Future of 4chan uncertain as controversial site faces financial woes

The anonymous message board represents the darkest corners of the internet, but users aren't ready to say goodbye

The anonymous message-board site 4chan has come to represent the darkest corners of internet subculture, rife with the misogyny, web taste and the politically incorrect humor of the alt-right.

Now it appears to be in financial trouble, according to the site's new owner, Hiroyuki Nishimura, who said on Sunday that the site can no longer afford "infrastructure costs, network fee, servers cost and CDN [servers that help distribute high-bandwidth files such as video]".