In “hack and slash,” strange-looking graphics scroll by. They are familiar, yet still foreign. Using the mouse pointer, you can discover what is visually hidden here.
It's similar to the news, social media, advertising, and everyday life in general, where we repeatedly see the familiar and the unfamiliar. And only through interaction or reflection do we encounter messages that are, in turn, familiar and unfamiliar. here it uses a mixup from actual twitter feeds and claims.
“Hack and Slash” is based on the cracks and demos of the 80s and 90s with their scrolling texts, where crack intros and demos were used to communicate within the scene.
But the font-shapes are now graphics. They are nothing more than cut-up and shifted letter forms of a text. That's why the forms seem so familiar, but are still something different and “new.” True to the motto: strangely familiar. Hack and slashed. Visual encrypted.
