4Chan , the imageboard whose name has since become synonymous with internet villainy , celebrated its thirteenth yr online this past Saturday . A daytime afterwards , the site ’s owner , Hiroyuki Nishimura , post a thread style , “ Winter is coming . ” The subject matter was dim-witted : we ’re break .
The option as he sees them are to swamp users with aggressive ads , sell more 4Chan Passes ( a premium feature alike to Reddit Gold ) , or to cut down on data file size limits and begin shutting down whole section of the website .
“ 4Chan could keep run because of many courtesies , user , volunteer , table service providers giving us low rate , and advertisers . These are a sort of rack . 4Chan stops without one of them , ” Nishimura told Gizmodo over email . Banner ads , it seems , were the radius that has apparently broken .
“ Ads do n’t work well on [ the ] internet in [ the ] US . in reality , in Japan it still does . [ The ] Nipponese do n’t expend advert block [ as ] much as here , ” he wrote . double back on part of his proposed architectural plan he added , “ I do n’t think bug out up and/or malicious ads work . ”
I ’m open to link up the Board of Directors of 4Chan.@4chan
— Martin Shkreli ( e / acc ) ( @MartinShkreli)October 2 , 2016
I have answer your DM . give thanks you for patronise 4chan@MartinShkrelihttps://t.co / keA7a632Dh
— ひろゆき ( @hirox246)October 2 , 2016
So what ’s 4Chan to do for money ? Seemingly a couple well - wishers step frontwards , namely Minecraft billionaire Markus “ Notch ” Persson and pharma troll Martin Shkreli . WhileNotch ’s tweethas since been deleted , Shkreli ’s offer to buy out the floundering imageboard is being take in at look economic value . However , Nishimura admitted , “ We have not received [ Shkreli ’s ] offer yet . So it ’s not serious . I think . ”
Some users suggested running 4Chan entirely off donation . Nishimura has n’t in public compose off the idea . “ Donation - based is good for one time , ” he told Gizmodo . “ To pay running price by donations are unmanageable . Only wikipedia can do it . ”
Among the more pervasive suggestion , strangely , was a call to shut down the internet site ’s monolithic /pol/ dining table ( “ politically wrong ” ) a have intercourse facts of life - earth for the alt - right . While /b/ ( “ random ” ) is more often associated with 4Chan ’s influence , in late days /pol/ has been the rotted core of a site which seems quick to move past its bad reputation .
Elsewhere , the threat of 4Chan ’s potential shuttering caused a stir in more radicalize sliver imageboards like the de - indexed 8Chan and GamerGate HQ Endchan . While chaos on a rule service could be seen as a good thing for competitors — Voat’sattempts to poachRedditors and Vid.me ’s peerless thirst duringYouTube drama — these sites are actively resisting the inflow of 4Chan ’s potential “ refugee . ”
Threads elaborated potential “ containment strategies ” to ghettoize incoming 4Channers — often referred to mockingly as halfchan orcuckchan as a form of imageboard elitism . “ On the off - opportunity that something really does take place , and we ( along with 8chan ) get an influx of new shitposters , we ’ll just bound ship yet again , ” one Endchan user wrote . “ Anyone who lodge with 4chan till this point is not someone I want to portion out my dank meme with . ”
Since buying the website from its founder Chris “ moot ” Poole almost exactly a year ago , Nishimura has tried to uphold the position quo , something he has experience in . ( Nishimura is considerably known as the father of Nipponese imageboard 2Chan , the site that influenced 4Chan ’s birth . ) Now he arrogate he failed to do so . Does this signal the imminent death of one of the most detest website on the internet ?
“ I have heard 4Chan have been always like this ( sic ) , ” Nishimura wrote to Gizmodo , implying the situation ’s operations have always been chaotic . It ’s uncertain how 4Chan manage to evade its own destruction for the retiring 13 years , or if there ’s a willingness among users or advertisers to have it chicane death one more time .
Update 10/4/16 5:45pm EDT : Despite all the bluster about rampant server costs and the potential for shutting down boards , 4Chan created a newfangled board today , according tothe site ’s blotter./vip / is viewable to all user , but only those who purchase a 4Chan Pass can post to it . of course , some people are rather infelicitous about it .
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