Dr. Xanthe Weston

Now, the purpose there was to get those, you know, to take control of the illicit tobacco trade.

It's so lucrative, and the more expensive things get, the more lucrative it gets for the underground trade, right?

So all of the things that we purchase in the normal world, in the black market world, all the same things are available, alcohol, drugs, you know, everything, right?

So I think we've seen an expansion of that.

Alcohol is super expensive.

It has a huge markup revenue-wise for organized criminals, so of course they're in that market.

But we have seen a shift in the way they're actually undertaking this war, and it's these kids, literally kids, who are taking on these jobs, doing these firebombings, and doing a bad job of it, because they don't know what they're doing, they're amateurs, putting people at risk, putting themselves at risk.

And we're just seeing an escalation of that.

So it's all tied together.

Yes, is the long, short answer.

They are, and it's almost kind of like it's been described as almost like an Air Tasker.

So I'm not suggesting they're being recruited on Air Tasker, but they are being recruited on other similar apps.

So that could be Signal or even Roblox, which is a gaming app.

And they're literally posting jobs for them to do.

The jobs are being posted anonymously, but often they also want video evidence of the job being done.

So there's that post and boast thing because the kids get some cred from, oh, I just did a firebombing amongst their peers.

You know, they don't really understand the implications.

And a lot of them want to get involved in these gangs because they see the lucrative nature.

You know, they're getting rewarded.

Key element of this is reward.