Answer: You don't need a two-year-old Imgflip account to give good strategic advice or help coordinate a stream takeover. Zelda-enthusiast (Marcus) joined about a week before I took over NAR, and he already understood how TOAA operated, which is how he was able to help me shut NAR down.
1. TOAA's raid hub was successfully taken over and shut down—that didn't happen by accident, and it proves we were working against TOAA, not with him.
2. Another user, Molech7168, actually knew Marcus in real life and is the one who informed me of his passing. While he didn't share private real-world documents (for the exact privacy/doxxing reasons explained in Question 5), he can vouch that Marcus was a real person—not a TOAA alt.