The Jolly Roger flag from "One Piece" manga has become a global symbol of youth resistance, appearing in protests from Indonesia to France. A media scholar explains how a fictional pirate emblem evolved into a powerful icon of #GenZ dissent:
demonstrators in #Peru clashed with riot police, displaying some of the same iconography as the #GenZ protesters who overthrew the government in #Nepal two weeks ago. #Resistance is contagious.
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