Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, has died
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"On the internet, it doesn't matter who you are or where you came from. Everyone is the same behind the keyboard."
(2014 Digital Amnesia documentary by VPRO)
Rest in peace, old friend.
>Death of Fredrick Brennan, creator of 8chan forum where QAnon emerged
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/02/23/death-of...
(Archived: https://archive.is/cbl3z)
Title is misleading.
>Wizardchan, a smaller and misogynistic forum for male virgins
I see the media has learned exactly nothing since the days any of this was relevant. Just apply the usual adjectives until consensus is achieved.
There's nothing more credible than sockpuppetting a dead person to renounce anything related, amirite?
> Title is misleading.
So enlighten us.
He went in business with the wrong people, and they followed him years after that, with bogus lawsuits, showing up at his door step to intimidate him, threats etc.
Personally, I wanted to say that he was a person that strongly believed in the idea of open debate and cultural exchange. So much so that it was too late for him to see what the Watkins family and their qanon/pol/whatever movement were planning to do with his boards.