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Feels Good Man

Feels Good Man

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness. A Frankenstein-meets-Alice in Wonderland journey of an artist battling to regain control of his creation.

What happens when an innocent character created in an artist’s early adulthood morphs into a widely recognizable symbol of hatred only a decade later? This is the issue that underground comic book artist Matt Furie must grapple with as he seeks to reclaim his character, Pepe the Frog, from the grip of the Alt-Right.

In the early 2000s, San Francisco based artist Matt Furie shared his comic Boy’s Club on the internet via MySpace. The series followed a group of anthropomorphic post-college friends and their misadventures. Among them was Pepe the Frog, a peaceful, laid-back character. Managing to catch on as a popular meme, Furie initially found Pepe’s status funny and scoffed at the idea of enforcing his legal copyright. That opinion drastically changed as the tenor of Pepe’s use online took a sinister turn.

After a bizarre series of events, the factions of the internet that heavily imprinted on Pepe went to the extreme lengths of “ironic” bigotry to keep him under their control. In doing so, Pepe became widely recognized as a hate symbol, even gaining official recognition from the Anti-Defamation league as such. Now thoroughly wrenched from his original context, Pepe helped indoctrinate wide swaths of internet denizens to the philosophies of the then-burgeoning Alt-Right movement, helping to set the stage for the contentious 2016 election and its ultimate outcome.

The film takes viewers on a wild journey through various corners of the internet to show how far one’s creation can get away from their original intention and explores the power of symbols and iconography. If the genie cannot be put back in the bottle, can it at least be transformed into something else? Various artists, psychologists, lawyers, and internet culture analysts also share their perspective on this iconic cartoon frog.

With trippy Furie-esque animations, Feels Good Man puts forward a message of hope and positivity to combat a constant cycle of cynicism and hatred.

#FeelsGoodMan #documentary #film #animation #art #PepeTheFrog #cartoon #frog #politics #alt-right #hate #hatred #symbols #iconography #internet #MattFurie #AdamJones #GiorgiAngelini #ReadyFictions #GiantPictures #docu-films

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anthropie@framasphere.org
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Mindfuck - Le complot de Cambridge Analytica pour s'emparer de nos cerveaux

Un excellent ouvrage, bien écrit et bien traduit, très documenté et allant au fond (pas le fond technique, mais au moins factuel) de ce qui a été la plus importante manipulation de masse, via des réseaux dits sociaux (notamment Facebook).
Il s'agit de la première entreprise de manipulation de masse qui prend appui sur des données et des analyses quantitatives (en sus des recherches qualitatives). C'est la propagande qui prend appui sur le data mining et les travaux de scientifiques informaticiens et psychologues.

On y apprend notamment que l'alt-right, ce ne sont pas des gens qui ont compris une situation et ont souhaité s'associer pour être plus forts, mais des gens qui ont été sciemment manipulés par Cambridge Analytica pour constituer ce qui sera appelé alt-right.

Une lecture instructive et agréable.
On est pas loin, comme l'évoque brièvement l'auteur, de la psychohistoire des romans d'Asimov (Fondation, etc.)

#mindfuck #manipulation #propagande #réseauxSociaux #facebook #psychométrie #psychohistoire #alt-right #brexit #cambridgeAnalytica

https://www.grasset.fr/livres/mindfuck-9782246824732

"Mindfuck", Christopher Wylie, Aurélien Blanchard

Dans ce témoignage inédit, le lanceur d’alerte Christopher Wylie nous raconte comment l’utilisation des données personnelles de dizaines de millions de personnes et des opérations de manipulations mentales menées à grande échelle ont permis à...

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Starry Gordon

I haven't seen anything about Natalie Wynn / ContraPoints on diaspora*, so here is the URL to her Patreon page which contains as good an intro as any. No use describing it, you've just got to see it. If 'overview' doesn't come up first, click on it above the frame.
[https://www.patreon.com/contrapoints](//https://www.patreon.com/contrapoints)

#anarchism #communism #liberalism #alt-right #art #video #trans #culturewar

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