Ever employed
this man?

An Attempt freezes the anonymous capture of a 4chan thread in a bas-relief. Solidifying a post doomed to erasure reverses the temporality of the network: the snapshot becomes a relic, the feed freezes into a pseudo-perennial image. The hybrid icon — Pepe the Frog brandishing Guts's blade (Berserk) — is anchored in a digital folklore with a vitalist impulse, in which the anonymous author dissolves in favour of a shared narrative. The archive number >>17460042 materialises this collective signature. The liturgical stele erects a profane sanctuary for these vernacular mythologies, sources of endlessly recycled micro-narratives, bearing witness to an obstinate quest for meaning in the face of the apparent vanity of existence.