Google has hired the founder of notorious website 4chan Christopher Poole to help out the Google Plus team.

Poole will be joining the team of Bradley Horowitz, VP of Google Photos and Streams, the two products spawned from the breakup of Google Plus last year. Google Photos, with its free storage and powerful search, is the first thing the search giant has done right in social for years.

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He could teach Google how to build a community around the product, not just a user base, TechCrunch reported. The company’s been experimenting with social apps for college kids, like one for hanging out in person called “Who’s Down.” Also, Poole knows tons about anonymity, a space that has been in recession since Secret died. 

“When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company,” Poole writes on his blog. 

The pronouncement is unexpected by almost everyone in the tech community, according to Gizmodo. Given 4Chan’s well-known obsession with trolling and misleading the media, at first glance, this would appear to be a farce or joke post to mess with people. But, the account was tweeted from Poole’s verified Twitter account, which gives it an air of sincerity and Poole's move was also tweeted by Bradley Horowitz. 

Chris Poole, with screen name Moot, started 4chan in his bedroom at age 15. In the 12 years since, he has built it into a 20 million active user image-sharing community around topics ranging from cosplay and cute animals to anime porn and the notoriously uncensored anonymous channel /b/.

4Chan is one of the web's most popular forums for online discussions, but the site has gained a reputation as a repository of seedy or hateful content, notorious for spawning abuse and high-level pranks. One classic example is that users infamously posted the password to Sarah Palin's email and spread thousands of nude celebrity photos.