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• Medical transition works
== 2013 ==
October 22 - copypaste creates 8chan, inspired by STI's (of Tinyboard and 4chon fame) refusal to create new boards when the users wanted them.


• ⁠80% of individuals reported significant improvement in dysphoria
October 23 - First board is created. /albertross/ (dead)


Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19473181/
Probably this year - First and second migrations as laid out by copypaste here >>>/b/1360579. Lowcard becomes a global volunteer.


• ⁠78% of individuals reported significant improvement in psychological symptoms
== 2014 ==
February 22 - /waifuist/ is created by refugees from /tv/ after the mods cracked down on inane posts.


Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19473181/
June 9 - /legion/ is founded by /co/ refugees.


• ⁠72% of individuals reported significant improvement in sexual function
2 September - Fifth migration/"First Exodus", after Five Guys (not yet Gamergate) is banned on /v/. /burgers/ is created, but sparsely populated as of yet.


Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19473181/
September 18 - moot goes full retard and makes the "4chan is not about free speech" sticky on /v/. People repulsed by this flock to 8chan's /v/, which remains one of the fastest boards on the site.


• ⁠Positive results across the board, even in 15-year followups
September 19 - "Fuck it, We're Out" propaganda images are spammed on 4chan encouraging people to leave for 8chan by 10 October.


Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19473181/
September 20 - Hotwheels upgrades the servers four times in a day to accommodate for the massive surge of traffic.


• ⁠"Wellbeing was similar to or better than same-age young adults from the general population."
September 22 - Hotwheels announces a partnership with 2ch.net, the largest japanese textboard on the internet.


Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25201798/
Late September - Hotwheels invented as a nickname for copypaste AKA Fredrick Brennan.


• ⁠Quality of life rises dramatically with 'gender-affirming treatment
October 10 - Some people have left. 8chan gets a sizable number of migrants from /b/.


Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223813/
October 16 - 8archive is opened by Drybones.


• ⁠Long-term follow-ups:
October 20 - 8chan taken down by a DDoS attack. Promptly brought back up.


https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(15)32422-X/fulltext
October 23 - Rei (零, types LIKE THIS) migrates to 8chan, and is subsequently banned from all boards that he frequents. He takes to whining on /meta/, and subsequently creates /politik/ as a replacement.


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-014-0453-5
October 26 - A shitstorm erupts over /fem/, with anons demanding that Hotwheels remove it from the header. He agrees, and blacklists several other boards including /hebe/, /furry/, and /cuteboys/. He later goes back on this decision, deciding that it is not in the spirit of free speech or the site.


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-009-9551-1
October 28 - Hotwheels moves to the Philippines to work with 2ch.


https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-014-0300-8
November 8 - /pol/ style flags added.


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9031580/
November 24 - DoS attack via search.php brings down 8chan for a few hours.


• ⁠"Shown to correlate with improved psychological functioning"
Late November - Anon makes a thread on /meta/ asking why moderator notes were visible across boards. Hothweels removes the feature entirely and hashes IP addresses to prevent any further potential for abuse.


Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054139X1630146X
December 1 - /gg/ is given back to Niko_of_Death. Users immediately revolt. /gg/ is completely destroyed by high power shitposting and /gamergate/ becomes the replacement board. This is the largest board exodus in 8chan history.


• ⁠Levels of depression and anxiety which closely matched levels reported by cisgender children
December 7 - "Second Exodus", following moot's destruction/funpostization of /pol/.


Source: https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567%2816%2931941-4/fulltext
December 8 - Ponyfags steal both the 1M get and 999999 get on /b/. /b/ raids MLPchan in retaliation.


• ⁠Puberty blockers are safe and reversible
December 10 - Foxworth posts on /b/ for the first time, with a Blender screenshot of his character and 3D text reading "Sup 8chan". He will grow to become one of 8chan's most profitable lolcows.


• ⁠Hormone blockers are the only treatment used on adolescents and are completely reversible.
December 12 - Following a wave of "muh shills" bans on /pol/ and binary-encoded bait being posted by one of the volunteers, Hotwheels nationalizes the board. He later creates /news+/ and returns /pol/ to its original owners.


Source: https://assets2.hrc.org/files/documents/SupportingCaringforTransChildren.pdf
December 25 - Three sticky threads for Christmas, wishing Hotwheels, 8chan, and fellow anons a merry Christmas.


• ⁠"Does not support an adverse impact of gender-affirming hormone therapy on cognitive performance"
December 27 - /baphomet/ is created as an edgier alternative to /b/ with "less cancer".


Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453020301402?via%3Dihub
December 28 - 8chan goes down for a server move.  


• ⁠"Our results suggest there are no detrimental effects of GNRHA on EF"


Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306453015000943
== 2015 ==
January 8 - 8chan gets hit with a DDoS instigated by srhbutts and Dan Olson unknown SJWs, using LizardStresser. This attack brings down the entire 2ch network for over 7 days.


• ⁠"Relives [sic] distress for trans adolescents" "Is reversible"
January 9 - Hotwheels creates Weekendchan as an 8chan substitute while doing upgrades to mitigate the DDoS. It is promptly raided by anons from Ylilauta, who spam dicks on /b/. They are repelled by an animu counter-spammer.


Source: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558
January 10 - 8chan comes back online with few interruptions.  


• ⁠"Poorer psychological well-being before treatment"
January 12 - SJWs go to Cloudflare and Internet.bs, 8chan's domain registrar, with CP claims. Cloudflare doesn't give a fuck and automatically reveals who sent said claims, but I.bs shits itself and suspends 8chan.co. 8chan moves, temporarily, to 8ch.net. /baphomet/ has a field day and doxxes the bullshit claimants.


Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054139X20300276
January 13 - Hotwheels gets the 8chan.co domain back, but has warmed to 8ch.net. The domain move is now permanent.


• ⁠"Behavioral and emotional problems and depressive symptoms decreased"
February 8 - >>>/baphomet/ is unlisted from the board list after being wiped for the third time, this time by a compromised volunteer account.


Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609515336171
February 11 - Law and Order SVU airs an episode loosely based on gamergate that features a site called "redchanit" (a mashup of reddit and 4chan/8chan.) that is used to harass an innocent fictional female game developer. The board >>>/redchanit/ is created and a CSS based off of it's appearance in the show is added to the CSS list. Hotwheels buys the domain redchan.it and has it redirect to the board.


• ⁠Hormones blockers are not new: "Since the mid 1990s..." "The Royal College of Psychiatrists, in 1998..."
February 12 - A user on >>>/baphomet/ reposts the dox and SSID of a federal judge. The post was removed by the global administration for being illegal in the United States.


Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26895269.2020.1747768
February 16 - >>>/operate/ is created by hotwheels as a replacement for >>>/meta/ due to intense tripfag cancer and shitposting.


• ⁠Many more studies:
May 10 - Jawsh (Aka Null of KiwiFarms) begins development of InfinityNext as a replacement for 8chan's Vichan forkMay 10 - Jawsh (Aka Null of KiwiFarms) begins development of InfinityNext as a replacement for 8chan's Vichan fork


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073269/
== 2019 ==
February 26 - THQNordic gives a [https://web.archive.org/web/20190805065608/https://8ch.net/v/res/16165791.html Q&A on /v/.]


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsm.13034
March - Growing frustration with board owner of >>>/b/ Dysnomia triggers exodus to >>>/b2/ owned by Tybb


https://jme.bmj.com/content/34/8/580
July 21 - Bling Bling Goy appears on >>>/b/ posting an audio clip calling for 'namefag revolution' on /b/


https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/842073
August 3 - El Paso shooting occurs after a manifesto was posted on >>>/pol/


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29551430/
August 4 - Hotwheels voices regret at creating 8chan in a Vice interview


https://ijpeonline.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1155/2010/398639.pdf
August 5 - 8chan is kicked off their domain registrar, it was still available over TOR and via connecting to the IP directly but bugs meant these versions were read-only


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303720706001766
August 6 - Jim Watkins releases a video on his YouTube channel Watkins Xerxes entitled "Sorry for the inconvenience, common sense will prevail" stating his dismay at the El Paso shooting


https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/95/1/109/2835177
November 2 - 8kun is launched although connection is spotty as Ron aka CodeMonkey is still setting things up
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1517382/
 
https://europepmc.org/article/med/24719967
 
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/trgh.2015.0008
 
• ⁠Puberty blockers aren't harmful to bone density
 
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/842073
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469959/
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616494/
 
• ⁠Puberty blockers don't cause osteoporosis or sterility
 
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/84/12/4583/2864749
 
• ⁠Transphobia is real
 
https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/eu-lgbt-survey-results-at-a-glance_en.pdf
 
https://www.totaljobs.com/advice/wp-content/uploads/Transgender-employee-experiences-survey-report-2016_Totaljobs.pdf
 
• ⁠46% felt discriminated against or harassed within the past year for being trans
 
• ⁠29% felt discriminated against when it came to looking for employment
 
• ⁠70% hid being trans during schooling before becoming 18 years old
 
• ⁠55% had an incident of violence within the past year in part or whole because of them being trans
 
• ⁠The ~40-50% suicide rate is fake, it's the attempt rate
 
https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/resources/NTDS_Report.pdf
 
• ⁠The suicide rate is undocumented.
 
• ⁠Discrimination is harmful
 
• ⁠The attempt rate rises for people who:
 
⁠• ⁠Lost a job due to bias (55%)
 
⁠• ⁠Were harassed/bullied in school (51%)
 
⁠• ⁠Had low household income
 
⁠• ⁠Were the victim of physical assault (61%)
 
⁠• ⁠Were the victim of sexual assault (64%)
 
https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/resources/NTDS_Report.pdf
 
• ⁠Other factors include:
 
⁠• ⁠Gender-based victimization
 
⁠• ⁠Discrimination
 
⁠• ⁠Bullying
 
⁠• ⁠Violence
 
⁠• ⁠Being rejected by the family, friends, and the community
 
⁠• ⁠Harassment by intimate partner, family members, police and public
 
⁠• ⁠Discrimination and ill-treatment at health-care system
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178031/
 
• ⁠Many more studies
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905855/
 
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/suicidality-transgender-adults/
 
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Suicidality-Transgender-Sep-2019.pdf
 
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/lgbt.2015.0111
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6798808/
 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2011.534038
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808281/
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17135115/
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26866637/
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4716648/
 
• ⁠Social/familial support helps: it can decrease the likelihood of a suicide attempt 57% -> 4%
 
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/3/e20153223
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996383/
 
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2.pdf
 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609516301734
 
• ⁠Chosen name/pronoun use does the same:
 
https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(18)30085-5/fulltext#intraref0010a
 
⁠• ⁠71% drop in severe depression
 
⁠• ⁠34% drop [sic] suicidal ideation
 
⁠• ⁠65% drop in suicide attempts
 
• ⁠These institutions and organizations back these results:
 
⁠• ⁠American Psychological Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Medical Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Psychoanalytic Association
 
⁠• ⁠Humans Rights Campaign
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Pediatrics
 
⁠• ⁠American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians
 
⁠• ⁠Royal College of Psychiatrists
 
⁠• ⁠United Nations
 
⁠• ⁠United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS)
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Dermatology
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Family Physicians
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Nursing
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Pediatrics
 
⁠• ⁠American Academy of Physician Assistants
 
⁠• ⁠American College Health Association
 
⁠• ⁠American College of Nurse-Midwives
 
⁠• ⁠American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
 
⁠• ⁠American College of Physicians
 
⁠• ⁠American Counseling Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Heart Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Medical Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Medical Student Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Nurses Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Osteopathic Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Psychiatric Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Psychological Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Public Health Association
 
⁠• ⁠American Society of Plastic Surgeons
 
⁠• ⁠Endocrine Society
 
⁠• ⁠GLMA
 
⁠• ⁠National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health
 
⁠• ⁠National Association of Social Workers
 
⁠• ⁠National Commission on Correctional Healthcare
 
⁠• ⁠Pediatric Endocrine Society
 
⁠• ⁠Society for Adolescent Help and Medecine
 
⁠• ⁠World Medical Association
 
⁠• ⁠World Professional Association for Transgender Health
 
⁠• ⁠World Health Organization (WHO)
 
⁠• ⁠Stanford Medical
 
⁠• ⁠American Pediatrics Association
 
⁠• ⁠National Institutes of Health
 
⁠• ⁠Canadian Institute of Health Research
 
⁠• ⁠Scientific American

Revision as of 20:27, 15 March 2023

2013

October 22 - copypaste creates 8chan, inspired by STI's (of Tinyboard and 4chon fame) refusal to create new boards when the users wanted them.

October 23 - First board is created. /albertross/ (dead)

Probably this year - First and second migrations as laid out by copypaste here >>>/b/1360579. Lowcard becomes a global volunteer.

2014

February 22 - /waifuist/ is created by refugees from /tv/ after the mods cracked down on inane posts.

June 9 - /legion/ is founded by /co/ refugees.

2 September - Fifth migration/"First Exodus", after Five Guys (not yet Gamergate) is banned on /v/. /burgers/ is created, but sparsely populated as of yet.

September 18 - moot goes full retard and makes the "4chan is not about free speech" sticky on /v/. People repulsed by this flock to 8chan's /v/, which remains one of the fastest boards on the site.

September 19 - "Fuck it, We're Out" propaganda images are spammed on 4chan encouraging people to leave for 8chan by 10 October.

September 20 - Hotwheels upgrades the servers four times in a day to accommodate for the massive surge of traffic.

September 22 - Hotwheels announces a partnership with 2ch.net, the largest japanese textboard on the internet.

Late September - Hotwheels invented as a nickname for copypaste AKA Fredrick Brennan.

October 10 - Some people have left. 8chan gets a sizable number of migrants from /b/.

October 16 - 8archive is opened by Drybones.

October 20 - 8chan taken down by a DDoS attack. Promptly brought back up.

October 23 - Rei (零, types LIKE THIS) migrates to 8chan, and is subsequently banned from all boards that he frequents. He takes to whining on /meta/, and subsequently creates /politik/ as a replacement.

October 26 - A shitstorm erupts over /fem/, with anons demanding that Hotwheels remove it from the header. He agrees, and blacklists several other boards including /hebe/, /furry/, and /cuteboys/. He later goes back on this decision, deciding that it is not in the spirit of free speech or the site.

October 28 - Hotwheels moves to the Philippines to work with 2ch.

November 8 - /pol/ style flags added.

November 24 - DoS attack via search.php brings down 8chan for a few hours.

Late November - Anon makes a thread on /meta/ asking why moderator notes were visible across boards. Hothweels removes the feature entirely and hashes IP addresses to prevent any further potential for abuse.

December 1 - /gg/ is given back to Niko_of_Death. Users immediately revolt. /gg/ is completely destroyed by high power shitposting and /gamergate/ becomes the replacement board. This is the largest board exodus in 8chan history.

December 7 - "Second Exodus", following moot's destruction/funpostization of /pol/.

December 8 - Ponyfags steal both the 1M get and 999999 get on /b/. /b/ raids MLPchan in retaliation.

December 10 - Foxworth posts on /b/ for the first time, with a Blender screenshot of his character and 3D text reading "Sup 8chan". He will grow to become one of 8chan's most profitable lolcows.

December 12 - Following a wave of "muh shills" bans on /pol/ and binary-encoded bait being posted by one of the volunteers, Hotwheels nationalizes the board. He later creates /news+/ and returns /pol/ to its original owners.

December 25 - Three sticky threads for Christmas, wishing Hotwheels, 8chan, and fellow anons a merry Christmas.

December 27 - /baphomet/ is created as an edgier alternative to /b/ with "less cancer".

December 28 - 8chan goes down for a server move.


2015

January 8 - 8chan gets hit with a DDoS instigated by srhbutts and Dan Olson unknown SJWs, using LizardStresser. This attack brings down the entire 2ch network for over 7 days.

January 9 - Hotwheels creates Weekendchan as an 8chan substitute while doing upgrades to mitigate the DDoS. It is promptly raided by anons from Ylilauta, who spam dicks on /b/. They are repelled by an animu counter-spammer.

January 10 - 8chan comes back online with few interruptions.

January 12 - SJWs go to Cloudflare and Internet.bs, 8chan's domain registrar, with CP claims. Cloudflare doesn't give a fuck and automatically reveals who sent said claims, but I.bs shits itself and suspends 8chan.co. 8chan moves, temporarily, to 8ch.net. /baphomet/ has a field day and doxxes the bullshit claimants.

January 13 - Hotwheels gets the 8chan.co domain back, but has warmed to 8ch.net. The domain move is now permanent.

February 8 - >>>/baphomet/ is unlisted from the board list after being wiped for the third time, this time by a compromised volunteer account.

February 11 - Law and Order SVU airs an episode loosely based on gamergate that features a site called "redchanit" (a mashup of reddit and 4chan/8chan.) that is used to harass an innocent fictional female game developer. The board >>>/redchanit/ is created and a CSS based off of it's appearance in the show is added to the CSS list. Hotwheels buys the domain redchan.it and has it redirect to the board.

February 12 - A user on >>>/baphomet/ reposts the dox and SSID of a federal judge. The post was removed by the global administration for being illegal in the United States.

February 16 - >>>/operate/ is created by hotwheels as a replacement for >>>/meta/ due to intense tripfag cancer and shitposting.

May 10 - Jawsh (Aka Null of KiwiFarms) begins development of InfinityNext as a replacement for 8chan's Vichan forkMay 10 - Jawsh (Aka Null of KiwiFarms) begins development of InfinityNext as a replacement for 8chan's Vichan fork

2019

February 26 - THQNordic gives a Q&A on /v/.

March - Growing frustration with board owner of >>>/b/ Dysnomia triggers exodus to >>>/b2/ owned by Tybb

July 21 - Bling Bling Goy appears on >>>/b/ posting an audio clip calling for 'namefag revolution' on /b/

August 3 - El Paso shooting occurs after a manifesto was posted on >>>/pol/

August 4 - Hotwheels voices regret at creating 8chan in a Vice interview

August 5 - 8chan is kicked off their domain registrar, it was still available over TOR and via connecting to the IP directly but bugs meant these versions were read-only

August 6 - Jim Watkins releases a video on his YouTube channel Watkins Xerxes entitled "Sorry for the inconvenience, common sense will prevail" stating his dismay at the El Paso shooting

November 2 - 8kun is launched although connection is spotty as Ron aka CodeMonkey is still setting things up