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To celebrate, The Daily Dot's Fernando Alfonso III wrote a long piece about the website's history and its founder, Christopher Poole.
Sure, Poole's brainchild has gained notoriety for spawning online abuse, high-level pranks, and the infamous hack of Sarah Palin's email, but the article portrays him, personally, as a pretty nice guy.
Poole has never cashed out on 4chan and has even turned to a different startup called Canvas to pay the bills.
For him, 4chan lives on for the sake of the user:
"I just want to make sure the lights stay on for people who need them to be on," Poole says. "How do we get things to a place where a site can outlive its founder? That's what's important."