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Please join me tomorrow when I will be ‘freezing’ my Instagram and FB account to tell Facebook to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopHateForProfit?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#StopHateForProfit\u003c/a>.” [aside postid='arts_13882749']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immediate impact on Facebook is sure to be minimal, as is the sacrifice the celebrities are making to show their support. But the campaign is part of a larger effort by civil rights organizations such as the NAACP, Color of Change and the ADL to draw attention to Facebook’s policies as calls mount for the social media behemoth be regulated or even broken apart in an antitrust action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/08/26/906145086/3-shot-1-fatally-in-kenosha-wis-as-protests-continue-over-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">role in the Kenosha shooting\u003c/a>—which was flagged as violating their policies hundreds of times—is a reminder that changing policies without changing enforcement means little. It reinforces the fact that lives are on the line,” the coalition says on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook removed accounts and pages belonging to both the shooter and a group called the Kenosha Guard, which discussed possible violence, but only after they had received much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An advertising “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885853634/big-brands-abandon-facebook-threatening-to-derail-a-70b-advertising-juggernaut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pause\u003c/a>” in July, led by the same coalition, involved nearly 1,100 companies. That same month, Facebook released the results of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/08/888888476/report-slams-facebook-for-vexing-and-heartbreaking-decisions-on-political-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">independent audit\u003c/a> that it had commissioned. 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The public reaction to the tape at the time swung between mockery and disdain: \u003cem>This is Paris\u003c/em> includes a clip of David Letterman making jokes at her expense before a howling studio audience. (Let’s not forget that even Pink, an outspoken feminist, made fun of Hilton’s sex tape in the video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stupid Girls\u003c/a>” in 2006.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>This is Paris\u003c/em>, Hilton describes Salomon pressuring her to allow him to film her, and compares her experience to “being electronically raped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of Hilton’s humiliation were especially jarring to revisit on Monday, after a weekend in which \u003cem>Captain America\u003c/em>‘s Chris Evans received an outpouring of sympathy for accidentally posting an explicit picture of himself to Instagram. When screenshots of his photo started circulating on social media, fans and supporters quickly buried them under a sea of wholesome photos of the actor with his dog, messages of support, and tales about his kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kiramvor/status/1305250163368366084\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Skias2/status/1305205102249041920\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BellaDameNoir/status/1305205393384038400\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans escaped largely unscathed, even joking about it on Twitter the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/1305681183129436161\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Hilton’s documentary came out, a great number of women pointed out how female celebrities in Evans’ position are treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/goodnightjdb/status/1305031389922947072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/moniza_hossain/status/1305016160501391360\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TudorChick1501/status/1305213719127961603\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The double standards were impossible not to notice. A full decade after Hilton’s humiliation, actresses including Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Watson and Kirsten Dunst were shamed and blamed en masse after their intimate photos were made public by the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4Chan leak\u003c/a>. While vocal objections followed from feminist writers and media, the air around the whole thing smacked of both victim blaming and bringing successful women down a peg or two. (“It was all pain and no gain,” Lawrence later told \u003cem>Vogue\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmmaWatson/status/506531006380527617\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that five of the hackers involved in the 4Chan leak were later sentenced to prison time (for periods ranging between eight and 34 months) has not acted as a major deterrent to others. In 2017, another hack took place, this time revealing intimate images of celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods. (Woods was not shown any more mercy than the women—full frontal nudes of him are still circulating.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence that the sympathetic treatment of Evans was not entirely about his gender, though. Last October, when Demi Lovato had explicit photos stolen and leaked online, supporters rushed to her defense in much the same way that Evans’ did over the weekend. Within hours of Lovato’s hacked Snapchat account directing users to a Discord server of her private photos, fans had buried them on social media. As with Evans, it was done with positivity and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rosesavocado/status/1185015077159755777\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/winterdaylov/status/1184989259981189120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/aiidaannn/status/1184972196457918464\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fan outpouring also prompted swift action from Discord. The day after the leak, the gamer app released a statement that read: “We have a zero-tolerance approach to illegal activity on our platform and take immediate action when we become aware of it. We moved quickly yesterday to disable the link and stop access to the server as soon as we became aware of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>This is Paris\u003c/em>, Hilton expresses the belief that if her sex tape were leaked now, she would be treated much more kindly than she was in 2004. “If that happened today,” she says in the documentary, “it would not be the same story at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t necessarily true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Evans nor Lovato was saved because our culture is nicer to violated celebrities than it was in 2004. They were saved because they’ve already given so much of themselves to the public. Evans has been consistently open about his own struggles with \u003ca href=\"https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-strength/a758320/watch-why-chris-evans-still-gets-anxiety-about-captain-america/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anxiety and depression\u003c/a>. 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To look into yourself and say ‘Why am I afraid of this?’” [aside postid='arts_13878619']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945315-scream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, points out that human fear is rooted in the unfamiliar. “Humans have sophisticated systems of prediction,” Margee Kerr writes, “and when our predictions don’t match our experience, it raises a red flag and puts us in a state of uncertainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching scary red skies in movies this week, then, might help imbue us with the sense that what we’re living through isn’t, in fact, brand new. 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Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, watching movies about whatever we’re currently facing down can give us a sense of preparation. Maybe if we watch a fictional version of the thing we’re worried about, we’ll learn some useful coping strategies. “I’m probably a little more equipped to deal with death, disease [and] tragedy than other people,” Colin Geddes, a programmer at Toronto International Film Festival has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URb0EDLHgjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said\u003c/a>. “Because I’ve seen it played out and it makes me think about how I would react in these situations with these misfortunes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in March, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/contagion-coronavirus-pandemic-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vulture\u003c/a> article exploring the rise in popularity of \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>echoed Geddes’ sentiments. “I watched it because this current pandemic crisis makes me terrified, and a story about exactly that same thing is one way to grapple with that fear,” wrote Kathryn VanArendonk. “Pandemic fiction is about how people behave in response to acute, sudden-onset helplessness. When we’re confronted with that helplessness in real life, watching some version of it—any version of it, and ideally one where at least some people survive—is comforting. It’s a model for how we could respond.” [aside postid='arts_13885930']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidentally,\u003cem> Contagion\u003c/em> wasn’t the only pandemic movie that surged in popularity in 2020. \u003cem>Outbreak\u003c/em> and \u003cem>12 Monkeys\u003c/em>—both eerily having their 25th anniversaries this year—have had a renaissance as well. (Which likely explains why the latter was snapped up from Netflix by HBO Max one month after shelter in place went into effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What all of this means is: if you have the desire to watch dystopian fiction specifically because it feels like the end of the world right now, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with you. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]“W[/dropcap]e see the app as a personalization platform where people will be able to live different lives during their one lifetime. So everyone can be anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/deepfake-video-app-reface-is-just-getting-started-on-shapeshifting-selfie-culture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says Roman Mogylnyi\u003c/a>, CEO and co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://reface.app/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reface\u003c/a>—an enormously popular new app that takes the faces of users and blends them into celebrity videos, movie clips and more. Current sections on the app include \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>, WWE, Billboard Musicians, Marvel, Tarantino Movies, and many, many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">Ostensibly, Reface—which is free, and does not have a recommended age or official user guide—is a way for people to live out their Hollywood and MTV fantasies via the medium of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deepfakes\u003c/a> (basically a high-end version of face-swapping). In practice, however, the app poses a number of social and psychological conundrums—not least of which is the fact that it offers a digital form of Blackface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reface was started in the Ukraine and was, until August, called Doublicat. As of the end of that month, the app had been downloaded over \u003ca href=\"https://www.prunderground.com/sergey-tokarev-reface-app-from-ukraine-reaches-the-first-place-in-the-u-s-appstore/00201754/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 million\u003c/a> times. There can be no doubt that Reface has a diverse international community of users to appeal to, and needs to provide content reflecting that. The problem is that when the user’s face is blended with a celebrity, Reface tends to err on the side of the celebrity skin tone, not the user’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own experiments with the app, my very pale skin was repeatedly toned darker to match the likes of Rihanna, Beyoncé, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Kanye West. When I Refaced with Kylie Jenner, her bronzer got cut off at my eyebrows and my natural skin tone remained on the rest of my face. With the artists of color, my whiteness disappeared completely. Most of the results were offensive enough that I cannot, in good conscience, include them here. (Don’t even get me started on this week’s awful “In Memory of Chadwick Boseman” section.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> alum \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Chris-Kattan-Close-Portrait-Photo/dp/B07BSPL857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Kattan\u003c/a> as Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion to give you some idea of how skin tone is altered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CENdh4ZpY2_/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are surely many white users who will actively avoid exercising their newfound access to digital Blackface, a great many more feel just fine about indulging. Last week, I saw a friend from high school gleefully Reface her white husband into Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video and publicly laugh about it. These are not people who would ever dream of donning Blackface to go to a costume party, but they had no qualms about posting the digital version to Facebook. It’s inevitable that thousands of other white people are going to do the same.[aside postid='arts_13882681']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]Q[/dropcap]uestions have been raised online about Reface—but they’ve centered on \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/doublicat-gif-safe-app-deep-fake-celebrities-a9628906.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the issue of privacy\u003c/a> and the collection of biometric data. Based on Reface’s \u003ca href=\"https://reface.app/privacy-policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy policy\u003c/a>, there is currently little to worry about in that regard. The policy is clear that facial features are never used “for any reason other than to provide you with the face-swapping functionality of Reface.” And: “Reface does not introduce the face recognition technologies or other technical means for processing of biometric data for the unique identification or authentication of a user.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which can only be a good thing, given that there are zero restrictions around uploading photos of other people who have not consented to having their likeness used. (One five-star review in the Google Play store says: “I’ve been taking images from my friends’ Facebook pages and sending them videos. They look pretty darn similar…”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Reface can merge user photos with celebrity faces, based on a single photograph, is a disturbing indication of just how far deepfake technology has progressed in the last couple of years. In Feb. 2018, Samantha Cole, an expert on the developing technology, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/101764/deepfakes-the-dark-and-terrifying-side-of-face-swapping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR\u003c/a> that “hundreds of photos of an individual’s face” were needed to create a deepfake video. Reface now does it with one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]eface also poses additional issues for anyone who lacks an impenetrable sense of self-confidence. Studies have suggested that as many as \u003ca href=\"https://now.org/now-foundation/love-your-body/love-your-body-whats-it-all-about/get-the-facts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">78% of 17-year-old girls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.macmh.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/18_Gallivan_Teens-social-media-body-image-presentation-H-Gallivan-Spring-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">80% of women\u003c/a> are “unhappy with their bodies.” An app that allows them to see their faces atop “perfect” celebrity forms is poised to compound those insecurities.[aside postid='pop_101764']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my own experiments, I went about putting my head onto the bodies of Victoria’s Secret models, Cara Delevingne and a variety of other celebrities on the app, all of whom are four to six sizes smaller than me, with considerably longer limbs. The experience immediately reminded me of the teen years I wasted trying and failing to mold my body into a smaller, more “acceptable” shape. I am acutely aware, even decades later, that access to Reface during my adolescence would have wreaked absolute havoc with my levels of confidence and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, like so many other of 2020’s most popular apps, Reface automatically puts filters onto the face of the user. For the purposes of research, I uploaded a selfie that was makeup-free and intentionally unflattering. Before Reface applied my bad photo to any celebrities, my face was automatically cleared of blemishes and given more prominent cheekbones. I had asked for neither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern about this kind of filtering, first popularized by Snapchat, has been widespread for some time. Last year, a cosmetic surgeon named Dr. Max Malik told \u003ca href=\"https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/10/how-instagram-plastic-surgery-filter-ban-are-destroying-how-we-see-our-faces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New Statesman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: “These filters and edits have become the norm, altering people’s perception of beauty worldwide… They can have a significant impact on a patient’s self-esteem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these glaring issues have done anything to slow the booming popularity of Reface. It has a 4.6 star rating in the Google Play store, and is currently number 22 on the United States iOS free app charts. One of the other most popular apps of the day, TikTok, has already been acknowledged as a platform where \u003ca href=\"https://qz.com/quartzy/1738478/how-teens-on-tiktok-are-perpetuating-racist-stereotypes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultural appropriation and racist stereotyping\u003c/a> can run rampant. But little has yet been said of Reface—an app that’s so much worse, it’s right on the edge of minstrelsy. TikTok’s issues with cultural appropriation rest largely on the user’s ability to lip-sync Black voices; Reface actually makes the user’s face Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a year when America is so publicly grappling with its long history of racism, Reface deserves to be brought into the conversation. I, for one, will be dragging it into the trash can.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The movie attempts to set the record straight and make clear who Pepe is, but functions more as a case study in how we communicate now and the collateral damage that communication leaves behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiqZWw5vYs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furie is a meek, soft spoken guy who feels more comfortable alone at a drafting table than at the forefront of online discourse. Pepe started as a character in Furie’s 2005 small indie comic \u003cem>Boys Club\u003c/em>. One comic in particular featured Pepe urinating with his pants pushed all the way down to his ankles, explaining to his roommate that it “feels good, man.” It was a punchline that became a slogan for a certain carefree lifestyle that thrives in between beers and bong hits. From there Pepe was excerpted, repeated, excerpted, repeated—each time drifting further away from his original context, and away from Furie’s hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really have the resources to stop it, ” says Furie in an interview with NPR. “Nobody really knew what the protocol was because it’s all online.” There’s not much you can do about anonymous teenagers posting inside jokes online. And for a long while, it stayed that way—just jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t until it got really bad that I stepped up and wanted to try and take a stand,” says Furie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary explains in detail how and why it got really bad (and it did), but the short version is: Pepe started getting so popular with mainstream culture that the original fans of this no-longer “inside” joke tried to push the normies away with even edgier versions of Pepes—racist Pepes, homophobic Pepes, anti-semitic Pepes. This coincided with President Trump’s similarly trolling presidential campaign, and the then-burgeoning “alt-right” movement, and all of a sudden Furie saw his own creation end up on the Anti-Defamation League’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/pepe-the-frog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of hate symbols\u003c/a>, with the normiest of normies, Hillary Clinton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/15/12926976/hillary-clinton-trump-pepe-the-frog-alt-right-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explaining why Pepe was bad\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this all feels a little stupid—that’s all intentional. Through interviews with journalists and experts on extremism on the internet, the documentary explores the well-oiled right wing propaganda machine built on bad faith arguments meant to make you feel unsure, and dumb, and ridiculous. If you go back and look at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pepe-the-frog-hate-symbol-20161011-snap-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plethora\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/its-not-easy-being-green/499892/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">of interviews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a49057/pepe-frog-creator-voting-hillary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Furie did\u003c/a> around the time of the ADL listing, there’s a sense of wishful thinking on Furie’s part: that this is just a phase, Pepe won’t be a hate symbol forever. He tried working with the ADL and fellow cartoonists to flood the online space with “positive” Pepe imagery. He tried “killing” Pepe in one of his comics to wash his hands of it. Both fundamental misunderstandings of how the internet works. But the documentary’s director, Arthur Jones says those were the tools Furie had available to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were his earnest attempts to try to express the true intentions of Pepe as a character,” says Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13885870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/gettyimages-1173238050-e53b99fafa93cf9adefbea7ff1dc1de2b6b53165-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"During the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Pepe became a symbol of resistance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Pepe became a symbol of resistance. \u003ccite>(Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the corners of the internet where racist Pepes run rampant, earnestness doesn’t count for much. Lawsuits, on the other hand, do. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731520403/alex-jones-to-pay-15-000-in-pepe-the-frog-copyright-infringement-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The wins\u003c/a> Furie collects under his belt in the movie are mostly legal ones, using copyright law to issue take down notices, file suits, etc. Which he was only able to do through the help of a law firm working pro-bono. See, cartoons taken out of context aren’t new, nor solely relegated to the internet. Stroll down any boardwalk and you’ll eventually catch some bootleg \u003cem>Minions \u003c/em>merch. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t until it got really bad that I stepped up and wanted to try and take a stand,” says Furie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documentary explains in detail how and why it got really bad (and it did), but the short version is: Pepe started getting so popular with mainstream culture that the original fans of this no-longer “inside” joke tried to push the normies away with even edgier versions of Pepes—racist Pepes, homophobic Pepes, anti-semitic Pepes. This coincided with President Trump’s similarly trolling presidential campaign, and the then-burgeoning “alt-right” movement, and all of a sudden Furie saw his own creation end up on the Anti-Defamation League’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/pepe-the-frog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of hate symbols\u003c/a>, with the normiest of normies, Hillary Clinton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/15/12926976/hillary-clinton-trump-pepe-the-frog-alt-right-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explaining why Pepe was bad\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this all feels a little stupid—that’s all intentional. Through interviews with journalists and experts on extremism on the internet, the documentary explores the well-oiled right wing propaganda machine built on bad faith arguments meant to make you feel unsure, and dumb, and ridiculous. If you go back and look at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pepe-the-frog-hate-symbol-20161011-snap-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plethora\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/its-not-easy-being-green/499892/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">of interviews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a49057/pepe-frog-creator-voting-hillary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Furie did\u003c/a> around the time of the ADL listing, there’s a sense of wishful thinking on Furie’s part: that this is just a phase, Pepe won’t be a hate symbol forever. He tried working with the ADL and fellow cartoonists to flood the online space with “positive” Pepe imagery. He tried “killing” Pepe in one of his comics to wash his hands of it. Both fundamental misunderstandings of how the internet works. But the documentary’s director, Arthur Jones says those were the tools Furie had available to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those were his earnest attempts to try to express the true intentions of Pepe as a character,” says Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13885870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/gettyimages-1173238050-e53b99fafa93cf9adefbea7ff1dc1de2b6b53165-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"During the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Pepe became a symbol of resistance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Pepe became a symbol of resistance. \u003ccite>(Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the corners of the internet where racist Pepes run rampant, earnestness doesn’t count for much. Lawsuits, on the other hand, do. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731520403/alex-jones-to-pay-15-000-in-pepe-the-frog-copyright-infringement-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The wins\u003c/a> Furie collects under his belt in the movie are mostly legal ones, using copyright law to issue take down notices, file suits, etc. Which he was only able to do through the help of a law firm working pro-bono. See, cartoons taken out of context aren’t new, nor solely relegated to the internet. Stroll down any boardwalk and you’ll eventually catch some bootleg \u003cem>Minions \u003c/em>merch. But these are mostly kept in check through legal actions by people who can afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Furie] doesn’t have this multi-million dollar conglomerate behind him pushing the character and the branding of Pepe,” says the documentary’s producer Giorgio Angelini. “So in that void, the collective consciousness of the internet creates that brand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the internet has shown time and time again, if you allow its collective consciousness to fill a void, that void will get filled with Nazis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Furie wasn’t wholly wrong when he said that the link between Pepe and hatred would last forever. Pepe showing up at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/pepe-the-frog-meme-hong-kong/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pro-democracy protests\u003c/a> in Hong Kong in 2019 took the filmmakers by surprise. Elsewhere, on the popular live streaming platform Twitch, Pepes are thrown around in the chat apolitically, mostly devoid of the problematic baggage he was saddled with four years ago. But who knows how long this will last. With another presidential election in just a few months, the meme wars will only continue to heat up, and phases do tend to repeat themselves given a long enough time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Furie over Zoom, there was a Pepe plushie hanging on a wall over his shoulder. Furie has at times been sick, defensive and exasperated with Pepe. But as much as the internet can separate Pepe from Furie, Furie can never really separate himself from Pepe—and so clearing Pepe’s name is just as important as clearing his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Anyone grasping for the right word or phrase to describe life in 2020 now has a larger lexicon to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dictionary.com has updated thousands of entries and added hundreds of words in its largest release to date, a reflection of the ways in which society and language have evolved even in just the past few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital dictionary \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dictionarycom-issues-its-largest-release-with-more-than-15k-updates-301120251.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced\u003c/a> earlier this week that it updated more than 15,000 entries and added 650 brand new terms. Many of the revisions deal with language related to identity and topics like race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality and health and wellness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The work of a dictionary is more than just adding new words. It’s an ongoing effort to ensure that how we define words reflects changes in language—and life,” said John Kelly, senior editor at Dictionary.com. “Our revisions are putting people, in all their rich humanity, first, and we’re extremely proud of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new additions range from social media slang like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/goat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GOAT\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/janky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">janky\u003c/a>” to cultural touchstones like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/maga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MAGA\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/me-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MeToo\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the major site-wide changes to existing entries have to do with race and ethnicity, like capitalizing the word “Black” in reference to people, which the company says it is doing “as a mark of respect and recognition that’s in line with capitalizing other cultures and ethnicities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of entirely new terms in this category include \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/afro-latino?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afro-Latino\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/brownface?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brownface\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/filipinx?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filipinx\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whitesplain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whitesplain\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another dictionary-wide change replaces references to “homosexual” with “gay, gay man or gay woman,” and references to “homosexuality” with “gay sexual orientation.” The company said these updates were informed by recommendations from the organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.glaad.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GLAAD\u003c/a>, and affect more than 50 entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also refined the definitions for a number of other words related to LGBTQ identity, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/asexual?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asexual\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/deadname?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadname\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pride?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pride\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/themself?s=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">themself\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site has updated the language it uses to describe suicide and addiction, in an effort to help destigmatize them. 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Some roll off the tongue: \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/zhuzh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zhuzh\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ish\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/jabroni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jabroni\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Burning Man—the dazzling, days-long, annual arts and lovefest drawing 70,000 to the dusty Nevada desert—was cancelled this year. But organizers are trying to capture the quintessential, communal arts experience online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this year’s theme, \u003ca href=\"https://kindling.burningman.org/multiverse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multiverse\u003c/a>, teams have created 2D and 3D virtual experiences. The program runs Aug. 30-Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chaos and creativity of Burning Man usually involves thousands of artists and volunteers trekking to the vast, windy, barren desert to build enormous, eye-popping, often whimsical sculptures. This year, you can turn on your webcam or virtual-reality headset to attend an art class or DJ dance party—or even join a virtual \u003ca href=\"https://kindling.burningman.org/events/gratitude-circle-group-hug-with-halcyon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">group hug\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the desert, the Burning Man Temple is typically a place spacious enough for people to walk into and reflect, grieve or leave an offering. 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"content": "\u003cp>An awful lot of people don’t like David Blaine. I get it. He’s smug and pretentious and overacts feeling tired after “levitating.” He is, as Chris Rock once hilariously noted, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBq77c3oMXU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a trickless magician\u003c/a>.” He’s the kind of person who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAgLyRB5AQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>South Park\u003c/em> can make fun of\u003c/a> without anyone ever complaining about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this morning, Blaine flew over the Arizona desert strapped to a bunch of helium balloons. (If you believe one tweet, he also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1301185802219577344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">farted\u003c/a> on the live stream, but that’s a side note.) Once he’d reached 24,900 feet, he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/368/status/1301186572033892358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released himself\u003c/a> and landed safely with a parachute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1301173131533529088\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right. While the world below grapples with a pandemic, a tornado of racial injustice and an upcoming general election, David Blaine and that slow-motion face of his goes on a frickin’ \u003cem>balloon ride\u003c/em>. People hate this, right? Some people definitely hate this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ciaraned/status/1301166578172596227\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get me wrong. I want to hate it too. I do. But I can’t. Because if it was someone (anyone?) else doing this trick, it would be so much easier to feel enthusiastic about it. Dolly Parton, the old man from \u003cem>Up,\u003c/em> Banksy dressed as the little girl from his stencils—it really doesn’t matter who you replace him with. We all know that this balloon ride would be ten times more whimsical if David Blaine wasn’t the one doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can only imagine that Blaine’s Really Stupid Balloon Stunt (the official title is \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzvNAAqH3g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ascension\u003c/a>\u003c/em>) was born out of our fight-or-flight mechanisms that have all worked overtime since shelter in place began. But while the central nervous systems of normal people have spent months bleakly reminding ourselves that there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> no escape from coronavirus and to just stay inside, David Blaine’s brain decided that literal flight was a perfectly viable option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stunt itself might seem frivolous and stupid, but honestly, you have to admire this kind of gumption. After all, today’s balloon ride was a perfect encapsulation of what a lot of us would love to be doing right about now: peacefully floating away from \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time David Blaine has done a stunt that’s both terribly and perfectly timed. In 2003, he suspended himself over the banks of London’s River Thames, inside a Perspex box, for 44 days. The fact that his suspension was directly opposite \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitors%27_Gate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traitors’ Gate\u003c/a>—the entrance to the Tower of London once used by arriving prisoners awaiting their doom—turned out to be fitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lived and worked in London during David Blaine’s Really Stupid Box Stunt (the official title was \u003ca href=\"https://davidblaine.com/above-the-below/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Above the Below\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) and, let me tell you, his tenure turned into a breathtaking moment of American martyrdom. Many Brits weren’t just bored by the box concept, they were actively irritated by it. This was exacerbated by the fact that Blaine had arrived in London at a time when resentments towards America were at an all-time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13885714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"David Blaine ponders his decision to live in a box above London for 44 days, 2003.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-800x497.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-768x477.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Blaine ponders his decision to live in a box above London for 44 days, 2003. \u003ccite>(Dan Regan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just months before, the biggest protests in British history—in opposition to the imminent Iraq war—had taken place, to no avail. For a public that had successfully unseated Margaret Thatcher by taking to the streets in 1990, the country’s decision to hurtle into Iraq was both shocking and frustrating for a great portion of its population. It was also widely seen as a consequence of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s desire to impress George W. Bush and America itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blaine arrived right in the middle of the rancor. Here he was: an American stuck in central London that the British people could take all of their frustrations out on. Though Blaine was visited by thousands of fans and supporters, he also contended with \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/david-blaine-london-glass-box-stunt-reaction-starvation-above-below-a8523606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enough attacks\u003c/a> to keep the tabloids amused for his entire stay. Drummers assembled to keep Blaine awake at night. People held barbecues underneath him. One man tried to cut off his water supply while shouting “Go back to America! We don’t want you here!” Another flew a burger around the outside of the box on a remote control helicopter. People threw sausages, eggs and paintballs at him. At one point, golfers even took to the neighboring Tower Bridge to pelt the Perspex box with balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was it the British public’s proudest moment? Probably not. But, having witnessed Blaine in the box firsthand, I’d say it definitely went some way to easing international tensions. As fits of vengeance go, it was fairly harmless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since, Blaine has done stupid stunts that have assisted medical science. (Yale monitored his physiological response to spending seven days submerged in water during his 2006 \u003ca href=\"https://davidblaine.com/drowned-alive/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Drowned Alive\u003c/em>\u003c/a> stunt.) And he has repeatedly turned public failure into something approaching triumph. (During \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvdJGYdoP3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Revolution\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, he took 52 hours to escape from a rotating gyroscope, having predicted it would take 16. Two years later he failed to break the record for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blaine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">holding his breath\u003c/a> underwater—but managed it later that year, assisted by some pre-dunk oxygen.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, in 2012, for \u003cem>Electrified\u003c/em>, he spent 72 hours wearing a conducting suit and having “one million volts” directed at him via the medium of—I’m not making this up—Andrew WK and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH6O1iama18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reggie Watts\u003c/a> playing keyboards. It was incredibly goofy, not at all dangerous, and it made me laugh \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behold, one of the dumbest things you’ll ever see:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAE7Iwz1BF0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been eight years since Blaine gave us this nonsense—or any large-scale event for that matter. When he returned today, he was refreshingly upbeat; excited and smiling. He flipped the dark persona we most associate with him on its head, and gave us something joyful to the point of childlike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as \u003cem>Above the Below\u003c/em> seemed too frivolous in 2003, \u003cem>Ascension\u003c/em> seems incredibly silly in 2020. But maybe that’s the point. Much of being a magician is the ability to pull people’s focus away from the more serious task at hand. This morning, David Blaine tricked us into looking at a much-needed bright spot on an otherwise gloomy horizon. 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But while the central nervous systems of normal people have spent months bleakly reminding ourselves that there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> no escape from coronavirus and to just stay inside, David Blaine’s brain decided that literal flight was a perfectly viable option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stunt itself might seem frivolous and stupid, but honestly, you have to admire this kind of gumption. After all, today’s balloon ride was a perfect encapsulation of what a lot of us would love to be doing right about now: peacefully floating away from \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time David Blaine has done a stunt that’s both terribly and perfectly timed. In 2003, he suspended himself over the banks of London’s River Thames, inside a Perspex box, for 44 days. The fact that his suspension was directly opposite \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitors%27_Gate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traitors’ Gate\u003c/a>—the entrance to the Tower of London once used by arriving prisoners awaiting their doom—turned out to be fitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lived and worked in London during David Blaine’s Really Stupid Box Stunt (the official title was \u003ca href=\"https://davidblaine.com/above-the-below/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Above the Below\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) and, let me tell you, his tenure turned into a breathtaking moment of American martyrdom. Many Brits weren’t just bored by the box concept, they were actively irritated by it. This was exacerbated by the fact that Blaine had arrived in London at a time when resentments towards America were at an all-time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13885714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"David Blaine ponders his decision to live in a box above London for 44 days, 2003.\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-800x497.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317-768x477.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/GettyImages-2590317.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Blaine ponders his decision to live in a box above London for 44 days, 2003. \u003ccite>(Dan Regan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just months before, the biggest protests in British history—in opposition to the imminent Iraq war—had taken place, to no avail. For a public that had successfully unseated Margaret Thatcher by taking to the streets in 1990, the country’s decision to hurtle into Iraq was both shocking and frustrating for a great portion of its population. It was also widely seen as a consequence of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s desire to impress George W. Bush and America itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blaine arrived right in the middle of the rancor. Here he was: an American stuck in central London that the British people could take all of their frustrations out on. Though Blaine was visited by thousands of fans and supporters, he also contended with \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/david-blaine-london-glass-box-stunt-reaction-starvation-above-below-a8523606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enough attacks\u003c/a> to keep the tabloids amused for his entire stay. Drummers assembled to keep Blaine awake at night. People held barbecues underneath him. One man tried to cut off his water supply while shouting “Go back to America! We don’t want you here!” Another flew a burger around the outside of the box on a remote control helicopter. People threw sausages, eggs and paintballs at him. At one point, golfers even took to the neighboring Tower Bridge to pelt the Perspex box with balls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was it the British public’s proudest moment? Probably not. But, having witnessed Blaine in the box firsthand, I’d say it definitely went some way to easing international tensions. As fits of vengeance go, it was fairly harmless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since, Blaine has done stupid stunts that have assisted medical science. (Yale monitored his physiological response to spending seven days submerged in water during his 2006 \u003ca href=\"https://davidblaine.com/drowned-alive/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Drowned Alive\u003c/em>\u003c/a> stunt.) And he has repeatedly turned public failure into something approaching triumph. (During \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvdJGYdoP3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Revolution\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, he took 52 hours to escape from a rotating gyroscope, having predicted it would take 16. Two years later he failed to break the record for \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blaine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">holding his breath\u003c/a> underwater—but managed it later that year, assisted by some pre-dunk oxygen.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, in 2012, for \u003cem>Electrified\u003c/em>, he spent 72 hours wearing a conducting suit and having “one million volts” directed at him via the medium of—I’m not making this up—Andrew WK and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH6O1iama18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reggie Watts\u003c/a> playing keyboards. 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