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Clips from Q: Into the Storm (2021) - Do You Believe In Coincidences? (S01E01)

"Meanwhile, Reddit, its more mainstream competitor,"
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"but wasn't anonymous."
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"Brennan: I was just thinking, wow, wouldn't it be amazing"
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"Filmmaker: So he merged Reddit's democratized board creation"
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"Now anyone could create a board,"
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"and posts could be totally anonymous."
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"Brennan: But when I wrote 8chan originally in 2013,"
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"I wasn't really planning for success."
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"psychedelic mushrooms."
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"Like, you know, they call it the come down, I think."
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"It wasn't meant to scale from 100 posts per day"
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"but he now had a serious moderation problem,"
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"because illegal content, like child porn,"
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"would get shared, as well."
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"was gonna be so hard."
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"I had no idea how my payment processing worked."
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"I was just on the "hopium" of free speech and all that."
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"Filmmaker: Fred created 8chan in 2013."
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"With a mass influx of users, Fred needed help."
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"who would let him continue to run the site as its admin."
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"Brennan: I started to get lots of emails from people"
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"Of all the offers I received,"
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"I chose, uh, Jim Watkins and his son Ron,"
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"I would say overall Jim is a good owner for 8chan."
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"I would say that Jim is not tech savvy at all."
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"Jim is much more the business brain,"
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"and Ron is much more of a technical brain."
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"I would describe Ron as a tech bro, pretty much."
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"In some ways, more talented than I am."
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"Filmmaker: Jim Watkins is an American businessman"
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"operating out of the Philippines."
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"Jim served in East Asia while he was in the army,"
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"and found a dollar went a long way."
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"Brennan: So it was a no-brainer for me to sell 8chan to them,"
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"and move to the Philippines."
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"Like, they offered me, you know, a condo with the rent paid."
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"Brennan: And then a caregiver also."
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"Filmmaker: Fred had even found a fiancée in the Philippines."
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"He now had plans to get married in just a few months."
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"helped him support this new life."
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"Brennan: They kept me on, as like,"
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"an employee now, being the administrator, not the owner."
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"Filmmaker: As the administrator,"
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"and drama on the boards."
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"It seems most advertisers didn't want to touch it."
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"Brennan: Being 8chan's admin was"
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"It was really arduous work."
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"And then I decided to"
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"quit from being administrator in 2016, April."
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"Filmmaker: Fred stepped down as 8chan's admin,"
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"on other internet projects that they owned."
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"Brennan: Uh, I don't believe 8chan can ever be profitable."
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"Filmmaker: What's the point of running it, then?"
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"You know how some rich men will have a yacht?"
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"It's a liability. It's not an asset."
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"So..."
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"I was told to just think of 8chan as a boat."
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"-♪ I'm on a boat ♪ -♪ I'm on a boat ♪"
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"-Filmmaker: It's a boat. -It's a boat. Yes."
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"Come on, baby."
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"That one is Jim's house. He might get upset."
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"So we'll go around the corner, okay?"
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"Man, they have a lot of cars."
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"that's gonna get me in trouble."
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"So let me just say nothing."
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"Let's give him the benefit of the doubt."
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"Fred was hesitant."
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"Brennan: I really like working for him."
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"He's a great boss, but..."
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"Yeah, I mean, I have to be careful what I say."
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"Filmmaker: It's the first time I noticed Fred"
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"holding his tongue."
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"You know, in theory, I'm supposed to meet with Jim tomorrow to film."
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"Brennan: Wow."
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"I really can't wait to see your documentary"
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"now that you got Jim in it."
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"But I think he's worried about what I'm gonna say,"
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"so he wants to have a counter to what I'm saying."
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"I don't think I'm saying anything really bad,"
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"but he might be worried about it, so,"
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"his side gets in, if you're already here."
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"Filmmaker: At this point, Jim Watkins was relatively unknown."
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"Okay, okay, okay."
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"Filmmaker: It seemed that no one had even considered"
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"he might possibly be Q."
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"Lights off."
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"Filmmaker: So why did you seek out 8chan?"
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"8chan is an accident."
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"My son said, you know, this guy needs some help with 8chan."
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"He can't afford the servers, and said,"
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""Can we put this in our data center?""
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"And I said, "Okay.""
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"(car alarm chirps)"
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"You say, "You own 8chan." No, 8chan owns me."
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"I don't get much for it, either."
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"They kind of tricked me into it."
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"And then now I have it, I can't get rid of it,"
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"because it's important."
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"Filmmaker: Jim seemed nervous."
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"I was hoping to get a better sense of whether or not"
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"to be behind Q."
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"Why do you think I'm here?"
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"You are here to make a documentary about me."
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"No. About 8channel. I'm sorry."
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"Filmmaker: While Jim's data center was located in California,"
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"he actually had a variety of businesses"
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"that he operated from the Philippines."
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"Filmmaker: Which office are you referring to? The 8chan office?"
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"Jim Watkins: Nobody works for 8chan."
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"Filmmaker: Really?"
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"I, I was imagining that there's like, a--"
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"There's nobody works for 8chan."
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"There's people work for me,"
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"because 8chan doesn't make any money."
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"Filmmaker: How do you keep it up, then?"
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"(clears throat) I make money doing other things. I'm well-deser--"
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"Well-diversified."
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"(Muzak playing)"
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"♪"
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"It's like-- It's like a beret."
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