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| The group originated on the discussion website ]. It claims to consist of six leaders and approximately 30 |
The group originated on the discussion website ]. It claims to consist of six leaders and approximately 30 to 40 other members. GNAA first appeared in ], trolling Slashdot using ] logos representing the organization and satirical ]s pertaining to the contents of Slashdot articles. | ||
| ==Membership== | ==Membership== | ||
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The Gay Nigger Association of America, or GNAA, is a self-aggrandizing troll organization which primarily targets Internet communities in an effort to disrupt their normal activities. Members have flooded weblogs, produced shock sites, prank-called technical support phone lines, as well as flooded, mass-invited, and trolled IRC and Soulseek channels. GNAA members are generally perceived as nuisances by the communities they attack, who frequently respond with technological and social anti-trolling measures (such as comment moderation) to limit future disruption caused by trolling.
Background information
The group originated on the discussion website Slashdot. It claims to consist of six leaders and approximately 30 to 40 other members. GNAA first appeared in January of 2003, trolling Slashdot using ASCII art logos representing the organization and satirical news releases pertaining to the contents of Slashdot articles.
Membership
GNAA encourages people to join by watching the 1992 Danish low-budget movie Gayniggers from Outer Space, from which their name derives. The GNAA's entry requirements also include the successful achievement of a "first post" on Slashdot consisting of GNAA Internet troll text, or registering one's support by upwardly moderating "GNAA" comments. A test on the subject matter in Gayniggers from Outer Space is administered by an IRC bot.
Notable activities
GNAA gained notoriety in the Slashdot community when they launched several flood attacks against the site, with one article receiving more than 10,000 posts. Slashdot subsequently implemented open proxy–banning measures in its posting system, and the crapfloods are claimed by GNAA members to have spurred this change.
GNAA has also created the music track "Punjabi Extreme", featuring samples taken from their troll phone calls made to AOL, and the "Hey, everybody! I'm looking at gay porno!" voice from the Last Measure shock site.
During May of 2004, GNAA members flooded and attacked the popular image board website 4chan, likely contributing to the fourth non-permanent shutdown of the site shortly thereafter.
In July of 2004, GNAA member JesuitX submitted leaked screenshots of the then forthcoming operating system Mac OS X 10.4 to popular Apple Macintosh news website MacRumors. ( and ). However, when the source was found to be from GNAA, many declared the screenshots to be fake, based on the apparent disreputability of the GNAA.
During late August 2004, the GNAA launched a campaign against websites AIMGirl and AIMGuy by crapflooding shock images onto their affiliated forums. AIMGirl subsequently locked registration and the AIMGuy forums closed. AIMGirl is currently back up, with different phpBB software.
GNAA member rolloffle (also known as James A. C. Joyce) wrote the article "Why your Movable Type blog must die", which then made it to the front page of kuro5hin, a community-moderated site. Rolloffle also produced several other stories and diary entries.
Racism and sexism
The name "Gay Nigger Association of America" is often perceived as racist and offensive, mainly because of the word nigger. However, most GNAA members deny allegations of actual racism, implying that these statements are made only to elicit angry responses and to subvert or otherwise challenge long-standing social norms. Critics of this behavior suggest that using the term nigger in any context is extremely offensive and inappropriate. True to their perceived offensiveness, GNAA members also regularly make posts to Slashdot and other web sites claiming that Jews were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The plot of the organization's official movie consists of gay black men who travel to Earth and proceed to eliminate women from the planet. Some believe the sexism suggested by this plot may be shared by the organization, which has no female members. This statistic may not be indicative of sexism, however, since Slashdot, where the GNAA originated, and the computing industry in general, is dominated by males, and the gender makeup of the GNAA may simply reflect that.