Christopher Poole is an American entrepreneur and internet prodigy presently working with Google. He is most famous as founder and former administrator of the English-language imageboard website ‘4chan,’ and as founder of the website Canvas Networks. He started ‘4chan’ with this pseudonym, ‘moot,’ as the screen name. Presently owned by Hiroyuki Nishimura, the site reputed as ‘meme factory’ was called "the ground zero of Western web culture." The now defunct imageboard allowed sharing and commenting on media both anonymously and non-anonymously. It also allowed remixing of images and also incorporating music to animated GIFs. He spoke at conferences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University as moot, and gave evidence as a government witness in the Sarah Palin email hacking trial. He started working for Google in 2016.
