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It Came from Something Awful (Dale Beran)
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It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office is a 2019 nonfiction book by Dale Beran that examines internet subcultures, especially early forum and imageboard culture, and their political consequences. Rather than treating memes as harmless jokes, the book argues that trolling, irony, and repeated online performance helped normalize a style of discourse that later fed alt-right politics and the Trump era. Beran places special attention on communities such as Something Awful, 4chan, and related spaces to show how internet identity, antagonism, and group behavior can move from niche entertainment into public life. The book is both cultural history and political analysis, written for readers who want to understand how online communities shape ideology, media narratives, and political attention. Its purpose is less to chronicle a single election than to explain how digital subcultures helped build the conditions in which Trump could thrive.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VDG4RLZ?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/It-Came-from-Something-Awful-Dale-Beran.html
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B07VDG4RLZ/
#SomethingAwfulforumculture #4chantrolling #memeticpolitics #altrightinternetsubculture #onlineironyandprovocation #ItCamefromSomethingAwful
It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office is a 2019 nonfiction book by Dale Beran that examines internet subcultures, especially early forum and imageboard culture, and their political consequences. Rather than treating memes as harmless jokes, the book argues that trolling, irony, and repeated online performance helped normalize a style of discourse that later fed alt-right politics and the Trump era. Beran places special attention on communities such as Something Awful, 4chan, and related spaces to show how internet identity, antagonism, and group behavior can move from niche entertainment into public life. The book is both cultural history and political analysis, written for readers who want to understand how online communities shape ideology, media narratives, and political attention. Its purpose is less to chronicle a single election than to explain how digital subcultures helped build the conditions in which Trump could thrive.
