Been following this stream quite a bit initially. Was super interesting seeing all these different people and some of the good vibes, dancing etc.
I really wonder how long this is gonna last though. Recently I tuned in and they had fenced off the entire area (as in completely closed off, not just for people to queue up like it had been done before). Seems like they removed the barricades the morning after though I do wonder what went down that caused them to do that. I couldn't go back far enough on the stream to find out.
At one point days prior I also tuned in and saw the dude in the camo hoodie almost get into a fight with two 4channers. They started shoving each other around and police had to pull them aside.
Seems inevitable that shit's gonna really hit the fan at some point.
You can go back and watch it. You have to click the "event posts" icon at the top right, and choose an archive. It's this one:
Cops showed up and eventually shut it down for the night around 11:15 in the archive. Before that it seems like it was just full of trolls and nazis vomiting memes and drowning out the few regulars who were there for the actual purpose of the exhibit. They would drown them out by screaming "reeee" and chanting stuff like "build the wall".
Here they are in the background huddled around one of their favourite memes before they took over the whole thing:
Some examples of people who were on stream:
Not sure what the tattoo on the left is, pretty sure the one on the right is a
black sun. The other shirtless dude behind him came up to the camera at one point to declare "six million, that's bullshit, look into it".
This guy said "tell that faggot paperboy to go get a sex change so he'll have the balls to come down here and face pol"
It was a lot of that. I didn't watch any of that stuff live, so I just picked out bits by skimming through it now.
Ben (camo hoodie) has been one of the most positive people on the stream whenever I've tuned in. This is the incident I think you're talking about from last week:
Wasn't much to it really. The trolls spend a lot of their time trying to provoke him and I'm not going to fault him for getting tired of it. Just before the stuff on saturday that I posted above, another channer confronted ben because apparently he said he wanted to kick the channer's ass (for doxxing him, I think--people are regularly using his full name now and specific details about his family). Here they are surrounding him:
Ben just continued to repeat "he will not divide us" while the channer repeated "he will nut inside us", regularly screamed "reeee", and got the rest of the trolls surrounding him to chant "pussy". At one point the channer asks him why he won't kick his ass now that he's in front of him and ben, laughing, says something like "because you know I'd kill you", which to anyone with a brain means "i would win" in the context of a hypothetical fight, but of course all the trolls latched onto that and got all serious about it like it was a literal threat to murder him and "liberals are the real problem, look how violent they are! We're just here to have a discussion!"
Anyway, I hope the trolls don't end up getting it shut down, which I guess is partially what they want? Like you said, when it's the regular people showing up and dancing, chatting, making friends and just being cool, it's fun to watch or have on in the background. Some decent people still show up every day, but trolls inevitably show up too and start shitting it up for whatever reason.
Edit:
I forgot these guys showed up to the trolls' delight:
The slogan is "one people, one nation, end immigration". Identity Evropa is the name of the group. Looks like the guy with the tattoos above is one of theirs:
https://twitter.com/identityevropa/status/784497620630642688
