But it managed to be educational and present its thesis quite well. The thesis is that the infamous 4chan led to such social movements as OccupyWallstreet, Anonymous, Gamergate, and the rise of Donald Trump and finally, to January 6th. It showed how these groups morphed together and separated. It shows very clearly how the alt-right latched onto meme culture and tried to hijack the political discourse. I was never on 4chan, but remember seeing their productions out in the wild. It's a cautionary tale about two things, the first about how just because you create something, that does not mean you can control it as the creator of 4chan discovered, and the second is never to underestimate the stupidity of the masses. They will beieve anything as long as its in a visual form with some white text.

"The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem" is an in-depth and relateable history of 4 Chan's beginning and evolution to one energizer of the social unrest and riots of the late 2010's and into the Covid Pandemic. BUT - the show didn't stop with the surprising results of 4-Chan's social influcence, for better or worse. Instead, the movie went into a political, biased, inaccurate narrative of the 2020 election; the same narrative that is repeated like a mantra over progressive and extreme left media television and internet channels. So I'd recommend it, along with a heaping helping of other social media network histories at the time.