Frogtwitter

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Frogtwitter is a network of loosely-connected pseudonymous X (formerly Twitter) accounts characterized by promoting dissident ideas and policies associated with the alt-right that formed around writer and online personality Costin Alamariu. The name itself is likely to have derived from either the Pepe the Frog meme or from Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs, as speculated by Josh Vandiver. There was a wave of Twitter suspensions for Frogtwitter members in early 2017, followed by a one-off art exhibition in Dalston (a neighborhood of London) open until that May. Definitions and descriptions of Frogtwitter vary depending by source and perspective. BuzzFeed simply refers to it as "Alt Right on Twitter." Jacob Siegel, writing for The Baffler, calls it a group "with a similar blend of reactionary and post-libertarian thinking" to Cody Wilson. Siegel also interviewed a member of Frogtwitter, who states, "a lot of it is just having fun with words on the internet... intellectualizing while wanting to communicate serious ideas in a very high-noise environment", and that the group's main thesis is that "there's a decadence, a decline and eventually it will be followed by something else." Ben Schreckinger, writing for Politico, described it as "a network [...] that revel[s] in mythic, aristocratic pasts while trafficking in racism and anti-Semitism." Andrew Sabisky, writing for International Business Times UK, quoted "Kantbot" summarising Frogtwitter as "the last bastion of indiscriminate and all-embracing cultural criticism; a space not for ideology, but for pure, truly unfiltered critique. It is an anti-political sphere, in many ways, or perhaps one of a politics of pure aesthetics."