Earlier this weekend, pages for “White Student Unions,” affiliated with a variety of universities, began appearing on Facebook. According to The Daily Beast, the pages are being created as part of a prank perpetrated by trolls from 4chan, 8chan, and the white supremacist website Daily Stormer.

For every human tragedy offline, there will inevitably be a group of dedicated fuckers trying to make it worse using the internet. Today’s example is the #BaltimoreLootCrew, spreading white supremacist bile and misinformation about the Freddie Gray protests.

Racism and general human toxicity have become more than a niche on Reddit: the site has made a name for itself in the larger cyber-bigot community. Racists now look at Reddit as an opportunity—a way to bring fresh hatemongers into the fold.

Remember 8chan? The anonymous image board that sprang to relevance at the height of the Gamergate fiasco may have faded from public view in the months since then, but the creeps who use it haven't stopped creeping.

Both the amorphous anti-feminist movement Gamergate and last month's extended leak of a huge cache of private celebrity nude photographs—the two biggest internet-based stories in recent memory—have served as coming-out parties for a small set of anonymous, uncensored image boards that function like 4chan's raggedy stepchildren. Who are these new kids, and where did they come from?