Wizardchan (Wizchan) is an English bulletin board for adult male virgins, co-founded by “Mr_Pacific” and “Keivi” on July 8, 2012,¹⁾ then it abruptly died, so a second iteration was made on December 23, 2014.²⁾ Of course, much like its intended audience, the website sorta exists.

On July 8, 2012, “Mr_Pacific” and “Keivi” sets up Wizardchan at “wizardchan.org” using Tinyboard.³⁾ At some point, Fredrick Brennan rose through their ranks, then he bought Wizardchan for $20 in March 2013 as “Mr_Pacific” preferred a passive role.⁴⁾⁵⁾ On July 26, 2013, “Keivi” was ousted for claiming Brennan wanted to draw in non-wizards to impress 4chon,⁶⁾ then came the virginity incident⁷⁾ that Brennan regrets.⁸⁾

Brennan transferred Wizardchan to “Glaive” before establishing 8chan, then came the Zoë Quinn incident on December 12, 2013^9)10)11) that they insisted was a falseflag,¹²⁾¹³⁾ but later grew into GamerGate. Under “Glaive” and “Anachronos”, the website magically died on December 22, 2014 as the “wizardchan.org” domain began redirecting to a random woman's personal blog.¹⁴⁾

On December 23, 2014, a number of former Wizardchan moderators had moved fast to set up “wizchan.org” using Vichan,¹⁵⁾ beating out the unlikely successors. They would add a textboard in 2016, then a wiki on February 23, 2017,¹⁶⁾ then moved to the NPFchan fork in 2018. Both the textboard and wiki stopped working around 2021, but the two links to them weren't actually removed from their navbar until 2025.

The wizard theming stems from a saying that men who retain their 'virginity' past the age of 30 will become a 'magic user' (魔法使い, mahou-tsukai), translated as 'wizard' here. While the saying is quite old,¹⁷⁾ its recent popularity is generally attributed to the Haganai franchise in 2011.¹⁸⁾ Some of the users played around with the concept, inventing all sorts of game-related terminology,¹⁹⁾ but nobody remembers these.

• All male virgins below the age of 30 are called 'apprentice wizards', 'junior wizards', or 'wizkid'.
• Naturally, the premise makes them an easy target for ideological grooming or trolling, so there's some paranoia that other users are 'non-wizards' or considered normal to some degree.
• Under Brennan's administration, he claimed that four Wizardchan moderators committed suicide.
• Before the 2014 Isla Vista killings, a thread on Elliot Rodger was made²⁰⁾ and some of the users speculated,²¹⁾ but “Glaive” and later reports deny that he made the thread.²²⁾²³⁾
• Despite its incel reputation,²⁴⁾ the community rejects the label, as you can have a 'volcel' wizard,²⁵⁾ and looks down on self-identifying incels. There's even a wordfilter changing it to 'crab'.
• On April 2, 2018, the YouTube personality PewDiePie read an angry comment that mentions 4chan, 8chan, and Wizardchan.²⁶⁾ They did make a thread about this,²⁷⁾ but nobody gave a fuck.

• Wizardchan → 8chan → 420chan - The history of Fredrick Brennan.

• Wizardchan [Archive] - The front page of Wizardchan, archived December 23, 2014.
  • @wizardchan on Twitter [Archive] - The original Wizardchan Twitter account.
• Wizardchan - The front page of the second incarnation of Wizardchan, since 2014.
  • Wizardchan Wiki [Archive] - The defunct wiki project.