Christopher Poole Quotes

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.

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 talk about it, the site had become notorious for its exploits and the adult content on there.

The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

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

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

It's fun to be around people who don't think I'm creepy for making videos in my bedroom on the Internet.

I've been an Internet person since early on, been a social media person since early on.

I have no history with 4chan.

I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

I am a troll. And do you know what? I really don't like social media apart from that aspect of it. Posting pictures of me doing this or that is really boring, but I enjoy engaging with people. I tell them it's just a laugh and to stay in touch if you're getting any grief. They're just opinions.

Since the age of 14, I have littered - excuse me, adorned - the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.

I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter writing all day long because I feel it's my job to entertain people.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.

I used to be on the Internet a lot, so all my friends on the Internet were from California.

As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

I'm from the Internet.

That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

An e-book is not a physical book. That point might seem trite until you stop for a moment to think how much simpler it is, in a certain sense, to destroy electronic than physical traces.

I never Google myself because that way madness lies.

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who don't want to do that.

Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.