Fredrick Brennan

This article is about the software developer. For the screenwriter, see Frederick Hazlitt Brennan.

Fredrick Brennan
Fredrick Brennan, holding a piece of paper with the handwritten text: "9/5/2019 08:00 UTC+8 Hispachan ñ ¡Pregúntame lo que quieras!"
Brennan in 2019, for identity verification on Hispachan
Born (1994-02-21) February 21, 1994 (age 30)[1]
Albany, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Other names"Copypaste"[2]
Occupation(s)Software developer, type designer
Known forFounder of 8chan

Fredrick Robert Brennan (born February 21, 1994) is an American software developer and type designer who founded the imageboard website 8chan in 2013, before going on to repudiate it in 2019. Following 8chan's surge in popularity in 2014, largely due to many Gamergate proponents migrating to the site from 4chan, Brennan moved to the Philippines to work for Jim Watkins, who provided hosting services to 8chan and later became the site's owner.

Brennan cut ties with 8chan in 2016 and with Watkins in 2018. Brennan has since become an outspoken critic of both 8chan and Watkins, and has actively battled to try to take 8chan offline. Brennan is also an outspoken critic of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which centers on 8chan posts by an anonymous figure named "Q", and Brennan has researched who may be behind the Q identity.

  1. ^ Fredrick Brennan [@fr_brennan] (February 21, 2021). "I'm 27!..." (Tweet) – via Twitter. Archived URL
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).