Dr. Joe Ondrak

If you say that enough times, you summon Grafton Tanner

I think there are a few people (myself included) aiming to diagnose the same kind of thing, but central to a lot of it is action and performance for a perceived audience of peers.

Socially Performative Violent Extremism is precisely what I'm writing a paper about at the moment.

Acts of violence collapsed into the ongoing memeplex of references and symbology of a specific community.

To clarify; it is clear that Tyler Robinson is NOT an NVE shooter. However, I believe it is worth acknowledging we have now seperate and distinct examples where *being* part of an extremely online space creates a distinct treatment of offline violence.

... and action is flattened to belong in a loose collection of symbolic references.

What we are starting to reckon with, through our developing threat picture of NVE and now this, is the irreverence given to acts of extreme real-world violence when carried out as communicative acts for *being* online for certain communities....

Marc-André is doing the difficult but essential work here. A great thread and assessment.

I don't disagree with you, but you have to ask what connection is there to designate O9A beyond decontextualised memetics. My point is to stop looking at O9A as a marker to find drivers (or worse, an easy 'solve' for this) & instead look at participatpry dynamics shaped by online forms and culture.

I've just posted some expanded thoughts on this that echo exactly your point!

The groups using "neo nazi Satanist" symbology aren't learning star games or acausal time. Functionally, here it's a clubhouse symbol that's been memed to the point of empty reference to nothing but the *myth* of O9A; simultaneously shorthand and excuse for "just be evil, open to CSAM."

My 2p for the Satanist trainspotters pointing towards Order of Nine Angles: I'd argue this is a parody of O9A distilled through various online recombinations and iterations. Some of the language and symbols are there, but none of the intended meaning & certainly not the practice as developed by O9A.

I'd argue this is a parody of O9A distilled through various online recombinations. Some of the language and symbols are there, but none of the meaning & certainly not the practice. These kids aren't learning chants or acausal time-grammar. It's an edgy clubhouse symbol now. It's been memed.

"This is my manifesto, which is posted for you. Take this and read. Reference it in remembrance of me."

This whole bit is a strategy of "semiotic cold reading" - a scattershot of references, in-jokes, esoterica without a centre. There are enough for various researchers & journalists to manufacture the centre, the point to this, that they would like. For others in the community; it's content.

I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver.
The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.

I really ought to turn notifications back on here...
This does seem to grasp at the wider cultural/artistic negatives of ontological flatness. I'll have to roll it around in my head a bit first but it's a good thread. Some of the work on various post-postmodernisms might be useful too.

This sounds incredibly exciting. Loads of my favourite topics in there!

The Eleven-Year History of the Media-Fiction Effects that Underpin Participatory Nihilistic Violence

Todays guest post was written by @theondrakguy.bsky.social who delves into the evolution of media fiction and its influence on participatory nihilistic violence. He explore the interplay between media narratives and real-world acts of violence.

www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...

currently pitching/booking guests for next set of @theloopcast.bsky.social shows - continuing w our series on lawful extremism and then taking it from there

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Since I'm making an effort to post here a bit more, my PhD thesis - Digesting Creepypasta: An Analysis of Social Media Horror Narratives as Fourth Generation Digital Fiction - is available to read via Sheffield Hallam's library page.

shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/

Bit of a jump scare while window shopping for money pits on Facebook earlier.

It never was...

Intro time.
I'm a researcher and OSINT analyst.
Interested in human/medium interaction, digital narratology, tech-led cultural intelligence, and barking at policy types to read more McLuhan.
Currently working in CVE spaces focusing on composite threats, and analytical best practice for OSINT.

I suppose I should endeavour to use this a bit more since there's a mass-migration (and an influx of followers, hi and thank you).

It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?