>>2034kalyx founded lainchan, and ran it for some time.
He then sold it to appleman1234, and mostly ceased his involvement with the site.
Some mods from Lainchan got irked at the way appleman1234 handled things, and broke off to create a new site, then called lainchan.jp, which later became arisuchan. After a time kalyx reemerged and involved himself with lainchan.jp, but then also got irked at some of the goings on here, and left it, too.