- Christopher Poole has sold internet imageboard 4chan to Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder of Japanese site 2channel, itself a direct inspiration for 4chan’s creation in the first place.
- The NY Times reports that Poole “declined to disclose the terms of the acquisition”, and also “does not expect to serve an active role in 4chan’s future development”.
- Poole said of the 4chan sale and new owner:
“Hiroyuki is literally the only person in the world with as much if not more experience than myself in running an anonymous, large destination community that serves tens of millions of people. He’s the great-grandfather of all of this.”
- although a founder of 2chan, Nishimura left the company in 2009
http://kotaku.com/4chan-has-been-sold-to-the-creator-of-2channel-1732219638
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
