• 4chan now owned by Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel
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Has their been any info on how much moot sold it for?
[QUOTE=DuCT;48745386]Has their been any info on how much moot sold it for?[/QUOTE] No apparently it was bought with borrowed money :v:
[QUOTE=dark_vivec;48745211][url]https://twitter.com/4chan/status/646690869714776065[/url][/QUOTE] [del]He had just one job...[/del] [editline].[/editline] Now it's fixed. First day on the job and he crashes the site.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;48745403]No apparently it was bought with borrowed money :v:[/QUOTE] lots of that q&a answers thread was just him playing a ruse to us westerners, but many people aren't seeing it and it's hard to know what is and what isn't true with him
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;48745541]lots of that q&a answers thread was just him playing a ruse to us westerners, but many people aren't seeing it and it's hard to know what is and what isn't true with him[/QUOTE] Yeah, he really just wants to actually have fun, which in hindsight is something i can agree with I had a laugh with some of thr posts, as i did with a few of moot's, whivh is a god sign. But there dhoukd be a levrl of professionalism wjere needed Would belp if he had a better understanding of the English language He's acquainted, but for ultimate success as a Admin (and developer), i feel that accurate communication with the users somewhat critical Really should stop using the onscreen keyboard
[QUOTE=Scratch.;48745577]Really should stop using the onscreen keyboard[/QUOTE] Alternatively, you could read up on this certain button called "backspace"
[QUOTE=Scratch.;48745577]Yeah, he really just wants to actually have fun, which in hindsight is something i can agree with I had a laugh with some of thr posts, as i did with a few of moot's, whivh is a god sign. But there dhoukd be a levrl of professionalism wjere needed Would belp if he had a better understanding of the English language He's acquainted, but for ultimate success as a Admin (and developer), i feel that accurate communication with the users somewhat critical Really should stop using the onscreen keyboard[/QUOTE] Man, I miss the smartness system.
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;48745541]lots of that q&a answers thread was just him playing a ruse to us westerners, but many people aren't seeing it and it's hard to know what is and what isn't true with him[/QUOTE] I have no reason to believe he was rusing anyone. I think he really is just out of touch with the community he bought on borrowed money.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;48746912]I have no reason to believe he was rusing anyone. I think he really is just out of touch with the community he bought on borrowed money.[/QUOTE] Why do you have any reason to believe he doesn't understand the community he paid money to buy? I don't understand most of the sentiment in this thread and online in general. It is not like 4chan is a big black box of mystery that is very difficult to follow and understand. And it is not like he is a completely clueless 50+ investment banker who acquired 4chan to diversify his portfolio. He might not be aware of every fad that starts up and dies on 4chan, but that is not the point anyway.
[QUOTE=Fetret;48747032]Why do you have any reason to believe he doesn't understand the community he paid money to buy? I don't understand most of the sentiment in this thread and online in general. It is not like 4chan is a big black box of mystery that is very difficult to follow and understand. And it is not like he is a completely clueless 50+ investment banker who acquired 4chan to diversify his portfolio. He might not be aware of every fad that starts up and dies on 4chan, but that is not the point anyway.[/QUOTE] Because he's not used to western communities. I think it's kinda nutty to assume he's doing it as a joke. What sense does that make?
[QUOTE=paul simon;48747048]Because he's not used to western communities. I think it's kinda nutty to assume he's doing it as a joke. What sense does that make?[/QUOTE] I'm honestly asking here, what does that even mean? It is not like he had no access to 4chan all these years and you don't have to be western to understand what 4chan is. Apart from the silly questions that got silly answers that q&a was pretty informative and showed how much he wanted to work with the community, no?
[QUOTE=Fetret;48747032]Why do you have any reason to believe he doesn't understand the community he paid money to buy? I don't understand most of the sentiment in this thread and online in general. It is not like 4chan is a big black box of mystery that is very difficult to follow and understand. And it is not like he is a completely clueless 50+ investment banker who acquired 4chan to diversify his portfolio. He might not be aware of every fad that starts up and dies on 4chan, but that is not the point anyway.[/QUOTE] His favorite meme is PEDOBEAR, which is from 2007 and didn't understand any of the modern memes like baneposting. He doesn't even seem sure of what boards are on 4chan. Or even what generals are.
[QUOTE=Fetret;48747073]I'm honestly asking here, what does that even mean? It is not like he had no access to 4chan all these years and you don't have to be western to understand what 4chan is. Apart from the silly questions that got silly answers that q&a was pretty informative and showed how much he wanted to work with the community, no?[/QUOTE] Of course you don't have to be western to understand, but you have to pay attention to it to understand. He has not been paying attention to it.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;48747116]i hope he posts this is sparta and imma firin mah lazor as well[/QUOTE] He probably would if he remembered 4chan is an imageboard and not a textboard like 2ch.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;48747112]His favorite meme is PEDOBEAR, which is from 2007 and didn't understand any of the modern memes like baneposting. He doesn't even seem sure of what boards are on 4chan. Or even what generals are.[/QUOTE] Or, you know, maybe he was just fucking around with the community. I highly doubt that he bought 4chan, even if for a small sum of money, without him having any knowledge regarding 4chan and it's culture.
he finally learned how to embed a image [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wy78D4x.png[/IMG] [img]http://i.imgur.com/zIru1ln.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=RichyZ;48743695]tbh this guy seems pretty harmless, and his posts are way funnier to read than anything moot has ever said[/QUOTE] If any of this is true: [quote]Things to know: * 'Hiroyuki' recently purchased 4chan from Moot. * 'Hottolink' is a Japanese big data analytics and data mining company. They specialize in mining and selling the data behind social media, blogs, and bbs/forums. They currently only provide service to Japanese and Chinese companies, utilizing data from 2ch, twitter, weibo, blogs, etc. Services they provide are product performance analysis and marketing solutions based on social media data. * 'Niconico Douga' is Japan's equivalent of youtube. Hiroyuki is some kind of employed with their project. Hiroyuki's company Brazil Future Search provides the search solution for Niconico douga. * '2ch.sc' is Hiroyuki's pirate site of 2ch.net. Hiroyuki made 2ch.sc to fulfill his contracts to Hottolink which provides him with millions of USD per annum according to Hottolink's published financial report[1]. * 'Brazil Future Search' is Hiroyuki's search engine company specializing in real-time search solutions. They currently provide search for Niconico Douga and 2ch.sc and others. * 'Effyis' is a company that runs boardreader.com. They were recently bought out by Hottolink as the first expansion into the US market. How Hiroyuki will sell 4chan data: Step 1: Brazil Future Search will make a real-time search engine for 4chan text data only. They will forgo images because images are not important in data mining. Step 2: The new 4chan search engine will provide data to Effyis (boardreader.com). Step 3: Boardreader.com will add 4chan search to their board search. Step 4: Effyis (boardreader.com) will provide a firehose of data to Hottolink (their parent company) to use in data mining. Step 5: American companies will begin purchasing analytics data from Hottolink. Step 6: There is no step 6, you have already had your data sold to the highest bidder. After Hiroyuki's initial announcement of purchasing 4chan, Hottolink stock has risen 60 points. This is likely due to insider trading; Hottolink has yet to publicly announce anything regarding 4chan. You can read Hottolink's strategy in their published English financial report: [1] [url]http://www.hottolink.co.jp/pdf/english/ir20150828.pdf[/url] Good day.[/quote] Then he's not so harmless.
[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;48747481]If any of this is true: Then he's not so harmless.[/QUOTE] I don't call search analytics user data
[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;48747481]If any of this is true: Then he's not so harmless.[/QUOTE] [url]https://archive.moe/[/url] Here's something that has already done it. If you mean other data, there's not much. Gold accounts are not handled by 4chan. Only thing you can sell is shitposting.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;48746912]I have no reason to believe he was rusing anyone. I think he really is just out of touch with the community he bought on borrowed money.[/QUOTE] A number of Japanese posters (who speak better English and posted on 2ch) claim that he's far smarter and much better at English than what the q&a indicates and he's doing this so the community lets its guard down, but I'm not so sure.
[QUOTE=1nfiniteseed;48749778]A number of Japanese posters (who speak better English and posted on 2ch) claim that he's far smarter and much better at English than what the q&a indicates and he's doing this so the community lets its guard down, but I'm not so sure.[/QUOTE] I noticed the huge difference in quality in the website he claims to have made versus the posts he was making. I'm suspicious of him, but I'm going to wait to see what he does.
Good to see that he's using the image uploader [QUOTE=hiroyuki ## Admin] [t]https://i.4cdn.org/qa/1443038749020.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] [t]http://sharex.moe/i/2015/09/15-09-24_13-57-04.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Scratch.;48749922]Good to see that he's using the image uploader [t]http://sharex.moe/i/2015/09/15-09-24_13-57-04.png[/t][/QUOTE] He truely is the biggest bait of the year.
Appended this to the OP, which is a global sticky [url]http://hiro.asks.jp/93612.html[/url]
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