Martin Shkreli Interested in Buying 4chan

It seems the iconic message board 4chan is falling on hard times, again, as Hiroyuki Nisimura posted that he can no longer afford the infrastructure costs, network fees and more that are required to keep the site up and running.

While the site hasn’t been doing well for a while, the introduction of mores ads, subscriptions, and other tweaks have done little to benefit the site. “We had tried to keep 4chan as is. But I failed,” Nisimura writes. “I am sincerely sorry.”

Nisimura is pretty open about his options, and none of them seem ideal from a user perspective. He needs to sell more subscriptions, include more ads, including even malicious ones, or cut site traffic by closing boards, slowing the site, limiting image sizes and more to reduce the server costs as much as possible.

4chan isn’t a place that’s bred on rules and regulation, so any limitations to how it operates could hurt the site even further. Now it seems the infamous Martin Shkreli is interested in opening his cheque book with a possible buyout offer for the site.