I don't think there's much spin on the article to be honest. The article is mostly giving backstory on moot and 4chan or talking about "reprehensible" things th

I don't think there's much spin on the article to be honest. The article is mostly giving backstory on moot and 4chan or talking about "reprehensible" things that happened/originated on the site. > The article calls these "the good times", though. Actually the "good times" quote is the author referring to moot's "Summer of Chris", or his time away from the site. > The stuff highlighted in the article...is really mild compared to all the nasty stuff that happened before, like someone posting photos of girl they just murdered From the article: "Though Poole does find some 4chan posts 'reprehensible' — like when a murderer posted photos of his victim on the site..." > If leaking nudes of celebs and gamergate was really what made moot give up on 4chan, it would be much more interesting to read the longer story, what changed in him throughout the years that made it no longer acceptable for him to be the admin of the place that hasn't really changed during his tenure. I think the site did change over the years. And I think the article even tries to make this point. I think the idea is that the sort of fappening/gamergate stuff wasn't there in the beginning. While the site has always been full of tastelessness and cruelty, I think it was the acts like this that drew a lot of attention and forced moot to confront 4chan's users. And that confrontation created the conflict and stress that finally drove moot away from the site.