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CHRISTOPHER “MOOT” POOLE Virtual Research Fellow “Christopher Poole (born c. 1988) is an American internet entrepreneur from New York City, noted for founding the websites 4chan and Canvas. He originally started 4chan anonymously, under the pseudonym moot (always written with lower case). In 2008, Leopoldo Godoy of Brazilian TV Globo called Poole’s 4chan “the ground zero of Western web culture.” In April 2009, Poole was voted the world’s most influential person of 2008 by an open Internet poll conducted by Time magazine. The results were questioned even before the poll completed, as automated voting programs and manual ballot stuffing were used to influence the vote. 4chan’s interference with the vote seemed increasingly likely, when it was found that reading the first letter of the first 21 candidates in the poll spelled out a phrase containing two 4chan memes: 'mARBLECAKE. ALSO, THE GAME’.” You can go on reading moot’s bio directly on Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Poole>, or rather choose this one: <https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Moot>.