My understanding is is that Poole really likes Japan, so this doesn't seem crazy.Īltogether his career progress looks. If you really want to live somewhere in particular it's not uncommon to decide what office you want to work in and find a team there to move to. I wouldn't read too much into the brevity of his time in chat because the move to the Maps team also moved him to Tokyo. Then he worked on Hangouts Chat (replacement for Hangouts) for a REALLY short time (7mo it says) before moving to Geo. Whatever he worked on while there is anyone's guess, could have been a dozen things, but mostly I'd guess he was probably working on getting the general program off the ground and self sufficient. If you check the profile page someone else screenshotted below, it says he started as a "founding partner and co-lead of Area 120", which is a an internal startup incubator. SA-style shitposting has now become the standard posting style for people who "get" Twitter.īetween Reddit, Twitter, and Imgur, there's now enough ease of access for your average internet-savvy person to be exposed to a unified Western internet culture, with the flow being 4chan -> Reddit/Imgur -> Twitter, and then Twitter leading to exposure through media like TV, online "journalism", etc. They inadvertently start what becomes known as "weird twitter". But the communities exist alongside each other.Ī bunch of old SA posters go to Twitter, because it turns out the average Western internet user finds SA posting and humor funny, and the biggest motivation for FYAD shitposting was always attention and building up your "brand". Then Imgur ends up becoming Reddit for people who primarily use mobile devices and don't like Reddit's UI. The shocking content is still there for those who want it. You can further curate and filter content with subreddits. You need to register an account to post, but you can make new accounts whenever you want (old Reddit didn't require an e-mail), so you can basically be anonymous if you want to. It's curated by users through the upvote/downvote system. Posting/contributing can be harder for some people who don't want to risk being insulted when they think they are following the informal rules.Įarly-mid Reddit ends up being a sort of middle-ground between SA and 4chan. Some of that content is too shocking for the average person. There's just too much content to sift through. It's overwhelming for the average person. The SA community was also very anti-anime, which meant you weren't welcome to be a weeb anywhere other than the dedicated subforum (ADTRW). There was almost no moderation outside of illegal stuff. It was anonymous, so no one could tell if you were a new user or not, and cliques weren't an issue. All of these combined to form a significant barrier for new users.Ĥchan dealt with all of these issues. One ban was enough for most people to not return, even if they were able to pay. It had an elitist community that was unwelcoming towards new users, with strict etiquettes shaped by moderators and users alike, and users that were predisposed to forming cliques, along with strictly enforced rules that made it easy to get banned and forced to pay money. Not just as a reader, but also as a contributor. It's not really about normie or not, but amplification (through number of users) and ease of access. Pokémon go doesn’t even hold a candle to that in my view. 4chan was a microcosm of the future, and that is what made 4chan so amazingly potent. You were not only experiencing these new things, but experiencing them as a part of a relatively small and exclusive group of people. Meme culture was totally new, seemingly silly but underpinned by a fundamental arbitrage in communication that proved to be very important. It’s something we have become accustomed to now. The consequences of total anonyminity was a completely new concept back then, completely new territory. People would live stream their suicides and other people would watch them and actually egg them on in the chat. I remember people would find online obituaries and organize raids on the family of the deceased, in one instance tormenting the parents of a deceased child with prank phone calls. 4chan was the place where regular people and high bandwidth internet became married, and where the consequences of that union first materialized. It was the start of a very fundamental shift in the way people live. 4chan was the nucleation point from which our modern lives sprung.
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