Q. Who owns 2channel? A. Jim Watkins, who bought it from Hiroyuki Nishimura after he sold Jim the textboard's data. Jim currently sells the textboard's data too.
Q. Who owns 4chan? A. Hiroyuki Nishimura, who bought it from Christopher Poole. Hiroyuki currently sells the imageboard's data.
Q. Who owns 8chan? A. Jim Watkins, who bought it from Fredrick Brennan (hence the domain change). Jim currently sells the imageboard's data.
The data mining is real. Why post on these boards?