The image spam people are double agents. They inhabit both the realms of over- and invisibility. This may be the the reason why they are continuously smiling but not saying anything. They know that their frozen poses and vanishing features are actually providing cover for the people to go off the record in the meantime. To perhaps take a break and slowly regroup. “Go off screen” they seem to whisper. “We’ll substitute for you. Let them tag and scan us in the meantime. You go off the radar and do what you have to.” Whatever this is, they will not give us away, ever. And for this, they deserve our love and admiration. 

              Hito Steyerl, The Spam of the Earth, Withdrawal from Representation, e-flux, 2009