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It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump Into Office

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The Beats were dismissed as insubstantial “Beatniks,” vibing out on nothing, just as the Beats accused the conformist “squares” of doing.

For example, Beran only spends a couple paragraphs discussing the Anonymous raid on right-wing message board Stormfront, which literally brought the Nazis to 4Chan. But I used to hang around people who think drawing a swastika is edgy or saying "jew" to someone then claiming irony is the height of intellectual prowess. As it stands, all we have is 4chan, and books like It Came From Something Awful: grainy upchucks of memes and scandals and news items spattered across the internet, leaving stains of so many different partially digested ideas.It starts as an introduction to how a subset of Internet trolls became an outsized influence in American culture and politics, and ends being a big-picture view of how two generations of young-to-middle-aged adults were essentially destroyed by cultural cynicism and a punishing economic system. might be a solution, a way to snatch vulnerable people away from communities that will contribute to their radicalization. ALSO, the link between original 80s/90s Hikikomori and 00s/10s online culture in the west is VERY noticeable and I'm sure everyone reading this can cite (at least) one person they know who's been lost to online culture. He's well versed on the lore, explains how and when the climate on the boards changed and what affect that had in the real world.

It would also be news to Marxists and New Left activists to learn that it was 21st century campus leftists (whom he had earlier criticized for being liberal rather than radical) who first "broke with" such unifying 18th century (ahem, liberal) enlightenment ideals. In It Came from Something Awful, Beran uses his insider’s knowledge and natural storytelling ability to chronicle 4chan's strange journey from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to—according to some—memeing Donald Trump into the White House. Beran explores the psychology of young, disenfranchised masculinity that 4chan represents and the sociopolitical context that molded its minds.The oppressive hierarchy of the workaday world, the daily grind of bosses and obligation, was combined, weirdly, with its opposite, the frequent promises of the modern world for adventure and stimulation. Beran begins with a basic premise: to examine how certain obsessive pastimes have evolved into the development of internet sites such as 4chan and Reddit, which still incite much of the alt-right's violence and trolling today . Beran's account of how counter-culture is ultimately ground up and subsumed by capitalism, only to be repacked and sold back to you as self liberation/definition is surprisingly compelling. Speaking from personal experience, I can tell you that not only is antifa not a group — and that “black bloc” isn’t one (from Philadelphia? The advertisement has surreptitiously rested its hand on the spigot of our enjoyment, telling us when and when not to enjoy, assuming the burden of answering a difficult philosophical question: What do I enjoy and how long do I go about enjoying?

Note of optimism: many of the alt-right superstars named have been so thoroughly disgraced and deplatformed since time of writing, their sphere influence is about the size of a softball. Turns out it’s way harder to strangle someone to death than it looks in the movies,” that man said, alongside images of the woman’s dead body. As false, it is encoded with a sort of planned obsolescence, so that, ultimately unsatisfied, you seek out the same inadequate remedy again to achieve momentary relief.And what I get is that I can't get it because the whole thing has been gestating in some parallel internet world that I have never engaged in.

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