4chan/Staff

Note: Outdated and inaccurate. Take all this with pincers and hazmat suits.

4chan's staff, formally known Team 4chan since Aug. 2004, has an internal structure more complex than the usually believed Jannies and Mods.

This page deals with all known formal and informal roles staff operated, and to whom the positions were given over time, including external sevices (i.e. lawyers). Some roles were never formally (or publicly) named, this article will try approximate them into a coherent frame.

The objective of this article is to give credit where credit's due and make sure no one is forgotten. Handles may be named freely, but criteria for having a "section" is having done something of note that involves 4chan. Names and personal lives of staff members are of no interest unless directly related or voluntarily disclosed to the public (e.g. no doxing).

Note: Don't try to contact or witch hunt anyone—they will promptly tell you to fuck off. Janny "doxes" have already been spammed by the butthurt thousands of times by now.

Site Structure

Between January and March 2013, 4chan is registered in Delaware as 4chan, LLC with a branch office in New York. Somewhere in the regulations of these two states is a requirement to have real (paid) employees. In March 8, 2013, 4chan files to register it's name and logo as trademarks and obtains them in October 8. Between June and September 2015 4chan, LLC is phased out in favor of 4chan Community Support, LLC, likely for the ownership transfer process during Hiroyuki Nishimura's adquisition.

Owner

The person who owns 4chan Community Support, LLC and it's trademarks. They have the final word in all matters.

By tradition, the current owner posts with the ## Administrator capcode. On paper, moot has access to the ## Founder capcode, but it has never been used.

Current

• Since Sep. 2015 - Hiroyuki Nishimura
  

Hiroyuki Nishimura is the owner of 4chan. An Entrepreneur who's directed a number of companies since 1998. He rose to fame as the creator of 2channel and co-creator of Nico Nico Douga, and had been an acquaintance of moot since they met in South By Southwest 2011. The previous year, he had lost 2ch in a coup by (the also couped) 8chan's owner Jim Watkins over a data leak and drama that ended up in the courts. Hiroyuki purchased 4chan in September 21, 2015. His initial months were considered affable, but he destroyed his reputation by pushing for malicious ads and borderline-scam schemes such as forcing UI changes that posters had to buy a pass to vote on reverting. Since 2018, he's been very hands-off, relegating administration to the Manager position.

An actual celebrity in Japan, known for 2ch and his hot takes, you can usually find him live streaming on his YouTube channel or posting his opinions on his X Account. Don't expect him to talk about 4chan in any way though (but he did come to check on things & tweeted when the site got hacked in April 2025)

Former

• 2015-2022 - Good Smile Company, KK.
  

Good Smile Company is a Japanese toy designer focused on figurines. On Sep. 2015 they bought a 30% stake of 4chan alongside Nishimura and Nishimura's company (representing Nishimura). It was found out (and started making newslines) due to the Buffalo shooting, GSC choose to sell their stake in June 2022. If it was bought by Nishimura or someone else, it's unknown.

• 2003-2015 - moot (Christopher Poole)
  

moot is the founder of 4chan. He started the site at 15 years of age joking around with the Raspberry Heaven community. Famous for coining phrases such as "I wish to be the little girl". Somewhat impulsive, adding and removing board features like forced anonymous and IDs from boards several times. Every once in a while, he'd go nuts, grab a board and put eye-melting CSS and spinning dick .gifs everywhere. He had a strong social presence between 2006 and 2008, attending conventions with personal friends and moderators alike, by the turn of 00s, 4chan had turned him into a bona-fide celebrity. He dated Maddeth during 2008 (dumb gossip only 00s #4chan regulars would know).

moot sightings go down significantly until 2012 where he returns to make over several changes to the site, creating 4chan, LLC. He leaves the administrator position in January 2015 after the Fappening saw him receive multiple legal threats and the mishandling of the GamerGate controversy affected his personal life. moot sold the site to Hiroyuki Nishimura in Sep. 2015 and has since cut contact with all things Internet, refusing any press interviews. Fun fact: He's an IRC OP (can kline) at Rizon. moot has also gotten his website and socials (i.e. twitter, tumblr) excluded from the wayback machine, but not from archive.today.

Legal Representation

Informally, moot's lawyers. Risk of lawsuit (and therefore legal consulting) was presumably first considered in the late 2000s as people used /b/ to post bomb threats, leak politician emails and start shady harassment campaigns. While moot has stated to have been interviewed by US Law Enforcement agencies since the NFL bomb threat, the first public court case 4chan was involved in 2010 when moot was cited for a court hearing involving David Kernell's hacking of Sarah Palin's email, but no known lawyer was associated with it. The first known counsel hired was Martin Schwimmer (then of Leason Ellis, LLP.) in an intimidation letter against venture company moot.it for the use of moot's nickname.

Formally, with the creation of 4chan, LLC., 4chan developed a relationship with a juridical study or two, albeit it's never been disclosed which or how many. For the first years, Leason Ellis and Schwimmer continued to represent moot and 4chan, and were responsible for filing the 4chan trademark in 2013. In 2014 they represented 4chan in a WIPO dispute over 4chan.com that was denied. The first lawsuits involving 4chan occurred over the 2022 Buffalo shooting, consolidated as Patterson Vs. Meta Platforms, Inc. with Harris Beach, PLLC firm representing 4chan. The cases were dismissed in July 25, 2025.

On August 2025, with the advent of the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, a tax-grab slash mass-censorship law that set nearly impossible compliance standards in order to serve websites to the UK, 4chan accepted the offer of Byrne & Storm, PC and Coleman Law Firm, PC to represent them pro bono in a federal lawsuit against the UK's Office of Communications.

Staff Enrolment

On January 21, 2015, moot mentioned that there are a grand total of 104 4chan staff members. On August 13th, 2018, a fired janitor mentioned that there are a approximately 130 members on the 4chan staff team. About 110 are janitors, and 20 are mods and managers. In 2022, a Brazilian janitor (AKA J-Anon) showed that there were around 40+ different moderators on the mod team.

On April 25, 2025, the /qa/ hacker leaked the full staff list. Corrected to de-facto roles, 4chan in 2025 has 222 staff members, among them: 4 Administrators (1 Owner, 1 Manager, 1 Systems Administrator, 1 Lead Developer), 56 Moderators, 162 Janitors. Post-hack, this number has been reduced by, at most, 1/5th.

Roles

Site Administrators

Anyone with server access, who can make any changes to the site backend, frontend, access databases and manage staff accounts. Traditionally, admins were the people who called the shots and determined site policy, with moot being the head administrator and only one allowed to use the ## Administrator capcode.

With moot's departure in Jan. 2015, the system administrator (MVB), lead developer (Desuwa) and manager (RapeApe) became an admin triumvirate in order manage the site on moot's stead. With Nishimura's acquisition of 4chan in Sep. 2015, the role has been reduced to a purely managerial role, with admin access distributed among key developers and managers, while site decisions were relegated to the manager.

Current

• Since Sep. 2015 - Hiroyuki Nishimura
• Since Jan. 2015 - RapeApe

De-facto

e.g. Managerial. Don't decide site policy.

• Since Jan. 2015 - desuwa
• Since Jan. 2015 - Mr. VacBob (MVB)

Former

• 2003-2014 - moot
• 2003-2003 - hannibal
  

Sysadmin/founder of Raspberry Heaven. He taught moot how to run and set up a Linux server and was co-admin for a short time during 4chan's second iteration in October and November 2003. He left together with IchibanMuffin for an undisclosed reason, after the later forced moot out of their shared server space.

• 2003-2005 - DJ Lucid
  

Offered to help 4chan with optimizations while they waited for thatdog to finish Futallaby in November 2003. He became the official co-admin from there on. While he did work, he became infamous for disappearing at random, and was ultimately removed by mid 2005, shortly after Snacks.

• 2004-2005 - W.T.Snacks
  

W.T. Snacks is the founder of Studio Cookie Thievery together with 5, RapidKimba and others. Hosted the Midnight Snacks radio show. Joined team4chan in the August 2004 revival as the frontend developer, and occasional admin. He programmed the Futallaby v08 update, a lot of vital changes to the UI (reply with an image, quoting, hiding, information about posts and more). In October 2004 he jokingly made a /b/ - 4CHAN SUX board on his personal site 8chan.net.

Snacks hung out with his own clique and promoted his radio show, made the /5/ board for his friend and fellow mod, 5, and became site-famous for his antics, fact that bothered moot (who likely felt he was overinflating his importance). By mid 2005 the relationship had soured. moot talked Snack into making a custom project involving a "map" (likely related to 4meet), Snacks agreed but did not reciprocate. The situation escalated into an argument resulting in Snacks getting fired. During his chan days, he was a regular on browse #4chan and #raspberryheaven. In 2024 he was featured in an interview in the netflix documentary The Antisocial Network, which he later denounced and stated he was not told what it was gonna be about. (ref: IOU)

world4ch

• 2004-2005 - shii

Originally a World2ch regular known as Menchi, he tried to take down 4chan thinking it was stealing world2ch's fame. Had a change of heart and returned as shii. He contributed the 0ch PHP translation, shiichan to 4chan and eventually became a mod. On december he opened world4ch, a shiichan update with new features that later got ported to 4chan (i.e. dynamic frames). Cold quit in January after he tried crosslinking between 4-ch.net and 4chan and moot told him off. According to an anon, he got demoded a couple months later over drama in /f/.

He then got banned from Something Awful during one of ADTRW's "may be a pedophile" purges in 2005, according to RH Wiki and one anon's post, because he was pedolarping too hard (read: being unfunny) on FYAD, causing people to look him up, spiraling into a witch hunt that got CV, Saber and others banned. He became a 4-ch mod and later secretareaofvipquality.com (/saovq/) mod, where a meme about stalking shii got out control and caused him to quit the Internet altogether. Shii ran a personal wiki called Everything Shii Knows which became one of the cornerstones of '4chan legend'. He was also a Web Archive admin (And deleted some evidence of his involvement in world2ch and 4chan saved in there) and a Wikipedia admin (where he stored a list of all his anime pages). (ref IOU) Shii also wrote commentary for the book It Came From Something Awful, describing Raspberry Haven as essentially a boys club.

not4chan

• 2004-2006 - Saber
  

Started out as an /l/ mod in 2003 or 2004. When 4chan was having problems getting advertisers, Saber offered to administrate a server partition accessed via not4chan.org to host lolicon content. What little remains from that era is screenshots of Saber trying to keep actual pedophiles away. not4chan was closed in Jul. 24 2006 and moot and saber refused to disclose why, anons speculated it was over a bout of paranoia due to the upcoming PROTECT Act of 2003's passing into law in Jul. 27. Saber retires from team4chan but remains on the IRC for a while. Weeks later he attended Otakon 2006 and ran the Surviving Comic Market (Comiket) panel with Snacks and RapidKimba and was seen attending Otakon 2007. Saber was one of the famous "banned from SA" RH posters of 2005.

Managers

The manager position started informally around November 2003 as moot was experiencing problems handling the financial side of 4chan. Managers would handle advertising, sponsors, and anything related to banks. Managers likely were deprecated around 2007 or 2008, when moot became a legal adult. The Manager was considered a type of site administrator in the 4chan Bible V5.

Around 2011, the manager role resurfaced as role within the /j/ board. Any mod could use the role to explain policy to Janitors. In 2013, the role was specialized to exclusively focus on human resources, being the person who vets, accepts, consults and promotes Janitors. With moot's retirement of 4chan in Jan 2015, the acting manager also regained it's original role, becoming in essence the informal CEO of 4chan, sporting a salary (that is likely a US bureaucratic requirement), and replacing the site admin as the administrative face the site together with the lead developer and the sysadmin. With Hiroyuki's acquisition, the manager became the de-facto authority on the site. They come with the pink palm tree, ## Manager

Current:

• Since 2013 - RapeApe (RA)

Manager and acting Admin. Started out as a janitor of /r9k/ either 2010 or 2011. Got promoted to mod between 2012 and 2013 and almost immediately became the janitor manager. He became one of the only paid 4chan employee in March 2013 with the creation of 4chan, LLC. In Jan. 2015, moot left and made him one of the three admins to manage the site on his stead. In Sep. 2015 Hiroyuki buys the site and RA became the de-facto leader figure in the site. He's one of the people influenced by Invisibro's idea of returning mods to the public eye, and has since managed a twitter with his mod handle.

One of RapeApe's first actions as a mod was causing Naruto Day, when /a/ posters crying about Naruto on /q/ accused him of actively protecting threads from "self-moderator" spammers. Anons to tried to dox him, earning him the faildox of a indian man named Patrap Davis. This managed to make moot angry, starting a dramafest that ended up with /a/ revenge-spamming CSAM. Moot then made this sticky addressing the witchhunt against him. His second claim to fame was banning GamerGate on a kneejerk reaction over the general thread unknowingly spamming reports, turning the movement against 4chan and starting a chain reaction that caused moot to leave 4chan and have years worth of #janiteam IRC logs leaked. He's been rumoured to hang out in #420chan with Kirtaner and sparto (420chan owners), old patrons of Anonymous. In 2020 and 2023, he was featured in news articles that interviewed ex-moderators who accused him of promoting radical conservative views on /pol/ by inaction, and journalists managed to retrieve invoices of him and desuwa's salaries.. It should be noted that RapeApe has consistently shat on /pol/ in leaked IRC logs. It seems like he wants 4chan to change as little as possible, has a short temper, likes guns, is highly educated about vidya games, Warhammer 40K knowledge. Is also Canadian.

Nicknames / Other Handles - RapeApe9k, GrapeApe, Narutomod.

Former:

• 2003-2004 - Censored Vagina (CV)
  

Manager of Studio ADTRW. Started out as board mod for /l/ and became the site's first manager as moot was having problems with PayPal. He was in charge of managing donations, advertising and acting as user rapport between November 2003 and June 2004. Convinced moot to restore /l/ - Lolicon when it got taken down, then jumped to not4chan to assist Saber in moderating the site. He was infamous in Something Awful for being a self-admitted pedophile, fact that got him banned during a witch hunt in 2005. He retired from 4chan that year.

• 2004-2007 - Man of Wax (Simon Waxman)
  

Having been around RH before moot first came by, it's unknown exactly when he joined the staff, but he was officially the site's manager in the fourth revival (Aug. 2004). Mostly occupied with handling donation money and informing the site how hard the servers were getting raped. He also ran the first official 4chan panel in 2004, co-hosted the panel in AnimeUSA 2005 and attended the 2006 4chan Otakon Panel. By next year, MoW retired. Being the man in charge of handling money, his full name was part of the donation instructions

• Unknown if more. (IOU)

Developers

People who handle and modify site code, update libraries, and generally fix whatever dumb shit the latest browser update has broken. Many people have tackled the role both formally and informally, albeit a sequence of "main" developers can be discerned. With 4chan's sale in Sep. 2015, the lead developer position was formalized with a salary, and is likely the only active developer.

Before the implementation of a proper Admin Panel (somewhere in 2004 or 2005) and therefore, a more robust privilege system working the backend, all formal developers doubled as admins. In the 2010s they got their own capcode, ## Developer, albeit there's no one known to use it who didn't have de-facto admin privileges.

Current

• Since 2012 - desuwa (Maxime Youdine)
  

Acting lead developer, "JavaScript Wizard", creator of the Yotsuba Catalog, and a helping hand in the HTML5 reworks. He also added most features of the extensions into the main page and coded the 4chan API, and created an inline 4chan catalog. He was one of the admin triumvirate running 4chan in moot's stead between his Jan 2015 departure and the site's Sep. 2015 sale.

Former

• 2003-2003 - Hova
  

Hova helped moot translate the original GazouBBS script that became 4chan in September 2003.

• 2003-2003 - [NPH]
  

Founder of Studio ADTRW and (sort of) Raspberry Heaven. In October 2003 he offered to help moot with additional PHP coding, making the frontpage. He later helped moot with backend optimizations. He was named as a tentative developer in August 2004 revival, but that likely didn't happen.

• 2003-2003 - thatdog
  

Became a developer in 4chan's second iteration, late October. They set to make a thread archive and update Futaba Script into web 2.0 friendly Futallaby, testing the first forms of the script in the test board /r/ - TRAINZ. He later made 1chan to host the finished script. A falling out with moot (and between moot and other RH heavy hitters) caused him to abandon the archive project and discontinue maintaining the script between January 2004 and June 2004. In August 2004, the site returned online and he created the first Overchan, a link aggregator for imageboards.

• 2004-2005 - W.T. Snacks
• 2004-???? - Mr. VacBob
• 2005-2008 - Coda
  

Developer and flash animator. Coda became the second PHP developer just a few weeks before Snacks was fired (so somewhere between June and July). Very active during 2006. Friend of moot; made the 2013 tenth anniversary panel flash. He made 4chan.org/flash/ for moot.

• 2005-2006 - Foone
  

Foone developed the code for /rs/ and the /r9k/ Robot. He was talked by moot into trying to make a feature called 4meet that would leet anons know if they were physically close, but he was fired from inactivity in 2006.

• ????-2014 - KING JAFFE JOFFER
  

Translated the official 4chan Firefox extension to Google Chrome. In 2012 he refracted the entirety of 4chan's HTML5 code moving 4chan away from Futallaby into Yotsuba Script, later remade admin toolkit and several minor changes until retiring in 2013.

• More (IOU)

Moderators

The hammerman. Decides bans, range blocks, appeals, sets protected status on boards and threads being spammed, comforts jannies when they have to ban request a GR1. And he does it for free.

With the ## Moderator purple palm tree comes the privilege of being able to embed html and escape wordfilters, and presenting themselves as figures of authority on the site.

Current

• ALTERNATIVE
  

Moderator since 2004. Suggested the creation of /tg/. Together with Zephro, the oldest acting mods. Nicknames / Other Handles: DAVE, buttly

• Invisibro (Jay Louis Irwin)
  

[s4s]'s patron mod during it's first years. He came up with the tradition of stickying meme threads and was known to post in comic sans. (ref IOU) He's also famous for being a personal friend of moot and lobbying for letting mods become visible personalities, going against what was commonly believed to be site policy, and attempting to become a known "4chan figure". Wrote right leaning articles for observer.com directly referencing the site. Albeit his attempts at opening the staff to the site led to some moderators easing up on the Batman routine, it never became as common as he hoped.

Being one of the few mods who frequently capcode / name posts and a known shitposter, he developed a considerable hatefandom that stalked all his moderation decisions. As a result of this, he has been doxed endlessly.

GIVE ME SOURCES OF GET DELETED: He's been accused of shitting up /g/ with flamewar threads that violate the only rule on the board. Has a tendency to ban people on /a/ for "inane" posts. Usually moderates /tv/ and /g/. Nicknames / Other Handles: SwagLord, gingermod.

Former

• 2003-2007 - Shut (John)
  

moot's right hand man. Shut advised moot on running the site and was the closest thing to a head mod the site had, being named as "mod leader" in the bible v5. He also co-hosted the AnimeUSA 2005 and Otakon 2005 4chan panels. According to moot in 2012, shut retired around 2007 and they remain friends.

• 2003-???? - Spork
  

Owner of the original 4chan IRC, hosted on Terra & Sharkey's irc.pyoko.org. Best known for wearing the yotsuba TF2 mask at Otakon. - proofs of volunteer disclosure or delete (aka Dan Levin)

• 2004-2007 - Martin Random (Bernard Goldsmith)
  

Raspberry Heaven OG. Joined 4chan staff around 2004, likely during the August revival and possibly as Board Mod of /b/. Relatively popular SA poster. Wrote the motto above /b/. Was a law student and thus served as the closest thing the site had to a lawyer. Was known to shitpost on /b/ around 2006 reposting Something Awful posts where he pretended to be a 4chan big shot (and was banned in 2006).

According to a LARP/mental breakdown he had in 2023, he left in 2008 due to Chanology to further his law career, but it's likely he left around 2007. During this breakdown, he claimed to be 4chan's secret co-founder together with shut, coda, and others, accused a "former server admin" of being a pedophile, stated the secret founders "gave the site to moot" as a scapegoat to avoid legal responsibility, posted old emails from moot and others, then accused Anonymous-San of having child pornography when he confronted him over the emails.

• 2005-2006 - Foone
• 2005-2006 - Okk (Brian Raddatz)
  

Started off as a drawfag in 2005, made some early 4chan's comics and flash animations that got made official by moot. Joined #4chan and became a mod. Quit somewhere around 2006 or 2007 and became a regular at /i/.

Global Janitors

A role that had little information released and very few handles associated with it. The role is confirmed to exist since the April 2025 leaks as a special role found within the site's code. No person who became a global janitor has spoken about it. Their tool, presumably, are the same as a janitor, but for all boards.

Janitors

Janitors are the main corps of team 4chan, and despite some mod's insistence that janitors are "not team 4chan" (many years ago ref IOU), they are back on with the site stands since the 2010s. Janitors are have a purely mechanical role: They clear the report queue and kick the serious problems "up the chain" to be handled by mods. In order to do this, they are armed with two tools: Post deletions and Ban Requests.

Janitors cannot use their judgement to decide if a post is deletion-worthy, they can only react to a reported post and act according to the letter of the rules or clear the report if found non-offending. Any deviation from this role is typically punished with instant dismissal, but there's been historic janitors who side-stepped these requirements and leeyway is very much on a case-by-case basis.

Contrary to popular belief, janitors do have their own nifty ## Janitor capcode, but they may only use it in /j/, a board with a custom script called broomcloset.php. Janitors, historically, had a very high turnout rate, which has come hand by hand of accusations of abuse and bad practices in the mods part.

#4chan Support

Also known as #4chan Customer Service ^{It WAS customer service suck it mods}

"Moderators are available to assist users with bans and technical issues on the website." - 4chan FAQ

"Assisting users" was an informal role that grew out of moderators becoming regulars at the #4chan IRC channel. Between the late 00s and early 20s, a rotating cast of mods volunteered to help people with questions about bans, quick appeals on short bans, calls to action on major problems (i.e. spammers) and more. Only Moderators and up could fill the role, with janitors not being allowed to show themselves. In February or March 2017, the role was formalized in the rules, FAQ, and ban pages (even encouraged), but limited in scope to asking for information or appealing bans.

They are, famously, the largest source of hate towards 4chan staff, with several hundred snippets and screenshots of open verbal abuse accumulated over years.

In time, the service was obfuscated as relations with the staff soured until it was mostly discontinued by the first years of 2020. First, "public" reporting became bannable around March 2017, albeit it was not always enforced, then reporting to mods in private started being heavily discouraged by 2020 until formally banned around 2021 or 2022 (with some such as Fission dissenting). Appealing short bans, while technically allowed, was also discouraged.

Mods known to have engaged chat support

Note: Don't be surprised if the majority of 4chan's most discussed mods are also IRC regulars

• (+o) Alternative, more (IOU)
• (+h) I_AM_ABIB, yournamehere, fission, cygnus, more (IOU)

Ranks according to #4chan position

+q (Owner) - Admin/Rizon Operator 
+o (Operator) – (Presumed) Senior Moderator 
+h (Half-Operator) – Moderator

It should be noted that +v (voice) was given to channel regulars so conversation was not interrupted when someone was spamming the chat.

Informal Roles

System Administrators

Also known as sysadmin & "the servers guy"

People who watch over the physical servers of a website. Increasingly rare since the advent of cloud computing and remote administration. Technically, they have access to server root and therefore can do anything, but that hasn't been the case for 4chan except for a couple emergencies.

The role on 4chan is informal. It arose out of necessity, and presumably out of a friend's favor, when 4chan stopped using rented server space and bought their own servers during the DONATE OR DIE 2005 emergency. First collocated in Houston, Texas, they were moved to California in 2008, where they remains to this day, albeit the machines have changed and the rack grown larger.

• Mr. VacBob (MVB) (Alexander Strange)
  

Joined team4chan in 2004. Became a developer, wrote some 4chan extensions, took over the maintenance of world4ch after Shii quit. Watched over the baremetal servers since 2005. He was also part of the Raspberry Heaven community, the group moot came from, and took over Studio ADTRW and ran it until 2012. Never separated his online life from his public life, and freely linked his handles and his personal blog in all his sites.

• Kate

Extension & Code Contributors

An informal subset of developer. Many fans and team4chan members voluntarily offered scripts, browser extensions and even contributions to mod and admin toolkits without being formally considered developers. Early on, offering free code to 4chan was also an easy way to become a mod. Between the 2000s and the 2010s, they represented sizeable percentage of site codebase.

• Shingo
  

Helped translate the rules into Japanese Katakana in October 2003.

• ichibanMuffin
  

Co-founder of Raspberry Heaven. He offered sharing a server with moot in October 2003, but a falling out for unknown reasons cut that short in November 2003.

• niralisse
  

In November 2003, helped moot with setting up his own dedicated server and webmail after IchibanMuffin cut their partnership short.

• Scuzzy
  

Wrote the first anti-leech code in November 2003.

• Shut
  

Fixed a bug that allowed huge files on the site if they were .btm.

• More (IOU)

Senior Moderators

Supposedly an informal position, never confirmed explicitly. It has been implied to exist by off-hand mentions in a couple statements by former staff members. A senior moderator would have extra tools and privileges at disposal. These privileges have never been specified, but one suspect things like freezing boards may be one of them.

No staff member has been confirmed to be one, albeit a couple of #4chan IRC idlers have been assumed to be Seniors from the rank difference with other moderators.

• ALTERNATIVE
• More (IOU)

Former Roles

Board Moderator

The very first moderator role. Came right out of the box with the software stack used to run 4chan. moot tried to have a one mod for every board, albeit some managed to have two. By the end of 2003, at least a dozen if not two dozen volunteers were filling the role. Almost all of them lifted straight from Raspberry Heaven ranks, with a minority from non-RH ADTRW regulars and later on #4chan regulars. With the August 2004 revival, Board Mods were forbidden from banning, but it's unknown if this was ever enforced.

Board Moderators were deprecated in 2005, with every board mod becoming global. By the end of the year their original niche was replaced with the ban-uncapable Janitor. Presumably, all Boards Mods still active became Mods.

Known Board Mods

• 2003-???? - /d/ - Hentai/Alternative - Shingo
  

Officially the first 4chan mod, named in October 6 2003 to moderate the newly made /d/. Contributed the Japanese greetings page.

• 2003-2004 - /c/ - Anime/Cute - Marshall Banana

Second 4chan mod, named in October 6 2003 to moderate the newly made /c/. At some point, he was replaced by MrSpooky. He was banned from Something Awful around 2005.

• 2003-???? - /y/ - Yaoi - Bad Luck
  

Mod N. 3, given control of /y/ on October 6 2003 because moot did not want to touch the board. He's mentioned in the 4chan v5 bible as a potential board leader, it can be assumed he was still part of staff by 2004.

• 2003-???? - /g/ - Guro - Portable951 (Port)
• 2003-2005 - /l/ - Lolikon - Censored_Vagina
• 2003-???? - /s/ - Sexy Beautiful Women - Boco_T
• 2003-???? - /s/ - Sexy Beautiful Women - PotatoSan

Draft list of Board Mods according to the 4chan v5 Bible, 2nd Revision 2004 Aug. 11.

• 2004-2005 - /l/ - Lolikon - Saber
• 2004-2005 - /h/ - Hentai - moot (lol)

Board Leader

A position mentioned in 4chan Bible V5, the design document for 4chan's August 2004 revival.

Seemingly, a senior role pre-empting potential speeding up of 4chan and therefore growth in staff, board leaders where the people who managed board mods. They also decided on banning problem users (board mods could ban, but where discouraged from doing so) and made on-the-spot decisions on site policy.

It's not actually known if board leaders were ever implemented, but it is likely that if they were, they lasted only a few months and all board leaders eventually became Moderators between Aug. 2004 and early 2005.

Draft list of Board Leaders according to the 4chan v5 Bible, 2nd Revision 2004 Aug. 11.

• /a/ - Anime - Seem
• /b/ - Random - Spork
• /c/ - Anime/Cute - MrSpooky
• /cm/ - Cute/Male - Favor
• /d/ - Hentai/Alternative - Shingo
• /g/ - Guro - Portable951 (Port)
• /h/ - Hentai - Zanok
• /l/ - Lolikon - Censored_Vagina
• /p/ - Photo - W.T. Snacks
• /t/ - Torrents - Man Of Wax
• /u/ - Yuri - Roobar
• /w/ - Anime/Wallpapers - Jeff Fury
• /y/ - Yaoi - Bad Luck

Moderator Leader

A position mentioned in 4chan Bible V5, the reference document for 4chan's August 2004 revival.

Proposed as the actual heads of moderation who responded only to moot. The ML was in essence, a global BL and thought as a mediator for disagreements between mods and BLs.

It's not actually known if board leaders were ever implemented.

Draft list of Mod Leaders according to the 4chan v5 Bible, 2nd Revision 2004 Aug. 11.

• img.4chan - Archo
• zip.4chan - Shut

To Do

• I_AM_ABIB (aka BLOODMOUTH_CARNIST) - cj - Previously Janitor, he got promoted to mod during '09. Posts on /a/ from time to time, but spends most of his moderation duties on /v/. He has got in a few controversy's, one of the main ones was his deleting of lobcorp threads from /v/ because he considered them to be generals. When someone argued that smash threads that were similar weren't being deleted, he justified it because smash brothers was a "cultural phenomenon". Another tussle he has got into with /v/ was when anons completed a parody of Goodbye Volcano High called "snoot game" before the game is even released, just so they could showcase it for /v/3. The game quickly grows popular on /v/, and then the mods start deleting all threads about it. Someone confronts them about this on 4chan's IRC and receives unsatisfying answers from ABIB. The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, but mostly about him. Strong dislike for furries and lolicons. Also a IRC rat.

• yournamehere -Moderator, known for being pretty unforgiving to people in the 4chan IRC. One of the first people to also go against GamerGate threads in 2014. Was mentioned in a news article where he joked about and seemed suspiciously indifferent with mass shooters coming from 4chan. Possibly the biggest IRC rat of them all, he's on there almost 24/7. Has a short temper.

• fission -/g/ centric Moderator. Ignores the only rule on /g/ being no flamewars. Only comes to /g/ to ban people when people get sick of shitty flamewar threads and start flooding Jay's dox. IRC rat.

• Troid - /a/ centric moderator. Was originally assigned in maintaining the 4chan archives but later had his archive privileges removed after going on a mass deletion spree whilst trying to cover up information about himself that was stored within the archives, despite such he retained his mod rights.

• kami` - /a/-centric mod, colloquially known as Kinomod among the userbase due to posting Kino no Tabi. Formed a close relationship with /a/ due to taking care of pests like Accelspammer. Posts similarly to Jeremy. IRC rat.

• Pixel Hotness (aka pixel) – Woman mod. Originally a tripfag from /b/.

• Aerolite – Mod. IRC Rat.

• Zephro – Extremely old guard mod since 2005.

• BEAM – Theorized to have gotten NeoGaf discussions banned form /v/ for a short while in 2017.

• DOTDOTDOT- Moderator and former janitor of /h/. IRC rat.

• grubermeister (aka gnubermeister, deadlierbender) - Michael Connolly -Moderator and former janitor. /co/, /tg/, /v/ and most likely /g/ centric. Owns a cloud solutions consultancy start up. Twitter Shitposter, programmer, possibly a fan of the v-tuber "Pipkin Pippa" based on him liking a handful of tweets associated with her.

• admiraltunafish-Moderator. IRC rat.

• cygnus- /a/-centric Moderator. Has a postive reputation of being forgiving and kind to people in the 4chan IRC.

Generic Mods (No quality worth mentioning or almost nothing is known about them):

| Halcyon | Walleye | astria | nana_ | jeeh | Ghost | Faust | AnimeDad (aka Spitch) | Purple Pie | Doremy | e7711 | errorname457 | kdel | Aeolian | ChibaKuang | Vertigo | Aero | Islands | kinoko | soups | falalal | Lanboss | DotMatrix | Betamax | chinese | Katsurugisan | rain | Hunter | 4Royals | Aeolian | Hydlide |

Janitors

A list of janitors names that have been leaked through screenshots or other means.

Important note: A lot of these names are really old, so most likely a lot of these guys are not involved in 4chan anymore.

Per board

• /co/ - RubDoctor

• /v/ - fun

• /a/ - Mikage Most likely has become a mod or has left by now.

• /h/ - Mr.Bucketman

• /int/ - FnFy – Was the one to be contacted by a 8ch.net admin in regards to the upcoming 4chan leaks. Most likely has become a mod or has left by now.

• /x/ - Kynokephalos | kephra Most likely has become a mod or has left by now.

Generic janitors (no known assigned board):

• Cephei – Janitor. Was upset when he was told he had to sign the agreement. It is unknown if he quit.

| Hobbes | casval | CarlitoGo! | rhine | metsu | Chill | klassicjelly | Praketh | Greenman | fellsmere | Gary Oak | bismuth_fishing_lore | SevenEight | lewdchan | m0thman | Jeepers88 | Aliens | BrainSledge | JamesIha | Praesens | Nouz | theomeo | UltraHoss | TheBurnWard | cdnexplorer | Inf | Axism | Bloom | relare | Cryswar | cetpargust | gfairy | akkerzaigts | Arbogast | JustPX | LzK | saku | Nikki (aka Nikkia / Nikka) | MBSL300 | Meadowlark | RocketDrillKick | Arsarkinum | You`reDadsA | MoistNugget | Drae | AZ4 | Caelum | anon-kun | scroton | morobrens | raikoo | badsled | Enamourd | SenatorBufordFunkmuscle | ThinMint | ashpain | badsled | andmoreagain | Sir_Spice | Acidflashback | Thesmothete | trout-senpai | novatoad |Kobayashi| Astroturf | Starfrog| HeavyGear | Axism |

Former

• Anonymous-san - asan - Josh (Popularly known as modcat) - #rasberryheaven, goon – Mod since pretty much the beginnings on 4chan, who supposedly quit around April 25, 2012 because he was trying to contact a girl in his circle of friends (Which happens to include moot), or a girl from /soc/ (sources vary a lot), and asked for advice on /soc/. He then used the warn function to give his contact info to female posters who were helping, but one flipped her shit out fear of being banned, and another ratted him out with moot who fired him. Some say he asked to have his powers revoked and moot complied. Others say he later asked him to have his mod status back, but moot is the hero 4chan deserves but not the one it needs and denied it. moot later confirmed he resigned during a Q&A on /pol/. He later regained his mod status circa 2017, only to lose it yet again when submitting a politically-charged warning regarding Right Wing Safety Squad threads.

• 5 - Had his own secret board dedicated to pictures of him, created by WTSnacks as an in-joke. A few months after Snacks got demodded he stickied a Midnight Snacks thread, which he co-hosted at the time. The thread was unstickied by moot, and then re-stickied. Because of this people believed a mod war was raging and shouted the meme BRING BACK SNACKS. Jokingly, both users called the show "Radio free 4chan" for the night. This and a streak of inactivity cost 5 his mod status. moot later claimed it was a demoddable offense to sticky radio show threads.

• Dongfix (aka Enumeric) - Imgbear.com - Coder, he has written many scripts for the mods and janitors. IRC rat. Resigned on 2013.

• Xennon – Flash coder. Admin for one day because of a GET. Supposedly leaked the logs where Snacks was fired by moot.

• Soviet_Russia (aka SoRu) - 4chan Mod and famous tripfag. Made mod in the legendary board /z/ and attention-whored it to death alongside his brother Dash_Billions. He was eventually banned.

• Allyson – Underage b& mod from circa 2006. She was kind of a drama whore.

• Lec

• Kusanagi (aka KusKus / brbgone2gensokyo / fsdfdsf) – A famous /a/ mod. He was known by everyone for extremely favoring and encouraging /a/ board culture. He was also known for having blunt political opinions on IRC. On December 22, 2014 he got into a fight with yetsturdy on #janiteam and both were fired by moot. The change of mods in /a/ was noticed immediately and let to small wave of shitposting.

• yetsturdy (AKA thisisacleverpassword) – /a/ and /mlp/ Janitor. Got into a fight with Kusanagi and got fired on December 22, 2014

• Redwood (AKA Henchouse) – Mod, famous /co/ tripfag for years as "Inspector Redwood", who ultimately got ousted during the 2014 aussie leaks and had to stop using the trip. He used to publicly ban people who called others "nigger". He later returned to tripping and allegedly left the moderation position. Was forced to change his mod handle after being outed (to "Henchouse"). Allegedly resigned after sometime after being outed.

• JDigital - JohnnyDigital - http://www.jonnydigital.com/

• FrankStallone (AKA dr.wiii) – Mod that retired during early 2010.

• Alan – Mod.

• DocEvil – A mod, originally a janitor from /tv/.

• Mr.Spooky - Ex-mod who spawned the catchphrases "I've never seen so many ingrates" and "You'll receive nothing from me." after a rant regarding donations. He frequently made stickies on /b/ begging for money because he got thrown in jail and needed donations to pay off his court fees.

• rabidkimba

• magz

• DamageInc – Coded the original 4chan Firefox extension around 2004

• Jibaku – Mod circa 4chan's revival (2005).

• Ezzi – Active around 2004.

• Majnen – Made an unauthorized news post about donations on July 1st, 2005 telling that moot left the project and 4chan would cease operations, followed the closure of a number of boards. He was probably sodomized by moot after that.

• Souldark – Active around 2004. Scottish.

• LordVorbis – Active around 2004.

• Otaku – Active around 2004. Sysadmin? In charge of donations?

• Burnt Sulphur (aka ponyfaggot) - Moderated /mlp/ since Friendship is Magic's debut in 2010. Regularly baited pedophiles and acted as an anti-pedophilic vigilante in the /mlp/. Frequently argued with other janitors and thus earned the reputation as the "Dr. House of 4chan." Resigned in 2017 after her wife, (name omitted at the request of Burnt Sulphur) and her daughter were killed, citing alcohol addiction as the reason she retired. Generally showed strength of character even at the cost of herself, even if she was kind of a dick. Loved, and missed, by /mlp/, /k/, /3/, /a/ and /w/.

• Mangoat – Server Admin circa 2003.

• BigN (name unconfirmed) – Outed by /a/ for not apparent reason during the Aussie Hack 2014. Might or might have not been fired

• Saegrimr – Outed by /jp/ during the Aussie Hack 2014. Might or might not have been fired. Is still an internet janny in videogames (TGstation)

• Kazisho - Outed by /jp/ during the Aussie Hack 2014. German gay brony. Had a tumblr account with pictures of little boys on it.

• Nemo – Janitor. Outed himself on /b/, fired by moot.

• Shiren | Nikka | Zenith (Nuked /jp/) | AoC (Dejannied several times for deleting all threads on /jp/ and similar stunts, repeatedly rejannied for being the only janitor willing to delete spam 24/7) | Duade (co) – Janitors that either left or were fired.

• andonuts – Janitor who leaked the #janiteam IRC logs. Associated with 8chan.

• Solomon - Former janitor of /g/. Got fired by RapeApe because one day he went on a deleting spree and deleted 3 pages worth of threads in a short period of time. He even got a mod postmade about him. The day after he made a thread on 8chan where he leaked minor stuff and mostly just talked shit about the staff team.

Unknown, mentioned and associated people

• Plesk

• NICH - A animator from singapore who made some of the old 4chan animations

• "Bill" - And

• Peter Payne (aka moot's friend from Japan) - Owner of the J-list; has been in an advertising relationship with 4chan since its beginnings, both in the good and the bad.

• Outernet – Old 4chan personality. Forced the DIAL Soap meme via bot spam.

• Mayhem – Coded the 4chan X extension. He runs swfchan.org, /f/'s archive.

• Hox – Translator

• Anamanaguchi – Chiptune-Indie Rock band, mutual friends of Snacks and moot. Got their second album advertised by moot, and got him to dress as a furry and make a cameo in one of their music videos. Also known for having one of the most disastrous Q&A's (and probably last) in 4chan history. Has a verified capcode.

• Tattun - A spokesperson for the anime studio Trigger who posts on /a/ in related threads. Has a Verified capcode.