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During a live-streamed protest performance organized by actor Shia LaBeouf members of the alt-right bombarded the camera, praising Donald Trump and delivering coded messages to fellow members of their white nationalist movement.

LaBeouf, who was born to a Jewish mother and a Christian father, calls his participatory performance piece, He will not divide us, a mantra which he and others chant repeatedly on screen and in reference to Trumps polarizing rhetoric. The performance is housed at a museum in Queens, New York.

But, over the course of three days, 4chan users took advantage of the platform to spread their own, somewhat cryptic, political messages using coded alt-right references and insider language which would be meaningless to an outsider.

4chan is one of a handful of online platforms where the somewhat amorphous alt-right movement developed.

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For example, a young duo walked up to the camera and held a piece of paper, on which it was written: #Pepe

Pepe the Frog is a cartoon icon of the alt-right and the Anti-Defamation League has added his likeness to its database of hate symbols.

Another man, his face concealed, spelled out the word KEK in red tape on a wall nearby the camera.

Kek is another frog figure associated with the alt-right, seen as something of an ancient Egyptian relation to Pepe who has divine powers.

Other young men played music on stereos, choosing a 1986 disco song, Shadilay, sung by the Italian band named P.E.P.E. Remarkably, the original single design for Shadilay features an illustration of a green frog holding a magic wand. This coincidence has made the song into an unofficial theme song for Pepe.

LaBeouf and others congregated at the site sometimes seem unaware of the alt-right messages, as they are so obscure.

But one man also approached the camera and recited the opening words of a white supremacist slogan known as Fourteen words. In this case, LaBeouf interceded and shouted the man off camera. But not before the disrupter was able to slip in another frog-reference to the camera, shouting Praise Kek!

Email Sam Kestenbaum at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum

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