The Egg has been everywhere, it seems. On Facebook, Instagram, and even Reddit, he has found his way into conversations where he is definitely not wanted, leaving comments that show his disdain for online photographers’—in his own words—“inability to follow simple rules of photography.”

At the time, Gilbert and Giovan, the woman with whom he shared two dogs, had just bought a home together in her name. (“That was my mistake,” Gilbert admits.) Then, eight days after moving in, it all went south. They broke up, she filed a restraining order against him, and Aren started thinking like a man who wasn't about to lose all his gear—especially about $400,000 worth of it.