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Basically when 8chan went down the second time, the current admin (not of 8moe) under extreme and i mean extreme scrutiny from external sources decided to rebrand like they did with 2ch/5ch, into 8kun. Another reason why they rebranded was because multiple server holders decided to steal 8chan's domain for the second time. 8kun was and still is a buggy unusable mess but for some ungodly reason had a massive boomer population worshipping Q-anon, so the admin doubled down and decided to pander to them.
To steal their retirement money Which included banning loli, thus repelling all the original userbase away. So at the time when 8kun was being built (almost a month, maybe more) everyone was on a respected bunker. 8moe was originally Cakechan hosting /v/ and a couple others. The owner eventually convinced some of the old guard to buy the 8chan.moe domain and restart from scratch. Of course this is a gross generalization, there were multiple inner-bunker conflicts, 8chan going zero-net and competition from Fatchan. 8moe eventually won out and some (not all) of the boards returned.
We later found out all of 8chan's stability problems actually came from the original 8/a/, now smug/a/, and their automated robo maido The SE and CC domains along with redchannit are all under 8moe as emergency backups. 8moe is the direct spiritual successor to 8chan as it has all the same staff and oldguard but not the original admins.