>The manifesto is “not a serious document, but written in a way that was heavily focused on in-jokes for the 8chan community,” Higgins says.
Here you go 8Chan... Prepare your anus...
>While much of the manifesto reads like a standard neo-Nazi racist tract, it includes lines such as, “Spyro the dragon 3 taught me ethno-nationalism. Fortnite taught me to be a killer and to floss the corpses of my enemies.”
Ho yeah 8Chan... ANY ONE who talked about "spyro the dragon 3" or "fortenight", is on the list now...
>“We have this alternative media ecosystem that is driving a lot of disinformation. It is not understood by journalists or anyone really beyond a very small group of people who are really engaged with it. I doubt that even the alt-media ecosystem really understands its own nature and how it grows organically rather than being an organized space.”
Be afraid... Be VERY afraid...
>Higgins points to an analysis of the manifesto done by one of his journalists, Robert Evans. “This manifesto is a trap,” Evans wrote. “The entire manifesto is dotted, liberally, with references to memes and Internet in-jokes that only the extremely online would get.” One of them is the “Navy SEAL copypasta” joke. The text is a parody of “a facetious message containing a series of ridiculous claims and grandiose threats that portray the poster as an Internet tough guy stereotype,” according to Know Your Meme, the web site that tracks online jokes.
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Ok 8Chan?
That's right now they are coming for your shit jokes and all your memes
>Another example: Before Tarrant began shooting, he shouted “Subscribe to PewDiePie.” This is another reference to an online joke about the popularity of a YouTube star who makes videos about games.
That's it pewdiepie, no more pie for you
>“That would have been the mass-shooter’s final joke against society: to trick all journalists into writing inaccurate and stupid copy and going after certain individuals who pretended to be influencing him,” Higgins told First Draft. “For us that was a purposeful attempt at disinformation by an individual that would have a big impact on the entire journalism ecosystem, and very few people within that ecosystem would have been equipped to actually understand what they were looking at.”
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Yeah that's right, now this is his solution to combat this problem https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_JQd8pF7SuI/maxresdefault.jpg
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