4chan is owned by the founder of 2ch. (138)

1 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-21 15:50 ID:HymDlO2i

moot sold 4Chan to hiroyuki nishimura, founder and former owner of 2ch

2 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-22 01:36 ID:fEJsvFyy

Did he sell it, or just give it away?

3 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-22 02:26 ID:Rx2UBpZZ

now that i re-read the newspost, i'm more inclined to believe he just gave it away.

4 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-22 03:26 ID:fEJsvFyy

There seems to be a panic about Nishimura-san's credentials to run a site, given the seemingly suspicious nature of how he left 2ch. Are the reasons he left - selling user data - genuine or is it just fearmongering? Maybe saying he left is even wrong, as it seems like he was partially usurped by Jim, the new owner of 8ch.

5 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-22 06:15 ID:scWrHuiZ

>>4
Almost seems like the two are doing some kind of "who can run the most messageboards" contest

6 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 00:52 ID:fEJsvFyy

Well he is now doing a Q&A on 4chan. He was asked this question:

"1. After facing many scandals before you left, 2channel has underwent major problems. Hiroyuki Nishimura's legacy is very controversial among 2ch users.

  • What happened to 2channel? Who owns 2channel now? Why did that happen?
  • What did you learn from this experience? How would you do it differently with 4chan?

2. When 2ch.net was taken over, 2channel got mirrored to 2ch.sc. This used up a lot of bandwidth, which the webmaster claims cost him a lot of money.

  • Did you want to keep the data safe? Hopefully you can upload that to the Internet Archive.
  • The bandwidth usage was accidental, right? Or not? Maybe it just had to be done fast?
  • What would you say to 2ch users and the current webmaster about this?

3. What was your motivation to come back and manage Anonymous BBSes again?

  • How did you raise the amount of money to compensate Moot?
  • moot may have wanted to give you the chance to start over fresh. He led 4chan with an ideal that people deserve a chance to start from scratch without reputations.

Perhaps moot can trust that you have the experience, but can we, the userbase, trust you too?"

And he answered in this way:

"I made up text. so, I'll paste it here.

I'm happy that there is no stupid 4chan users who easily are deceived without any evidence.

First of all, NT technology, which is owned by Jim Watkins, were a hosting company which hosted 2ch.net servers.
Also, they provided domain privacy protection services.
I used their services.
"I" means (Packet monsters Inc. and I) in all later sentences.

One day, their credit card servers were cracked.
The 2ch pass service was made by Zero Inc. and NT technology.
They secretly stored user’s credit card numbers and users personal information.
And, Crackers leaked those information.

I didn't have any access to the 2ch pass servers.
And I’ve never known that they stored such information on their servers.
After the leaking, they wanted to make 2ch pass again.
But I couldn't trust them so that I declined.

And, they were almost bankrupt.
So, Jim stole 2ch.net domain and systems.
It is what happened.

If they don't tell a lie, they can explain that
"Who gave or sold the domain and system to you?"
"Is there any evidence like a contract?"

There are no such evidence because they stole.

Actually, I have sued them in Japan. The lawsuit starts on Nov.
If I do illegal things, why wouldn’t they sue me?
Instead of that, I have sued them because they are liars."

7 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 00:54 ID:fEJsvFyy

Oh Nichimura-san posted more in reply as well:

">What was your motivation to come back and manage Anonymous BBSes again?

I think last year.
moot came to tokyo and we have drunk.
Then he said he wanted to quit.
As he said, there are a few people, who such free speech space in the world.
He wanted to quit. But He and I want 4chan survive.

>* How did you raise the amount of money to compensate Moot?

I borrowed money.

>* moot may have wanted to give you the chance to start over fresh. He led 4chan with an ideal that people deserve a chance to start from scratch without reputations.

You users use 4chan. I want to keep it and look it.
What I need is you guys. not newly ideal pioneer or something like that."

8 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 03:09 ID:Heaven

For reference
https://twitter(. )com/4chan/status/645960714478329857
https://www.4chan(. )org/news
This is 2channel old owner that did the whole data mining scandal.

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9 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 03:28 ID:fEJsvFyy

>>8
He's denying it right now on 4chan's /qa/ and asks for anyone to present actual evidence

10 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 05:12 ID:ibd9xs5V

>>9
Great, we're going to end up in a game of "he said she said" between the idiots who run 4chan and the retards who run 8chan now.

>No, he was the one stealing data
>No, it was really him! I did nothing!

This is really stupid and I feel bad for anyone who is believing either side. They're both con artists and you can't trust them.

11 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 15:14 ID:IDjG9Ucf

>>10

>They're both con artists

Did Jim do something?

12 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 16:36 ID:/QO46h3n

So m00t passes the reins to some clueless nip who uses google translate to speak to his people.

Greeeeeeat.

13 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-23 18:19 ID:Heaven

>>12
There are a lot of clueless people here.
The founder of 2ch isn't one of them, just you wait.

14 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 01:12 ID:UmwU1UEa

I wouldn't blindly trust anyone but Jim seems like a nice guy.
Hiroyuki, on the other hand, is known for quite a lot of shit, and 99% of 2ch wants him dead.

15 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 02:51 ID:Heaven

>>14
Is Jim a nice guy? How would we know? Did he steal 2ch or not?

16 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 06:01 ID:Heaven

>>15
It's hard to say he "stole" 2ch given Hiroyuki handed over the servers to Jim so he could stop getting harassed by the Japanese courts.
Shit, after everything Hiroyuki did, I would've kicked him out too.

17 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 07:18 ID:BRolZVO3

This post is written by codemonkey, the lead developer of 2ch who was involved in removing the tracking software Hiroyuki had inserted into 2ch.net

Things to know:
* 'Hiroyuki' recently purchased 4chan from Moot.
* 'Hottolink' is a Japanese big data analytics and data mining company. They specialize in mining and selling the data behind social media, blogs, and bbs/forums. They currently only provide service to Japanese and Chinese companies, utilizing data from 2ch, twitter, weibo, blogs, etc. Services they provide are product performance analysis and marketing solutions based on social media data.
* 'Niconico Douga' is Japan's equivalent of youtube. Hiroyuki is some kind of employed with their project. Hiroyuki's company Brazil Future Search provides the search solution for Niconico douga.
* '2ch.sc' is Hiroyuki's pirate site of 2ch.net. Hiroyuki made 2ch.sc to fulfill his contracts to Hottolink which provides him with millions of USD per annum according to Hottolink's published financial report[1].
* 'Brazil Future Search' is Hiroyuki's search engine company specializing in real-time search solutions. They currently provide search for Niconico Douga and 2ch.sc and others.
* 'Effyis' is a company that runs boardreader.com. They were recently bought out by Hottolink as the first expansion into the US market.

How Hiroyuki will sell 4chan data:

Step 1: Brazil Future Search will make a real-time search engine for 4chan text data only. They will forgo images because images are not important in data mining.
Step 2: The new 4chan search engine will provide data to Effyis (boardreader.com).
Step 3: Boardreader.com will add 4chan search to their board search.
Step 4: Effyis (boardreader.com) will provide a firehose of data to Hottolink (their parent company) to use in data mining.
Step 5: American companies will begin purchasing analytics data from Hottolink.
Step 6: There is no step 6, you have already had your data sold to the highest bidder.

After Hiroyuki's initial announcement of purchasing 4chan, Hottolink stock has risen 60 points. This is likely due to insider trading; Hottolink has yet to publicly announce anything regarding 4chan.

You can read Hottolink's strategy in their published English financial report:
[1] http://www.hottolink.co.jp/pdf/english/ir20150828.pdf

Good day.

18 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 07:20 ID:BRolZVO3

Hiroyuki selling data is absolutely undeniable, considering that hottolink has admitted to doing so in a press release. Selling data isn't even the worst offense though. Hiroyuki was also deeply involved in deleting posts for money. One of his clients was the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

Codemonkeys prediction has already come true. Hottolink has just partnered with some american companies, and hiroyuki said in his QA that the first things he wanted to do was to implement a search engine for 4chan. He doesn't seem to be aware of archive.moe, but if he is, I think the site will be taken down.

19 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 07:48 ID:Heaven

I'm mostly angry 4channers keep themselves deluded Hiroyuki is this "retard moe" guy who hasn't done anything wrong.

20 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-24 17:10 ID:UmwU1UEa

Let's say I am a datamining company. With only the text data on 4chan, I can get a general idea of what a number of people are interested in, but I can't correlate it with other posts to get a sense of "X likes Y, buys Z, holds political position A about topic B" because all posters are anonymous.

Now let's say I have a deal with the site administrator. He allows me to get the text data of all posts along with the IP address... or a hash of the IP address. All of a sudden I can gain access to analytical data on millions of people on a top 1000 site. I can know what people like by location, etc...

Now, a clever person might say, "oh, well you can't tie this to me personally without subpoenaing my ISP to get my IRL info." To this, the answer is, "who says 4chan is the only site they're datamining from?" You ever find yourself searching for a product on one site, and then finding an ad for it on a totally different site? Your 4chan posts will be providing ammunition for targeted advertisements.

Furthermore, because 4chan will be generating profit based on number of posters, the smart thing for a profiteering Hiro would be "get more newfags." Suddenly 4chan becomes filled with cancer all for the sake of a few extra bucks. Hiro did borrow money to buy this site, did he not?

21 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-25 02:27 ID:BRolZVO3

>>20

also if the site administrator is willing to tie your purchase information (name, address, ect.) to your postings, your data becomes far more valuable than if there wasn't an IRL name.

22 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-25 03:13 ID:HLLwyaF0

>>19
He is kinda cute, though that doesn't negate the inevitable monetization schemes on the horizon.

>>17
yikes.

23 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-25 10:33 ID:Heaven

>He is kinda cute

People think a sarcastic guy with a jew nose and fish lips in his thirties is cute? There must be hope for me then.

24 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-25 11:20 ID:Heaven

I can't wait for him to fuck everything up.
Seeing 4chan burning down must be fun.

25 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-25 19:03 ID:ibd9xs5V

>>23
He's actually 41
He's older than probably 99% of 4chan's userbase.

26 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 12:55 ID:pW/KtMuQ

I won't deny that Mr. Nishimura is up to some shady business, but as someone with not a lot to hide, why should I be concerned about data mining? And besides, it's not like he has any choice. 4chan's userbase continuously uses Adblock on 4chan, knowing that it hurts the much needed revenues necessary to keep the site alive.

Mr. Nishimura is a businessman and not at all an unreasonable man. He knew what he was getting into when he bought 4chan. He knows perfectly well that more ads and ad spaces will not be enough to generate profit.

27 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 14:51 ID:l+GAm6+P

>>26
Data mining would fundamentally destroy anonymity on any chan. The whole premise is to target particular real-life people with adverts. That goal cannot be achieved without long-term IP address storage (not to mention that it would be linked to every post you make), therefore ruining the (relative) anonymity and ephemerality of posts and IP addresses.

28 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 16:19 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>27
You cannot target IP addresses with advertising, unless they're using your service. So the only ads that I'll be targeted with are the ones that appear on 4chan or on other sites owned by Nishimura's company, or whatever third-party shareholder they sell the data to.

Regardless, even if big time companies like Google or Microsoft were getting their hands on this data, how does this affect me personally besides getting advertisements catered to my tastes? It's a machine sifting through keywords, not a person actively reading what I post. There are no personal repercussions on my end from having keywords from my posts collected and used for the purpose of advertising.

29 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 18:16 ID:Heaven

I'm tired of retards who don't know shit about privacy or how ad companies work.

30 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 18:18 ID:Heaven

31 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 18:33 ID:UmwU1UEa

>There are no personal repercussions on my end from having keywords from my posts collected and used for the purpose of advertising.

Surely you can't be this naive.

32 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 18:42 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>31
Is that a fancy way of saying "I have no real argument" ?

33 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 19:30 ID:Heaven

>>32
Surely you can't be this naive.

34 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 19:32 ID:Heaven

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35 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 19:37 ID:gUXJR+3O

You are incorrect in the way you characterize the advertisers and the trackers. They do not think like you and I do. We see information as a way to gain something more, be it understanding, insight, or to obtain a goal. They seek information as an end in and of itself. They have a pathological need to slurp up as much data as possible. They are data junkies. To them, the quality doesn't matter, only quantity. They dump their data in the pits of their data centers and run the latest data mining code on it, then they go back for more. They are like pigs at a trough. They will gorge and gorge on the food in front of them until they are so fat that they can't move, at which point they get to enjoy the bliss of having it shoved into their mouths. It's almost a sexual drive with these people. Do you think Google operates all these free services just to sell pixels on a webpage? Of course not. They sell ads as a side benefit to collecting all this data.

36 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 19:39 ID:gUXJR+3O

Also if you seriously believe "there are no personal repercussions" from there being a large database about everything you do on the Internet that is accessible to anyone willing to pay then you must be fucking stupid.

37 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 23:16 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>36

>Also if you seriously believe "there are no personal repercussions" from there being a large database about everything you do on the Internet that is accessible to anyone willing to pay then you must be fucking stupid.

You've been data mined by Google, Microsoft and whatever else services you use for years. Has someone blackmailed you after viewing that data? No. Has someone found out where you live based on that data? No. Has someone doxed you based on that data? No. Has someone used that data for anything other than selling you shit by giving you ads along with their services? No. There is literally nothing to be paranoid about. Get over yourself and put down the tinfoil hat.

38 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-27 23:57 ID:Heaven

>Get over yourself and put down the tinfoil hat.

This guywwwwwwwww

39 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-28 03:18 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>38
Let me guess, you also believe that there's a Jewish plot to destroy the white race?

40 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-28 07:47 ID:Heaven

Trying too hard ワロス

41 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-28 09:26 ID:Heaven

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42 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 03:59 ID:Heaven

>There is literally nothing to be paranoid about.

But didn't you just said you're datamining us..

43 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 10:30 ID:Heaven

>You've been data mined by Google, Microsoft and whatever else services you use for years.
>There is literally nothing to be paranoid about. Get over yourself and put down the tinfoil hat.

Uhh

44 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 12:55 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>43
Oh no, they will sell things to me now!
What will I do? They know what I like!
What if I'm labeled a political dissident?
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45 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 13:52 ID:Heaven

baby learned how to use AAs wwww

46 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 14:16 ID:Heaven

Shitty thread.

47 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 14:47 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>45
You got BTFOd and now you denounce the whole thread as being shitty.

wwwww

48 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-29 20:31 ID:Heaven

>>47
BTFOd? What kind of lowly language is this?

You didn't even use the Sasuga Brothers correctly.

49 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-30 00:24 ID:Heaven

>>47
Back to 4chan, please!

50 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-30 04:40 ID:pW/KtMuQ

>>49
You first.

51 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-09-30 05:23 ID:n4m/SL2i

>>46
Yet, inevitable and arguably an important topic.

52 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-01 20:07 ID:jplqlDc6

Hiroshimoot finally added a new board.
And it's just another porn board.

53 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-01 20:57 ID:WfCfNRoP

Everyone will be attracted back to 4chan now because of new controversy, this board has nothing to worry about

54 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-01 21:56 ID:Heaven

>>53
That's not how it works
Hiring someone that scammed 2channel usually provokes an reverse reaction.

55 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-02 04:26 ID:pIVn1nlq

>>54
isn a school shooting announcement the new controversy?

57 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-04 21:09 ID:lL3oEpri

>>56
I thought you meant him coming to 4chan, woops.

Meanwhile on 4chan:
https://archive.moe/r9k/thread/22946144/#22948712
"Moot2" is probably having a good time.

58 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-04 21:20 ID:Heaven

>>57
Damn, this guy really knows how to keep 4channers by his feet.

59 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-04 22:58 ID:Heaven

>>58
As if it was hard.

60 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-05 02:21 ID:Heaven

>>57-59
"I'm happy that there is no stupid 4chan users who easily are deceived without any evidence."
-- Hiroyuki, 2015

61 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-07 01:32 ID:Heaven

>>57
Is archive.moe dead?

62 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-07 03:23 ID:Heaven

>>61
4chan went down today, not sure why archive.moe followed.

63 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-07 13:24 ID:HymDlO2i

Hiro added a picture of a space shuttle to the home page.

64 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-07 19:37 ID:FdMu4bbO

65 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-22 16:35 ID:+KZNq6zB

>>63
This is an outrage!

66 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-30 20:17 ID:8YbNECQ9

hiro said he thinks the site engineers might be working on textboards.

http://boards.4chan.org/qa/thread/310926

I like how active he's been so far.

67 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-30 20:52 ID:Heaven

68 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-30 22:58 ID:Heaven

Nice, textboards are gonna be filled with 4chan memes now!
And I'm gonna be datamined, too! Great!

69 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-10-31 23:30 ID:8YbNECQ9

Hiro added a history board.

70 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-01 05:39 ID:Heaven

so?

71 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-01 21:07 ID:Heaven

>so?

It's related to the topic of the thread faghomo.

72 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-01 22:42 ID:ibd9xs5V

>>68
Textboards have been on 8chan since 2014, so I really doubt that 4chan adding the textboards they had since 2004 back after a year would really hurt textboards if 8chan hasn't ruined them already.

73 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-02 00:48 ID:+KZNq6zB

>>72
What is an 8chan? Nevermind, sounds cancerous.

74 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-02 10:38 ID:Heaven

>>72
8ch's textboards are just imageboards without pics.

75 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-02 11:39 ID:Heaven

>>72
Except if Hiro really readded the textboards he'd add a link on the blotter, which absolutely everyone from any board would be able to see.

76 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-02 18:30 ID:ibd9xs5V

>>75
I know that you're new to 4chan, but for the longest time they were linked under their respective board names like /a/ with /anime/ and there was even a time that they were next to the boards on top.

77 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-02 23:39 ID:8YbNECQ9

>>68
How would him re-adding textboards affect textboard culture anywhere outside of 4chan?

78 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-03 01:33 ID:+KZNq6zB

>>68
Idk about that. The textboards will always have significantly less traffic than the imageboards on 4chan.

79 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-03 03:26 ID:Heaven

>>76
>I know that you're new to 4chan
LOL EPIC

>but for the longest time
Yeah, when 4chan didn't have as many terrible users as it did today.

Now go back to 4chan, please!

80 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-03 03:35 ID:Heaven

apparently some people are still proud they've been on 4chan for longer than others, huh

81 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-03 13:18 ID:Heaven

They don't want to feel bad they've spent most of their lives on such a shitty website.

82 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-03 21:31 ID:Heaven

Why not bring back the rapidshare catalogue?

83 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-04 01:35 ID:Heaven

>>79

>Yeah, when 4chan didn't have as many terrible users as it did today.

So according to you, it was just 2015 that made 4chan terrible? Because the textboards were around until last year you fucking idiot. I can also guarantee I've been here longer than you, so telling me to go back to 4chan is hilarious. Keep parroting things you hear others say in an attempt to make yourself look cool, though.

84 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-04 14:53 ID:Heaven

>>83
I don't think you belong here.

85 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-04 18:45 ID:Heaven

>>83
Take it easy.

86 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-06 23:33 ID:Heaven

>>84
okay mr "lol epic"
keep playing pretend oldfag on 4-ch

87 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-07 03:15 ID:Heaven

>>86
You should listen to >>85.

88 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-08 07:00 ID:Heaven

the -fag suffix is so 4chanish

89 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-08 14:36 ID:czsYIAHC

Nishimura's pathetic attempts at reaching out to the 4chan community through mainstream memes is rather disheartening...

See: 4chan's homepage

90 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-09 10:40 ID:Heaven

Oh god, it honestly is like seeing an old man attempting to do some skateboarding in front of a bunch of teenagers.

91 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-09 12:03 ID:XgRI2Uw+

And doing some sick ass tricks

92 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-09 17:34 ID:Heaven

not really, no

93 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-09 18:53 ID:HymDlO2i

sounds like someone can't do any sick ass tricks

94 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-10 01:32 ID:Heaven

i did a sick ass trick on you're mother

95 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-10 20:03 ID:pJ6j9dpP

People on 4chan are starting to put the blame of the data theft on Jim Watkins.
Those people seriously think they know more than natives that actually had to face Hiroyuki steal their data.

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96 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-11 05:25 ID:Heaven

4channers are gullible little fuckers.
They started sucking Hiroyuki's dick the second he showed up, too.

97 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-12 14:33 ID:N3S4aNla

I am so happy there are no stuped 4-ch'ers who believe without evidence

98 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-12 20:55 ID:UmwU1UEa

Suddenly 4chan people seem to know more about Hiroyuki than 1/3 of the Japanese population!

99 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-14 21:09 ID:Heaven

To be fair, the Japanese population is pretty dumb.
But then again, so are 4chan people.

100 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-15 02:16 ID:8YbNECQ9

100 get

101 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-15 10:36 ID:Heaven

>>99
Main problem is that they're not very well informed about the whole thing. They don't even know parts of the story that were translated into English, and much less about the new stories that are only written in japanese.

Also, anyone know where you can see Hottolink stocks? I heard there was a raise after Hiroyuki got 4chan.

102 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-16 04:36 ID:iVIBIz/j

>>100
why would you do this?

103 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-17 12:07 ID:9eikyDn2

>>102
It's a thread about 4chan, it's par for the course.

104 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-17 18:58 ID:HymDlO2i

>>102
why not?

105 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-18 05:34 ID:Heaven

why would you age this

106 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-19 23:49 ID:8YbNECQ9

>>105
Why not?

107 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-29 01:45 ID:Heaven

Apparently Hiroyuki added a news "textboard" to 4chan. It's just an imageboard except he disabled images. A few hours latter he added the ability to post images in the OP. So now it's just an imageboard with no image replies. Turns out people complained about not being able to post images in a textboard. This is after pleading for Hiroyuki to add textboards back.

108 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-30 22:55 ID:Heaven

>he added the ability to post images in the OP

So, more like one of the older imageboards built off of the futallaby script.

109 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-11-30 22:58 ID:srb3p61N

That sounds perfectly fine to me. The main difference between the 4chan imageboards and every other textboard is the fact that you can post unrelated images in a thread in order to selfishly and unfairly garner attention to your post, or else just to derail the thread.

110 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 06:29 ID:Heaven

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       / \  /\  The main difference between the 4chan imageboards and every other textboard is the fact that you can post unrelated images
.     / (ー)  (ー)\  in a thread in order to selfishly and unfairly garner attention to your post, or else just to derail the thread.
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  ヽ ____(⌒)(⌒)⌒) )  (⌒_(⌒)⌒)⌒))

111 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 17:30 ID:Heaven

>>110
Go back to 4chan.

112 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 17:33 ID:Heaven

>>109
The main problem isn't allowing images, it's the culture behind it. "Avatarfagging", reaction faces, unrelated pictures, etc.

113 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 17:38 ID:Heaven

>>111
Unable to face criticism are you?

114 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 18:01 ID:Heaven

>>113
Some silly AA doesn't count as ``criticism'', ``lmao''.

115 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 18:02 ID:Heaven

>>110

>And textboards are pure because there's no way to give yourself unfair attention

...When did he say that?

116 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 19:17 ID:Heaven

>>114
Geez.
For someone complaining about 4chan, you sure aren't very smart yourself.

117 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-01 20:49 ID:Heaven

>>116
That wasn't me, ``lmao''.

118 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-02 04:28 ID:Heaven

>>110,115
Like greentexting but using AAs.

119 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-02 06:47 ID:Heaven

>>118
That AA was used in the same way 2channel users use it.
I swear, this crowd is so misled that they think everyone is a 4chan. Is it because of the influx of 4chan/8ch crossposters lately?

120 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-02 13:16 ID:Heaven

>Is it because of the influx of 4chan/8ch crossposters lately?

Yeah, they're pretty gross.

121 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-02 17:42 ID:dfsrQZ4K

this is nice thread

nice and kind to each other

122 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 06:12 ID:UmwU1UEa

>>121
so nice i could look at it all day

123 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 09:42 ID:Heaven

>>120 explain
What do they do that you don't like?

124 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 10:00 ID:Heaven

>>24
For starters, they go to 4-ch internet addicts board and start asking people to lurk for them.

Like you did just now.

125 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 14:47 ID:Heaven

What's with 4channers still defending their shithole?

126 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 17:05 ID:Y1dnC2gp

What do you think will happen once 4chan gets shut down? It's not like 4chan is or ever was run by a large company, like other social media sites, so outside forces could very well compel the site's shutdown.

And after that, what will happen to the user base? Will they just dissipate, settling for more popular social media sites? I suspect the vast majority will, but, as we can already see, there's a growing number of alternative image boards and textboards, and their user base, though most of it migrated to 4chan at the height of 4chan's popularity, seems to be returning.

Is his the advent of a new era for textboards?

127 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 20:56 ID:Heaven

>>126
Retards from 4chan are already shitting up the most well-known textboards.

128 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-03 20:59 ID:8YbNECQ9

>>127
Meþinkeþ þat salt hast þu

129 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-04 00:26 ID:srb3p61N

>>127
Why is it everyone on here is so snobbish?

Do I have to remind you that there are hundreds of imageboards out there that are virtually ignored?
And some of the most active textboards outside of 4chan, 420chan, 8chan have some of the most unique and insular userbases, like /what/, which is practically all /jp/.

Why do you act like you have absolutely no control over the websites you browse? do you think that there's no alternative? Because the fact is that, of the existing textboards, 4-ch is hardly the most active.

130 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-04 02:12 ID:Heaven

>>129
You can hardly call /jp/ (or old /jp/, whatever) 4chanesque.

131 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-04 23:47 ID:Heaven

>>114
>>110 proved >>109 wrong by using AA

132 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-05 10:07 ID:kqmdFQej

>>129
can you hook me up with the best textboards?

I was thinking about 4ct yesterday and felt kinda bad for not going there

133 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-05 11:38 ID:Heaven

>>124
Did you actually mean to reference >>123?

134 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2015-12-05 16:51 ID:XXBqyq+b

>>132
Besides 4-ch I like to post on http://bienvenidoainternet.org/, but it's in Spanish.

136 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2016-03-14 14:07 ID:HymDlO2i

Apparently, Hiro's posted on hispachan.

137 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2016-04-17 03:30 ID:Heaven

>>136
Shitty place that tries really hard to imitate 4chan.

138 Name: Anonymous Addict : 2016-04-19 06:03 ID:Heaven

every image board is trying to imitate 4chan

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