The worst commentators of the Network in the "Internet Warriors" photo project
A Norwegian photographer has become interested in the private lives of people who leave the most furious and numerous comments in Networks, and decided to visit their homes. He read tens of thousands of comments and found those he was looking for. Portraits of the worst debaters from different cities and countries have united in the project "Internet Warriors".
It turned out that his family life contrasts sharply with another occupation — the work of a prolific Internet commentator. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he wrote an average of 57 times a day about the corrupt system, biased media and "Killari." He compared voting for Mrs. Clinton to killing his own children.
It was this contrast between "normal life" and active online debate that made Kyrre Lien, a photographer from Oslo, look into the private life of the community of Internet commentators. For a project called "Internet Warriors" (The Internet Warriors) Lien read tens of thousands of comments online to gather a group of 27 debaters from around the world, representing all sides of the political spectrum.
In Haines' case, Lien suggested that he was personifying his comments.
And yet the photographer did not dare to classify them as Internet trolls.
They have full-time jobs and families, these are men and women of all ages who somehow feel marginalized. Take, for example, Ashley Jones, a 22-year-old psychology student in Cardiff, Wales. She has accumulated more than 180,000 tweets on various topics, including entertainment, LGBT issues and "hot guys."
The photographer made portraits of commentators. Most often he filmed in their natural environment, in their homes.
Kirre Lien spent weeks researching and studying the comments. He spent three or four days browsing Kim Kardashian's Facebook page in search of regular commenters leaving consistent messages. As a result, Lien came out to a misogynist, whom he could not capture for his project.
The photographer came to the conclusion that the motivation of commentators depends on their political affiliation. Lien says that the right does this "because they feel threatened and society is letting them down, not living up to expectations," and the left "feels that we have to stand up for what we believe in."
Lien has spent three years tracking the lives of those he calls Internet warriors, but the photographer is far from calling himself a troll.
Most of all, she is afraid that Russia will be influenced by "Gay Europe".
She defends Norway against sharia law and believes that anyone who does not share her views should be executed.
Excited about the deception around climate change.
A refugee reception center has been built in his city, but Kjell is constantly arguing about Islam and immigration. When 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, he wrote:
Before the election, he left such a comment on Twitter:
He wrote on his Facebook page:
About the shooting in San Bernardino, he wrote:
Under a photo of Russian-backed rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine, he wrote:
He is trying to proclaim peace in the comments sections on the Internet, has written more than 5,000 messages on various platforms. He commented on an article about the Norwegian National Welfare Fund:
Frank Fisher, 53, software developer living in Bakersfield, England
Wrote on Twitter:
In response to a question from the Norwegian edition of Verdens Gang, who asked his readers what they plan to do on the day of the Last Judgment predicted by the Mayan calendar, he wrote:
He told the photographer that he missed the discussions that people in rural areas had in the old days, and he turned to the Internet as an alternative. Tore commented on the article about the new mobile phone:
He wrote 16,700 comments to fight trolls. To another commentator who said that foreigners should not vote, he replied:
>Simone Weber, 55 years old, lives in the German city of Osterholz-Charmbeck.
On Change.org in a petition to stop animal abuse in India , she wrote:
From his old van, he tries to establish world peace.
He told the photographer that he believes that children of different nationalities should not attend the same schools, but Roger does not consider himself a racist. On his Twitter page , he wrote: