[Oni]

Hard to believe it's been 6 years since Hiroyuki bought 4chan. Hopefully moot got his Google shares.

CNBC reports that 4chan founder Chris Poole no longer works at Google. Google hired Poole in 2016 to work on the company's doomed social media project, Google+. Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest. It sounds like Poole never found a solid landing spot at Google, as he had three different positions during his five years.

Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe the frog memes and the alt-right. The site gave rise to the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous and is often used as a dumping ground for various hacks like the Nintendo Gigaleak. Poole sold 4chan back in 2015, a year before joining Google.

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[Nyx]

Oni why haven't you gone to work for Google yet, become moot 2.0

OT: I'd bet money he's going back to entrepreneurship. He had a taste of massive success on his own, working in an office definitely won't cut it at that point. Wonder what he'll work on.

[Spooky]

He is definitely off to work on his own. I dont know why he decided to go off and work for google instead of sitting on 4chan and let it grow.

[ColeSmith]

Hard to believe it's been 6 years since Hiroyuki bought 4chan. Hopefully moot got his Google shares.

You make that sound bad.

[Oni]

Hard to believe it's been 6 years since Hiroyuki bought 4chan. Hopefully moot got his Google shares.

You make that sound bad.

The 4chan of 2011 was very different from the 4chan of 2021, but I wouldn't say anything is definitively "bad". I'd imagine both moot and Hiroyuki are doing quite well.

[mothered]

I dont know why he decided to go off and work for google instead of sitting on 4chan and let it grow.

My thoughts exactly.

He would've had a pretty good financial forecast with 4chan, so prematurely exiting doesn't make much sense.

[Oni]

He is definitely off to work on his own. I dont know why he decided to go off and work for google instead of sitting on 4chan and let it grow.

Somehow I think he made the decision, with regards to his future and the money it could bring. Over the years the site relied mostly on ads. "4chan Plus" was added later, but it's mostly been free to use.

[Mr.Kurd]

Maybe he finally realized that working on his own and on 4chan is more important than spending time with google or he had a reason for joining google.

I work as a freelancer but on the other side trying to build my own projects slowly so I can stop freelancing in future and forever.

[mothered]

Maybe he finally realized that working on his own and on 4chan is more important than spending time with google or he had a reason for joining google.

I work as a freelancer but on the other side trying to build my own projects slowly so I can stop freelancing in future and forever.

Off-topic, your English has Improved to an exceptional level.

On-topic, you've made a very good point In the first sentence.

[TomRiddle]

I imagine he didnt expect 4chan to grow to the point it has in the media, if not for Anonymous (the group) then most people would never of heard of it.
I believe there was a large influx of new users as the like of Anonymous and Lulsec became a thing?