...BUT STOOPID.
Posted on 02/21/2009 9:31:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On the Internet, he's a god. In real life, he's an out-of-work 21-year-old, $20,000 in debt, living in his mom's Westchester apartment.
Meet Christopher Poole, known to his online fans as "moot," the mind behind 4chan.org, one of the busiest - and strangest - discussion boards on the Web. Poster child, perhaps, of the Internet economy, where you can influence the lives of millions and still not cover the rent.
4chan.org's users, and there are, on average, 5 million a month, engage in mindless, usually vile, nonstop banter that often percolates beyond the service itself with books, political kerfuffles and lawsuits.
It's members have been responsible for such pranks as hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail account, interrupting an Apple Computer conference with the note "Steve Jobs just died," and making over 6,000 threatening calls to church of Scientology offices.
And inside jokes started on the site's "Random" message board - by far the site's most active and grotesque - often become popular catchphrases and Internet memes.
"Rickrolling" was originally a 4chan.org joke; that is, posting a link with a false title ("sexy pictures of Uma!") that send an unsuspecting person to a video of the '80s singer Rick Astley. Astley rode the odd fame to a surprise appearance at the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tay Zonday, a strange-voiced singer of a song called "Chocolate Rain," was made famous by 4chan.org as well; John Mayer eventually covered his tune.
And the term LOLcat - misspelled captions posted on pictures of cats; trust us, it's funny - started on 4chan.org's "Caturday" posts. It spawned its own Web site, ICanHazCheezburger.com, as well as a book deal.
Yet Poole suffers in ignominy and poverty at his mother's home, unable to make money off the influential yet unwieldy chatroom.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
To quote an old phrase... “Verrry interesting..., but stupid!”
...BUT STOOPID.
That site cracks me up!
LOL... you got it! Good ole Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In...
I think it's mostly by deliberate choice. For the size of those websites and their popularity, the ad revenues could be staggering.
“Yet Poole suffers in ignominy and poverty at his mother’s home, unable to make money off the influential yet unwieldy chatroom.”
Looser.
Stuff like that is mildly amusing...for about a minute.
Mouse minds.
Since when is ICHC “The Dark Heart Of The Internet?”
They don’t mention the vile stuff that REALLY makes 4chan popular.
Really, really vile stuff... that scares off advertisers and attracts the FBI and Chris Hansen.
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LORDY!
You win...I give up!
And...PLEASE...don’t EVER do THAT to me again!!!
LOL!
Egad!
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