The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem

2024

Action / Documentary

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 94% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2282 2.3K

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Tom Cruise as Self - Actor
Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States
Oprah Winfrey as Self - Host, Oprah
Stephen Colbert as Self - Host, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by atleverton 6 / 10

Not a Great Documentary

But it managed to be educational and present its thesis quite well. The thesis is that the infamous 4chan led to such social movements as OccupyWallstreet, Anonymous, Gamergate, and the rise of Donald Trump and finally, to January 6th. It showed how these groups morphed together and separated. It shows very clearly how the alt-right latched onto meme culture and tried to hijack the political discourse. I was never on 4chan, but remember seeing their productions out in the wild. It's a cautionary tale about two things, the first about how just because you create something, that does not mean you can control it as the creator of 4chan discovered, and the second is never to underestimate the stupidity of the masses. They will beieve anything as long as its in a visual form with some white text.

Reviewed by eisforeverything-524-710521 5 / 10

Watch with you critical thinking cap on

"The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem" is an in-depth and relateable history of 4 Chan's beginning and evolution to one energizer of the social unrest and riots of the late 2010's and into the Covid Pandemic. BUT - the show didn't stop with the surprising results of 4-Chan's social influcence, for better or worse. Instead, the movie went into a political, biased, inaccurate narrative of the 2020 election; the same narrative that is repeated like a mantra over progressive and extreme left media television and internet channels. So I'd recommend it, along with a heaping helping of other social media network histories at the time.

Reviewed by johnspringer-95440 7 / 10

Harrowing

The internet's influence on culture, politics and media is ubiquitous. But who influences the internet? This documentary answers that question - or starts to - by focusing on the rise of 4chan, the anonymous imageboard website that served as a surrogate online community for grassroots activists and agitators on both the left and right. This documentary exposes (perhaps unintentionally) the harrowing fact that the 4chan community was full of the most wretched, hateful and inadequate people you're ever likely to encounter. If you met any of this documentary's interviewees in person you would dismiss them as pathetic crackpots or worse and you would promptly ignore them. But ensconced in the anonymity of a signal-boosting online echo chamber they were able to exercise a grossly outsized influence on the 2010s. The internet (supposedly a means of democratizing discourse by giving a globe-spanning voice to virtually anyone) has actually given the loudest and most prominent voices to cabals of unaccountable weirdos who spend all their time on the internet.

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