Anonymous
The character developed as an Internet meme, common on imageboards such as 4chan as well as on video-sharing based websites such as YouTube. Initially the character was a stick figure who failed at everything emerged and became known as "Epic Fail Guy" (EFG). It was increasingly shown as wearing a V for Vendetta "Guy Fawkes" mask and became associated with Anonymous's Project Chanology protests against the Church of Scientology in 2008. In this way the protestors could protect their identity from the Church, which is known to harass its critics. Scott Stewart of University of Nebraska at Omaha's The Gateway wrote: "Many participants sported Guy Fawkes masks to draw attention both to their identity as Anonymous and the Church of Scientology's abuse of litigation and coercion to suppress anti-Scientology viewpoints." The internet-based group then adopted the character for its wider protests against authority.
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“Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice—with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive.
Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart,
Sick in whole and every part,
And yet sicker thou art still
For thinking that thou art not ill.”
—Thomas Henry Anonymous (1825–95)