Christopher 'moot' Poole
From Chan Top List, the imageboard wiki.
Christopher Poole, online alias 'moot', is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of 4chan. He launched the site in October 2003 at age fifteen and continued to administer it until selling it to Hiroyuki Nishimura in September 2015. He has since worked at Google and on subsequent independent projects.
4chan
Poole founded 4chan as a high school student, modeling it on Futaba Channel. He ran the site nearly single-handedly for its first several years, with administrative help from a small team of volunteer moderators and 'janitors'. Time magazine readers voted him the 'world's most influential person' in a 2009 online poll that was itself the subject of mass coordinated voting.
Other projects and Google
Poole launched several follow-up projects, including the collaborative drawing site Canvas (2011) and the discussion site DrawQuest (2012), neither of which found long-term commercial success. In March 2016 he announced that he had joined Google to work on social products.
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See also
- 4chan — English-language imageboard founded in 2003, modeled on Japan's Futaba Channel. One of the most influential sites in internet culture.
- Hiroyuki Nishimura — Japanese entrepreneur, founder of 2channel and current owner of 4chan.
- Anonymous (collective) — Loosely organized hacktivist movement that emerged from 4chan in the late 2000s, famous for Project Chanology.
This page was last updated on April 29, 2026.