{"id":106863,"date":"2016-10-06T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106863"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:07:01","slug":"controversial-message-board-4chan-is-going-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/106863-controversial-message-board-4chan-is-going-bankrupt","title":{"rendered":"Controversial message-board 4chan is going bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversy seems to follow anonymous message-board site 4chan<\/a><\/strong> wherever it goes.<\/p>\n

The site, which is now infamous for birthing the Anonymous hacking movement, has recently rallied behind Donald Trump as the next United States president.<\/p>\n

Now it appears to be in financial trouble according to the site\u2019s new owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, who said<\/a> <\/strong>on Sunday that the site can no longer afford \u201cinfrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost and CDN [servers that help distribute high-bandwidth files such as video],\u201d reports The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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 \u201c4chan pass\u201d users.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It was sold by Poole to Nishimura, the founder of 2chan, in 2015.<\/p>\n

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The controversial anonymous message-board 4chan could be shut down forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10547,31,22571,22573,10698,20904],"class_list":["post-106863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-4chan","tag-active","tag-bankrupt","tag-controversial","tag-money","tag-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106869,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106863\/revisions\/106869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}