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 Just as Guy Fawkes failed to slaughter Parliament, Epic Fail Guy would also fail at anything he set out to do //(over and over again)//. In the strip above, we see a classic example of EFG's failure. EFG is hungry for tacos, but ends up failing several times in the simple act of eating one. Then he fails at throwing his mess away, when he gets distracted by the filth-covered Mask contained within the trash can, and decides to //put it back on//. Just as Guy Fawkes failed to slaughter Parliament, Epic Fail Guy would also fail at anything he set out to do //(over and over again)//. In the strip above, we see a classic example of EFG's failure. EFG is hungry for tacos, but ends up failing several times in the simple act of eating one. Then he fails at throwing his mess away, when he gets distracted by the filth-covered Mask contained within the trash can, and decides to //put it back on//.
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-[{{ :gear:masks:chanology.jpg?350|Houston, we have containment breach.}}] 
  
 Little did anyone know at the time, this nascent [[tools:thought-forms|egregore]] was about to put //everyone else on//. Little did anyone know at the time, this nascent [[tools:thought-forms|egregore]] was about to put //everyone else on//.
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 +[{{ :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. 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.
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 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.  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. 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 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, 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. 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.
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