It’s clear that meme culture has strangely seeped into the real world over the past decade, and boy, are we still facing its consequences today. How did the culture stir from wholesome trolling like getting Rickrolled to the catastrophic spiral into the Jan. 6 insurrection? The latest Netflix doc, The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem, sees co-directors Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones of Feels Good Man—the Pepe the Frog doc— draw the timeline and try to pinpoint the moment(s) when the Agent Smiths of the far right took control of the Matrix and seeped into our daily lives. Yet their approach looks too wistfully toward the early internet days of meme culture, detracting the doc from striking any actual meaning.
Building upon the narrative of the team’s previous meme-centric project, Memes to Mayhem plays as a spiritual sequel—or supplement—as it traces the thesis back to...
Building upon the narrative of the team’s previous meme-centric project, Memes to Mayhem plays as a spiritual sequel—or supplement—as it traces the thesis back to...
- 4/5/2024
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
When Cullen Hoback was at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th shooting material for “Q: Into the Storm,” he knew that something dangerous was going to culminate at that location. “Anybody who had been really tracking QAnon and Maga more broadly… knew that some things were kind of coalescing on that date,” he said during our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video interview above). It got to the point that he was having trouble sleeping in the lead up to that day and was one of the most frightening days of his life. “It was a project full of nerve-wracking experiences, but that one was by far the most. I still am grateful that it wasn’t worse than it was.”
“Q: Into the Storm,” which currently available to stream on HBO Max is a docuseries that thoroughly examines the QAnon conspiracy theories that have burrowed into the American political landscape.
“Q: Into the Storm,” which currently available to stream on HBO Max is a docuseries that thoroughly examines the QAnon conspiracy theories that have burrowed into the American political landscape.
- 6/12/2021
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
QAnon — the conspiracy-theory movement that sprung up on the far reaches of the internet — is a force with potentially long-lasting and transformational effects, having already placed untold numbers of Americans in its thrall and overtaken one of our two major political parties. It’s also deeply in line with this nation’s traditions of mutual mistrust of authority and our countrymen, and the American passion for pursuing novelty at the expense of logic. Perhaps only America could have created a force like QAnon; the question all of us must grapple with in the years to come is what kind of America QAnon will create.
This is a question “Q: Into the Storm,” a new six-part documentary set to air on HBO, does not meaningfully set out to answer. Director Cullen Hoback, whose films include 2018’s “What Lies Upstream,” set out on the project, set out three years ago to uncover the identity of “Q,...
This is a question “Q: Into the Storm,” a new six-part documentary set to air on HBO, does not meaningfully set out to answer. Director Cullen Hoback, whose films include 2018’s “What Lies Upstream,” set out on the project, set out three years ago to uncover the identity of “Q,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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