Biography of Christopher “moot” Poole: The Hacker Known as “4chan”

On the same day that 4chan went up, Poole posted to a forum to let people know that the new website existed. Poole believed that such anonymity would allow users to feel comfortable posting things that they might otherwise not, which in turn would foster creativity, such as the various memes featured in this “flash animation about teh internet,” dated March 19, 2007:

Poole seriously valued his own privacy and safety as well, and took great pains to keep his life as the 4chan administrator secret from his friends, family, and teachers. Later, after Poole’s identity a moot was well known, he would say that his parents were relieved to find out what he had been working on for the past five years, and that he’d been putting his time toward something of value rather than blowing off school for no reason than to watch videos of Rick Astley.

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