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[–] ericbomb@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is with the music on some of these videos.

men running for their lives benny hill theme music

[–] sab@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think it's a NAFO thing, basically an online community fighting back against misinformation and the Russian war machine with memes. There might be federated examples over at #NAFO.

I guess making things appear more light-hearted makes it more likely to spread further across the Internet, thereby being a more efficient weapon against trolls and online misinformation than dry, factual statements. I still struggle a bit with the whole concept, but at the end of the day I guess it's how the Internet works and it's good that Ukraine and its supporters is using it efficiently.

[–] ericbomb@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I guess that makes some sort of sense. If someone wants the dry stuff they can go to a news site, but the meme stuff spreads better.

But man it is WEIRD/Disconcerting to see so much combat footage turned into like music videos.

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