what a bullshit article, is this supposed to be journalism? just making shit up?
lmao you're all lost
it started from Epic Fail Guy on 4chan about 20 years ago, who became kind of the first rageface meme around the time anonymous grew out from the chans into IRL decentralised trolling "ops" like Project Chanology. EFG became the anon OP mascot, and the V mask was a way to signal who knew the meme IRL.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-fail-guy
before it was EFG it was the green anon guy who represented the real anons