Back when Poole was hired, Google's fear of Facebook gave it an unhinged obsession with social media, but nobody at Google really understood how social media worked. You must login or create an account to comment. He is always on the hunt for a new gadget and loves to rip things apart to see how they work. Aside from laughing at his ridicule being called a cuck for most of the thread , Poole reaffirmed that he did not "become rich" off of 4chan and that he lived a relatively poor aside from being able to afford rent in New York.
Poole stated that his kept most of his team in the dark and that his decision to leave was only confided to a few the day prior to his departure announcement. Upon signing off, Poole's last words were:. A reference to the anime Cowboy Bebop ending title cards. On March 7th, , Poole published a post on his Tumblr [35] blog announcing he had accepted a position at Google and was looking forward to contributing his "experience from a dozen years of building online communities.
On March 7th, , Google Plus' vice president of streams, photos and sharing Bradley Horowitz confirmed Poole would be joining his team at the company, leading many to speculate Poole would be involved in Google's social media efforts. Poole has become a respected Internet entrepreneur, and has spoken at conferences at the Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and South by Southwest. In , he was referred to as "the most influential web entrepreneur you've never heard of" in an article in The Observer.
Poole spoke during the TED conference about the importance of online anonymity on February 10th, shown below, left. He contrasted anonymous websites like 4chan to sites like Facebook and Twitter that encourage the sharing of personal information.
Poole expressed a similar sentiment during his keynote presentation at South by Southwest Interactive on March 13th, shown below, left and specifically pointed out how he disagrees with Mark Zuckerberg 's view of anonymity online.
He stated: "Anonymity is authenticity. It allows you to share in a completely unvarnished, raw way. Several exploitables exist that use photos of moot. As of November , there are more than 23, Chanarchive threads that mention moot. In late November , Christopher Poole's lawyers sent a formal letter shown below to Moot. It [10] , a San Francisco-based startup company planning to release customizable commenting software.
The letter states that "moot" is part of Poole's right of publicity under New York State law as well as a trademark of 4chan, arguing that since the name represents his online life and persona, people could mistakenly construe that Poole is associated with the company.
It's founder, Courtney Couch, responded by saying that the company took their name from the word's definition "open to discuss or debate" and noting that they did not plan on changing the name. Couch's lawyer also released a statement dismissing the lawsuit as "frivolous" and arguing that any further inquiries would lead to "a lawsuit for malicious prosecution.
However after attending the XOXO convention which has Anita Sarkeesian , as a guest speaker he and the mods purged 4chan of all discussion of GamerGate, closing threads related to the topic and banning users. The reaction to moot's stance on GamerGate as well of the preceding censorship forced users to seek a new refuge for the discussion on MasterChan and the recently formed 8chan.
Search queries for both "christopher poole" and "4chan moot" reached their highest volume in April of , the same month Time Magazine announced Christopher Poole had won the annual Time poll for World's Most Infuential Person. It — Home. View All Videos. View All Images. Show Comments. In preparation for One Piece's thousandth episode, the cast of the upcoming One Piece live-action series has been revealed.
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Read Edit History. About moot is the online pseudonym used by Christopher Poole, the creator of English-language imageboard 4chan and media remixing web app Canvas. Canvas Canvas is a social web application focused on remixing media mostly images using a built in image editing tools. DrawQuest DrawQuest is a mobile gaming app that allows users to participate in drawing challenges on their smart phones or tablets. Closure On January 21st, , Poole announced on his blog [23] that DrawQuest and Canvas had failed as business ventures and both products would be closing.
In short, he's one of the most influential people online. And at a push, you could make a case for saying he's the man responsible for cat pictures dominating the internet. That's because moot created 4chan, the birthplace of Anonymous and unofficial online Wild West. Moot tweeted a link to the announcement. At 15 he built a website to share Japanese anime and manga with his friends. It seems predictable now but back then it was novel that users ignored the point of the site and started posting cat pictures.
Cats are funny so 4chan grew rapidly into a barely controllable beast of a place. Anonymous, the naked celebrity photo leaks aka The Fappening and RickRolling This huge website with millions of users was being run by one teenager in his bedroom with the help of a few volunteer moderators.
Online he was known only as moot until an interview with the Washington Post in
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