{"id":11603,"date":"2026-02-23T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/death-of-fredrick-brennan-creator-of-8chan-forum-where-qanon-emerged\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:15:07","slug":"death-of-fredrick-brennan-creator-of-8chan-forum-where-qanon-emerged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/death-of-fredrick-brennan-creator-of-8chan-forum-where-qanon-emerged\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Fredrick Brennan, creator of 8chan forum where QAnon emerged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Self-portrait of Fredrick Brennan, September 2019.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">WIKIMEDIA COMMONS &#8211; CC BY-SA 4.0<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">A central figure in the English-speaking world of anonymous forums and the creator of 8chan, the site where the QAnon conspiracy theory took root, Fredrick Brennan died on January 10. The announcement was made on Sunday, February 22, by the <a href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/im-from-the-internet-a-podcast-about-somethingawfulcom\/episodes\/the-late-great-fredrick-brennan-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\">podcast <em>I&#8217;m from the internet<\/em>,<\/a> in which he was a regular participant. According to the same source, he died in his sleep. He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Born in 1994, Brennan suffered from a rare disease, osteogenesis&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/pixels\/article\/2026\/02\/23\/death-of-fredrick-brennan-creator-of-8chan-forum-where-qanon-emerged_6750792_13.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-portrait of Fredrick Brennan, September 2019. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS &#8211; CC BY-SA 4.0 A central&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}