Quinn found and recorded some of the conversations that took place on a 4chan IRC called 'burgersandfries' [...]
[...] who had little in the way of a coherent commitment to conservative thought or politics but shared an anti-PC impulse and a common aesthetic sensibility. What we now call the alt-right is really this collection of lots of separate tendencies that grew semi-independently but which were joined u…
[...] Commenters on her blog began harassing and threatening her en mass [...]
[...] Seasteading--Peter Theil idea to create a separate state off the coast of the US--[...]
Responding to highly mediated tragedies with insensitive pranking and irony had been a staple of online trolling cultures for many years before, but Harambe was the first case attracting such large numbers of people online wanting to get in on the in-joke. It went viral too, because it hit at a tim…
