Memes with ERWT connotations
142. These are memes[1] which are doctored or appropriated images used to portray a terrorist narrative—by definition these will be widely shared and evolve in nature as users update and make edits. They serve a variety of functions, including:
- Increasing influence: Being a 'meme-lord', someone reputed for producing popular memes, is a mark of prestige.
- Group identification: Memes provide in-group identification and can be used to simulate a chain of responses among online communities on social media.
- Signposting: Memes can encourage signposting to other content by hosting a hashtag or link in the corner of the image.
Discourse that incites, promotes or glorifies terrorism
143. Discourse that incites, promotes or glorifies ERWT can be found on openly accessible online forums—threads focusing on Brenton Tarrant (often referring to him as a 'Saint') are posted regularly on 4chan and other spaces frequented by ERWT audiences.
Video content used to popularise Right-Wing Extremist narratives by influencers
144. This includes videologs, interviews, documentaries or professional videos that mainstream extremist narratives:
- Videologs: Hand-held videologs cultivate an image of authenticity and an illusion of proximity between influencers and their audiences.
- Professional videos.
- Documentaries: Many videos are produced using common documentary features such as interviews, data visualisation of statistics and narration over stock video footage.
Online ideological literature
145. Individuals view, suggest and exchange ideological literature online:
- 'Cultural Nationalists' promote a somewhat generic ideology, which promotes a narrative of British culture being under attack from a range of foreign influences and trends, notably Islam, immigration, globalism and multiculturalism. They are also critical of what they view as domestic cultural and political elites.
- 'White Nationalists' and 'White Supremacists' have a more actively conspiratorial view than 'Cultural Nationalists' and believe the so called 'indigenous' white race is being destroyed by a global conspiracy. The glorification of Nazi Germany and
- ↑ A meme is a virally transmitted image embellished with text, generally sharing pointed commentary on cultural symbols, social ideas or events.
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