How 4chan's servers got paid without ads for years? Reddit, youtube and google also started profiting decades later.
>>51925127
>decades later
moot is genius
>>51925146
>doesn't know that Google was founded 5 decades ago and originally sold soap
>>51925127
jew gold
>>51925127
Donations.
>>51925127
A certain lumberjack sold all our post metadata to the hacker "Anonymous".
>>51925964
Which he particularly never accepted too.
>>51925164
Fight club?
The generous anons are the answer OP. Donate or die along with passes have kept things going over the years. Either that or mootkins was dressing as a little girl and selling his ass to onii-chans over the years.
>>51926172
Passes only happened like a year ago. Donations never happened.
>>51926551
>Donations never happened.
they did, there was a longcat meter showing the goal and everything
that was before your time though
>>51925127
moot would blow strange men in truck stop for money to keep 4chan afloat
>>51925127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_budget
Does this answer your question in a satisfactory manner?
>>51926587
You can't have a site run on one time donations.
>>51925127
Moots parents probably paid the bills
>>51926693
>being this mentally challenged
>>51925964
>>51926551
>>51926693
moot threatened to shut down 4chan a few times because he "wasn't making a profit" and everyone better start donating or else. he keeps trying to rewrite the history of 4chan and fails.
>>51926860
>shut down 4chan
Someday...
>>51926551
>Donations never happened.
i think they were around 2005 or something, just a few years after moot started the site
in fact, its probably still up in the news thing if that still exists
its when moot ran away to mexico
Jap ads
Pic related
>>51925127
Mootles paid out of his own pocket. Hosting a php imageboard isn't super hard, especially if you purge old images (like 4chin does by design). Anything under a few thousand users could run on a 10$/month VPS.
Donations
4chan community(/b/ really) used to be really thankful that this site existed so when ever moot asked for donations for a month he would get donations to cover a year.
4chan is funded by the liberal media
>>51927206
4chan gets millions of users everday tho.
>>51927140
What am I downloading???
>>51927307
>million
LOL not even close.
it's more like 100k
>>51927321
there's 200k people online right now though, just check the front page
>>51927338
why are people so skeptical of 4chan's size? did you think it was a secret clubhouse nobody goes to?
>>51927385
yes
>>51927385
yes actually
all the faggots flood to /b/
most of the other boards don't have many new user since the newfags who come here for /b/ think that 4chan consists of only /b/
>>51926099
4chan pass boyz
>>51927338
people like to pretend that the 10gb/s connections aren't saturated like 100% of the time and the only reason 4chins is kinda quick now isn't because of cloudfare...
4chan gets paid by google as a captcha farm, they make 100,000 dollars a month with this site. guess why the japanese moot was so eager to buy this shithole
>>51927715
>server has 10gb/s connection
>10gb/s is saturated
>get cloudflare
>magic speed increase without upgrading from 10gb/s
Firstly, Moot's mom's credit card.
Secondly, donations
thirdly, out of moot's own pocket
fourthly, ads
Fifthly, ads + 4chan gold
are we going to ignore the fact that shill campaigns are real and that moot made money doing them with the other mods?
The microsoft surface launch was a clear example of that. They fucking stickied a shitty dance ad on /g/ for a day.
>>51927338
where's that admin post which stated only like 100k unique users shitposting/lurking
it was only like a year or two ago i saw the post.
and i saw someone post the screenshot sometime this year..
regardless there's a lot less users than faggots think there are.
>>51927308
Looks like the ad software is reading the front page and finding the Active Content meter and assuming it's a download page due to the Gb.
Is now a good time to buy the 4chan pass?
>>51927915
BUY BUY BUY
their value can only go up
>>51927770
But Surface 4 is a godlike Tablet-PC, comfy as fuck using it with Win10.
>>51927102
>its when moot ran away to mexico
lol i remember hearing about that. Meanwhile some faggot from Straya decided to dump user pass creditcard info. This is why we can't have nice things.
>>51925127
>doesnt know that moot sold condoms for 6 decades before opening 4chan
get out newfag
>>51926099
If you didn't experience donate or die, you're literally a newestfag.
>>51925127
>not knowing that moot was stealing our rare pepes and selling them on the black market.
>>51925164
And draw-string lamps.
>>51927915
Depends on how much you trust Hiro-kun.
>>51926132
Rules 1 and 2 only apply outside these doors.
>>51928339
Aren't they handled through stripe?
>>51927464
>>51927385
>>51927338
>>51927321
>>51927307
Well probably like 10% of the total users post. Also, a pretty big amount is browsing /b/ only.
>>51925861
moot is a jew.
It is known.
>>51926693
Penny Arcade did it for years before they hired an actual accountant.
>>51926693
You can host a website very cheaply. It only becomes an issue when people upload and access terabytes of data every day.
>>51925127
>servers got paid without ads for years
free FBI hosting.
>>51930029
>It only becomes an issue when people upload and access terabytes of data every day.
Which is precisely true for this site, so what's your point?
>>51931621
Government tax dollars wasted on this shit hole.
>>51926693
kek, that's literally half of the internet
>>51927140
>not having a mobile adblocker
I literally and figuratively threw up
>>51929778
if he was jew you would be upvoting posts with your facebook linked account long time ago desu senpai
>>51929957
>Penny Arcade did it for years
then they learnt about the whole "make a charity, convention or both" scam and they started earning really good money for being bald.
>>51926693
...Wikipedia...
>>51932996
But he didn't. So he's a good jew.
>>51932942
I sometimes get useful ads tbqh. Google is good at tracking which commercial sites I visit, and I get ads of my local tech retailer, thanks to google ads I picked up a 500gb 850 evo for €139 instead of €179.
God bless the botnet.
>>51926551
>Passes only happened like a year ago
Passes have been around since 2013.
Yeah. Time flies.
>>51933218
>€
I would allow ads if I was in that shitty market too. Sorry for the disturbance. Carry on
