- Joined
- Jan 9, 2022
"I did not remove a vol's (who sucked up to me much less than all the other vols did) global powers for admitting to participating in a raid, and later admitted in participating in a raid myself,"
The vol in reference was Tryptamine556. The raid in question was the April /pol/'s day raid. Fred didn't just participate in the raid, he started it. The entire raid in question began because Fred had fucked with the moderation on /pol/ so badly by allowing in a vol who began working in bad faith by banning people and try to push a narrative. This led Trypt to vent his frustrations on /int/. People on /int/ began complaining about a lot of the problems with the site and the thread grew pretty quickly. Fred came into an IRC channel I was in and convinced those of us there to go have a little fun on /pol/. The shitposting grew out of control and /pol/ was basically useless for a day leading to massive outcry from most of 8ch. Fred used this as an excuse to remove Trypt. This entire situation lead to /int/ and effectively gave Fred a boogeyman to blame all the sites woes on. If people were complaining he would always deflect back to /int/ and sperg keyboard warriors would run damage control for him. I didn't really think too much about things because I was having so much fun, but years later it is easy to see how we were used like tools by Fred so that he didn't have to face repercussions for removing vols and board owners. With smaller boards he would just take them from the board owner and give it to his internet friends.
They were some halcyon days though. Those first couple of years of 8ch were the most fun I ever had on the internet.