Moot Hands Over 4chan To Hiroyuki Nishimura, Founder Of 2chan

[Nosebleed]

As of today, the creator of 4chan, Christopher Poole (AKA: Moot), has handed over the website's ownership to the original founder of 2chan, and the inspiration for the the creation of 4chan, Hiroyuki Nishimura.

 

Back in January, Moot had already announced he would step down as an administrator for the site, but today he really dropped the big news on everyone.

 

Could this revolutionize all of our dank memes?

Will the internet actually break?

All we can really do is keep shitposting and hope for the best.

 

What are your thoughts on the matter?

 

I can really see boards like /b/ and /pol/ getting hit hard, especially if Hiroyuki is looking at the site as a business more than anything. But I have hope since he is basically the godfather of image boards.

 

Hiroyuki will hold a Q&A on Tuesday around 8PM EST on /qa/

 

Source: https://www.4chan.org/news?all#120

[Down]

The dude pretty much founded anonymous imageboards. It doesn't seem very likely that he'll do anything bad to the website, it's not like it was handed over to Shinzo Abe or something.

In fact, the changes that are done to 4chan often don't change much of anything to the average user.

[Kurisu-Chan]

Get redy for weeb japanese meme.

 

and get redy for japanese MLG. 

[Funyarinpa]

something something RIP Mesopotamian pottery molesting image board meme

[kingdomcome]

I'm wondering how much it was sold for.

[Nosebleed]

I'm wondering how much it was sold for.

[Fiddle]

I strongly don't feel strongly about this decision.

[Kelebek1]

So does he actually speak English or what? The linked interview doesn't really say if a translator was used or not.

[LinovaA]

So does he actually speak English or what? The linked interview doesn't really say if a translator was used or not.

 

He speaks in dank memes, which transcends conventional languages.

[XReaper]

as long people are still free to post/comment the same way like its now, i´m fine with it - unless it turn into something overly polite, tainted by ethical correctness *shudder 

[Decay]

i haven't posted on 4chan in weeks and i've never felt better

[TheFantasm]

Is it bad that I've never heard of 2chan until now?

[arakura]

if it's like 4chan, no... definitely not...

[monkeysrumble]

I doubt anything would change, /b/ will be /b/ and /pol/ will remain /pol/. If they start cracking down really hard on posts they deem "offensive" then they're going to have a really hard time. If things start getting noticeably worse then more people would probably just go to 8chan or something.

[Chuee]

Yeah, there's apparently a history to this guy and why he no longer has anything to do with 2ch. 

http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/

[Darklord Rooke]

Well... that isn't pleasant reading

[Nosebleed]

A more grim take on this story, as if Hiroyuki's background isn't already worrying enough.

If there really is a correlation between all these people, I fear for the future of these sites and their userbase.

[Kaguya]

Meh. Can't say I care about the whole gathering and selling data thingy. I was under the impression every major website did it, anyway. Still kinda am.

Doesn't affect me, so /shrug.

[OriginalRen]

The dude pretty much founded anonymous imageboards. It doesn't seem very likely that he'll do anything bad to the website, it's not like it was handed over to Shinzo Abe or something.

In fact, the changes that are done to 4chan often don't change much of anything to the average user.

[TehRealOne]

Do you think people would do that?

Go on the internet solely to

Lie to make a profit?