Kuz
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kuz, also known as k♡♡z, real name Yuri Kuznetsov is a former administrator of Heyuri, and a long time contributor to the site. Joining the site in early 2020, he became the co-admin in May, and by June migrated Heyuri to his own servers.[1][2] Kuz is known for his unpredictable and eccentric behavior, something he is/was loved for on Heyuri. He created Rule 8[3] as well as several other important parts of Heyuri, he led the development of "Kokonotsuba", and revived Gurochan[4] and Vidlii[5] in 2021 and 2022. Kuz also runs the Kolyma Network[6], a controversial[7] webhosting company in Russia.
On April 25th, 2022, he stepped down as admin and gave his position to Kaguya[8], saying he had "less time" and "less motivation" but still believed Heyuri had huge potential and was his "favorite website".[8]
Personal life
Kuz is married and lives in Tennessee, however he has repeatedly said he plans to move to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, an island owned by Turkey, leading many to believe he plans to have buttseks with Kaguya.
Kuz runs a blog at kuz.lol where he has wrote about his life, his websites, and his views.
Kuz is a fan of Elvis Presley, judging by some of his online profile pictures and his Vidlii channel.[9]
Kuz is well known on several sites outside of Heyuri, for both good and bad reasons.[10][11][12]
Prior to Heyuri, kuz was the owner of a Russian textboard called 9channel, and apparently appeared on TV in Russia several times.
On Heyuri
Main article: Heyuri
Kuz is a important figure on the site, even after his resignation, as the vast majority of Heyuri's lifespan took place under his rule. As of yet, he has been the longest reigning admin, ruling for just over 2 years. Under his initial ownership Heyuris activity went up by 600%, peaking in July[13]. He asserts this is mostly because of him inviting tripfags from 9chan[14], although a wide variety of factors are likely contributing to this. During his ownership, Heyuri experienced its "golden age", a timespan which usually is thought to have lasted from May to August 2020. Shortly after this, due to a schism between him and lolico, Heyuri entered the dark ages.
Kuz first posted to Heyuri (at least publicly) on May 1st, 2020,[15] when he created the historic "tomo thread".
On other websites
9channel
9ch was a Russian textboard kuz used to own. Very little is known about it in the english world, see 9chan for more info.
Vidlii
On February 4th, 2022, KNN, a news aggregator website affiliated with kuz, announced that Kuz had bought Vidlii.com.[16]
In kuz's typical, whimsical fashion, someone first suggested kuz buy Vidlii on Ayashii World, to which kuz replied "Thanks for the idea"[17], and literally hours later it was announced he had purchased the site, to the surprise of many users. The sudden purchase shocked and excited many, and plans were discussed.[18] Kuz stated he would utilize this for Heyuris benefit, although no Heyuri ads appeared until months later. Apparently this was because kuz wanted to quietely introduce a user banner system, then add Heyuri banners, however kaguya said "fuck that" and just put up a Heyuri video on the front page, which drew many new users to the site.
Kuz initially recieved alot of controversy after users discovered his anti-LGBT writings, but it was quickly suppressed, more controversy followed when a Kolyma-affiliated channel started uploading Russian Propaganda to the site, causing some users to leave "in support of ukraine", although for the most part no one cared, and no action was taken.
Kuz shares adminship of the website with lolwut, although it was suggested that kuz later just became the sysadmin.
Kissu
Kissu is a imageboard which is owned by one of kuz's many "public enemies", kuz's rivalry with its two owners were a source of embarrassment and downtime for Heyuri for many months until kuz's abdication.
Kissu and Heyuri regularly attacked eachother, with kuz alleging one of its owners, Oregonian Programmer "Robert Brown" was a pedophile and spammed "terabytes" of CP on his sites, while Brown said kuz was a "unstable psycho" who kidnapped and manipulated teenagers and forced them into coding bootcamps, and also that he had forced employees of his company to download spyware. None of the claims made by either are supported by concrete evidence, however both maintain their rivalry today.
The other owner of the site, 30 year old Kai Niccol-Griffith, is a /jp/ lolcow who kuz accuses of slandering him and maliciously ddos'ing his websites, while Kai claims kuz tried to use kissu to advertise his websites, Kai called kuz a "self obsessed creep" and kuz retorted saying Kai was "autistic" and suggested he had gynocomastia, as well as HIV/AIDs, which kuz himself is known to have.
Soyjak.party
Soyjak.party, more commonly known simply as the 'party or the 'sharty is an imageboard based around soyjaks. Kuz has an incredibly extensive history with the website which ended in him purchasing it in January 2022. The topic is a hugely contentious issue and the resulting scandal contributed to kuz resigning later that year.
Gurochan
Gurochan is kuz's largest website, although it is currently owned by Kaguya, kuz revived it in early 2021.
Kuz first brought it back with co-admin "Straitjakit", whom now ranks among kuz's list of "defeated enemies". Straitjakit and Kuz ruled together for about 10 seconds (January 29th - February 13th) before kuz's abrasive personality and straitjakits down syndrome collided and kuz kicked him out, resulting in huge drama. Despite initial flak, the userbase gradually began to take kuz's side. Now pretty much everyone sides with kuz, as straitjakit is despised by most of the community.[19]
Kuz gave the website to Kaguya in June of 2021, although he still owns the domain and manages the backend.
Other
Gab
Kuz maintains a Gab account,[20] as does his wife[21] and several other kolyma users, such as Kaguya[22] and Yuka.[23] Many kolyma users made kolyma accounts after kuz sent out a global message telling everyone to create an account.
Owned Websites
A timeline of kuz's owned websites, not including the dozens of vacant, kuz-owned parked domains (e.g. ru2ch.net). This list contains sites which were previously owned by kuz as well.
Name | About | Created | URL | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
9ch | Russian Textboard, main topics include crime, current news, electronics, conspiracy theories, dark web, drugs, and lots and lots of pr0n | 2005 | Unknown, devyach.net (successor) | Dead, successor website exists |
Mag-net | Internet Service Provider | 2005 | kolyma.net | Renamed to KolymaNET |
KolymaNET | Webhosting Company, multipurpose | 2005 | kolyma.org, formerly kolyma.net | Alive |
Gurochan | Bulletin Board | 2005 | guro.cx | Revived by kuz in 2021 |
Rychuvak | Bitcoin trading | 2010 | Unknown | Dead |
Sosach | Imageboard | 2006, kuz co-admin in 2013 | 2ch.so | Rebranded as 2ch.hk |
Vidlii | Video sharing | 2015 | [1] | Alive |
Bitview | Video sharing | 2017 | Bitview.net | Alive |
Heyuri.cf | Booru, later imageboard, finally museum | 2018 | heyuri.cf | Dead |
9chan.moe | 9channel successor site | 2019 | 9chan.moe | Dead |
Kolyma.jp | Server rental | 2019 | kolyma.jp | Alive |
Heyuri | Imageboard | 2020 | heyuri.net | Hosted by kuz, no longer owned |
2upload | File Uploader | 2020 | 2ちゃん.net | Moved to 2ch.cx |
2ch.cx | File Uploader | 2020 | 2ch.cx | Moved to 2ch.sh |
2ch.sh | File Uploader | 2020 | 2ch.sh | Alive |
bbs.kolyma.jp | Bulletin Board | 2020 | bbs.kolyma.jp | Briefly a Heyuri successor |
Strawberry Heaven | Bulletin Board | 2020 | strawberryheaven.net | Heyuri successor |
CUMMED | Gimmick Website, logs users faps | 2020 | cummed.kolyma.org | Dead |
Artika | E-Newspaper | 2020 | artika.ml | Split into Kuz.lol and KNN |
KNN | News website | 2020 | knn.jp.net | Alive |
Kuz's Blog | Blog | 2020 | kuz.lol | Alive |
Soyjak.party | Imageboard | 2020 | Soyak.party | Alive |
Dailytomo | Gimmick Website | 2021 | dailytomo.fka.cx | Alive |
HeyuriDating | Dating Website | 2021 | heyuri.net/dating/ | Dead |
E49 | IP Address Market | 2021 | Unknown | Unknown |
Loli3 | Porn Imageboard | 2021 | loli3.net | Created and hosted by Kuz, later given to Kaguya |
Gurochan (renewed) | Porn Imageboard | 2021 | guro.cx | Created and hosted by Kuz, later given to Kaguya |
Gorechan | Shock Site | 2021 | gorechan(...).onion | Created and hosted by Kuz, later given to Kaguya |
Strange World | Bulletin Board | 2021 | ayashii.net | Created and hosted by Kuz, later given to Kaguya |
Krypto | Payment Processor | 2021 | krypto.kolyma.org | Broken |
Devyach | Textboard | 2021 | devyach.net | Alive |
Soyjaks.net | Imageboard | 2022 | soyjaks.net | Rebranded to soyak.party |
Soyak.party | Imageboard | 2022 | Soyak.party | Migrated to Soyjak.party |
Planned websites
Name | About | Launch Date | URL | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Toruch | Turkish Textboard | 2021, delayed | toruch.net | Stalled |
Gallery
- Kuz portrait.png
Portrait of kuz
- Kuz army.png
Kuz in the military
Citations
- ↑ NEW SERVERS! by kuz
- ↑ Kuz has taken over as second admin
- ↑ Rule 8 was originally just a bulletin posted below the postform which said "No wojaks or zoomerhumor". On June 6th, kuz made it an official rule, and formed the 8th rule of Heyuri. https://heyuri.net/#news16
- ↑ Kuz revived gurochan on January 29th
- ↑ Kuz announces purchase of Vidlii.com - KNN headline
- ↑ Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov is the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kolyma Network Corporation
- ↑ KolymaNET#Controversies
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW by kuz
- ↑ https://www.vidlii.com/user/kuz
- ↑ https://wiki.bibanon.org/index.php?title=Yuri_Kuznetsov_(kuz)
- ↑ https://wiki.soyjak.party/index.php?title=Kuz
- ↑ https://archive.ph/QWh0b
- ↑ NOTE: When this graph was made, july had not finished. It would turn out to be heyuris biggest month
- ↑ Kuz has repeatedly stated this, but he proffesses it shortly before he does it here.
- ↑ https://archive.ph/KEFfH
- ↑ Kuz announces purchase of Vidlii
- ↑ Log Warehouse, Ayashii World
- ↑ https://ayashii.net/bbs.php?m=t&s=2586&c=08&ff=202202.dat
- ↑ https://dis.guro.cx/dis/koko.php?res=420#p1140
- ↑ https://gab.com/realkuznetsov
- ↑ https://gab.com/nedeyanova
- ↑ https://gab.com/kaguyarou
- ↑ https://gab.com/maximov