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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by redthrowaway on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @12:56PM (#8924371)
I think GG and 8chan are the least of 4chan's problems if they were trying to sell. Constant loli, gore, and racist threads would be a far bigger turn off to a potential buyer. GG and 8chan threads were just banned because of his personal beliefs.
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by digi_owl on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:00PM (#8924397)
Yeah, i'm not sure how you would monetize a place like 4chan. Most high paying ads would likely shun it like the plague, so as to not have their brands forever socially tainted.
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by bacongobbler on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:05PM (#8924854)
pure speculation, but I'm pretty sure brands which are already socially tainted by the general public (e.g. adult entertainment) would gladly take up 4chan for ad space and visibility.
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by cheepin on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:00PM (#8925291)
They tend to get similar advertisers to sites like the pirate bay. At one point, they had duckduckgo advertisements but I was so cynical that I assumed it was just crap like the rest of the ads... never clicked on it.
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by x0x0 on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:27PM (#8924553)
or the constant posting of child porn
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by redthrowaway on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:30PM (#8924575)
Hasn't happened in a long time. I haven't seen CP on /b/ in probably 2-3 years. Granted, I'm not on it much these days, but it went from being something you'd see constantly to something you see rarely, if ever.
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by x0x0 on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:30PM (#8924579)
it's still in b regularly
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by unfunco on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:54PM (#8924751)
Constant loli covers that I presume?
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by cheepin on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:04PM (#8925329)
It's the legal loophole around CP at 4chan (luckily only at /b/). It's not clearly illegal so it doesn't get banned, but it's also obviously just drawn CP.
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by Mckey on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:01PM (#8924407)
What's wrong with loli, gore and racism? I get avatarfags and theri lolis, but gore and racism?
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Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan by wmil on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:28PM (#8925044)
The site isn't worth much if advertisers don't want to be associated with the content.
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