#8chan

[wirewitchviolet]

When a monster who terrorized you dies.

I have had a really weird day. Just do your best to put yourself in my shoes with this one. Oh, but first, big ol' content warnings for really just all of the worst possible things in the world I could possibly talk about. So I should also put all of this under the fold here.

For well over a decade now, I have been in hiding. I never show my face in public. I literally had to flee my home, and do so more than once. I've seen people organize a thread on a hidden message board trying to plan how to pool their money and hire a professional hitman to take me out. I have talked friends who didn't have my level of opsec through the trauma of having people kick their doors in and hold them at gunpoint. This all happened because I and some people I know made an effort way back when to remove an utterly horrific website from the face of the earth, which incurred the wrath of that site's creator and sole owner.

Do your best. Sit with that. The site in question was 8chan by the way. Sexually explicit photos of toddlers. Neo-nazis doing hardcore neo-nazi things. Planning threads for mass shootings that were then carried out. Snuff videos of kittens. Bad bad stuff. If you've followed this blog from the start, I've mentioned it before.

So anyway, today I found out that the creator of that site, again, a nazi pedophile who tried to have me and several other people I care about killed, has died.

So obviously, I have some pretty complicated emotions going on, learning this. This creep has terrorized me for a significant portion of my life, I made a pretty decent effort to get him prosecuted for some pretty damn serious crimes, and again, it's just nice to have one less person who's put my life in danger out there in the world. So mostly, my reaction here is relief. Maybe a little bit of joy. A decent splash of melancholy because I'm an empathetic person and I'm quite sure he had an absolutely miserable life beyond the typical misery of being a nazi pedophile due to a pretty serious medical condition. If I drank I'm sure I'd be downing a bottle of something tonight.

Now, I should really be sleeping better tonight than I have in some time knowing this creep is no longer out there, but there's another emotion in the mix here thanks to exactly how I learned that this particular monster is no longer with us. That particular circumstance has me full of absolutely incandescent rage, and totally unable to sleep.

See, here's the quote I read- "Just heard about Fredrick Brennan's death. He was a genuine example of how a person can try to make right the things they did wrong and do better. He got 8chan taken down and essentially deplatformed."

Now, I should note before I say anything further that I saw this quote by way of someone I hold in pretty high regard sharing it with an addition, and I had a pretty awkward conversation afterwards because I was sincerely pretty sure this was being said in a really ironic tongue-in-cheek tone, and I just really want to be clear that I'm cool with her and her perspective on things, and it's other people discussing this who are, you know, completely divorced from reality and trying to paint a nazi pedophile who founded a CSAM side and tried to have me and some people I care about killed as some sort of hero.

So, just so I can hopefully get this out of my system and get some rest, let me lay out a timeline here. I could go into way more detail here. I very much know my stuff on this.

So, a timeline. 8chan was founded in October of 2013 to serve as an alternative to 4chan, because as awful as that site is, it has never allowed people to post sexualized photographs of naked children. A lot of people are vaguely aware of this, and assume when people bring it up, they're talking about the site being used to host sexual illustrations of child characters, or perhaps "barely legal" porn. Meticulously curated photos, with the victims finely sorted into categories based on age, going all the way down to freaking two-year olds. Plus threads where pedophiles were exchanging tips on abduction, grooming, accessing children's websites. It was a one stop shop in that regard, from day one, explicitly.

Most people associate 8chan primarily with Gamergate, as there was a moment when 4chan's owner felt that site was getting too much heat from the associated threads posted there and banned them, and 8chan was offered up as an alternate host, in keeping with the founding principle of allowing what 4chan banned. Again, a lot of people get confused and think it was founded for that specific purpose, and the CSAM came later. That would still be a horrible state of affairs, as running a full on terrorism campaign, stalking innocent people, planning mass shootings, brainstorming nazi propaganda, etc. are also some real serious and awful stuff, that came in a good year after the site was first set up for the CSAM.

While initial general public interest in the site was focused on the very very visible Gamergate stuff, people broadly made the connection to the CSAM hosted all over it in late 2014. Multiple people did some very in-depth reporting on this at the time, and for a good long stretch articles were available meticulously detailing the history of the site and sharing heavily censored images that had, at the time, been hosted there for the duration of its life. Those I am personally aware of have since been taken down both because their authors were receiving very serious threats and attacks, and their purpose in terms of formerly bringing the site to the attention of relevant authorities is long since served. You'll forgive me for not linking to archived copies.

More or less immediately after these articles were published, a number of people I am personally familiar with attempted to link such to the webhost for 8chan. Due to some miscommunication, these were in fact sent to Cloudflare, whose management opted to forward them directly to the site's owner (Brennan), including the e-mail addresses and other personal information of those who sent them. Almost immediately after this, attempts on these concerned citizens lives were made via SWATing, as mentioned in this here news story from the time. From the available information, it seems rather clear that Brennan is personally responsible for disseminating this info to whoever made the calls, and he made no particular secret of this in public postings at the time.

Other parties came at the issue from a financial angle. As 8chan was supported primarily by donations through 4chan and banner ads, efforts were made to convince the associated companies that it was not in their legal interest to be funneling money to a CSAM site. Brennan made efforts to switch to other payment methods, but eventually reached a point where absolutely no payment processors would accept Brennan as a client some time around mid-2015.

No longer able to pay to maintain the site, and facing federal inquiries about various illegal materials he was hosting (a matter over which he was receiving advice from fellow absolute monster and major Gamergate figure Mike "Based Lawyer" Cernovich), Brennan fled to the Philippines, arranging for new site hosting with fellow absolute moral black hole Jim Watkins, to whom he eventually sold the site, although he continued to maintain it through 2016, and working on Watkins' other, similar sites until 2018.

Meanwhile, nazis being a fickle bunch prone to infighting, a good number of 8chan regulars decided to blame Brennan for Federal investigations affecting the site, if only the inconvenience of various sections being hidden or shuffled around, and started targeting him with the same sort of attacks they visit on anyone else. Between this and some extremely bad blood developing between him and Watkins, largely revolving around investigations into 2019's Christchurch and Poway shootings which had strong ties to 8chan, with serious legal consequences for both men, to the extent that Brennan was forced to flee the Philippines to avoid arrest there, Brennan eventually chose to try and rehabilitate his image by throwing Watkins and the site under the bus, and yes, working to some degree towards getting the site taken down.

I see absolutely no reason anyone should frame this as some sort of moment of moral clarity on his part, just the usual backstabbing one sees in Nazi circles when things start falling apart. I understand several people I know ended up coordinating efforts to bring the site down with Brennan around 2020, but at no point that I'm aware of did he ever express any sort of real remorse over any of the victims of his CSAM operation, and I can tell you for an absolute fact that he at no point showed the slightest bit of concern for any of the various parties whose lives he put in danger over the whole Gamergate thing.

I generally do not swear, but spending a good portion of the last day watching people completely upend this timeline and attempt to to paint Brennan as some sort of innocent victim of Watkins are complete horseshit contradicting years of clearly documented horrors. I have all this preserved in the amber of my personal PTSD, e-mails, and reports to various agencies, but this is also all readily found just looking him up on wikipedia.

As a general rule of thumb, you should avoid ever coming to the defense of nazi pedophiles, under any conditions. It's also quite disgusting how many people I'm seeing trying to garner extra pity for him by using the effects of his medical condition to pretend that he was a child for any of the horrendous stuff I've gotten into, out of basic respect for others with brittle bone disease, and frankly I'm also quite disgusted on behalf of children at the implication that they are so lacking in morality they would be on board with this sort of CSAM operation as anything other than victims. In particular though, I really do not appreciate having a bunch of people come at me with this ludicrous revisionism when I should be sitting here, relieved, looking for a proper way to celebrate the fact that I have managed to survive longer than one of the most evil I have ever encountered, who has, again, personally placed my life and those of several people I care about in immediate danger for over a decade.

[capncornflake]

In Response to the Utter Series of Lies that comprise "The Antisocial Network" on Netflix - by Captain Cornflake, Chief Exorcist of Anonymous.

There is a hacker in detainment in Canada right now. His name is Aubrey Cottle also known as Kirtaner the owner of 420chan. Military intelligence propped him up in the media as the "Founder of Anonymous," when the reality is he was just one of many people who all helped shape Anonymous in its early days. They promo'd a whole thing in the Atlantic about it in advance of the Netflix documentary "The Antisocial Network" - a documentary which is a complete load of rubbish, but which at one point shows a copy of a document I wrote as a naive teenager in the summer of 2006: "The Declaration of /b/ Independence".

The reality of Aubrey's role is that while he was there in the beginning with Moot and Martin Random and Marshall Banana and WT Snacks and a few others whose names elude me right now, it was only because we gave him /i/ - our invasions forum - that Aubrey was transformed from lowly nerd into cyberterrorist warlord. It was this incubation chamber which I helped create, which we collectively gave to Aubrey, that turned Aubrey into the monster he is today.

There is so much resentment from my fellow oldfags about his "Founder of Anonymous" bullshit, that you will not have trouble finding other people who were there to back me up. I'll grant that he's a type of co-founder or elder statesman of our screwed up community, and he did put his share of work in, but to call him THE founder is a bold-faced Lie and a mockery of journalism itself. Fuck Netflix for helping spread this Lie, amongst many other related Lies.

They brought him out of retirement a year or so before the 2020 riots, to train a new group of hackers & activists (all insufferable psychopaths, the worst of the worst) that were responsible for much of the chaos of 2020 in a myriad of covert and plausibly-disconnected ways. They run massive bot networks that determine the shape & character & political alignment of vast swaths of the internet. Aubrey's lunatic friends like Neal Rauhauser & Jackie Singh exert pressure on journalists who step out of line. Aubrey ostensibly came back to "take Anonymous back from Q" but really it was left-wing government sponsored hackers & trolls versus right-wing government sponsored hackers & trolls. Most of them are useful idiots, blissfully unaware.

Aubrey is a high-ranking useful idiot. Aubrey is part of an upper-level Nazi Accelerationist Conspiracy that is knowingly running both sides, with partners/handlers from military intelligence, USAID and a network of shady NGOs & nonprofit organizations. Basically, Wall Street made Anonymous their personal army. The only reason Occupy Wall Street was allowed to happen in the first place, was it gave Anonymous street cred to operate in other countries, kinda like an undercover cop.

If you want a parallel to understand what's going on here: Aubrey is the left-wing version of Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer, another member of Anonymous, and classified federal asset that was used to train an army of Nazi hackers and trolls towards the end of the Obama administration. The government shipped a bunch of these people to Ukraine to kill civilians. The weaker ones stayed behind to work the culture, and shaped much of the 2016-era's hypnotic mainstream political narrative. Remember the frogs that got Trump elected? You basically have Weev and Peter Theil to thank for them.

Aubrey is currently imprisoned in a pending case related to his hacking of Texas GOP computers some years ago. Normally I don't give a shit about these things, because all political parties in this country are corrupt and worthy of investigation. But the interesting thing is, his case is sealed, both on the US side and the Canadian side. The FBI is trying to have him extradited here, but both governments are ultimately protecting him and covering up the story. Why is this?

I can tell you why. CSIS (the Canadian version of the CIA) has Aubrey on tap as one of their "hacker leaders" to do the state's dirty work in Ukraine. This is because our governments are legally limited to what they are allowed to do in Ukraine. To get around this and prevent an international scandal, they use groups like Anonymous & Anonymous offshoot "NAFO" as plausibly deniable assets who operate there, attack computer networks, and silence whistleblowers on social media, all with covert support from our governments, and the arms manufacturers, banks & private sector "analysts" that secretly profit off this conflict.

There is a forgotten Russian wing of Anonymous. Russian /b/ was there with us when the invasions forum first came together. Russian Anons & American Anons have been playing online FPS & strategy games together for eons. It should come as no surprise that the descendants of Russian /b/ and Russian Lurkmore are steering the Russian side of this fake-ass circus show of a "conflict," with support from the patsies the Bush & Clinton administrations put in power in Russia in the 90's.

Folks, it is all the same Accelerationist Conspiracy, complete with AI worship and Satanic undertones. They get Andrew Dugin while we get Curtis Yarvin. The entire thing is just an excuse for global capital to clear out wide swaths of land in Eastern Europe & the Caucasus for mineral & financial exploitation, and of course human trafficking. This is what Aubrey is a janitor for.

They do this not just in Ukraine, but it is in tandem with other "Anonymous" operations across the world - all setting the stage for regime change operations. Anonymous provides a spectacle for the media, infiltrates computer networks, takes down important systems, and various other seemingly-unrelated groups come in after to bring the country to its knees (The military term for this is "Triangulation Attacks"). This is all so Big Tech platforms (ones with stakes held by big investors like Musk, Theil, Andresson, Soon-Shiong, Blackrock - all well documented actors in the Accelerationist sphere) can fill the void of governance, silence dissent & redraw the world in their foul image.

Aubrey is not only a CSIS asset, but he works directly with SBU and NSDC (look them up). He is involved in recruitment and training of new hackers, many of whom also go on to commit war crimes. He has no qualms whatsoever about collateral damage. He has been involved in hacks that have literally killed unarmed civilians. He is proud of this. He gloats about this.

When I recently confronted him about how they blindly target civilians, he flat out told me "Some civilians deserve to die."

Aubrey's "confidential surety" vouching for him in this case, who I've never been able to get the name of, is one of his classified Ukraine partners. Aubrey and these people are working out a deal where he goes free, in exchange for a more formal job with CSIS. (A condition the FBI would have to tolerate, as CSIS is part of the allied Five Eyes network with the CIA. Meaning intelligence assets get special rights that the rest of us don't!) As for why the Canadian Government is hiring well-known Nazi Extremists to build lawless armies of sociopathic cyberterrorists, well you do the math on that one.

The press is not to know about this. The general public is not to know about this. This knowledge is classified at the highest levels. SO I LEAKED IT TO KIWIFARMS AND CAUSED A BREACH OF NATIONAL SECURITY IN CANADA. Poor Aubrey now has to sit in jail longer because, as he personally put it to me before turning himself in: "public knowledge of us residing together is like a giant fucking target."

I hope his classified surety gets identified by the Russians and assassinated because of me. FUCK these people. Fuck everything their self-absorbed greedy empty souls stand for. I have to atone for our collective sins while they get to live like this. Holy shit I hope these terrorists go out slow & painfully.

According to legal experts close to the case, Aubrey's surety/handler (who the public is not allowed to know the name of), the judge and the prosecutor all have to have a series of classified meetings to discuss how all the entwined parties are moving forward from this.

Aubrey needs to be extradited here to stand trial. Not for the GOP, but because the public has a right to know about this horrifying machine that Aubrey and I both sit atop of.

If I could have one dying wish, it would be to have this man rot in solitary confinement for the rest of his cursed and miserable life.

[cyberspacescollection]

These are 4chan's brothers. Oldest 2chan, second is 7chan, and youngest is 8kun.

They def have a lot of shit going on so I'm prob gonna make separate posts for all three of them

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

Seeing that catholic anime girl mascot was surprising. Especially, when Christ-tan exists already.

[tenth-sentence]

Anonymous accounts shared a manual on 8chan in 2018 that collated 'sanitised' excerpts from the Al-Qaeda Training Manual and the Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla by Carlos Marighella, the twentieth-century Marxist-Leninist activist who fought against the Brazilian military dictatorship.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[gaykarstaagforever]

The funny thing about the Far Right is that there are actual receipts proving most of the seeming-conspiracies about how they operate. In this instance, paperwork that links Gamergate, Trumpism, QAnon, and mass shootings that have killed 70+ people worldwide.

Mostly because all of that is the work of one awful pornographer and his piece of shit son, and the the shitposting website they stole.

Journalist Robert Evans discusses the history of 8chan (and the growth of the Far Right online in general) with its reformed creator Fred Brennan (back in 2019).

Fred has successfully managed to keep 8chan from being revived. He was a 19 year old edgelord with debilitating brittle bone disease when he created it, and was basically abducted to the Philippines and manipulated into making it a safe space for terrorists by a shadowy millionaire racist with a debilitating persecution complex. If you have ever been an angry young person on the Internet, you should listen to this and reflect.

[sucka99]

[lovesinistra]