The GNAA logo

The Gay Nigger Association of America (abbreviated GNAA) is a troll organization that primarily targets Internet communities in an effort to cause havoc and disrupt their normal activities. Although it is termed "Association of America", the organization claims to have members from all over the world. ^[1] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2890x957, 36 KB) GNAA logo rendered by Sam Hocevar. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2890x957, 36 KB) GNAA logo rendered by Sam Hocevar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Members engage in such activities as flooding weblogs, producing shock sites, prank-calling technical support telephone lines, and IRC channel disruption such as IRC floods. These actions have occasionally interrupted the normal operation of popular websites such as slashdot.org, even forcing some websites to shut down temporarily. As such, targeted communities generally consider GNAA members a nuisance and frequently respond with technological and social anti-trolling measures such as moderation systems to limit future disruption. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A shock site is a website intended to be offensive to most viewers, usually containing frightening and/or incredibly distasteful and crude content. ... A prank call, also known as a crank call, hoax call, or phony phone call is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. ... Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with computer hardware, software, or other electronic or mechanical goods. ... IRC redirects here. ... Flooding or scrolling on an IRC network is a method of disconnecting users from the IRC server (like Denial of Service), or just making them slow (laggy). Floods can either be done by scripts (written for the given client) or by external programs. ... Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ... Nuisance is a common law tort. ... It has been suggested that Techie be merged into this article or section. ... On Internet websites which invite users to post comments, a moderation system is the method the webmaster chooses to sort contributions which are irrelevant, obscene, illegal or insulting from contributions which are useful or informative. ...

History

GNAA representative "trogg" posing as David Blaine in front of the Lincoln Center in New York during his Drowned Alive stunt.

The GNAA first appeared in January 2003, trolling Slashdot using ASCII art logos representing the organization and satirical news releases pertaining to the contents of Slashdot articles. As with other troll organizations, members of the GNAA adopt pseudonyms to preserve their anonymity and their true identities are generally not known. While its number of members are unknown, the GNAA has listed members "timecop" as the founder and President and "jesuitx" as a co-founder and Vice President. ^[2][3] Image File history File linksMetadata Trogg_david_blaine. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Trogg_david_blaine. ... David Blaine David Blaine (born David Blaine White on April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is an American magician and stunt performer. ... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for January, 2003. ... ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ... A logotype (from the Greek λογότυπο), commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element, symbol, and icon of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface or arranged in a particular way. ... The World According To Ronald Reagan, a satirical map by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey Satire is a technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, institutions, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing... A news release, press release or press statement is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The GNAA's website features pictures of black athletes and professionals that appear to originate from stock image archives in an apparent attempt to parody the designs of various corporate websites. ^[4] It states that the GNAA does not support or promote racism, homophobia, or other kinds of hatred. ^[1] While their main motivation is simply to troll, they claim to have targeted websites and blogs that promote "anti Gaynigger and pro-Zionist propaganda". ^[5] This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water cooler at a racially segregated street car terminal in the United States in 1939. ... Homophobia is the fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. ... A bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

GNAA members Rucas and Armorfist created a shock site called Last Measure, which the GNAA often links or redirects to in their various activities. In order to automate their activities, the GNAA has created many programmatic scripts for uses such as crapflooding sites. ^{[citation needed]} The source code of these scripts are usually made available under the revised BSD license. ^{[citation needed]} One such script is ASIAN, The Automated Synchronous IRC Abuse Network, a clone of a popular IRC flooding tool called AYSYN (Are you stupid? Yes/No) by mef. ^{[citation needed]} It was created by members Rucas and abez due to the many bugs found in AYSYN and the lack of source code. ^{[citation needed]} It uses SOCKS proxies and Tor to connect numerous drones to an IRC server and use them to flood various people and channels. ^{[citation needed]} A shock site is a website intended to be offensive or shocking to most viewers, containing material many people would consider frightening and/or extremely distasteful and crude, generally of a pornographic, scatological, or extremely violent nature. ... Last Measure is a shock site created by members (specifically penisbird[1]) of the Internet trolling group Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA). ... Crapflooding is the practice of disrupting online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings (flooding with crap. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... IRC redirects here. ... Tor is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing — a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet. ... IRC redirects here. ...

Membership

GNAA encourages people to join by suggesting that potential recruits watch the 1992 Danish low-budget film Gayniggers From Outer Space, from which their name derives. The GNAA's entry requirements also include successfully achieving a "first post" on Slashdot consisting of GNAA troll text or registering support by upward moderation of GNAA comments. A test on the subject matter in Gayniggers From Outer Space is then administered by an IRC bot. ^[1] This is a list of film-related events in 1992. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Gayniggers From Outer Space (1992) is a short film directed by Danish filmmaker, DJ and singer Morten Lindberg, aka. ... A typical first post on Slashdot First Post! is an Internet phenomenon on Internet discussion groups (notably Slashdot and LiveJournal), where participants strive to be the first person to post a comment to a new article or discussion thread. ... A Do not feed the troll image In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including... Moderation is the process of eliminating or lessening extremes. ... An IRC bot performing a simple task. ...

GNAA ASCII signature

The GNAA has a signature block which their members use whenever they perform a crapflood or post a news release. The full "sig", which includes an embedded ASCII art picture depicting the letters "GNAA" on a wall, can be found on their website. It begins: Image File history File links ASCII signature of the GNAA. Taken by me from a screenshot. ... Image File history File links ASCII signature of the GNAA. Taken by me from a screenshot. ... A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file, or just sig) is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post. ... Crapflooding is a form of trolling online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings in order to make it difficult for other users to read other postings. ... ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...

"GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

• Are you GAY?
• Are you a NIGGER?
• Are you a GAY NIGGER?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!"

All the members of the GNAA act anonymously, though some pseudonyms have become known. One of the most oft-mentioned members in the GNAA is "Gary Niger", a play on the words "Gay Nigger". Gary, a fictional character coined by GNAA vice-president jesuitx, is cited as a press contact in most press releases the GNAA releases, and also frequently appears as the name in their trolling activities. Another member, "rolloffle", also known as "James A.C. Joyce", who has since left the GNAA, participated in many trolling incidents and created many scripts to cause problems for various software programs that are used in internet forums. "Rolloffle" was also the author of the article "Why your Movable Type blog must die", which was published on the website Kuro5hin. GNAA member "Rucas" is the lead developer of GNAA Last Measure and until recently hosted the largest Last Measure mirror at peoplesprimary.com. He has recently released latvianbotnet.pl, a Perl script to crapflood IRC channels. GNAA member "l0de" is the head technician and host of his Internet radio show, the l0de Radio Hour, popular with GNAA members, other internet trolls, and a small number of New Orleans residents. ^{[citation needed]} Kuro5hin (K5) (pronounced corrosion) is a community discussion website (sometimes known as an example of Commons-based peer production) focused on technology and culture. ... Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below) is a dynamic procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Crapflooding is a form of trolling online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings in order to make it difficult for other users to read other postings. ... IRC redirects here. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...

Activities

Attempt to flood Slashdot by the GNAA: note topics modded down to -1

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Disruption

One of the aims of the GNAA is to cause disruption on the Internet. They tend to target community webboards and blogs, and have been moderately successful in disrupting both major and minor sites. They first gained notoriety in the Slashdot community when they launched several flood attacks against the site. Slashdot subsequently implemented open proxy-banning measures in its posting system; GNAA members claim that their crapflooding campaign spurred this change. They also registered many usernames en masse to mark a Slashdot editor who uses the name "michael" as their foe. ^[6] In late 2004, the GNAA discovered vulnerabilities in weblogging service Xanga. In a related attack, they launched a Denial of Service attack on Slashdot, taking down its search engine for a few days. ^[7] GNAA also causes disruption on IRC as they are known to crapflood channels. Because of this, many IRC servers will attempt to disallow the formation of a GNAA channel on their network (see counter-measures). Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ... Crapflooding is the practice of disrupting online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings (flooding with crap. ... An open proxy is a proxy server which is accessible by any Internet user. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system. ... A search engine or search service is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. ... Crapflooding is a form of trolling online media such as discussion websites or Usenet newsgroups with nonsensical, inane, and/or repetitive postings in order to make it difficult for other users to read other postings. ...

Notable trolls

The two most notable trolls that the GNAA have performed involved Mac OS X users and Harry Potter readers. In July 2004, GNAA member jesuitx and Ron Delsner submitted leaked screenshots of the forthcoming operating system Mac OS X v10.4 to the popular Apple Macintosh news website MacRumors, which read "With WWDC just days away, the first Tiger information and screenshots appears to have been leaked. According to sources, Apple will reportedly provide developers with a Mac OS X 10.4 Preview copy at WWDC on Monday. The screenshots provided reportedly come from this upcoming developer preview." ^[8] When people found out the source was the GNAA many declared the screenshots to be fake based on the organization's disreputability in the past. Later, the GNAA released a press release which claimed that the screenshots were genuine (cf. official Apple screenshots), and that they trolled the Apple community. ^[9] 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: July 2004 in sports Deaths in July • 31 David B. Haight • 29 Francis Crick • 29 Nafisa Joseph • 23 Joe Cahill • 23 Mehmood • 23 Illinois Jacquet • 23 Carlos Paredes... A screenshot of this page being displayed in the Mozilla web browser. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... WWDC 2005, at Moscone Center The Worldwide Developers Conference, commonly abbreviated WWDC, is an annual trade show for Apple developers. ...

Dattebayo fansub website with GNAA notice

In June 2005, the GNAA claimed to have created a Mac OS X Tiger release for Intel x86 processors which caught media attention from Mac Daily News June 11.^[10] The next day, the supposed leak made front page news on Slashdot and was mentioned on the G4 show Attack of the Show. The DVD image released onto BitTorrent merely booted an image of hello.jpg (goatse) instead of the leaked operating system as some had thought, and the remaining several gigabytes of space on the DVD was filled with a repetition of the text "GNAAGNAA...". The same hoax was created again in August of 2005, this time with a fake bootloader that gave generic error messages if the date was before August 4, and after that date it displayed the content from the shock site Last Measure. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x604, 122 KB)Troll notice from the GNAA on the website Dattebayo. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x604, 122 KB)Troll notice from the GNAA on the website Dattebayo. ... Opening credits of School Rumble with karaoke fansub subtitles. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in June June 27: Shelby Foote June 27: John T. Walton June 26: Richard Whiteley June 25: John Fiedler June 25: Chet Helms June 24: Paul Winchell June 21: Jaime Cardinal Sin June 20: Jack Kilby... Mac OS X (officially pronounced Mac Oh-Ess Ten) is a line of open source graphical operating systems, with proprietary higher level API layers, developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... G4 is a United States cable and satellite television channel geared toward viewers aged 12–34 and devoted to the world of video games and the people who play them. ... Sarah Lane is hott! Attack of the Show! (previously named The Screen Savers) is a live gaming and entertainment television program shown on G4 in the United States, G4techTV in Canada, and the HOW TO Channel in Australia. ... The BitTorrent logo BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, and is the name of a free software implementation of that protocol. ... This article or section may contain external links added only to promote a website, product, or service – otherwise known as spam. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... Last Measure is a shock site created by members (specifically penisbird[1]) of the Internet trolling group Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA). ...

Upon the impending release of the next book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the GNAA claimed to have created a PDF file of the book, which contained various shock images and released it to BitTorrent. In addition, the GNAA also posted various spoilers about the new book onto a Harry Potter fan forum which caused them to temporarily shut down until 1-2 days after the book's release, and a GNAA member by the name of Zeikfried also created a web site a few days before the release of the book, containing plot spoilers. ^[11] The Harry Potter books are an extremely popular series of fantasy novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. ... For the film, see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released on 16 July 2005, is the sixth novel in J. K. Rowlings popular Harry Potter series. ... PDF is an abbreviation with several meanings: Portable Document Format Post-doctoral fellowship Probability density function There also is an electronic design automation company named PDF Solutions. ... A shock site is a website intended to be offensive to most viewers, usually containing frightening and/or incredibly distasteful and crude content. ... The BitTorrent logo BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, and is the name of a free software implementation of that protocol. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For the film, see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, released on 16 July 2005, is the sixth novel in J. K. Rowlings popular Harry Potter series. ... MY NAME IS BOB AND I LOVE PEANUTS!!!!!!11A plot is the course or arrangement of events in a narrative. ... Aerith dies at the end of disc one of Final Fantasy VII. A spoiler is a summary or description of a narrative (or part of a narrative) that relates plot elements not revealed early in the narrative itself. ...

Several other notable incidents involved trolling anime fans and Dremel website administrators. In August 2005, the GNAA released a copy of Gayniggers from Outer Space onto the fansub website Dattebayo, which was falsely labeled as episode 146 of the Japanese anime show Naruto. The film was preceded by the opening credits of the show. This was possible because GNAA president timecop is a Dattebayo staff member. It should be noted that any attempt to access non-listed torrent files on Dattebayo's server (for example, an upcoming episode of Naruto or Bleach) triggers an automatic redirect to the Last Measure website. The Dremel website incident happened on October 31, 2004, following the posting of a "Dremel Pumpkin Carving Kit" on Slashdot. An image of "Goatse Pumpkin" was part of the page. This image happened to be hosted on Debian maintainer Sam Hocevar's server, and he proceeded to add the GNAA logo to it, leading visitors to think the GNAA had hacked the Dremel website^[12][13]. A variable-speed MultiPro Dremel Dremel Moto-Tool is the name given to rotary tools developed by Albert J. Dremel, who founded the Dremel Company in 1932 in Racine, Wisconsin. ... Gayniggers From Outer Space (1992) is a short film directed by Danish filmmaker, DJ and singer Morten Lindberg, aka. ... Opening credits of School Rumble with karaoke fansub subtitles. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Naruto. ... Naruto romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation. ... Naruto romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime TV series adaptation. ... Bleach , romanized as BLEACH in Japan) is a manga and anime series by Tite Kubo, mangaka of Zombie Powder. ... Last Measure is a shock site created by members (specifically penisbird[1]) of the Internet trolling group Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA). ... A variable-speed MultiPro Dremel Dremel Moto-Tool is the name given to rotary tools developed by Albert J. Dremel, who founded the Dremel Company in 1932 in Racine, Wisconsin. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website/Forum updated many times daily, with articles that are often short summaries of stories on other websites, links to those stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ... Debian, organized by the Debian Project, is a widely used distribution of free software developed through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... In computer security, hacker refers to a type of computer hacker who is involved in programming and computer insecurity and is able to exploit systems or gain unauthorized access through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. ... A variable-speed MultiPro Dremel Dremel Moto-Tool is the name given to rotary tools developed by Albert J. Dremel, who founded the Dremel Company in 1932 in Racine, Wisconsin. ...

GNAA floods the Wikipedia IRC channel using ASIAN

In October 2005, ex–GNAA member Grog received "staff" status on the Freenode IRC network from Rob Levin (lilo) by posing as Greg Lehey, developer of FreeBSD and MySQL, who happened to have a similar IRC nickname. Grog proceeded to unjupe #GNAA, jupe several of the more popular channels including: #wikipedia, #linux, and #solaris, and overall caused FUD. Initial reports claimed a staffer had been hacked. However, it was later determined that it had been an act of social engineering. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x1047, 376 KB) Summary The GNAA spamflooding the #wikipedia IRC channel on Freenode. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x1047, 376 KB) Summary The GNAA spamflooding the #wikipedia IRC channel on Freenode. ... The title of this article should be freenode. ... Rob Levin, who goes by the nickname lilo on IRC, is the founder and head of staff of freenode, and the executive director of Peer-Directed Projects Center. ... FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ... MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System (DBMS) with more than six million installations. ... In Internet Relay Chat (IRC), juping a channel or nickname refers to the practice of blocking said channel or nickname on the server or network. ... In Internet Relay Chat (IRC), juping a channel or nickname refers to the practice of blocking said channel or nickname on the server or network. ... Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative (and vague) information on a competitors product. ... In computer security, hacker refers to a type of computer hacker who is involved in programming and computer insecurity and is able to exploit systems or gain unauthorized access through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. ... Social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users. ...

On March 3, 2006, GNAA member JacksonBrown DNS spoofed the wireless network at the San Francisco Apple Store, where This Week in Tech were recording their 44th podcast; the result: anyone who went to a website was redirected to Goatse. Leo Laporte briefly talked about this ordeal in the podcast, around the 05:35-06:30 mark. ^[14] March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DNS cache poisoning is a technique that tricks a DNS server into believing it has received authentic information when, in reality, it has not. ... This Week in Tech—officially stylized as this WEEK in TECH, casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers — is the flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network [1]. A weekly podcast and videocast that features roundtable discussions and debates surrounding the latest technology... Goatse. ... Leo Laporte Leo Gordon Laporte (born November 29, 1956 in New York City, New York) [1] is a technology broadcaster and author. ...

On March 17, 2006, the GNAA announced the launch of Jewsdidwtc.com, a site dedicated to proving jewish involvement on the September 11, 2001 attacks through the use of "proof" of dubious value. March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly targeting civilians, carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. ...

On May 12, 2006, the GNAA used a flood program to get the 7,777,777th post on the 4chan.org imageboard /b/ ^[15] May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 4chan (Japanese: Yotsuba, lit. ...

On the night of May 20, 2006, GNAA member Jmax somehow acquired IRC operator status on the Freenode IRC Network, and proceeded to cause general mayhem^[16][17]. May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An IRC operator is a user on an Internet Relay Chat network who has privileged access. ... The title of this article should be freenode. ...

A month later, June 12, 2006 the GNAA presumably used the same flood program to get the 8,888,888th post on /b/, however this is uncomfirmed. ^[18] June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Pranking

The GNAA runs a conference call system which they use to troll various companies such as America Online. They produced several MP3 files^[19], the most famous of which is "Punjabi Extreme" which combines excerpts from their various prank calls to America Online with the "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!" sample from Last Measure, all set to an Indian beat. ^[20] A conference call is a telephone call where the calling party wants to have more than one called party listen in to the audio portion of the call. ... A Do not feed the troll image In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Counter-measures

Because of the activities the GNAA performs online, various websites instituted methods in an effort to stop or curb the amount of trolling by the GNAA. Slashdot has a moderation system that is supposed to curb activities such as "First posting", and the website explains that first post comments are usually "one of those odd little memetic hiccups that come out of nowhere and run amok." Their system moderates these posts and downgrades them for being off topic and makes them almost unreadable. This Slashdot tool is key, since the GNAA often requires that a user perform a "first post" in order to join the GNAA. Slashdot and other websites also began to ban users for performing GNAA related acts or began to ban open proxy addresses to prevent spamming. Users at different forums also have made fun of the GNAA and their members and have mocked their activities. Slashdot has also called the GNAA, along with Trollkore and anti-slash.org, the "axis of abuse" in a parody of the axis of evil. A Do not feed the troll image In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including... The term meme (IPA: ), coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, refers to a replicator of cultural information that one mind transmits (verbally or by demonstration) to another mind. ... An open proxy is a proxy server which is accessible by any Internet user. ... A KMail folder full of spam emails collected over a few days. ... Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular technology website Slashdot. ... Bushs axis of evil includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea (darker red). ...

Some of the IRC networks affected by GNAA's presence have taken steps to make GNAA members aware of their aversion to the group. For instance, on Freenode's IRC server, the #GNAA channel redirects to #you_have_got_to_be_kidding with a warning message indicating that the network might be inappropriate. This is standard Freenode behavior for juped (blocked) channels. Similarly, other IRC networks simply jupe #GNAA. Jodi Dean, Associate Professor of Political Science (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) in a presentation on blogging for a Cultural Studies Association meeting in Tucson, noted that when she started blogging she was disturbed by neo-Nazi attacks and that: The title of this article should be freenode. ... In Internet Relay Chat (IRC), juping a channel or nickname refers to the practice of blocking said channel or nickname on the server or network. ... Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts institution. ... A city street near downtown Tucson, Arizona. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...

"I've also been unsettled by those I can't place, those who may be satirical, performative in non-PC ways, and those whose comments are just generally disruptive and malicious. For example, one guy posted from the GNAA—which seems to be an anti-blog group with various satirical elements and strategies for irritating bloggers. GNAA stands for Gay Nigger Association of America and apparently gets its name from a short 1992 Danish movie called Gay Niggers from Outerspace, a film that appears to be an actual movie, a porn send up, but I can't be completely sure."^[21]

See also

• Internet troll
• Slashdot trolling phenomena
• Troll organization
• Last Measure

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References

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External links

• Official Website - "GNAA corporate homepage" (Warning: Some of the links on this site can cause undesirable scripts to run, specifically the "members" link, which leads to a well-known Last Measure mirror.)
• "GNAUK corporate homepage" GNAA's United Kingdom Branch
• Gayniggers from Outer Space at the Internet Movie Database
• "James A. C. Joyce" (February 3, 2004). Why your Movable Type blog must die. Kuro5hin.org.
• Article in The Scotsman that refers to the GNAA
• GNAA Media Archive, include various image, audio and video files