The anonymous forum thrived when edgelord content wasn’t acceptable on more mainstream social media. Today, it can be found most anywhere.

On Monday, Poole — posting under his moniker "moot" — announced that 4chan had been acquired by ... unfiltered in your inbox weekly. Sign up An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down.

Moot, a.k.a. Christopher Poole, founded the infamous imageboard 4chan and is now a respectable partner at VC firm Lerer Ventures and has a secretive startup called Canvas. The goal of Canvas ...

Look closely at Time magazine’s online voting results so far for the Time 100 and you will see at the top someone called moot (aka 21-year-old Christopher Poole), the founder of 4chan ...