4chan’s New Owner ‘Rick Rolls’ His Minions: 7 Things We Learned About Hiroyuki Nishimura

On Tuesday, new 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura held a Q&A for his community. Naturally, 4chan users treated it as a hazing ritual.
Nishimura gave as good as he got, indicating he knew exactly what he was getting into. The founder of 2Channel, the anonymous Japanese culture message board that inspired Christopher Poole to build 4chan, he’s the man Poole called “the great-grandfather of all of this.”
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4chan usernames are both anonymous and temporary, so the original Q&A is already gone from the boards. However, the 8 p.m. ET session is preserved for posterity on an unofficial 4chan archiving site and in a 41-page Google Document, racial slurs, swearwords, and all. If that’s a bit racy or lengthy for you, I’ve collected some of the highlights.
4chan’s new owner is pretty hard to troll. 
Nishimura opened the conversation with an open poll asking users to pick his next username. Just as Poole went by “moot” on 4chan, Nishimura plans to have a moniker, too.
Not surprisingly, 4chan users outdid themselves, submitting outlandishly obnoxious suggestions for Nishimura, from the culturally offensive “Hiroshima Nagasaki” to the obligatory 4chan stab at his sexuality, “Faglord” to Asian (albeit inaccurate) slurs such as “gook.”. Nishimura, unfazed, responded in kind, answering the question, “How small is your penis?” with, “Same as yours.”
Nishimura’s English is good and his 4chan literacy is even better.
A Japanese citizen, Nishimura learned English while studying at Central Arkansas University as an exchange student. When a 4chan user asked him whether it was easy to learn English, Nishimura replied, “easier than French.”
Nishimura told users that he’s spent time lurking 4chan “since met moot.’” When asked if he would be making any major changes to 4chan, Nishimura responded, “What is significant other than .” (This is a 4chan-born meme called Rick Rolling that users are more than familiar with.)

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