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Nothing makes law enforcement happier than websites that distribute how-to guides on making convincing I bet the police and FBI love Josh Nothing makes law enforcement happier than websites that distribute how-to guides on making convincing terror threats (with handy email services for sending the threats), as well as detailed stories about child sexual abuse murder . Bonus! Now their members actually kill children (after chatting with Josh)! —Paul McGoff[1]

The bird sheds a massive, disemboweling tear (pun intended).

Kiwi Farms is an immensely creepy American stalking forum run by manchild Joshua Conner Moon out of his mom's house.[2] The people who are stalked are what are known as "lolcows" to the site’s userbase or "exceptional individuals”.[note 1] Think some of the Internet's worst psychopaths projecting their frustration onto minorities, and now that you're picturing GamerGate, think creepier.

There hasn't been much action taken on Kiwi Farms, but at least DuckDuckGo has black-listed the site from their searches.[4] Perhaps in anticipation of potential deplatforming, or maybe to make it easier to shit on people anonymously, Kiwifarms appears to have a darkweb .onion domain as of July 2020.

Ableism, transphobia, and general shittiness

“ ” Consider that across the forums there are multiple warnings to members to conceal their identity. For KFers, anonymity isn’t a choice but a necessity — they know what they’re doing is probably illegal, and that their anonymity insulates them from any consequences. They know their “entertainment” harms vulnerable people, which is why some of them felt bad when that one target hanged herself. But, most important, they know that if their anonymity were compromised, their own community might eat them alive. —Margaret Pless, writing for New York Magazine about the questionable legality of the site users' actions.[5]

Critics of Kiwi Farms point out that the "Lolcows" who end up on the website are digitally stalked, harassed (by having rumours and smears posted about them) and doxed (including full names, birthdays, workplaces, personal social media accounts, and even street addresses and phone numbers). Hell, even people who are ideologically aligned to them like Mister Metokur get doxed.[6] At least one person has committed suicide after being featured on Kiwi Farms.[5] Perhaps unsurprisingly, several of the site's users proceeded to mock said person.[5][7][8][9]

Kiwi Farms was originally dedicated to monitoring the activities of an autistic person named Christine Weston Chandler (formerly known as Christian Weston Chandler), more commonly known as "Chris-Chan", who is notorious across the web for her bizarre crossover web comic between video game characters Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu, called "Sonichu".[10]

Many "Lolcows" on the forum have (or in most cases, are simply accused of having) autism, and Kiwi Farms derogatorily labels these people "spergs" (after Asperger's syndrome). Transgender "Lolcows" are described as the pejorative "troons" or "trannies", they often end up in the "Rat Kings" category, and are often portrayed as either faking their dysphoria or being mentally unstable.[11] Most "cows" are described as what are known as "exceptional individuals", coined after a post filter was installed to replace the word "retards". On its now-banned Twitter account, Kiwi Farms described its purpose as: "Gossip and exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes."[12] For this reason, and the fact there is content that is offensive to the disabled on the forum, Kiwi Farms is considered by some to be a hate speech website. Furthermore, the sign-up page for the site once came with a disclaimer saying "autistics will be laughed at. Trannies will be misgendered. People will try to find where you live."[13] So, the community is a bunch of assholes.

Kiwi Farms' harassment goes beyond gender and neurological minorities. They target asexual people, despite asexual people not the most common target of abuse, having a thread on AVEN. The site's members will also target people with medical blogs (primarily women) by accusing them of exaggerating or even faking their illnesses. They target beauty gurus, artists, and cosplayers, and they regularly engage in fat shaming and looks discrimination.

Posters tend to lean right politically. Many posters are far-right, and some are involved with 4chan and Encyclopædia Dramatica. They also tend to be white males in their 20's and 30's, much like their dear leader they're also antisemitic. [14] Despite the site's rampant transphobia, a sizable minority of its users are trans people who love to point out how any trans person they don't like isn't really trans. On the other end of the spectrum, the site is also popular with TERFs as a means of receiving the personal information of their targets. Much the same there's a minority of people on the site who are far left Tankies.

According to Alexa, Kiwi Farms receives over 1 million monthly sessions.[15]

Kiwi Farms was temporarily shut down on January 24th, 2017 due to the owner's family getting harassed.[8] However, it has been reopened under the same management.

Genesis of the name

The name "Kiwi Farms" fortunately has nothing to do with kiwi birds, kiwifruit, or people from New Zealand, where, as of March 2019, it is blocked for spreading the Christchurch shooter's video and manifesto.[16] In fact, the forum was originally known as the CWCki Forums. (The CWCki is a wiki dedicated to monitoring the aforementioned Christine Chandler.) The site was christened "Kiwi Farms" to mock someone with a speech impediment saying "CWCki forums."[citation needed]

Joshua Conner Moon

Troon Moon Joshua ConnerMoon

Born the 9th of December 1992,[17] Joshua Conner Moon, is known as Null on the website and is its Administrator.[18]

Views

Runs in the family

His own mom was a Kiwi member[29][30] and has been in trouble with the police.[31] She also worked for Keller Williams as a Realtor,[32] up until she was fired for when her activity on this site got seemingly exposed.[33]

Banned

Pissed at us

Kiwi Farms has a thread discussing RationalWiki. It describes RW as a "Whiny hugbox for spergs and a clusterfuck of never ending drama on a rapidly declining website."[36] Cynical later helpfully labeled the statement as "sarcasm", though it's not clear what part of the statement is supposed to be "sarcastic", especially since he continued to insult us.[37]

See also

/pol/ - The site's ancestor.

lolcow - the site victims.

Mikemikev - a neo-Nazi "lolcow" with a 700+ page thread on Kiwi Farms

Encyclopædia Dramatica - a crude wiki that pulls no punches when it comes to the mocking and ridiculing of others.

Notes

↑ [3] Moon is in fact the owner or co-owner of Lolcow LLC in Florida