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The world is changing so quickly, it’s hard to get anything right for long.
I think 4chan is going to stay the same.
I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can’t say in real life with friends and work colleagues – things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.
I didn’t want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.
As a teenager, I used to use the nickname ‘Moo’ as a moniker online, and then I turned into ‘Moot’ for fun, which I didn’t even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.
I don’t hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.
4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.
There’s a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that’s the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.
Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
There aren’t many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.
Because there’s no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.