Research Blog #13

The Master Of Memes.

Authors:

Grossman, Lev

Source:

Time; 7/21/2008, Vol. 172 Issue 3, p50-51, 2p, 1 Color Photograph

Document Type:

Article

Summary:

The main points of this article are simply quantitative, not giving much insight into the mentality of the website 4chan. Statistics such as monthly users, total posts, and daily hits are given, along with how the website is able to affect peoples' everyday lives, even without them really noticing it. Mr. Grossman goes into detail after an interview with 'moot' (Christopher Poole, the founder of the website) about the site's humble beginnings, and general morph into what it is today. It could be considered a mecca of internet memes. He then delves into how moot is having problems keeping the site running, with the extremely high amount of bandwidth needed.