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'''Wizchan''' is a website focused on [[wizardry]]. It is the successor of '''Wizardchan'''. A [[wizard|'wizard']] in the [[incelosphere]] refers to a joke which describes how an adult [[Men|male]] [[virgin]] transforms into a wizard with magical powers after age 30. | '''Wizchan''' is a website focused on [[wizardry]]. It is the successor of '''Wizardchan'''. A [[wizard|'wizard']] in the [[incelosphere]] refers to a joke which describes how an adult [[Men|male]] [[virgin]] transforms into a wizard with magical powers after age 30. | ||
Wizardchan was a website created by someone named "Mr.Pacific".<ref>[https://kiwifarms.net/threads/wizardchan-admin-faq.3478/page-3 Wizardchan Admin FAQ -] </ref> The most famous admin of Wizardchan was [[Fredrick Brennan]] aka "hotwheels" or "Copypasta", who later went on to create [[8chan]]. Wizardchan was started as a copy of [[4chan]] and [[2chan|2chans]] bulletin board software, except designed only for adult virgins. | Wizardchan was a website created by someone named "Mr.Pacific".<ref name=":0">[https://kiwifarms.net/threads/wizardchan-admin-faq.3478/page-3 Wizardchan Admin FAQ -] </ref> The most famous admin of Wizardchan was [[Fredrick Brennan]] aka "hotwheels" or "Copypasta", who later went on to create [[8chan]]. Wizardchan was started as a copy of [[4chan]] and [[2chan|2chans]] bulletin board software, except designed only for adult virgins. | ||
When Wizardchan went offline in 2014,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141113154558/https://wizardchan.org/</ref> some of its moderators created Wizchan, and some of its users created other websites with the same imageboard style as Wizardchan, such as MagicChan<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190804172403/https://www.magicchan.org/</ref> or MerlinChan,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150902053041/http://www.merlinchan.com/</ref> to replace Wizardchan. A /wiz/ board on 8chan was also created (or may have already existed before Wizardchan went down). To this day, only Wizchan remains. It is possible Wizardchan closed due to unwanted attention brought by GamerGate. | When Wizardchan went offline in 2014,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141113154558/https://wizardchan.org/</ref> some of its moderators created Wizchan, and some of its users created other websites with the same imageboard style as Wizardchan, such as MagicChan<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190804172403/https://www.magicchan.org/</ref> or MerlinChan,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150902053041/http://www.merlinchan.com/</ref> to replace Wizardchan. A /wiz/ board on 8chan was also created (or may have already existed before Wizardchan went down). To this day, only Wizchan remains. It is possible Wizardchan closed due to unwanted attention brought by GamerGate. | ||
==Hostility to incels== | ==Hostility to incels== | ||
Though still part of the [[incelosphere]], the forum is pretty hostile to incels who express that involuntariness. The forum was mainly defined by it's role in various e-drama like Gamergate, and therefore is more filled with culture-warriors and [[astroturfing|astroturfers]] rather than actual incels. This site owner is also hostile to incels, filtering all mention of the word [[incel]] to [[crab]]. | Though still part of the [[incelosphere]], the forum is pretty hostile to incels who express that involuntariness. The forum was mainly defined by it's role in various e-drama like Gamergate, and therefore is more filled with culture-warriors and [[astroturfing|astroturfers]] rather than actual incels. This site owner is also hostile to incels, filtering all mention of the word [[incel]] to [[crab]]. | ||
== Wizardchan == | == Wizardchan == | ||
===Copypaste/Hotwheels=== | |||
At one point, Copypaste became the sole admin of Wizardchan.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
The second admin of Wizardchan was the eventual creator of [[8chan]], a [[disability|paraplegic]] named [[hotwheels|copypasta or "Hotwheels"]]. A parapalegic dwarf in a wheelchair. He eventually got laid by an emotional and abusive weeaboo with a [[devotee|fetish for disability]]. | |||
Wizardchan, like Wizchan, has a rule that no one can post on it if one is not a [[virgin]], which implies a non-virgin cannot hold any power within it. Therefore, after Copypaste lost his virginity, he gave in 2013 the adminship of the site to one of his moderators, Glaive, and asked Glaive to be banned, which Glaive reluctantly did. This was revealed throught the leak of an IRC conversation<ref>https://pastebin.com/Gna61cZx</ref> which one could access on an URL on 8chan,<ref>Something like https://8ch.net/reddit.txt, but I cannot remember the word used instead of "reddit".</ref> the website of which Copypaste was the admin and creator. | |||
===Gamergate and Zoe=== | ===Gamergate and Zoe=== | ||
Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy surrounding a woman named Zoe allegedly cheating on her bf and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game greenlit, promoted, and well reviewed. | Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy surrounding a woman named Zoe allegedly cheating on her bf and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game greenlit, promoted, and well reviewed. | ||