Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, aka "weev" the swastika tattooed guy in the video call, is a notorious internet troll who's taking pleasure in
zoombombing lately. I think Rob handled him well, e.g. 23:23 ..
"are you like personally about this or are you like just feeding this polarity because somebody pays you?"
From Rob's reaction when he first saw him in the call, probably he wasn't aware who is he dealing with.
Auernheimer's tattoo was part of his troll campaign to promote himself and discredit the Weev app. He ends up acquiring Weev.net which he interprets as a major success. In his own writing (
https://archive.fo/cqtLD)
Pagerank is More Powerful Than Trademark: How I Killed a Multimillion Dollar Company with Swastika Memes
When I dropped my swastika tattoo along with a fiery essay on The Daily Stormer, dozens of celebrities were talking about Weev the video chat app on TV. Unfortunately for them, TV spots don’t really translate to many page results or backlinks. Everyone who googled weev as a result immediately afterwards was greeted with a Google News thumbnail of weev the mad eyed white supremacist hacker with a 4.5 inch swastika tattoo. Normies freaked out in spades. It was the single most impactful thing I had ever done, creating far more buzz than a well publicized Constitutional case, wrongful imprisonment, and appeal.
I would delay every troll operation I wanted to do until they were spending serious money and resources to try to dig themselves out of a pagerank hole. Whenever they would drop deep into the second page of Google results (where they might as well not even exist) they would try to do another press push and garner backlinks. I responded each time by doing something way bigger and more notable than whatever shitty press they managed to get, like internationally syndicated news about using targeted white nationalist Twitter ads, or garnering thousands of news articles and dozens of TV spots by printing swastikas to tens of thousands of other people’s printers across the anglosphere.
New York Times
wrote about him in 2008
Weev, the troll who thought hacking the epilepsy site was immoral, is legendary among trolls. He is said to have jammed the cellphones of daughters of C.E.O.’s and demanded ransom from their fathers; he is also said to have trashed his enemies’ credit ratings. Better documented are his repeated assaults on LiveJournal, an online diary site where he himself maintains a personal blog. Working with a group of fellow hackers and trolls, he once obtained access to thousands of user accounts. …
Vice, in 2015
And so on...
