As many of you know I've always been a bit of an outsider to Reddit culture. I joined Plebbit in 2014 specifically to help coordinate with the GamerGate threads on 4chan/8chan. I like the mods here as people and have no dog in the hunt as to the current controversies regarding bans, etc. However two things that I am are one admin of an nearly 5 year old imageboard site, and a huge advocate of free speech.

What if we set up a /kia/ board on 8chan, and you guys brought the KiA2 contentious topics there instead? I'm not talking about a split (because its content that isn't wanted here, not desirable activity that we'd be trying to "steal"), I'm talking about an official alt chat set up with the blessings of the KiA2 staff and with official links exchanged. The 8chan GG archives are already linked here and we share links to KiA 2 liberally on 8moe already. This would just be taking it one step further, and might be enough to make everyone happy. The mods wouldn't have to deal with certain topics and posting styles, and those users would have a place to come speak their mind and completely avoid the facets of moderation they're upset about, but then come back here for the larger discussions that are more amicable to KiA's usual moods. Each place would be just a click away.

Think of it like this: Some subreddits have official Discords for chat the mods don't want on the public boards, but Discord is for faggots so I'll offer you an official imageboard instead (and let you have the kia name, no "2" unless you want it). 8moe's site rules are super simple: No CP, nothing else illegal, no pedoposting, no Fedposting, no kids allowed, don't spam/hack/bot, and spoiler your lewds. We have none of the "Reddit admin" type shit like actual Reddit has and no unwritten rules, by solemn vow of our moderation admin Mr. Parias. With rules that relaxed and global mods already on deck, any random couple of users can volunteer to mod a /kia/ board and that'd be plenty, and users can post anonymously there if they're worried about any kind of imagined backlash.

I want to stress that this should be an official board. I'm not offering the idea to step on the staff's toes here, and I have zero comment about KiA2 moderation - not my pony and not my show. My sole thought is that fuck knows we've seen too many communities split in the years since GG, and keeping cohesion in what we have left is drastically important. I made a similar offer to KiA once, in the weeks that lead up to the original KiA2 split and I've always felt the community could have stayed together if those guys had taken me up on it.

If you all want to talk it over amongst yourselves and especially with and between the KiA2 staff in this thread and decide if its a good/shit idea, I'm certainly game. It'd take all of ten minutes to set up and might save everyone some headaches.

How would you feel if it was the government trampling on your rights yesterday, instead of the victims being people like me?

But nobody did nothin' to me yesterday.

Could the entire support base of the regime's bullshit really rest on retards with an IQ just too low to understand oppression as a conditional hypothetical? Since "nuthin' bad happened to me yesterday" is that why they excuse all this shit? Because they literally can't understand that it could happen to them later?

Shit man, next year we're gonna be a decade old. Its also wild that you can trace the line of dominoes from us to the exposure of all the current day insanity, one event and regime-double-down at a time.

Apologies for the lack of links, but this has been squeaking out all over the place. Details can be found on Kiwifarms when its up, and some were posted to 8chan.moe a couple days ago. It's a shitshow.

Soyjak was a /b/-tier shitposting site that had a massive dark side. Despite the site often raiding loli boards on other sites and communities to brand lolicons as "pedophiles", it turns out that the admins of the site were running a sophisticated and secretive grooming operation behind the scenes. They would make kid-friendly memes and offer free Robux to entice kids to the site, where the site admins themselves were spamming CP when traffic was up to desensitize the kids to it. Then some were selected and invited into a grooming Discord, where they were pressured and eventually blackmailed into producing CP and cutting themselves. At least one suicide is confirmed but people who knew about it have claimed there were many more that weren't documented. This all got out because of mod chat leaks by a disgruntled member of the pedo group matched up the admins' IP addresses to ones that were all over the logs for CP spam, and people started digging. Come to find out the owner of the site is a gay man in court for child molestation in Tennessee.

They also had raid groups that used abandoned TF2 chat servers to coordinate attacks on streamers, minor e-celebs, and anyone who threatened to expose the group. They sent CP to peoples work emails disguised as spam so it would go unnoticed, and basically "gang-stalked" targets across the Internet. They wouldn't touch the person but would attack any community the target was in whenever the person went there, to make that community become hostile to the target and isolate them. One bragged about "targeting their mental health directly" with this tactic.

There were minor rumbles about all of this back in April, but apparently enough finally got out that it blew up a few days ago and the owner pulled the plug on the site in a panic. He's trying to sell the domain now. Several people in the chan-o-sphere have been noticing a large rise in secretive IRL pedo activity across swaths of the alt-site Internet over the past year, but this is the latest and loudest exposure of it that I'm aware of. Soyjak had been raiding 8chan off and on for months prior to this, notably with some emphasis targeting the GG threads with soyface.jpg and CP spam. All the while claiming that 2D loli art was what they were protesting against.

I'm beginning to think "don't trust anyone who vocally hates anime lolis, because they're guaranteed to be a fucking pedophile" is becoming an iron law. 8chan GG did a quick tally and there's been over 500 such cases just in the last few years, with the infamous Dr. Pizza being just one tiny but well known example.