Controversy seems to follow anonymous message-board site 4chan wherever it goes.
The site, which is now infamous for birthing the Anonymous hacking movement, has recently rallied behind Donald Trump as the next United States president.
Now it appears to be in financial trouble according to the site’s new owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, who said on Sunday that the site can no longer afford “infrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost and CDN [servers that help distribute high-bandwidth files such as video],” reports The Guardian.
Nishimura outlined three options for the future of the site: halving traffic costs by limiting upload sizes and closing some boards, adding many more ads including pop-up ads, or adding more paid-for features and “4chan pass” users.
4chan was founded in 2003 by an American schoolboy, Chris Poole, as an English-language version of popular Japanese image-sharing board 2chan, and split into a number of sub-category boards based on interest, many of the most popular ones pornographic.
It was sold by Poole to Nishimura, the founder of 2chan, in 2015.
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