Dogolachan
| Available in | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2013 |
| Country of origin | Brazil |
| Founder(s) | Emerson Eduardo Rodrigues Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello |
| Registration | None |
| Written in | PHP |
Dogolachan is a Brazilian anonymous imageboard. The website was originally founded in 2013 by Internet criminals Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello and Emerson Eduardo Rodrigues.[1][2][3][4] It moved to the darknet after Mello's arrest in 2018.[5][1]
The forum has been employed by a number of its users, including Mello, as a vessel of attacks against minorities, feminists activists and journalists.[1][2][3] In June 2018, a moderator of the website, known online as Kyo, killed a woman unknown to him in a suicide attack in Penápolis, São Paulo, after being encouraged by another user.[4][6] A number of harassment campaigns were carried out by the website against politically-involved people known for being hostile to Mello and Rodrigues, such as Argentinian feminist blogger Lola Aronovich, Brazilian politician Jean Wyllys and right-wing lawyer Janaína Paschoal.[2]
The forum remained operational until Mello was arrested by Federal Police in 2018 for a number of internet crimes,[1][2] after which Rodrigues exiled himself to Spain.[3] Mello was sentenced to 41 years in prison later that year,[7] both him and Rodrigues had been previously convicted of internet crimes in 2012.[2][3] A subsequent iteration of Dogolachan was soon founded by an anonymous person known only as "DPR", and the forum was later moved to the TOR network.[8][5][1]
Dogolachan has been described as one of the most prominent hate forums in Brazil.[2] The website was named after a Russian dog known online as Dogola, which became one of the first Internet memes in Brazil. Its users have frequently opposed feminist ideology, LGBT rights and political correctness.[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "Dogolachan: o fórum extremista que é celeiro de atos violentos". Noticias R7 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Como funciona o maior grupo de propagação de ódio na internet brasileira, que lucra com misoginia, racismo e homofobia". epoca.globo.com. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 3 4 "'O dia em que o cara que quis me destruir foi condenado a 41 anos de prisão'". Intercept Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 "Fóruns na dark web incitam violência e mortes e desafiam polícia". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2019-03-16. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- 1 2 DA ROSA, Alex; DO AMARAL, Augusto Jobim. Ódio às mulheres: Incels e Dogolachan. ANAMORPHOSIS-Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura, v. 11, n. 1, 2025.
- ↑ "Chans, máquinas de ódio na internet, ganham notoriedade após massacre de Suzano" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2025-02-14. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ "Homem é condenado a 41 anos de prisão por crimes como racismo, terrorismo e divulgação de pedofilia na internet". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2026-07-03.
- ↑ Rodrigues, Marcos Alexandre Fernandes (2025-08-31). "O renascimento do Dogolachan na Deep Web: apologia e incentivo ao estupro e ao terrorismo em comentários pelo viés da Análise Dialógica do Discurso e da Criminologia Cultural". Linha D'Água. 38 (2): 424–444. doi:10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v38i2p424-444. ISSN 2236-4242.