The Antisocial Network- Memes to Mayhem – It strives to explore the adverse effects of some anonymous websites like 4chan and online communities like QAnon that posed a threat to the government
Last Updated: 09.57 PM, Mar 23, 2024
Streaming giant Netflix will soon be unraveling the dark secret of the uncontrollable internet craze with its upcoming documentary, ‘The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem’. The new addition to the hard-hitting docufilms is the latest story that traces the adverse effects of an internet frenzy that quickly escalated from a meme fest to real-world chaos. Here’s more about the new trailer that gives a glimpse into the messy world of the internet.
The latest documentary strives to explore the adverse effects of some anonymous websites like 4chan and online communities like QAnon that posed a threat to the government. The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem delves into the disasters of internet consumption when netizens toss rules for extreme measures. You can stream the documentary on April 5 only on streaming platform Netflix.
In the trailer, a group of bored internet users create a website that soon gains the cult status of meme culture. However, things turn dark when people on the internet start taking even serious topics as memes or jokes. From internet pranks like Rickrolling to other viral conspiracy theories, the documentary explores the rise of memes and how they spread a wave of internet sensation.
This later created the need to separate conversations and put a significant barrier to filtering memes, political agendas, or viral conspiracies. One of the significant examples traces back to Donald Trump’s administration and the tumultuous events of the Capitol incident in the United States.
The Antisocial Network traces the origin story of meme culture and the internet craze when a group of bored teenagers founded an online community out of their shared loneliness and accidentally damaged consensus reality in the process. It delves into the rise of QAnon and the January 6th Capitol riots. The online community distorted the truth in their own way.