MentalPolyphonics
Where have all the plumbers gone?
One thing that was sad was people emphasizing...The whole Anonymous /b/ thing is really interesting. It’s sardonic anarchy with its own Wikipedia. It’s tribal warfare with digital neutron bombs — all the people are gone, it’s just structure. Look at this sentence:
[420chan] is an imageboard mostly filled with a strange combination of completely stoned people, cross dressers, and shota lovers.
(NSFW Link is theirs.)
The sentence is structured to entice you to dig deeper. “Click me”, it says, and once you’re through the looking glass you’re immediately and violently punished. It’s a memetic timebomb that goes off again and again and again.
The /b/ clans are turning communication tools into digital weapons, from griefing virtual worlds and wikis all the way down to DDOSing with bare packets: Technology-as-anarchist-prank. It’s fantastic.
The lovable detritus of the 4chan civil war live in a community immune to its own tactics — because invading /b/ is like pissing into an ocean of piss. And once the community reached a critical mass it exploded into this V-like noumenon Anonymous “who” identifies with the Biblical Legion. Truly Sci-Fi, PKD-style stuff.
Once again I find myself arriving in the future.
It’s Safe to Go Back in the Internets | MentalPolyphonics
on September 10, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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