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@EDdotSE, speaking truth.Once upon a time, the Anonymous Collective was a mighty, anarchistic troll army with strong ties to /b that was feared both by the internets and the world at large. Many lulz were had raiding sites, bringing grief to grieving families, tormenting celebrities, calling out feminists on their bullshit, and, through it all, zero fucks were given by the Anons. During this period, Encyclopedia Dramatica felt no need to report fully on Anonymous, for no report was necessary. Later in Anonymous' history, they became well known throughout the world as a shadowy, hacktivist collective, who, through means of packets (read: LOIC), protesting, and web defacement worked to defend and preserve such ideologies as free speech, freedom of the press, etc. This began to change around 2011, when Sabu, chief of the Anonymous strong arm division known as Lulzsec, ratted out his fellow members to the FBI, and over the next few years most of them all took a ride in the party van. The slow but inevitable downward spiral of the once feared and respected Anonymous into a bunch of whiny, mask wearing, fedora-fag college students who think they are better than everyone else and making a difference in the world was underway.
Today, Anonymous mainly consists of the lowest breed of Social Justice Warriors, who are as sad and pathetic as any of the writers on Jezebel or Salon. Any libtard who downloads a Low Orbit Ion Cannon or guesses a poorly contrived Twitter password thinks of himself as a mighty Anon Warrior while accomplishing nothing of any notoriety or value. Just so that the Jews at Know Your Meme cannot claim that they are the only site with "credible information" on the elevation, accomplishments (for better or worse, depending on point of view), and decline of Anonymous, the internet's premier source for online information presents this article.
What?
The easiest of these puzzles to solve would be: "What is Anonymous?"
First and foremost, Anonymous is NOT a group, or an organization, or coherent collective of any sort. Anonymous is more like...an idea, a concept. Technically everyone and anyone is Anonymous. It's simply the name given to any collective action carried out virally by a large mass of people. Its ranks, goals, intentions and ideals are completely fluid, changing as easily as the wind. It's a kind of social ocean that occasionally builds itself up into a massive tsunami of sheer social willpower. The ocean isn't organized, it's not a sentient presence, it's not a "group", it merely is what it is...nature. THAT is what Anonymous is, it is simply the collective social nature of the Internet itself.
A brief history of Anonymous
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The word "Anonymous" originated from the *chan scene, which most readers probably know by now. Anonymous simply was anyone choosing to post as Anon on any given imageboard (as there were multiple "big" ones back in the day).
4chan was founded on October 3, 2003 and for its first few years was yet another e-base for all things weeaboo (and was almost completely destroyed by the GNAA in its early years). Here the first incarnation of Anonymous rose, among the endless posting of Desu and Mai Waifu. The GNAA and YTMND influences brought in a troll spirit to the boards of 4chan, primarily /b/ who began such early "invasions" and trolls such as cyberman and numerous conquests of (at the time) similar web venture Gaia Online.
Such actions became a favorite pastime of /b/, leading to bigger and better trolls to the likeness of Pools Closed and Harry Potter. No better man could explain this era of Anon than Phil Shuman in the infamous HACKERS ON STEROIDS news report (protip: that "former hacker" is Alex Wuori):
One classic series of raids of this time being those on white nationalist turned informant Hal Turner. It was then that the moral side of Anonymous and 4chan began to flourish, taking pride in subtly attacking a man for his racist values as oppose to doing it strictly for the lulz.
More troll targets and trolls came and went, including Tom Green and Girl Talk, Wikifur, and Grawp. However in the year 2008, in the midst of the SOHH defacement and Epilepsy Forums invasion, Project Chanology began. Such was the birth of the "mainstream anonymous", who worked for good and media attention via protests and firing their LOIC at seemingly random targets.
Skip ahead to 2010 and the birth of AnonOps, Anonymous is now known by the masses as a force for moral justice through destructive means (and carrying around those stupid Guy Fawkes masks).
Who?
There are many distinct flavors of anons, all of which can be found below.
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b KYM Cheezburger Network |
Raids, Memes, Cancer | The newfag has newly discovered the presence of e-culture. They are dumbfounded by such discoveries, and thus can turn in any given direction, but for the time being are known for their abuse of meme-spam and breakings of Rules 1 and 2. See also: Mercedes Haefer, a prime example of a newfag. |
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v 420chan 7chan |
Reminiscing about a fucking internet imageboard like a faggot. | The Oldfag was once a newfag, and likely either a moral or /i/ fag, but now has found more productive ways of spending their time than epic times oti. Probably hangs out on /v/, 7chan, or other forgotten imageboards discussing how cool /b/ was 2-3 (give or take) years ago. |
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i partyvan.info |
Raids, Spam, Ordering Pizza | The /i/nsurgent has one purpose: to cause as much grief as possible. Developed from overzealous raid-newfags, they eventually picked up enough CSIII knowledge to control a botnet or preform a simple crapflood. Although /i/ is dead, the /i/nsurgent brand lives on, always willing to completely demolish random furries or youtube vloggers who stand in the way of Anon's e-domination. |
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AnonOps Whatistheplan |
Occupying, Shouting memes at people, Protesting | The Moralfag is the more media-friendly side of the Anonymous legion. Encouraged by self-gratifying pats on the back, the moralfag army continues to operate much like evolved-newfags, only semi-organized. They are incredibly annoying, mostly neckbeard fedora-fags that post on Reddit.
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/a/ /cg/ /mu/ all other non-notable boards |
Posting | The *Channer, while far less notable, remains an important part of the Anonymous backbone. They are, much like Anon himself, one and many, driven without a purpose (other than fapping to hentai on a daily basis) they continuously spend day after day driving the force of the imageboard scene. |
Why?
In the past, depending on who one asks, they would have received one of two answers regarding the motives of Anonymous. These being either "I did it for the lulz" or some bullshit about securing a future for generations to come free from oppressive government rule. Because Anon has no face or name, its actions could not be truly justified or understood.
Of course, that was in the past. As noted in the beginning of this article, Anonymous is a sad shell of its former self. The only motivation it has now is to turn the entire internet into a collective hugbox, removing any and all lulz, and making it a Safe Space that Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu would be proud to call home. R.I.P, Old Anonymous.
Videos
Ah, the good old days.
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Legion comes in many flavors. -
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The Internet's true face.
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How to tell a "real Anonymous" from raidfags. The former believes he's just like his favorite animu villain. -
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See Also
Related Articles
- Anonymous Borg
- AnonymousThought
- Basement-dweller- Calling yourself a "member" of Anonymous means you are probably also a basement-dweller.
- Epic Fail Guy
- Ernest Peters - The victim of a backraid by Anonymous on 30th October 2007.
- Facefag
- Final Boss of the Internet
- Forced anon
- HACKERS ON STEROIDS
- Hal Turner - A white supremacist lolcow who had his online radio show raided by Anonymous.
- Hunter Fyffe - A fat white kid who Anonymous ordered several pizzas for on Oct. 20th 2009 after he ruined the RIP Kanye West Twitter Prank. Efforts remain to this day to make him suffer
- INTERNET HATE MACHINE
- Internet Vigilante
- Jake Brahm - 4channer who messed with Football.
- Marcab Confederacy
- Operation Madeupname
- Operation Titstorm
- Patriotic Nigras
- Scientology
- Script kiddie
- Self aware
- Serial killer
- Independence Day Invasion
- The Caturday Nap - October 20th, 2007. The battle of Anonymous vs. Anonymous.
- The Great Habbo Raid of July 2006
- The Internet is serious business
- The Well-Cultured Anonymous
- Troll
- Uncle Anon
- V
- William Tecumseh Sherman- Spiritual forefather of Anonymous.
- ZanderJGavin - The Voice of Anonymous.
- Avery Chicoine - Stalked by Anonymous for being a pedophile.
- Anne Onymous
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- John Solomon - An Anonymous troll of online comics who became a Namefag to be taken seriously.
External links
UkrDramatica's article on this- Anonymous arrested in the 2006 football bomb scare.
- Anonymous in the International Herald Tribune.
Song for AnonymousAnonymous is very active on IMDb- 404. Apparently not.- Another Republican bitching about Anonymous (not Fox News)
- Internet Hate Machine vs. Scientology This story was all over tech news sites.
- Failed Congressional bill to prohibit anonymous posting
- A site that doesn't know the difference between /b/tards and moralfags feel free to fire laz0rz
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Anonymous | Succeeded by Faux News |