His most famous video claimed to show viewers "how to get anyone's IP address" using a "highly advanced" method. In reality, he just opened the Windows command prompt and ran the tracert command. The "Hacking" Technique
The comedy—and the reason the video went viral on sites like Reddit —came from his explanation of how tracert worked: Nextgenhacker101 Tracert
Nextgenhacker101 became the poster child for the —someone who uses basic tools they don't understand to try and look like a master hacker. His most famous video claimed to show viewers
He was relentlessly mocked for his "1337 hacker" persona, but he also gained a strange kind of respect for the sheer confidence he displayed while explaining a network utility as if it were a digital weapon. Nextgenhacker101 Tracert
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