Like a deeper layer of Hell, 8chan is an image board for anyone who is too much of an edgelord for 4chan. Created during the Gamergate fiasco when even the brass of 4chan decided that situation was getting out of hand and became a base of operations of sorts for the GG crowd.

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.

An anonymous image board created by people who were not satisfied by the moderation of 4chan. 8chan is filled with some of the most messed-up stuff on the interwebs.

8chan is an image board site that gained notoriety in 2014; users can create their own boards there. Members of 4chan flocked there in the wake of moderator abuse during Gamergate. 8chan is a magnet for some of the most vile, obnoxious, and sociopathic people on the internet. Constantly generates mayham and troll-wars which seep upward into 4chan, Reddit, and even Twitter, despite it's tiny size.

Like 4chan, but twice as fucked up.

8chan originally was made popular because 4chan banned talk of gamergate, but that's old news. Now, it's used by hipsters that don't want to use 4chan because it's more popular. Also the administrator of 8chan is a midget in a wheelchair.

The single worst clearnet site to ever exist. Stuff like CP, gore, bizarre/disgusting fetishes (including actual scat), animal abuse, and illegal files aren't unusual.