@laurel @apropos @moi @MeBigbrain @coolboymew @noyoushutthefuckupdad @takao @moyi >is it to bait people who don't know Rus imageboard history
Sorta. The first admin, Vitalik, was very insistent on positioning his site as "resurrected dvach", and as such used the same branding everywhere and banned people for using "forced names". The branding remained even after he sold it to Nariman "Abu" Namazov, who was a little more lax about unofficial names, but by that point site's popularity suprassed the original dvach.
>Also why do they call women тян?
"Chan" and "kun" were often appended to site mascots, notable figures and such as a part of weeaboo cargo cult, then it morphed into a slang terms for women and men in general.