đź”’ Anti-Migrant Slopaganda is the Next NFTs
It’s hard to deny that we’re in a state of rising tension in many nations across the West as right-wing populists try to imitate, for some reason, possibly the most unpopular US president in history. Nevertheless, worrying anti-migrant trends are rising as times get tough and populists continue to use what history has shows to be the laziest but most effective way to explain those tough times to white people. In Australia, the white nationalist One Nation party is surging in popularity for the first time in its long, stupid history. In the UK, Tommy Robinson and his Restore dickheads are burning houses down while Nigel Farage rides the popularity train.
Now, obnoxiously, popular media is here to make a buck off all of this, because of course. That’s a frightening trend, as the media feeds off people’s rage, so too do the people feed off the media. This could escalate to very frightening places. But what if we’re more optimistic? What if this is actually just another kind of bubble, or quick-burning fad? Like NFTs or the Metaverse?
Remember Armie Hammer? No, of course you don’t, but he’s an actor who liked to think he was gaining traction to be a real movie star one day. You might know him from that attempt a Lone Ranger revival where he was overshadowed by Johnny Depp playing a Native American wearing a dead bird on his head.
Johnny Depp is not Native American. He lied about having Native American heritage in order to dodge controversy for taking this role, but he wasn’t cancelled for redface. Johnny Depp is almost impossible to cancel, despite his domestic violence and spousal abuse, which cost him a role in like the 13th or 14th Harry Potter movie and little else (it’s the one where Harry goes to space, I think).
Armie Hammer is no Johnny Depp and so his spousal abuse did get him cancelled, right as he was gliding on the acclaim of his breakout role in the Oscar darling Call Me By Your Name. While Depp enjoys the benefit of the kind of cool, grunge, rockstar reputation in which punching women in a drunken “tortured poet” stupor is almost expected of him, Armie Hammer is a pretty-boy rich-kid from a business dynasty whose sexual proclivities allegedly involve a cannibalism fetish. So, more Ed Gein than Tommy Lee.
So how does a guy whose career fell off before it really got going maneuver his cancellation in such a way that the money spigot turns back on? The answer came via a phone call from a 60 year old German con artist named Uwe Boll. If you’re struggling with how to pronounce that, you just switch the W with a V—Ooveboll. It sounds like an obscure Eastern European sport.
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