unintentionally hilarious Wikipedia donation thing one step further and done us a solid by posting a Wales-esque “Personal...Read Full Story

After creating 4chan when he was just 15-years-old, Chris Poole went on to become a champion of anonymity on the web. His latest project, the media remixing web app Canvas, recently became open to the public.Read Full Story

Christopher 'moot' Poole, creator of Internet message board 4chan.org, has been named the most influential person by users voting at an online poll at Time.com.Poole takes his place alongside other stars like Shigeru Miyamoto (legendary video game designer) and Rain (Korean pop star).From time.com: In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll, and new owner of the title world's most influential person, is Moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online...Read Full Story

“Facebook and Google do identity wrong, Twitter does it better,” is the most oft repeated soundbite from 4Chan founder’s Christopher Poole’s Web 2.0 Summit talk today. Actually the truth is a bit more complex than that, when talking about something as intangible and as in flux as the concept of identity online. Because it’s hard to encapsulate the multi-faceted diamond of how future individuals will define themselves in a headline, we sat down with Internet vanguards Tim O’Reilly and...Read Full Story

In posting this TED video of 4Chan founder Christopher Poole, I must confess to knowing very little about his project aside from the name. This ignorance, however, is more reflective of me than of 4Chan. As Poole notes in the video, his site receives 7 million visitors a month and 700,000 posts in one day, so clearly, he knows more than I do about how to build a successful online presence. And his talk is worth a few minutes of your time, touching as it does on 4Chans's "meme factory...Read Full Story