»(…) these online communities, for all their toxicity, were also sites of raw creative energy. The memes, the in-jokes, the world-building, the elaborate mythologies. People were constructing entire meaning systems from the wreckage of the culture they felt excluded from. That’s not nothing. There‘s a real parallel to how artists and writers at the beginning of modernity responded to the upheavals of the nineteenth century.«
– Jon Rafman in conversation with Karen Archey
In: Main Stream Media: Collected Films (2008–2026), 2026