I grew up in a very scary and very not talked about part of the internet. Here's a thread where I'll dump general thoughts about my experience, that time/space, etc.
First of all it really doesn't get talked about enough that WE WERE ALL BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 AND 16. For me it started with Minecraft griefing and making hacked clients. Teens were making money hand over fist selling access to these clients, well into five (5) digits.
Team Avolition videos created an insatiable want for cheats in Minecraft but nobody except turbo-nerds knew how to make such things. It started with one dude making fly/xray mods for their friends/teams of friends. Then those private clients got leaked.
The natural evolution of that was commercialization. Figure out how to obfuscate the code to avoid cracking/leaking, put in a way to sell access to it, list the client for sale on MPGH/Hack Forums, rake in money to a PayPal account, buy as much as you can before it gets limited.
This process is no secret and has been done for a long time. But Minecraft griefers got malicious. Team killing in CS:S for rage videos was one thing. But people would get MAD when you clicked a few times and deleted a castle they worked on for months. So it escalated... and we got good at doxing.
Feb 4, 2026 17:51
