"8channer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit",
          "text": "In June 2019, I stumbled across a thread on 8chan in which users expressed their concern about the number of “shills” who had begun to surveil the anonymous board after it served as a platform for Brenton Tarrant, a mass shooter who murdered over fifty Muslims at prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, to post his manifesto. As a result, 8channers were looking for other options to express their opinions online and reach one another; Discord had proved too easy to infiltrate.",
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          "ref": "2021, Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order, Skyhorse Publishing",
          "text": "Not coincidentally, one of the “heroes” of many 8channers is an infamous Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist named Anders Breivik, who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011 in Norway’s worst terrorist attack ever.",
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          "ref": "2021, Eliot Higgins, We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2022",
          "text": "When one asked for suggestions, the first reply was: ‘Shoot up a Synagogue. Be a hero.’ Less than a month later, an 8channer carried out just such an attack.",
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          "ref": "2022, Rita Katz, Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol Siege, Columbia University Press",
          "text": "And just as his idol Brenton Tarrant did, Earnest called on fellow 8channers to use their common culture to amplify his words: / Make sure that my sacrifice was not in vain. Spread this letter, make memes, shitpost, FIGHT BACK, […]",
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          "ref": "2022, Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, Quercus Editions Ltd",
          "text": "The attraction to celebrating a genocide or mass shooter was, on some level, that others wouldn’t. It proved you were a true 8channer: based and red-pilled, committed to one another whatever the reputational cost, having ascended above the petty demands of an off-line world that, in truth, terrified you.",
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        "A member of the imageboard website 8chan."
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          "ref": "2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit",
          "text": "In June 2019, I stumbled across a thread on 8chan in which users expressed their concern about the number of “shills” who had begun to surveil the anonymous board after it served as a platform for Brenton Tarrant, a mass shooter who murdered over fifty Muslims at prayer in Christchurch, New Zealand, to post his manifesto. As a result, 8channers were looking for other options to express their opinions online and reach one another; Discord had proved too easy to infiltrate.",
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          "ref": "2021, Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order, Skyhorse Publishing",
          "text": "Not coincidentally, one of the “heroes” of many 8channers is an infamous Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist named Anders Breivik, who murdered seventy-seven people in 2011 in Norway’s worst terrorist attack ever.",
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          "text": "And just as his idol Brenton Tarrant did, Earnest called on fellow 8channers to use their common culture to amplify his words: / Make sure that my sacrifice was not in vain. Spread this letter, make memes, shitpost, FIGHT BACK, […]",
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          "text": "The attraction to celebrating a genocide or mass shooter was, on some level, that others wouldn’t. It proved you were a true 8channer: based and red-pilled, committed to one another whatever the reputational cost, having ascended above the petty demands of an off-line world that, in truth, terrified you.",
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