Создатель 4Chan в Washington Post
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A Virtual Unknown
Meet 'Moot,' the Secretive Internet Celeb Who Still Lives With Mom.
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Chris Poole, a.k.a. moot, is the creator of the sprawling, often potty-mouthed Web site 4chan.org, which receives 400,000 posts a day. (By Helayne Seidman For The Washington Post)
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He is responsible for the online lives of 5 million monthly 4chan visitors -- the hackers, slackers and potty-mouthed geeks. They come to 4chan when they should be doing calc homework. Now -- in debt, out of work, another example of the Internet's intangibility -- Poole just needs to figure out how to make that matter.
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Content on 4chan is even more fleeting. The site, divided into categories like anime and video games, is almost entirely user-generated. It receives 400,000 posts a day, according to Poole's metrics, and some boards move so quickly that posts disappear in seconds. The quality of discussion is often akin to bathroom graffiti, and in fact, the site's "random" board has been described as the place where the Internet goes to vomit after a late night.
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Right now he's not making money on 4chan -- in fact, he's losing money by charging the site's server costs on his credit cards. The crass content of the site makes it difficult to find advertisers. He was working with a company that sells Web ads, until about six months ago, when he called off the deal. He says that the ads blasted users with unwanted sounds or too easily diverted them to junky ad sites. Poole felt the ads ruined the user experience, which gets at a final irony in his strange life as the almighty moot, which is that he has standards. If he didn't care so much about what kind of advertising 4chan users have to look at, he probably wouldn't be worried about money right now.
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