Archives Quote by Christopher Poole

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really…

— Christopher Poole

4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I…

— Christopher Poole

4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success,…

— Christopher Poole

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

— Christopher Poole

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18 and could…

— Christopher Poole

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift…

— Christopher Poole

I was mesmerized. 4chan was nothing like anything I'd ever seen.

— Fredrick Brennan

When I started using 4chan heavily, my whole life became about the Internet. And my real life stopped mattering to me.

— Fredrick Brennan

With 4chan, the cost of hosting it added up very quickly and at that time when I was 18, I didn't have the income…

— Christopher Poole

If you shut down 4chan, shut down 8chan, you're just pushing it under the rug. Underground, it's just gonna get worse.

— Fredrick Brennan

Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.

— Christopher Poole

When 8chan came back online, it was extremely unstable. I was trying to post on it to see if it worked. And it was…

— Fredrick Brennan