8channer

English Etymology From en w:8chan er occupation. Noun A member of the imageboard website 8chan. Caitlin Dewey Caitlin Dewey This is what happens when you create an online community without any rules https://web.archive.org/web/20150113222648/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01/13/this-is-what-happens-when-you-create-an-online-community-without-any-rules/ 13 January 2015 8channers discuss the best way to terrorize “social justice warriors,” or SJWs. en w:Talia Lavin Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Legacy Lit 2020 978-0-306-84643-4 In June 2019, I stumbled across a thread on 8chan in which users expressed their concern about the number of “shills” who had begun to surveil the anonymous board after it served as a platform for Brenton Tarrant, a mass shooter who murdered over fifty Muslims at prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, to post his manifesto. As a result, 8channers were looking for other options to express their opinions online and reach one another; Discord had proved too easy to infiltrate. en w:Arsalan Iftikhar Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order w:Skyhorse Publishing 2021 978-1-5107-6187-2 Not coincidentally, one of the “heroes” of many 8channers is an infamous Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist named Anders Breivik, who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011 in Norway’s worst terrorist attack ever. en w:Eliot Higgins We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People w:Bloomsbury Publishing 2021 2022 978-1-5266-1575-6 When one asked for suggestions, the first reply was: ‘Shoot up a Synagogue. Be a hero.’ Less than a month later, an 8channer carried out just such an attack. en w:Rita Katz Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol Siege w:Columbia University Press 2022 9780231203500 And just as his idol Brenton Tarrant did, Earnest called on fellow 8channers to use their common culture to amplify his words: / Make sure that my sacrifice was not in vain. Spread this letter, make memes, shitpost, FIGHT BACK, en Max Fisher The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World Quercus Editions Ltd 2022 978 1 52941 638 1 The attraction to celebrating a genocide or mass shooter was, on some level, that others wouldn’t. It proved you were a true 8channer: based and red-pilled, committed to one another whatever the reputational cost, having ascended above the petty demands of an off-line world that, in truth, terrified you.