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The Complicated Journey of Click Together: Uniting a Divided Country
TLDR John Ross creates Click Together, a clicker app aimed at bringing people together, but fails to consider the complexity of different perspectives. Meanwhile, Matt Fury, the creator of Pepe the frog, is caught in a battle over his creation as it is co-opted as a hate symbol, leading him to start a Peace Pepe database of love.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
The host discovers a popular app called Click Together and interviews the creator, John Ross, who believes the app can help unite a divided country.
03:27
John Ross becomes obsessed with the idea of creating a clicker app that can help unite people in America.
06:44
John Ross successfully gets his clicker app in the hands of Eric Bowling, a famous Fox news host, and goes on Fox news to promote it, despite the host not fully understanding what the app does.
09:55
John's app promises to bring people together, but it is based on the idea of "us versus them" and fails to consider the complexity of different perspectives and opinions.
13:27
Pepe the frog, a once peace-loving stoner character, has been co-opted by white nationalists and race leaders, causing his creator, Matt Fury, to feel helpless and hurt as his creation is used for hateful purposes.
17:06
Matt Fury, the creator of Pepe the frog, was caught off guard when the Anti-Defamation League designated Pepe as a hate symbol, and he felt implicated in the hatefulness of the memes associated with his creation, leading him to start a Peace Pepe database of love with over 300 new, G-rated, nature-focused Pepe drawings to drown out the bad ones.
20:50
Matt Fury is caught in a battle over his creation, Pepe the frog, which has been hijacked as a symbol in the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and he is simultaneously trying to reclaim Pepe and move on from it.
24:16
Matt Fury is torn between wanting to let go of Pepe the frog and being obsessed with getting more Pepe drawings, and he is having dreams about being chased by Pepe.
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Technology
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