If true, he's an exception on Discord, where the tone is generally dark. Solo claimed his Zoom bombings involve harmless memes or music.

How did Solo move up the ranks so fast? 'I'm bored during this fucking quarantine,' he said, before claiming to execute around 20 Zoom attacks a day. His display picture is Elmo from Sesame Street. We chatted to Solo over audio notes, and while we couldn't verify his age, he sounded and acted like a teenager.

They found out how trolls take advantage of Zoom's weaknesses to attack unprotected calls, celebrate their successes in private forums (including right-wing extremist channels) and how Zoom is failing to act. VICE Germany spoke to two teenage Zoom bombers and a number of victims. But what kind of people aim to collect trophies like that? For Zoom bombers, the horrified reactions are digital trophies. Recordings of these incidents and others end up on YouTube and TikTok. School classes and church services have also been affected the world over. In April, a group of anti-Semites crashed an online Holocaust memorial service in Berlin, broadcasting images of Adolf Hitler, while another synagogue service in London was hijacked with anti-Semitic remarks. In March, trolls hijacked an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in New York, with one shouting 'Alcohol is so good!' to the assembled group. Within that number, there are trolls: so-called 'Zoom bombers' looking to hijack calls and mess with people. By April, it claimed to have 300 million – before backtracking to admit the statistic is really 300 million 'meeting participants' per day. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom had 10 million daily users.

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