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=== Present (Accurate as of February 2024) ===
=== Present (Accurate as of February 2024) ===


*'''Hiroyuki Nishimura (informally referred to as hiroyuki or hiro, and also known as hiroshima or g00km00t in cruder terms)''' - The current owner and head admin of 4chan. He was the creator of 2ch, and is supposedly good friends with moot despite going against some of his wishes for 4chan. He lost 2ch in a coup among the shareholders. He purchased 4chan in September, 2015. Known for not being very active. Doesn't like to talk about 4chan despite him owning it.<ref>[https://archive.ph/fECD3]"In the U.S., His Site Has Been Linked to Massacres. In Japan, He’s a Star."</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/h1TqD]"Former UCA student drawing attention for ownership of notorious online message board 4chan"</ref> Known in japan for 2ch and his hot takes, you can usually find him live streaming on his YouTube channel or on his Twitter Account.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/@hirox246] Hiroyuki's YouTube Channel.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/hirox246] Hiroyuki's twitter.</ref> Don't expect him to talk about 4chan in any way though.
*'''Hiroyuki Nishimura (informally referred to as hiroyuki or hiro, and also known as hiroshima or g00km00t in cruder terms)''' - The current owner and head admin of 4chan. He was the creator of 2ch, and is supposedly good friends with moot despite going against some of his wishes for 4chan. He lost 2ch in a coup among the shareholders. He purchased 4chan in September, 2015. Known for not being very active. Doesn't like to talk about 4chan despite him owning it.<ref>[https://archive.ph/fECD3]"In the U.S., His Site Has Been Linked to Massacres. In Japan, He’s a Star."</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/h1TqD]"Former UCA student drawing attention for ownership of notorious online message board 4chan"</ref> Known in japan for 2ch and his hot takes, you can usually find him live streaming on his YouTube channel or on his Twitter Account.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/@hirox246] Hiroyuki's YouTube Channel.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/hirox246] Hiroyuki's twitter.</ref>


*'''Mr. VacBob (aka MVB, Alexander Strange)''' - Main coder, writer of 4chan extensions, and maintains the 4chan servers. Been around since 2004, taking over the maintenance of the text boards after Shii was fired. From certain points of view, the real face behind all 4chan changes. After moot resigned, he became the prime mover of 4chan proper.
*'''Mr. VacBob (aka MVB, Alexander Strange)''' - Main coder, writer of 4chan extensions, and maintains the 4chan servers. Been around since 2004, taking over the maintenance of the text boards after Shii was fired. From certain points of view, the real face behind all 4chan changes. After moot resigned, he became the prime mover of 4chan proper.


*'''RapeApe''' – Janitor and mod manager, former janitor of /r9k/.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/orbdcr.png]RapeApe back when he was a janitor talking about /r9k/, also hence his old name "RapeApe9k".</ref> Approximately got promoted to mod around 2012. Allegedly one of the new heads of 4chan, as moot claimed a moderator manager was going be one of the successors. Caused Naruto Day in 2013 when /a/ got mad at him when he told them to stop complaining and shitposting about Naruto threads, and thought he was actively "protecting them". People then proceeded to try to dox him and thought they found his supposed hidden reddit account, but it wasn't his.<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/q/thread/723224/#723243]RapeApe explaining why the reddit account was not his in an old archive post.</ref>  Moot defended him by changing the board name to /a/ - "N/a/RUTO CONFIRMED BEST ANIME CHINESE CARTOON OF ALL TIME", with the subtitle "BELIEVE IT (also dubs are better than subs)", embedding a remix of "believe it", changing the posting form and stickying a bunch of Naruto threads. /a/ went berserk and began spamming CP and guro, forcing the mods to take it down. Moot then made [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/91420362/#91420362 this sticky] addressing the witchhunt against him. In 2020 and 2023 he was featured in two news articles about his /pol/itical leanings and blamed for causing the entire site to become radicalized.<ref>[https://archive.ph/3Tr5l]"The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet's Racist Engine".</ref><ref name="paid">[https://archive.ph/MLE2g]"Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine"</ref> One of them even revealed he is one of the few 4chan staff members who gets PAID (with real money).<ref name="paid" /> However he was one of the first people to actively delete and take a stance against the GamerGate threads in 2014,<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/igp9tb.png]RapeApe talking about removing the GG threads.</ref> and is allegedly friends with with kirt and sparto (420chan owners) who are both known for Hating nazis, and was seen criticizing  /pol/ in leaked IRC logs.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/3whp9w.png]RapeApe expressing some distain for /pol/.</ref> So it's best to take these articles with a grain of salt. Seems like he wants 4chan to change as little as possible, has a short temper, likes guns, highly educated about vidya game and Warhammer 40K knowledge. He's also Canadian.<ref name="janny"/><ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/s213q1.png]RapeApe heavily implying he's Canadian.</ref>
*'''RapeApe''' – Janitor manager, former janitor of /r9k/.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/orbdcr.png]RapeApe back when he was a janitor talking about /r9k/, also hence his old name "RapeApe9k".</ref> Approximately got promoted to mod around 2012. Allegedly one of the new heads of 4chan, as moot claimed a moderator manager was going be one of the successors. Caused Naruto Day in 2013 when /a/ got mad at him when he told them to stop complaining and shitposting about Naruto threads, and thought he was actively "protecting them". People then proceeded to try to dox him and thought they found his supposed hidden reddit account, but it wasn't his.<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/q/thread/723224/#723243]RapeApe explaining why the reddit account was not his in an old archive post.</ref>  Moot defended him by changing the board name to /a/ - "N/a/RUTO CONFIRMED BEST ANIME CHINESE CARTOON OF ALL TIME", with the subtitle "BELIEVE IT (also dubs are better than subs)", embedding a remix of "believe it", changing the posting form and stickying a bunch of Naruto threads. /a/ went berserk and began spamming CP and guro, forcing the mods to take it down. Moot then made [https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/91420362/#91420362 this sticky] addressing the witchhunt against him. In 2020 and 2023 he was featured in two news articles about his /pol/itical leanings and blamed for causing the entire site to become radicalized.<ref>[https://archive.ph/3Tr5l]"The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet's Racist Engine".</ref><ref name="paid">[https://archive.ph/MLE2g]"Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine"</ref> One of them even revealed he is one of the few 4chan staff members who gets PAID (with real money).<ref name="paid" /> However he was one of the first people to actively delete and take a stance against the GamerGate threads in 2014,<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/igp9tb.png]RapeApe talking about removing the GG threads.</ref> and is allegedly friends with with kirt and sparto (420chan owners) who are both known for Hating nazis, and was seen criticizing  /pol/ in leaked IRC logs.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/3whp9w.png]RapeApe expressing some distain for /pol/.</ref> So it's best to take these articles with a grain of salt. Seems like he wants 4chan to change as little as possible, has a short temper, likes guns, highly educated about vidya game and Warhammer 40K knowledge. He's also Canadian.<ref name="janny"/><ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/s213q1.png]RapeApe heavily implying he's Canadian.</ref>


*'''dsw''' - Moderator (Manager?). Also confirmed to be paid by hiro. Possibly could be desuwa.  
*'''dsw''' - Moderator (Manager?). Also confirmed to be paid by hiro. Possibly could be desuwa.  
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*'''Man of Wax''' - Coder? He was around since 4chan's revival. In charge of donations during that period.
*'''Man of Wax''' - Coder? He was around since 4chan's revival. In charge of donations during that period.


*'''Invisibro (aka SwagLord, gingermod) - Jay Irwin''' – Moderator. Has a tendency to ban people on /a/ for "inane" posts. Usually moderates /tv/ and /g/. [s4s]'s patron mod, he sometimes goes down there and stickies random threads and used to sometimes post in comic sans. One of the only members of 4chan staff allowed to be open about being a mod.<ref>[https://archive.ph/YfZU7] Jay Irwin's Twitter account mentioning him being a mod</ref><ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/o01h76.jpg]Post showing he has told people in the past without consequences</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/gYwQE]Swaglord putting 4chan in his public letterboxd account.</ref> Has been doxed so many times that he has had one of his addresses text banned from 4chan. Used to tripfag sometimes, but has completely stopped.<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/_/search/tripcode/isHyGddtZE/]Invisibro's time as a tripfag.</ref> Wrote right leaning articles for observer.com for a while, but stopped.<ref name="Jay Irwin Profile">[https://archive.ph/3ktxh] Jay Irwin's observer profile</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/jSzUK]"Why 4chan Isn’t Buying What Bill Nye and Political Entertainers Are Selling"</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/21KsV]"#CNNBlackmail: The Press Just Can’t Stop Feeding the Trolls"</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/XOrps]"Jay Z and Beyoncé Inspired ‘White Power’ Symbol, Claims Alt-Right Figure"</ref> Likes to shitpost with his capcode on.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/hgbr23.png]Swaglord shitposting on a death sticky.</ref>
*'''Invisibro (aka SwagLord, gingermod) - Jay Irwin''' – Moderator. Has a tendency to ban people on /a/ for "inane" posts. Usually moderates /tv/ and /g/. [s4s]'s patron mod, he sometimes goes down there and stickies random threads and used to sometimes post in comic sans. One of the only members of 4chan staff allowed to be open about being a mod.<ref>[https://archive.ph/YfZU7] Jay Irwin's Twitter account mentioning him being a mod</ref><ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/o01h76.jpg]Post showing he has told people in the past without consequences</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/gYwQE]Swaglord putting 4chan in his public letterboxd account.</ref> Has been doxed so many times that he has had one of his addresses banned from 4chan. Used to tripfag sometimes, but has completely stopped.<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/_/search/tripcode/isHyGddtZE/]Invisibro's time as a tripfag.</ref> Wrote right leaning articles for observer.com for a while, but stopped.<ref name="Jay Irwin Profile">[https://archive.ph/3ktxh] Jay Irwin's observer profile</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/jSzUK]"Why 4chan Isn’t Buying What Bill Nye and Political Entertainers Are Selling"</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/21KsV]"#CNNBlackmail: The Press Just Can’t Stop Feeding the Trolls"</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/XOrps]"Jay Z and Beyoncé Inspired ‘White Power’ Symbol, Claims Alt-Right Figure"</ref> Likes to shitpost with his capcode on.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/hgbr23.png]Swaglord shitposting on a death sticky.</ref>


*'''I_AM_ABIB (aka BLOODMOUTH_CARNIST) - Finnigan T. Yliluata''' - Previously a Janitor, promoted to mod during '09.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/fff82y.gif]An old screenshot of the Janiteam IRC chatroom during the time where ABIB was a janitor. You might be able to recognize some other names as well.</ref> 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".<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/utum9m.jpg] Screenshot of the infamous "cultural phenomenon" defense.</ref> 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 yournamehere and ABIB.<ref>[https://archive.ph/6UPq3]I_AM_ABIB and yournamehere defending the removal of the threads.</ref> The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, but mostly about him. Also a IRC rat.
*'''I_AM_ABIB (aka BLOODMOUTH_CARNIST) - Finnigan T. Yliluata''' - Previously a Janitor, promoted to mod during '09.<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/fff82y.gif]An old screenshot of the Janiteam IRC chatroom during the time where ABIB was a janitor. You might be able to recognize some other names as well.</ref> 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".<ref>[https://files.catbox.moe/utum9m.jpg] Screenshot of the infamous "cultural phenomenon" defense.</ref> Another tussle he has got into /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 yournamehere and ABIB.<ref>[https://archive.ph/6UPq3]I_AM_ABIB and yournamehere defending the removal of the threads.</ref> The board gets angry and snoot game threads devolve into mockery of jannies, but mostly about him. Also a IRC rat.


*'''yournamehere''' -Moderator, known for being autistically hostile 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.<ref name="paid" /> Possibly the biggest IRC rat of them all, he's on there almost 24/7. Has a short temper.
*'''yournamehere''' -Moderator, known for being autistically hostile 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.<ref name="paid" /> Possibly the biggest IRC rat of them all, he's on there almost 24/7. Has a short temper.
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*'''DOTDOTDOT'''-Moderator and former janitor of /h/. IRC rat.
*'''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.<ref>[https://archive.ph/jejrb] cloudcoyote.com</ref> Twitter Shitposter, programmer, possibly a fan of the v-tuber "Pipkin Pippa" based on him liking a handful of tweets associated with her.
*'''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.<ref>[https://archive.ph/jejrb] cloudcoyote.com</ref> Twitter Shitposter, likes programming and tech, possibly a fan of the v-tuber "Pipkin Pippa" based on him liking a handful of tweets associated with her.


*'''admiraltunafish'''-Moderator. IRC rat.
*'''admiraltunafish'''-Moderator. IRC rat.
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