Fredrick Brennan

Fredrick Brennan, also known as Hotwheels, Copypaste or Cripplejew, was an American software developer, former admin of 8chan and Wizardchan, font designer, Wikipedia editor, and a primary figure turned critic of right-wing politics. He was not a lifelong incel, as he eventually had sex with a female weeaboo. He was also a critic of various "pill" ideologies that were initially popularized on PSL forums.

He had multiple female romantic relationships, and was subject to abuse within them, including being locked in rooms and a partner threatening to kill him. His last romantic relationship was with his caretaker, Jay.

Fredrick died of unknown causes at 31 years old on January 10th 2026. According to his boyfriend, he died in his sleep.

Personal life

Fredrick grew up with his brother Nicholas, both of whom had Brittle Bones disease. According to his father, Fredrick wasn't a candidate for bone corrective surgery due to the severity of his brittle bones disease. Also, according to his father, Fredrick had fired an aid worker which prompted the father to place Fredrick in foster care, due to not being able to take care of him without an aide. Fredrick had used computers from a young age. Later in life, Fredrick allegedly harbored resentment towards his father.

Confined to a wheelchair, Fredrick experienced limited mobility, resulting in a hypothermia episode during travel. His bone disease resulted in over 120 broken bones by the time he was 19. He eventually became dependent on opioid pain medication, and switched to methadone to taper off shortly before his death.

Fredrick began earning money in his teens by developing software and websites.

Wikipedia

Fredrick took up a late interest in contributing to Wikipedia and had friendly and personal connections to various "nuclear" Wikipedia administrators. He created articles on a wide range of subjects including foreign politicians, playrights, and personality traits. He edited Wikipedia for 9 years from 2016 to three months before his death. His account was eventually globally locked due to being deceased.

Software

Throughout his life and no matter his political orientation at the moment, he criticized people who claimed cryptocurrency was a fad. He had a long-lasting affinity for privacy oriented cryptocurrency like Monero. Fredrick also had enthusiasm for many other open-source software projects. Among the last projects he contributed to included the 'Kitty' terminal emulator and various font rendering projects. Fredrick made dramatically less public software contributions the last three years of his life. His last partner attributes this to resignation over the strides made by AI in code generation, and claimed that Fredrick was looking for new types of hobbies and work as a result, while still maintaining software as a private hobby. Fredrick's main hobby for most of his life was digital typography, and his favorite letter was, "Q".

He also considered himself a 'furry' and was a proud Christian. His last known internet posts before his death included commentary on fringe Buddhist practices like self-immolation, commenting that he hopes heaven wouldn't 'misrepresent' Buddhist self-immolation as suicide.

Internet laws

Frederick once stated that, paraphrased, "the attitude many have of treating the internet as a lawless place, a place where all laws stop as soon as you plug in the ethernet cable, will soon not be possible". He had brainstormed a possible United Nations intervention in the internet to resolve issues about cyberwars between nation states and establishing an easier to follow legal code for the internet.

He has stated that taking a 'hands-off' approach to websites in the USA is impossible, because, paraphrased, "due to how the US is set up, the law constantly changes in the USA, even during court cases, and you can find yourself apart of the next new legal change as a losing defendant". He has stated that admins need to always take a cautious approach by default because of this (and other reasons). He criticized the man who inherited 8chan for poor adminship decisions which led to the destruction of 8chan.

Beliefs

• "Alpha, beta, gamma, delta" and associated dominance hierarchy language is "astrology for men"
• COVID-19 is very dangerous
• Anonymous chan boards failed in their mission to be a wisdom-of-the-masses, or a vehicle for positive social change. (A view also shared by Angela Nagle)
• Bush, Clinton and Obama were murderers and Trump engages in genocide

Modern incel forums and Fredrick

An admin of incels.co recently criticized the change in public ideology Frederick has done. Frederick responded by saying that incels.co focuses too much on facial bones and thus he does not care what they have to say. The admin of yourenotalone.co and former admin of this wiki, who is much more sympathetic to Brennan, suggested a lefty incel chan site for Frederick called https://9chan.tw/leftcel/ as Frederick had expressed admiration for bunkerchan and leftypol. Although Brennan has suggested he would only post on Bunkerchan if they put in a Christian board, and he would post as anonymous.

Legal battles

He was engaged in a legal battle with a right-wing hypocrite boomer who inherited 8chan and oversaw it's entire demise. Basically Brennan called the dude 'senile', and the dude proceeded to have a meltdown by filing a legal complaint of 'cyberlibel' in the Phillipines. The man he transferred 8chan to was basically upset over Fredrick exercising what would be and is legally protected free speech in the USA. Brennan has stated that if this man was successful in putting him in jail in the Philippines over words, he likely would have died. A few 8channers have criticized Brennan of not recognizing free-speech, totally ignoring that the man who was his successor that they are implicitly defending was trying to put a man with brittle bones disease in a Philippines jail over a simple insult.

See also

• Wizchan

External links

• His Reddit AmA