Christopher Poole Quotes

#1. For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

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#2. With 4chan, the cost of hosting it added up very quickly and at that time when I was 18, I didn't have the income of my own so it was a challenge to make money and break even on it.

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#3. 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.

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#4. When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

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#5. Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.

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#6. What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration ... That's led to this discussion that's completely raw, completely unfiltered.

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#7. 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.

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#8. There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

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#12. 4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

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#13. For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

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#14. The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

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#15. I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

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#16. I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

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#17. The high five card will be an insignificant bonus to the incredible time I'll have traveling the world and meeting new people, especially fans of Nando's

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#18. 4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.

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#19. 4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth.

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#20. The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself,

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#21. When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

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