It was growing steadily but there was no clear way for me to monetize it. From a business perspective, I didn't know what I was doing. 4chan founder Chris Poole

It was growing steadily but there was no clear way for me to monetize it. From a business perspective, I didn't know what I was doing. 4chan founder Chris Poole reached out to me at one point and we had a call (I was a bit star-struck!) to talk about it and some new project he was working on (I don't remember the name). But money was really tight for me and I couldn't afford to run it anymore, so I had to shut it down.