Fredrick Brennan publicly disowned his creation, explicitly calling for the website to be permanently shut down.
When 8chan eventually returned to the web as "8kun," many of the old boards did not survive the transition. The site’s administration instituted stricter controls on board creation, and while the platform remains active today (primarily as the home of QAnon remnants), the era of unchecked, user-run boards dedicated to bestiality and extreme violence largely came to an end under the weight of public pressure and legal risk. zoo 8chan