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Jim Watkin is an American pig farmer, former owner of 8chan and current owner of both 2channel/5channel and 8kun.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Coming from a small family farm in pacific Washington, Watkin's twelve-year tenure in the US army saw him attending a technology school, which in turn took him into contact with computers and a then-young internet. Watkins knew what the internet was all about, and therefore created a company that allowed Japanese porn companies to host legally dubious contents on American servers.
As chance would have it, another website hosted on his servers happened to be 2channel. Which Watkins decided to take over as his own after Hiroyuki Nishimura was sued into oblivion due to a 2013 data breach and (allegedly) could no longer pay the hosting costs. By the time 8chan (and especially its server costs) blew up due to the GamerGate drama and the resulting mass influx of Anons from 4chan, Watkins contacted Hotwheels to offer a business partnership. By 2014, Watkins was the official owner of 8chan. By 2018, Hotwheels had left because 8chan hadn't become quite what he wanted (as well as his desire to spend more time being a furry), and Watkins was in fully control of the site. Start seeing a pattern here?
Aside from his various business ventures, Watkins also is highly interested in politics; with him being particularly interested in Donald Trump, Donald Trump's fans, and the disposable income of Donald Trump's fans. As such, the departure of the last exodus-era Anons after 8chan's rebrand did little to perturb him, and he made a very successful business selling cucumbers to a new audience busily flooding in from Reddit.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Jim Watkins only appeared in the inter-board tournament of 8chanmania XXVIII, where he fought as the champion/dairy animal of /cow/. He was soundly defeated by Wadina Davis.
