All you fucking newfags spinning new stories out of hearsay and rumors, this is why history needs to be documented correctly, otherwise ten different versions with varying facts pop up.
Josh(null) was hired by hotwheels to make infinitynext (don't know how). He was donated money by anons to progress on it. The project was slow, buggy, and due to Josh's tendency to namefag and respond to EVERY post on the progress thread, he was mocked incessantly. He mocked, banned and was a general asshole towards all. People joked about him trying to run away with all funds. When the beta was migrated it was still slow, and barely an improvement over current 8ch. Josh claimed the code was fine, people who donated got mad, everyone got mad, and after months infinitynext really became infinitynever.
Years later it was found that /a/'s meido bot which checked for duplicate shit was basically ddosing the server with extremely high amounts of checks, which was one of the main reasons for 8ch's and infinity's slow performance.
Here's where my rumors start - it was due to infinity's failure, all the bitching, and the money given by Hotwheels that he decided to leave ownership to Jim. It's possible that if meido bot's shit was detected earlier, infinity would've ran fine. Josh was kicked by Jim and he took the money (I think it was around $10k, dunno how much was left after infinity) and went to make 16chan based on infinity. And then sometime later he acquired cwcki forums(kiwifarms)
Now post your rumors and hearsays. Don't care about liking/disliking josh. Neither should you