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It was recently revealed that 8chan is funded primarily by selling sex tourism-themed audio books on Amazon. To my knowledge, Amazon has still not answered requ
by zapita 7y ago
It was recently revealed that 8chan is funded primarily by selling sex tourism-themed audio books on Amazon. To my knowledge, Amazon has still not answered requests for comments, nor have they discontinued funding.
Here's the article: https://popular.info/p/exclusive-how-money-flows-from-amazon https://popular.info/p/exclusive-how-money-flows-from-amazon
- toxik 7y agoWhile some of the audio books are somewhat unpalatable, it is only some. This article seems really angled though, is 8ch.net really so dangerous?
- irvwash 7y agoJim Watkins owns a lot of things, including 2channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel), a pig farm, and a VPS/VPN/webhosting provider. It's unlikely that those audiobooks are the biggest source of income.