Adult Swim’s Black* Lives Matter Bump Series

Academic exploration
Client: Adult Swim
Year: 2021
Format: Animation, illustration
Medium: Digital

As tensions between the corrupt, self-righteous law enforcement and the angry, educated youth escalate, the media exhibits more and more of this clash. Exposed for what they are, the pigs combat liberal media with lame, humorless knockoff slogans—thee foremost of which is “white lives matter.” The media is a powerful tool, and although the significance of television seems to be fading, its impact on young and old Americans alike cannot be denied making television a poweful tool of persuasion in the contest of pop culture. Adult Swim, a TV channel mainly observed by teenage white boys, can be used to explore methods of combating conservative gibberish with that of the liberal; whether the theme of the media is solemn or humorous.