Trolls Launch Initiative to Ruin the Campaign for New Zealand’s New Flag
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Of all the sentences I’ve ever had to type, the above is
easily one of the weirdest. Nowadays any kind of large scale online initiative,
regardless of intent, is going to have to whether some sort of troll attack.
Some are warranted, some are vulgar and many are trite and forgettable, but
every now and again one comes along that you just can’t ignore. This is one of
those.
New Zealand have decided that their flag needs a new design,
something to steer them away from the colonial, commonwealth persona they share
with Australia. A wise decision, I’d say. What might not have been so wise was
to turn to crowdsourcing to find the new design. I’m sure that by the time
the votes need to be cast in December a plethora of worthy entries will have
surfaced but for the time being the contest is being dominated by a legion of
trolls, all armed with MS paint.
The result of this is an utterly bizarre gallery of
deliberately hopeless entries that look like they were designed by children
that were raised on a diet of 4chan and 9gag (which I guess isn’t far from what
it’s like at the moment). Some kiwi cultural paradigms remain in place (like,
well like kiwis, for instance), intermingled with internet meme references
young and old, from Nyan cat to Pepe. Those are just the more creative ones
though, most of them are just wilfully crap.
The entry window closes on July 16th and there
have already been plenty of legitimately well thought out designs submitted, so
it’s unlikely to turn into any kind of national PR disaster. The Maori
community also already have their own flag, separate to the standard national
one, so there’s no risk of any insult to their culture. If you ask me, they
should just use the All Blacks logo, or maybe the flag of Gondor. Got to play
to your strengths.
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Trolls Launch Initiative to Ruin the Campaign for New Zealand’s New Flag
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