What the fuck is going on
What the fuck is going on
Isaiah Ward
Luke Cox
What would have had happened if the mainstream media actually ignored Sup Forums?
Jackson Fisher
They never could have done that.
Asher Allen
We won, chaos reigns.
Noah Turner
idiots
Aiden Hernandez
Note the illustration in OP's pic.
See the two columns with globes on top?
Asher Powell
You newfags weren't content to shitpost alone, you just had to bring more with you
Lincoln Gutierrez
This is an actual line from this article
"The chance encounter was a rare in-real-life meeting of veterans of the Great Meme War"
Chase Jones
We've become a threat.
Bentley Thompson
that gave me feels
Jonathan Watson
Boaz and Jachin.
Daniel Cook
Brody Cox
>taking Sup Forums jokes seriously
Jesus fuck, how pathetic
Aaron Morales
>Ben (((Schreckinger)))
Juan Morgan
Well they're officially scared. This is it boys, the real war has just begun.
Robert Lopez
its actually a pretty decent read
politico.com
Jason Lee
Weak-ass collage
Also
>Exposing more people to memes will stop the memes
Robert Scott
>not posting an archive link
Fucking redditors.
web.archive.org
Jordan Roberts
This is now a redpill thread
Carter Morris
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Jacob Price
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Gabriel Brooks
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Adam Powell
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Owen Baker
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Tyler Martin
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Noah White
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Jaxon Baker
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Isaac Hernandez
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Robert Mitchell
>by Shrekinger
Oy vey!
>illustrated by Espanol
Ole'!
Ayden Young
Well made, saved.
Evan Campbell
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Noah Ross
Like Clockwork
Tyler Green
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Hunter Watson
how many elections silvio santos will manipulate with his marketing enterprises in rio grande do sul, to facilitate selling cars from sao paulo in exchage for a likttle dope in his faggot rapist anus?
Caleb Nelson
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Jose Young
kek Jesus loves you
Matthew Harris
That's democracy. People vote for the leaders that they want.
>X IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY!
>REEEEEE PEOPLE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY VOTE FOR THE WRONG LEADERS!
Nolan Gonzalez
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Evan Turner
dis looks gud, so far, but it will probably turn into a hit job before the finish.
here's how it opens.
Parked in front of a seductive portrait of Ann Coulter and an array of computer screens inside a home office in Harlem, Matt Braynard, former director of technology for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, welled up with emotion as he recounted his experience attending Trump’s inauguration a week earlier.
It was not the ceremony itself, but what happened afterward, when Braynard spotted a pale teenager in a red hat and a gray hoodie standing on a street corner near the Capitol holding a sign with a picture of a cartoon frog and the message “LOVE NOT HATE.” Struck by the display, Braynard made a beeline for the kid, shook his hand and enlisted his wife to take a photograph of them together.
“I felt like I had found a friend that I hadn’t spoken to in a long time,” recalled Trump’s misty-eyed onetime data guru, who had never met the teenager before in his life. “It was, like, immediate connection.”
The chance encounter was a rare in-real-life meeting of veterans of the Great Meme War. That’s the grandiose name given—only half ironically—to the decentralized efforts of a swarm of anonymous internet nerds to harass Trump’s detractors and flood the Web with pro-Trump, anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda. Their weapons of choice were memes, bits of reproducible culture whose most recognizable form is shareable internet photos, like cats behaving adorably or Clinton sending a text message, with captions meant to be funny.
Braynard showed me a badge he ordered online to memorialize his service in the Great Meme War. It features Pepe the Frog—a cartoon symbol of mischievous fun or racist hatred, depending on whom you ask—and the name of his make-believe battalion, “The 1st Deplorables.”
Jonathan Lewis
WE WUZ KANGZ!
Xavier Ward
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Thomas Price
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Wyatt Rivera
You left out Spencer
Nolan Morgan
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Jason Allen
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Nathaniel Foster
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Jackson Rodriguez
cont. the next few paragraphs...
Veterans of the Great Meme War brag that they won the election for Trump. Just about everyone else, if they’re aware of these efforts at all, assumes they amounted to little more than entertainment for bored geeks and some unpleasant episodes for the targets of its often racist and sexist harassment campaigns. After all, the idea that a swarm of socially alienated trolls played a meaningful role in a multibillion-dollar presidential campaign by, among other gambits, relentlessly spreading images of a cartoon frog is at least as ridiculous as the idea that a billionaire TV entertainer could win that campaign.
There is no real evidence that memes won the election, but there is little question they changed its tone, especially in the fast-moving and influential currents of social media. The meme battalions created a mass of pro-Trump iconography as powerful as the Obama “Hope” poster and far more adaptable; they relentlessly drew attention to the tawdriest and most sensational accusations against Clinton, forcing mainstream media outlets to address topics—like conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health—that they would otherwise ignore. And they provoked a variety of real-world reactions, [including] Clinton’s August speech denouncing the alt-right.
Part of the power of memes has always been their organic, grass-roots quality: They bubble up from the fever swamps of the internet, shrouded in anonymity, as agents of chaos and mockery. But in this election, something seemed to change. They began colliding with a real campaign operation and doing useful work, seemingly always pushing in one direction. Curious about what happened, I tracked down and interviewed a number of veterans of the Great Meme War, along with others who hung out in the same dark corners of the internet and watched it all unfold. It turns out that, as anonymous online pranksters go, they’re surprisingly organized and motivated.
Charles Russell
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Elijah Rogers
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Ayden Green
MOON MAN MADE IT
Kevin Bennett
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Daniel Powell
Where is based Spencer and Duke
Jackson Cruz
>memes didn't help
>memes did help
They need to make up their minds.
Zachary Hall
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Leo Bell
(((((((Schreckinger)))))))
Jack Scott
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Christian Taylor
>tfw the Applied Memetics pdf wasn't a meme after all
Oh my god
Lucas Williams
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Jacob Ross
WE WUZ INTERNET CONQUERORS AND SHIIIEEEETTTT
Charles Scott
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Ethan Carter
dis gud.
cont.
Trump’s campaign will not be the last to tap into this subculture. Internet troll Charles Johnson, a self-commissioned general in the Great Meme War with close ties to Trump’s political operation, claimed he has fielded about a dozen post-election phone calls from the Washington area about the political potential of memes. “If you’re trying to win an election and you have a million dollars to spend on political ads or $100,000 to spend on trolling,” he said, “I would advise everyone to SPEND THE HUNDRED THOUSAND ON THE TROLL.”
... someone needs to monetize this trolling shit.
Connor Perez
Shut up, Spencer. You're irrelevant.
Lucas Brooks
Please be fake
Joshua Bennett
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Jonathan Barnes
And there's nothing they can do about it
We have the ultimate power: truth
Luis Bailey
>What the fuck is going on
We won election meme war, but didn't prepare for the aftermath properly.
There's going to be more shills and normies coming with the media attention.
We tried to scare them away with Bogda posting, but it's effect was limited.
Aiden Scott
haha
Jaxon Baker
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Landon Gonzalez
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Connor Williams
Kek wills it
Angel Campbell
Charge your phone jackass.
Jace Parker
Who else /meme war veteran/ here?
No PTSD here..... Yet
Isaiah Campbell
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Grayson Scott
War never really ends until your enemies are forever wiped from the face of the earth.
Luis Cruz
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Justin Cruz
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Michael Jenkins
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Gavin Hernandez
Spurdo.... should be in the middle...
Ayden Anderson
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Lucas Gomez
Too many redpills... feeling sick... Have a redpill folder reaching over 100 and I thought there couldn't possibly be more... God we really are fucked if we don't change in the next few years... Inflection point is now or never.... damn
Charles Hughes
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Aiden Miller
>chaos reigns.
Yet the laws are being enforced, oxymorons seem the staple now.
Logan Thompson
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Jacob Nelson
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Josiah Kelly
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Joseph Martin
To be fair, he doesn't know that Israel will still be Jewish.
Angel Rodriguez
It's just a prank, bro
Dylan Parker
Four thumbs up
Logan King
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Adam Gomez
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Thomas Harris
>war
Sup Forums would never do such a thing.
Sup Forums is a board of peace.
Jayden Campbell
>no link with archive.is format
Justin Jenkins
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Connor Bell
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Elijah Reyes
Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture. They are everything we pass on.
Connor Price
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Carter King
(((SCHRECKINGER)))
Lucas Ward
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Jeremiah Price
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Julian Martin
>alt-right
reminder there is no such thing.
The supposed "values' of the alt-right are so broad and so ill-defined that it serves no purpose other than to give a name to traditional elements so that they may be watered down into a single identity and mocked into submission. The Alt-right is killing Sup Forums and more importantly killing our memes