Not a bad article. Just a factual error there: Anonymous, the 4chan userbase, and the Scientology raiders are three different groups (which nonetheless interwine). (Scientology related posts on 4chan were actually forbidden by moot and removed during the protests.)
The key sentence of the article is: "
If he didn't care so much about what kind of advertising 4chan users have to look at, he probably wouldn't be worried about money right now.". Moot seems rather phlegmatic. At times he wasn't running ads at all. And his handling of them is amateurish. Look at the incident with the "
ads [that] blasted users with unwanted sounds". He even informed the userbase on the top of the site (usually reserved for rare important notices) about this and said he would look for alternative banners.
What i wanna say is: He could just put
anything upand get money, as the 4chan demographic is so wide and vast. Currently the ads are "hookup" services, porn sites, electronic gadges sale sites, fun sites. Remember this in the artice?: "
But "I don't want to run ads with nudity above the fold," he says. It's just tacky."
Now, concerning the clueless crowd of this forum who thinks it has the game plan for the internet including 4chan and marketing in general: you have no idea.
Ads to porn sites are a way to go because people undoubtedly
do pay for them. /b/-tards are no exception. 2chan is running on them.
Moot is not capable of running a t-shirt business himself. Tshirts and toys would not sell to /b/-tards anyway cause it is frowned upon to take memes to the real world. The memes exclusively work in the context of the internet. And tshirts with "current memes" is the
least thing a person who enjoys these particular current meme wants, cause it's the exact
opposite of how a meme works. It's on the internet, in your own mind, exluded from real society. I'm talking bout "true" /b/tards, the "oldfags". The shirts would look ridiculous too so no "newfag" or kiddie would buy them. Moot would so be hated because he would go against /b/'s "priniciples" (if there are any). Remember /b/tards are basement dwellers that go to 4chan to escape from the real world.
Also there is no original content on /b/! Almost every meme is ripping on copyrighted pop media/culture stuff!
And moot would never sell Guy Fawkes masks. See my first paragraph.
I agree with the Tshirts. So much potential. Icanhazcheesburger should pay some royalties too. I'm pretty sure 4chan came up with the concept of lol cats.
What are you talking about? There is no copyright.
"
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties. Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Comments are owned by the Poster."
What do you mean? The approved definitive Futuba design?
5 million eyeballs a month of the stupidly gullible variety
The more you visit the minefield /b/, the less gullible you get. By and by you realise that
everyone is a troll who f*cks with you for fun.
So video gaming hardware, Japanese crap
Yes.
Delusional.
using hot chan girls as the models. "Support 4chan with your TITS or GTFO"... Chicks could donate self cam sets or some shit, and non channers could pay $10 a month or some shit.
You don't know the camwhore dynamic. Those
underage girls do this
spontaneously for the thrill in the exclusive setting of the chans' threads. They are amateurs, not commercial. Moot and his mods delete all camwhores on sight anyway. He wouldn't do that.
Since this moot is such a cult like character, why not have a where's moot tshirt. Have a basic shirt and a more expensive autographed shirt.
Chris is clearly not that type of extroverted person.
If you were to make anonymous pay for 4chan they would literally rip the internet a new asshole. A bunch of them are excellent hackers with a mean streak a mile wide.
That didn't happen with SomethingAwful and they have basically the same (type of) skilled "hackers" and attacking foes amongst them, and they both are still running. They would just switch to another chan if 4chan was with a fee.
Also, many of them are adept at hacking. They frequently use these skills and their sheer number to shut down interactive websites. The last one I saw happen live was the book series Twilight's message board, which they shut down in about five minutes just because a thread starter felt like it. If you were to make them pay for 4chan, which many of them have been using for a few years now, they would be pretty enraged. So then you'd have over a million pissed off and capable technological anarchists on your hands. Not a good situation.
You're overestimating them. I'm often on /b/. Most of the "raids" are nothing but short-lived fun-actions by a few people who use the most primitive methods that hardly have any effect on the attacked websites.
Membership fees would destroy the concept of 4chan.
I am sure any sort of ad model he introduces will envoke panic and chaos on the site.
Any sort?? What about the ones that existed? They would never panic and chaos is a defining element of /b/ already.
You can't understand /b/ unless you've been there for over many months.
