4Chan Spoofs Wikipedia Founder's "Personal Appeal"

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Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better than the Jimmy Wales Chrome extension, 4Chan founder Christopher Poole has taken the whole unintentionally hilarious Wikipedia donation thing one step further and done us a solid by posting a Wales-esque “Personal Appeal” banner at the top of his own infamous imageboard site.

Just go ahead and click on “Read Now.” I. dare. you.

Company: Wikipedia
Website: en.wikipedia.org
Launch Date: January 15, 2001

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Company: 4chan
Website: 4chan.org
Launch Date: October 1, 2003

4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. Different boards are dedicated to different topics, from Japanese anime to videogames, music, and photography. Users do not need to register a username before participating in the community.

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