View the profiles of professionals named "Chris Poole" on LinkedIn. "In an interview with readwrite.com, published November 4, 2013, Poole said:The TIME Magazine poll was not the only poll manipulated by 4chan. However, the ad revenue was barely enough to break even and Poole found himself struggling to effectively monetize the site, despite its huge amount of traffic.Poole established a dual life, with his personal connections and school life on one side, and his online presence and 4chan duties firmly on the other. Poole was subsequently voted the world’s most influential person on April 27, 2009, albeit with the help of 4chan. " Throughout his time as administrator, Poole recognized that the users were there because they liked 4chan just the way it was, and although he imposed the barest minimum of site rules and guidelines, and reinforced them when necessary, he never sought to police the users or direct the community in any planned direction. Poole believed that such anonymity would allow users to feel comfortable posting things that they might otherwise not, which in turn would foster creativity. Such creativity would manifest in various memes featured in this “flash animation about teh internet,” dated March 19, 2007:Regardless of the challenges that his anonymity created and the toll it took on his high school career, Poole was able to successively compartmentalize his activities into two distinct worlds. I stopped idling on Google Chat, AIM, and IRC—the latter two being services I’d used almost daily for 15 years—and have been refreshing my inbox less often. This has more or less been proven over the years by the extraordinarily popular memes that came out of 4chan. And I think in doing that, in moving towards those things, we're losing something valuable. Many 4chan users reacted defensively, calling Poole a sell-out and arguing that such policies violated the principles of freedom that made 4chan great.The video features Tom Cruise speaking on the virtues of Scientology, and perhaps most bizarrely, features a very odd cover of the Mission: Impossible theme.That time that Mountain Dew didn’t name their new apple flavored soda beverage “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong”Now that Poole was out in the open, he began to make more public appearances and was invited to several conferences. Poole has said that he enjoyed this aspect of separation in his life, even if he knew it couldn’t last forever.When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. His role during the week … What I think is really intriguing about a community like 4chan is that it's this open place.