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Yuuki
ゆうき
— Wikimedian —
Yuuki in 2018
Yuuki in 2018
BornYuuki Konno
May 17, 1994 (age 30 years, 6 months and 12 days)
Ninohe, Iwate, Japan
Education and employment
EducationIwayadō Elementary School (dropped out)
Contact info
Websiteyuukikonno.com

Yuuki Konno[1] (金野 裕希, Konno Yūki, born May 17, 1994) is a Japanese Wikimedian.

Early life

Yuuki Konno was born on May 17, 1994 at 1:56 a.m., at Fukuoka Hospital in Ninohe, Iwate, and raised in Esashi. His mother, Yūko Konno (née Jūmonji), was a nurse, and father, Kōji Konno, a medical assistant and later labor union activist.[2] He has an older brother, Songsknow.

Yuuki started using a computer at the age of two, when his father bought him a Panasonic U1 Pro FW-U1P609 word processor. He learned kanji through its kana–kanji conversion and read through the Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary. At age four, he was given a Fujitsu FMV Deskpower MV205 FMVM52053 computer and played games including Puyo Puyo for Windows 95 and Diablo I.[3]

Early career

In 2003, Yuuki went online at age nine when his father signed up for Yahoo! BB. He began his career as a troll on TheBBS under the handle Aku no Zurihaki[4] (悪のずりはき, lit. Zurihaki of evil) and later Seizan.[5] Learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, he created a browser exploit and security website.[6] Yuuki gained widespread attention in Virtual Farm (バーチャル農場, Virtual Nōjō), a browser-based farming game by RCC,[7] after lying that his money was stolen by others. He became known as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (狼少年, Ōkami Shōnen).[8] He found cross-site scripting vulnerability on the game's site and spread an XSS worm.

In 2005, Yuuki dropped out of Iwayadō Elementary School.

The login screen of Monachat

In 2007, at age 13, Yuuki met a hacker Linux User who taught him Debian GNU/Linux and Perl in Monachat (もなちゃと, Monachato), a metaverse with ASCII art avatars. Yuuki rose to stardom after launching a massive DDoS attack against Monachat under the handle Momakuru (もま☆くる).[9]

In 2008, he created a Twitter account and began posting his thoughts every second, advocating its use as a thinking tool. In 2010, he founded the field of mathematics in anime after watching Baka to Test to Shōkanjū.

Notes

  1. Yuuki goes by his first name and is stylized as yuuki (ゆうき).
  2. His father served as chair of the Communist Party-affiliated Iwate Federation of Trade Unions (Iwate Rōren) from 2012 to 2022.
  3. Yuuki 2023.
  4. "Zurihaki" is a randomly typed string.
  5. Yamaarashi 2002.
  6. Yuuki 2004.
  7. Wada 2007.
  8. Anonymous 2004.
  9. Desuno X2 2007.

References