Poole believes in anonymity on the Internet, and spoke at the TED2010 conference in Long Beach, California, about the value of the concept. Several journalists noted that the name "Christopher Poole" could be a pseudonym itself, including Lev Grossman of Time and Monica Hesse of The Washington Post.
Until 2008, when his name was revealed in The Wall Street Journal, Poole took great lengths to protect his identity, going under the pseudonym of Robert "Bob" Bopkins in real life and as moot online. As a teenager, he was a member of the Something Awful forum, and frequented the anonymous Japanese textboard 2channel and its offshoot 2chan. Poole was born in 1988 and grew up in New York City. Poole was hired by Google in 2016 to work on the Google+ social network and as a product manager. He also founded the online community Canvas, active from 2011 to 2014. He founded the anonymous English-language imageboard 4chan in October 2003, when he was still a teenager he served as the site's head administrator until January 2015. 1988 ), also known online as moot, is an American internet entrepreneur and developer. Virginia Commonwealth University (no degree)įounder and former head administrator of 4chanĬhristopher Poole (born c. There is nothing that we can reliably source to the Shoop da Whoop/Lazer firin meme, nor cock mongler, pedobear, happy negro, teh Rei, Assdip-chan, being gay for Bridget, longcat, or Candlja- Ryūlóng ( 竜 龍) 06:40, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Accordding to the Wikipedia article Internet Meme, "When the jokes are reposted enough so that the majority of the websites users are aware of it, it becomes a meme." Therefore, because the majority of 4chan users are aware of such memes as Shoop da Whoop, cock mongler, pedobear, etc.New York City, New York, United States Ashibaka (tock) 06:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC) How about the fact that by searching SHOOP DA WHOOP on Wikipedia, one is automatically directed to a WHOOPless 4chan? Brain fork 06:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC) People make stupid redirects. See WP:RS and WP:V.- Ryūlóng ( 竜 龍) 05:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Wouldn't the existance of SHOOP DA WHOOP's image on google as well as youtube count for RS and V? Brain fork 06:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Those sources are unfortunately unreliable- they can be used to astroturf, etc.
should SHOOP DA WHOOP, and the "Im in your blank, blanking your blank" things be added to the page? Brain fork 05:55, 2 February 2007 (UTC) No. I added 02:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC) While the subject of 4chan memes is open.
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