SWATTED

Swatting attacks are currently taking the online influencer space by storm. Who is actually responsible for these crimes, and what is law enforcment doing about it?

“There’s some people walking outside of my house right now having a party. I might just start shooting at them, and then I’ll kill myself.”

The male voice in the recording was high-pitched and juvenile with a peculiar accent that was difficult to place. His tone was jovial, as if he were suppressing laughter. All in all, the swatter wasn’t really coming across as menacing or serious, but that didn’t stop the 911 dispatcher from diligently negotiating a peaceful outcome. “How about we get you some help first?” she suggested. “I don’t want help,” the voice continued. “I wanna die. Tell the police to come and kill me!” The swatter then dictated to the dispatcher what he believed to be my personal address. “I want them to come and kill me! If they don’t come in 13 minutes… I’m gonna start shooting at people outside my house. I have an AR-15 and multiple pistols.” The dispatcher replied calmly, “I am gonna have an officer come out there, ok? Like you asked”

“If you get officers to come out here and if they come out with guns drawn,” the swatter said, “tell them I will start shooting.”

The swatting attempt, which I later learned was perpetrated by a person known as “Smiggles”, was an inevitable failure. The police in my area were already well aware of the swatters and other cybercriminals who have targeted me since I started publicly exposing their communities in early 2024. Smiggles is affiliated with a prolific group of criminal miscreants who congregate on a website called Skibidi Farms. In its early days, Skibidi Farms was known mostly for organizing raids on Discord servers where they spammed child pornography and gore. As the site grew, it attracted both pedophiles and vulnerable kids alike. The kids, looking to be edgy and extreme, congregated on the forum and used it to spread its vile content to others. The pedophiles congregated on the forum in search of both vile content and vulnerable kids. Members of the website also banded together to harass online content creators with doxxing, swatting and Discord raids. Inevitably, Skibidi Farms became one of the latest communities to be infiltrated by a rising terror threat known as Satanic Accelerationism, or s/acc.