4chan Sold to Hiroyuki Nishimura, Founder of 2Channel

General consensus among channers is that this is a bad thing, primarily because of Hiroyuki's shady history - he was ousted from 2ch after selling user data and offering to delete content in exchange for money - clients allegedly included government officials.

For more info see here, if you can tolerate reading reddit with 4chan CSS - https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/3lt1gv/4chan_is_now_...

It seemed more noteworthy to me that 8chan got sold to the same person. 8chan is infamous as a community too objectionable even for 4chan, with ongoing controversies involving child pornography, swatting, organizing harassment, etc...

I fully understand that 4chan is the bigger ticket item in this, but that only makes it more confusing to me that Nishimura would want 8chan, let alone offer money for it (I could understand if 8chan was a rider, like he had to take 8chan if he wanted 4chan, but they were owned by different people, so that seems unlikely).

I'd like to see some guessing as to how this is expected to affect 4chan (and 8chan)'s day-to-day/culture, but I'm skeptical of anyone's analysis/insight if it leaves out the black sheep 8chan in all this (as is the case in the NYT article here).