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Japanese internet entrepreneur

Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村 博之) is a Japanese internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the most accessed Japanese message board, 2channel, and current administrator of 4chan. He is often known by his given name, hiroyuki (ひろゆき), which he uses, rendered intentionally in lowercase, both as a pen name and as a username. Until February 2013, he was a director of, and advisor to, Niwango, best known for its video sharing service Nico Nico Douga. Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, formally announced on 21 September 2015, that he had sold the website to Nishimura. Nishimura's tenure as administrator of 4chan has been described by former moderators as letting a moderator known as RapeApe, who strongly dissuaded banning users for racism and bigotry, have full control of the site, while simultaneously firing left wing moderators. After a dispute with 2channel's hosting provider, Nishimura no longer administrates 2channel, but instead operates a competitor to it, 2ch. sc.

Nishimura was born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, but raised in Tokyo. He founded Tokyo Access LP in 1998. In May 1999, he opened 2channel while he was studying at the University of Central Arkansas. In June 2001, he founded Irregulars and Partners KK with Ichirō Yamamoto, which was involved in 2channel's management, but later left. He graduated with a degree in literature from Chuo University in 2000. CEO of Tokyo Plus KK, co founder of Future Search Brazil (未来検索ブラジル) KK, and a director of Niwango, the company that launched Nico Nico Douga. He left his role at Niwango in February 2013. The site was also run by 300 "volunteer administrators" who received no pay. Nishimura justified this with the comment, "I don't think that's all that different from some dude who opens a convenience store in front of a train station. They can make a million yen a day." and this event resulted in a series of lawsuits against the website. Around the same time, the anti matome movement took place throughout 2channel, a controversial community development involving users protesting against "matome blogs" (まとめブログ) which specialize in summarizing 2channel threads, which were taking away site traffic. He took full control over the website, relieved Nishimura of all power, and assumed the role of website administrator. while Nishimura claimed that he had in fact paid everything owed and that the domain transfer was an illegal domain hijacking. In response, Nishimura created his own clone of 2channel at 2ch. sc [ja],

On 21 September 2015, he bought the website 4chan from Christopher Poole. Users on 4chan refer to him commonly as 'hiro' but also by the ethnic slur "gook moot", or the nickname "Jackie 4chan", "Hiroshima Nagasaki," or simply "hiroshimoot".