Introduction
Lurking in the digital wasteland of the internet’s darker corners, is a beast. A group so vicious, that they have hit on a novel way of undermining civilization…by directly targeting children, like a truly deranged version of Fagin, from Oliver Twist, joining up with Jack the Ripper.
You need to pay attention, and spread the word. Monitor what your children are doing online, because these animals want them dead…and you, as well, if they can make that happen.
The 764 Terror Network: The Growing Digital Threat to Children
The 764 terror network represents one of the most disturbing online terror organizations yet encountered by law enforcement, targeting vulnerable children worldwide, to the extent of being classified as a “Tier One” investigative matter by the FBI, and officially designated as a terrorist network by the U.S. Department of Justice. Named after the zip-code of its founder’s Texas hometown, this decentralized network has evolved from a localized online community into a global movement that the FBI now characterizes as involving “nihilistic violent extremists.”
Origins and Leadership
The group known as “764” was founded in 2021 by Bradley Chance Cadenhead, then a 15-year-old from Stephenville, Texas, who operated under the username “Felix” on Discord. A bullied teenager who had dropped out of school, Cadenhead retreated to his bedroom and created his new online persona, regularly posting shocking images and cultivating a following of like-minded individuals.
Since the launch of the initial 764 group, which garnered a couple of hundred Discord followers, 764 has become a global movement, with an array of offshoots and subgroups that often rebrand and change their names to help keep social media companies and law enforcement from tracking them. Detectives working on these cases have told authorities to treat 764 “more as an ideology” than as a specific group.
In March of 2023, Cadenhead pleaded guilty to nine counts of child pornography possession and was sentenced to 80 years in state prison, with the judge citing his self-described status as a “cult leader”.
The network draws ideological inspiration from the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a satanic neo-Nazi terrorist organization, incorporating elements of Western esotericism, Satanism, and accelerationist ideology aimed at societal collapse.
The FBI Terror Network Overview
As a group, 764 is a decentralized, Satanic, neo-Nazi, transnational, “sextortion” network that is reportedly adjacent to the Order of Nine Angles, a far-right Satanic terrorist network. It is classified as a terror network by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and is considered a terrorist “Tier One” investigative matter by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI has more than 250 investigations underway into the network of violent predators known as “764,” making it the number one digital threat to children.
Operational Methods and Scope
764 operates primarily through gaming platforms like Roblox, Discord, and Telegram, methodically targeting minors aged 8-17, particularly those who are marginalized or struggling with mental health issues. The network follows a systematic approach: members befriend victims online, obtain compromising photos through social engineering or feigned romantic interest, then use blackmail to coerce increasingly disturbing acts including self-harm, animal abuse, and the production of child sexual abuse material.
Victims are frequently goaded into carving “764” or their abuser’s username into their bodies, sometimes “going down to the bone,” and these images become valuable currency within the network. The ultimate goal is often to push victims toward suicide, which is livestreamed for the entertainment of network members.
764 has been classified as a violent online network that seeks to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors. The 764 network’s accelerationist goals include social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the U.S. Government. That’s why the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division and the Justice Department’s National Security Division are now looking at 764 and its offshoots as a potential form of domestic terrorism, even coining a new term to characterize the most heinous actors: “nihilistic violent extremists.”
764’s Connection to Mass Violence: A Growing Pattern
The clearest documented connection between the 764 network and school violence is the case of Solomon Henderson, the 17-year-old Antioch High School shooter who killed one student in January 2025. Henderson made specific references to 764 and similar groups in social media posts before his attack, and was found to be “mutuals” online with Madison, Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow.
Henderson’s 288-page diary revealed extensive engagement with 764 ideology, including tattoos of swastikas and “764” on his arm, and posts stating “I feel like God. I can decide who lives and who dies” after his rampage. Court documents consistently show that 764 members initially come to law enforcement attention through tips regarding planned mass violence, not just child exploitation charges.
European Violence Connections
In October 2024, a 14-year-old Swedish 764 member known as “Slain” livestreamed eight attacks and three stabbings in Hässelby after running an offshoot called “No Lives Matter“. These attacks were filmed, set to music, and shared online to inspire others to engage in violence, with the perpetrator becoming a “celebrity” within 764 spaces and his videos regularly circulated among members.
Ideological Framework for Violence
FBI officials report that 764 networks deliberately share violent content and glorify past mass-casualty attacks such as the 1999 Columbine shooting, while introducing victims to neo-Nazi and Satanist ideologies to “desensitize these young people so that nothing really disturbs them anymore“. The network actively encourages people suffering from mental health problems to “kill themselves on camera or commit mass shootings“.
Other documented cases include 764 member Aidan Harding, charged in February 2025 with possession of child pornography, who had also allegedly plotted a mass casualty event and possessed 20 guns. Similarly, 23-year-old Hugo Figuerola was arrested in Spain for threatening a mass shooting and bombing in Valencia.
The pattern suggests 764 functions not merely as a child exploitation network, but as an active radicalizing force that systematically pushes vulnerable individuals—many of them minors themselves—toward increasingly extreme acts of violence, culminating in real-world attacks that mirror the online violence they’ve been conditioned to celebrate.
Direct Connections Between Rupnow and Henderson
Extremism researchers have documented that both Natalie Rupnow (the Madison shooter) and Solomon Henderson (the Nashville shooter) were active in the same online networks that glorify mass shooters, and they had direct contact as “mutuals” on social media platforms. Moments before Rupnow opened fire, she posted a photograph showing a white supremacist hand gesture, and Henderson immediately responded “Livestream it“.
After the Madison shooting, Henderson became “fixated” on Rupnow, posting numerous times on X supporting her and boasting that they were “mutuals,” sharing posts like “i used to be mutuals with someone who is now a real school shooter“. Henderson later called her a “Saintress” (a term common in these networks), used her photograph as his profile picture, and said he scrawled her name and those of other perpetrators on his weapon and gear.
Rupnow’s social media accounts showed “interest in neo-Nazi ideology and neo-Nazi violence, as well as demonstrating interest and engagement in online forums venerating mass shooters,” including posts featuring images of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz and references to Columbine and other mass attacks. At the time of her attack, Rupnow followed just 13 users on X, two of which were accounts linked to Henderson.
The extremist networks both shooters inhabited include Terrorgram, 764, and “Com” communities that have engaged in activities leading to convictions for child sexual abuse materials, sexually exploiting children, and soliciting hate crimes and murder of federal officials. These networks are described [https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/01/25/online-extremism-networks-radicalizing-young-people/] as “an online subculture that celebrates violent attacks and radicalizes young people into committing violence”.
Shared Ideological Elements
Both teenagers inhabited online networks with “an array of influences, ideologies and aesthetics” including “white supremacist, antisemitic, racist, neo-Nazi, occult or satanic beliefs” – the same ideological framework that characterizes 764 and its affiliated networks.
While Rupnow wasn’t directly identified as a 764 member, she was clearly operating within the same ecosystem of extremist networks that overlap with and feed into 764’s recruitment and radicalization pipeline. The documented connections show how these interconnected online communities create pathways between different extremist groups, allowing individuals to move between various networks while being exposed to similar radicalizing content and encouragement toward violence.
Recent Law Enforcement Actions
The FBI first issued a public warning about 764 in September 2023, urging parents to monitor their children’s online activities closely. Multiple federal prosecutions have resulted in significant sentences, including a 30-year prison term for Richard Densmore (“Rabid”), who created “Sewer” communities on Discord specifically for recruiting and exploiting children.
Multiple arrests have occurred worldwide. In March 2024, Cameron Finnigan, a 19-year-old from Horsham, UK, known as “Acid”, was arrested, and in January 2025 pleaded guilty to encouraging suicide, possessing a terrorism manual, and possessing indecent images of a child. Finnigan was subsequently sentenced to six years in jail.
In April 2025, Leonidas Varagiannis, also known as “War,” 21, a citizen of the United States residing in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Prasan Nepal, also known as “Trippy,” 20, of North Carolina, were arrested and charged for operating an international child exploitation enterprise known as “764”. As alleged, the defendants engaged in a coordinated criminal enterprise and led a core subgroup within 764 known as 764 Inferno, which allegedly exploited at least eight minors, some as young as 13, and operated through encrypted messaging applications.
Unfortunately the network has, perhaps inevitably, spawned numerous offshoots including CVLT, Court, Kaskar, Harm Nation, and others, making it increasingly difficult for law enforcement to track and disrupt their activities.
Platform and Parental Awareness
Experts emphasize that 764 specifically targets children through popular gaming platforms, making parental awareness and monitoring of online activities crucial for protection. Mental health professionals note that the network specifically seeks out vulnerable children experiencing depression, isolation, or low self-esteem.
The 764 network represents a convergence of terrorist ideology, technological exploitation, and child abuse that challenges traditional law enforcement approaches, requiring coordinated international responses to protect vulnerable young people from what authorities describe as one of the most heinous online threats ever encountered.
Conclusion
The 764 network, without doubt, poses one of the most disturbing online threats to children since the opening of the Internet to the general public, combining elements of extremist ideology with systematic child exploitation. Law enforcement agencies worldwide are treating it as a top priority threat, deploying significant resources to combat its spread and protect potential victims.
The Freedomist takes this threat seriously, and is continuing its investigation, as of this writing. There may be a deeper situation at hand, but as of this article, we are still investigating that angle to avoid having to retract anything.
You should take this seriously, as well. This is an immediate threat to anyone reading this, as well as to their wider community.
