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On the day of Trumps inauguration, Shia LaBeouf began a project where the public [was] invited to deliver the words HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US into a camera mounted on a wall outside the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, repeating the phrase as many times, and for as long as they wish, as a stand of opposition and optimism against the controversial 45th President.

After being abandoned and relocated to a second, unknown location, the project added a livestream of a flag reading HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US showing.

Today, after yet another relocation, the flag has come to Liverpool and was brought by none other than FACT, the gallery at which Shia Labeouf performed another exhibition last year.

Shia, Luke Turner and Nastja Rnko, the artists behind the campaign, said it was moved asevents have shown that America is simply not safe enough for this artwork to exist.

A press release details the journey of the campaign accross countries:

During the initial weeks of the project, the installation was subjected to constant disruption and hate speech by far-right extremists, and a lack of institutional support. On 10 February, the museum removed the camera without the artists knowledge or consent. On 18 February, the artists relocated the work to Albuquerque, where the community continued an enthusiastic engagement and participation in the piece. However, due to disruption by neo-Nazis, and after gunshots were fired in the vicinity, although unrelated to the project, the artists were unable to continue to keep the installation open to the public.

On 8 March, the project moved to an unknown location, where the work was adapted to its present form, accessible solely through the online stream. Following escalating threats and criminal activity coordinated via online message boards 4chan and 8chan, which included the theft and defacement of the artwork by white supremacists, and a field at the location being set on fire, the artists have now been forced to site the project outside of the United States.

Alt-right users on 8chan, an imageboard site and forum site, have started plans to disrupt the flag. They speculate that the flag sits on a roof of what looks like a five-story building.

They want to send drones with knives attached to them to cut down the flag, while others suggest attaching a green paint bomb to the drone to ruin the flag green to apparently represent the Pepe the frog meme. Theyre even going so far as to discuss physically getting on to the building to replace the flag with one of their own.

Liverpools a pretty big city, but based on Shias history with the city, you can probably guess where the flag is flying.

Clickhereto watch the stream.

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A good rule of the Internet is to never tell 4chan something is impossible.

The anachronistic message board has had a field day in the past few months trolling Shia Labeoufs He Will Not Divide Us livestream. The stream was set up to protest Trump and encouraged resistors to stand in front of the camera and chant the eponymous mantra.

Pretty soon 4channers arrived on the scene and began yelling pro-Trump slogans and trolling Labeouf so hard that he lashed out and got arrested. The stream had to be moved from a museum in Queens to Albuquerque, New Mexico, following an escalation of white supremacist activity. Then gunshots drove the stream out of Albuquerque.

The stream was finally moved to an undisclosed location by Labeouf and the two other artists, Rnko and Turner, who intended to stay there for the duration of Trumps presidency. The stream was pointed upwards to the sky to a flag that said He Will Not Divide Us.

The claim that the flag would stay there for the duration was taken as a challenge by the folks at 4chan. They were given a seemingly insurmountable task to play the greatest game of capture the flag ever played. No clues tipped them to the location. But somehow, with the power of determination and youth unemployment, they found it and they trolled it hard.

The search began on March 8 and was immediately narrowed when Labeouf was spotted on social media at a diner in Greenville, Tennessee, although some in the threadstill believed the flag was in the Great Lakes area due to wind patterns. The time of the sunset in Greenville matched with the time of sunset on the stream, and so didthe weather on local weather reports.

4channers began looking into flight patterns. One of the few clues available on the stream were the contrails left by airplanes. Greenville was finally confirmed as the location after two planes observed on online flight radars intersected over the town and were seen on the stream.

Finally when three planes flew over the area, 4channers were able to triangulate an approximate location of the flag.

This area wastoo large to search unfortunately. The 4channers began looking to the stars, using ancient astronomy to help map the direction of the camera and pinpoint a more precise location.

They also sent out a guy in his truck to honk his horn around Greenville tosee if they could hearit on the livestream, to mark the location.

The trail led into a field on private property next to some poor soulshouse. Tennessee based 4channers were standing by to capture the flag. After scoping out the area for hours they finally made a move. The anonymous group stole the He Will Not Divide Us flag and replaced it with a Trump Make America Great Again hat and a Pepe the Frog t-shirt.

The flag pole was left barren on the stream all morning, until Labeouf and co. finally turned the stream completely off in utter defeat.

The taleof the He Will Not Divide Us livestream is probably not over, but this saga marks another stunning defeat forLabeouf. It shows 4chan will follow him to the ends of the earth for a good laugh, and he inevitably will be the butt of thejoke.

The flag now rests in the home of one of the greatest anons 4chan has ever known.

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'He Will Not Divide Us' Livestream Placed in Middle of Nowhere, but 4chan Still Found Way to Troll It - Heat Street

Shia LaBeouf, Rnkk and Turners ongoing He Will Not Divide Us protest has proven to be divisive. What wasostensibly a place for supporters to congregate and express their disapproval of the election of Donald Trump, and to stand up against the ongoing division faced by US citizens as a result of his rhetoric, eventually became a breeding ground for conflict, and has now been dismantled by users of the controversial anonymous image board 4chan.

Originally staged in Queens, New Yorks Museum of the Moving Image, the live streamed ongoing protest was prematurely shut downin February as a result of the continued unrest, despite LaBeouf, Rnkk and Turner intending for it to remain active for the full four years of Trumps presidency. He Will Not Divide Us was then moved toAlbuquerque, though LaBeouf was again forced to move its location after shots were fired nearby. Eventually LaBeouf changed the protest from a public event to a live streamedvideo of a flag waving in an undisclosed location, though now 4chan users have discovered its whereabouts and replaced it with a flag bearing the alt-rights co-opted Pepe The Frog symbol, along with a Make America Great Again hat.

4chan used contrails and the alignment of the stars to work out the flags location.

Users on 4chan began searching for the location of the flag after analyzing the stars that appeared in the stream during the evening. After determining a general location using the location of the stars, they then used the contrails left by planes that were visible in this stream, comparing them with FAA flight paths to narrow down the position of the flag. A nearby 4chan user then drove around this location, honking his horn until it could be heard in the live stream, until it was eventually found. They then replaced the white He Will Not Divide Us flag with an image of Pepe, the cartoon frog that has been adopted by supporters of the alt-right, along with a MAGA hat for good measure.

The push to ruin LaBeoufs protest, which 4chan users referred to as Capture The Flag, has been one of few moments of solidarity on the site since the US election. As we previously reported,4chan previously made efforts to stand up against politicians and the establishment regardless of its users political inclinations, though the Donald Trump presidency has caused the site to become fractured. Anonymous, the hacktivist collective forged on the image board, has spoken out against its inability to protest Trumps presidency as a result of this division, calling upon its members to still hold the 45th president of the US accountable for his actions. Unfortunately, it appears that the majority have already picked their side, as the continued growth of the alt-right has enveloped channer culture and made the two indistinguishable from one another.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesdaytook time away from berating his staff and makingwiretapping claimsto drop in on a group of visiting students from Birmingham Alabamas Briarwood Christian School who weretaking a tour of the White House.

Things stayed pretty on script as Trump invited a 10-year-old to pose with him for the cameras. The touching moment was captured in a brief video posted to CSPAN, which ultimately made its way to their Twitter account.

Largely unnoticed, however, was a curious hand gesture made by the 10-year-oldtoward the end of the footage. In a simpler time, the gesture could have been written off as an ok symbol but not today. The hand movement bears a striking similarity to one that has often been made by the ultimate Trump meme warrior, Pepe the Frog.

The animated frog reached near mythical status during the 2016 campaign, earning a specialcondemnation from Hillary Clinton andhate symbolstatus from the Anti-Defamation League.

While Pepes prominence waned after the election, he is still regularly invoked by provocative right wing pundits. The Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft and Lucian Wintrich, for example, recently flashed the gesture from the White House briefing room, prompting Media Matters toonce again remind everyone that itwas a hand signal associated with the racist Pepe meme.

Its also worth noting that the gesture is widely used by President Trump himself and that the young manmay have just been trying to emulate the President of the United States.

Watch the video above.

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