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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 7, 2019
Early Monday morning, 8chan’s official Twitter posted a video with an “8kun” logo, implying that this was some rebranding of their site which is ready to return.
— 8chan (8ch.net) (@infinitechan) October 7, 2019
However, Hotwheels threw some cold water on their plans, saying that they can’t possibly hope to avoid maximal banning by simply changing their name.
The new 8ch domain is https://t.co/18ozBs9rNH.
The domain is registered via @Tucows, which previously deplatformed 8chan
Its nameserver is 206.223.145.116 (https://t.co/g65CywK6gY). Previously it was returning an A record inside @Zare's network, but is currently returning null. https://t.co/kHPEB1xKG0
— Fredrick Brennan ???✝ (@HW_BEAT_THAT) October 7, 2019
In what world do they think that the media will see they rebranded to “8kun”, and not see that as a transparent maneuver?
In what world do they think domain hosts and providers will say, “oh, 8chan? No can do. But 8kun? You’re hired!”
— Fredrick Brennan ???✝ (@HW_BEAT_THAT) October 7, 2019
We don’t really have much more information than that.
Some other account posted this.
BREAKING. Here's the contract 8chan (Jim & Ron Watkins) tried to make Fredrick Brennan, the original founder, sign. It uses language designed to trick him into thinking they'd stop using the "8chan" brand. We now know they were aiming for "8kun", which is… pretty much the same. pic.twitter.com/pipEPoqtmT
— QAnon Anonymous Podcast ? (@QanonAnonymous) October 7, 2019
I think it’s fair to assume that it is the current plan of “Gentleman” Jim Watkins to relaunch 8chan as 8kun and hope it all works out.
Hotwheels had himself vaguely implied that they were just going to rebrand when he announced that they wouldn’t be relaunching as 8chan.
Although he also implied it would mainly be for the purpose of posting QAnon material, which no one in my circles cares about anyway.
As a practical matter, any forced rebranding – even if it is just a meaningless partial name change – is a bad omen for freedom of speech on the internet going forward. Shutting down one site means that they’re going to be able to shut down more sites in the future.
But as an even more practical matter, we just want normal 8/pol/ back, we don’t really care what it’s called.
(By the by, did you guys get the thing with the logo?)
(Clever, I suppose.)
