8chan

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Like 4chan is a ripoff of 2chan, 8chan (also known as 8ch, Infinitechan, fullchan, Cripplechan and Redchanit) is now arguably the coat-tail rider of 4chan (which is ironic because 2channel, which 2chan is a spinoff of, hosts 8chan's servers owns 8chan lock-stock-and-barrel as the "international 2channel"). It is the brainchild of a shameless faggot named Fredrick Brennan (also known as "Hotwheels," because he's a midget with brittle-bone disease permanently confined to his wheelchair) who conceptualized it during one of his shroom sessions. Hotwheels didn't like how imageboards like Wizardchan (which he was an admin for) and 4chon were run by admins who banned people left and right. His response to this was creating an imageboard where anyone could make and moderate their own board. Originally a deadchan like 7chan before it, it has been heavily populated by pissed off ex-4channers, the biggest spike (or "exodus") being caused by the deletion of GamerGate threads on 4chan and the subsequent shitstorm of AIDS created sitewide by janitors who felt that this was a good opportunity to show their true colors. After the traffic from this shitstorm (combined with DDoS attacks and CP spam from Butthurt SJWs) kept knocking the site over Fredrick "partnered" with Jim Watkins, U.S. Army intelligence operative, professional crazy motherfucker and owner of 2channel. 8chan is now wholly owned and operated by NT Technologies, Jim's holding company; Brennan himself is now a "technical consultant" for the company and has no control over its operation.

/tg/

8chan /tg/ is much to its counterpart on 4chan, with some marked differences. By user consensus, it banned quest threads, putting them in their own containment board, /quests/ - this would later happen on 4chan's /tg/ as well under Hiroshima Nagasaki's reign. Aside from the removal of spam threads, moderation on 8/tg/ is minimal- and yes, this does include (spoilered) porn threads, a resurrection of the long-lost 'bitches for Thulsa Doom' threads. The "owner" of /tg/ on 8chan is called Chrow, and he is This Guy par excellence who is mostly hands-off in his work, but will drop the hammer when he needs to. Users appease him with pictures of crows whenever he shows up to mimic his use of pictures of crows whenever he posts.

But why leave?

As mentioned above, 8chan was made as one of the many aspiring alternatives to 4chan. As such, most of its users are those who have chosen not to use 4chan, and /tg/ is no exception to this. There are several reasons why people have chosen to leave 4chan, with a good amount of overlap. Some were merely along for the ride as /v/ and /pol/ users led their various exoduses from 4chan, starting with the so-called First Great Exodus taking place in October 2014. Many others were fed up with the sheer number of quest threads on the board, and the poor quality of most of these. Additional board users felt that heavy moderation made /tg/ a worse place to be. Finally, there were people who simply decided that Moot was a cuck, and didn't wish to patronize his site when he showed an utter lack of respect for his users.

However, 8chan is SLOW. Many find the slower pace more conductive to long-term discussion, as in-depth threads are guaranteed to stay on the catalog instead of drowned in a wave of quests and shitposting. If you don't have the attention span for this, you should probably stay on 4chan. 8chan is an imageboard where in theory an infinite amount of boards can exist, yet a majority of the ones with a notable population are copies of their 4chan counterparts. Most boards can go hours without a post, with only the Top 25 boards and the few runnerups seeing any speed in their posting. A thread made on 8chan's /tg/ can easily last for a whole month after its last post, with a number of them being constantly saved from being pruned just before they fall off. A notable of 8chan's posters are for its /v/, /pol/ and associated boards, having moved there there due to the /pol/ocaust and Gamergate. Posters on the more popular boards of 8chan consider theirs to be superior to their 4chan counterparts, with the 4channers believing the same (but can't talk about it because of the 4chan rules).

/tg/ and other boards

As with many of 8chan's boards, /tg/ has a semi-official/constantly-debated list of sister boards, in other words ones whose subject matter overlaps enough that many posters use both boards frequently. This includes /his/, the slow but well-regarded History board, and /monster/, the much loved/hated font of Monstergirl waifus/autism, depending on who you ask. Another oft-debated sister board is /quest/, which has had wildly varying user numbers over the years and frequently searches to redefine itself. This is probably because most of the questfags stayed on 4chan.

Boards that aren't /tg/

On 8chan, anyone can create any board, with the (ostensibly; Jim and his cabal of global volunteers have been known to ban your entire ISP if you call them out) only restrictions being those of US law. Most of them are made for a one-off joke or just die from inactivity, but others (like the ones named after 4chan boards) endure. Some of the more notable boards include:

• /bane/ - A meme board dedicated to analyzing the Plane Scene, aka the opening scene from The Dark Knight Rises. It is where roleplaying meets autism to the point where an entire mythology has been written about the scene. Moves VERY slowly, even by 8chan's /tg/ standards. Only jumps into the top 25 boards when something sufficiently meme-worthy pops up, like the Germanwings crash back in 2015 where just about everything seemed to be linked to the Plane Scene, or Donald Trump all but quoting Bane's speech on giving power back to the people.
• /baphomet/ - An attempt to return imageboards to the "hackers on steroids" era when /b/ could actually get shit done. Naturally it died after the board's owner got shot to death by the FBI after one of the moderators sold him out.
• /co/ - Made the leap to 8chan partially because they were tired of Mods like that nigger Inspector Redwood, partially because they were tired of Tumblr shitting on everything and getting butthurt when their hugboxes are disrupted. Really hate modern art schools and animation networks for killing anything even remotely resembling talent in the animation industry and helping give SJWs a platform for infecting children with their foul heresy. Also really hate the Big Two comic publishers, for the same reasons in addition to /co/'s usual pack of grievances. When they're not being MEGA FUCKING PISSED AT EVERYTHING they also like photoshopping shitty webcomics like Questionable Content for the lulz, practicing their drawfag skills and trolling for porn of whatever loli they want to spam this week. Keep an eye out for Pain Anon, a man devoted to watching and criticizing every single episode of Steven Universe, in an epic quest to figure out just why the hell people like the damn series. His rants are the stuff of legend.
• /d/ - Yup, it's there. Yup, it's dead. Still great for PROMOTIONS though.
• /leftypol/ - A reaction board to the enormous right-leaning tendencies on 4/pol/ after the /pol/ocaust. Loves communism.
• /m/ - Mecha AND TOKU! Suck it not-/m/ naysayers! It exists but, even with the presence of some of /m/'s actually-good tripfags, it's almost as dead as the original yellow ranger.
• /pone/ - it's /mlp/, moving on...
• /monster/ - Monstergirls. Calls itself "The last bastion of romance." /monster/ is very strict in what it considers to be kosher to post and mods will act quickly against that which is deemed haram. They consider /tg/'s love for kobolds and other distinctly non-human looking monstergirls degenerate, while /tg/ considers /monster/ to be full of autists.
• /v/ - The reason we're in this mess. Started out as a paradise for people to talk about video games instead of dragon dildos, but then the Fire Nation Reddit showed up in force when GamerGate became popular and turned it into a slower version of 4/v/, i.e. shit. The fact that the board's owner, Mark Mann, is every Jewish stereotype in the book minus the part where his schemes actually make him money doesn't help either.
• /wx/ - The official board for PROMOTIONS.
• /vp/ - The PROMOTIONS board for /v/irgins.

See Also

https://www.8ch.net/tg/ - /tg/ on 8chan