4chan founder steps down as CEO

4chan imageboard founder Christopher Pool stepped down as chief administrator. He announced this in an open letter to users.

According to Poole's statistics, 4chan has seen 42 billion pages and 1.8 billion posts since its inception. The monthly audience of the site is 20 million people.

Nothing will change for community members. In the near future, the main volunteers will take over the administration, including the main developer, responsible moderator and server administrator. (English.)

4chan

• 4chan was founded in 2003 and over time has become a cult community on the Internet. Imageboard users came up with a huge number of memes, staged attacks in support of WikiLeaks, and the Anonymous hacker group was founded there.
• In 2009, Time magazine named Christopher Poole, who has been 4chan's CEO since the imageboard's inception, one of the top 100 most influential people in the world.
• In Russia, separate sections of 4chan were blocked by Roskomnadzor.