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How Right Wing Influencers Used AI Slop to Turn Renee Good Into a Meme

A look at “necromemetics” and the meme economy in the aftermath of violence.
How Right Wing Influencers Used AI Slop to Turn Renee Good Into a Meme
Photo credit: Chad Davis on Flickr

After being shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis earlier this month, Renee Good instantly became a symbol of anti-ICE sentiments among protestors. Raw bystander footage of her death quickly spread online. A day after her murder, an angle from Ross’s phone camera also spread, sparking even more images, memes, protest signage and art based on her last moments.

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