I remember when this happened, it was a big joke like "haha this young kid is running a market" "looks like its not going anywhere" etc. I think people were spreading the idea that he was only 17. Then when the site took off everybody seemed to forget he had done that, and were sure he sold it to russian carders, or they were in control the whole time.
I know its not a mandella effect type of thing going on either, Im not crazy despite how I sound. Pretty sure the idea was the AB admin was "laying low" somewhere "probably in russia" as BM and DeSnake and company ran the show while he just collected on the backend as a direct result of doxxing himself so early on
Bonus: it seems pretty plausible that was the scenario, and if thats the case, i wonder where all the mods and admins will play into all of this
Any chance you could post a link to these rumors? How exactly did he doxx himself, what did he say? Cheers'