> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # "James Knox" Unmasked: Substack's Worst Harassment Maestro is 24-Year-Old Law Student Patterson W. Troope - URL: https://the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io/james-knox-unmasked-substacks-worst-harassment-maestro-is-24-year-old-law-student-patterson-w-troope/ - Published: 2026-11-01T02:38:11.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-07T20:03:04.000Z - Author: Joshua Goldberg - Tags: Substack, iFunny, alt-right, troll, trolls, trolling, pedophile, pedophiles, pedophilia, Discord, harassment, stalking, stalker, stalkers, swatting, swatter, swatters As "James Knox", Patterson Troope is the leader of a small clique of alt-right sadists who specialize in extreme, targeted harassment, but he never counted on being unmasked. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/472770775_18481990675010174_6408619669991638690_n-2.jpg) Patterson Troope is the third one from the left, in the blue jeans and glasses. One of Troope’s favorite activities on the internet is calling random people ugly. No comment. Meet Patterson W. Troope. A self-proclaimed “white nationalist”, “truecel”, and [(of course)](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/traditionalism-is-pathetic-incel) a “traditionalist Christian”, 24-year-old Patterson Troope (who mainly goes by “James Knox” on Substack and also goes by “Don Knox”, “Polk”, and “SuckItVanBuren”) is the leader of a small clique of Soyjak Party and [Kiwi Farms](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/sir-another-pedophilia-scandal-has)\-aligned, alt-right, “traditionalist Christian” incel pedophiles who were banned from iFunny for spamming gore, animal cruelty, BBC porn, and CSAM and engaging in severe targeted harassment, and who regularly organize the exact same kinds of extreme harassment campaigns on Substack, primarily targeting the most vulnerable people, including crime victims, the grieving families of recently deceased people (especially the families of crime victims), suicidal people, mentally ill people, children (especially autistic children), disabled people, and the elderly (among countless others, of course). The group - part of the broader [“ironic” degeneracy movement](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/when-did-trolling-become-inextricably) that I’ve written about previously - operates similarly to other alt-right sadist com groups like 764, the Order of Nine Angles, the UTube Troll Police, and the [foodists](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/antioch-the-first-foodist-mass-shooting), but are even more comically inept and utterly irrelevant. In [a previous article](https://the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io/thomas-johnston-better-known-as-worst-boyfriend-ever-unmasking-a-pedophile-and-sexual-predator-operating-on-substack/), I wrote about Troope’s connection with infamous Substack pedophile “Worst Boyfriend Ever” (Thomas Johnston), who actually tried (and failed) to hire Troope to put a hit on the ex-boyfriend of one of his victims. In his Discord server, “Polk Place”, Troope and his clique often crack pedophilic jokes, and many of the people in Troope’s clique are very obviously pedophiles (in fact, several people in the “Swaggers With Attitude” clique have actually been publicly outed as pedophiles). While Troope has penned several poorly written, soporific alt-right incel hate screeds like “[In Defense of Slavery](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712213835/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-slavery)”, “[Who Controls The World?](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712211253/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-world)” “[A Quick and Dirty Guide to Racial Apologetics](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712212418/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/a-quick-and-dirty-guide-to-racial)”, and “[Women, Sex, and Politics](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712210102/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/women-sex-and-politics)” ([here](https://web.archive.org/web/%2A/https://theburrpapers.substack.com%2A) and [here](https://archive.is/theburrpapers.substack.com?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) are archives of all of Troope’s articles), the vast majority of his time on the internet - and especially on Substack - is devoted to stalking and harassment, as that is precisely what his “Swaggers With Attitude” cabal was founded on. [Here](https://kiwifarms.st/threads/ifunny-ifunny-x-ifunny-co.195794/page-12?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io#post-19068947) is one of the members of Troope’s iFunny clique talking about their coterie on alt-right harassment forum Kiwi Farms (a site owned by a pedophile and primarily used by pedophiles): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1193509940406d7e.png) [Here](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712204818/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/an-ifunny-and-substack-history) is how Troope himself describes his online traveling freak show and how they arrived at Substack. In order to understand “Swaggers With Attitude”, one first has to understand Soyjak Party (“the Sharty”). So, allow me to explain: Soyjak Party (”the Sharty”) is an imageboard originally developed in 2020 as an offshoot of 4chan’s /qa/ board after that board became the site’s de facto board for soyjaks and developed its own unique soyjak lingo intentionally designed to be incomprehensible to outsiders. When 4chan’s /qa/ board was shut down in 2021, the Sharty became increasingly popular (even though it was widely hated on 4chan’s /qa/ board). The Sharty, however, quickly became a major hub for sociopathic underage edgelords eager to engage in extreme antisocial behavior, particularly CSAM spamming (Sharty users are especially known for spamming extreme hurtcore CSAM like Daisy’s Destruction, which they have also been known to edit into soyjaks). The average age of the Sharty’s users is around 7 - 15, and the adults who use the site are mostly the pedophiles who groomed the site’s younger users. During the first few years of the Sharty, the site was openly pedophilic, with threads like [this](https://archive.ph/u3L9q?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) being a daily occurrence, along with near-constant CSAM posting all over the site. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-19724b10986d434a.png) A retarded Sharty reject on Kiwi Troons gives a surprisingly accurate assessment of the Sharty. Later on - especially in 2024 - the site’s users began adopting a pathetically transparent “anti-degeneracy puritan” LARP while simultaneously engaging in the most degenerate behavior imaginable, and Sharty staff implemented mandatory approval of all media posted on the site in order to keep illegal content off of the main site while the site’s users continued to spam such content elsewhere. In the name of “fighting degeneracy” and “protecting children”, Sharty users spam “’p” (CP, i.e. child pornography), “BMT” (baby monkey torture), and “DNB” (”dead nigger babies”, i.e. gore of black infants), along with comparatively tamer material like “’cado”/”coinslot” (pictures of internet celebrity Nikocado Avocado’s anus) and, of course, BBC porn and interracial cuckolding porn (it wouldn’t be an alt-right website without BBC porn and cuckolding, after all - just like it wouldn’t be an alt-right website without depraved pedophiles and their underage grooming victims). When called out for spamming illegal material, Sharty users will always resort to the pathetically transparent excuse of “it’s actually \[insert Discord group here\] hijacking our raids”, but it doesn’t exactly take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Sharty and \[insert Discord group here\] are one and the same. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1a6ea9745847eb57.png) A rare moment of self-awareness from a Sharty user. The Sharty’s “anti-pedophilia” LARP is made especially transparent and obviously spurious by the ridiculously over-the-top, trying-way-too-hard nature of it; for example, Sharty users often accuse underage children of being pedophiles for having sexual conversations with other underage children *of the same age* (and, again, these bogus pedophilia accusations are made by actual CSAM spammers). The Sharty’s most infamous board is /raid/, in which Sharty users carry out raids against targets like suicide hotlines, support groups for rape victims, Discord and Roblox communities for autistic children, and anyone perceived to be “degenerate”, targeting such people with coordinated doxing, harassment, and swatting, along with the usual weaponized CSAM. The universal call to action on /raid/ is to “DOX, RAPE, AND KILL” \[insert target here\] (and the prevailing joke is that it’s usually “DOX, RAPE, AND KILL THIS RANDOM PORN ARTIST I GOONED TO”). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/Opera-Snapshot_2026-10-27_020023_x.com.png) Pictured: the most recent Sharty user to attempt a mass-casualty attack at his school (thankfully, this one didn't actually manage to kill anyone). Sharty users have groomed numerous minors into carrying out mass shootings, including Abundant Life Christian School shooter Natalie Lynn “Samantha” Rupnow, Antioch High School shooter Solomon Henderson, and San Diego mosque shooters Cain Lee Clark and Caleb Liam Vazquez. It has also been widely speculated that 2026 Montreal shooter Seth Hatfield was actually a prominent Sharty user (and former SoyBooru staff member) known as Soysneed. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-17622f7c5c88283b.png) Pictured: San Diego mosque shooter Caleb Vazquez posting on Sharty splinter site Soyzellig Party (“the Zarty”), complaining about being banned from SoyBooru (a Sharty sister site) and vowing to carry out a mass shooting in the name of the Dutch web cartoon **Ongezellig* (one of the Sharty’s most ubiquitous memes). He later did exactly that. Sharty users are known for constantly accusing each other and everyone else of being pedophiles, yet the site is primarily used by pedophiles and underage grooming victims (who, needless to say, will be pedophiles in the future). Virtually every single Sharty user eventually gets outed as a pedophile and so has every single staff member of the site. Every single person who has ever owned the Sharty has been involved in at least one major pedophilia scandal. In May 2026, former Sharty staff member 9a0c [essentially confirmed](https://web.archive.org/web/20260707084412/https://secapedia.org/index.php/Sharty%5FGigaleak) the persistent rumors of the Sharty’s staff spamming CSAM on Sharty splinter sites in order to get them shut down. Sharty users also claim to despise and target LGBT people, non-white people, autistic people, and Discord users, yet most Sharty users are LGBT, most Sharty users are non-white, almost all Sharty users are autistic, and almost all Sharty users are Discord users. The autistic brown tranny Discord pedophile caricatures that Sharty users love to portray their opponents and targets as are, in fact, extremely accurate depictions of the typical Sharty user. The Sharty is rivaled only by Kiwi Farms as the internet’s #1 projection center. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/1760252274393379.jpg) An artist’s rendition of the typical Sharty user. The striking resemblance to Troope is truly uncanny. The Sharty is also known for carrying out insane levels of datamining of everyone who uses the site, including not just browser and hardwire fingerprinting, but even looking at users’ local networks (e.g. users’ printers) to get information about its users. The site also puts a WASM trojan on its users devices and is widely believed to turn its users’ devices into botnets. I know all of this first-hand because, as deeply embarrassing as this is to admit, I was once a staff member on the Sharty. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-17f1edc122560c23.png) Antioch High School shooter Solomon Henderson was an avid Sharty user and was groomed into carrying out the mass shooting by other Sharty users, who he communicated regularly with on the Sharty and on Discord. In [his manifesto](https://web.archive.org/web/20260824062700/https://files.catbox.moe/9hx64a.pdf) and in [his diary](https://web.archive.org/web/20260824062953/https://files.catbox.moe/ylm4i6.pdf), he openly discussed being active on Soyjak Party, and his manifesto and diary were both absolutely filled to the brim with Sharty memes. [Here](https://soyjakwiki.org/Swaggers%5FWith%5FAttitude?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) is the article about “Swaggers With Attitude” on the Sharty’s official wiki (and, as with the Kiwi Farms post and the article from Troope, all information in it should be taken with a VERY generous grain of salt, but that obviously goes without saying). ("Swaggers With Attitude" actually had their own board on the Sharty at one point, but it was very short-lived.) Born out of the deeply rancid culture of Soyjak Party, Patterson Troope and his “Swaggers With Attitude” band moved to Substack after being rightfully banned from iFunny. On Substack, they, as previously mentioned, continued engaging in the exact same behavior that they had been kicked off of Substack for. While the list of people who they have engaged in targeted harassment of is endless, none have experienced their obsessive stalking and extreme harassment to quite the extent that 51-year-old mother Chandra Hardy has. Chandra Hardy is a Maine woman who has been relentlessly hounded by the alt-right for years after her mother was murdered in Jamaica. Troope and the “Swaggers With Attitude” crew particularly tend to target the family members of homicide victims, viewing them as easy prey, which is exactly how Chandra Hardy wound up on their radar. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-19da57763ea17260.png) Anyone who knows anything about alt-righters knows that it is physically impossible for them to go five minutes without projecting their BBC cuckolding fetish onto everyone else, just like it is physically impossible for them to go five minutes without projecting their pedophilia onto everyone else. When I began talking to Chandra Hardy, she told me how Troope and his crew had hounded her and her family for years, how they had edited pictures of her, her dead mother, and her children into black gangbang porn, how they had threatened to rape and kill her and her family members, and how they even went so far as to have her children swatted: “I was in Gainesville when James Knox ordered his goons, including Tee Thingus to doxx my college student sons. That was when my real distress began because my then 21 year-old and his roommates got a knock on the door from cops in the middle of the night. I am now living more safely in MA. I hate Floriduh with a passion and troll it every chance I get.” Hardy also told me: “The doxxing and gangstalking of my 17 year-old yongest son’s college apartment began on November 28, 2024\. The timing is glaring. The pedophilic sexual harassment campaign began on November 27, 2024”. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6dd1cdd45812287c.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-62b0af85c715fffc.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6c905d6167a337d3.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-62c011e2f2b63a18.png) Troope and his troop (pardon the pun) openly admitted to doxing Chandra Hardy’s sons and used it to harass her even more: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-68861db934aad2fd.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-609068749caa3697.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-61bc6aeacf51481d.png) They also posted Chandra Hardy’s address (which, as of this writing, is no longer her address): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-653eae29c6dea299.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-657c05f91480d61c.png) Hardy told me: “The criminal doxxing and gangstalking contributed to my mental anguish and led to my arrest due to stress from being exiled from a Key West McDonald’s. I would like you to write about the fallout of all of this on my family and life.” She went on to say: “By the time I was released from the Monroe County Detention Center after 1.5 nights, Knox had already written a trash piece about me because that’s just how obsessed he was.” ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6b179b56fc7f8475.png) Swatting people and sending pizzas to their houses are among the favorite tactics of Troope and his posse (needless to say, they have attempted to do this to me as well), but Troope was always far too timorous and pusillanimous to actually do it himself. Rather, in typical poltroon fashion, he instead sends one of his underage myrmidons like “Tee I. Thingus” to do it for him, and that’s exactly what he did when he had Chandra Hardy’s sons swatted. You can form your own conclusions about a 24-year-old keyboard warrior who has teenage boys do his dirty work for him. (Note: I have since gotten “Tee I. Thingus” banned from Substack. Much like Troope, he had already been banned from Substack numerous times in the past.) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-65fed2527687e7e1.png) This was my reaction to “Tee I. Thingus” after he revealed to me that he was underage. While Troope swears up and down that “Tee I. Thingus” and the others in his Discord server are all adults, it’s well-known that most of the users in Troope’s Discord server are underage boys. One doesn’t exactly need a Ph.D. in psychology in order to understand the deeply unsettling psychological implications of a 24-year-old man leading an online clique of teenage boys who are known to spam CSAM. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6e098957fd398753.png) Unsurprisingly, “Tee I. Thingus” is also part of infamous Substack groomer “Worst Boyfriend Ever” (Thomas Johnston)’s online circle, and subscribed to Johnston’s rape diary. Troope actually has a massive fetish for older women (aged forty and up), and he gets quite upset and uncomfortable when people bring this up in his Discord server. His obsessive harassment of Chandra Hardy (who he even [wrote an entire article about](https://web.archive.org/web/20260629191549/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/chandra-hardy)) was very much sexual in nature, which is extremely obvious simply from looking at many of the messages that he sent her (these images were captured by Chandra Hardy): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6ceb23fd061f9c8b.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-611a367a5bc47d6b.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6eb83b3090b6b741.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-6d8a1ed3faf3017d.png) The abuse sent to Chandra Hardy from the others in Troope’s iFunny pedophile clique was heavily sexualized as well, with many of them threatening to rape her and/or her children (after all, these are alt-right incels that we’re talking about): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-132d38530b972618.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-10f38ebbd4b8d14f.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-15478c2cf7a25737.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-15c02b3a738fe5e8.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1c40711ee8593d88.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1a80810531c69c39.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-109415fed8c3aa66.png) 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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-112916ae0b24d866.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-104d9be7d9d82dbd.png) One of the most common tactics used by pedophiles is accusing their opponents of being pedophiles, and the alt-right pedophiles on Substack have tried very hard to do this to Chandra Hardy (just like they have tried very hard to do this to me as well, since even swatting me still didn’t stop me from going after online sexual predators). They also attempted to smear her family members in a similar fashion. At one point, Troope even had one of his underage grooming victims (BigDickNick) send Chandra Hardy a picture of his pubescent penis so that they could then threaten to have Hardy arrested for possessing the image: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1a5c00a96c9f4e7c.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-10dbeda0d484ac48.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1dc8dc07e99d0b85.png) Unsurprisingly, along with baselessly accusing Chandra Hardy of molesting her own sons and so forth, the alt-right nonce brigade tried very hard to smear her family members as pedophiles as well: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-12b48eeef1fc3222.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1ee0a2b70428a8b1.png) Patterson Troope and his gang are tight with notorious Substack pedophile “Worst Boyfriend Ever” (Thomas Johnston). At one point, Johnston actually tried to recruit the “Swaggers With Attitude” iFunny rejects as a personal army to kill (yes, literally kill) the ex-boyfriend of one of his victims. Clearly, Johnston genuinely thought that the iFunny coterie - part of the broader “ironic” degeneracy movement that I’ve written about previously - were actually hardcore neo-Nazi skinhead gang-bangers rather than just edgelord pedophile neo-Nazi incel keyboard warriors. And, needless to say, it didn’t really work out for him: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-42300054b67471a4.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4c82e4c0c6396301.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4229affb14444fca.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-404e34c2aa569449.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4f1a220c3cc0cbf2.png) Thomas “Worst Boyfriend Ever” Johnston is still in contact with the alt-right pedophiles in Patterson Troope’s iFunny clique (the ones who he unsuccessfully tried to hire to kill the ex-boyfriend of one of his victims), and he is also in contact with most of the other alt-right pedophiles on Substack. Troope first came to my attention when him and his crew of autistic pedophiles began harassing me (or trying desperately hard to, anyways). As usual, their harassment was on the level of a mentally retarded eight-year-old boy clumsily making his first attempt at edgy internet trolling: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-44628db7116b37f8.png) To simply call Troope and his iFunny clique “low-level trolls” would be putting it in the mildest possible terms. In his own laughably impotent, ham-fisted attempts to harass me, Troope often repeatedly claimed that I was “gaped in prison” (undoubtedly another twisted, porn-fueled sexual fantasy of his), but his internet tough guy act rapidly began to fade as I began dropping more and more information about him in public and it became abundantly clear that I had access to his entire Discord server ([here](https://web.archive.org/web/20260805231128/https://files.catbox.moe/d7owsy.zip) are just a few extracts from his Discord server, which, unsurprisingly, he was actually stupid enough to publicly link to in [one of his articles](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712211640/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/stumpside-chats-14)). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-29-032231.png) An aspiring public prosecutor, ladies and gentlemen. Most bullies back down as soon as someone stands up to them, and that is exactly what happened here. It quickly dawned on Troope that he had fucked with the wrong person and, gradually, he became quite obviously afraid of me. He tried (and failed) to find out how I was leaking information from his Discord server, with him and his gang speaking about me like a boomer TV news channel discussing the infamous hacker known as 4chan: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-48045d24ad0d9bd3.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-48d668816b1215f4.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4ad756fe1975afea.png) Note how genuinely scared they are of being accused of being pedophiles. This is most definitely not the response of people who are completely innocent of those accusations (because, rest assured, they are most definitely not). He even began warning his moronic minions not to interact with me (after having previously sent them to harass me), and most of them blocked me as a result: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4b85119634c1922b.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-42ea3a0b48fa7155.png) When Chandra Hardy - the woman who Troope had aggressively stalked and harassed for years - started posting stuff like this (because I had begun feeding her personal information about Troope), Troope also quickly blocked her like the cowardly little pussy punk bitch that he is: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4a853e334b875729.png) Not so tough now, huh, Troope? I got Troope banned from Substack and then got him banned again after he briefly got unbanned, echoing all of his previous bans from Substack and elsewhere, which led to Troope announcing that he would wait a while before returning: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4e335ee1f217e273.png) After that, he stated that he planned to move to Xitter instead. In light of this article being published and his real identity being revealed to the world (including all of his victims), he might need to rethink that decision as well. In real life, Troope is an aspiring public prosecutor who interns at a Tennessee district attorney’s office through a University of Tennessee program. With his usual terrible opsec, he openly wrote articles like [this one](https://web.archive.org/web/20260712214304/https://theburrpapers.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-justice) (as “James Knox”) about interning there. He has even [made the dean’s list](https://nsl.law/2025-2026-deans-list/?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-41ef83334ebb55af.png) It also wasn’t hard to find a professor posting a picture of Troope on Facebook: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-08-11-151220.png) As “James Knox”, Patterson Troope constantly ranted about how women are all stupid whores who waste their money on bullshit liberal arts degrees. Unsurprisingly, Troope himself wasted his money (or, more accurately, his parents’ money) on a bullshit liberal arts degree. Troope, of course, uses his position at the DA’s office to gather confidential information about the people who he targets online - which, needless to say, is of highly questionable legality at best (and certainly more than enough to get him fired immediately): ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4f74c54de144aac7.png) On Substack, Troope mainly registers accounts with burner email addresses like theknoxpapers@gmail.com. However, it was not hard to find his real email address, patrickbasedman1962@gmail.com - and, from there, all of his other information came naturally: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-454494ac9abce40c.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4c570d410c09477b.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4d4d5d02cf6ae5ed.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-46465608ea08591d.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-416a48b4090aab77.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4888f0f6ce4dde40.png) [Here](https://web.archive.org/web/20260806173219/https://files.catbox.moe/lxrtcr.txt) is information from Troope’s Quora account. When called on his phone, Troope was very clearly quite scared, tremulously claiming that he was “not sure who Polk is, but I’ll let you know if I find out anything about them”. He reacted with the same palpable fear and trepidation when his real name was posted in his Discord server: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4c1f3c67a5e0b26c.png) (For the record, I was actually not the person who called him and posted the above in his Discord server. This person is one of my contacts who has been helping me.) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-29-034642.png) At one point, Troope actually managed to get my Substack account suspended for a comment that I made where I stated that I intended to publish the dox of "Worst Boyfriend Ever" and other pedophiles on Substack. The ban lasted a few days until I got Substack staff to unban me. Troope, however, remains permabanned from Substack. The voice of Patterson Troope (as “James Knox”) had already been heard in [an interview video that he did](https://web.archive.org/web/20260711232027/https://quarterlymusings.substack.com/p/don-knox-interview-with-an-ifunnier) with fellow nonce Will Martin ([here](https://archive.org/details/don%5Fknox%5Finterview%5Fwith%5Fan%5Fifunnier) is an additional backup of the video since Troope had the original uploader delete the video from Substack), and the voice matched up with the scared voice in the phone call. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-4295c8aec39debea.png) You would really think that someone interning in a DA’s office in the hopes of eventually becoming a public prosecutor would take greater measures to safeguard their personal information when living a career-ending double life online, but apparently not. The classic “Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory” (coined by the webcomic *Penny Arcade*) holds that “regular person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad”. The internet (and especially the dark web) provides us with an invaluable portal into the darkest recesses of the human psyche because, when people are completely anonymous and they know that they won’t be held personally accountable for their actions, they will simply behave like the feral, depraved, iniquitous monsters that they really are (I, of all people, should know a thing or two about this sort of thing). People reveal aspects of themselves on the internet that they would never reveal to anyone in real life - not even to a therapist. But the only thing stopping people from behaving like that in real life is the threat of personal accountability for it. Look at any place where there are no laws - whether it’s Somalia or New Orleans - and you’ll see people behaving the exact same way that they behave on the internet. Or look at how UN diplomats act, because they’re given total impunity. That’s just their true, horrible human nature coming out. The monster is always there. The internet just removes the mask. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-5ffed6a5e48c8b6a.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-5ee24dc91dc1a89e.png) You can do whatever you want, pedophiles? Well, not as long as I’m here. It must be noted, however, that Troope is not a “regular person”. Troope is a sadistic psychopath with zero redeeming qualities who is always on the prowl for another victim, but he picked the wrong “victim” this time. Did it ever occur to you, Troope, that I - someone who served over nine years in federal prison after being the single most prolific troll in internet history - might not be someone that you want to fuck with? Well, apparently not, but now you’ve learned that lesson the hard way, and it will very much haunt you for the rest of your life. Who’s the “lolcow” now, Troope? Now that you’ve had a taste of your own medicine, how does it feel? I have sent all of this information to the Nashville School of Law, the DA's office where you intern, and your university, and I have also sent it to your family (including your brother Austin Troope and your mother Andrea Troope, whose email address is andreatroopelpc@gmail.com), as they all deserve to know about what you’ve been up to on the internet. I really hope that everything that you did online was worth it, Troope. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-53c6ed6348415dca.png) To answer your question: yes, he is. Finally, one last thing: I was never “gaped in prison”, Troope, but you are absolutely going to be gaped in court by Chandra Hardy, because she fully intends to press charges against you for your years of extreme harassment of her and her family. Again, I really hope that it was worth it. You’re never as anonymous as you think, Troope. Always remember that. Anyways, Troope - now that your life is officially over, here’s one last song to play you out: