Adam Long was scrolling through the Grand Theft Auto V subreddit when he saw game footage of some guys leaping out of a van and beating the living crap out of a random person. To anybody else, it may have looked like a little videogame griefing; for 18- year-old Long, it was the motivation that would stimulate social networks phenomenon.
” All of a sudden they punch him and beat him to death,” Long states. “I thought it was the funniest thing ever. I sent it to a group of friends on Snapchat and stated we had to do something like it.”
Back in GTA V, an open-world role-playing game with an online part, Long and his 2 pals settled on a “roving gang of aliens” vibe with matching green martian suits for their avatars. They hopped in a van and drove around, searching for gamers who were alone, preoccupied, and unassuming. Then they jumped out, got baseball bats, and knocked them dead. “Hit and run,” says Long. “W