This video is so well edited and energetic (but also completely nonsense in a postmodern context collapse kind of way) that it really intrigues me to try to figure out why it was made. Based on the other stuff that the channel that made it seems to have published, I think it’s probably fascist propaganda, but I really can’t figure out how it accomplishes that function. Like, what is the intended audience for this? What’s the message? Can anyone get something out of this?

I kind of want to write out like an alt text explaining what the video is for anyone who doesn’t want to click, but it’s a bit impossible to describe. It’s a minute long, rapid fire edit with lots of different soyjak/chudjak drawings in various settings, edited with some animated filters that make it all very surreal. There’s a few transitions between ‘scenes,’ with each one having a different song. The first sounds a bit like Nightcore, the second is hip hop that reminds me a big of the kind of Memphis rap in similar fascist phonk edits, then a final bit with a cover of Somebody that I Used to Know in a language I can’t identify. The last bit contains images of Jesus in some kind of astral plane.

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It kinda reminds me of Max0r, but where that creator uses memes that are at least somewhat recognizable to tell stories that are high energy but mostly coherent, these videos are densely populated and edited by someone deeeeeeep in fashy meme circles.

    Maybe there’s something to fascist spectacle here, where the video doesn’t have to be coherent as long as it throws up images that are circulated in fash spaces for the viewer to draw their own conclusions about what message is being conveyed.

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      I think you’re on to something, it feels like there’s some element of normalising the fascist imagery by masking it with layers of incoherence.

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        normalising the fascist imagery by masking it with layers of incoherence.

        They managed to get Hyperborea mainstream like this.