Harm Nation

Harm Nation (also abbreviated HN or stylized as HarmNation) is a splinter group within The Com ecosystem that emerged around 2022 from the fragmentation of the 764 Network following the arrest and conviction of 764 founder Bradley Chance Cadenhead. Researchers and the DOJ consider it continuous with 764 due to shared aesthetics, methods, and personnel. It engages in sextortion, production and distribution of CSAM (child sexual abuse material), psychological coercion of minors, and animal crushing content. Harm Nation appears alongside Kaskar, Court, Leak Society, H3ll, and CVLTIST as one of the named post-2021 764 successors documented by the ADL, ISD, and the GPAHE.¹

Origins

Harm Nation formed during the 2022 period of 764 leadership disruption, when Cadenhead's arrest and internal infighting caused the original network to fracture and members to reconstitute under new names. The specific founder of Harm Nation has not been publicly identified in court documents or law enforcement press releases available through mid-2026. Researchers from ISD and GPAHE characterize Harm Nation as part of a cluster of successor groups that carried forward 764's operational methods while operating under distinct branding.

One account in the research literature describes members of other large Com chat rooms discussing an individual with the handle "Cxrpse" (the founder of No Lives Matter) and another individual known as "Kush" starting their own groups under the 764 umbrella after the original founder's arrest, though neither of these individuals has been publicly identified as a Harm Nation founder specifically.²

Operations and Methods

Harm Nation operates within the broader Com content economy: members produce documented criminal acts as prerequisites for status advancement. As with 764, the network's content includes coerced self-harm imagery (specifically "blood signs" and "cut signs" in which victims carve symbols into their bodies), CSAM production, and distribution of animal abuse content. The animal crushing element, while present across multiple 764 successor groups, is a particularly consistent feature of documented Harm Nation cases.

Kyle William Spitze

The most documented Harm Nation prosecution involves Kyle William Spitze, 26, of Maryville, Tennessee (Blount County), who used the online alias "Criminal" (and variants including "CRIMINALOLI") across Telegram and related platforms.

Spitze was arrested and initially charged at the state level in Blount County. A superseding federal indictment was filed on March 2, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, at Knoxville, returning eight counts:

• Three counts production of child pornography
• Three counts distribution of animal crushing videos (depicting a mutilated chicken)
• One count enticement of a minor
• One count possession with intent to view child pornography

Court documents describe Spitze sharing sexual videos of young children to a Telegram channel, some of which included variations of his online username written in blood or carved onto the bodies of minor victims. Separate videos documented the mutilation of a chicken, with the animal's intestines arranged to spell out his username.

On December 16, 2024, Spitze entered a guilty plea before District Judge Thomas A. Varlan to Counts 1, 6, 7, and 8 of the superseding indictment (one production count, all three animal crushing counts, and the possession count). The remaining four counts were dropped pursuant to the plea agreement. The two production counts to which he pleaded carry a sentencing range of 15 to 30 years each, and the plea agreement subjects him to a potential aggregate sentence of 30 years to life.

Sentencing was scheduled for January 8, 2026, before Judge Varlan, then cancelled by court order dated December 23, 2025 and rescheduled by separate order. No sentencing date had been publicly set as of mid-2026.³

A secondary prosecution arose from Spitze's father, Michael W. Spitze, 60, of Maryland, who was separately charged with and pleaded guilty to one count of witness tampering. Michael Spitze sent a message to a 12-year-old victim instructing her to delete any evidence she held and to encourage others to do the same. He was sentenced in the United States District Court in Knoxville; his sentencing was scheduled for May 20, 2026.⁴

Current Status

No publicly identified Harm Nation members beyond Kyle Spitze had been named in court documents or DOJ press releases available through mid-2026. The group was included in FBI and DOJ descriptions of the broader 764 network under active investigation. As of April 2026, the FBI was conducting more than 350 active investigations tied to 764 and related networks; Harm Nation and the other named successor groups are subsumed within that figure rather than tracked separately in public reporting.