I was Sexually Assaulted by the Owner of 8chan: Here is My Story.

I first met Frederick Brennan in 2012. I was living in rural Georgia at the time. I was very lonely, so I spent most of my free time on the internet. I met Frederick in a chat-room run by the site “wizardchan.org” (where he was a moderator). We hit it off right away, probably because we both felt out of place and out of touch. Over the next few months we became very close, and I thought I was in love. He asked me to come stay with him in New York for a while and, stupidly, I agreed.

At first it was great. New York felt like a breath of fresh air, and Frederick was no different in real life than on the internet. He seemed like a kind, gentle soul. He has a serious physical disability, a degenerative bone disorder, but he was full of life. Over time, though, I began noticing changes in his behavior. He started becoming terribly jealous. And every time I asked him to talk about it he would avoid the issue. He was in great physical pain at the time, so the doctor put him on the drug Percocet.

This only made things worse. I lived with him for three months, and by the third month he had become strongly addicted to these pills. He became more erratic, and more possessive. Every time I left the apartment he grew suspicious. One night, after coming back from an evening out with my new friends, he flew into a rage. He started screaming at me, throwing things, threatening me. As strange as it may sound I had become frightened of this wheel-chair bound man; I’d never seen anyone act like this, and I didn’t know how to respond.

The next day, he was completely normal — as if the nothing occurred. That night, at dinner, he poured me a drink. I don’t remember anything that happened for the next 14 hours. I woke up the next day, and he was gone. I checked my phone, and saw that he’d left a message: “this is what you get for being a whore, get the fuck out and never come back.” Attached to the text were a series of pictures, things he had done to me while I’d been passed out. Disgusting things. I’d never been so scared and humiliated in my entire life. I did what he asked. I left, and I never went back. To this day I still don’t know what he put in that drink.

I wasn’t ever planning on sharing this story. I wanted to forget about it, to suppress it, to hide it. That was, until last week when I received this:

At first I was confused. Who was this guy? How did he get my email? How did he know my history? Then I clicked the link. It turns out that for the past two years Frederick (in this case under the pseudonym “copypaste”) has been spreading malicious lies about me online. Not only that, but he proudly plasters these lies up on his website 8chan. He says (about my stay with him) that “the last few months were just drugs and dealing with a whore who didn’t love me.” That my “fetish was virgins.” That I “forced one man she was with to be fucked with a strapon.” That I “had sex with seven different men” in New York. He claims I got an abortion and didn’t know who the father was! He even has the nerve to say I stole money from him when I left.

As if that wasn’t enough, he goes on to share a series of revealing photos that I’d given him in confidence. He accuses me of blackmailing him with nude photos, even as he posts my photos online for all to see! I really couldn’t believe it. What he did to me was bad enough, but then to twist the truth like this…well, I couldn’t stay silent. Enough is enough. I don’t care if he posts more photos, or more lies. It’s time he got a taste of his own medicine.

I contacted the person who sent me this information on Skype, and he told me about what Frederick has been up to these last few years. It turns out that his site, 8chan, is notorious for harassing and “doxxing” women. It is home to the most vile misogynists from the “gamergate” movement, and has entire boards dedicated to ruining the lives of vulnerable people. This is all illegal, of course, but nothing is being done to stop it. Frederick now lives in the Philippines, where he can get all the cheap drugs he wants. Apparently he is even paying a poor woman to be his girlfriend. I don’t know if this is true or not, but if it is I hope she sees this article so she can know what type of man he is.

I’m considering pursuing legal action, and I encourage all those who’ve been hurt by this man and his website to do the same. Bullies only succeed when nobody stands up to them. I’m tired of being a victim. It’s time people knew the truth.