HOT
APP
STORIES
QUIZZES
DISCOVER
MEMES
EMOJI
More
CREATE STORIES
DAILY
DISCOVER
PHRASES
NUDGE CLIPS
CONTENT REQUEST
LOGIN
HOT
APP
STORIES
QUIZZES
MEMES
EMOJI
STORY
DAILY
PHRASES
DISCOVER
NUDGE CLIPS
REQUEST CONTENT
×
Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips
I, I, that was where I got it from.
(Fredrick Brennan speaking Filipino)
Brennan: It was, um, man, where was it?
So not all these Qs are actually bought by me.
Filmmaker: I mean, it's a hard place to be.
in a way, by using your platform.
That-- That'd be fuckin' funny."
you can't go three years as 8chan's admin
I'm one of the Q proofs.
It's just high stress, and I don't need a lot of stress.
I got around to asking Jim about Q,
Right. He said he was gonna send a message
Filmmaker: Fred stepped down as 8chan's admin,
They believe Q put the Q
They think that I'm, like, this amazing guy
decided that he needed to sell 4chan.
I, I agreed to be interviewed for this
Filmmaker: From the beginning,
starting from Something Awful.
It's like, wow.
The image in their head does not match my reality.
-Team. -Jim Watkins: I'm a member of the Pen 15 club, too.
with 4chan's anonymous posting, and presto:
And I see myself as
freedom of speech without having to worry about
Now anyone could create a board,
You have to give him a tattoo.
But this is what everybody's really thinking...
You could be directed there
(machine buzzing)
I would say that Jim is not tech savvy at all.
It was the first time in many, many years
Manila was home to the team behind 8chan,
Filmmaker: Around the time Anonymous splintered,
if we talk the way we usually talk.
♪
Has he done anything illegal?
like, one of the most popular things on 8chan and you're, like...
Filmmaker: How would you say you differ from your son?
It's not a place for soft people.
Fred was hesitant.
Brennan: That's true. Yeah.
and move to the Philippines.
And they uninvited us for that purpose.
transformed from there into the alt-right.
Jim Watkins: Ooh, this is my hobby. Yeah.
and Jim ultimately modifies the name
pigs.
I think most of them go away disappointed,
So, it's not true.
Filmmaker: Uh, you're also known as Codemonkey?
If anyone knew who was behind Q,
This new collective borrowed from the tactics of Anonymous,
Most likely, Ronald Watkins knows who Q is.
you know, and it was, like, wow. (laughs)
Filmmaker: And even went after the Federal Reserve.
or type "Q research" into the browser.
uh, was that Reddit banned QAnon.
while sanitizing the darker realities of 8chan.
That all of a sudden,
almost all of my friends have been online friends.
That same pen.
run for president and be Machine Gun Jim.
Users liked to speculate that it was where Jim
-Filmmaker: No. (laughs) -(laughs)
Filmmaker: Um, so is this where you, like, log into 8chan usually?
So this was supposed to be this kind of vision
Oh. Did I say that? No.
It's not listed.
So I've been talking about how...
in my room,
And then their replacements come in,
Filmmaker: After spending several days with Jim,
(speaking Filipino)
We-we can go to the Q board.
Dangerous ideas. That's scary.