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|imageboard_name=Autismchan
|imageboard_name=Autismchan
|imageboard_logo=[[File:autismchanlogo.png|150px]]
|imageboard_logo=[[File:autismchanlogo.png|150px]]
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|date_founded=October 2023
|date_founded=October 2023
|major_boards=[[sperg/|/sperg/]] • [[b/|/b/]] (NSFW/random)
|major_boards=[[sperg/|/sperg/]] • [[b/|/b/]] • [[vent/|/vent/]] • [[meta/|/meta/]]
|epic_win=Being posted about once on reddit then slowly decaying into irrelevance, endless "is this place dead yet" meta threads, attracting exactly the kind of spergs who got tired of 4chan calling them spergs
|epic_win=A Reddit post. Fourteen users. Gone in a week.
|homepage=<s>https://autismchan.net/</s> technically still breathing but on life support
|epic_fail=Everything that came after
}}<center><big>'''This article is about autismchan.net (the reddit-spawned 2023+ one).'''</big></center>
|homepage=https://autismchan.net/
|owner="Nishi" — anonymous, sleepless, owns a $5/month VPS and nothing else
|current_status=~~Dead~~ Technically Alive
}}


''Autismchan was shat out in late 2023 by some reddit sperg who thought "what if 4chan... but SAFE SPACE for autists???" Spoiler: it's not safe, it's just empty.''
<center><big>'''This article is about autismchan.net — a [[Reddit]]-spawned [[imageboard]] for people who thought [[4chan]] was too mean, then immediately acted exactly like 4chan users.'''</big></center>


[[Category:Imageboards]]
{{Quote|A Community for autistic people.|autismchan.net About page, last edited 2023, never updated because nothing has happened since}}
[[Category:Autism]]
 
[[Category:Dead on arrival]]
'''Autismchan.net''' is a [[imageboard|imageboard]] and support group for [[autist|autists]] who got permabanned from [[4chan]] for being too autistic, which is saying something. It was founded in October 2023 by some [[Reddit|redditor]] who decided the problem with the internet was that imageboards weren't accommodating enough to [[autism|neurodivergent]] users, then built one and watched his neurodivergent users immediately turn it into a worse version of the thing he was trying to escape from. This is known in academic circles as [[irony]].
 
At its core, autismchan is an anonymous imageboard centered around [[autism spectrum disorder|autism]] and being very, very online. It is proof positive that you cannot build a safe space on top of chan culture, because the culture comes with the users, and the users learned everything they know from [[/b/]]. The site remains technically online as of [[Current Year|2026]], which surprises everyone including Nishi, who keeps expecting to wake up one morning and find it gone.
 
==History==
 
The founding of autismchan can be traced to a single moment of hubris. A [[Reddit|reddit]] user in [[r/autism]], during a hyperfocus session that should have been directed at literally anything else, concluded that what the internet needed was [[4chan]] but for people who stim. He registered a domain. He spun up a VPS. He told [[Reddit]] about it.
 
Nine people showed up. This was the high point.
 
>be redditor
>build imageboard "for autists"
>users arrive
>they are all exactly like 4chan users
>four of them are arguing about whether Asperger's is real autism
>one of them just posted a train
>mod resigns on day 4 citing "discord mod energy"
>refresh analytics
>still nine users
>this is your life now
 
Peak concurrent users sits at an estimated '''14''', achieved briefly in November 2023 when someone posted about the site on [[Reddit]] and generated a traffic spike that lasted approximately one week before everyone left. This period is referred to unironically by the remaining userbase as '''The Golden Age'''. A documentary has not been made. Nobody has suggested one. This is probably for the best.
 
The site has since settled into a comfortable routine of eight to twenty active users per week, ongoing [[Cloudflare]] outages, and threads asking if the site is dead. The site is not dead. The threads keep coming anyway.
 
==Community==
 
Autismchan's userbase consists primarily of:
 
* Former [[/r9k/]] and [[/b/]] users who wanted a slower pace and got it, arguably too much of it
* High-functioning [[Asperger's|aspies]] who believe "NT moment" is still a devastating insult in [[Current Year|2026]]
* One guy who has been "about to post" since November 2023. He has a draft. It is 1,400 words. He will not post it.
* Nishi's possible alt accounts
 
===Known Fauna===
 
[[File:Neckbeard.jpg|thumb|right|The average autismchan poster, probably]]
 
;'''The [[Lurker]]'''
:Has read every post on the site in chronological order. Has formulated seventeen replies. Has posted zero of them. Will not be reading this. Has strong opinions about the Asperger's debate and will take them to the grave.
 
;'''The [[Philosopher]]'''
:Posts a 600-word essay about sensory overload in contemporary retail environments. Receives two replies. Both say "same." Posts a 900-word follow-up. Receives one reply. It says "based." Does not know if this is sincere. Posts a 1,100-word follow-up asking what "based" means in this context. No replies. [[Autism|Keeps posting anyway.]]
 
;'''The [[Schizo]]'''
:Operating on a frequency slightly adjacent to consensus reality. Posts are 45% coherent, 35% theoretical, and 20% something about [[glowies]] and resonance frequencies. Has predicted three actual thread outcomes with disturbing accuracy. The site's most reliable content generator. Cannot be reasoned with. Should not be banned. Is probably having more fun than anyone else on the site.
 
;'''The [[Necromancer]]'''
:Appears once per quarter to reply "same" to a thread from six months ago. Does not elaborate. Has never started a thread. Nobody knows if it's the same person each time. Nobody has investigated. The investigation would be the most active thread in recent memory.
 
;'''The [[Doomer]]'''
:Has posted "is this site dead" eleven times since December 2023. Has not considered that his own continued posting constitutes evidence against his thesis. Posts "is this site dead" again. Will do so in three weeks. The site will still be there. So will he.
 
;'''The Hopeposter'''
:Shows up every few weeks with "guys I have an idea to revive this place." Gets four replies. Two are sincere. One is the Schizo. One is the Doomer asking if the site is dead. Thanks everyone. Does nothing. Returns in three weeks. This has happened fourteen times. [[Nothing ever happens|Nothing ever happens.]]
 
;'''The [[Trainposter]]'''
:Posts pictures of trains. Has never explained why. When asked, posted a different train. Has been doing this since Week 1. The trains are always different. Nobody has asked twice.
 
===Behavioral Patterns===
 
*'''Topic Collapse''' — Any thread, regardless of subject, arrives at either trainposting or the Asperger's legitimacy debate within three replies. A thread about favorite foods collapsed in two. The mechanism is unknown and probably unknowable.
*'''The Ritual Refresh''' — Reloading the front page every four minutes in case something was posted. Something was not posted. You will check again. You already know this.
*'''Looping''' — The same thread appears every two to three weeks. Everyone participates as though it's new. The Schizo has posted the exact same reply to four separate instances of the same thread. Nobody has pointed this out.
*'''Event Silence''' — The entire site goes dark for days with no explanation. Nobody files a missing persons report. The site comes back. Nobody mentions it. The Doomer asks if it's dead. It is not.
*'''Sincere Posting''' — Occurs rarely, without warning. Someone describes in plain language what it's like to not understand why people are angry with them. Gets genuine replies. The thread briefly becomes the most human thing on the board before getting buried under a trainposting revival twelve hours later.
*'''The Announcement''' — User posts "I've been thinking about leaving." Receives more replies than anything else that week. Everyone says don't go. User doesn't leave. Returns the next day. Nobody acknowledges the announcement. This has happened six times.
 
==Boards==
 
===/sperg/ — Autism Discussion===
 
The flagship board. Intended for genuine discussion of [[autism spectrum disorder|autism]], neurodivergence, and related topics. Currently hosts:
 
*A schizothread running continuously since October 2023 that has developed its own internal mythology, at least two recurring characters, a villain who is almost certainly the same poster as the hero, and a prophecy that has been revised four times as it failed to materialize
*Forty-something threads identifying which fictional characters are probably autistic, ranging from the defensible (certain [[Sherlock Holmes]] adaptations) to the ambitious (the concept of capitalism) to the completely deranged (clouds)
*"does anyone else—" threads with zero replies that function as a distributed diary nobody reads, which is arguably the most authentically autistic thing on the site
*A thread asking if the board is dead. Seven replies, all within the same hour in 2024. Untouched since.
 
===/b/ — Random===


<h1>Autismchan.net</h1>
The only board anyone actually uses. Technically [[NSFW]]. Contains shitposting, occasional genuine conversations that everyone pretends not to have had, and — beginning around Month 6 — [[hentai]], which caused the largest traffic event in site history at triple the baseline for 48 hours before the userbase returned to its natural coma state. The hentai incident is never discussed. It is remembered by all.


<p><strong>Autismchan.net</strong> (also known as <em>The Great Autist Exodus That Never Happened</em>) is a tiny, wheezing, 4chan knockoff imageboard specifically marketed toward people on the spectrum who got tired of being called <span class="lolcow">retards</span> on the real chans… only to immediately start acting exactly like 4chan users anyway.</p>
===/vent/ — Vent===


<h2>History</h2>
A board for emotional expression. Posts range from brief ("i hate myself") to extensive (2,000-word dissociation logs that constitute, objectively, the best writing on the site). Reply rates hover near zero. One user has posted forty-seven times and received three replies total, one of which was the Schizo saying something about frequency alignment that was somehow exactly right. Users return anyway. [[Nothing ever helps|Nothing ever helps.]]


<p>In late 2023 some reddit user in /r/autism had the galaxy-brain idea:</p>
===/meta/ — Site Discussion===
<blockquote class="quote">
"what if we made 4chan… but for <strong>autists</strong>?? :)"
</blockquote>


<p>Everyone clapped. The site launched with four boards:</p>
Where hope goes to be formally documented and ignored. Primary uses:
<ul>
    <li>/sperg/ – "on-topic" autism discussion (immediately became 90% schizoposting)</li>
    <li>/b/ – random + NSFW (the only board that gets more than 2 posts a week)</li>
    <li>/vent/ – cry about your life (endless suicide bait threads)</li>
    <li>/meta/ – complain about the other three boards</li>
</ul>


<p>Peak concurrent users: estimated 8–14 (including the owner refreshing every 30 seconds hoping someone posted).</p>
*Reporting that the site is down (it is)
*Proposing features (they will not arrive; Nishi will reply within 24 hours calling it a great idea)
*Blaming low activity on everything except the poster's own low activity
*Reading Nishi's [[Cloudflare]] apology stickies, written with the resignation of a man who has made peace with an enemy he cannot defeat and probably never will


<h2>Community & Culture</h2>
==The Owner==


<p>Autismchan's userbase consists of:</p>
[[File:Neckbeard_general.jpg|thumb|right|Nishi, allegedly]]
<ol>
    <li>Former /b/tards who got permabanned from 4chan for posting cp-tier loli autism memes</li>
    <li>High-functioning aspies who think "NTs BTFO" is still an epic own in 2026</li>
    <li>One schizo who keeps making threads titled "IS [CURRENT YEAR] THE YEAR OF THE RACE WAR?"</li>
    <li>The owner’s alt accounts arguing with himself</li>
</ol>


<p>Signature pastimes include:</p>
'''Nishi''' is the site's founder, sole administrator, de facto [[janitor]], and on slow weeks a meaningful percentage of its active userbase. He communicates through /meta/ stickies written somewhere between exhausted sysadmin and disappointed camp counselor whose entire camp wandered twenty feet into the woods and started a competing camp.
<ul>
    <li>Arguing whether Asperger's is "real autism" or "fake autism for midwits"</li>
    <li>Posting the same train picture 47 times</li>
    <li>Writing 4000-word greentexts about being rejected by a barista</li>
    <li>Declaring "this place is dying" every 72 hours</li>
</ul>


Nobody knows who he is. He has never been [[doxing|doxed]], either because nobody has tried or because he is genuinely careful — both explanations are plausible and neither is flattering.


<h2>The Owner: Insomnia (Probably)</h2>
His administration is characterized by:


<p>Like every other failed chan ever launched by a reddit sperg, <strong>autismchan.net</strong> is run by an anonymous legend known only (allegedly) as <span class="lolcow">Insomnia</span>™. No face, no dox, no LinkedIn, no nothing—just vibes, bad CSS decisions, and the faint smell of Mountain Dew Code Red wafting through the server room (which is probably their mom's basement).</p>
*Keeping the server alive on approximately five dollars per month
*Personally responding to every [[moderation]] report — there have been four, one of which was reporting Nishi
*Promising features with the optimism of someone who has not checked his own to-do list
*Writing [[Terms of Service]] that are legally coherent and have been read by nobody, including the people who agreed to them
*Adding a board in Month 4 that received eleven posts, went silent, and has not been deleted because Nishi believes in it


<p>Rumors on the three active threads per week claim Insomnia is:</p>
{{Quote|hey guys site might go down tonight cloudflare is being cloudflare again sorry about this|Nishi, /meta/ sticky, one of at least nine}}
<ul>
{{Quote|update: it's back up. sorry again. looking into alternatives|Nishi, three hours later, read by two people}}
    <li>A 20-something high-masking aspie who ragequit 4chan after getting called "traincel" one too many times</li>
    <li>Currently awake 27 hours straight because "melatonin is for NTs"</li>
    <li>The sole janitor who bans people for "ableism" while approving 400-reply threads about why furries are peak autism</li>
    <li>Secretly the same guy refreshing /meta/ every 5 minutes begging for "suggestions" nobody ever gives</li>
</ul>


<div class="quote">
Nishi has not achieved any of the standard imageboard admin milestones. What he has achieved is a site that has been online for over two years for no compelling reason, which is either a failure to let go or a minor act of stubbornness that deserves some kind of recognition. He will probably add another board next month. It will receive eleven posts. He will not delete it.
"hey guys it's me insomnia, site might go down tonight because cloudflare hates me again lol just fyi :)"<br>
— Every /meta/ sticky that nobody reads
</div>


<p>Insomnia's greatest achievement? Keeping the lights on for 2+ years despite traffic that wouldn't fill a Discord VC on a Tuesday. Greatest failure? Everything else. No epic raids, no news articles, no FBI watchlist—just quiet, soul-crushing irrelevance while Insomnia lies in bed staring at the ceiling thinking "maybe if I add one more board..."</p>
==Notable Events==


{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date !! Event !! Significance
|-
| Oct 2023 || Site launches || Nine people show up. Nishi screenshots his analytics. He still has the screenshot.
|-
| Oct 2023 + 4 days || First mod drama. Janitor resigns citing "discord mod energy." || Nobody remembers the cause. Both parties have left. "Discord mod energy" remains the site's only genuine contribution to internet culture.
|-
| Week 3 || Puzzle-piece Pepe posted to /sperg/. 47-reply thread. || Most active thread in site history. More engagement than every sincere post combined. Nobody involved felt good about this afterward. The thread is still up.
|-
| Nov 2023 || Single Reddit post mentions the site || 14 concurrent users. The Golden Age. All 14 leave within a week. Nishi watches the analytics number go back down for three days.
|-
| Dec 2023 || First "is this site dead" thread || Site is not dead. This will happen ten more times.
|-
| Jan 2024 || First major Cloudflare outage || Nishi posts apology sticky immediately. Zero users noticed the outage. Zero users read the sticky. Nishi edits it twice for clarity. Nobody reads the edits.
|-
| Month 4 || Nishi adds a new board || Eleven posts. Silence. Not deleted. Nishi believes in it.
|-
| Month 6 || /b/ discovers hentai || 48-hour traffic spike. Returns to baseline. Never discussed. Always remembered.
|-
| Month 8 || Hopeposter proposes weekly theme threads || Week 1 fine. Week 2 okay. Week 3 nobody posts one. Dead. Proposed for revival in Month 11. Not revived.
|-
| Ongoing || "We should raid 4chan's /b/" threads || Every six weeks. Zero replies. Zero raids. Recurs like a cron job nobody can cancel.
|-
| Present || You are here || The site is alive. So are you. Neither of you knows what to do about it.
|}


<h2>Notable Events</h2>
==Legacy==


<ul>
Autismchan has not influenced [[imageboard]] culture, produced a meme that left its own /b/, attracted [[media]] coverage, or generated anything that will be remembered outside of its own /meta/ board. It has, however, provided a space where eight to twenty people a week can post without being called [[retard|slurs]] for doing so, which was the stated goal.
    <li><strong>Day 4:</strong> First tranny jannie drama. Mod resigns after being called "discord mod energy".</li>
    <li><strong>Week 3:</strong> Someone posts a rare pepe variant edited with a puzzle piece. 47 replies calling it "ableist".</li>
    <li><strong>Month 6:</strong> /b/ discovers hentai. Site traffic triples for 48 hours before returning to baseline coma.</li>
    <li><strong>Ongoing:</strong> Weekly "we should raid /b/ on 4chan" threads that receive 0 (zero) replies.</li>
</ul>


Some of them have been there for two years. Some of them have built something that functions like friendship, if you define friendship as two people who have never addressed each other directly but have both replied "same" to the same /vent/ thread at 3am.


<h2>Gallery of Autism</h2>
Nishi thinks this counts as success. He is probably the only one.


==See Also==
*[[Wizardchan]] — same energy, older corpse, more Wikipedia coverage
*[[4chan]] — what autismchan wanted to be when it grew up; also what it became immediately
*[[Reddit]] — the primordial soup from which this crawled
*[[Nothing Ever Happens]] — the autismchan mission statement
*[[Small Chans]] — a graveyard of identical $5/month VPS projects


== Related articles ==
==External Links==
*[[Wizardchan]]
*[https://autismchan.net autismchan.net] — loads. usually.
*[[4chan]]


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Latest revision as of 22:14, 7 May 2026

THIS TOPIC ATTRACTS A LOT OF ASPIES FOR SOME REASON
Please remind those who are obsessed with this SNCA to breathe deeply from the toilet bowl.
Autismchan
FoundationOctober 2023
Major Boards/sperg/ • /b/ • /vent/ • /meta/
Epic WinsA Reddit post. Fourteen users. Gone in a week.
Websitehttps://autismchan.net/
This article is about autismchan.net — a Reddit-spawned imageboard for people who thought 4chan was too mean, then immediately acted exactly like 4chan users.
   
“ 		 
A Community for autistic people.
  		„
  		 

—autismchan.net About page, last edited 2023, never updated because nothing has happened since

Autismchan.net is a imageboard and support group for autists who got permabanned from 4chan for being too autistic, which is saying something. It was founded in October 2023 by some redditor who decided the problem with the internet was that imageboards weren't accommodating enough to neurodivergent users, then built one and watched his neurodivergent users immediately turn it into a worse version of the thing he was trying to escape from. This is known in academic circles as irony.

At its core, autismchan is an anonymous imageboard centered around autism and being very, very online. It is proof positive that you cannot build a safe space on top of chan culture, because the culture comes with the users, and the users learned everything they know from b. The site remains technically online as of 2026, which surprises everyone including Nishi, who keeps expecting to wake up one morning and find it gone.

History

The founding of autismchan can be traced to a single moment of hubris. A reddit user in r/autism, during a hyperfocus session that should have been directed at literally anything else, concluded that what the internet needed was 4chan but for people who stim. He registered a domain. He spun up a VPS. He told Reddit about it.

Nine people showed up. This was the high point.

>be redditor >build imageboard "for autists" >users arrive >they are all exactly like 4chan users >four of them are arguing about whether Asperger's is real autism >one of them just posted a train >mod resigns on day 4 citing "discord mod energy" >refresh analytics >still nine users >this is your life now

Peak concurrent users sits at an estimated 14, achieved briefly in November 2023 when someone posted about the site on Reddit and generated a traffic spike that lasted approximately one week before everyone left. This period is referred to unironically by the remaining userbase as The Golden Age. A documentary has not been made. Nobody has suggested one. This is probably for the best.

The site has since settled into a comfortable routine of eight to twenty active users per week, ongoing Cloudflare outages, and threads asking if the site is dead. The site is not dead. The threads keep coming anyway.

Community

Autismchan's userbase consists primarily of:

  • Former r9k and b users who wanted a slower pace and got it, arguably too much of it
  • High-functioning aspies who believe "NT moment" is still a devastating insult in 2026
  • One guy who has been "about to post" since November 2023. He has a draft. It is 1,400 words. He will not post it.
  • Nishi's possible alt accounts

Known Fauna

The average autismchan poster, probably
The Lurker
Has read every post on the site in chronological order. Has formulated seventeen replies. Has posted zero of them. Will not be reading this. Has strong opinions about the Asperger's debate and will take them to the grave.
The Philosopher
Posts a 600-word essay about sensory overload in contemporary retail environments. Receives two replies. Both say "same." Posts a 900-word follow-up. Receives one reply. It says "based." Does not know if this is sincere. Posts a 1,100-word follow-up asking what "based" means in this context. No replies. Keeps posting anyway.
The Schizo
Operating on a frequency slightly adjacent to consensus reality. Posts are 45% coherent, 35% theoretical, and 20% something about glowies and resonance frequencies. Has predicted three actual thread outcomes with disturbing accuracy. The site's most reliable content generator. Cannot be reasoned with. Should not be banned. Is probably having more fun than anyone else on the site.
The Necromancer
Appears once per quarter to reply "same" to a thread from six months ago. Does not elaborate. Has never started a thread. Nobody knows if it's the same person each time. Nobody has investigated. The investigation would be the most active thread in recent memory.
The Doomer
Has posted "is this site dead" eleven times since December 2023. Has not considered that his own continued posting constitutes evidence against his thesis. Posts "is this site dead" again. Will do so in three weeks. The site will still be there. So will he.
The Hopeposter
Shows up every few weeks with "guys I have an idea to revive this place." Gets four replies. Two are sincere. One is the Schizo. One is the Doomer asking if the site is dead. Thanks everyone. Does nothing. Returns in three weeks. This has happened fourteen times. Nothing ever happens.
The Trainposter
Posts pictures of trains. Has never explained why. When asked, posted a different train. Has been doing this since Week 1. The trains are always different. Nobody has asked twice.

Behavioral Patterns

  • Topic Collapse — Any thread, regardless of subject, arrives at either trainposting or the Asperger's legitimacy debate within three replies. A thread about favorite foods collapsed in two. The mechanism is unknown and probably unknowable.
  • The Ritual Refresh — Reloading the front page every four minutes in case something was posted. Something was not posted. You will check again. You already know this.
  • Looping — The same thread appears every two to three weeks. Everyone participates as though it's new. The Schizo has posted the exact same reply to four separate instances of the same thread. Nobody has pointed this out.
  • Event Silence — The entire site goes dark for days with no explanation. Nobody files a missing persons report. The site comes back. Nobody mentions it. The Doomer asks if it's dead. It is not.
  • Sincere Posting — Occurs rarely, without warning. Someone describes in plain language what it's like to not understand why people are angry with them. Gets genuine replies. The thread briefly becomes the most human thing on the board before getting buried under a trainposting revival twelve hours later.
  • The Announcement — User posts "I've been thinking about leaving." Receives more replies than anything else that week. Everyone says don't go. User doesn't leave. Returns the next day. Nobody acknowledges the announcement. This has happened six times.

Boards

/sperg/ — Autism Discussion

The flagship board. Intended for genuine discussion of autism, neurodivergence, and related topics. Currently hosts:

  • A schizothread running continuously since October 2023 that has developed its own internal mythology, at least two recurring characters, a villain who is almost certainly the same poster as the hero, and a prophecy that has been revised four times as it failed to materialize
  • Forty-something threads identifying which fictional characters are probably autistic, ranging from the defensible (certain Sherlock Holmes adaptations) to the ambitious (the concept of capitalism) to the completely deranged (clouds)
  • "does anyone else—" threads with zero replies that function as a distributed diary nobody reads, which is arguably the most authentically autistic thing on the site
  • A thread asking if the board is dead. Seven replies, all within the same hour in 2024. Untouched since.

/b/ — Random

The only board anyone actually uses. Technically NSFW. Contains shitposting, occasional genuine conversations that everyone pretends not to have had, and — beginning around Month 6 — hentai, which caused the largest traffic event in site history at triple the baseline for 48 hours before the userbase returned to its natural coma state. The hentai incident is never discussed. It is remembered by all.

/vent/ — Vent

A board for emotional expression. Posts range from brief ("i hate myself") to extensive (2,000-word dissociation logs that constitute, objectively, the best writing on the site). Reply rates hover near zero. One user has posted forty-seven times and received three replies total, one of which was the Schizo saying something about frequency alignment that was somehow exactly right. Users return anyway. Nothing ever helps.

/meta/ — Site Discussion

Where hope goes to be formally documented and ignored. Primary uses:

  • Reporting that the site is down (it is)
  • Proposing features (they will not arrive; Nishi will reply within 24 hours calling it a great idea)
  • Blaming low activity on everything except the poster's own low activity
  • Reading Nishi's Cloudflare apology stickies, written with the resignation of a man who has made peace with an enemy he cannot defeat and probably never will

The Owner

File:Neckbeard general.jpg
Nishi, allegedly

Nishi is the site's founder, sole administrator, de facto janitor, and on slow weeks a meaningful percentage of its active userbase. He communicates through /meta/ stickies written somewhere between exhausted sysadmin and disappointed camp counselor whose entire camp wandered twenty feet into the woods and started a competing camp.

Nobody knows who he is. He has never been doxed, either because nobody has tried or because he is genuinely careful — both explanations are plausible and neither is flattering.

His administration is characterized by:

  • Keeping the server alive on approximately five dollars per month
  • Personally responding to every moderation report — there have been four, one of which was reporting Nishi
  • Promising features with the optimism of someone who has not checked his own to-do list
  • Writing Terms of Service that are legally coherent and have been read by nobody, including the people who agreed to them
  • Adding a board in Month 4 that received eleven posts, went silent, and has not been deleted because Nishi believes in it
   
“ 		 
hey guys site might go down tonight cloudflare is being cloudflare again sorry about this
  		„
  		 

—Nishi, /meta/ sticky, one of at least nine

   
“ 		 
update: it's back up. sorry again. looking into alternatives
  		„
  		 

—Nishi, three hours later, read by two people

Nishi has not achieved any of the standard imageboard admin milestones. What he has achieved is a site that has been online for over two years for no compelling reason, which is either a failure to let go or a minor act of stubbornness that deserves some kind of recognition. He will probably add another board next month. It will receive eleven posts. He will not delete it.

Notable Events

Date Event Significance
Oct 2023 Site launches Nine people show up. Nishi screenshots his analytics. He still has the screenshot.
Oct 2023 + 4 days First mod drama. Janitor resigns citing "discord mod energy." Nobody remembers the cause. Both parties have left. "Discord mod energy" remains the site's only genuine contribution to internet culture.
Week 3 Puzzle-piece Pepe posted to /sperg/. 47-reply thread. Most active thread in site history. More engagement than every sincere post combined. Nobody involved felt good about this afterward. The thread is still up.
Nov 2023 Single Reddit post mentions the site 14 concurrent users. The Golden Age. All 14 leave within a week. Nishi watches the analytics number go back down for three days.
Dec 2023 First "is this site dead" thread Site is not dead. This will happen ten more times.
Jan 2024 First major Cloudflare outage Nishi posts apology sticky immediately. Zero users noticed the outage. Zero users read the sticky. Nishi edits it twice for clarity. Nobody reads the edits.
Month 4 Nishi adds a new board Eleven posts. Silence. Not deleted. Nishi believes in it.
Month 6 /b/ discovers hentai 48-hour traffic spike. Returns to baseline. Never discussed. Always remembered.
Month 8 Hopeposter proposes weekly theme threads Week 1 fine. Week 2 okay. Week 3 nobody posts one. Dead. Proposed for revival in Month 11. Not revived.
Ongoing "We should raid 4chan's /b/" threads Every six weeks. Zero replies. Zero raids. Recurs like a cron job nobody can cancel.
Present You are here The site is alive. So are you. Neither of you knows what to do about it.

Legacy

Autismchan has not influenced imageboard culture, produced a meme that left its own /b/, attracted media coverage, or generated anything that will be remembered outside of its own /meta/ board. It has, however, provided a space where eight to twenty people a week can post without being called slurs for doing so, which was the stated goal.

Some of them have been there for two years. Some of them have built something that functions like friendship, if you define friendship as two people who have never addressed each other directly but have both replied "same" to the same /vent/ thread at 3am.

Nishi thinks this counts as success. He is probably the only one.

See Also

  • Wizardchan — same energy, older corpse, more Wikipedia coverage
  • 4chan — what autismchan wanted to be when it grew up; also what it became immediately
  • Reddit — the primordial soup from which this crawled
  • Nothing Ever Happens — the autismchan mission statement
  • Small Chans — a graveyard of identical $5/month VPS projects

Autismchan is part of the following series:

Autismchan is part of a series on Aspies. [Back to your happy placeSperg out]

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Autismchan is part of a series on Dying Alone

[DeadCry yourself to sleep]

Those Who Have Died Alone

Aaron Alexis ☠ Aaron Bushnell ☠ Aaron Swartz ☠ Adam Lanza ☠ Alexis Arquette ☠ Amanda Todd ☠ Amy Winehouse ☠ Anal Cunt ☠ Andy Kaufman ☠ Angry Grandpa ☠ Anna Nicole Smith ☠ Anthony Warner ☠ Asa Coon ☠ Brandon Crisp ☠ Brian Adams ☠ Burntfishie ☠ Byuu ☠ Chang Wen ☠ Charmaine Dragun ☠ Cho Seung-Hui ☠ Chris Benoit ☠ Chris Harper-Mercer ☠ Chyna ☠ Codey Porter ☠ David Bowie ☠ David Carradine ☠ Dragoneer ☠ Eazy-E ☠ Edarem ☠ Elliot Rodger ☠ Elvis Presley ☠ George Sodini ☠ Gizgiz ☠ Gleb Korablev ☠ Gursimran Kaur ☠ HappyCabbie ☠ Harambe ☠ H.P. Lovecraft ☠ Heath Ledger ☠ Jake Davison ☠ Jeff Weise ☠ JewWario ☠ Jim Morrison ☠ Kate Spade ☠ Kitty0706 ☠ Kurt Cobain ☠ Lemonade Coyote ☠ Leelah Alcorn ☠ Lil Peep ☠ Lilo ☠ Loki Blackfang ☠ Lowtax ☠ Mia Janin ☠ Megan Meier ☠ Michael Jackson ☠ Mitchell Henderson ☠ MySpace ☠ Nathan Gale ☠ Nautica Malone ☠ Nikita Lytkin ☠ Otoya Yamaguchi ☠ Pekka-Eric Auvinen ☠ Prince ☠ Randy Stair ☠ Rehtaeh Parsons ☠ Ricardo López ☠ Rina Palenkova ☠ Ripper ☠ Robin Williams ☠ Ronnie McNutt ☠ Rudolph Zurick ☠ Ryan Palmeter ☠ Shawn Woolley ☠ Shay ☠ Shuaiby ☠ Sol Pais ☠ Stephen Paddock ☠ Steve Stephens ☠ Thomas Matthew Crooks ☠ Tony48219 ☠ TooDamnFilthy ☠ Tyler Dumstorf ☠ Vester Flanagan ☠ William Atchison ☠ XXXTentacion

Those Dying Alone

03bgood ☠ 2cash ☠ 2 gryphon ☠ 7jackass77 ☠ A Man in Black ☠ Ahuviya Harel ☠ AIDS Skrillex ☠ AkewsticRockR ☠ Alex Ford ☠ Alison Rapp ☠ America's Third Party ☠ Amy Schumer ☠ Andrew Allanson ☠ Angry Joe ☠ AnimatedJames ☠ Anita Sarkeesian ☠ Anonymous Borg ☠ Anthony 'A-Log' LoGatto ☠ Antony Aguilar ☠ April Davis ☠ Aquagirlwhitefox ☠ Argent009 ☠ Arguecat3 ☠ Arin Hanson ☠ Armake21 ☠ Asalieri ☠ Asher2500 ☠ Austin Alexander ☠ AvantGardePony ☠ Bambifan101 ☠ Barneyfag ☠ Basement Dwellers ☠ Ben Ford ☠ Ben Moynihan ☠ Benny_the_Snake ☠ Benthelooney ☠ Big Red ☠ Bikerfox ☠ Bill9929 ☠ Bill Gaede ☠ Bill Gates ☠ BLACKbusterCritic ☠ Bob Rehahn ☠ BrandontheMovieGuy ☠ Brandon Smith ☠ Brian Mueller ☠ Brian Richard Zaiger ☠ Brianna Wu ☠ Bronies ☠ ButLova ☠ ByAppointmentTo ☠ Carl the Cuck ☠ Cartoonjunkie ☠ Caseydecker ☠ CatboyKami ☠ Cheeyev ☠ Chloe Sagal ☠ Chris-chan ☠ Chris Crocker ☠ Chuck M. ☠ Clint of Rise and Fall ☠ Cole Allen ☠ CopperCab ☠ Corey Margera ☠ Coughlan666 ☠ Crazyvideosandrants ☠ Crinklemon ☠ Cyraxx ☠ Daniel Brandt ☠ Dan Cilley ☠ Dane Cook ☠ Dani Filth ☠ Darius McCollum ☠ Darknessthecurse ☠ DarksydePhil ☠ Dave Chapelle ☠ Dave Mustaine ☠ David Hockey ☠ Daxflame ☠ DBoyWheeler ☠ Deeker ☠ DeterminedToDrawUT ☠ Dev-catscratch ☠ DGTrixie ☠ Diaper Boy ☠ Dillon Cossey ☠ Diogo Mendes ☠ DisneyFan01 ☠ DisneyMaster ☠ DJ KEEMSTAR ☠ Dnepropetrovsk maniacs ☠ DodgerofZion ☠ Dogpatch Press ☠ Don Roberts ☠ Doodletones ☠ Doomer3868 ☠ Dorian_Gay ☠ Doug Walker ☠ Drakon ☠ DrossRotzank ☠ Doomentio ☠ Dustin ☠ EDP445 ☠ Eggy ☠ Elon Musk ☠ Emer Prevost ☠ Emos ☠ Epic Fat Guy ☠ EpicKitty54 ☠ Eric Abramov ☠ Eric Ridenour ☠ Erik Ribsskog ☠ ErtasVideos ☠ Filthy Frank ☠ Fagolescents ☠ FanFic Critic ☠ Fast Eddie ☠ Fat Man ☠ Faust & Pory ☠ Five Nights at Freddy's fans ☠ Flardox ☠ Fluffy teh wolf ☠ ForeverKailyn ☠ Friends of A-Log ☠ Furries ☠ G-Zay ☠ Gather Against Fate ☠ George Lopez ☠ Geoshea ☠ Ghost ☠ Girlvinyl ☠ Globelamp ☠ GoddessMillenia ☠ Graykat ☠ Greg Mazujian ☠ Gwen Gale ☠ Gwen Stefani ☠ Harmful Opinions ☠ Hellkiller777 ☠ I Dislike Cis People ☠ I Hate Everything ☠ Ian Miles Cheong ☠ icze⁴r ☠ Imma-The-Deer ☠ InkBunny ☠ Isabella Loretta Janke ☠ Jamil The King ☠ Jessi Slaughter ☠ Jessica Leeds ☠ Jim Profit ☠ JINXDROWNED ☠ Joe Crusher Pickles ☠ Joeker ☠ John Bulla ☠ John Field ☠ John Kricfalusi ☠ John Patrick Rogers ☠ Johnny Somali ☠ Jonathan McIntosh ☠ Jonmon ☠ JonTron ☠ Joseph Camp ☠ Joseph8276 ☠ Joshua "Null" Moon ☠ Juggalos ☠ JustinRPG ☠ Kat Dennings ☠ Kendall Jenner ☠ Keegan Salisbury ☠ Kathleen Todd ☠ Kenny Glenn ☠ Kevin Havens ☠ Keffals ☠ Kimmo Johan Alm ☠ KingEmpoleon ☠ KingMasterReview ☠ Krashed ☠ Laci Green ☠ Larry the Cable Guy ☠ Lauren Faust ☠ LeafyIsHere ☠ Lecarick ☠ Leigh Alexander ☠ LeisureSuitGaming ☠ Lena Dunham ☠ Leonard F. Shaner Jr. ☠ Leslie Jones ☠ LifeInATent ☠ Likeicare ☠ Linkara ☠ LittleCloud ☠ LittleKuriboh ☠ Logo Kids ☠ Lordelthibar ☠ Low Tier God ☠ Lucian Hodoboc ☠ M. Chaos ☠ MAGAts ☠ Manchildren ☠ Mar9122 ☠ Marbles ☠ MarioMario456 ☠ Mariotehplumber ☠ Marjan Siklic ☠ masteroogwgay ☠ Matthew Davis ☠ Matthew Nicholson ☠ McJuggerNuggets ☠ MDetector5‎ ☠ Meowbark ☠ MeganSpeaks ☠ Michael Batton ☠ Michael Fitzhywel ☠ Michael Gimson ☠ Mike Sandy ☠ Moleman9000 ☠ Monica Punk ☠ MonkeyGameGuides ☠ Moviebob ☠ Mumkey Jones ☠ MuZemike ☠ MylarBalloonFan ☠ MysteriousMrEnter ☠ MysticArk ☠ NaokoElric2250 ☠ NawlinWiki ☠ Neckbeards ☠ NeoGAF ☠ Nicholas Prosper ☠ Nick Bate ☠ Nick Bravo ☠ Nikkineko333 ☠ Noah Antwiler ☠ Nostalgia Chick ☠ Notch ☠ Nullcherri ☠ Objectfags ☠ OFWGKTA ☠ Onideus Mad Hatter ☠ Onyx Forepaw ☠ Pacificoceanasia ☠ PaigeGirl ☠ Paul Feig ☠ Paulie Calafiore ☠ Parkourdude91 ☠ Peter Bright ☠ Peter Coffin ☠ Peter Scully ☠ PhantomStrider8 ☠ Phil Fish ☠ PhunWithLogic ☠ Pinkiepony ☠ Pit Viper ☠ Pixyteri ☠ Peluchin Entertainment ☠ PMRants ☠ Preachingthegospel ☠ Quentin Tarantino ☠ Rachael MacFarlane ☠ Randi Harper ☠ Richard Reid ☠ Ricki Raven ☠ RMG Productions ☠ Robert Stainton ☠ Robert Wayne Stiles ☠ Rockosocko ☠ Romeo Rose ☠ Rootbrian ☠ Rose3212 ☠ Ryan Routh ☠ Sad Frog ☠ SammyClassicSonicFan ☠ Sam Pepper ☠ Sarah Butts ☠ Sarahisnifty ☠ SaturnDOS ☠ Sceptre ☠ Schnookums ☠ Segacamp ☠ Sega Kid ☠ Seth MacFarlane ☠ Sethisto ☠ Shadman ☠ Simply Okami ☠ Slowbeef & Diabetus ☠ Snapesnogger ☠ Sonic Savior ☠ Sonmanic ☠ Sony-Mae ☠ Sophie Labelle ☠ Spax3 ☠ Stormy ☠ Superlisamcb ☠ Susan Boyle ☠ Tara Strong ☠ TheAmazingAtheist ☠ TheDOSFag ☠ TheOdd1sOut ☠ TheSockDetective ☠ Tim Buckley ☠ TJ Lane ☠ Todd in the Shadows ☠ Tom Preston ☠ ToonEGuy ☠ Tourneyfags ☠ Trey Eric Sesler ☠ Trigglypuff ☠ Tyciol ☠ Tyler Garmany ☠ Ulillillia ☠ The Unknown Autobot ☠ Vade ☠ VinceintheBay ☠ Wade Fulp ☠ WeatherManKevin ☠ Wesley!!! ☠ WoWfan4life ☠ Wwwarea ☠ Weegeeisgoingtokillm ☠ Xenuria ☠ YandereDev ☠ Yoshiwii1 ☠ You ☠ youngbloodfantasy91 ☠ Zazef ☠ Zoe Quinn ☠ Zone

Their Methods

9gag ☠ Adventure Time ☠ An Hero ☠ AIDS ☠ Animu ☠ Alt-right ☠ Art School ☠ A-Log's Fanfiction ☠ ask.fm ☠ Asperger's Syndrome ☠ Assigned Male ☠ Bath Salts ☠ The Big Bang Theory ☠ Battle for Dream Island ☠ BlackLivesMatter ☠ Black metal ☠ Body Pillows ☠ BonziWORLD ☠ BitView ☠ Booze ☠ Bullying ☠ BuzzFeed ☠ Children's Cartoons ☠ Clown World ☠ Computer Science III ☠ Cosplay ☠ CumOnPrintedPics.Com ☠ Cuphead ☠ Dating Sims ☠ Dead Friend ☠ Death metal ☠ Death penalty ☠ Deltarune ☠ DeviantART ☠ Discord ☠ Drugs ☠ Edginess ☠ ENA ☠ Family Guy ☠ FanFiction ☠ Feminism ☠ Fedora ☠ Fidget spinner ☠ The Filthy Frank Show ☠ Five Nights at Freddy's ☠ Fleshlight ☠ Friend Zone ☠ FurAffinity ☠ Furry Art ☠ Fun Shitposting Wiki ☠ Garry's Mod ☠ Genshin Impact ☠ GoAnimate! ☠ Googlewhacking ☠ Gorillaz ☠ Goths ☠ Gravity Falls ☠ Green Day ☠ Greeny Phatom ☠ Grindcore ☠ Hacking ☠ Happy Madison Productions ☠ Homestuck‎ ☠ Hover hand‎ ☠ Hufflepuff ☠ High Score ☠ Incelcore ☠ Indie music ☠ Infantilism ☠ Insane Clown Posse ☠ Introvert ☠ Invisible Girlfriend ☠ IRC ☠ Jenkem ☠ Kiwi Farms ☠ Kotaku ☠ League of Legends ☠ Lego ☠ Libertarianism ☠ LiveJournal ☠ Lonely ☠ LoveShy ☠ Mai Waifu ☠ Mass Shootings ☠ Men's rights activism ☠ Minecraft ☠ MLP Forums ☠ MMORPGs ☠ MGTOW ☠ MUDs ☠ My Little Pony ☠ My Tiny Dick ☠ Nice Guyism ☠ Nu metal ☠ Oculus Rift ☠ Oh Shiternet ☠ Online dating ☠ Online sex games ☠ Overwatch ☠ Plastic Crap ☠ Plenty of Fish ☠ /r9k/ ☠ Rick and Morty ☠ Roblox ☠ Rule 34 ☠ RuneScape ☠ School Shootings ☠ Second Life ☠ Self-Victimization ☠ Shy Boys IRL ☠ Silk Screen Goku Shirt ☠ Slayer ☠ Slipknot ☠ Sluthate ☠ Smogon University ☠ Social Justice ☠ Source Filmmaker ☠ South Park ☠ Soyjak.party ☠ Sparkalloon ☠ Speakonia ☠ Star vs. the Forces of Evil ☠ Steven Universe ☠ Taking the Internet Too Seriously ☠ Team Fortress 2 ☠ That Guy With The Glasses ☠ The Anytown Show ☠ The Entersphere ☠ The Sims ☠ They Might Be Giants ☠ Tomb Raider ☠ Tool ☠ Transformers ☠ Tulpas ☠ Tumblr ☠ TV Tropes ☠ twenty one pilots ☠ Uncharted ☠ Uncle Grandpa ☠ Uncyclopedia ☠ Undertale ☠ Unikitty ☠ UTTP ☠ VidLii ☠ Virginity ☠ Virtual YouTubers ☠ Vloggerheads ☠ WatchMojo.com ☠ Weezer ☠ Wikimania ☠ Wizardchan ☠ World of Warcraft ☠ YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG ☠ YouTube

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