What the fuarrk is moot doing nowadays?

He left for Google NYC in 2016, and then we never heard of him again. He stopped updating his blog and Twitter account ever since. 4chan feels like a massive training ground for AI nowadays, and I suspect at this point that Google has direct access to a private internal API of 4chan, maybe in exchange for a few shares and/or a monthly payment to Hiroyuki. Anyway, this is just my personal conspiracy theory, but what do (You) think?

He decided to put 4chan behind him and move to Japan to work for Google. He keeps a low profile out of necessity, given that he called people glitterboys and niggers with his admin code on. He can NEVER be a public figure ever again because of this. Google doesn't need any secrets from moot or payments to Hiro to harvest 4chan posters, Google captcha is needed for every post on 4chan unless you spend 20 bucks on a pass.

>>15585 This He's a slave to his own creation, I guarantee that google is keeping him on payroll in order to get access to 4chan, it's obvious what happened ever since captcha was introduced on there. As far as him going silent it's actually not true, he did an interview with the new yorker or something last time I checked, I think he's just done with social media and the internet in general , I can't imagine the stuff he would see on there to make a man to stay sane

>>15585 >He keeps a low profile out of necessity, given that he called people glitterboys and niggers with his admin code on. He can NEVER be a public figure ever again because of this. It makes absolute sense, moot can't ever be retroactively PC in the weird and hysterical framework of politics America is currently dealing with. >>15586 >he did an interview with the new yorker or something last time I checked Please post the source if you have it at hand, because I can't find it on duckduckgo. >I think he's just done with social media and the internet in general , I can't imagine the stuff he would see on there to make a man to stay sane Would make a ton of sense too. >captchas That's what makes me suspicious of a private arrangement with Google in the first place. The captchas are really bothersome to complete (and massively train AIs with sights of Californian roads in the process) possibly because gookmoot can make money easily out of passes, and maybe it is just Hiroyuki being lazy, but I don't know... Maybe Google has a direct interest in 4chan as a platform to experiment anonymously with bots producing strings of text and watch the effects they produce on human behavior, as a grand-scale Pavlov-like behaviorist experiment. Maybe it's both. It's 2020 for fuarrrk's sake.

I think he just grew up and moved on, after spending 10? years with 4chan and having a failed start up it only makes sense to do so. Does anyone know if he's still an employee at Google? He was hired to work on Google Plus which has since then been abandoned

He does have a pretty unique skillset of managing undeground internet subcultures.

>>15594 He used to. He quit around the time his skills became completely obsolete.

More than likely he has some do nothing job analyzing "internet culture" or something along those lines. seeing as he build a huge online community in the early 00's.

>>15589 I can 100% guarantee that someone (if not google, or as well as google) is using 4chan for that purpose. You just know someone thought of doing that, not to mention think of how many programmers grew up on 4chan. It's an obvious place to field test AI, if you want a guaranteed audience to interact with.

He's in his 30s now and has a well documented past with compromising photos and using non-PC language with a tripcode on, he probably just wants to settle down and forget it all. He was just a weeb who wanted a place to hang out with other weebs, he never wanted to be in the center of one of the most controversial websites of all time. He works for Google Japan now, which is about as close to a happy ending a techy weeb who doesn't care about politics can get. Captcha got implemented because some Swedish pedo kept flooding 4chan, it was supposed to be temporary but I wouldn't be surprised if Google offered him a way out in exchange for keeping it. He would basically be impossible to hire in the USA and his attempt at making a more profitable indie startup failed. He's on record doing more than enough things to be permablacklisted from the west, Google's offer was probably the only way out.

>>15601 100% agree with your post. I don't blame moot for bailing, but I stopped using 4chan already at that point.

I wonder what happened to a lot of the 4chan old guard, I know Shii is some neoreactionary dark enlightenment type who is into Japanese esotericism now.

>>15605 Snacks is still DJing apparently. Your post inspired me to look.

>>15600 >>15584 >>15586 >Field test for AI >training the captchabot I hope it's just that and not a playground for anonymous authoring like Reddit.

>>15585 >>15601 these His brewing soykafs are part of internet history. Imaging trying to undo that. His humble attitude and soft temper really got him off the hook for his past thoughtcrimes, and I don't think anyone will chase after him unless he tries to make a public comeback, which of course he won't. Do you think he is well? Does he have panic attacks? Does he ever wake up in a pool of cold sweat?

I would feel real bad if I were seeing as to what his carefree/just for fun weeb forum turned into. If you want proof people cannot govern themselves, look no further than the Internet.

>>15621 As far as 4chan is concerned, it was definitely normal people' fault if it died. It was like a curious little location that got featured on TV and is now a tourist attraction with booths for merch and a constant crowd of people throwing trash everywhere while they wait in line for their selfie.

>>15584 >4chan feels like a massive training ground for AI nowadays I wouldn't be surprised and, as others have mentioned, Google would have a particularly easy time doing this. I came across this video recently and it shows how bad things are over there. If posting is being automated, then it seems clear that humans are being lowered to the machine, rather than machines being raised to the humans. Why make a machine that can act intelligent when you can have it spew nonsense and get the humans to spew it with them? This exemplifies the value of requiring intelligent and reasoned discourse. I'm aware of machines that supposedly can pass the Turing test well enough to advertise products or sway people to buy things, but I'm not doing that, so that's a point in favor of my humanity. I left 4chan shortly after he did, but for unrelated reasons. While his story may seem sad in some ways, because of how his behaviour has followed him, I think it's good form to write only what I'd be proud of if it were later connected to me; this can be a chilling effect, but I also lack the want to be normal, so I wouldn't be mortified even if the really weird stuff I do were ever traced back to me. It also makes me wonder if I'll have an echo comparable to his, and if I'd want to.

>>15660 You can filter unwanted words and low-effort posts with client-side software. https://dscript.me/

>>15584 Literally look at his LinkedIn lol, it says what she is doing

>>15663 I did that and then managed to filter almost the whole board. It was the end of my 4chan days

>>15702 I used to have an extension for a while and had 70-80 threads filtered at all times. And it wouldn't filter random text with unrelated images like those wojak edits or Twitter screencaps, at least not without false flags. No filter can magically increase the general quality of the posts, so I just abandoned ship. I can't believe how stressful it was to be there. As soon as I see a board going in that direction or I start being uncomfortable with a site I drop it immediately. >>15660 I used to go on a couple smaller boards and they were soykaf but not THIS soykaf. That looks like a Twitch chat.

>>15703 /c/ is still good

This thread. This is exactly the reason people used to hate hipsters. > our cool little scene was cool when we were there waaaay before the mainstream people started coming to shows > damn normal people hafta ruin everything ;_; Now you know how they all felt. Funny old world, innit?

>>15811 Hipsters were right.

Imagine being moot and throwing your prime years having to maintain that cesspool

4chan is the worst place to train ai, take your conspiracy cap off The posts are unstructured incomplete garbage and the userbase doesn’t represent any interesting, profitable or useful segment of society You’re better off sampling wordpress comments from random sites

>>15815 4chan has been a solid main driving force for internet memes since before myspace died btw. Its only gotten bigger the last 4 years. I'm sure there are people studying that now more than ever

>>15825 >>15815 on its own it's near worthless for the reasons presented. however, when combined with data from other sites, you can map out things like meme/idea propagation.

>>15826 more like wojak propagation at best nowadays.

Do you think he browses there from time to time?

>>15853 I doubt he goes there. He's not unironically racist.

>>15854 You're making a pretty big assumption given his past statements.

>>15855 There was a context to a lot of that. It was a cesspool, but in the early days, before all the murders started, it wasn't mean-spirited.

>>15859 I fail to see how it wasn't, with the personal army days and the trolling for any petty stuff and the raids.

>>15860 Perhaps start by separating 4chan and internet culture in those days from Moot as an individual. I don't think we're talking about the same thing.

>>15855 >past statements People change. Moot started 4chan in 2003 and left over a decade later in 2015. In terms of someone's life, that's a pretty freaking long time. You also have to remember that Moot was in his mid-teens when he started the site. When you're in your mid-teens-early-20s, you change more in one year than you do in a decade later in life. The Moot that founded 4chan doesn't exist anymore. He grew up, got a social life, and moved on.

Everything is just a single fuarrrking CIA funded honeypot.

moot will be murdered by a 15 year old 4chan user most likely

>>15949 who can really say he's changed or not. no one's heard from him except for whatever social circle he's now in or his new coworkers at google. a lot of people change, but a lot of people keep their tendencies if they dont have the kinds of life experiences that correct their problems. working in silicon valley and being accepted there tends to reward people for their worst traits. if you go by the words of people who knew him and worked on the site with him back in the day, you'll find quite a bit of resentment at him never really doing any of the real work on the site and then just ghosting them to go do ted talks and work in the bay area.

>>15991 people don't change. change is one of the most corrosive myths in the modern world.

>>16008 The only people I believe are incapable of change is people who believe people are incapable of change. Because how can you possibly be capable of doing something you believe is impossible? Are you capable of change? Of course. And of course everyone else is too. So stop saying this.

>>16013 >I wanna believe I wanna believe I wanna believe There's no evidence for people really changing. People who believe they can change are deluded into thinking they can exert energy and get a result, and thus spend significant time spinning their wheels. It's unfortunate, but true.

>>16014 people can if they want to, but it takes effort. They won't literally become a different person though, they're just expressing themselves differently. Your brain (you) remains relatively the same after you've matured after all.

>>16014 You're wrong. My source is life so don't expect me to link you to a wiki page or anything. People go through rehab, prison scares them into reforming, the military teaches them discipline, they find religion, etc. People who say that no one can ever change are making excuses for not wanting to make the effort themselves, or because they delight in seeing others fail.

>>16014 Therefore you are incapable of change. Thanks for letting everyone know, I guess.

>>16017 >>16019 >>16020 >muh changes in a deterministic universe, people's "changes" are based solely on their environment and nothing internal, since everything internal is the result of external influence. no, change isn't possible. but I know you'll keep screaming "but muh change" becayse people are incapable of change.

>>16030 Yes. You've explained. You are not capable of change, therefore nobody else is capable of change. determininsticbdnam univeralxbcwj.

>>16030 This.

>>16030 It’s very likely that you are correct in that our decisions are based on outside stimuli alone and therefore could be predicted if you could keep track of every variable. However there are measurable chemical and electrical processes occurring in the brain while you make these decisions. You are absolutely making decisions and the fact that they are pre-determined does not make them any less important or absolve you of responsibility. For all practical purposes you should act as though you have free will when it’s probably just an illusion.

>>16030 No. People who preach this crap are inevitably trying to let themselves off the hook for something, to avoid responsibility for their failures as a human being.

>>16030 >in a deterministic universe, people's "changes" are based solely on their environment and nothing internal who cares if it's "external" or "internal"? How do you even make that difference meaningful? People change over time either way. >>16041 aye

>>16041 You cannot, by definition, have responsibility for something you cannot control. >>16048 It matters quite a bit. Naive "free will" says we're responsible and capable of changing ourselves. This is patently false.

>>16050 Yet there is evidence that people change. How do you explain the impossible?

>>16045 Not true. If you know you're the cause of something, you take responsibility as the cause and accept the consequences. Stop projecting.

>>15607 yep, he runs an online weekly show I believe

>>15612 I don't really think he cares that much nowadays. He's probably enjoying his little safe heaven. Something which I can't certainly say for Hiro. I stopped posting on 4chan a long time ago but even I was able to notice a nosedive when Hiro became admin. I agree with >>15986 but instead of moot it'll be Hiro.

He's a sellout. I have no pity for him. On his deathbed he will regret being such a pussy his entire life

>>16062 That too probably. I just saw a post about a live event he did.

>>15607 I've heard Snacks became VERY PC.

>>16290 Does Snacks have much of a social media presence these days? And is it common knowledge to the people that attend his shows that he was a large figure on 4chan back in the day?

>>16298 I just looked up "w.t. snacks" on ddg and his twitter account popped up.

He became a Bit-Beast.

>>15584 Knowing Moot he probably did it on purpose. He's always hated the idea of having an "online presence", considering it to be an unnatural, overly restrictive way to live life. As soon as he stopped running 4chan, he had no need to maintain the his identity as Moot, so he stopped.

>>15585 >being ashamed of the early net's freedom of expression F4gg0t didn't mean homo it meant obnoxious in the 1990s culture he grew up in. The n, means stupid. Being afraid of your past when you didn't break the law is stupid. He is not a politician, he just works for them.

>>15612 its very well possible everynight he wakes up in a *poole* of his own sweat ba-dum-ts

>>15584 He posts stuff on his Instagram sometimes. He looks happy to me, working in Japan. I wonder if he ever talks to Snacks.

He is probably doing the same thing all other old 4chan figures are doing now, blending in with society and putting their past behind them. Unlike Moot whom disappeared into nothingness, Snacks still maintains an online presence. He has a twitter https://twitter.com/MidnightSnacks, and an online radio show. Apparently he's a DJ now. He plays on anime rave parties (no joke). He's been asked about 4chan before and it seems like he'd rather not talk about it.

>>17918 Did he get his revenge?

What's with the 4chan old users leaning towards PC and hanging out with PC type people? I lurked around and found waha's accounts: https://mastodon.social/@WAHa_06x36 https://nitter.net/WAHa_06x36 How did it all go so wrong?

>>17955 Imagine the death threats moot gets? Not receiving death threats in 2020 is a sure sign you don't matter but imagine how many he would get. >>20360 It's called "reaching adulthood".

>>20363 Bullshit considering pc is university students, youre not an adult, just a brainwashed kid >>20360 It was necessary to get what he wanted and especially after 4chan he had to signal harder to get in compared to a nobody with no history

>>20363 >Not receiving death threats in 2020 is a sure sign you don't matter Someone once told me "If you're not making someone furious, you're not doing anything important."

>>20373 > youre not an adult, just a brainwashed kid Alright the REALNESS has arrived!

From the looks of things, it seems like he'd been planning on ditching 4chan for quite some time before he actually did, but he needed something to jump ship to. You can tell he was tired of maintaining a site that did nothing for him but carve a growing scar into his reputation. part of me wants to say that a buddy of his got him into google, in exchange for doing polharbor and flooding 8 with nazis