The 4chan site from which later 8chan evolved was already notorious for its gallows humour, grotesque content, and bigoted memes. The reactionary diaspora on 8chan took 4chan’s ghoulish irreverence to a new level. Celebrations of racism and…M. Tuters meticulously charts the appearance of the Q drops that began on 4chan, transitioned to 8chan,[^66] then, following the revocation of 8chan’s hosting due to the site’s association with the 2019 Christchurch mass shooting, began app…TUTERS, M.: LARPing & Liberal Tears: Irony, Belief and Idiocy in the Deep Vernacular Web. In FIELITZ, M., THURSTON, N. (eds.): Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US. Bielefeld :…
Marc Tuters
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Marc Tuters is a researcher specializing in digital culture, extremism, and the genealogy of online conspiracy movements across distributed platforms. His work meticulously traces how content like QAnon migrates across imageboards (4chan, 8chan, 8kun) and how irony, LARPing, and performative belief function as mechanisms for radicalizing communities in the "deep vernacular web." In the course context, Tuters provides crucial methodology for understanding how AI-adjacent digital infrastructures become vectors for ideological capture and how vernacular internet cultures shape political consciousness at scale.
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