So “defunct”- was that not one of doomerbrown’s telegram usernames? Since they were in fact in contact (Nitro and DB) no way to know if the "defunct" messages faked, or pasted into a fake affidavit?
I'm unsure. I know DB from twitter and was in a Discord server of his (I also know the victim in question from there), but the telegram username is probably correct. As for the messages - anything goes, but I remember that DB was more affiliated with the NRx crowd than the "oldtroon" BAP orbiters. The messages are also kinda off, not really things he'd say the way it's presented. So I'd go with it all being fake. There are other things that could be said about the girl and Nitro and their relations, and what happened, but let's say that I will abide by certain restrictions for the time being in order to not cause more confusion. The relevant authorities already know everything anyway.
We knew that DB and the girl were e-dating, we also knew that she was underage, but nobody really gave a damn because everything seemed fine in "public". I, frankly, was quite surprised to learn how much of an idiot DB was to act that way with her privately. Can't get rid of "bobs and vagene" mentality, it seems.
And didn't someone post that Nitro is like 16? Odd if he is some kid to be so invested in messing with these middle aged dissident right ecelebs and microcelebs, like BAP and his orbiters to the point he's familiar with them shilling pedophilia and plotting stories around this.
He's 17 I think. Active for a bit longer than that. Was a classic "submarnite" - catch-all term for all angsty RW politics posting youths with anime pfps at the time - Amarnites, but "lower quality", all very similar to each other. And that conflict with some of BAP's orbiters predates him - for it was the Amarnites first who wanted to "clear them out" for a variety of mostly puritanical reasons: namely, that the orbiters in question are older and basically manwhores, which offended Amarnite "incelist" sensibilities. A good chunk of that, I believe, is that Amarnites skew a lot younger - late teens back then more or less, now in their 20s, so some swarthoids swooning over teen e-girls was considered an offense - "No, you're old, they should belong to us instead!"
Contextual tangent aside, another tangent to help you understand all that: RGGC, "reportgod gc", led by Nuclear, in which Nitro was heavily involved in. Started out more sharty-related than a part of rwtwt itself. What they did was they'd find big leftist accounts and such then mass report them to get them suspended. They did this for a while. What seems to have changed is when Lucas Gage was doxxed, after which RGGC proceeded to become his main troll group, incessantly ordering pizzas and whatever to him. "Talmudic network" and shit, but most rwtwt posters had no idea where these people suddenly came from, as they were nearly invisible prior.
Somewhere after this, RGGC collapsed. Some sort of disillusionment happened, because everyone in that crowd suddenly stopped their prior activities of "trolling the libs" and pivoted to, well, attacking anyone and everyone. They didn't like BAP much, but now they outright disdain him. But that's basically it. That's why he keeps targeting these big account "oldtroons".
But I guess this sphere has grown a lot in the past half decade.
Not really. It's just that some previously obscure individuals have come into the spotlight. Truth is, during Corona and especially after Elon's takeover, "the sphere" essentially has monopolized the entire platform. When the Amarnites came onto the stage like a flood of extremely disagreeable and extremely aggressive locusts, constantly looking for targets to attack, if you didn't fit their standards, no matter who or what you are, you'd get sniped out of nowhere. It was at this moment where the reputation of twitter as a sort of libtard-infested lunatic asylum essentially flipped to "worse than the nazis" under the onslaught.
Of the Sphere, or, rather, the "Talmudic Network" as the AFers like to call it, you have 5 "subsets" - all orbit BAP, more or less, and all of them aren't exactly friendly with each other either. The one thing that connects them all, other than BAP, is that essentially the entire platform is constantly reacting to what they do. They are as follows:
1. The whoremongers, grifters, and the washed up: cigars, suits, greek statues, big accounts, acting all suave on the timeline while asking e-girls for feet pics in the DMs, writing competitions, "networking". Somewhat less compact, but all stick together as "big boys" against those "silly kids". Dimes Square. Red Scare. Shitcoins. All have massive followings and are the most "normie friendly" of the bunch. Trad holdouts.
2. The Schwabsphere/CHOAM/esotericists, Oakers and Jakechat: Demons are real, Agartha, Nazis in Antarctica, "root races", "I heil Hitler nigga", "based retard", "computer chips are demonic sigils", conspiracy theories. You'd be surprised, when you see them, that they're somewhat close to BAP. As a matter of fact, many posters don't even like him all that much. Demographically more similar to the first group, but whiter, and therefore not so horny constantly. "Block women on sight". Family men, often ex-military or close. A certain poster called Schwab is the "head honcho" of the core group. Other big posters: Peter Rex, Bane of Mars (whose bit is essentially "join the army, then get a job at a 3-letter agency or become a mercenary". More or less the biggest subgroup, but everyone underestimates their influence. Martin "Captive Dreamer" started from here too. You can also find some trad holdouts here. Notable for claiming that "whomever attacks BAP will always become insane", which has yet to fail, really.
3. Amarna/animejugend/the vanguard: "Sephirothic English", anime girls, drama queens, Gigachad dialogues, angst, romanticism, "polemics", irreverence, phyrigan caps, "upstream and downstream", "Lords and Gemmers". Of all the spheres in the sphere, this one is the closest to BAP, and it seems one of his favorites. Fractured into many little subgroups that frequently can't stand each other but are also hard to tell apart at a glance. Essentially started from soyteens that stopped using the sharty in 2021. Favorite tactic is ganging up and declaring victory immediately. Sheer aggression ensured a seeming period of dominance. Elitist beyond belief - every subset believes they're God's gift to this Earth and that everyone else is a worthless insect to be stomped under their boot. Frequently imagined as "anorexic twinks". The "Loli Question" and their early attack method of spamming gore onto their enemies had significant repercussions down the line. The discarded afterbirth of this sphere became the "edgesphere" - Skibidifarms and such, as the youngest observers saw what they were doing and decided to ape it. Reverence for the poster called John Winthrop, since inactive (but still following people and accepting them into his account). Definitely the most normie-unfriendly group.
4. Landians/NRx: muh technocapital, accelerationism, AGI, HBD, crypto, milady, remilia, "based retard gang", kaliacc. The decrepit remains of this sphere have mostly been absorbed into the others or disappeared after the embarrassing downfall of kaliacc and its hindoo tranny groomer generalissimo. You can, however, always find some remnants, often using a distinct tone of prophetic purple prose about how you should stick peepee into SHODAN, or even more often, a troop of baboons repeating "milady" or "remilia" or whatever, all using the derived NFTs in question for pfps. Did you know that kaliacc, or kaliACK as Group 3 calls them, used to groom teen girls into anorexia? Now you do. You already know which other type of accelerationist picked up that mantle. The dismembered limbs of this sphere grew to become their own, independent sphere of insufferable retards attached to postrats. "Muh elite human capital" is their battle cry.
5. Peaters: "have you tried the carrot salad", "take thiamine", "Ray Peat talks about this". Significant overlap with all other groups, yet containing many people who are clearly in orbit, but not affiliated directly with any other sphere, hence their inclusion as a group. The fabled Landshark is their leader. Of all overlaps, the one with Group 1 is the greatest - grifter infestation has grown recently. Friendly, but also full of imbeciles sucked up from esoteric health twitter. 2nd most normie-friendly group, hence rapid growth.