Gay Nigger Association of America
The Gay Nigger Association of America, or GNAA, is a self-aggrandizing troll organization which originated on the discussion website Slashdot. It consists of six leaders and approximately 30–40 other members. 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.
Background information
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.
GNAA first appeared in January 2003, trolling Slashdot using ASCII art logos representing the organization and satirical news releases pertaining to the contents of Slashdot articles.
Activities
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 Last Measure.
During May of 2004, GNAA members fiercely flooded and attacked the popular image board website 4chan. It is generally agreed that this was one of the major short-term factors that led to the (non-permanent) shutdown of 4chan shortly thereafter.
In July of 2004, GNAA members submitted leaked screenshots of the still forthcoming operating system Mac OS X 10.4 to popular Apple Macintosh news website MacRumors. ([1] and [2])
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.
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.