This is original research. It is based on observations and conversations with people of my acquaintance, in real life and online. Journalists: If you want to quote - only with acknowledgemt of the source, i.e.my full name/blog URL.
- Overwhelmingly male
- People from mainly lowly backgrounds who are often first- generation graduates of a technical discipline
- Few interests in life, totally focussed on the internet (not the content side of it but the workings of)
- Lonely, often deliberate loners, self-styled nerds and geeks for want of a better term of belonging anywhere. If there is a partner, the relationship is more pragmatic than romantic
- Curiously often over-weight (probably resulting from their only interest: staring at a screen), often pale and bloated looking (probably due to disinterest in food and a penchant for junk food to go with the self-defintion as "nerd" > admiration of American stereotype)
- Extremely badly dressed, typically: cheap t-shirt, ill-fitting jeans (often black), squelchy shoes; "Adiletten"
- Lowly job profile, mostly working in a subordinate IT role
- Low self-esteem, but....
- .... Desperate wish to distinguish himself - somehow resulting in a preponderance of (very frequently) very weird beards and (sometimes) wacky hairstyles
- Condescending attitude towards women ("no idea about technology"), thereby reiterating decade-old cliches - what their dads will have said about women drivers etc.
- People who feel that their superior knowledge of technology is not appreciated by society and therefore in return despise their fellow human beings ("Idiots")
- People who are prone to deify somebody who they regard as a technology guru (Steve Jobs!) -ready to accept, quote, and follow.
- People who are prepared to serve as disciples if their leader shares their values, or surpasses their knowledge
- Would like to have power but are regarded as impotent and slighty riduculous by society which they find irksome and in return causes aggression on their part
- Potentially prepared to wear uniform-style clothing (orange ties with logo etc) Strong will to distinguish themselves as a group
- Very widespread unacknowledged (and deep in the closet) intense male bonding,bordering on homophilia, whilst happy to spout homophobic jokes etc. to distract
- Openly anti-semitic, masquerading as media-based and informed anti-zionism
- Established authority is rejected outhand, but "own" authoritarian leadership would be accepted
- Self-definition as "anarchist", hating any "establishment", convinced that time is ripe for a "whole new order"
