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Erick Schonfeld
April 2nd, 2011

(Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many of the Internet’s most pervasive memes, from Lolcats to Rickrolling. Moot doesn’t like to do video interviews, but after much pestering, Chris Dixon got him to come on Founder Stories for a rare… → Read More

Alexia Tsotsis
March 28th, 2011

When LOLs Collide: Cheezburger Network Buys Know Your Meme

Meme catalogue website Know Your Meme has been swallowed by Ben Huh’s The Cheezburger Network this morning in a seven figure deal, Tubefilter’s Marc Hustvedt reports. The site, which has 3 million unique visitors per month and 20 million page views per month will be joining sites like Fail Blog, The Daily What and LOLmart in Cheezburger’s march towards total meme domination.

Founder Andrew Baron… → Read More

Robin Wauters
January 21st, 2011

Humor: The Brutal Work Conditions At The Cheezburger Network (Video)

Pet Holdings, the company behind the Cheezburger Network – home to LOLcats, FAIL Blog, Totally Looks Like and other silliness – recently raised $30 million in funding.

You would think everything is smooth sailing for the company and its CEO Ben Huh, and that its employees are all shiny and happy people these days, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

This reveals a hard-hitting report by… → Read More