Ever wonder who the guy behind 4chan is?

[Nevermore]

Well here he is. Brought to you by the hip internet dudes at the Wall Street Journal.

[Mrbloodworth]

"It's like Craigslist -- hugely simple and highly useful," says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The fuck?!?

[Signe]

Why does it not surprise me that the guy behind 4chan is just a little boy?

[K9]

• "so i herd u like mudkips": Originally posted on another Web site, members of 4chan adopted the phrase as in-joke. A "mudkip" is a lovable, water creature from the animated series Pokémon. You can watch some of the thousands of tribute videos on YouTube.

 

[Merusk]

"It's like Craigslist -- hugely simple and highly useful," says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The fuck?!?

You have to go places other than /b/.  I find plenty of wallpapers and interesting tv/ anime discussions in the appropriate subforums.  If you can find a time that /gif/ isn't spamming porn rips or gore/ suicide pics there's some funny shit in there, too.  It's the "18+" forums that suck the life out of you, leaving you a broken shell of a human being. 

[Nevermore]

But see, the hilarious part is the article didn't warn people of that fact when they linked to 4chan.    I wonder how many business marketing types followed that link to find out what's cool to all the kids these days and had their eyes melted out of their skulls? 

[Merusk]

I'd just mark it down as "Best grief linking ever."

[Chimpy]

I'd just mark it down as "Best grief linking ever."

Almost like old Rupert goatse'd all the WSJ's readerbase.

[schild]

I hope this pisses off Something Awful something awful.

Also, what a stupid article for WSJ to run. I imagine my grandpa is going to call me and ask if I've seen the dickgirls now.

[HaemishM]

Jesus. 4chan gets written up in the Journal. I expect advertising to get positively eye-gouging in the next 6 months, as all the marketing execs try to pick clean the bones of every 4chan meme they can sink a cock into.

[schild]

Jesus. 4chan gets written up in the Journal. I expect advertising to get positively eye-gouging in the next 6 months, as all the marketing execs try to pick clean the bones of every 4chan meme they can sink a cock into.

Funny, because at least half the memes already have cock sunk into them.

[Murgos]

Rickrolling?  Bah, in my day you got Duckrolled and liked it.

[Oban]

"It's like Craigslist -- hugely simple and highly useful," says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The fuck?!?

Outside of New York and San Francisco it appears as though Craigslist is mainly for sex services. 

So, the free porn reference makes sense.

[Mrbloodworth]

"It's like Craigslist -- hugely simple and highly useful," says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The fuck?!?

You have to go places other than /b/.  I find plenty of wallpapers and interesting tv/ anime discussions in the appropriate subforums.  If you can find a time that /gif/ isn't spamming porn rips or gore/ suicide pics there's some funny shit in there, too.  It's the "18+" forums that suck the life out of you, leaving you a broken shell of a human being. 

Sorry. No.

He said it was : hugely simple and highly useful.

Simple, sure, in more than one way. Useful? Hello no, and another hell no for anyone that would be reading that article.


Also, how old is the owner now? and if he is under 18, can he not read a section on his own forums?

[NowhereMan]

Said he was 15 when he set 4Chan up, I think it's been around for a good few years now though for the first 3 years 

Also some sections can be useful simply as somewhere you can ask very esoteric questions and are likely to get a few replies, though obviously you need to take any answers you get on 4Chan with a barrel of salt.

[schild]

4chan is the single most useful place to get a quick answer, a rapidshit of porn, or wallpaper. If you think otherwise, you're pretty much doing it wrong.

[stu]

[FatuousTwat]

This is the biggest troll ever. Chris Poole (CP ) did it for the lulz.

[Simond]

Poole's closed.

I hope this pisses off Something Awful something awful.

Only up to a five page thread in GBS. 4chan is a SA spinoff anyway. 

[Fabricated]

Poole's closed.

I hope this pisses off Something Awful something awful.

Only up to a five page thread in GBS. 4chan is a SA spinoff anyway. 

Which isn't that amazing since GBS has about the same signal to noise ratio of /b/.

edit: also this article depresses the hell out of me. Who the fuck reads the WSJ and cares about cultural detritus on an utterly unmarketable website?

[Brogarn]

Who the fuck reads the WSJ and cares about cultural detritus on an utterly unmarketable website?

It's a popular website that fell into an interesting trap of not being able to capitalize on it due to content. You can't advertise pr0n or you pigeonhole yourself into being a pr0n site and you can't advertise normal stuff because they don't want to be attached to anything naughty. I would imagine that people reading the WSJ and thinking about online business would be very interested in this case study.

[Fabricated]

Who the fuck reads the WSJ and cares about cultural detritus on an utterly unmarketable website?

It's a popular website that fell into an interesting trap of not being able to capitalize on it due to content. You can't advertise pr0n or you pigeonhole yourself into being a pr0n site and you can't advertise normal stuff because they don't want to be attached to anything naughty. I would imagine that people reading the WSJ and thinking about online business would be very interested in this case study.

It wasn't really even started for a business purpose. It was a place where people posted random images and porn and it had one of those 1 in a million lucky shots where it caught on and became a meme-machine. The money aspect of it for Moot seems to be just about keeping the website itself running.

[Brogarn]

I know it wasn't started for business purposes, but it's still interesting to business minded people in an industry that's in it's infancy.

[Krakrok]

It's a popular website that fell into an interesting trap of not being able to capitalize on it due to content. You can't advertise pr0n or you pigeonhole yourself into being a pr0n site and you can't advertise normal stuff because they don't want to be attached to anything naughty. I would imagine that people reading the WSJ and thinking about online business would be very interested in this case study.

Dating sites. Works for the Pirate Bay.

[Tale]

Write to Jamin Brophy-Warren at Jamin.Brophy-Warren@wsj.com

Love to know what's happening on the other end of that email address.

[Paelos]

This thread reminds me that I despise the word "meme," and that hate is doubled when it's combined with something internet related.

[stray]

But see, the hilarious part is the article didn't warn people of that fact when they linked to 4chan.    I wonder how many business marketing types followed that link to find out what's cool to all the kids these days and had their eyes melted out of their skulls? 

From what I gather, 4chan seems to me like the worst sort of unmarked strip of club in town, except on the net. I've driven by, seen it below from high above on the overpass, but will never get within 50 yards of it. Maybe even that is too close.

[Fabricated]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/multimedia/KENSVideo/index.html?bclid=1127701735&bctid=1668486856

Oy.

[Nerf]

Theres alot of slow news days in San Antonio, a few years back we had a week where every station on at least one night was reporting a chupacraba sighting.  It was their top story.

My grief title is also partly due to a slow news day in San Antonio..sort of

[stray]

Chupacabra is real, yo. So is La Chusa. And those ghosts on the tracks (I'm sure you've heard of it, Nerf?).

[Sky]

This thread reminds me that I despise the word "meme," and that hate is doubled when it's combined with something internet related.

Given your religious leanings, hating a word Dawkins popularized is probably a gimme.

Would Jesus hate meme? 

[Paelos]

This thread reminds me that I despise the word "meme," and that hate is doubled when it's combined with something internet related.

Given your religious leanings, hating a word Dawkins popularized is probably a gimme.

Would Jesus hate meme? 

I have nothing against evolution, but the word is stupid.

[Tale]

This thread reminds me that I despise the word "meme," and that hate is doubled when it's combined with something internet related.

Given your religious leanings, hating a word Dawkins popularized is probably a gimme.

Would Jesus hate meme? 

I have nothing against evolution, but the word is stupid.

But the word is considered correct English and being used accurately.

Even if most of the internet probably pronounces it "me me" and thinks it was made up by the internet this decade.

[Tale]

So has it been officially determined whether "lol im CP from 4chan" is an awesome troll?

[FatuousTwat]

So has it been officially determined whether "lol im CP from 4chan" is an awesome troll?

I can't make up my mind.

On one hand he trolled the WSJ and the Times, so it shows how easy it is to spoon feed these people bullshit. On the other hand it's the WSJ and the Times, so who fucking cares?