

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. JSTOR ( July 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The "old Dvach", 2ch.ru, was launched in February 2006 by Vikentiy Fesunov and was allegedly administered by Konstantin Grusha, who also co-owned several other Russian websites like Bash.im and. Its userbase was mostly anime fans, influenced by 4chan, 2channel, and Russian communities popular at the time, especially LiveJournal bloggers.Ģch.ru was the first Russian-language imageboard. Later in 2007, some other websites were created, including Iichan, a heavily moderated imageboard that was a "polite and non-toxic" alternative to Dvach, and now-defunct 0chan, an imageboard for tech geeks, which later developed into a refuge for Dvach users. The domain name was still owned by Fesunov so that nobody would claim it. Some of the users went to 0chan, but numerous copies of Dvach were also launched, most notable being, known as Tirech (from тире, transl.

"dash"), run by Vitalik and his moderation team. In November 2010, Vitalik resigned as an administrator, and a user named Abu succeeded him. He later revealed in an interview with his former classmate, Russian YouTube blogger Ilya Varlamov, that he had bought 2-ch for 10,000 dollars. Abu tolerated some of the derogatory and mocking names given to him and the board by the users, like Macaque or Sosach. He used images of Abu from Disney's Aladdin.
