[...] Anonymi Fear Retribution. Members of the group “Anonymous” protest the Church of Scientology. Joe Tresh at the Washington Photo Journal. [...]

Posted by DCBlogs » DC Blogs Noted on 22 July 2008 @ 12am

This was actually a bel-air

Posted by Cacophony on 22 July 2008 @ 12pm

Ah-Ha! So that’s what was going on. Yet another meme come to life! Yes, I remember this particular guy started off with a sad story then went into the Bel-Air rap.

Cacophony, I can understand the entertaining aspects of the meme themes, and how they’re used at this point to get people interested in the Anonymous movement. But as an observer, I wonder at what point does that turn non-Internet-immersed people off? Or at what point do members get bored and move on to something else? Where does the movement go from here?

Posted by Joe Tresh on 22 July 2008 @ 12pm

Wow, this is a late reply, but here’s an answer to your question-

Anonymous vs scientology has been somewhat bifurcated- you have moralfags and lulzfags. The majority of Moralfags don’t like the idea of using memes publicly. Lulzfags usually dont give much of a shit about protesting scientology, they jsut want to hang and have fun with other anons. The >9000 man march, although probably far more visible than most other protests, was in my opinion much more lulz-oriented.

When people get too serious, the lulzfags leave (as they definitely have). When people ue too many memes, the public is estranged. It’s hard to escape memes when this started all on 4chan/partyvan/various *chans. Regardless, despite some confusion about memes, we tend to keep them off the flyers and other public statements, so people will get the importan t message while we have our fun.

If you got any other questions- cacophony@whyweprotest.net
>9000 man march was my last protest event, but I’m still in touch with a large number of anons from the protests (Including the one pictured :P).

-Cacophony, a Boston Anonymous

Posted by Cacophony on 26 March 2009 @ 11am