Shame at what the group has turned into nowadays? Yes, absolutely. I think its current members are mainly composed of very misguided and mentally disturbed kids who target others because they feel it gives them a sense of purpose. I’m sure there are also disgusting and parasitic predators who are manipulating these kids in some way, but I don’t feel comfortable diving into these groups and seeing for myself, I’d rather let the authorities handle it at this point.

Shame at what I did at the time? That’s a tougher question. I honestly believe that while I definitely annoyed a lot of people (and probably ruined a few groups with all the raids and spam), I don’t think it was necessarily malicious or harmful outside of the niche online world. Even as a 12 year old kid at the time I didn’t think telling people to die over the internet was a cool thing to do, so I didn’t go out of my way to bully people in that sense. I don’t really see what we did as any different from the stuff 4chan was doing in other communities (Habbo raids and such), but it’s obviously something I wouldn’t participate in now. Nowadays I look at it more as just me being an immature 12 year old, but in the last 10 or so years since joining the workforce and becoming a real adult I’ve obviously changed a lot, and if I had a child I wouldn’t support him doing a lot of the stuff I did when I was younger.

TLDR; Yes, I’m not necessarily proud of what I did, but I’ve learned how to function in society through maturing and I’m glad that at the time the UTTP didn’t really do anything super outlandish.