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The Man Trying to Resurrect 8chan (Starring 8chan's Founder)

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

What I Did Not Know About Jim Watkins' Naturalization

By the end, Watkins charged a lot. You can see that in the, um, in the court filings. He made a very good amount of money off of two channel. By the early 2000s, he really needed Nishimura's money because the dot com bubble had truly popped. And tea technology was still profitable, but the money wasn't rolling in as heavily as it had years before. This seems to have impacted Jim's decision to move to the Philippines,. which is a much cheaper place to live, uh, and to operate a business.

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