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4chan Founder Stretches Canvas

Posted by Shirley Brady on March 14, 2011 10:00 AM

You may not be familiar with 4chan, one of the largest online communities — one that's rife with porn and other NSFW content.

But you may recall how its founder, the 23-year-old Christopher Poole who's better known online as "Moot," managed to get 16.8 million votes on Time's 2009 Person of the Year online poll to land its "most influential person" title. (He was profiled by Time a year earlier, at the ripe old age of 20). 

Poole is now looking to go legit, or at least make some money, by launching another web venture that he officially unveiled yesterday at South by Southwest in Austin.Continue reading...

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