Wizchan

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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.

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 "Copypaste", who later went on to create [[8kun|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> its moderators and its admin Glaive created Wizchan; and some of Wizardchan's 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> WarlockChan,<ref>http://warlockchan.org/</ref> or MerlinChan,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150902053041/http://www.merlinchan.com/</ref> to replace Wizardchan. The /wizchan/,<ref>https://8chan.co/wizchan/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20150125080950/https://8ch.net/wizchan/index.html</ref> /wizard/,<ref>https://8chan.co/wizard/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20150308040329/https://8ch.net/wizard/</ref> /wiz/,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171201123748/https://8ch.net/wiz/index.html</ref> boards on 8chan were also created by users at that time (or they 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==
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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 ==
===Copypaste/Hotwheels===
{{See also|[[Incelophilia]]}}
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, or as our Mexican friends would say, "enano retorcido," in a wheelchair. He eventually got laid by an emotional and abusive weeaboo with a [[fetish]] for disability. It was later revealed she was abusing him.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150311033216/https://8ch.net/whore.txt</ref>

Wizardchan had 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 his co-admin, Glaive; Copypaste then asked Glaive to ban him, 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 at the time.
===Gamergate and Zoe Quinn===
Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy that started out centered on the revelation that one woman named {{Wikipedia|Zoe Quinn}} [[Infidelity|cheating]] on her boyfriend and bribing numerous game industry people with sex, drugs, and cash, including her boss, to get her game published on Steam, then shilled hard by paid-off whores styling themselves "games journalists," then branched out to cover ethics, or, more accurately, the mathematically perfect absence of ethics, in "games journalism" generally.

One of the starting events of Gamergate involved a thread on wizchan where users posted about Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest when it was released in 2013. In the thread many users described how the depression portrayed was nothing compare to theirs as well, insulting the game, and comments that women can't experience depression like men do. The attitudes at the time showed how Wizardchan used to be more incel-friendly (perhaps even primarily incel) because there were comments about how women had an easier time finding sex. It was not like neo-Wizardchan of the late 2010s where the board [[Purity spiral|purity-spiraled]] into LARPing about being purely [[asexual]] [[volcels]].

Quinn posted a screenshot of the short thread claiming Wizardchan users had been doxxing and calling her phone while [[masturbating]]. One of the screenshotted posts included a photo with the filename "my_picture.jpg" leading to users claiming it was a [[false flag]], as well as the admin hotwheels claiming the posters IP address had never posted before. There were threads on the website [[Kiwifarms]] mocking and attacking the Wizardchan thread days before Quinn tweeted about it. Quinn had previously boasted about participating in the doxxing subforum "Helldump" on somethingawful.com. Quinn made a tweet thanking an anonymous person for informing her that the thread existed.

The amount of conflicting information as well as later proof of Zoe Quinn's lying cast into doubt the claims of Wizardchan users being behind any abuse of Quinn, if it ever happened. These events started the conflict on larger chans which had the same criticism of the game and a claim it was only on steam greenlight because Quinn was female. Games journalists starting covering the wizardchan thread as evidence of harassment and abuse of female developers. These events expanded to the gamergate claim around Quinns sexual relationships relevance to the reviewers and supporters of her game in the gaming industry.

Gamers made the story of Gamergate to be about the gaming industry being corrupt and the entire industry bending at will to things as minor as a [[borderline personality disorder|borderline woman]] offering sex. The media fearmongered and continues to fearmonger about it, claiming that it was akshully about huh-WITE! MALE! gamers not wanting stronk womyn of color video game protagonists, as if Zoe's horrid abortion of a "game," ''Depression Quest'', or anything else she ever did, would have been an asset to humanity. 

Although, some gamergaters did see themselves as [[masculinism|reasserting masculinity back into gaming]].

Honestly Incel Wiki doesn't have time to document this [[autism]], which is documented to death elsewhere.
=== Anachronos/Archmage Anachronos ===
Anachronos was the alleged admin owner of Wizardchan after Mr. Pacific's departure. One thing is sure: it is Anachronos who paid the costs of the server. One day, at the end of 2014, Wizardchan shut down, and no one was able to contact Anachronos; [[Maybe he roped|it is possible Anachronos roped]]. Thus began the migration of the Wizardchan users to Wizchan and various imageboards.
== Vocabulary ==
Wizchan has its own vocabulary which is not used or is rarely used anywhere else on the internet. Before its closing, Wizardchan also did. 
* 3DP: for "3D pigs", designates [[women]]
* Normalfilth: equivalend to [[normies]]
* [[Chad]] and '-chad': "Chad" is used as a grave insult, not a compliment; -chad is used as a derogatory suffix (e.g. 4chad for [[4chan]])
*[[Crab]]: pejorative term for "incel"

==See also==
*[[r9k]]
*[[4chan]]
*[[Frederick Brennan]]
==References==
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==External links== 
*[https://wizchan.org wizchan.org]
*[https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Wizardchan Encyclopedia Dramatica article] ; Glaives [https://kiwifarms.net/threads/wizardchan-admin-faq.3478/page-3 considers it] as "75% accurate" when it comes to the history of Wizardchan
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