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[Leo Sullivan]

quadrant park edition

[Julian Anderson]

maisie

[Carson Parker]

here early but i posted too late in the old thread
sad

[Liam Fisher]

the time close to 300 where everyone stops posting is actually the perfect (you) mining period

[Hunter Butler]

My understanding is that memes are sort of a vessel or coordinating point for organization, but without themes they are largely lacking in ideological value. They are like a vocabulary, and need to be animated and organized by an imperative or narrative. The trajectory of Pepe is very instructive in this regard, and I believe it is telling that the Bernie memes that were getting going utilized Wojak. Pepe and Wojak are like yin and yang—where Pepe is rash, manic, provocative, devious, extroverted, Wojak is deliberative, depressive, reserved, empathetic, and introverted. When Bernie was eliminated the positive identifications enabled through Wojak were stalled, while the positive identifications enabled through Pepe to Trump gained extra momentum, as many of the chan Bernie supporters were enraged by the foul play they deemed responsible for his disqualification—essentially Pepifying them. This is just one example, but the point is this: I believe the effective way to weaponize memes for ideological purposes is to steer ones already popular and meaningful for a contested demographic. This aligns with the “redirect method” that attempts to counter violent extremism circles. The idea of designing or topdowning memes (or “forcememing” in the parlance of imageboard culture) is a pretty challenging task. Many of the government types I’ve spoken with in elucidating these questions over the past months have ideas about how this can be done, but it involves pretty vast resources, and more resembles the sort of work done by Cambridge Analytica than anyone in the imageboard or alt-right cultural orbit.

[Gabriel Lewis]

Not a word

[Caleb Carter]

jesus christ is technically a meme

[Ayden King]

do an area analysis of a city you know well anons
might do torbay but it's a bit small

[Alexander Hernandez]

don't

[Isaac Morgan]

meet me in the spinny in 2.5 hours.