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Antifa Supersoldiers Have You Surrounded

Antifa Supersoldiers Have You Surrounded

During the 2016 presidential campaign season, chaos agents and political partisans used memes to drive particular disinformation…
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Memes as Vigilantism: The Multi-Racial Right and Anti-Black Racism

Memes as Vigilantism: The Multi-Racial Right and Anti-Black Racism

Welcome back to Meme War Weekly. We took a short break in August to get situated and finish up some on-going projects. During the pandemic…
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A Family Affair: The Trumps and Distributed Racism

A Family Affair: The Trumps and Distributed Racism

The 2020 meme wars took an unexpected turn in late July after Trump featured the Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue in a White House event…
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Should Have Let Us Grill

Should Have Let Us Grill

“McCloskey” is a relatively rare name. However, this week it has become a household staple forever linked to an incident where an affluent…
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Full Blexit — The Battle for the Heart of Black Conservatism

Full Blexit — The Battle for the Heart of Black Conservatism

As we continue our deep dive into the many networked factions that make up the MAGA coalition of 2020, here we draw attention to three…
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Postcards from the Edgelords: Alt Right 2.0

Postcards from the Edgelords: Alt Right 2.0

Leading up to the 2016 election, a coalition of far right actors, who dubbed themselves the “alt-right,” captured the media spotlight and…
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Put A Q On It

Put A Q On It

In this week’s Meme War Weekly, we continue to look at the memes of the “new deplorables,” the groups that make up the MAGA coalition…
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You Can’t Spell #ObaMAGAte without MAGA

You Can’t Spell #ObaMAGAte without MAGA

Keyboard warriors, redpills, #Obamagate: within a weeks time, Donald Trump and his family shared a series of keywords, slogans video clips…
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Envisioning Real Dystopias

Envisioning Real Dystopias

We were already observing a wild week full of hoaxes, scams, disinformation, and anti-science conspiracies, when an unexpected package…
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Transnational Meme Wars: #MilkTeaAlliance

Transnational Meme Wars: #MilkTeaAlliance

April 30, 2020 — What began as a Twitter war between pro-China accounts targeting Thai celebrities — whose social media activity was…
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Where We Go One, We All Get Sick

Where We Go One, We All Get Sick

April 23, 2020  — On April 17, President Trump sent out a series of Tweets commanding the ‘liberation’ of Michigan, Virginia, and…
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Fauci Goes Viral

Fauci Goes Viral

April 16, 2020 — Much to the chagrin of President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci has become the star of the daily White House Coronavirus…
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Bernie’s Out/No Refunds

Bernie’s Out/No Refunds

April 10, 2020 — On Wednesday, April 8, Bernie Sanders withdrew from the Democratic Primary race for a second time...
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Where’s Joe? Rumors and Forgeries in the Democratic Primary

Where’s Joe? Rumors and Forgeries in the Democratic Primary

April 3, 2020 — In the absence of confirmed information, speculation and conspiracy flourishes. The coincidence of COVID-19 and the…
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Winnie the Flu — When Memes Go Global

Winnie the Flu — When Memes Go Global

March 24, 2020 — Truly viral memes jump from platform to platform, being remixed along a number of dimensions as they change hands:…
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When Forced Memes Backfire

When Forced Memes Backfire

March 18, 2020 — In modern political campaigns, the division between official and unofficial promotional materials is easy to blur. While…
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Super Tuesday is for Dunking

Super Tuesday is for Dunking

March 10, 2020 — In the days leading up to and following Super Tuesday, we collected a series of memes that were performing well on social…
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Lock Her Up? The Long Tail of Viral Slogans

Lock Her Up? The Long Tail of Viral Slogans

March 6, 2020 — Besides Trump, there was no bigger opponent to Hillary Clinton in 2016 than Roger Stone. In the lead up to the 2016…
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Ok, Bloomer

Ok, Bloomer

February 25, 2020 — In early Feb 2020, Bloomberg’s campaign, in collaboration with promotional company Jerry Media, launched…
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