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Featured on Sep 16, 2025 by Null: [REWRITE] Dan Olson, formerly with That Guy with the Glasses, attempted to cover up for JewWario's sex offenses while at the same time trying to deplatform 8chan.
Dan Olson / Folding Ideas
This is from his thread where he claimed that Nazis and pedos have an alliance
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This is from his thread where he claimed that Nazis and pedos have an alliance
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Twitter: https://x.com/FoldableHuman
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas
Medium: https://medium.com/@FoldableHuman
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas
Medium: https://medium.com/@FoldableHuman
ex-Channel Awesome (That Guy With The Glasses) content creator who was behind the show Folding Ideas, however, this is just what he's known for in mainstream circles of the Internet, on the other he's known for his extreme opposition towards GamerGate which was so big that he joined a secret operation to take down 8chan (One of the main congregators of GamerGate at that time) and covering up his colleague's sex offenses, all to own the GamerGate chuds1. Channel Awesome / That Guy With The Glasses
His show, Folding Ideas, was a media analysis show, attempting to establish things from a contextual and cultural viewpoint rather than a fan-based or artform-based one. While his show was on Channel Awesome for over a year - from August 2014 to September 2015 - He created less than six episodes within three months of his work on Channel Awesome beginning. Suffice it to say he spent roughly ten months generating no content whatsoever.
With only a handful of episodes released over his over year-long period on Channel Awesome, and the bulk of his work devoted to opposing GamerGate - his career on the site literally beginning as the controversy itself did - Dan Olson's show went on to be one of the worst-received shows on the website. Virtually none of his videos have more than a few thousand views each, with his most infamous video, about GamerGate, which we'll talk about later, having under 14,000 views as of May 11, 2016, it did get a sizable amount of views later on but the point here is that nobody cared about him at that time
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Olson's videos often left him open to criticism as well; he quickly garnered a reputation as someone with an axe to grind, not helped at all by the timing of his employment or cozy relationship with those in GamerGate's opposition. His less outwardly political episodes were much better received, but in the end his show was allegedly canceled in September of 2015, when Channel Awesome supposedly ended his trial period. The truth, however, was far darker.
On April 7th, 2018, Channel Awesome content creator Count Jackula gave his account on what happened with Dan Olson, with Olson and other Chez Apocalypse, an independent website operated by Nostalgia Chick and her friends, members coming out vocally in favor of Zoe Quinn and against GamerGate.
Rather than submit to mob mentality or extortion attempts, Jackula attempted to keep lines of communication open on GamerGate, attempting to discern what the hashtag consumer revolt was actually about since there was an enormous amount of misinformation being thrown around at GG's outset and he wanted to know more. Dan Olson responded by declaring that there was no being neutral regarding GamerGate - that daring to question the veracity of claims by the likes of Zoe Quinn was tantamount to condoning their harassment. Jackula was having none of it, since none of Channel Awesome had anything to do with Zoe Quinn - except Dan Olson, of course, who was involved with Crash Override Network, a now-disgraced "anti-harassment task force" established by Zoe Quinn in November of 2014
Olson's presence on Channel Awesome was hallmarked by attempts to force the site's users and content creators to unite against GamerGate, which came to a head when Dan Olson put up a Folding Ideas episode on the subject
2. 8chan GayOps Operation
Whilst Olson would become well-known for his infamous video and the meltdown on Channel Awesome leading up to his firing, he is best-known for his involvement with Laurelai Bailey in an attempt to get 8chan offlined, to help destabilize and destroy GamerGate.
The plan itself centered around Laurelai Bailey, a tranny lolcow known for causing a lot of drama in every community he's in, setting up a honeypot in the form of 8chan's new /hebe/ board, which was started by Laurelai. By luring in would-be pedophiles, she would set up 8chan so they would upload child porn and jailbait material for Dan Olson to "find." Once Olson could "prove" the connection, he'd set up an article attempting to frame the website as nothing but pedophiles, the article itself would be called "The Mods are Always Asleep"
Laurelai's involvement in the plan wound ultimately wound up undermining it. Those familiar with Laurelai were quick to make his involvement known: first, the headlining thread on /hebe/ featured a link to an IRC channel hosted on starrevolution.org. A simple IP trace quickly showed that starrevolution.org shared an IP address with multiple other sites - including Laurelai Bailey's personal website and SJWiki, which Laurelai is the proprietress of.
Finally, it was discovered that Olson had a pre-existing relationship with Laurelai, both contacting her repeatedly via Twitter and being a routine editor of SJWiki
You may have already noticed discerned a flaw in Olson's plan, which is essentially that Olson himself downloaded what he described as Child Porn to smear 8chan (and subsequently GamerGate) in the article. Indeed, if Dan's claims had been accurate, he would be guilty of both possession and distribution of Child Pornography. Ironically, much of the content he did post in his article was not classified as Child Porn in the USA, where 8chan is established; however, such content does qualify as it under Canadian statutes, especially given Olson's vivid description of the images in question. As Gallant lives in Canada himself, people began trolling him in response to this by reporting him to Canadian police for these very actions, which caused Olson to lay low directly in response.
3. Covering up Sex Offenders
It was revealed on April 12th, 2018, that, despite not being on Channel Awesome yet, Dan Olson was nonetheless aware of Justin "JewWario" Carmichal's alleged sex offenses and that he chose to remain silent on them. While Justin committed suicide in 2014, before Olson actually joined, his own account suggests that what happened with Carmichael was something of an open secret amongst Chez Apocalypse's team and that he and his associates were aware of it prior to Justin's suicide in January of 2014.
The reason why Dan Olson did not report Carmichael to authorities to investigate these allegations is not clear, but Olson has nonetheless claimed that his reason for remaining silent was, you would never guess it, GAMERGATE
While Olson's claim that it was necessary to remain quiet on the matter because of GamerGate and/or Justin "Settling the matter" reeks of being an excuse and has more than a few logical holes - including Justin killing himself long before GamerGate began, and Olson not being on Channel Awesome at the time, the sheer fact that Dan Olson essentially admitted, in his post, that he would cover up sexual abuse allegations if it meant scoring a win against a cause he didn't like made for some truly terrifying implications and made a lot of Olson's behavior much more clear
4. A New Found Popularity and James Rolfe
Dan's content would begin to pick up around the time when BreadTube started becoming a huge thing, however, he would only get his big break from his documentary about NFTs "Line Goes Up"
This documentary gives Dan what he always wanted, being taken seriously by the mainstream public, but it wouldn't be too long after it he would be untangled in a new controversy
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