2chan may refer to: 2channel (also 2chan, 2ch or 2ch.net), a defunct Japanese textboard founded by Hiroyuki Nishimura 5channel (or 5ch and 5ch.tunet), its successor owned by American businessman Jim Watkins (also the owner of 8chan) 2ch.sc, a fork of 2channel created and owned by Hiroyuki Nishimura Futaba Channel or 2chan (2chan.net), an unrelated Japanese imageboard, based on 2channel
See also 2CH (disambiguation) Channel 2 (disambiguation) Chan (disambiguation), a generic term for imageboards, from the popularity of 4chan and ultimately from Futaba Channel (2chan) and 2channel