Wall Street Journal article on the creator of 4 chan

[DreamThrall]

Forgive me if it's been posted already...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121564928060441097.html

 

[FishBulb]

4chan: modest web site. :hmph:

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

Oh man I lol'd at banker cat.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

"Shock posts," or graphic images of violence or sex, occasionally mar the largest general interest board known as " /b/ ."

lulzy

 

[DreamThrall]

funny they mention /b/ but not /b/tards...

 

[Omnomnick]

Banker Cat


Does not approve your loan

I lol'd

 

[CptStern]

I find it painful when mainstream media jumps on what they think is a current trend even though by the time they report on it it's on it's way out

can I has cheeseburger is just so 2006

 

[Baal]

First time I've seen banker cat.

I love it.

 

[Iron Kat]

I had a look at 4chan once. I only just made it out of there alive.

 

[Acepilotf14]

WARNING:
Misuse of 4chan can cause severe radiation poisoning.
Like, worse if you were in the middle of the reactor at chernobyl
when it exploded
....
lul banker cat dus nut aprov..
srsly

 

[Dog--]

4chan is stupid, I hate you all.

 

[Muffin Man]

Rofl... Modest site.

 

[Krynn72]

Whoever wrote that clearly did a lot of research about the site... but never actually visited it.

 

[Shakermaker]

I find it painful when mainstream media jumps on what they think is a current trend even though by the time they report on it it's on it's way out

can I has cheeseburger is just so 2006

Or rickrolling for that matter. And how can you get rickrolled if someone sends you a YouTube link?

 

[DreamThrall]

Whoever wrote that clearly did a lot of research about the site... but never actually visited it.

Or they did, and their brain just blocked 99.9% of their memory of it. Like, all the parts except "it is a website".

 

[nurizeko]

4chan has burned out my eyeballs with unholy fire more then once....

 

[Iron Kat]

I can't imagine just how painful that must have been!!

 

[Krynn72]

Or rickrolling for that matter. And how can you get rickrolled if someone sends you a YouTube link?

Youtube links dont say "THIS IS A RICK ROLL" in the url, so its easy. So easy in fact that its pretty much the only way you can get rickrolled.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Holy crap, it's Moogle.

 

[Jintor]

I lol'd.

Moot revealed!

 

[highlander]

Heh....



No.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I know the default response will always be "/b/ was never good", but I can't help thinking this is going to be bad for the website and all who sail on her. 4chan has become vastly more famous in recent years. Rather takes the shine off it, surely?

Then again, perhaps this is the beginning of a brave new future.

 

[JNightshade]

I doubt it


Anyway, Moot's a chill dude. I only met him once, but he was actually just a nice guy, kinda quiet.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Either in these upcoming years 4chan will become fairly popular and become more like myspace(shit), and the admins and users will gtfo to another place, or it'll die down and become more of a selective place.

 

[Darkside55]

Either in these upcoming years 4chan will become fairly popular and become more like myspace(shit), and the admins and users will gtfo to another place, or it'll die down and become more of a selective place.

Or option 3, it'll become popular with an influx of faghats who make the place shittier for everyone involved, but everybody sits around bitching at each other while no one makes any effort to make it any better.

Oh wait, that already happened.