Kuz

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k♡♡z wielding his mighty b&hammer
k♡♡z during Heyuri's "golden age", wielding his mighty b&hammer!

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

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