So whats the deal with Anonymous?

[TheIr0nMike]

It can mean one of two things:
1) *chan lurkers who think that theirs is some super secret club, which makes them think they're somehow superior.

2) A group of script kiddies who are always either high and mighty cunts who think they're Guy Fawkes reincarnated or wannabe anarchists who think they're Guy Fawkes reincarnated.

 

[Aetera]

Basically? Completely chaotic neutral.
One day: Fighting for free speech and open dialogue during the Iranian election protests.
The next: Flooding an epilepsy support forum with flashing GIFs.

Right on the money.

Also is it wrong that I laughed at the epilepsy forum prank when I read about it? It is isn't it.

Pssht, not at all. They wouldn't have done it in the first place if there wasn't some humor to be found in it in a fucked up sociopathic way. xD

 

[William MacKay]

On Sunday somebody brings in some twisted porn and starts passing it around.

That's Anonymous.

that reminded me of the day when they uploaded porn on YouTube with tags like Jonas Brothers.
anon are dicks though. they'll fight for any cause they want to, and most of them are just using it as a name, like when a supermarket makes '_____'s own Doz Liquid-Tabs' any you see 'Daz Liqui-Tabs'

 

[Sejs Cube]

To put it in ridiculously pretentious terms, think of it as an anarcho-syndicalist collective and untethered state, just with a broader focus than labor. Beyond that if you're looking for goals or characterization or identity, then you're approaching it from the wrong angle.

It's just an egoless internet hivemind that occasionally gets motivated.

That's really all there is to it.