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| The '''Gay Nigger Association of America''' (better known by its abbreviation '''GNAA''') is a self-aggrandizing ] that primarily targets ] communities in an effort to cause havoc and disrupt their normal activities. The GNAA designed their name to be ] and it is generally assumed to have been chosen because of the perceived ] that is associated with ] and the impact of the ] "]". Although it is termed "Association of America" the organization also has participants from countries other than the ]. | |||
| Members engage in such activities as flooding ]s, producing ], ]ing ] telephone lines, and ] disruption such as ]. Due to these actions the normal operation of many popular websites such as ] is interrupted, and sometimes the attacks force websites to shut down temporarily. As such, targeted communities generally consider GNAA members a ] and frequently respond with ] and social anti-trolling measures such as ]s to limit future disruption caused by the trolling. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| The GNAA first appeared in ], trolling Slashdot using ] ] representing the organization and ] ]s pertaining to the contents of Slashdot articles. As with other troll organizations, members of the GNAA adopt ] to preserve their ] 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. | |||
| The GNAA's website features pictures of African American athletes and professionals that appear to originate from stock image archives in an apparent attempt to parody the designs of various corporate websites. It states that the GNAA does not either support or promote ], ], or other kinds of hatred. While their main motivations are difficult to determine, they claim to have targeted websites and blogs that promote "anti Gaynigger and pro-] ]". {{citeneeded}} | |||
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| GNAA members Rucas and Armorfist created a ] called ], 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 ] sites. The source code of these scripts are usually made available under the ]. One such script is ASIAN, The Automated Synchronous ] Abuse Network, a clone of a popular ] flooding tool called AYSYN (Are you stupid? Yes/No) by mef. It was created by member Rucas and abez due to the many bugs found in AYSYN and the lack of source code. It uses SOCKS proxies and ] to connect numerous drones to an ] server and use them to flood various people and channels. | |||
| ==Membership== | |||
| GNAA encourages people to join by suggesting that potential recruits watch the ] ] ] '']'', from which their name derives. The GNAA's entry requirements also include successfully achieving a "]" on Slashdot consisting of GNAA ] text or registering support by upward ] of GNAA comments. A test on the subject matter in ''Gayniggers From Outer Space'' is then administered by an ]. | |||
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| The GNAA has a ] which their members use whenever they perform a ] or post a news release. The full "]", which includes an embedded ] picture of the letters "GNAA" on a wall, can be found on their website. It begins: | |||
| :"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!" | |||
| The signature text is significant because it identifies a GNAA attack. | |||
| 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 ]. 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 ] script to ] ] 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 ] residents. | |||
| ==Activities== | |||
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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 ] community when they launched several ] against the site. Slashdot subsequently implemented ]-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. <ref>Slashdot – – (] ])</ref> In late ], the GNAA discovered vulnerabilities in weblogging service ]. In a related attack, they launched a ] attack on Slashdot, taking down its ] for a few days. <ref>http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/28/161214/43</ref> While the GNAA have been recognised as being deliberately disruptive by several organisations, they cause more disruption on IRC as they are known to ] channels. Many IRC servers do not allow the GNAA channel to exist due to this disruption (see ]). | |||
| ===Notable trolls=== | |||
| The two most notable trolls that the GNAA have performed involved Mac OS X users and Harry Potter readers. In ], GNAA member jesuitx and Ron Delsner submitted leaked ]s of the forthcoming ] ] to the popular ] ] news website MacRumors, which read "With ] 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." <ref>MacRumors.com - (] ]) () – (] ])</ref> 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. ), and that they trolled the Apple community. <ref>http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=520</ref> | |||
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| In ], the GNAA claimed to have created a ] Tiger release for ] processors which caught media attention from Mac Daily News ]. {{citeneeded}} The next day, the supposed leak made front page news on Slashdot and was mentioned on the ] show '']''. The DVD image released onto ] merely booted an image of hello.jpg (]) 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 ] of 2005, this time with a fake bootloader that gave generic error messages if the date was before August the 4th, and after that date it displayed the content from the shock site ]. | |||
| Upon the impending release of the next book in the ] series, '']'', the GNAA claimed to have created a ] file of the book, which contained various ] and released it to ]. In addition, the GNAA also posted various spoilers about the new book onto a Harry Potter fan ] 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 website a few days before the release of the book on which various ] ] of the book were disseminated<!-- such as '']'' -->. {{ref|gnauk}} | |||
| Several other notable incidents involved trolling anime fans and Dremel website administrators. In ] 2005, the GNAA released a copy of '']'' onto the ] website ], which was falsely labeled as episode 146 of the Japanese anime show '']''. The film was preceded by the opening credits of the show. This was possible because GNAA president timecop was allegedly a Dattebayo staff member at the time. It should be noted that any attempt to access non-listed torrent files on Dattebayo's server (for example, an upcoming episode of '']'' or '']'') triggers an automatic redirect to the ] website. The ] website incident happened on ], ], following the posting of a "Dremel Pumpkin Carving Kit" on ]. An image of "Goatse Pumkpin" was part of the page. This image happened to be hosted on GNAA fan ]'s server, and he proceeded to add the GNAA logo to it, leading visitors to think the GNAA had ]ed the ] website. <ref>Slashdot – http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/27/2230208</ref> | |||
| In October 2005, ex–GNAA member Grog received "staff" status on the ] IRC network from ] (lilo) by posing as ], developer of ] and ], who happened to have a similar IRC nickname. Grog proceeded to un] #GNAA, ] several of the more popular channels including: #wikipedia, #linux, and #solaris, and overall caused ]. Initial reports claimed a staffer had been ]. However, it was later determined that it had been an act of ]. | |||
| On March 3rd, 2006, GNAA member JacksonBrown ] the wireless network at the San Francisco Apple Store, where ] were recording their 44th podcast; the result: anyone who went to a website was redirected to ]. ] briefly talked about this ordeal in the podcast, around the 05:35-06:30 mark. <ref> Leoporte's podcast.</ref> | |||
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| ===Pranking=== | |||
| The GNAA runs a ] system which they use to ] various companies such as ]. They produced an ] file which combines excerpts from their various prank calls to America Online with the "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at ]!" sample from Last Measure. | |||
| ===Counter-measures=== | |||
| Because of the activities the GNAA performs online, various websites instituted methods in an effort to stop or curb the amount of ] 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 ]tic 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-] addresses to prevent ]. 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 ] and , the "axis of abuse" in a parody of the ]. | |||
| 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 ]'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 ] channels. Similarly, other IRC networks simply jupe #GNAA. ], Associate Professor of Political Science (]) in a presentation on blogging for a Cultural Studies Association meeting in ], noted that when she started blogging she was disturbed by ] attacks and that: | |||
| :''"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."''<ref>, ] ]. Jodi's presentation can be found .</ref> | |||
| ==Jews Did WTC== | |||
| On ], ], GNAA launched , a website that offers the theory that Jews caused the ] on the ]. | |||
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