This interactive tool visualizes the relationships between people, groups, incidents, platforms, and countries connected to the 764 violent extremist network and its place within The Com, a decentralized meta-network of online violent extremist communities.
What You Can Explore
The network maps 319 entities and 843 relationships, including group lineage and splintering (764 → 8884, 7997, Harm Nation, etc.), who perpetrated which incidents and where, platform usage across the recruitment pipeline (Roblox and Minecraft to Discord to Telegram), cross-group alliances (764 × NLM, MKY × NLM), and the law enforcement response across multiple countries.
Navigating the Map
Pan and zoom by clicking and dragging the canvas, or scrolling to zoom in and out.
Click any node to select it. The right-hand sidebar will display details including aliases, group membership, case citations, and related edges.
Drag nodes to rearrange the layout. The physics engine will settle around your changes.
Sidebar Tabs
Details — Shows information about the currently selected node, including a full description for incidents and case citations for people.
Insights — Curated fact cards highlighting key findings. Click a card to zoom the map to the relevant nodes and dim everything else. Click it again to reset.
Legend — Color and shape key for all node types and edge types.
Sources — Full bibliography of court filings, DOJ press releases, analyst reports, and media sources used to build this network.
Narrative Timeline
The collapsible timeline at the bottom of the screen presents key events in chronological order. Click any event to focus the map on the relevant nodes. Click again to deselect. Toggle the drawer open or closed with the bar at the bottom.
Node Types
● Incidents — Attacks, arrests, and legal actions, drawn from the NVE Tracker dataset.
◆ Groups — 764, its splinter cells, rebrands, and sibling networks within The Com.
■ People — Perpetrators, founders, and key figures. Gold-bordered nodes indicate senior leadership.
▲ Platforms — Social media and gaming platforms used for recruitment, coordination, and distribution.
▲ Countries — Where incidents occurred or perpetrators originate.
■ U.S. States — State-level geographic detail for domestic incidents.
Tips
Hover over any edge (connection line) to see a tooltip explaining the relationship.
When an insight card or timeline event is selected, non-relevant nodes fade to the background so you can focus on the relationships being described.
Rohan Rane founds the CVLT Discord server. Members use sextortion and coercion, setting the template 764 would later follow.
2020
Cadenhead meets Trippy through The Gore
After release from juvenile detention, Cadenhead reconnects with "The Gore," an online community focused on violent videos. On Snapchat, he meets "Trippy" (Prasan Nepal), who is near his age. Trippy invites Cadenhead to a server, sparking his deeper involvement.
Jan 2021
Cadenhead founds 764
Inspired by his time in The Gore, 15-year-old Cadenhead starts his own Discord server from his mother's apartment in Stephenville, TX, naming it after his zip code. Initial rules prohibit animal and child abuse.
Early–Mid 2021
764 escalates after contact with Greggy's Cult
Cadenhead told a forensic psychologist that 764's original rules prohibited animal and child abuse and that those rules changed after he began interacting with "The Greggy Cult." He then, in his own words, decided to "take it to a whole different level…a lot worse." He begins extorting Greggy's Cult members, starts promoting child pornography, uses OBS Studio to broadcast CSAM during video calls, and coerces victims into self-harm through blackmail.
Aug 25, 2021
Cadenhead arrested
Stephenville police execute a search warrant after receiving dozens of cyber tips on Cadenhead. Tips include images of "I heart CP764" carved into a body. His arrest creates a leadership vacuum in 764.
Late 2021
Nepal takes over leadership
Prasan Nepal ("Trippy") — the same person who recruited Cadenhead into The Gore — emerges as 764's new leader, transforming a one-person operation into a structured network.
Jan 17, 2022
Coerced death of a 13-year-old
A 13-year-old from Gig Harbor, WA dies by coerced suicide, livestreamed on Instagram. Hamburg-based "White Tiger" (Shahriar Javan) is suspected.
2022 – 2023
764 splinters into rebrands
The group fractures into numbered rebrands (8884, 7997, 6996) and inner cells (Tophet, 764 Inferno). FBI opens 300+ cases.
May 2023
Cadenhead sentenced to 80 years
Cadenhead pleads guilty to possession of child pornography in Erath County, TX. Judge Cashon sentences him to 80 years in prison.
Jul 2023
CVLT indictment (6 defendants)
The C.D. Cal. CVLT case becomes the largest 764-adjacent federal indictment, charging 6 defendants with conspiracy and exploitation.
Sep 12, 2023
FBI delivers first public warning about 764
The FBI publishes PSA 230912, warning the public about violent online groups that target minors using threats, blackmail, and manipulation to coerce them into producing CSAM and engage in acts of self-harm. Though the PSA does not name 764 or The Com explicitly, it describes their exact modus operandi and marks the first federal law-enforcement acknowledgment of the threat.
Sep 13, 2024
764 and No Lives Matter formally ally
The "NLMx764 Classified" manifesto is published, co-branding 764 with No Lives Matter and framing real-world violence as doctrine. That same day, NLM's Swedish cell leader "Slain764" stabs two elderly people in Hässelby, Stockholm. NLM had publicly split from 764 in May 2024 over ties to Satanism and pedophilia, then re-allied in August 2024 (per ADL). The manifesto disavows the sextortion history as a "troll."
Dec 2024
Harm Nation confirmed as 764 offshoot
Kyle Spitze's plea agreement in E.D. Tenn. is the first court filing to confirm that Harm Nation "is an off shoot of 764."
Jan 1, 2025
Europol launches Project Compass
Europol's European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) launches Project Compass, a multinational law-enforcement effort targeting The Com and 764. The project coordinates partners across Europe, North America, and Australia, and later contributes to Operation Dolphin, a counter-terrorism program targeting non-Islamist entities.
Apr 2, 2025
First "NVE" charging document
The Ayala Casimiro complaint (C.D. Cal.) is the earliest known federal charging document to use "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" (NVE) terminology, formally defining the term and classifying 764 as an NVE network. A Joint Terrorism Task Force case.
Apr 30, 2025
Nepal and Varagiannis arrested
DOJ announces the arrest of the two senior 764 leaders, Nepal in North Carolina, Varagiannis in Greece. Charged with operating a global child exploitation enterprise.
Jun 17, 2025
White Tiger arrested in Hamburg
German police arrest Shahriar Javan in Hamburg-Marienthal. Charged with 200+ offenses. First major 764 prosecution outside the U.S.
Aug 28, 2025
NCMEC reports 1,000+ tips tied to 764 in first half of 2025
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) discloses that its CyberTipline received more than 1,000 reports with a nexus to violent online groups such as 764 during the first six months of 2025, on pace to exceed the 1,300 such reports it received in all of 2024. NCMEC notes that most victims were girls ages 14-17 and that most reports were submitted by the public rather than by tech platforms.
Oct 30, 2025
First terrorism charges in a 764 case
A 29-count superseding indictment against Baron Martin ("Convict") in D. Ariz. includes "conspiring to provide material support to terrorists," the first terrorism charge ever brought in a 764 prosecution. Prosecuted by DOJ's National Security Division Counterterrorism Section.
Dec 10, 2025
Canada first country to list 764 as terrorist entity
Public Safety Canada adds 764, Maniacs Murder Cult, the Terrorgram Collective, and Islamic State-Mozambique to the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities. The designation makes Canada the first country to label 764 a terrorist group and unlocks authorities to freeze assets and prosecute terrorism offences.
