īrennan later became a Christian and ceased to believe in encouraging sterilization. Brennan developed a hatred of his parents for his life of constant pain, stating in an interview for Tortoise Media in 2019, 'I don't want to speak for everybody with a disability, but I hate being disabled and I always have'. In the article, Brennan states that only The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi website, would agree to publish it. īrennan wrote an article in 2014 supporting the voluntary sterilization of people with similar severe inheritable genetic conditions. RazorClicks began a donation campaign to help gather the remaining funds for a new wheelchair $15,000 USD ($18,542 in 2022 dollars ) was raised in two months. He received a personal apology from New York City Police Commissioner, William J. When the suspect was arrested, Brennan went to the police station for a lineup, but when a bus did not come on the way back, he was left stranded in the snow and later had to be treated for hypothermia. In January 2014, Brennan was robbed of almost $5,000 ($6,181 in 2022 dollars ) that he was saving up for a new wheelchair. After graduating high school, he chose not to attend college. He then lived with his mother until he was 18. He and his siblings were in his father's custody until Brennan was 14, when they were placed into the New York State foster care system, where Brennan remained until he was 16 while his mother went through the legal proceedings to regain custody. His parents divorced when Brennan was five years old. Brennan comes from a multi-generational family with osteogenesis imperfecta, and his mother has the same condition. He estimates he had broken bones 120 times by the time he was 19. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as brittle bone disease, which stunted his growth and requires him to use a wheelchair. 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.įredrick Brennan was born on February 21, 1994, in Albany, New York. Brennan has since become an outspoken critic of both 8chan and Watkins, and has actively battled to try to take 8chan offline.

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.īrennan cut ties with 8chan in 2016 and with Watkins in 2018.

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.

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