Overview

• About 4,000 people gathered at Rainer Winkler’s former address in Emskirchen last weekend to harass the YouTuber known as Drachenlord.
• Police deployed patrol vans and officers to disperse the crowd and maintain public order outside his old residence.
• Winkler rose to notoriety in 2011 with his Drachenlord YouTube channel, drawing 80,000 subscribers and relentless online ridicule.
• In 2021, a Nuremberg court trial over an assault prompted a psychiatric evaluation that recognized his intellectual disability and led to noncustodial penalties.
• His channel was closed in August 2022, but recurring mass “hunts” highlight persistent doxxing and mob-driven bullying that forced him from his home.