8chan

8chan

Foundation	October 22nd, 2013
Major Boards	/qresearch/
Total posts	59,000,000+
Website	8kun.top

8chan or currently known as 8kun.top was a popular imageboard subject to multiple controversies on the internet over the years, most known of these was GamerGate. The website began as a small project by Fredrick Brennan on October 22, 2013. His main goals with the infinity project was to create a free-speech platform where anyone could create their own self-moderated boards without fear of censorship. The project is now ran by Jim Watkins.

4chan exodus

The janny/hot pockets meme was popularized during the 4chan exodus.

At the peak of GamerGate in 2014, 4chan banned the topic from being discussed on the site, often giving lengthy mass bans to posters who discussed GamerGate. It was theorized that Moot was being influenced by his girlfriend in his decision to ban the topic, since she was friends with Anita Sarkeesian at the time. /v/, /pol/ and the general website quickly fell into disarray, with most threads created discussed the unfair moderation of 4chan and finding alternative imageboards to migrate to, among the most popular alternatives discussed was 8chan, which was due to it's strict free-speech policies and ability to create custom boards. During this time, Fredrick welcomed the new users, but the site was slow and it often crashed which was due to the massive influx of users, this was quickly resolved. After the GamerGate controversy, most users decided to stay on 8chan and the site rivaled 4chan for many years.

Controversies

"BUT CP IS FREEZE PEACH" as the pedophile cries out about his board being banned.

Pedophile boards

Under Fredrick's ownership, multiple pedophilia orientated boards (namely /hebe/) were allowed to exist, which often featured posts of half-nude children and pedophile activism; Fredrick stated that these boards were allowed to exist while citing the First Amendment, even to the expressed outrage of the community. These boards were eventually removed and banned by Jim Watkins after gaining ownership in 2016.

Even long after the banning of these boards, CP spam was still a persistent problem with the website for a few years as it was incredibly easy for anyone to post on it's .onion address without repercussion, this problem was solved in most part by implementing a site-wide captcha system.

Infinity Next

Infinity Next was an attempt to overhaul the existing imageboard software of 8chan with a more up to date version, it ended up to be a complete failure and an abandoned project. The idea of an overhaul was a well received by the general community on 8chan at first, however after the beta version of the Infinity next project was launched it was riddled with bugs, slow load times and was generally broken. One of the largest controversies from this project was an exploit where anyone could see the IPs of people who viewed a thread or made a post/thread. Shortly after, the project team fell into disillusionment after being unable to resolve large issues with the project; Jewshua Troon, the lead developer was removed from the project in January 2016.

Transfer of ownership

Fredrick sold 8chan to Jim Watkins and moved to the Philippines. The official reason was that after gaymergate, 8chan.co had more traffic and he needed better infrastructure but we all know that it was only for money. For his shit site he already got more than he could have ever hoped for and it would take half a year before the first ones realize what a kike Breddit really was.

The series of shootings that killed 8chan

On March 15th, 2019, a bald bitch (and native of 8chan’s /pol/ board) by the name of barbarian piggy tranny decided that she had enough of shitposting on 8chan and decided that it was about time to actually do something IRL. What she decided to do was kill a bunch of Muslims while praying in Christchurch, New Zealand. Before she did so, however, she thought it would be best to write a manifesto, and then make a goodbye post on /pol/. The thread started with some wishing her nigger asshole luck, but a lot of people thinking she wouldn’t do shit. He did, however, by killing 51 Muslims and injuring another 40 in two consecutive mosques, while also streaming the attack live on Facefuck The thread exploded with activity as hundreds joined to champion her This is the first shooting to come out of 8chan, and it got a lot of media attention. But it certainly wouldn’t be the last…

Just one month later, a 18 year old man by the name of John T Earnest had read Tarrant’s manifesto and was inspired by him (he was also inspired by Robert Bowers who had shot up a synagogue in 2018, but he didn’t post on 8chan, and instead chose Gab, so he isn’t important to this.) He had been another /pol/ native, but he also browsed and posted on other boards aswell, most notably on /cow/. Then, like Tarrant, on April 27th, he posted a farewell post on /pol/, with a link to his manifesto (titled “An Open Letter”), a list of songs he was going to play, and a link to his livestream. However, his livestream didn’t work. He drove into the Poway synagogue near where he lived, and opened fire on a woman at the front desk and a lot of more Jews who were worshipping. He only ended up killing one person and injuring another, though. In court he gave the victims families a “hang loose” sign, and he was sentenced to life in prison in 2021. By this point, 8chan is having a problem dealing with all the media traffic due to these 2 events, but the next one was the one to break the camels back…

On August 3rd, a man by the name of Patrick Crusius was inspired by Tarrant's manifesto, and like Earnest was also a avid /pol/ dweller. He posted his manifesto to /pol/ with a farewell message where he seemed very nervous and also excited to do what he was about to do, and that was to walk into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and kill 23 Mexicans, while injuring another 23. He is best known for being the inspiration for the Chudjak. This was the final shooting before 8chan died, which was a direct consequence of Cuckflare deciding that too many shootings had been happening and they pussied out and stopped hosting them.

Cloudflare and migration back to 4chan

After mass backlash from the media after the El Paso shooting, cloudfare decided to drop them, causing the site to go down and return as "8kun" in November, 2019. The downtime and eventual return of 8chan ultimately killed it, causing it's users to either return to 4chan, join one of the clones such as 8chan.moe, or quit Chans all together.

Infamous chudjak uploaded his manifesto to 8chan.

Boards and activity

Previously active boards

Politics: /pol/, /leftypol/

Videogames: /v/, /gg/

Religion: /christian/, /islam/, /asatru/

Hacktivism: /baphomet/

Pedophilia: /younglove/, /hebe/, /boylove/, /loli/

Zoophilia: /zoo/

Currently active boards

/qresearch/ averaging 100-200 PPH

/pnd/ averaging 1-10 PPH

/vichan/ averaging 1-50 PPH

Soyjak.party influence

See also: Raids

The /raid/ board on soyjak.party has spammed 8kun many times. 8/pnd/ was a major target for raids. More recently, the catalog of 8/2hu/ was completely cleared out with soyjaks. The popular board /qresearch/ was also raided at one point. Some say this raid brought the attention of several disgruntled Qschizos who still post on soyjak.party to this day.

"I though 8kun was dead."