# Hiroyuki Nishimura

> He built 2channel, Japan's sprawling anonymous forum, then bought 4chan from its founder in 2015 - two of the internet's most chaotic, influential, and un-moderatable spaces now traced to one name.

*Japanese internet entrepreneur*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-nishimura

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Business Professional
- **Category:** Business Professionals
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1976-11-16
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Hiroyuki Nishimura founded 2channel in 1999, creating what became Japan's largest anonymous message board and a template for image-board culture worldwide. He directed Niwango, the operator behind video platform niconico, until February 2013. In September 2015, Christopher Poole sold him 4chan, a site Poole had started in 2003 and could no longer sustain. A later dispute with 2channel's hosting provider cost Nishimura control of his original creation, so he launched 2ch.sc as a competitor. He writes self-help books, appears on Japanese television, and signs everything hiroyuki, lowercase, a pen name that doubled as username from the start.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 73.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 11.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 1.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #157
- **Category rank:** #41
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,650,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/hirox246 (@hirox246)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12448441/ (@nm12448441)
- **WEBSITE**: http://hiro.asks.jp/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yQ2h4gQXmVUFWZSqlMVOA (@@hirox246, 1,650,000 followers)

## Sources
- [西村博之](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B)
- [هيرويوكي نيشيمورا (شخصية أعمال)](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_(%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84))
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura)
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura)
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura)
- [西村博之](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%91%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B)
- [니시무라 히로유키](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%8B%9C%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%9C%A0%ED%82%A4)
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura)
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura)
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nishimura)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q842977)
- [Hiroyuki Nishimura](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4677330)

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