Livestreams of the destruction were even monetized. There is no separating Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from what happened on Wednesday. These companies missed the chance to change course years ago.
These moves are good headlines, but none of them actually matter. YouTube is putting a strike on any videos denying the election results. He was also briefly suspended from Twitter. President Trump has been “indefinitely” locked out of Facebook. Baked Alaska and a man who happens to look exactly like Groyper leader Nic Fuentes, but who, according to panicked tweets from Fuentes, absolutely definitely wasn’t Fuentes, livestreamed themselves on DLive running through Nancy Pelosi’s office and taking selfies with cops.įacebook, Twitter, and YouTube are currently tying themselves into knots attempting to deal with their role in the siege, while also trying to contain the flood of triumphant riot content. Trump supporters, militia members, and psychotic QAnon wizards turned the chambers of Congress into VidCon. Which is why, if there was any particular point to Wednesday’s insurrection, other than a naked display of fascist racist violence, it was, for most protesters, simply about creating content to put back on the internet. Things that make sense on the internet, when spoken out loud, slip away from you as if you were trying to recall a dream. They’d get halfway through describing a rage comic before realizing it wasn’t funny and sort of awkward. It may sound strange, but it reminds me of conversations I had 10 years ago with people who would reference memes out loud in a conversation. There’s people filming us, laughing at us as we march down the street,” he stammers. “Who? I don’t - police? Congressmen and women? They don’t care. The reporter asks who he’s talking about. Not Republican, Democrat, Independent, nobody. He then begins to rant at the reporter, saying, “Just make sure people know. “Just trying to get into Congress - or whoever we could get into - and tell them that…we need some kind of investigation into this and what ends up happening is someone might have ended up dead,” he says, beginning to cry. He attempts to explain to the reporter what it is he thinks he’s even trying to accomplish. He’s clearly in shock and, during the course of the short interview, you can watch him trying to make sense of the physical reality that he’s currently in - that a woman is dead, that he has committed multiple felonies, that there will be no immediate glorious Trumpist revolution - with the digital reality I can only assume he’s been living in. He holds up his hand and it’s stained with her blood. In it, a young man from New Jersey tells a reporter that he was next to Babbitt when she was shot in the neck trying to break into the Capitol Building. You can see that same confusion in the video below. I have been unable shake the utter confusion on both her face as she hit the ground and the faces of the protesters around her as they began processing what was happening. On Wednesday, as I sat on Twitter watching the QCoup in horror, I accidentally clicked the wrong link and, suddenly, was watching a video of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt being shot and killed by police. Here’s a good Bellingcat article that lays out exactly how all of this was very publicly organized online. To call this unavoidable is an understatement. Four protesters and one police officer are dead. As of last night, over 80 people have been arrested.
On Wednesday afternoon, the thing we all knew was going to happen happened.
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