ANGUS: The Slopaganda War
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 3:34 pmANGUS: The Slopaganda War
Charlie Angus / The Resistance - Apri; 26, 2026
EXCERPT: "The Iran war isn’t over yet, but on the online battlefield, Trump has lost decisively.
The media are talking about how AI has created the first meme-driven “slopaganda” war but what we’re really watching is the 4chan war.
Trump has long been the master of the 4chan school of trash memes and trolling, but he has had his ass handed to him by a fundamentalist dictatorship.
How the hell did we get here?
We must return to 4chan and confront the question posed by author Dale Beran in his book "It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office":
“How did a pornographic anime website transform into a post-cultural garbage heap upon which the great events of our age stood?”1 . . . "
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REFERENCES:
1 Beran, Dan. It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All Points Books. New York. 2019. (e-edition) p. 19
2 Thorleifsson, C. (2022). From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence. Nations and Nationalism, 28(1), 286–301. P. 289.
3 Beran, Dan. It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All Points Books. New York. 2019. (e-edition) p. 18.
4 Thorleifsson, C. (2022). From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence. Nations and Nationalism, 28(1),286–301. P. 289. P. 290.
5 Beran, Dan. It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All Points Books. New York. 2019. (e-edition) p. 14.
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Charlie Angus / The Resistance - Apri; 26, 2026
EXCERPT: "The Iran war isn’t over yet, but on the online battlefield, Trump has lost decisively.
The media are talking about how AI has created the first meme-driven “slopaganda” war but what we’re really watching is the 4chan war.
Trump has long been the master of the 4chan school of trash memes and trolling, but he has had his ass handed to him by a fundamentalist dictatorship.
How the hell did we get here?
We must return to 4chan and confront the question posed by author Dale Beran in his book "It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office":
“How did a pornographic anime website transform into a post-cultural garbage heap upon which the great events of our age stood?”1 . . . "
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REFERENCES:
1 Beran, Dan. It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All Points Books. New York. 2019. (e-edition) p. 19
2 Thorleifsson, C. (2022). From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence. Nations and Nationalism, 28(1), 286–301. P. 289.
3 Beran, Dan. It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All Points Books. New York. 2019. (e-edition) p. 18.
4 Thorleifsson, C. (2022). From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence. Nations and Nationalism, 28(1),286–301. P. 289. P. 290.
5 Beran, Dan. It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. All Points Books. New York. 2019. (e-edition) p. 14.
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