I can't help but notice there's little mention of Kirt's, shall we say, suspiciously "pedophile adjacent" behaviour in this thread. A lot of this ties in to stuff that's already been mentioned in the Sarah Nyberg thread where he was noted as being one of Sarah's biggest white knights despite the fact that Sarah is a horrific pedophile and child molester. I thought it would be good to collate some of this information in one place so we all know what's up.
A short history of Kirtaner being a pedophile:
Here he is getting banned from SomethingAwful back in 04 for being a pedophile. Supposedly this involved using creepy loli porn avatars and posting a lot of "ironic" pro-pedo rhetoric. As you can see he was banned here alongside another guy who, according to some posts in the Nyberg thread, was a pretty big time pedophile himself. Even back then Kirt found himself associating with pedos and to this day the goons of SA remember him as the weird anime pedo guy they banned.
About a year after being booted from SA, Kirt founded 420chan. In the early days of the site it was known to have an elusive child porn board by the name of /pedo/. Here's Kirt on Reddit denying that /pedo/ ever existed.
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And here's an archive of the front page of 420chan back in 2006 where, in a news update, Kirt very much admits that /pedo/ exists (or existed) and laments the fact a "bunch of assholes" found the board and spread the link around everywhere.
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Now strangely enough, if you go the internet archive wayback machine, you'll see while the rest of 420chan is available to peruse at your pleasure, /pedo/ itself has been suspiciously excluded from the archive.
Here's where Sarah Nyberg comes into it. As you might a expect, a enthusiastic pedo such as Nyberg was one of the regular users of Kirt's /pedo/ board and mentions it multiple times in the FFshrines chatlogs that incriminated them as a pedophile in the first place.
As you can see in the latter chatlog, Nyberg claims the board was no worse that 12chan's /girl/, which isn't exactly a badge of honour. Presumably the board only allowed clothed pics as opposed to full blown CP, pretty fucked up by itself, and then Nyberg mentions that full blown CP was posted but was overlooked by Kirt and the mods and only deleted at much later date.
Long after Nyberg had been outed as a pedophile, we find Kirt allying with Nyberg on Twitter. We can see the archive of them being buddy buddy on Twitter here. Bonus points for Nyberg tagging Kirt in a tweet where they downplay the contents of the FFshrines logs as being "just ageplay".
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And the rest is history.
You have to ask yourself: is there smoke without fire? And in Kirt's case, if there's a spate of fires in a half mile radius and the same guy is standing there with a boner every time the firefighters show up to put out the blaze, is it fair to assume it was him who did it? That's up to you to decide.