While we are on the topic of "Hey, lets all talk about how much of a dick r3x is", I guess I'll share my view of him and the common beef that Anons have with him.
The following is my personal perspective on all this, and I will speak from what I have seen. I might have left some things out, so if there's anyone here who has further insight, feel free to add.
I will refer to JakeSully as "r3x"
First off, I don't think he is any sort of secret government agent or anything like that at all.
I think he is just a really sad, misguided man who wants to be someone special when he is not. He is probably mentally ill.
He was first associated with Anonymous during the start of Project Chanology, the protest movement against Scientology. He was always the black sheep due to him constantly trying to shove weird, convoluted, esoteric, even borderline religious theories, projects, and ideals into places they don't belong. Namely, the whole of Project Chanology. If this was not enough, he always strived to assume a leadership role and spoke of this ridiculous stuff from a position of assumed authority. This kind of stuff quickly earned him a bad rep among quite a few Anons and established the basis for his growing weirdness.
In late '08, he decided that since he is not getting any power in Chanology, he will create a throne of his own. This was 888chan, his first venture into leading an Anonymous entity. Here he pushed a thing called "Vibecraft", which is the culmination of all the weird, esoteric stuff he has previously tried to push on Anons, and which draws a lot of inspiration from cassiopaea. He wrote VOLUMES on this Vibecraft stuff. Probably enough to keep you reading a whole day. A lot of it was bizarre, and suggested that Anons have to have their own calendar, their own currency, their own astrology-esque various esoterica, and of course, their own leadership. While he avoided referring to himself as the 'leader', he strived to assume more of a "teacher" role. He sought to assume a much more dangerous position than simply 'administrator' or 'moderator'. He sought to assume a sort of self-congratulated spiritual leadership. Needless to say, this raised a lot of eyebrows. Nobody wanted magical mumbo-jumbo. We wanted to dick around on the internet and protest Scientology. And besides, nobody had the attention span to sort through his increasingly weird writings.
(Random snippets of his Vibecraft postings:
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888chan eventually dies of natural causes. R3x was far from done however. His next endeavor was VortexChan. Now let me back up a bit. 888chan was modeled on an "open forum" idea, and had individual forums on it that had nothing to do with Vibecraft or r3x. He did not have direct control over day-to-day discussion and topic trends. Now Vortexchan was different. Vortexchan was all about Vibecraft and implementing it into the Anonymous community. By this point, r3x is clearly obsessed with his project and believes himself to be some sort of Anonymous kingpin or authority. He tries his hand at "teaching" people how to be 'Anonymous'. However, r3x's idea of Anonymous is bizarre and backwards. It goes contrary to almost every cultural facet and history of Anonymous. Because of this, Vortexchan never really takes off. He tries to build some sort of esoteric movement based on Anonymous terminology with himself as the leader. Anons laugh at it and non-Anons don't understand and don't care.
Then comes WhatIsThePlan (WITP). Now this movement was started by two people called Mavendetta and firstmonkey. Riding the shockwave of the actions of groups like AnonOps and LulzSec, WITP attempts to establish itself as an anti-government anarchist/conspiracy theorist movement. They mainly run around spray painting "Anonymous is Legion" on walls and being a general nuisance to both the public and Anonymous. Now, to understand why and how r3x managed to swindle WITP, you need to understand the kind of person the WITP movement attracted. First and foremost, while WITP claims the name 'Anonymous', almost nobody there has any history with the culture from before WITP. These are kids who like the idealistic idea of being 'Anonymous', and mostly do not realize or recognize that the name has a history and a culture attached to it. WITP has nothing to do with this history or culture. For r3x, this is the perfect audience. People who don't really understand what Anonymous is, but are eager to learn and be a part of a cool new hip thing that is going to "save the world". And, oh boy, did r3x "teach" them about Anonymous. HIS Anonymous. Almost from the get-go, r3x immediately played the "I am a senior Anonymous veteran" card to Mavendetta and obtained a leadership role. He used this leadership role to broadcast his Vibecraft message to the quickly growing memberbase of the site. And a lot of people bought in. After all, this guy knows what he is talking about, right?
It did not take long for Anonymous to notice WITP. And notice they did. Everything about WITP pissed Anons off. The naiive new memberbase, the flaunting of the name Anonymous, the claims to previous Anonymous actions they had no part in, the conspiracy theories, and even r3x's bizzare leadership. A lot of Anons wanted/want to see WITP gone. And a lot signed up and started trolling hard. Even people from the Chanology central site (WhyWeProtest.net) wanted a piece of this action. Naturally, we (MFO/NYCAnon) were also very much there when we first saw WITP. The more time Anons spent messing around on WITP, the more they started noticing r3x and his actions. So action was taken. He was d0xed. His d0x were posted on 4chan. His connections and posts were revealed for everyone to mock. Among there was his history of posts on Cassiopaea and proof of his attempts at usurping WITP for his own purposes. By the time he was forced to relinquish his leading role on WITP (which, by the way, he refused to give up willingly, even after the community turned on him), he has become a pariah among the Anonymous world.
He may or may not have connections with some 'hacktivist' Anon groups. This I do not know. But at least for now, he seems to have disappeared from public view. Will he come back to try and claim the Anonymous name again? I don't know. What I do know is that if he does, a lot of us will be sure to notice, and the history of his actions that we have amassed will speak for itself when/if that time comes.
tl;dr: r3x tries to become an authoritative "Teacher" with a capital T of a leaderless group, gets told to GTFO multiple times. This is the latest of them.
I'm sorry if I'm jumping into conclusions here, but this screams Psychopath, and the connection to the video form J makes it even scarier. Thinking what things hi may have in store for keeping his plan going, also who is he working with, makes me sad and mad. This kind of people work as puppets, that's what they are, the puppets of evil.
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