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moot point

“4chan is also very profane. A phrase from Star Wars comes to mind: It’s a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Spammers don’t even bother to spam 4chan; Google started searching it only six months ago. But it is the wellspring from which a lot of Internet culture, and hence popular culture, bubbles. In his way, moot is one of the most powerful people on the Web.”

Time interviews moot, founder of the 4chan.org bulletin board, which started Internet crazes such as I Can Haz Cheezburger. Time article here.


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