Can someone explain to me what 8 chan is?

Can someone explain to me what 8 chan is?
Is it just an edgyer version of Sup Forums?

Yes.

/thread

That was fast.

i don't think it's edgier. i got banned for saying that donald trump is pro-israel at 8/pol/

Fuck you want

Site that gained some prominence when that GamerGate shit went down. Also used to host a bunch of boards that had CP on it that wasn't taken down for the longest time. Site eventually degraded into an alt-right circlejerk the last time I saw it though.

Yet they have /leftypol/, such as it is, and this here Cambodian fly fishing enthusiasts' forum does not.

thank god

They have boards for practically any subject, you can make your own board and call it whatever. There was one that was literally called /sexydeadchildren/