He Will Not Divide Us

Within days, threads on 4chan's /pol/ board coordinated in-person visits where users held Pepe signs, played 'Shadilay,' and scrawled 'KEK' on the museum wall while praising Trump into the microphone4. In the early hours of January 26, 2017, LaBeouf himself was arrested on stream after a scuffle with a 25-year-old man; NYPD said he grabbed the man's scarf and scratched his face during the confrontation, and he was charged with assault and harassment before being released the same day2.

The Museum of the Moving Image pulled the plug on February 10, 2017, citing 'numerous arrests,' round-the-clock police patrols, and neighbor complaints about visitors urinating and smoking marijuana on nearby porches at all hours. The museum publicly called the installation a 'flashpoint for violence' in its shutdown statement3. The team relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 18, 2017, mounting the camera outside the El Rey Theater; that setup lasted five days before someone spray-painted the lens on February 21, and the stream closed on February 23 after gunshots were reported in the local area4.

On March 8, 2017, the artists shrank the project down to a single flag against the sky at an undisclosed location. /pol/ users tracked it down within about 24 hours using plane flight paths visible in the frame, honking cars picked up by the microphone, and star maps compared against Google Maps. The flag was pulled down and replaced with a Make America Great Again hat and a Pepe the Frog T-shirt. Later relocations to Liverpool, London, and Nantes each ended the same way, with 4chan users finding and disrupting the stream within days4.