If Brand Names Were Anime Characters

If Brand Names Were Anime Characters

Credit: @sillvi_illustrations

so the FBI, in their investigation of the poway synagogue shooter, got a search warrant for 8chan’s servers, because he’d posted not only about that crime but also an earlier arson attack he’d committed on a mosque. only thing is, since 8chan clearly identifies people responding to posts that a user has made, the FBI outed the tripcode they were using in the messages, making it very easy to see what they were posting. it’s an interesting insight into how western governments do their online psyops:

yes, that’s right, they were trying to stoke fears about russia.

i’m quite certain that this stuff is done regularly across the web. we’ve all heard about the russian and chinese troll farms of course, given how useful that is in stoking tensions, but british intelligence has jtrig and the integrity initiative, south korea’s intelligence agency had a team dedicated to making online posts in the 2012 election in favour of the conservative candidate, america has operation earnest voice under the military’s purview, the centre for strategic counterterrorism communications under the state department, and probably one at every intelligence agency besides. donald trump even went to visit the opening ceremony for one of saudi arabia’s versions. and rest assured, these people have almost certainly read the reams of psychological research on group dynamics.

here are some highlights I found from the Fire Emblem anime dub

take direct action against anime perverts, i say. if you see someone in a porn hoodie position yourself by the exit of wherever you are and trip them when they leave. if you see one of those cars with the big busty anime girl on it you are honor-bound to key it