Back in 2017, the genius sole programmer and creator of the TempleOS and Internet Personality Terry Davis claimed that CIA or FBI agents are persecuting him, referring them as Glow-in-the-Dark. He died about a year later. While Terry Davis was known to be a nutcase, it was later discovered that federal agents ARE investigating him and that it was possible that Davis's death was no accident nor suicide.
Partially as a tribute to the departed computer genius and partially because it would be funny, 4chan adopted the nickname and it stuck ever since.
I’m not sure where it came from, but a glowie is a agent pretending to be your friend. A shill that tries to get you to do something illegal
Back in 2017, the genius sole programmer and creator of the TempleOS and Internet Personality Terry Davis claimed that CIA or FBI agents are persecuting him, referring them as Glow-in-the-Dark. He died about a year later. While Terry Davis was known to be a nutcase, it was later discovered that federal agents ARE investigating him and that it was possible that Davis's death was no accident nor suicide.
Partially as a tribute to the departed computer genius and partially because it would be funny, 4chan adopted the nickname and it stuck ever since.