A New Hope: An Interview With The Founder Of 8chan

This past month or so has been crazy for people who are into the video game subculture. A woman who couldn’t practice monogamy unearthed a cabal of game industry people working like the KGB to stop real freedom of opinion in gaming culture. We found the little hole and discovered the catacombs the size of Canada underneath our foundation.

Many sources ignored this web of nepotism and cronyism, but only one journalistic website covered the story properly. Return Of Kings published critical pieces of the broken mafia (a term that describes social justice warriors better). Here are some of the examples of the writing done so far. This one details the beginning of the scandal. This one details the game industry’s silence about a game developer having sexual relationships with people who review and publish games. There are also 2 articles talking about Anita Sarkeesian’s death threats and how the authors of those pieces don’t believe her.

Founder of 4chan.org

Even Chris “Moot” Poole, founder of 4chan, caved in to feminists and removed discussion of Gamergate. His website 4chan, for all the good and bad, was a literal bastion of free speech. You could have feminists and red pillers on the same website talking things out. However, the same guy who made a career talking about anonymity and free speech buckled down to feminism.

People were worried until a wheelchair-bound admin from New York decided to open up his small chan to the public to discuss this issue, a chan he founded to let the actual users have power. People are allowed to make sub forums about any topic on the website, as long as it’s legal in the USA. He allowed #GamerGate discussion on his forum when it wouldn’t have been advantageous for him. He increased his server hosting fees by 500% and the website is still growing.

I, redpiller1985, was able to get an interview with him. These are his unabridged words with no alterations. ROK is about journalistic integrity and respect. If you want to hear interviewers write fables lightly based on the interview, Gawker media would be more suitable for you.

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Here is my interview with Frederick Brennan, the founder of 8chan.co. I made up 10 questions and sent it to him. Mr. Brennan is a busy man and this was one of the only ways to conduct the interview. He wrote the answers in one go.

Where do you come from and how was your early childhood?

I was born in Albany, upstate New York. My childhood was pretty unremarkable, it was full of a lot of videogames.

How was it like living with your disablity?

It’s hard for me to answer this question because I don’t know what it would be like to live without having a disability.

The feminist media implies that handicapped people are doomed forever to live on the dole and be lazy. What did you do to overcome that?

I learned a skill that is useful in the real world. Radical feminists normally are very averse to learning skills, which is why they have a hard time getting a job with their degrees. I would say that having a women’s study degree and no useful skills is a fate worse than being a disabled person that knows how to computer program.

What websites and media influenced you to go ahead with 8chan?

4chan mostly. I also took the subreddit system from Reddit, but without any of the downvoting, user accounts, karma or other things that create identity there. I always thought that the way board creation was decided on 4chan was too authoritarian, so this was a natural fit for this kind of site.

What is the purpose of 8chan?

The purpose of 8chan is to become an imageboard where free speech is the highest priority. Its purpose is to take power away from people like moot and his moderation team and put it into the hands of the users. The users decide which boards will exist and with what rules, which threads will prosper and what to talk about. 

I first created 8chan.co when I saw that people on 4chon.net’s /meta/ board were constantly asking an uncaring admin to make them new boards. This is a lot like 4chan, except on 4chan we can’t see these requests because the moderation there is so afraid of criticism they closed down the /q/ feedback board.

I wondered what it would be like if anyone who wanted their own imageboard could make one, and then founded 8chan.co. The results so far speak for themselves.

How are you dealing with the growth?

I have upgraded the server six times in the last week, and even more upgrades are being planned. I have also open sourced the code so that interested developers can help me write the features they most want to see on 8chan.co.

Why have you been one of the only few not to be beholden by the broken mafia (SJW)?

I am not sure, but I have some theories. So far, no SJWs have contacted me about 8chan.co – it could be because they believe that due to my disability it would be horribly ironic of them. They have attacked and doxed people who were much less active in #gamergate, so that could very well be it.

Any backlash from your local community over your views and website?

None yet. However, I would not let any backlash from freelance clients stop me from running 8chan.co.

What does the future hold for you?

I hope that, in partnership with 2channel, the largest discussion board in the world, I can make 8chan.co the best site for free discourse on the globe.

Frederick shows that men don’t have to be casanovas or have a cult of personality to affect the world in a positive manner. I could write a dialogue about how inspiring he is or shift it to narcissist victim circlejerking. Instead, I just want to say that the content of Frederick’s character is evident to see.

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68 thoughts on “A New Hope: An Interview With The Founder Of 8chan”

  1. Inspiring. Here you have a man who was dealt a tough card in life but instead of blaming others, playing the victim card, or trying to censor speech he doesn’t like, he started a web site to counter the totalitarian efforts of SJW’s. I have no doubt that his efforts will punish Moot severely for allying himself with the enemy.

    1. When they are done with Moot, they will just move on, leaving him and everything he worked for ruined. Perhaps he thinks that his new found allies will help him out..lol..

      1. As is true for us all, in the long run we all die. Get your 15 minutes while you can, have a plan for when everyone has bailed on you. Be prepared for anything while you try to experience everything life has to offer. (But have a code of ethics for God’s sake!)

    2. Both inspiring and proof positive that many of our own best excuses for not creating meaningful contributions are quite pathetic by comparison.

    3. Reminds me of this guy with no arms or legs. I felt like a complete fag when I saw this

      1. This fool has more game in his little chicken drum stick than every cell in my body. Like a boss

    4. Guys-this is another determined disabled in a wheel chair mans who is doing things in life.
      Listen to the fellow on the top left of this links story-http://www.seduction.com/wallofproof/
      It says “No arms, no legs, he still gets laid”.

    5. “We found the little hole and discovered the catacombs the size of Canada underneath our foundation.”
      —————————
      Implying that many of these Social Justice Enforcers are on a payroll of some kind, no?
       
      “The users decide which boards will exist and with what rules, which threads will prosper and what to talk about.”
      ————————————
      If the Cathedral is unable to make this new 8chan guy cave then they will likely hire a whole slew on new Social Justice Enforcers with the purpose of swamping 8chan with the Cathedral’s messages.
       
      That way they can say it’s all the ‘will of the people’ (sarc).

  2. He creates, and is therefore a useful man. He takes raw, dumb disc drives with nothing but “00000” on them, and imposes his intelligence and sculpts it into utility, which is the essence of manhood and civilization.
    A million times more a man than every useless SJW male feminist hashtagging #HeForShe.

    1. Yea they NEVER create anything. They can only try to muscle their way into things already created by other people from scratch through blood, sweat and tears. Once there they try to change it to fit their agenda.
      Want more women in games ? makey your own games. Want more women in movies ? make your own movies. Want women to be portrayed as heroic in movies and games ? try to be heroic in real life first..
      In short..DO things instead of just whine and try to make other people change the way THEY do THEIR things.

      1. It takes a bright light to cast such dark shadows. We are the bright light, and the shadows couldn’t exist if it weren’t for our creations.

      2. I wonder why no woman has asked Oprah for start-up money to create their own female founded game & movie studios yet? You’d think the richest woman in the world would be the go-to gal for this kind of thing.

        1. True. They’d need much better pitches and ideas than Depression Quest or all these pre-schooler phone games they’re all hooked on atm.

        2. Because Oprah, despite being an evil feminist bitch, is a smart business person. I think she still has the first dollar she ever made. Lots of former minor rank beauty queens tried to make it in the entertainment industry, but few do. She not only made it but then took the industry over. She is Satan incarnate, but you have to give the devil her due.

        3. As long as she exist, I can’t take complaints about privilege seriously. If she can win the game so hard why are the rest of them so miserable at it?

      3. Whiners are never doers, their mode of survival is parasitism
        And even when they do make something, it turns out to be garbage.
        Look at any piece of shit they come up with in order to spite the mainstream or promote some activist ideal. They’re all jokes.

    2. He understands how to write the code that allows them to make hashtags. SJWs only understand looking to be offended all the time, and some leftist university gave them a degree in complaining about shit. #uselesscunts

  3. He is unassailable, that is why the SJWs are powerless. A man in a wheelchair who has been dealing with real issues his entire life, and has every reason to quit and declare permanent victim hood status instead choose to better himself, and become more useful than those SJW fools. No whining by him, no entitlement, no handouts, just a lot of hard work (Math), can do attitude, and success. Tell me again why Anita Sarkeesian deserves awards, accolades, and a job at Electronic Arts (that woman cannot write code)?

    1. But he a “white hetero cismale” so I’m sure they’ll get to his “privilege” eventually

      1. He has math privilege, ambition privilege, and effort privilege!!! He is just full of privilege!!!!

      2. Don’t be ashamed of privilege. I’m not white, but I still enjoy all the other privileges they allegedly say I have. And I mean actively and consciously enjoy, not in an “unchecked” guilty way.
        As long as it’s not illegal discrimination, we should all strive for privileges in society. It keeps the world competitive while fucking equalists in the eye.

    2. Agree…and really what is there to attack? The guy just created a forum where “freedom of speech” exists. I know many of these SJWs are stupid but are they that stupid?
      Anytime you’re dealing with a feminist the “go to”, for me, is freedom of speech. They can complain all they want but they have the same rights (remember, it’s all about equality).

    3. I cant contain the wrath I feel when you tell me that Sarkeesian won awards, a job, and accolades. I know she has also won many hundreds of thousands of dollars via donations. Meanwhile, there are cancer ward patients sitting in hospitals in agonizing pain waiting to die. Children who have gunrunners murder their parents and then force them into dark caves with a pixaxe to dig for diamonds, then slap an ak-47 into their arms and turn them into child soldiers. This fucking world (the west) is the worst.

    1. Exactly why does an al Jazeera human interest story make him untrustworthy?
      I saw nothing evil in that article. Please quote the portions of it that support your accusation.
      Thanx.

    2. I read the article and found no reason not to trust this man. He has OA and lives in constant pain, his arms break once a month and he soldiers on, and the article made me admire him more. Can you elaborate why I should not trust him based on the article you linked?

        1. I meant OI (corrected that) and I should have read slower. I was looking for dishonesty found none, and skimmed the adversity he faced. I stand corrected, however my main point remains,how does the article prove he is untrustworthy? I did not see anything to make me have distrust in him.

      1. He’s probably alluding to the fact that Freddy’s client shown in that article is Jewish.. as if that matters. Some idiotic Moot loyalists have tried to use that to make out that 8chan is some sort of conspiracy. Freddy has already said that if any of his clients have a problem with the site he will choose 8chan over them.

        1. you haven’t done enough reading about it if you think its not all based in fact, Atlanta Man

        1. His mechanical arms. In OI you frequently suffer broken bones, however in the article he was referring to difficulties with his mechanical arms. I read the article too quickly and was corrected below.

  4. Massive props to Frederick Brennan. Programming sure isn’t easy and he’s used his skill to create a new bastion of freedom and expression. One hell of a guy.

  5. “I would say that having a women’s study degree and no useful skills is a
    fate worse than being a disabled person that knows how to computer
    program.”
    Who can argue with this logic? Genius!

  6. This guy deserves some serious props for creating something of value despite all the hardship he’s going through, and mind you, there are no affirmative action programs, quotas, or special financial incentives to hire a handicapped guy like Frederick Brennan in the same way there are for women (especially white women). Women who, we are led to believe, are “disadvantaged”. To them I say, try living a day like this guy or any handicapped person for that matter, and you’ll know what it truely means to be disadvantaged.
    How utterly demoralizing it has to be to be an intelligent but functionally impaired guy and witness healthy (or relatively healthy) women succesfully claiming a myriad of benefits and use affirmative action to get employed, move through the ranks in academia or business, or to get their ideas funded, while you can get the finger?

    1. I sympathize with all the black men out there that get shit on for affirmative action set asides while women are the ones reaping the benefits. Decades ago I heard a corporate type say that it was easy to find a qualified white woman to get the affirmative action slot filled so they didn’t bother looking at black men.

  7. Truly inspiring. The essence of what makes a remarkable man lives inside his body. I am adding him to the list of my motivational material.

  8. That dude is fucking awesome. The very fact that a man in a wheelchair can create something valuable for the world while all the SJW’s in the world have never done anything of value is proof of how extraordinarily pathetic people SJW’s are.

  9. As I have said before;
    Being born with a penis means two things;
    1) nobody gives a fuck about you.
    2) this only makes you a victim if you choose to be.
    I think we can all see the choice Frederick Brennan has made. And it has won him the ultimate prize; the respect of other worthy men.
    This should be the goal we all shoot for.

  10. If anyone wants to catch up: KnowYourMeme, Enclycopedia Dramatica, And InternetAristocrat all have great summaries.

  11. To improve on your articles I request you provide quotes or links instead of anecdotal evidence that is shitty.
    “The feminist media implies that handicapped people are doomed forever to live on the dole and be lazy. What did you do to overcome that?”
    Post some articles that show the feminist media says handicapped people are doomed.
    It’ll add some traction to your argument. When we report scientific findings or review past papers, we always need to reference the shit or we will face scrutiny.

    1. Instead of pointing out to rad-fem nutters, let’s examine the attitudes toward men from Liberal/Progressive Feminists.

  12. Where there is a will there is a way. Too bad msm wont share his story for others to follow. Again ROK putting out content needed to be read

  13. “Frederick shows that men don’t have to be casanovas or have a cult of personality to affect the world in a positive manner.” I love that line. The whole essence of the article is expressed right there.

  14. Daily reminder that Zoe Quinn is irrelevant.
    Attacking feminism should be the constant norm.
    You don’t need to wait for some whore to cheat on her boyfriend or make a shitty game

  15. This man is a true warrior-to accomplish what he has despite all his suffering and adversity-that is someone made out of great substance. He is a winner.

  16. “Why have you been one of the only few not to be beholden by the broken mafia (SJW)?
    I am not sure, but I have some theories. So far, no SJWs have contacted me about 8chan.co – it could be because they believe that due to my disability it would be horribly ironic of them. They have attacked and doxed people who were much less active in #gamergate, so that could very well be it.”
    —————————-
    B I N G O !

  17. Frederick is an absolute boss. Freedom of speech is like a hydra, cut one head off and many will grow back.

  18. If you can use your disability as a weapon, by all means do so. SJWs deserve no mercy.

  19. The low comment count does not reflect the actual interest of the article. Its that there is no debate about it, this guy is the shit.

  20. Deep and utter respect for hotwheels. This guy is a hero.
    I have no words to describe how amazing this man is.

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