They're just a bunch of fat autistic men living in their mom's basement, using DDOS attack websites. The people doing the actual hacking just hide behind/blame it on anon and anon is happy to take the rap for it, because they think it makes them someone.
When The Pirate Bay tells you "Naw, brah, we don't need your noise- don't call us, we'll call you", then maybe you need to reassess this whole "hacktivism" spiel you're peddling.