5. Regardless of how Hyde became an avatar of online trolling campaigns, it has been taken up with great enthusiasm in some of the shadier corners of the web. The neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer even included him in a convoluted plan to inundate Breitbart comment sections with anti-Semitic spam.

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They Breitbart with comments about Jews, and to “mention Sam Hyde and act like everyone is supposed to know who he is.” They told commenters to spam the most-read articles onwith comments about Jews, and to “mention Sam Hyde and act like everyone is supposed to know who he is.”

Reached by email, Hyde told BuzzFeed News the Daily Stormer campaign and the larger trend of naming him as a suspect following shootings were part of an anti-Semitic bullying effort.

“They were targeting a bunch of people but I suppose my name is the one that stuck,” he said as explanation for why his name keeps coming up over and over again following tragedies.

“It is definitely anti-Semitic because when this all started going down I was receiving a ton of emails with things written like ‘you’re dead Kike’ and ‘commie Jew Fuck’ … shit like that.”