Hitler and remix culture

by asi

I won’t go on about the wonders of the remix culture as smarter people had done it already (watch Faris and Lessig)

What strikes me every time I come across a new cracking Hitler mash-up (there are hundreds of them now and they are cross cultural and cross communal) is the power of non-verbal communications. Psychology textbooks say that more than 70% of our communicative messages are passed through non verbal communications. This, the massive role Hitler is occupying in our shared cultural representations, combined with intensity of the situation is a cultural goldmine for mash-ups – we can practically project any story/script we want on this.

Here are some of the best ones:

Twitter is down

Hitler’s got the wrong bike


Hitler gets banned from World of Warcraft



Hitler finds out Lampard is signing for Inter

and now the funniest EVER, probably because it resonates so powerfully with my past experience – Hitler can’t find a parking space in the streets of Tel-Aviv (apology for any non Israeli readers for the Hebrew subtitles – belive me it’s cracking.) thanks for Kasach for the find.