Boards fra sitet spillede en aktiv rolle i [[GamerGate-kontroversen]], hvor Gamergaters opfordrede andre til at benytte 8chan da [[4chan]] bandlyste opslag om emnet. I november 2014 var 8chan den 3832. mest besøgte hjemmeside i verden.<ref name="alexa">{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/8ch.net |title=8ch.net Site Info |publisher=[[Alexa Internet]] |accessdate=8. august 2019 |archive-date= 6. august 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806112822/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/8ch.net |url-status=ok }}</ref> I november 2014 med 35.000 besøgende per dag og 400.000 opslag om ugen.<ref name="Howell2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/|title=8chan, the central hive of Gamergate, is also an active pedophile network|last=O'Neill|first=Patrick Howell|date=17. november 2014|work=[[The Daily Dot]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526154936/https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/|archive-date=26. maj 2018}}</ref>
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