“What's really at stake now is the ability to be creative and expressive on the internet. And I especially worry about young people. Part of growing up is finding out who you are, what you are passionate about, what you are interested in, being an idiot. Making mistakes.”
Poole's presentation is about identity, about anonymity. And about creativity and expressiveness on the internet About being human. If anonymity on the web no longer exists, then according to Poole this means the death knell for iraq telegram data creativity. And 4chan is for moot the embodiment of creativity. All the memes that are brought to life on his imageboard are expressions of jointly developed art and contribute to the development of contemporary (digital) (counter)culture. And this culture is – as the statistics show – embraced by many on the web. A culture to cherish.