Who is this guy? I know his name is Jim Watson but I know absolutely nothing about his background before he moved to the Phillipines. He domain hacked 2chan from the nips as a cash grab and bought 8chan from hotwheels. What do you know about him?
He's a freemason with a pig farm. Several years ago he and his son were building something, and posting pictures of them hauling bricks. I forgot what it was, but some people thought he was hiding bodies in the mud.
>>10117 He's an ex military guy who ended up getting into server hosting. Ended up managing websites which catered to Japanese people who wanted uncensored porn. I believe he actually ended up hosting 2ch.
At some point he moved to the Philippines, I think somewhere near Manila, and owns a pig farm.
8chan was in deep shit until he offered to take care of the hosting. I believe 8chan is not profitable, and probably never will be. His motivation for hosting 8chan is not clear, it might be just a personal hobby, or it might be a "fuck you" to the USA. I reckon it's the latter. Shit, who doesn't want to do that these days.
From what I can gather he is not a particularly amazing guy. He has apparently used some dodgy business practices but it's all hearsay.
It's actually pretty crazy how this dude somehow ended up owning one of the biggest websites in Japan, and the resulting connection between 8chan and 2ch... Illuminati-level shit right there. Shit has gotten so complicated since moot fucked off.
And then 8chan ended up becoming involved in the goddamn Christchurch thing. I was sitting there seeing the breaking news and thinking to myself "holy shit I hope it wasn't a fucking /pol/ack". I still can't believe one of our users went out and killed 50 people. It's scary how one guy can go out and shake the world like that. Reminds me of the assassination that started WW1.
When I started browsing 8chan I just came there for the free speech. I never would've guessed that some spin-off of an imageboard for virgins would lead to this situation.
I just felt like ranting for a bit. My point is that it's so strange that chan culture somehow ended up in the hands of some guy in the Phillipines, and despite shit like Reddit apparently being the future of the internet, some obscure site called 8chan somehow manages to be behind what might become a massive force for political change in the west.
>>10168 >I believe 8chan is not profitable, and probably never will be. His motivation for hosting 8chan is not clear, it might be just a personal hobby, or it might be a "fuck you" to the USA.
Or, more likely, he's under paid contract with the CIA. When he deleted the pedo boards with no explanation it proved he didn't give a damn about the founding ideals of the site.
they're faggots who cant make a real webshit
8cuck before NZ kebab removal:
>enable cookies
>enable referer [sic] header in browser
>copy/paste retarded fucking link into new tab to fill out "daily" captcha and solve it
8cuck after NZ kebab removal:
>enable cookies
>enable referer [sic] header in browser
>copy/paste retarded fucking link into new tab to fill out "daily" captcha and solve it
>open separate page for per-post captcha
>copy ID from page into post box
>fail per-post captcha, which causes the "daily" captcha to expire (because the code is retarded as fuck)
>restart entire fucking process
technology was a mistake
>>10199 >open separate page for per-post captcha
>copy ID from page into post box
>fail per-post captcha, which causes the "daily" captcha to expire (because the code is retarded as fuck)
>restart entire fucking process
I haven't had to do any of these post-NZ, maybe you just have a shit browser setup.
>>10199 also:
>Tor users cannot post images
and just discovered this right now:
>Tor users cannot delete posts
>>10200 >it doesn't work because your browser is shit [/babyvoice]
no, you have a cucked browser setup. i have JS, cookies, and referer [sic] header disabled, like a white man
>>10199 Hapa spammer here. Basically how the old system worked is that all Tor users are treated as the same, disregarding the cookie. So solving the captcha on one computer would allow another computer to post.
I took advantage of this fact to make a zero-intervention script which spammed without having to have a human solve captchas.
The old system did not even require cookies. The new system requires cookies and 1 captcha per tor post.
>>10220 >faith I still had in hapas
your faith is irrelevant because you're a cucked wigger piece of shit
you complaining about pigchan spam merely affirms your love for pigchan and pigchan cancers.
>>10176 I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm an 8channer like 90% of the people here.
>>10179 Pedoshit is probably the single most destructive thing a website can have. A lot of ISPs will tolerate all kinds of expression, but will draw the line at children. I'd say he just knew that allowing pedos to post everywhere would eventually destroy the site like Masterchan.
Why would the CIA fund a site like 8chan, which seems to be doing a pretty good job of destabilising things?
>>10215 Damn, never thought I'd see you here. I figured it was some SJW who was butthurt about Christchurch. That's a pretty big vuln too.
>>10267 >Why would the CIA fund a site like 8chan, which seems to be doing a pretty good job of destabilising things?
Datamining and profiling. The pedos had to go because they diverted resources and are not what the spooks are after. They also hurt the antipedo narrative with their friendly, legal, positive fellowship.
>>10223 >you complaining about pigchan spam merely affirms your love for pigchan and pigchan cancers
I never complained about it, superior hapa brain.
Can't you read?
Read what I wrote a second time.
>>10267 The CIA likes to destabilize things, it allows them to swoop in and steer opposition movements. Self-appointed leaders likely have some sort connection, kind of like the whole story of Jim obtaining control over 2/8chan, it reminds me of glowniggers.
It should also be noted that the value in 8ch, may not be advertising, but instead an army of users that fit a certain profile and can be manipulated because of that known psychological profile. Probably one of the reasons you see data-mining threads like "What's your Myers-Briggs test results?".
/pol/ is somebodies personal army, they just don't know it.
Very similar to how other ideological groups can be useful idiots if an objective can be twisted to overlap with an ideological goal.
Who is this guy? I know his name is Jim Watson but I know absolutely nothing about his background before he moved to the Phillipines. He domain hacked 2chan from the nips as a cash grab and bought 8chan from hotwheels. What do you know about him?