If you know what a /b/tard is, then you know moot. /B/tard, of course, refers to the special kind of antisocial nerd who frequents 4chan’s /b/ (extremely NSFW, that link) — a random, anonymous, ...

When Christopher Poole founded messaging board 4chan 11 and a half years ago, he was just a 15-year-old kid. Now, he's stepping down an adult with a Ph.D. (in large-scale community management, which ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Christopher Poole, best known by the moniker “moot” on the 4chan site he ...

Christopher ‘Moot’ Poole, founder of the infamous 4Chan message board, has, after twelve years and two billion posts, sold the site to Japanese messaging culture pioneers 2Channel. Control of the site ...

On Wednesday, 4chan founder Christopher Poole, better known by the moniker “moot,” announced his retirement from running the site. moot started 4chan 11 and a half years ago when he was 15, and the ...

Google has hired 4chan founder and former owner Chris Poole, a.k.a. moot, for a yet-to-be-announced position. “I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online ...

On Monday, 4chan creator Chris Poole (“moot” to the /b/ board) announced he will join Google in a still-undefined role. The only clues we have so far are Google’s statement that they will take ...

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In the last dozen years, there’s never been a website quite like anonymous, ephemeral community 4Chan. But perhaps no one would have bet 4Chan could survive a dozen years in the first place, ...

4chan is either the beginning or the end of the Internet, depending on who you ask. The beginning camp points out that so much of the content on Reddit and Buzzfeed originated in 4chan’s message ...

Lolcats, Anonymous, and countless Internet memes all spawned from 4chan. You have Chris Poole, aka Moot, to thank (or blame) for that. There was never another full-time employee through 11.5 years, ...