In recent years, the terrorist network Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has generated what might be referred to as a ‘spectacle of fear’ through strategic dissemination of execution videos and other graphic material. In response, social media users, activists and others circulate ‘counter-spectacles’, attempting to circumvent Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s spectacle of fear. An important case in point is the global hacking network Anonymous declaring ‘war’ against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, including a global call for a ‘Troll ISIS Day’. This article develops a theoretical framework for understanding the spectacle of fear generated by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the counter-spectacle created through Anonymous’ trolling practices and explores empirically how Anonymous uses humor to combat fear through the memes produced on ‘Troll ISIS Day’. Bottom-up, cultural forms such as memes are increasingly woven into strategies for countering the fear associated with terrorism, and they represent the potential for humor to generate public engagement. However, as these memetic counter-spectacles draw on the incongruent humor characteristic of meme culture, they both contest and adopt strategies of fear, pointing to ethical challenges inherent in the counter-spectacle.

近年来，恐怖主义网络伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国通过战略性传播执行录像带和其他图形材料，产生了所谓的“恐惧景象”。作为回应，社交媒体用户，激进主义者和其他人散布“反眼镜”，试图绕过伊拉克伊斯兰国和叙利亚的恐惧场面。一个重要的例子是全球黑客网络Anonymous宣布对伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国发动“战争”，其中包括呼吁召开“ Troll ISIS日”的全球呼吁。本文建立了一个理论框架，用于理解伊拉克和叙利亚伊斯兰国所产生的恐惧之景以及通过匿名者的拖钓行为所产生的反作用，并从经验上探讨了匿名者如何通过幽默来消除恐惧，这是在“伊斯兰国伊斯兰国日”上产生的模因。 '。自下而上的文化形式，例如模因，越来越多地融入应对恐怖主义相关恐惧的战略中，它们代表了幽默产生公众参与的潜力。然而，由于这些模因反面眼镜借鉴了模因文化的不协调幽默特征，因此它们都在相互竞争。并采取恐惧策略，指出反对眼镜固有的道德挑战。