Re:4Chan Founder Moot Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Start...
by thaumaturgy on Monday November 19, 2012 @08:54PM
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> Eh, I think you're overgeneralizing from your own perspective here (and searching HN to back yourself up is only magnifying, not mitigating, that effect). There's an awful lot of English-speaking internet out there beyond the bubble that wouldn't know 4chan from foursquare.
4Chan has 22 million uniques per month and a million posts per day [1], and seems to be referenced regularly on all of the other "big" online forum sites. And, when Time gave in and acknowledged the poll results for Christopher Poole as their most influential person of the year, they referred to him first as "moot" and the stunt picked up coverage in mainstream publications like the LA Times [2].
So, I think you may be underestimating 4Chan's influence. But, I'll concede that I may be overestimating it as well.
4Chan has 22 million uniques per month and a million posts per day [1], and seems to be referenced regularly on all of the other "big" online forum sites. And, when Time gave in and acknowledged the poll results for Christopher Poole as their most influential person of the year, they referred to him first as "moot" and the stunt picked up coverage in mainstream publications like the LA Times [2].
So, I think you may be underestimating 4Chan's influence. But, I'll concede that I may be overestimating it as well.
[1]: http://www.4chan.org/advertise [2]: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/04/4chan-tim...