I'm sick of people trying to define Anonymous, sick of hearing about new operations that will garner no support, produce no lulz, and, more importantly, produce no results aside from a couple of retweets on twitter and a self congratulary slap on the back from those that retweeted it. What the very fuck is going on?
We are citizens of the Internet.
We trolled IRC chats, Geocities guestbooks and sent viruses to pedophiles over MSN. We sent people to Goatse and Rotten.com. Google did not exist. I had a modem which you had to lift the reciever of the phone. I watched War Games, Hackers, Lawnmower Man and lapped up the coming technology. We played Lemmings and Doom and Zelda and owned a NES. We knew more about computers and the online world than our parents and teachers and used that to our advantage. And with the birth of the Chan culture, I realised there were MANY more like me, who liked to cause electronic chaos. And our name was Anonymous.
There were raids, and trolling and we enjoyed ourselves in our own digital playground. the Internet was ours and the newbies were clueless and ours to produce lulz from.
Project Chanology changed everything. Anonymous was suddenly unleashed on the real world. A concious stream of idiocy and retardation that had decided to force itself upon Scientology. Mainly because we collectively thought Tom Cruise was a fucking douche. Scientolgy had struck out at YouTube and similar video hosting sites, which, at the time, were communities in a similar veign to the Chans and Forums we called our homes. And so, with an attack on our homes, we fought back, and it was lulzy and created much butthurt from the scientologists, which in turn created more lulz for us.
With the overwhelming success of Chanology and the public furore it created, we were suddenly inundated with newfags. At first it wasn't so bad, as the newfriends were mainly baffled by the cries of "I HERD YOU LIEK MUDKIPS" and the excessive use of the term "faggot". However as we moved into other areas, and Anons began wielding their new found power for other reasons, more and more newfags flocked to "join" Anonymous. Wikileaks launched not long afterwards and with it brought an avalanche of butthurt from the Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
