Anyone know whatever happened to "Anonymous" ??

[allgood33]

Were they supposed to be the "good guys and gals?" Or what???

[icymist]

1. Who Cares?

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[SunSeeker]

3. They seemed to tire of the limelight. Their last big act was to declare war on Hillary in 2016.

And their Guy Fawkes masks stopped being cool...

Since the mask appears to be covering Russians:

In March 2016, Anonymous was reported to have declared war on Donald Trump.[157] However, the "Anonymous Official" YouTube channel released a video denouncing #OpTrump as an operation that "goes against everything Anonymous stands for" in reference to censorship and added "we are for everyone letting their voices be heard, even, if the person at hand ... is a monster."[158][third-party source needed]

Anonymous was also reported to have declared war on Hillary Clinton.[159] Various outlets claiming to represent Anonymous have released attacks on the Clinton campaign.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

[lapucelle]

4. Like Wikileaks, they've served their purpose here in the US.

They appear to have moved on to France to help usher in a destabilized, right wing government there.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=gilets+jaunes+anonymous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement#Comparisons

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Turns out they were the punchline of some joke

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. I think here's your answer.

[jberryhill]

7. Like other past DU heroes, they were a con

But why two threads this weekend?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211929999

Testing the waters before staging a comeback?

[Marcuse]

8. Initially I thought this was in reference to the Administration's leaker to the New York Times

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html|who was never identified.