17 Facts About Kiwi Farms

Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is an Internet forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities.

In September 2022, Kiwi Farms was blocked by Cloudflare due to "an imminent and emergency threat to human life".

In September 2022, Kiwi Farms suffered a data breach; the site operator told users to assume that IP addresses, email addresses, and passwords had been leaked.

Kiwi Farms was founded in 2013 by Joshua Conner Moon, a former 8chan administrator.

Kiwi Farms was originally called "CWCki Forums" before "Kiwi Farms" was coined in 2014.

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Targets of Kiwi Farms threads are often subject to organized group trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users.

Kiwi Farms's was later swatted, arrested, and detained for over ten hours in August 2022 when someone stole her identity and sent fake emails to local politicians threatening mass violence.

Kiwi Farms's was later cleared of any wrongdoing, and police acknowledged the incident as a swatting attempt.

Kiwi Farms used services from Cloudflare, an American hosting and web security services provider.

The Internet Archive excluded Kiwi Farms from being archived at the Wayback Machine during this time.

Harassment campaigns by Kiwi Farms users are known to have contributed to the suicides of three individuals.

The Kiwi Farms community considers it a goal to drive its targets to suicide, and has celebrated such deaths with a counter on the website.

Near, who was non-binary, said that they had endured lifelong bullying but that the abuse had recently centralized around Kiwi Farms which had "made the harassment orders of magnitude worse".

In March 2019, Kiwi Farms republished both the livestream and the manifesto of Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.

Kiwi Farms deemed the request a censorship attempt and argued that New Zealand authorities "do not have the legal reach to imprison everyone who's posted [the video]".

Kiwi Farms was one of several websites blocked by New Zealand Internet service providers after the attack.

Kiwi Farms's announced that Macmillan Publishers was publishing a memoir, Under the Same Stars: The Search for My Brother and the True Story of My Immortal, about the fan fiction's creation as well as her childhood of abuse and experiences as a Native American in the New York foster care system.