After 42 billion pageviews, moot retires from 4chan

Jan21

by Sindy Cator on January 21, 2015 at 4:46 pm

Today, the 4chan’s founder Christopher Poole, better known as moot, announced he is retiring from the infamous Web community. Today I announced my retirement from @4chan, a community I founded at the age of 15 and have served for 11.5 years: https://t.co/jEMsDf5nfz — moot (@moot) January 21, 2015 In a blog post, Poole states he’s decided to move on after serving as 4chan’s administrator for 11.5 years, having founded the community when he was 15. He has since remained the site’s sole administrator and decision maker, while keeping most of its institutional knowledge to himself. Since its inception, 4chan has seen…