Down Quote by Fredrick Brennan

Most of the world genuinely believes that I was the owner of 8chan and that I could shut it down whenever I wanted.

— Fredrick Brennan

If 8chan comes back online, it will be done when 8chan develops additional tools to counter illegal content under United States law.

— Jim Watkins

I saw the GamerGate controversy as a way to expand 8chan. I wanted to unseat 4chan and to me it didn't matter how it…

— Fredrick Brennan

When I started using 4chan heavily, my whole life became about the Internet. And my real life stopped mattering to me.

— Fredrick Brennan

I never expected there to be so many mass shootings connected to 8chan.

— Fredrick Brennan

When 8chan came back online, it was extremely unstable. I was trying to post on it to see if it worked. And it was…

— Fredrick Brennan

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really…

— Christopher Poole

What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ...…

— Christopher Poole

4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success,…

— Christopher Poole

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

— Christopher Poole

Whenever there's a shooting and the details are still fuzzy, I am always worried there's gonna be an 8chan connection.

— Fredrick Brennan

For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the culture shift…

— Christopher Poole