 Others have identified quasi-political motivations such as the effort to hinder the entry of corporations into Second Life, and yet others have identified their activities as nihilistic or even agonistic online branches of the political avant-garde.The DHRA has also described them as a prime example of online criminal gang culture including spillover effects into real life gang activity.The group has been linked to internet group Anonymous as both a sub-group and an early progenitor iteration.