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You confused Futaba Channel with 2ch which is orders of magnitude more popular and not an imageboard. 2ch is very popular in Japan, but it is only in the top 1
by mukyu 16y ago
You confused Futaba Channel with 2ch which is orders of magnitude more popular and not an imageboard. 2ch is very popular in Japan, but it is only in the top 10-20 now behind mixi and ameblo (social networking) and youtube and nicovideo (video sites).
- asdflkj 16y agoThanks--it's been a while. IIRC, Futaba and 2ch are run by the same people, and moot copied both, though only the imageboard took off. Is that correct?
- mukyu 16y agoNo one knows who runs Futaba. 2ch was owned by hiroyuki until he sold it a few years ago to some Singaporean company that no one knows about (probably because of all of the lawsuits that he faced and lost). 4chan does have text boards (like 2channel). dis.4chan.org runs on shiichan and is supposed to greatly resemble 2channel style, but it came later and as you say it is not that popular. There is also the tinychan imported text boards that are fairly recent and somewhat different.
- asdflkj 16y agoThanks!