4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth.
I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead
I think 4chan is going to stay the same.
Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
I was mesmerized. 4chan was nothing like anything I'd ever seen.
There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.
4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.
I saw the GamerGate controversy as a way to expand 8chan. I wanted to unseat 4chan and to me it didn't matter how it happened.
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
With 4chan, the cost of hosting it added up very quickly and at that time when I was 18, I didn't have the income of my own so it was a challenge to make money and break even on it.
The rules keep getting more and more strict on 4chan even though there is no legal requirement for them to do so.
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.
What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ... That's led to this discussion that's completely raw, completely unfiltered.
When I started using 4chan heavily, my whole life became about the Internet. And my real life stopped mattering to me.
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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.