Kiwi Farms

Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an American internet forum for discussion about and harassment of online people and communities perceived as eccentric.

The site has been part of many controversies like hosting the video of the Christchurch mosque shootings and for being linked to three suicides. 

History

The site launched with the name CWCki Forums in 2013, as a place to troll and harass Christine Weston Chandler, known as “Chris Chan”, a webcomic artist first noticed in 2007 on the Something Awful forums. The name was based off his initials.

The site's new name, Kiwi Farms, was coined in 2014. It now hosts threads targeting many individuals, including minorities, women, LGBT people, neurodivergent people, people considered by Kiwi Farms users to be mentally ill or sexually deviant, feminists, journalists, internet celebrities and video game or comics hobbyists. Targets are referred to as "lolcows", a reference to them being "milked" for laughs.

In 2022, Cloudflare removed it from their DDoS protection due to an online campaign started by one of the site's victims. The site came back online after it switched to other DDoS protection providers, though various internet service providers blocked access to it. After switching to another internet service provider, it has been able to come back online. 

 Related pages 
 4chan
 Reddit
 Something Awful

 References 

Category:American websites
Category:Internet culture