#memewars https://things.bleu255.com/memewars/
Before the 2016 American presidential elections, the subculture now known as the "Alt-Right" waged an image meme propaganda war in support of Donald Trump and white nationalist politics. Most memes were created and published on the "/pol/" ("Politically Incorrect") boards of the anonymous forums 4chan and 8chan, and from there spread into more mainstream social media such as Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Next to "/pol/", 8chan also hosts the board "/leftypol/", founded in 2014 as a leftist general alternative to the "/pol/" boards. "/leftypol/" is also active in the production and distribution of "Leftist Politically Incorrect" image memes, from Porky to Žižek/Zizkek. #memewars is a website that automatically downloads and juxtaposes the last two images posted on 8chan's "/leftypol/" and "/pol/" respectively. a. -- https://bleu255.com/~aymeric ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre