{"product_id":"books-it-came-from-something-awful-by-dale-beran","title":"It Came from Something Awful","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow 4chan and 8chan fuel white nationalism, inspire violence, and infect politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. \u003ci\u003eIt Came from Something Awful\u003c\/i\u003e is the fascinating and bizarre story of sites like 4chan and 8chan and their profound effect on youth counterculture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dale Beran has observed the anonymous messageboard community's shifting activities and interests since the beginning. Sites like 4chan and 8chan are microcosms of the internet itself--simultaneously at the vanguard of contemporary culture, politics, comedy and language, and a new low for all of the above. They were the original meme machines, mostly frequented by socially awkward and disenfranchised young men in search of a place to be alone together.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e During the recession of the late 2000's, the memes became political. 4chan was the online hub of a leftist hacker collective known as Anonymous and a prominent supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. But within a few short years, the site's ideology spun on its axis; it became the birthplace and breeding ground of the alt-right. In \u003ci\u003eIt Came from Something Awful,\u003c\/i\u003e Beran uses his insider's knowledge and natural storytelling ability to chronicle 4chan's strange journey from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to--according to some--memeing Donald Trump into the White House.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674636673297,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781250189745.jpg?v=1781534728","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-it-came-from-something-awful-by-dale-beran","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}