This repository holds a collection of Twitter accounts that were tracked by numerous anonymous volunteers primarily focusing on racist, antisemitic, and abusive Twitter users from 2018-2022. These accounts were tracked for the purpose of reporting ban evaders who have returned to the platform.
Due to frequent name changes by evaders and potential tracking errors this data should be independently verified for accuracy.
This repository serves as an archive of accounts associated with racist and antisemitic trolls who would "respawn" or create new Twitter accounts repeatedly after getting suspended. This list has been limited to users who have held 5 or more accounts, with information gathered over several years by anonymous volunteers.
Most of these trolls hide behind created character personas and work together in coordinated harassment campaigns when targeting victims online. To gain a better understanding of what these troll swarms can look like we highly recommend reading this blog post on Visualizing Cyber Harassment, or any of the numerous Twitter threads written on the subject over the years.
The racist respawner problem isn't over, but the progress made this year against racist abuse from these networks is significant. There are steps that can be taken by social media platforms to reduce this kind of abuse, one of which has been fairly successful is to identify the worst of these troll swarms and implement an effort to suspend on sight.
Currently, this abuse does still need to be reported when seen. You can help us track some of these abusers by submitting respawn information to our form here.
| Category | About |
|---|---|
| Persona | "Persona" is used in lieu of "person" because most respawners do not operate under their own identity. However, they are consistent with character building and branding and would repeatedly return under the same persona after suspension. Some people operate multiple personas, and some personas are operated by multiple people. |
| Approx Group | Approximate group or friend network associated with the account. This is determined through interactions, friend lists, and follower lists. |
| Date Active | Date last seen active online; typically the date of a recent tweet. |
| Status | Account status. In addition to suspensions, this list also contains some accounts that have been abandoned, deactivated, and deleted by users. |
| Date Suspended | Date suspended is logged as accounts are suspended. |
Most of the users in this collection come from groups that frequently overlap and follow each other due to mutual interest in racism, antisemitism, and abusing others online.
| Group | About |
|---|---|
| The Shed | Racist and anitisemitic trolling group networked with "Nazi Twitter" |
| America First | White supremacist / white nationalist followers of Nick Fuentes |
| Groyper / Fren | Frog Twitter, primarily white nationalist accounts with frog avatars and varying levels of outward racism; the fren accounts tend to be milder than groypers, and these groypers align closer to the "OG Groyper" variety than the America First type |
| Nazi | Antisemitic white supremacist accounts, many of which explicitly post Nazi symbolism and Holocaust denial. Dataset note: this label blankets many accounts and some individuals may need further categorization |
| Nazi Lounge | Self-identified racist and antisemitic group that often organized on Discord and targeted Jewish individuals |
| AnitwtKKK | Anime Twitter KKK consists of racist and antisemitic Anime accounts. Note: lots of lolicon mixed into the group |
| RGC | The "Rapist Group Chat" is a self-identified incel group that often organizes on Discord and targets trans and Jewish people with doxxing and harassment; they are also known for recruitment and harassment of minors |
| Irony Bro | Edgy "dark humor" content, often trying to to hide racism in layers of irony and playing it off as "just a joke" |
| RW Gimmick | Right wing gimmick accounts, typically run by one of the irony bros or someone competent enough to not get suspended as quickly. They acquire many followers quickly and still manage to get themselves suspended occasionally |
| Wignat | White nationalist accounts unconcerned with optics who outwardly post Nazi accelerationist content |
| Nazi Prop | Nazi propaganda account; users who edit videos to share with their audiences. Lots of 'spinny wheel' spinning black sun edits |
| Adj | Adjacent; an account that frequently followed and interacted with members of a group but aren't as outwardly associated |
| Persona | Approx Group | Accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Kaspa | The Shed | 256 |
| Elephant Jockey | The Shed | 189 |
| British Dean | British Racist | 136 |
| Gigi | The Shed | 133 |
| Pikachu | Nazi / Shed adj | 133 |
| Spicci | The Shed | 130 |
| Shane | The Shed | 123 |
| Poffo | The Shed | 120 |
| Violet | The Shed | 117 |
| KYE | The Shed | 109 |
| Nuke | The Shed | 97 |
| Huwhite | The Shed | 92 |
| King Adam/Ritsu | Nazi | 86 |
| Shlomo | The Shed | 84 |
| LiA | The Shed | 76 |
| Six Million | The Shed | 75 |
| iE - Chick-fil-A | The Shed | 74 |
| Commish | The Shed | 72 |
| H3ll Billy | The Shed | 62 |
| Boeta | The Shed | 60 |
| Trill Bread | Nazi Lounge | 60 |
| Foreskin | The Shed | 58 |
| Gabe | Anitwtkkk | 58 |
| Roscoe | The Shed / Houseboat gang | 58 |
| ESS | The Shed | 57 |
| Mel Gibson Fan | The Shed | 56 |
| SammyGunz | The Shed | 54 |
| iE | The Shed | 50 |
| Frat | The Shed | 49 |
| Bear | The Shed | 44 |
| Brit Groyper | Groyper | 44 |
| Mimikyu | Anitwtkkk | 41 |
| Baked | The Shed | 40 |
| Cind | Anitwtkkk | 40 |
| Iqbal | The Shed | 40 |
| Tucker | RGC | 40 |
| HawG | Shed adj | 39 |
| Alzoura | Anitwtkkk | 38 |
| Gibs | The Shed | 38 |
| JoeH | The Shed | 38 |
| Neighborly | The Shed | 38 |
| Normal Korean | The Shed | 38 |
| Larry | Shed adj | 37 |
| Alt Skull / Puppers | The Shed | 36 |
| Gayle | The Shed | 36 |
| Kayak Slammer | The Shed | 36 |
| Rebel Pen | The Shed | 36 |
| Evan | The Shed | 35 |
| Mugi | Shed adj / Anitwtkkk adj | 35 |
| Ulrich | Nazi Lounge | 34 |
Full set of totals per persona here.
All users in this set had at least 5 active accounts on Twitter.
| Selection | Total Accounts | Average Per Persona |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 9040 | 16 |
| Top 30 Personas | 2768 | 92 |
| Top 10 Personas | 1446 | 145 |
Between all accounts there were 581 unique personas, averaging 16 accounts per persona.
The top 30 offenders were responsible for 2,768 accounts, averaging 92 accounts per persona.
The top 10 offenders in this corner of Twitter's platform were responsible for 1,446 account, averaging 145 accounts per persona.
| Group | Accounts | Personas | Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shed | 3779 | 107 | 35 |
| Nazi | 1008 | 109 | 9 |
| America First | 695 | 64 | 11 |
| Anitwtkkk | 399 | 21 | 19 |
| RGC | 282 | 25 | 11 |
| Nazi Lounge | 265 | 13 | 20 |
| Shed adj | 241 | 20 | 12 |
| British Racist | 181 | 8 | 23 |
| Nazi / Shed adj | 171 | 3 | 57 |
| Groyper | 132 | 11 | 12 |
All accounts and archives should be independently verified to account for frequent name changes and persona rebranding by respawners.
Data is for public research and to assist others in reporting ban evasions on Twitter.
Any corrections can be sent to [email protected]