The situation

Actor Shia LaBeouf has placed a flag with the words ‘He will not divide us’ atop a flagpole in an unknown location. For months he has been attempting to install various art projects across the USA, each of which have been repeatedly sabotaged by users from the internet forum ‘4Chan’. This latest project was an attempt by LaBeouf to finally outwit the online trolls.

The investigation

Stage 1 – Flight Patterns

The 4Chan users, not to be deterred, rose to the seemingly impossible task. Using only the live stream of the flag, they started studying the flight patterns and contrails of the airplanes