He graduated with a degree in literature from Chuo University in 2000. In June 2001, he founded Irregulars and Partners KK with Ichirō Yamamoto, which was involved in 2channel's management, but later left. In May 1999, he opened 2channel while he was studying at the University of Central Arkansas. Nishimura was born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, but raised in Tokyo. After a dispute with 2channel's hosting provider, Nishimura no longer administrates 2channel, but instead operates a competitor to it, 2ch.sc. Nishimura's tenure as administrator of 4chan has been described by former moderators as letting a moderator known as RapeApe, who strongly dissuade banning users for racism and bigotry, have full control of the site, while simultaneously firing left-wing moderators. Ĭhristopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, formally announced on 21 September 2015, that he had sold the website to Nishimura. Until February 2013, he was a director of, and advisor to, Niwango, best known for its video-sharing service Nico Nico Douga. : PT38 He is often known by his given name, hiroyuki ( ひろゆき), which he uses, rendered intentionally in lowercase, both as a pen name and as a username. He is also a self-help author and TV personality. Hiroyuki Nishimura ( 西村博之, Nishimura Hiroyuki, born 16 November 1976) is a Japanese internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the most accessed Japanese message board, 2channel, and current administrator of 4chan. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.Īdministrator of 4chan, 2ch.sc self-help author TV personalityįounding 2channel, owning 4chan since 2015.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 3,477 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.

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