Created in 2003 by 15-year-old New Yorker Christopher Poole – described by Rolling Stone as a “Mark Zuckerberg of the online underground” – 4chan’s aim was to create a community where conversations could grow wildly in seconds. With voluntary moderators (‘janitors’) monitoring an initial six boards, nobody had usernames and topics were discussed by anonymous … Continue reading Soldiers of 4chan: How the online forum changed the internet forever