12/6/2023 0 Comments And relax memeThe drawing has inspired a series of exploitable images. “Around Blacks Never Relax”is a catchphrase associated with a Mann drawing depicting an Afro-American man with a knife in his hands. The original drawing promoted a world without Jews and blacks. Happy Merchantis the nickname given to a cartoon portraying a male Jew based on anti-Semitic views, giving it characterizations such as greed, manipulation, and the need for world domination. ĭue to their racist nature, various pieces of Mann's work have inspired exploitables and parodies, some of them associated with 4chan culture. On February 5th, 2015, BuzzFeed's editor Joseph Bernstein submitted an article which explains the history of the Happy Merchant face and points to Bougas as being its creator. On July 11th, 2014, a /pol/ thread announced that Mann was Bougas, inspiring a series of "appreciation threads" to him in the following days. Kaldenberg denied being Mann, first in a Facebook post on February 20th, 2014, and later in a Google+ post from September 10th, 2014 where he pointed to Bougas. Over the years, /pol/ and other white supremacist communities tried to find Mann's true identity, with the following being the two most likely candidates: Wyatt Kaldenberg, odinist former white supremacist and advocate for Tom Metzger's WAR and Nick Bougas, film director (who directed the film The Goddess Bunny) and artist with a similar style as Mann. On December 2nd, 2013, a user named Ozzy Bon Halen on the white supremacist forum The Beer Barrel submitted a thread to the site comparing real life pictures with Mann drawings. On April 16th, 2011, a page for Mann was created on Encyclopedia Dramatica. In 2009, users from /pol/ stated editing cartoons from the political artist Ben Garrison by using illustrations from Mann in order to try and frame Garrison as a white supremacist (shown bellow, left). At some point, Mann's drawings started being posted on 4chan, mainly on the boards /b/ and /pol/, where they gained a cult following. A section for Mann's drawings was created on the white supremacist website, which was founded by the founder of the neo-nazi white supremacist organization WAR (White Aryan Resistance) Tom Metzger.
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