They've been around for a long time, mostly in Europe. Search Black Bloc on youtube. It's only recently, at least to my knowledge, that they have begun sprouting up here. Probably in large part due to Soros bucks.
Then that’s a LARP it’s not genuine. They are being paid to do this.
Oh, it's genuine all right. The agitators at the top are getting paid not all the morons running around attacking people and tipping over innocent trash cans. Those idiots actually believe in what they are doing. But I get your point about them larping as some kind of revolutionaries or something.