Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Fredrick Brennan

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Fredrick Robert Brennan is an American software developer and type designer who founded the imageboard website 8chan in 2013, before going on to repudiate it in 2019. Following 8chan's surge in popularity in 2014, largely due to many Gamergate proponents migrating to the site from 4chan, Brennan moved to the Philippines to work for Jim Watkins, who provided hosting services to 8chan and later became the site's owner.

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I found some peace in the Bible and in believing in Christ. To me it doesn't really matter if it's technically true. It just really helps me get through the day.

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In the Philippines, it is routine to appeal an indictment to the DOJ, and they routinely quash indictments.

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I was mesmerized. 4chan was nothing like anything I'd ever seen.

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You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're gonna get burned at the stake.

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If I could go back and not create 8chan at all, I probably would.

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If Trump loses, I think that how a lot of people are going to view it is: the deep state has won. Trump has lost. Our god, essentially, has been crucified. Trump is - for many of them - a god, and they are going to punish Democrats on the other side with political violence. That's what I see happening.

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There is no way I can go back and uncreate 8chan. If I could, I would, but there is no way to do that. So the main way I have dealt with the guilt is to go on the offensive.

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I have very short arms. I can't really reach down and pick things off the floor when they fall. I can't really reach up and get things out of the cupboard.

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I guess I'm not very street smart.

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

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Cooking is not really safe for me because a pan of boiling water is about as big as I am, so I have to be really careful when I'm cooking not to spill it on myself.

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Since the time I resigned, I sometimes wonder whether creating 8chan was a good thing. I sometimes wonder about the things that I said in the past while I was being its admin. Sometimes I think I should have been harder on violent threats. I think maybe I should have worked much harder to improve the moderation systems.

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Q is whatever you want it to be.

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The rules keep getting more and more strict on 4chan even though there is no legal requirement for them to do so.

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

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

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I don't care about media crocodile tears for pageviews.

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It's really bad sometimes to be crippled in a wheelchair, and it reminds you that you can't fight back when someone's trying to rob you.

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If I could, I would uncreate 8chan. Of course, you know, I'm guilty to a certain extent of allowing it to go in the beginning, but I never expected it to get this far.

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Behind the keyboard, it doesn't matter that physically my body doesn't work properly.

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When 8chan came back online, it was extremely unstable. I was trying to post on it to see if it worked. And it was not working at all for me, but somehow, Q' was posting. And that was kind of the moment for me that sealed the deal If they had not already been controlling it before, they were controlling it now.

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I haven't left the Philippines for many years, I haven't been in the U.S. for six years.

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Even though Q is at the moment based on Donald Trump, it is certainly possible for a significant faction to rise up that believes he was in the deep state all along and foiled the plan.

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Once again, a terrorist used 8chan to spread his message as he knew people would save it and spread it. The board is a receptive audience for domestic terrorists.

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Anonymity should not be taken away from everyone just because of a few bad apples.

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Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet.

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If you shut down 4chan, shut down 8chan, you're just pushing it under the rug. Underground, it's just gonna get worse.

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I didn't spend enough time making friends in real life.

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All the major discussion sites are owned by large money-grubbing corporations, and their platforms are closed source. It's incredibly toxic.

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Was it smart to be in a Nazi newspaper? I have no idea. Probably not.

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I have no desire to ever be involved in the image-board world again.

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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 happened.

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

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Essentially, what QAnon was - what the Q poster was doing - was impersonating a federal agent.

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I looked at Gamergate very cynically. I didn't care about the ethics. And I didn't care about the women I just cared that this is bringing users to my site.

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I believe GamerGate is at its core a positive movement that fights against obvious corruption in journalism and the tech industry.

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