The YouTube Channel – “Anonymous Official” – Exposed

Most, who follow the idea and movement of Anonymous, have heard of the YouTube channel, “Anonymous Official”, which is notorious for stealing videos created by true Anons, revamping them, then calling them their own work.

Over the past five years, Anonymous Official has gradually gained a monopoly over ‘Anonymous’ on YouTube. They’ve made a hefty profit off the theft of other’s hard work and accomplishments. Meanwhile, they haven’t contributed anything to the movement themselves. There is no official Anonymous and no Anonymous headquarters.

These offenses have largely gone unchecked due to the fact that Anons don’t take their battles to the courtroom regarding the infringement. This is a technicality Anonymous Official is using to their advantage. But a Bakersfield man actually took Anonymous Official to court once over the copyright infringement of his video, and he won!

After observing Anonymous Official over the years, what initially began as mild gratitude, quickly turned to suspicion. This one channel pumped out “Messages” from Anonymous by the masses, many of which originated elsewhere.

Sharing videos created by those within the Anonymous movement – those who are actually trying to bring about change in the world – is entirely appropriate. Revamping Anonymous videos to make them appear as your own for the purpose of recognition and profit, is unacceptable.

Through a mixture of over-confidence and hubris, the sole owner of “Anonymous Official” made himself known to us through one of our little birdies.

Meet Anthony Vaiana, an English and Film Studies teacher at the Niagara Catholic District School Board in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He lives in Buffalo, New York:

Anthony formerly worked as a painter in Rochester, New York before attending school at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He likes the New York Yankees, photography, and threatening people who report videos he’s stolen:

Anonymous Official/Anthony Vaiana’s counter-notification reads:

Display name of uploader: Anonymous Official

This is our original content and you own NONE of the rights to it. Remove this strike imminently.

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material was removed due to a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.

I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district in which my address is located or, if my address is outside the United States, the judicial district in which YouTube is located, and will accept service of process from the claimant.

Anthony Vaiana

56 Baker Ct

Buffalo, NY 14218 US

an*****************@***il.com

(716)*******31

No, Mr. Vaiana, we won’t see you in court. We’ll just expose you! We’re Anonymous and The AEGIS Alliance! You should have expected us!

Where the Channel Stands Now

The years since this was published did not slow the channel down. “Anonymous Official” has continued operating and has grown into one of the largest accounts trading on the Anonymous name on YouTube, surpassing three million subscribers and now directing viewers to the website anon.news. Rather than fading after being called out, it became a fixture, posting a steady stream of commentary-style videos to a mass audience.

The criticism this article raised has only grown louder alongside it. Independent reviewers and a widely viewed 2023 investigation have described the channel as a content operation built on repackaging others’ material, and commenters who point out that it is not the actual Anonymous collective have reported having their remarks removed. That tracks the central complaint here: a single monetized account presenting itself as the voice of a leaderless movement that never appointed it, while the creators whose work fueled its growth went uncredited. The AEGIS Alliance keeps this record on file as part of its consistent position that there is no official Anonymous and no Anonymous headquarters — on YouTube or anywhere else.

Related: Attempting to Clear up Misconceptions about Anonymous, the FBI Project Chanology files, and Anonymous News.