Inside the history of Kiwi Farms, the controversial forum invented to troll Chris Chan years before she was arrested on an incest charge

Kiwi Farms, the forum that has been linked to 3 suicides, was made to troll Chris Chan years before she was arrested on an incest charge

Kiwi Farms originated as a forum dedicated to Chris Chan — who was arrested Sunday on an incest charge — before the site rebranded in 2015.

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Kiwi Farms, an image-sharing website and forum where users discuss online personalities, describes itself on its homepage as a "community dedicated to discussing eccentric people who voluntarily make fools of themselves."

But the internet forum was initially launched in 2009 as an imageboard called CWCiki to catalog the online history of Christine Weston Chandler, who is also known as "Chris Chan" or "Sonichu" online.

Chandler was arrested on Sunday and charged with incest two days after an audio recording originally posted on Kiwi Farms purported to include Chandler discussing raping her mother, as Insider previously reported.

According to New York Magazine, CWCiki began after people trolled Chandler since her homemade "Sonichu" drawings and comics started to go viral among communities on 4chan, an imageboard popular on the far-right. It was founded when Chandler was added to the "troll archive" Encyclopedia Dramatica, New York Magazine reported.


CWCiki users built up an archive of what New York Magazine called "every drawing, video blog, tweet, Facebook post, eBay listing, Etsy item, and PSN purchase Chandler [has made]" since its launch in 2009.

In addition to archiving and documenting Chandler's digital footprint, CWCiki users played an active role in hacking and leakingChandler's personal details and taking photos and recordings of Chandler, New York Magazine reported.

According to KnowYourMeme, the site was renamed Kiwi Farms in February 2015. This renaming came after the site shifted focus from not just discussing Chandler, but any online figure or personality that users classify as "lolcows" — in other words, people who could be "milked for laughs," usually without their knowledge or awareness.


Still, documentation of Chandler's life continues to have a major presence on Kiwi Farms.

Here's how the platform got started.

Kiwi Farms has been run by Joshua 'Null' Moon since 2013​

Although there is no known founder for the initial CWCiki site, Joshua Moon, who goes by the name "Null" online, started hosting the site in 2013 before transforming it into Kiwi Farms two years later.

Moon is colloquially referred to by CWCiki moderators as one of Chandler's "Guard Dogs," with them noting how he often tries to help Chandler. Most recently, it is alleged that Moon launched a GoFundMe to help Chan attend a convention.

Posting on his admin account as "Null," Moon said in a Kiwi Farms post on July 31 that he was cutting off contact with Chandler.

Moon did not respond to inquiries from Insider.

Three people identified as 'lolcows' on Kiwi Farms have died by suicide​

Between 2016 and 2021, at least three suicides were linked to Kiwi Farms.

Friends of indie game developer Chloe Sagal, who took her own life in June 2018, told Oregon Live that she had been subject to harassment by Kiwi Farms users after it was revealed in 2013 that a crowdfunding campaign Sagal claimed was for metal poisoning was actually for sexual reassignment surgery.

The death of Julie Terryberry, who took her own life in 2o16, has been linked to Kiwi Farms by news outlets like Vice and Gizmodo.According to Vice, Terryberry was targeted by Kiwi Farms users prior to taking her own life due to her polyamory and appearance.

On June 27, a software developer posted a Twitter thread accusing Kiwi Farms of "making the harassment orders of magnitude worse. It's escalated from attacking me for being autistic to attacking and doxing my friends, and trying to suicide bait another, just to get a reaction from me."

It was later reported by USA Today that Near had taken their own life. Moon, the founder of Kiwi Farms, later posted a statement on the site denying responsibility for the death.

Vice reported on July 13 that Kiwi Farms had lost its domain registrar, with DreamHost allegedly giving the site fourteen days to find a new home. The site then moved to a Russian domain before finding a new US-based one, but remains live.

Kiwi Farms was also linked to the 2019 Christchurch terror attack​

Brenton Harris Tarrant, the shooter who opened fire on dozens of worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019, allegedly posted on Kiwi Farms before carrying out the attacks.

The New Zealand Herald reported that police asked Moon to turn over all posts by Tarrant, but he declined to release the records.

Moon did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.


Archive.

 

[EepEep]

All that information about Chris at their very finger tips and they still fucking miss the mark and report on irrelevant shit.

 

[Meat Target]

Hit piece on Kiwifarms again, doesn't even mention couch cuck - it's almost like journofilth can't do basic research.

Or is this solely to take another jab at us DAMN, DIRTY KIWIS, after the whole Byuu debacle?

Either Twitter troons are REALLY gunning for us, or journovermin really need more scaremongering clickbait about a vast conspiracy of shitlords.

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Journovermin, if you're reading this: I hope you spill your Starbuck's on your laptop.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Moon is colloquially referred to by CWCiki moderators as one of Chandler's "Guard Dogs," with them noting how he often tries to help Chandler. Most recently, it is alleged that Moon launched a GoFundMe to help Chan attend a convention.

Posting on his admin account as "Null," Moon said in a Kiwi Farms post on July 31 that he was cutting off contact with Chandler.

Moon did not respond to inquiries from Insider.

I know not to expect much from journos, but this shit is so lazy. There is so much meat here they could have dug into, but nah just give watered down cliff notes instead.

 

[winterfag]

WE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

At least this journo managed to dig past the first inch of topsoil and discovered the CWCki. That's more than you can say for almost everyone else writing about this debacle, whose "journalism" seems to consist of reading the first paragraph of the Rationalwiki article.

Since we're on the topic, I've never found this out. Who was it who actually used to mispronounce CWCki forums as "kiwi farms"? Was it Chris himself?

 

[winterfag]

Since we're on the topic, I've never found this out. Who was it who actually used to mispronounce CWCki forums as "kiwi farms"? Was it Chris himself?

pretty sure it was , but he was probably making fun of mushmouths that couldn't pronounce CWCki without tripping themselves

EDIT: hah, looks like I was close enough!

 

[Meat Target]

Since we're on the topic, I've never found this out. Who was it who actually used to mispronounce CWCki forums as "kiwi farms"? Was it Chris himself?

pretty sure it was , but he was probably making fun of mushmouths that couldn't pronounce CWCki without tripping themselves

According to this thread, a cow named Jace Connors.

 

[Blamo]

Not a single person, much less here, told Chris to sodomize his mother.

I think most users would have specifically asked for the opposite of that. In fact if most lolcows listened to the criticism given here, they could actually get their life together. Like crowd funded support group pointing out your obvious flaws. How wholesome is that?

 

[MediocreMilt]

Imagine working for a publication called Insider and failing to make an account here to snoop around. Much inside info.

 

[HeyYou]

Remember guys, if you use the word "allegedly", you can post whatever bullshit you want as a journalist.

 

[Wingnut]

I think most users would have specifically asked for the opposite of that. In fact if most lolcows listened to the criticism given here, they could actually get their life together. Like crowd funded support group pointing out your obvious flaws. How wholesome is that?

That would require the dregs of society that people like this journoswine use as shields would have to get their act together and actually contribute to society.
You can't have a convenient excuse to silence your opposition or push your agenda just disappear like that.

 

[tehpope]

As an old ass fag, no, we don't kill people. Chole emolated herself on her own. due to getting kicked out of their living situation.
Julie Terryberry idk. But positive her thread was dead as shit before they died.
Near same thing. If near is even fucking dead. but that's a whole nother can of worms.
The Christchurch shooter was never a member of the farms. He posted his livestream on Facebook. Was reposted to 8chan. 8chan kept taking it down. Then Null made a torrent of it and hosted the file here.

All we do here is monitor excentric people who are terminally online or post their shit in public. We don't condome harrassment. We basically follow the Prime Directive. Don't pozload my neghole or play kick the autistic.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

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The headline is instantly contradicted not only by the rules but by an early line:
But the internet forum was initially launched in 2009 as an imageboard called CWCiki to catalog the online history of Christine Weston Chandler, who is also known as "Chris Chan" or "Sonichu" online.

Nothing in the article states KF'ers troll Chris. I would say that is some kind of ethics but then she lies about the troon suicides and proves she is without the slightest honor.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Yeah, she can simply do a flip at this point.

 

[Reverend]

When can we start blaming this on HotWheels instead?

 

[Pentex]

Don't you monsters know that laughing at autists and trannies is practically the same as rounding them up in a ditch and gunning them down, Stalin-style?

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

3 suicides, one for calling a tranny out for a scam, i didnt follow the other, and the last is for a suicide with zero proof yet.

Terryberry was a pretty sad one.

She was young, naive and obviously had mental issues. She was stuck in a relationship with a violent manipulative piece of shit who would beat the fuck out of her and convince her it was a fetish. He’d also cheat on her. Her family didn’t seem to give much of a fuck about her either.

As I recall, a lot of the posters in that thread seemed to be somewhat sympathetic to her (Of course, if you post pictures of your butthole on the Internet, you’re also going to get some criticism).

Yeah, we talked about her, but there weren’t any weens trolling her.

But the reason she did herself in wasn’t us, it was her piece of shit boyfriend and her utterly worthless family. That girl needed help and she was surrounded by people who either abused her or were apathetic about her well being.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Nothing but lies ind misinformation. If they did liek the most base research they could actually find the history of the site but they just go "SITE BAD HARASS TRANS WOMYN CRISTINE AND ALSO WAS ALLIED WITH CHRISTCHURCH NZ SHOOTER" Like FUCKING HELL this bitch is scum for framing everyone here as involved in a facebook endorsed terrorist attack.

 

[make_it_so]

Imagine working for a publication called Insider and failing to make an account here to snoop around. Much inside info.

That would require actual work. Most modern "journalists" don't want to work. They want to browse tweets and string them together to make an article then call it a day.

 

[Knight of the Rope]

Hit piece on Kiwifarms again, doesn't even mention couch cuck - it's almost like journofilth can't do basic research.

I think they confused couch cuck (aka @FuckYou) with Tarrant. She claims that the New Zealand police asked Dear Feeder to turn over Tarrant's information, but that's bullshit because Tarrant didn't post here. What in fact happened is that they asked Null to turn over @fag0t's information because fag0t posted the manifesto here and the timing of the post was kind of 'suspicious' (if you're an 80-IQ police officer working in a worthless meme country that doesn't understand how timezones work).

ETA: Disregard, I'm a faggot. That was the Halle shooting (it was a grand jury subpoena backed by a real country's state power and Null complied with it). The New Zealand shit was where the police wanted Null to remove the video and also give them IP information on anyone commenting/liking posts in the Tarrant watch thread, and Null rightfully told them to get fucked. Apologies for the mistake (#notajournalist, so it's actually embarrassing for me to make amateur mistakes like this, rather than part of the job description).