Christopher Poole Quotes

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.

Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

I have no history with 4chan.

4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.

That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.

If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.

Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift with time zone. Seeing how threads unwind and unravel is just a thrill, and you can't really share that magic.

The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

YouTube is my first love.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

The Internet is where you can find people who are authentic.

As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels.