Justin Ling🆒️Mar 29, 2023

Since last year, I've been obsessed with teasing apart who really owns — and finances — 4chan.

Well, I finally cracked it. https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-good-smile/

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@justinling
Hiroyuki Nishimura"s "near total invulnerability to shame is a kind of superpower in Japan ... a national antihero ... In a national poll, high school students said he was their top pick for prime minister."
NYT: In the U.S., His Site Has Been Linked to Massacres. In Japan, He’s a Star.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/4chan-hiroyuki-nishimura.html

I originally misread your tagline on this story as: "Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image *beard*"

In the U.S., His Site Has Been Linked to Massacres. In Japan, He’s a Star.

Hiroyuki Nishimura has become a famous voice for disenchanted young Japanese. What he talks much less about is his ownership of the notorious website 4chan.

The New York Times
Mar 29, 2023 at 4:07pmWeb