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Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, has died
- r721 8mo agoArticle: >Death of Fredrick Brennan, creator of 8chan forum where QAnon emerged https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/02/23/death-of-fredrick-brennan-creator-of-8chan-forum-where-qanon-emerged_6750792_13.html https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/02/23/death-of... (Archived: https://archive.is/cbl3z https://archive.is/cbl3z)
- zenon_paradox 8mo ago[flagged]
- NeckBeardPrince 8mo agoOkay
- unconed 8mo ago>He died in his sleep last month 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?
- pavel_lishin 8mo ago> > He died in his sleep last month > Title is misleading. So enlighten us.
- unconed 8mo agoThe news article isn't an obituary, it's gravedancing. Hope that enlightened your royal majesty.
- cookiengineer 8mo agoThe person this thread is about publicly outspoke and critized Watkins, 8chan and other forums that promote hate speech. Multiple times, in newspapers and documentaries about the topic(s). 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.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_Brennan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_Brennan
- junar 8mo agoAlso: https://brainwormsusa.substack.com/p/saying-goodbye-to-copypaste https://brainwormsusa.substack.com/p/saying-goodbye-to-copyp...
- selridge 8mo agoHe figured it out and got out. More than can be said for some.
- cookiengineer 8mo agoMy favorite quote of him that hits me every time I think of it: "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.