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> A partnership agreement, obtained exclusively by WIRED, shows not only how current site owner Hiroyuki Nishimura acquired the far-right message board but also how Japanese industry helped finance the deal.

> The text of the deal shows that Nishimura invested $800,000 of his own money, plus $4.8 million from his company—using cash from a major Japanese telecommunications company. But the most surprising part of the deal came from Good Smile Company, which acquired a 30 percent share in 4chan for its $2.4 million investment.

Everyone loves to typecast most of the people in these odd internet subcultures as the stereotype of NEET from middle to lower-middle class households, who are entirely dysfunctional and can't handle even as much as bathing and grooming. Those people do exist.

But if there was one hard lesson I learned on Something Awful: "Beware what big fish lurk in the deep".

You never know who you are talking to.

4chin may have filled up with cancer but at least it's design actually promotes discussion unlike every other big social site.

Discussion? No. It’s where I learned to shitpost as a high school edgelord. I’d hardly call that discussion.

It allows for threads where more than one person will reply to each other. The way reddit works you won't get notifications if someone replies to the guy who replied to you.

What?

Anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes on that site know that’s absolutely false

How is it any different? 4chan does not give you notifications unless you leave a tab with a thread open from what I remember, and I know for a fact from being there back in the day that anon's will fucking gut Moots replacement if he ever fully implements notifications.

And encourages more replies? Most of those are the same people posting "angry" responses to make sure people fall for their bait and it ensures the thread doesn't immediately get buried. Ask me how I know lol. Sure, some boards show a temporary way to identify who's who, but that can easily be bypassed by a vpn.