Reuters uncovered a glimpse of Edward Snowden’s life as a teenager when he worked for a Japanese anime company run by friends and went by the nicknames “The True HOOHA” and “Phish.”
Snowden served as the web editor of Ryuhana Press–which is now defunct–when he was in 2002 at the age of 18, using his profile to make sarcastic jokes and talk about his interests.
“I really am a nice guy,” Snowden wrote on his profile page, according to Reuters. “You see, I act arrogant and cruel because I was not hugged enough as a child, and because the public education system turned it’s (sic) wretched, spiked back on me.”
“I like my girlish figure that attracts girls,” he added, “and I like my lamer friends. That’s the best biography you’ll get out of me, coppers!”
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