The embattled image board 4chan may have found an unlikely savior from its financial woes in Martin Shkreli. Like the notorious Big Pharma bigwig, 4chan also has a less-than-stellar reputation; it’s widely regarded as the “cesspool of the internet.”
4chan has suffered from money troubles for a number of years now, with its original founder Christopher Poole selling the site in January 2015.
“We had tried to keep 4chan as is. But I failed. I am sincerely sorry,” Nishimura, who purchased the site from Poole, wrote. “Some notice there are no more middle ads and bottom ads on 4chan. Ads don’t work well. So we reduced advertisement servers cost. 4chan can’t afford infrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost, CDN and etc.”
