About this episode

Jeremy explores the impact of meme culture on mass violence and online extremism.

This week Jeremy peels back a dark corner of the internet to look at how meme culture and edgelord attempts at irony contribute to mass violence. We look at the recent shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego where three victims died while the perpetrators posted livestream links and a manifesto full of in-group jokes and microwaved 4chan references to show they culturally belong to a group of online extremists. The absurd and vapid nature of this online culture doesn’t get much coverage i...

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