The founder of the biggest anonymous image board wants to be left alone, what a shocker!
Anon remembers moot
Submitted 1 month ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 month ago
blackluster117@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Fly high, moot. Be free.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Slither low my reptilian friend.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
He must have fulfilled his dream and become a little girl.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Then he’d just be brutalized by his own platform.
almost1337@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
He made 4chan because SomethingAwful got tired of him and his friends shit posting anime.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
And by ‘anime’ you mean hentai and loli.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah that’s plainly worse than everything that’s happened because of this.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean in all honesty if a time traveler did come back and wanted to do their best to destroy Society couldn’t have done much better job really.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The time traveler was the one who convinced moot to sell. It all started going downhill after that.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Fuck, you’re right!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I would give say Roger Ailes takes the cake there…
match@pawb.social 1 month ago
i wish her luck on her transition
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Would be kind of ironic for the founder of 4chan
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not really, there’s a lot of queer folk on 4chan.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
iconic*
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d like to think that he grew up and is widely embarrassed for what he’s done now.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
He pretty much did make a website for the moden neo-nazi movement, along with gamergate, and inspiring another website that made Q-anon, something that certain members of congress believe now.
I don’t know if these thing would or would not exist without this website. All I know is that it would have been less pronounced because of it.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 month ago
One of the reasons 8chan was created, was that moot banned the gamergate crap from 4chan.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah to me it seems very clear that 4chan is a net negative on the society. We all would have been better off if it wasn’t created and I say that as someone who did find value there in the early days (had a decent programming community)
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Congress basically forced doxxed moot by Congress by being forced to testify. He originally wanted to refuse and stay home, but he would have gone to jail if he did.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Forced doxxed him? Everybody on 4chan knew who he was from the beginning. He went to the conventions. Hell, the classic meme reply to newfags explaining what a troll was used him as the template!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did they know his full legal name? Meeting him at a con isn’t the same thing.
Also, apperently was wrong. Accourding to wiki, it was WSJ that doxxed him in 2008.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Does anyone remember canv.as? I loved that site. It was a really okay photo editor that’s better than every other free option around now. Me and the other guy who used it were so sad when it folded.
Brutticus@midwest.social 1 month ago
I wonder about this sometimes. moot was a child, started an anime website, and drew aggro from some of the worst weirdos on the planet; ancap, nazis, pedos, etc. After more than a decade, they finally broke him, with an epic thread where btards in the ground proved with photos that his girlfriend was cheating on him. He sold the site something like six months later, in 2013 or 14, I want to say. and then 18ish months after that, Trump descends a golden escalator.
I wonder sometimes if moot knew he was holding back the end of the world. I do think that Trump is the final metastisization of something that was already festering. I do think if not him, then someone. But this vanity run for president in 2016 was intended to be a negotiation tactic with NBC for the apprentice; the channer nazis were who elevated him above a gag candidate.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I do think that Trump is the final metastisization of something that was already festering. I do think if not him, then someone.
This is absolutely true because Trump is fundamentally not a fluke, but rather the inevitable culmination of festering rot at the core of American culture. If not him, it would have been someone.
Brutticus@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Absolutely but also the fact that it was him feels rather absurd. Its like that scene in Back to the Future. “Whose the president?” “Ronald Reagan!” “The actor?!”
Donald Trump was kind of a washed up joke by the time of his initial run. Maybe the Apprentice was doing fine ratings wise, but like, i feel like everyone knew it was a clownshow. It had been running well past the Reality boom of the early 2000s. I think we all expected Americas next top fascist to be a young, handsome political agitator, a Richard Spencer type, or maybe a Journeyman statesman type, with a square jaw and flecked with gray around the temples. That’s who central casting would bring in, to sell that this guy could bring the fash to Joe sixpack in Peoria.
Instead, its a 24 hour clown show. Forget Cruz, or Graham, or even Bobert or Greene. We have other mediocre washed up has been white dudes stumping at this rallies. Hulk Hogan, Kevin Sorbo, Kid Rock, Scott Adams, Elon Musk. The fact that team sports politics has become a literal fucking clown show feels like it is in 2013 era Anon’s oeuvre of humor.
InputZero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh absolutely, Trump is the embodiment of the stereotype of an American. He is everything wrong with the United States of America distilled down and wrapped up in a cheap suit. He is such a characture of an American that finally some Americans are looking at themselves in the mirror and saying maybe we are this. Unfortunately half of the people who do would rather embrace the things Trump represents than face the uncomfortable truth that they’re wrong, grow, and admit maybe the problem is coming from inside their house.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 month ago
4chan containment leaked and broke reality.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He finally became the little girl.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
4chan?! Fuuuuck dat… Prolly got no games…
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
/b/ was never good.
rs.4chan.org was fucking awesome, though.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Careful with that, it’s an antique.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I met Moot at Otakon 2007 and he was kind of a dick.
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I have heard this fact before. Might have been on a 4chan retrospective video
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
i’ve always thought the logo was supposed to be reminiscent of the titular main character of Yotsuba&! which i think is a 4koma series.