anon makes an imageboard

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Play174@reddit

create famous social media site get hired by big tech company to develop social media retire after making bank for years live quiet, healthy life with limited online presence

Surely he must be a lizard person, right? Right?!

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No-Care6414@reddit

Do you think he too lives with the horrors of his creation and loses sleep over his guilt?

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WintersbaneGDX@reddit

Nah. 4chan is a net benefit to the world. All these sociopaths would exist regardless, at least now they're mostly in one place.

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Advanced_Court501@reddit

ah yes, let me log into my one site on the internet of the day, 4chan

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expert_on_the_matter@reddit

I don't think the contamination is going particularly well considering we're on r/greentext

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It's why /r/moonsblights hasn't been nuked by reddit admins yet, corralling. Anybody who passes through there and says a thing gets a Mark of Cain digital stamp for life so they can track them for punish later. All the rest of the moon-o-sphere got nuked to concentrate them in one place

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Fanrail@reddit

Community not found

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wordjedi@reddit

sorry I meant /r/mensabrights

~~ab~~

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LilSlothieSloth@reddit

The fuck, there’s nothing wrong with that sub

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WintersbaneGDX@reddit

None of these words appear in the Bible.

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iwillnotcompromise@reddit

That's like saying that building a nuke is not that bad, because there's radioactive everywhere in nature.

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WintersbaneGDX@reddit

That doesn't make any sense.

I drop you in a mall with 5000 people and tell you 25 of them are violent murderers.

In scenario 1, they're all randomly loose in the mall. In scenario 2, they're all inside one store in the corner.

Which scenario do you prefer?

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Taaargus@reddit

I get your logic and all but it's more like the 25 violent murders get their own store in the mall where they can talk about how to get better at murder without inhibition.

There's real evidence that having platforms for this type of thing augment their views and spread them elsewhere.

The real argument is that if 4chan didn't exist they would've just coagulated somewhere else.

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Beast_of_Guanyin@reddit

I fucking hate analogies.

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Play174@reddit

What is this? A logical debate on Reddit that doesn't devolve into shitslinging?

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Yamigosaya@reddit

have you seen twitter

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ThePassiveGamer@reddit

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

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Reptilesblade@reddit

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Hotdogfromparadise@reddit

They occasionally post funny shit too.

Sometimes we laugh with, sometimes at.

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kilqax@reddit

The place is their moms' basements

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TheLandMammal@reddit

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awkward__pickle@reddit

Wait is that actually a quote from spy kids originally

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xTraxis@reddit

Yes, this is the origin of the quote.

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awkward__pickle@reddit

Insanely goated

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Everestkid@reddit

IIRC it was quite a pain to run 4chan. Advertisers understandably didn't really want to run ads there so it wasn't making a lot of money and it jumped domains once or twice.

Dude's probably quite happy he doesn't have to deal with it anymore.

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Rociel@reddit

He was quite tired of 4chins for quite a while before selling and really tried to distance himself from it. His creation was not really what he wanted. Don't know how he looked at it after selling though, his perspective might have changed.

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Frapplejack@reddit

How could he ever spend his time with large amounts of money to live a fulfilling and fun life? He could instead spend his time moderating the scrawlings of a bunch of mentally unwell racists and incels blaming general groups for all their problems.

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Uncle480@reddit

Everyone is so used to successful people making asses of themselves when they're at their peaks, so it's bewildering to think someone so impactful can just "retire quietly"

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Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit

Only logical conclusion to people who schizo-scrawl on their walls

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MonsterTamerBilly@reddit

...Seriously? All I remember about Moot was his hair trigger for bans, wanting to be trans ten years before it was as doable as nowadays, and some weird fascination for Campbell's canned soup

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phoenix277lol@reddit (OP)

i remember the soup episode lol. what flavour was he crazy for? i forgot.

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MonsterTamerBilly@reddit

Chicken, I think? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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punkate@reddit

Anon achieved an American dream

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69StinkFingaz420@reddit

USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST

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Previous_Air_9030@reddit

I chatted with Moot over ICQ once. I told him to suck my dick and he stopped responding to me.

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eat_my_bowls92@reddit

USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST

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69StinkFingaz420@reddit

yo lowtax wtf

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pbaagui1@reddit

>have skill

>make money

>fuck off

>win

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Thendrail@reddit

Lest we forget

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catfroman@reddit

/r/dontyouknowwhoiam

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DickHydra@reddit

My favorite rumor about him is that he's friends with Taylor Swift and that she's secretly a 4channer, as well.

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AltwrnateTrailers@reddit

Bro made millions and dipped. What all rich people should do.

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wordjedi@reddit

It's what Bill Gates did after using his success to bully then devour smaller software companies for decades. He basically went around the world playing White Savior with his now-exwife curing little kids of river blindness or whatever.

Then he got in trouble for saying "vaccine gud when Black Death happen again" so now he's hiding in his billionaire silo to escape cannibal holocaust by the hoi polloi. Sorry little blind kid 💀

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Taaargus@reddit

Huh? He had an interview defending his work and vaccinations like a month ago. He directly attacked the current administration and Elon in that interview and said they were directly responsible for the deaths that resulted from their policies and pulling back from foreign aid.

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Jeremyjf60@reddit

Then why would Microsoft give 1M for the President's inauguration? Bullshit.

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Legolihkan@reddit

Bill Gates is not in charge of Microsoft and hasnt been for a long time

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Jeremyjf60@reddit

Didn't know, thank you.

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Taaargus@reddit

I mean it's just a fact? And providing money to both presidential campaigns is standard practice for most businesses/foundations that expect to work with the government. Those decisions would have also been made before Trump took the types of actions we've seen in this administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/bill-gates-elon-musk-killing-children.html

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Jeremyjf60@reddit

Shouldn't be standard business, the US are corrupted beyond repair.

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Taaargus@reddit

That's how it works in literally every Western democracy, even all the ones you think of as democratic utopias.

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Jeremyjf60@reddit

That's not how it works at all lmao, most civilized countries have a cap on donations.

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Beast_of_Guanyin@reddit

It's called a bribe. They want to benefit from the current administration.

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BoosherCacow@reddit

There is no way in hell he made millions. At best he probably got a few hundred thousand and a release from any debt for 4chan and he was never high level at Google. He probably made a few hundred K a year there.

The estimate I recall reading about the sale was at MOST mid six figures but that is very, very doubtful. It was and never will be a money maker.

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iSeize@reddit

Hi moot hope it's all good in the hood

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star_cannon7k@reddit

Unpopular opinion, but I like the unfiltered nature of people and freedom of speech on 4chan as compared to these heavily regulated and fake ass social medias.

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DarkScorpion48@reddit

He didn’t “make imageboard for fun”. SomethingAwful mass-banned all the lolicon anime fans and he created the place for all the refugees.

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StampAct@reddit

So this was all Lowtax’s fault?

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DarkScorpion48@reddit

A shitload of things came from SA, so you can blame the whole of internet culture on him, yes.

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BoosherCacow@reddit

he created the place for ~~all the refugees~ fun.

There you go, I fixed that for you.

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SpaceBug176@reddit

what

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QuinnAvery89@reddit

It’s a moot point

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No-Care6414@reddit

What's a moot point?

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REDthunderBOAR@reddit

The creators online name was Moot.

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formershitpeasant@reddit

Your mom's virginity

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ItsImNotAnonymous@reddit

https://i.redd.it/sjwphy0uoz3f1.gif

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spunk_wizard@reddit

Honestly as far as Moot is concerned, it's the best possible ending

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eat_my_bowls92@reddit

I forgot what his name was online, but once I read that my brain slapped me in the face and shouted BOXY! I think it’s time for me to die because I’m ancient

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Neomataza@reddit

There is only one queen. And it's some girls abandoned youtube channel.

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bigtree2x5@reddit

I think he's seen enough and has gone as far away as possible from interacting with you people

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TheGreatSaltboy@reddit

I'd hide if I worked on Google+ too

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phoenix277lol@reddit (OP)

is it weird that i miss it

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RunInRunOn@reddit

Imagine if we'd had someone to blame for the creation of 4chan

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Autistic_boi_666@reddit

Anon proving his point

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MeBustYourKneecaps@reddit

Bro retired at 37?

Man...

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Routine-Professor586@reddit

Pretty standard for Silicon valley developers is it not? They make bank by like 40 and just retire.

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MeBustYourKneecaps@reddit

Yeah but that makes me sad.

To know that since I'm shit at math, I'll likely never be doing that

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therealtai@reddit

Should have practice math since you're 5 or consider not be born if you didn't want to experience the American dream of working too much to barely be able afford what you like only to died on the job.

/s

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