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Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) · Hopium Slayer

3 years ago a Texas judge gave the founder 80 years and the coverage read like an obituary. Network dissolved. Threat neutralized. File closed.

Yesterday the FBI called police in a small town in the Western Cape.

They went through a door in Malmesbury and arrested a teenager. Police say the preliminary look at his devices turned up child abuse material and footage of animals being mutilated. He was in court this morning.

That is the second one in South Africa in a month. In July the Hawks took a man in Soweto.

Read his charge sheet slowly, because one of the counts is murder. Swiss police opened that file, not South African ones, and they opened it because a 17 year old boy was already lying dead in a forest near his home.

Here is the part that should stop you.

Every few months you are handed a new name. A subgroup.

A previously unknown cell.

Reported as a discovery, written up as a fresh threat, filed as a separate story.

Then read the government’s own paperwork. The word that keeps appearing is linked.

One group is described as linked to the larger network.

The men arrested in Greece and North Carolina were running the inner core server.

The word is core.

You do not have a core.

One origin. One founder. One model. And a running rebrand cycle that the coverage treats as a series of unrelated events, which is exactly what a franchise looks like from the outside if nobody bothers to look twice.

764 was never an organization. There was nothing at the top to remove. It was a distribution model wearing a name, and everyone who announced the head was off in 2023 understood that at the time.

The Bureau is running hundreds of these files right now. The victim count runs into the thousands and nobody involved will give you a real number, because nobody has one.

Canada put it on the terrorist entity list. The United States has not.

So the sentences arrive one defendant at a time, through child exploitation statutes and racketeering, 40 years here, 30 there, while the thing that manufactured them keeps taking applications under a new name.

Now go read the releases. Any of them. Every district, every year.

The crime scene is described as a known online social media communications platform.

Known to whom?

Not one company is named. Not in one release. Not once.

I will not tell you that is a cover. I do not have that document. I will tell you what the alternative is, which is that the agencies running hundreds of files across two continents cannot identify where it happens.

Pick whichever one you find less frightening.

They will tell you again that the head is off.

No Heroes. No Halos. End Hopium.

764 ARRESTS

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