I doubt they get paid. They're brainwashed by whatever content they were suckered into believing and think they're awesome for joining a troll army. It's quite disturbing to read the Nazi, antifa, nihilistic, anarchy, and other sites that these people are bred from. It's all the same brainwashing tactics, just with different talking points. It's sad and sickening. They're responsible for several attempts at what we have called false flags recently, even... Just looking into the Nazi-type sites, you'll find that those responsible for such sites hide away in other countries, including Islamic states and the Philippines (makes me wonder about the 8 chan owner), using offshore servers that I bet they or whoever controls them owns. I'm thinking the new EO has them scared, though, or at least their masters.

(I had a link to the new EO saved to my clipboard, but somehow it's gone.)