After the vulnerability was disclosed, the then-president of the GNAA, weev, and a GNAA member, 'JacksonBrown', were arrested. New media researcher Andrew Lih stated that it was unclear whether or not there was initially a clearly defined group of GNAA members, or if founding and early members of the GNAA were online troublemakers united under the name in order to disrupt websites.
However, professor Jodi Dean and Ross Cisneros claimed that they were an organized group of anti-blogging trolls. Reporters also referred to the GNAA as a group. In her 2017 book Troll Hunting, Australian journalist Ginger Gorman identified the president of the GNAA as an individual from Colorado known as 'Meepsheep'. Known former presidents of the GNAA were security researcher Jaime 'asshurtmacfags' Cochran, who also co-founded the hacking group 'Rustle League', and 'timecop', founder of the anime fansub group 'Dattebayo'. Other members included former president Andrew ' weev' Auernheimer, Daniel 'JacksonBrown' Spitler, former Debian Project Leader Sam Hocevar, and former spokesman Leon Kaiser. GNAA has also been documented as having been loosely affiliated with the satirical wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica.
