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--- gear:masks:guy-fawkes [2024/07/04 22:35] – Humphrey Boa-Gart
+++ gear:masks:guy-fawkes [2024/10/20 02:41] (current) – Humphrey Boa-Gart
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 [{{ :gear:efgfirst.gif |Pictured: Artifact from ground-zero of the catastrophe.}}]
-Within a few days, the Mask had already built enough momentum to reach meme status. The hypnotized users of /b/ demanded more.
+Within a few days, the Mask had already built enough momentum to reach meme status, and hypnotized users demanded more.
 [{{ :gear:epicfailguy.png |And so, Pandora's Box was irreversibly opened, once again.}}]
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 Little did anyone know at the time, this nascent [[tools:thought-forms|egregore]] was about to put //everyone else on//.
+[{{ :gear:masks:chanology.jpg?350|Houston, we have containment breach.}}]
 The Guy Fawkes Mask quickly became known as a **symbol of //failure//**, linked to Epic Fail Guy. It did not take long for this cancerous egregore to fester and take on a life of its own. EFG himself would be the first consumed by the Mask, as he would rarely be seen without it again from this point forward. Soon after, the original artist of the strip vanished, shuffling their unholy creation off onto various community OC producers and Photoshop pirates, who continued to churn out a steady supply of EFG memes with him wearing the Mask.
-For the next year and a half, the Mask remained confined to the imageboards and [[tools:irc|IRC]], charging itself off the collective psychic energy of **/b/** and **/i/**. That is, until the [[anonymous:insurgency|/i/nsurgency's]] first venture into street activism with [[op:chanology|Project Chanology]] in early 2008. The first few Chanology videos addressing the Church of Scientology //(and the criticisms that Anonymous took with the Scientologists)// were devoid of Guy Fawkes Masks. That was soon about to change forever, as the Mask waited patiently for the Right Moment....
+For the next year and a half, the Mask remained confined to the imageboards and [[tools:irc|IRC]], charging itself off the collective psychic energy of **/b/** and **/i/**. That is, until the [[anonymous:insurgency|/i/nsurgency's]] first major venture into street activism with [[op:chanology|Project Chanology]] in early 2008. The first few Chanology videos addressing the Church of Scientology //(and the criticisms that Anonymous took with the Scientologists)// were devoid of Guy Fawkes Masks. That was soon about to change forever, as the Mask waited patiently for the Right Moment....
 Anonymous /i/nsurgents were warned quite early on about the Church's tendency to harass //"Suppressive Persons"// long-term via their lawless **Office of Special Affairs (OSA)**. In response, it was quickly agreed to recommend the use of any kind of mask at protests, in order to avoid being identified by OSA goons. Being not long after Halloween, and with the recent popularity of **V For Vendetta**, the Guy Fawkes Mask was a convenient readily-available prop mask, which just so happened to match one of the memes from the imageboards. A few Anons, subconsciously allured by the power of the Mask, wore it at first as a clever means of disguise. The idea soon spread memetically like a wildfire in just a few marches.
-[{{ :gear:occupyws.jpg?300|Eventually, the accursed Mask became the face of Anonymous in the press.}}]
+[{{ :gear:occupyws.jpg?350|Eventually, the accursed Mask became the face of Anonymous in the press.}}]
 And so, taking advantage of a moment of passionate reckless abandon, **that is how the Mask broke its containment and escaped into the outside world**, fusing with a novelty Halloween prop in the process. While several other representations of Anonymous had already preexisted //(the Green Man, Suits & Afros, Richard C. Mongler, Yotsuba)// the Mask quickly began to eclipse all of them. Eventually, thousands of people would don the Mask that winter - all melded into one identity, all focused on the same goal.
-The Mask //(and the Guy Fawkes Mask it possessed)// continued being used as a convenient disguise by the /i/nsurgency and her allies through [[op:occupy|Occupy Wall Street]] in 2011. By this point, the Mask was solidified in the public consciousness as the face of Anonymous, and now basked like a lizard in the light of the press and internet. Anyone could become Anonymous, and the Mask provided newcomers & outsiders with an **"icon"** that symbolized the idea of Anonymous: A faceless, leaderless horde of individuals that could consist of literally anyone, banded together as an organized collective of decentralized independent cells, working to accomplish things bigger than themselves, with the egalitarian belief that no one member of Anonymous was of any greater or less significance than any other.
+The Mask //(and the Guy Fawkes Mask it possessed)// continued being used as a convenient disguise by the /i/nsurgency and her allies through [[op:occupy|Occupy Wall Street]] in 2011. By this point, the Mask was solidified in the public consciousness as the face of Anonymous. Now, together with [[hazards:legion|Legion]], they basked like lizards in the light of the press and internet. Anyone could become Anonymous, and the Mask provided newcomers & outsiders with an **"icon"** that symbolized the [[anonymous:about#anonymous-is-an-idea|idea of Anonymous]]: A faceless, leaderless horde of individuals that could consist of literally anyone, banded together as an organized collective of decentralized independent cells, working to accomplish things bigger than themselves, with the egalitarian belief that no one member of Anonymous was of any greater or less significance than any other.
-[{{ :anonymous:1891241_10100203051400449_1626400556_n.jpg?300|The Mask now manages its own supply chains, to the astonishment of scientists & evolutionary biologists.}}]
+[{{ :gear:masks:assemblyline.jpg?350|The Mask now manages its own supply chains, to the astonishment of scientists & evolutionary biologists.}}]
-By 2012, the heat came down and the [[hazards:fediverse#damage-assessment|/i/nsurgency was broken up]]. However, the idea of "Anonymous" pushed forward under new stewardship, who continued to use the Guy Fawkes Mask for their own various illegal shenanigans. Just like those who came before them, these too were completely unaware that the Mask was Haunted. Since nobody ever challenged the Mask's psychic hegemony over the Guy Fawkes Mask and Anonymous, it has represented both of them ever since. To witnesses, the Mask now evokes feelings of nostalgia, sadness or terror, depending on who you ask and what their memory of the Mask consisted of.
+By 2012, the heat came down and the [[hazards:fediverse#damage-assessment|/i/nsurgency was broken up]]. However, Legion and the idea of "Anonymous" pushed forward under new stewardship and more splinter communities, who continued to use the Guy Fawkes Mask for their own various illegal shenanigans. Just like those who came before them, these too were completely unaware that the Mask was Haunted. Since nobody ever challenged the Mask's psychic hegemony over the Guy Fawkes Mask and Anonymous, it has represented both of them ever since. To witnesses, the Mask now evokes feelings of nostalgia, sadness or terror, depending on who you ask and what their memory of the Mask consisted of.
 Today, members of Anonymous have very mixed feelings over the Mask. To many who knew what the Mask was //(before its mutation and subsequent leak into the real world)// the Mask is viewed with contempt and disgust. Indeed, the irony of the **failure** to contain the Mask is not lost on the collective. Yet to others, the Mask is viewed with reverence. Many Anons, whether they participated in protests or not, have been known to keep an actual Mask as a souvenir, totem or good luck charm. Some keep one simply as a psychic anchor to remind themselves why they were there in the first place - an icon.

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