The group's name incited controversy and was described as 'causing immediate alarm in anyone with a semblance of good taste', 'intentionally offensive', and 'spectacularly offensive'. The group denied allegations of racism and homophobia, explaining that the name was intended to sow disruption on the Internet and challenge social norms (claiming it was derived from the 1992 Danish satirical blaxploitation film Gayniggers from Outer Space). There was at least one known female GNAA member (Jaime 'asshurtmacfags' Cochran). The GNAA used many different methods of trolling. One method involved flooding a weblog's comment form with text consisting of repeated words and phrases, referred to as ' crapflooding'.
