When was /vp/ created 4chan

Nowadays these threads mostly contain discussion about the metagame. In these threads, users trade with each other using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Unlike in other threads, names are more often used here, mostly to tell other traders user's Friend Code and OT , or name.

Like in Trade threads, users often fill namefield with their's Friend Codes here to make it easier to find opponents to battle. Several specific battling rules was created in this theads:. Threads where users post large numbers of images without much discussion. Draw threads are where users request pictures to be drawn and artists in the thread fulfill these requests.

Several archives exist of collected work produced in draw threads. Poole revealed in that he'd joined Google as a continuation of his work, and in a now-removed post , stated he'd use his "experience from a dozen years of building online communities" and "grow in ways one simply cannot on their own.

That sparked speculation that the company hired him to help it revamp its social media ambitions, some of which aimed to compete with Facebook. Poole jumped between several different roles during his five years.

At one point, he reportedly became a partner at Google's in-house start-up incubator, Area , which was just getting off the ground in He then became a product manager in Google's Maps division, according to Crunchbase. Some employees and industry workers criticized the hire, since Google had just made public commitments to diversity, and viewed executives' enthusiasm of Poole's hiring as tone deaf. The company eventually shuttered the social network in after it gained little traction against Facebook and other social media sites.

Watch: Google hires 4chan founder to vamp up social media. Skip Navigation. Key Points. Chris "Moot" Poole has left Google five years after his hiring made waves. Poole is best known as the "boy-genius" who created one of the internet's earliest and most infamous messaging boards, 4chan.