Alexis Ohanian Quotes

When you think of a Vine video, it's like thinking about an experience you've had, which people can relate to.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

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

YouTube is my first love.

I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

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 support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

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

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

I have a huge underground following on the web.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

We're trying to be a content destination for viral images and to be an entertainment destination in general.

Imgur isn't about following a celebrity, and it's not about following a person in real life. You don't have to build up a massive following and use that to get your distribution.

I enjoy YouTube like everyone else.

Wikipedia's funny. Some of the stuff on there - I go there occasionally - it's unbelievable the amount of stuff that people will write on there.

I always thought of YouTube as this super-finite thing where trends ebb and flow.

Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.

Vine was like no other creative rush I ever had. In minutes, you could conceive an idea, shoot it and send it off to millions.

The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.

With Twitter and Tumblr, it's easy to get lost in the tidal wave of feedback from fans.

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

We on the internet. That's such a small community. We think we're so huge. If you went up to people on the street and asked them about it, they'd probably be like, "You had a album coming out?" Let alone it leaked.