8channer

English

Etymology

From 8chan +‎ -er.

Noun

8channer (plural 8channers)

1. A member of the imageboard website 8chan.
   • 2015 January 13, Caitlin Dewey, “This is what happens when you create an online community without any rules”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-13:

     8channers discuss the best way to terrorize “social justice warriors,” or SJWs.

   • 2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2021, Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2021, Eliot Higgins, We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2022, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2022, Rita Katz, Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol Siege, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

     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, […]

   • 2022, Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN:

     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.