Fredrick Brennan

“I was mesmerized. 4chan was nothing like anything I'd ever seen.”

“If I could go back and not create 8chan at all, I probably would.”

“It's really bad sometimes to be crippled in a wheelchair, and it reminds you that you can't fight back when someone's trying to rob you.”

“I didn't spend enough time making friends in real life.”

“I have no desire to ever be involved in the image-board world again.”

“When I started using 4chan heavily, my whole life became about the Internet. And my real life stopped mattering to me.”

“You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're gonna get burned at the stake.”

“If you shut down 4chan, shut down 8chan, you're just pushing it under the rug. Underground, it's just gonna get worse.”

“I guess I'm not very street smart.”

“Behind the keyboard, it doesn't matter that physically my body doesn't work properly.”

“I eat the most unhealthy diet. It's really bad. I wish I had an aide.”

“Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet.”

“Cooking is not really safe for me because a pan of boiling water is about as big as I am, so I have to be really careful when I'm cooking not to spill it on myself.”

“Since the time I resigned, I sometimes wonder whether creating 8chan was a good thing. I sometimes wonder about the things that I said in the past while I was being its admin. Sometimes I think I should have been harder on violent threats. I think maybe I should have worked much harder to improve the moderation systems.”

“All the major discussion sites are owned by large money-grubbing corporations, and their platforms are closed source. It's incredibly toxic.”

“I haven't left the Philippines for many years, I haven't been in the U.S. for six years.”

“Once again, a terrorist used 8chan to spread his message as he knew people would save it and spread it. The board is a receptive audience for domestic terrorists.”

“There is no way I can go back and uncreate 8chan. If I could, I would, but there is no way to do that. So the main way I have dealt with the guilt is to go on the offensive.”

“In the Philippines, it is routine to appeal an indictment to the DOJ, and they routinely quash indictments.”

“Essentially, what QAnon was - what the Q poster was doing - was impersonating a federal agent.”