Summary of Facts

The US Department of Justice accused Prasan Nepal (“Trippy,” 20, High Point, North Carolina) and Leonidas Varagiannis (“War,” 21, a U.S. citizen in Thessaloníki, Greece) of being leaders of and playing key roles in running 764, from late 2020 until March 2025. A complaint filed in Washington, D.C., on 15 April 2025 charges both men with operating a child-exploitation enterprise under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(g).

The complaint says the defendants “Trippy” and “War” from late 2020 until March 2025 jointly owned and ran a private encrypted 764 channel the hub for the group’s most committed members. Each faces one count of child-exploitation enterprise under, a charge that carries a potential life sentence. Nepal was arrested in North Carolina on 22 April 2025; Varagiannis was arrested in Greece on 29 April 2025 and is awaiting extradition.

According to some in the Com network Nepal allegedly co-founded 764 with Bradley Cadenhead and rose to de facto leader after that founder’s 2021 arrest. Some "New Gens" in the Com network believe that Cadenhead "never gave OS (ownership) of 764 to Trippy". Outside of the Com Network jostling for position and clout, Trippy played a leadership role in 764 as a leader figues and an OG (original member). He operated under screen-names such as “Leather Jacket,” “King Krampus,” and later simply “Trippy.” Varagiannis joined the network in December 2023, using handles including “mercyisweak” and “sinisterfuck,” and quickly became co-administrator of 764 Inferno. Both men controlled invitations, set content quotas, and wrote recruitment guidance for new members.

The affidavit characterises 764 as an Nihilistic Violent Extremist Network (NVE). Its leaders viewed CSAM not merely as contraband but as propaganda and a tool to be used for terroristic purposes. Each new “Lorebook”—an edited and curated archive of abuse and personal information about a victim—conferred status on its producer, lured fresh recruits, and demonstrated the franchise’s capacity for cruelty. Within 764’s private inner‑circle, the defendants hammered home the principle that violence—sexual, psychological, and physical—is both entertainment and ideological labour. On 30 September 2024 Nepal wrote, “we’re not anti‑extortion… it does in a way promote harm and teaches cringey e‑girls lessons.” Two months earlier Varagiannis posted a faux rule‑set banning “pedophilia” even as he and Nepal left CSAM links intact, a tactical nod to rather than any moral squeamishness. In 764, hypocrisy served strategy: public denials masked private escalation and acts as bait for those writting about he network.

The government identifies eight known minor victims across at least four jurisdictions and intimates there are more. Their ordeal illustrates 764’s brutality. According to the criminal complaint and chat records we see a repeatable pipeline

1. Grooming & Social Engineering – Trippy and War invite minors into private chats, normalise drug use or sexual talk, then record compromising content for leverage. They claim to seek to “extort mentally ill girls”.
2. Sexual Exploitation as Clout – Status is measured the quantity of victims and the sadism of the acts Trippy and War facilitated.
3. Coercive Threats – Victims face doxing, swatting, and brickings
4. Escalation to Physical Violence

Trippy

Trippy operates as a core influencers and leader in 764 and No Lives Matter. His output and interactions reflect a nihilistic, sadistic, and sexually predatory ideology that centres on degrading and exploiting vulnerable targets, especially children. He repeatedly advocates sexual violence, animal cruelty, and broader acts of harm as tools to erode social norms and drive notoriety for his group. He speaks openly about rape and grooming, warns parents to keep children away from him, and boasts about plans to groom specific numbers of minors on future dates. These declarations are not isolated provocations; they appear in repeated statements across 3 years of chat records and are delivered with detailed descriptions of intended assaults, as well as Trippy sharing his "Trophies". Trippy’s content and direct messages show him constantly hunting for minors and encouraging followers to record and distribute exploitative material. He treats animal abuse as a rehearsal for human‑directed violence, framing both as proof of dominance and commitment to the cause.

Within the 764 network Trippy is identified as an OG (someone who was there at the creation of 764) and holds an unofficial leadership role since the arrest of Bradley Cadenhead. It is claimed that Trippy use to edit videos for Brad764. Other members in 764 and the wider Com network cite his opinions, replicate his phrases, and follow his guidance on tactics. His influence accelerates radicalization and mobilization cycles inside the group and pushes new recruits toward violent conduct. Actively involved in management decisions, giving admin privileges to others and controlling group access, as well ad deciding who will or will not make it into 764.

According to some lore there are claims Trippy is the original creator of the 764 logo "if you want to blame anyone blame trippy for making the original 764 logo"

We can see the impact and history of Trippy in the notoriety he has in Com he is hated in as much as he is feared and admired. We can identify the longevity of his presence and leadership in historically examining the rosters of 764.

A roster is a list of members in as specifically named group in the Com network. This list will usually identify the name of the group, the and the rank of their members. Therefore being on the 764 roster is what will give a user the permission to "rep" the group by having 764 in their name. Anyone who is not on the current roster of the group, or has been given permission by the owner the rep when they "retire". In looking at my archive of rosters dating back to late 2022, we notice that Trippy is present on almost all of the rosters. We can see in the rosters and in the historical chats I have archived and reviewed, that Trippy is viewed as a 764 OG and plays a leadership role in the current iteration of 764. He is frequently the person that is named, amongst others, to contact for recruitment into 764. Furthermore, the rosters and the historical chat data I have indicates that trippy is associated with several arrested members of 764.

His leadership role can also be identified in the crimes committed by individuals in the name of 764 in order to gain access to a role on the 764 roster a prospective member and recruit need to commit a specific amount of crimes. Some of these crimes like graffiti, cutsigns, cutshows, cutstages, bloodsigns, fansigns will be accompanied with the name of the victimizers, or several vicitmizers if it occurs in a group setting.

If we look at a sample of vandalism and a bloodsign we can see that Trippy's name (alongside, War, Acid, Criminal) appear frequently in the type of harms that involve the inclusion of group names or symbolism. This again demonstrates the influence of Trippy and the far reach of the harm he has caused. What I cannot show here are the numerous times that Trippy's name has been written in the flesh and blood of his victims, and on the items he used to victimize and harm themselves with. The scars of his name will remain on the body of his victims forever, reminding them of what he did to them and that power is something that he relished.

Trippy exhibits authoritative and strategic control over conversations and group dynamics, ensuring privacy and exclusivity of group interactions. He also frequently employs humor or casual language to deflect seriousness, maintain group cohesion, and reduce the apparent severity of their activities​. He also displays volatile emotions, switching from adoration to threats when challenged.

He graphically describes physical assaults, including strangulation, and encourages followers to carry them out. He repeatedly outlines intent to act offline and ties that intent to specific targets and time frames. Trippy shows a need for control, and an absence of empathy. He admits using people solely for information and discards them once they serve his purpose. His grooming strategy blends intimidation, sexual coercion, and psychological manipulation. Trippy isolates victims, demands degrading acts, and threatens to release compromising material if they resist. He combines grandiosity, impulsivity, and sadism. Interpersonal chats reveal insecurities beneath the bravado. He reacts poorly to perceived slights, seeks validation through ever harsher threats, and lashes out when attention shifts away from him. These triggers act as flashpoints for rapid escalation online.

War

War acts as co-administrator with Trippy and is a veteran of the com network, appearing on both 764 and NLM rosters. War was one of the individuals that was included as a contact for 764 x NLM recruitment. War exhibits aggressive, confrontational, and provocative language and engages in interactions that normalize and trivialize harmful behaviors. He utilizes casual and explicit language that contributes to a culture of desensitization toward extremist or sadistic behaviors. War was one of the individuals, alongside Acid764, that was allegedly creating content around "Terror Week", and shared NLM instructional guides on how to carry out attacks. Both Trippy and War did not only seek to sadistically victimize people, they also sought to use their clout in the community and their positions in 764 to inspire others to carry out attacks in service of 764 or No Lives Matter. Similar to Trippy, War appears to have more than passing knowledge about O9A. War appears to engage with O9A ideologies and material more than for their aesthetic value as the majority of 764 and Com use it.

Groups

764

In his own words Trippy explains that:

"The goal of 764 is the purification of all living things through endless attacks committed by the cult, world domination will be achieved by any means necessary. EVIL HAS NO LIMITS, We won't stop until our goal is completed and all life forms are eliminated only 764 will remain. For us to achieve such ambition the cult must share a single minded passion for death and conquest for him there exists only one pleasure, one reward, one satisfaction - A successful hunt. Day and Night he must have but one thought, one aim - merciless destruction. Striving cold bloodily and indefatigably towards his end. He must be prepared to destroy himself and to destroy with his own hands everything that stands of our goal"

Tippy also writes in April 2024 that "the goal of 764 is to build a sinister brotherhood." This is not too surprising, not only due to the presence of occultic aesthetics in 764, but as an OG member of 764, Trippy was around when the influence of O9A, stemming from CVLT, was still present with the OGs. In an NLM chat Trippy wrote "Christianity ruined the name of Hell. ’Hell’ is the seperation from God of positivity right? After u get to a conclusion that the Christian god is self limiting, u realize that total seperation from God is none other than a formless acausal void beyond time - that which all came from and shall return to. Killing a soul is the base of sinister, when you squeeze the life out of a creature wether it being animal or human you're in the process of a sinister act." Trippy demonstrates some superficial knowledge of O9A linguistic tropes and concepts.

No Lives Matter

Trippy also played a role in No Lives Matter (NLM) behind the scenes and publicly. As highlighted above, Trippy is the 764 representative that plays the central rolein the forging of an alliance with S1n from NLM. In discussing the history of NLM Trippy indicates "Corpse brought NLM back up and let Jokke be the face of it, Corpse also did not start NLM. [...] Corpse made NLM run back again hes not an owner of it because NLM goes way back." Conversations show that he views NLM as a complementary vehicle for higher profile violence and media exposure. In 764 and No lives Matter chat records, Trippy states that "NLM is an ideal not a sole group." NLM is described as a project “bigger than 764” and criticize the new gen 764’s reliance on extorting girls on Roblox as insufficiently dramatic. They push for spectacular acts that will “make news”.

NLM is about hating humans, you don't have to hate animals but they're part of the materials to creating a sickfuq gang. [...] taking life with predatory intentions is sinister ~ Trippy

The minimum requirement to join NLM is killing animals, Tippy states that "killing animals is base of sinister". The real objective of the animal abuse is to desensitize a recruit to violence and get them to kill or attempt to kill a person, echoing the tactics, techniques and procedures of MKY.

The overlap in personnel and ideology means that Trippy can leverage NLM’s ambition to widen the scale of harm while importing 764’s existing grooming infrastructure and recruit from 764. The competitive dynamic between the two brands further incentivizes escalation, as each seeks to outdo the other in brutality and visibility. NLM’s self‑description in chat records and by leadership underscores a shift from targeted exploitation toward mass‑impact incidents designed for maximum attention. This ambition aligns with Trippy’s stated desire for notoriety and heightens the collective threat. Trippy ideologically glorifies harm and his operational role magnifies his reach.

Weaponizing Content

Both War and Trippy framed sexual cruelty as revolutionary pedagogy. By forcing minors to degrade themselves—sometimes to the point of hospitalization—they claimed to unveil the hypocrisy of a system unable to protect its youth. In chat logs Trippy rationalized extortion as “discipline to little girls who might not have a father at home.” The language repackages misogyny and child abuse as paternalistic tutelage, a perverse echo of patriarchal authority twisted into sadistic entertainment. War’s casual response to a recruit in chat archives—“already got a bitch to suicide… the ending was funny”—shows how terminal violence became a punch‑line, ritual, scoreboard. The content–lorebooks and sadistic sexual exploitation material– served as an advertisement that War and Trippy 764 were willing to cross every taboo. Further, the spectacle of helplessness undercuts faith in the system, which they highlight as the crisis that precedes the collapse. Trippy and War described that their content thus operates like terrorist propaganda videos—shock designed to demoralize opponents and galvanize insiders.

Access to the 764 Inferno chat was by invitation only and hinged on “content.” War and Trippy wrote a recruitment and tactical guide dated 13 September 2024 that spelled out the content calculus: candidates targeted “e‑girls” with depression, groomed them for nudes, harvested personal details, and then leveraged fear of exposure to coerce “blood content”—images featuring self‑harm, animal abuse, or sex acts performed under duress with the branding of NLM and 764.

September 13 is the same day that Slain764 attempted to murder an elderly man in Sweden.

Membership depended on producing ever harsher material; complacency risked expulsion. On 22 July 2024 in an archived chat Trippy booted a veteran member and declared he could return only after getting “content,” then nudged another recruit to “beat some ass” on camera. Leadership in 764 thus fused content curation with terror: Trippy and War positioned themselves as arbiter‑coaches who both demanded atrocities and offered tactical advice on how to commit them.

Step one target acquisition: Trippy's May 2024 tutorial reduced grooming to four bullet points—“go to Reddit,” “self harm community,” “speak with a girl,” “seduce her with how much you love how she cuts.”

Step two social engineering: once nudes arrived, recruits are instructed to scrape the victim’s social media for family contacts, a leverage database for later blackmail.

Step three escalation by extortion: demands progressed from topless photos to self‑harm rituals, sexual exploitation, animal torture, or live‑streamed humiliation.

Step four content monetization: finished Lorebooks circulated inside chats as status tokens and teasers for public channels that teased “free 764 content” while funneling traffic toward the pay‑off: new recruits eager to prove themselves.

In 764 and NLM video edits violence spilled offline whenever expedient. Trippy in example fro chat archives urged a recruit to use a weapon during a planned beating. War, for his part, in a discord livestream showcased neo‑Nazi graffiti in Thessaloniki and promised additional tags upon request from the chat. The DOJ complaint hints at additional real‑world crimes under investigation, but these details are reserved for future filings.

This case depicts how nihilistic violent extremists marry the worst of two national security threats: the systemic sexual predation typical of child‑abuse rings and the violent zeal of accelerationist terrorists. Trippy and War stand accused not only of exchanging horrific images but of weaponizing those images to recruit followers, cement authority, and advance a worldview that revels in human suffering. Their alleged conduct—grooming children, orchestrating ritualized self‑harm, archiving the evidence, and celebrating every cut or sexual exploitation as ideological victory embodies the ethos of nihilistic violent extremism. The case ultimately offers a grim example of how digital subcultures can incubate sadistic atrocities.