- Joined
- Nov 14, 2012
Lolcow LLC is the legal entity which acts as a container for the Kiwi Farms. It owns the brand and holds license to all posts.
It was originally started in Florida under my name and registered to my mom's house. It was reorganized in Wyoming with a registered agent.
In 2022, after we briefly used a .RU TLD, at the peak of #DropKiwiFarms, the registered agent resigned citing an Executive Order prohibiting registered agents from incorporating Russian entities. I do not believe using a .RU domain for less than 48 hours meant that the Kiwi Farms (a website owned, operated out of, and incorporated in the United States by an American) was a Russian entity.
Regardless, I have failed to find a registered agent in the almost-full-year since.
Considerations
- Taxes suck. Wyoming and South Dakota are the only states without any form of corporate tax, which would be very nice to have.
However, at this point, I am willing to pay state tax if it means keeping the entity up.
- Every LLC needs a registered agent. A registered agent is a natural (flesh and blood) person and resident who lives in the state. They receive servicing on behalf of the company, as a fictitious entity cannot be served paperwork. Each state has different laws regarding a registered agent, but to be the Registered Agent of the Kiwi Farms you must be willing to deal with: being swatted, being doxed, having your entire extended family doxed and swatted, having your personal reputation defamed online, and basically all forms of tranny terrorism that are currently being applied to every rung of the Kiwi Farms. This is a tall ask.
- Every LLC needs a business address. This can be a home that an RA lives at, for instance, or it can be an office.
Renting an office is basically out of the question because of the intimidation tactics. Buying a property is out of my financial reach. If someone wants to donate a whole ass building to me, let me know, but I can't afford on one my own.
Some states like West Virginia allow you to use a P.O. Box, but they still require a business address somewhere - it doesn't even say in the US, so theoretically I could list someone as RA, make a P.O. box the delivery address, and list a random virtual office in South Sudan as my place of business. I don't really know, and before you offer a random state, you should look it up.
- The laws of the state will matter for the container.
The Kiwi Farms hosts a lot of unsavory stuff and copyrighted content, always used fairly and for critical purposes which laws have carve outs for. However, I don't really want to fight the state's laws, so not every state is suitable for the LLC.
August 8th, 2023
I've picked a state and have a plan. I'm awaiting something before I can announce our mailing address.
It was originally started in Florida under my name and registered to my mom's house. It was reorganized in Wyoming with a registered agent.
In 2022, after we briefly used a .RU TLD, at the peak of #DropKiwiFarms, the registered agent resigned citing an Executive Order prohibiting registered agents from incorporating Russian entities. I do not believe using a .RU domain for less than 48 hours meant that the Kiwi Farms (a website owned, operated out of, and incorporated in the United States by an American) was a Russian entity.
Regardless, I have failed to find a registered agent in the almost-full-year since.
Considerations
- Taxes suck. Wyoming and South Dakota are the only states without any form of corporate tax, which would be very nice to have.
However, at this point, I am willing to pay state tax if it means keeping the entity up.
- Every LLC needs a registered agent. A registered agent is a natural (flesh and blood) person and resident who lives in the state. They receive servicing on behalf of the company, as a fictitious entity cannot be served paperwork. Each state has different laws regarding a registered agent, but to be the Registered Agent of the Kiwi Farms you must be willing to deal with: being swatted, being doxed, having your entire extended family doxed and swatted, having your personal reputation defamed online, and basically all forms of tranny terrorism that are currently being applied to every rung of the Kiwi Farms. This is a tall ask.
- Every LLC needs a business address. This can be a home that an RA lives at, for instance, or it can be an office.
Renting an office is basically out of the question because of the intimidation tactics. Buying a property is out of my financial reach. If someone wants to donate a whole ass building to me, let me know, but I can't afford on one my own.
Some states like West Virginia allow you to use a P.O. Box, but they still require a business address somewhere - it doesn't even say in the US, so theoretically I could list someone as RA, make a P.O. box the delivery address, and list a random virtual office in South Sudan as my place of business. I don't really know, and before you offer a random state, you should look it up.
- The laws of the state will matter for the container.
The Kiwi Farms hosts a lot of unsavory stuff and copyrighted content, always used fairly and for critical purposes which laws have carve outs for. However, I don't really want to fight the state's laws, so not every state is suitable for the LLC.
August 8th, 2023
I've picked a state and have a plan. I'm awaiting something before I can announce our mailing address.
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