Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented
How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet — On 27 April, before he burst … Tweets: @nickywoolf , @ryan_padraic , @xtophercook , @cerithomas01 , and @tortoise Tweets: Nicky Woolf / @nickywoolf : For @tortoise I did a deep dive into the origin story of 8chan and its founder Fredrick Brennan - and looked into the structural reasons why chan culture has become both so powerful and so dangerous https://members.tortoisemedia.com/ ... Padraic Ryan / @ryan_padraic : This is an interesting, disturbing piece about the founder of 8chan, from @NickyWoolf in @tortoise: https://members.tortoisemedia.com/ ... Chris Cook / @xtophercook : This is a brilliant piece about the strange emergence of 8chan https://members.tortoisemedia.com/ ... Ceri Thomas / @cerithomas01 : What motivates someone to set up an online message board, a home to hate speech? Read the endlessly surprising profile by @NickyWoolf of the man who created 8chan https://members.tortoisemedia.com/ ... @tortoise : How a childhood of anger led the founder of @infinitechan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet. https://members.tortoisemedia.com/ ...