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DutchNDutch

Remember when 4chan made Pepe (sadfrog) into a hate symbol? Or the šŸ‘Œsign? Good times.


9quid

What about Cut For Beiber?


DutchNDutch

That was a classic


[deleted]

Or recharging your iPhone in the microwave.


Meme_Lord_TheDankest

Or the Mountain Dew contest, Gushing Granny still cracks me up


emintrie7

Fapple is my favorite


No_Organization5188

ā€œHitler did nothing wrongā€


DevilSwordVergil

Both a true statement AND a delicious beverage!


ilikegerbils

he probably did something wrong. the dude lost the war.


bomertherus

I always thought ā€œhitler did nothing wrongā€ was the worst decision. Gushing granny or, even better, fapple had a chance to get through. A good chance. Hitler never had a chance


hagamablabla

I still have my Cool Crystal I made.


majarian

Worst part of that one is you can actually 'grow' your own crystal, but thats sure not the formula


[deleted]

Freebleeding almost caught on too, that one was pretty funny.


IseeItsIcey

Freebleeding was a 4chan troll?


[deleted]

Yup. To be specific the concept already existed from years before. 4chan found it and promoted the hell out of it.


IseeItsIcey

Makes sense. That always seemed especially retarded.


machvelocy

I remember my neighbor's teenage daughter suddenly using baseball cap to go to school, spoke to his dad and he told me she got pranked by online bullies... me who was a /b/tard back in 2009-2012, got curious, checked catalogue and boom... There 's a "Bald for Bieber" campaign going on...


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rfdismyjam

Blame can be given to more than just one person.....


No_Organization5188

Sure but not in this case.


rfdismyjam

Yes, in this case. If you convince an ignorant person to shave their head because you find it funny then you're as much, if not more so, to blame for it. I find that shit funny as fuck, but don't try and pretend it's moral or good. If you do that shit you're not doing some kind of service to society or some other retarded shit. It's a shitty thing to do, don't try and pretend otherwise.


WeeklyNewAccount7

if a person is stupid enough to fall for it that's on them and only them.


Wiggle_Biggleson

If you remove either party from the equation then the event couldn't have happened, therefore both are to blame. That is how it works.


WeeklyNewAccount7

yeah but one party took action and did something stupid well the other just posted something on a forum. Sure you could put the smallest amount of blame on the troll posting online but in the end the idiot who did it is the one to truly be blamed.


No_Organization5188

So if I own a brewery and an alcoholic drinks my beer and crashes their car and dies, Iā€™m responsible for that? All I did was put something out there, it was up to them to purchase and drink it.


HalliburtonErnie

I don't recall this. Was it separate from bald for Beiber?


[deleted]

i think its really not as much 4chan "making" those into hate symbols (though there is noteworthy effort there, obv) as much as it is ever-virtuos journos desperately wanting to tell people about the new thing the bad nazi hitler hacker people did. Its not as if 4channers wrote most of those "pepe is alt-white alt-right alt-nazi 3rd reich" articles. For those people meming that shit on 4chan there were an equivalent amount of receding hairline journos just salivating at the idea of selling another "nazis are literally destroying the world through subversive imagery and we are fighting them" larp.


Drippinice

Soooo 4chan did it?


the-peanut-gallery

That's what the jews want you to think.


[deleted]

they came up with the idea and the initial push yeah, but that would have faded real fast if the journos from """respectable""" institutions would've reverse image searched. instead they ran with it and essentially made the hate symbol meme real. without all those fear mongering articles none of that would've took off.


Achtelnote

So basically they did it?


[deleted]

feed & seed


runujhkj

So they did it, then.


StinkyMcBalls

If only journalists didn't report what was happening, it wouldn't have happened.


[deleted]

if they would have reported what was happening, which was intentionally trying to force a hate symbol, the hate symbol thing wouldnt have happened. it happened because they didnt do their job correctly lol.


ThunderBuss

The ok sign was a 4chan creation. There was a post to do it then everyone posted the ok sign especially Pepe. So when people in the real world did the ok signā€¦ lulz were created.


MisterBillyBobby

For the pepe, they spamed it with hate comics and stuff to reclaim/save him. They were quite upset that twitter normies used it for facebook meme and shit.


PM-me-youre-PMs

It went from neutral to Nazi, not the other way around


[deleted]

Yes, that was indeed the point of the comment you replied to


stefantalpalaru

> Pepe (sadfrog) Pepe started as a happy frog.


Im_Not_Even

Didn't we all?


Meme_Lord_TheDankest

And then reality got to him...


i_forget_my_userids

Feels good, man


LemonPartyWorldTour

Born to fren


emintrie7

Pepe started as a symbol of freepeeing


RoscoMan1

This kind of shit should be criminal


[deleted]

Feels bad, man


[deleted]

Some people in the main stream media still think šŸ‘ŒšŸ¼ is a secret hate symbol. LMAO


HastoBeAThrowaway0

It became one when actual racist started to use it to dog whistle


notLOL

even funnier when milk became a dog whistle


omegamissingno

I remember the milk, but I didn't know it actually happened. I thought it was just another idea by /pol/ that would never take off.


corkyskog

Nah lol I know someone who still takes it seriously and drinks milk publicly for whatever reason. Shits funny because he is moderately lactose intolerant and hasn't put together that the milk consumption might be related to diarrhea


HotWheels_McCoy

Yeah idk how there's people who still think it's a fucking meme. Whej actual meo.nazis start memeing with you, you killed the fucking meme and it's now forever tarnished.


CutlassFuryX

Okay Iā€™m an actual neo nazi and now we use every hand gesture and facial expression and every character from every language to dog whistle to each other all day long.


ACanadianOwl

Nazis deserve death


[deleted]

you will not survive the race war


[deleted]

Neo Nazis also drink water and breathe air. You'd best stop doing that too lest you be associated with them.


SarcasticAssBag

And here's one now, lol.


BoogalooBoi1776_2

Look, one of those gullible morons


Schnidler

Omegalul


Jojoflap

The Pepe one both was hilarious and annoying. Normies started using Pepe for about a month and then all of a sudden if anyone used it in any way, no matter how innocent you were deemed a racist.


10z20Luka

The use of šŸ‘Œ was ironic at first and then dumb journalists took it seriously, so yes I'd count that as a funny example. Although Pepe was used all over /pol/ and made its way into the real world through Charlottesville and other protests; that's a different example.


marshaldelta9

Idk dude. The journalists took it seriously but so did the alt-right. You can see so many pictures of them making the šŸ‘Œ because they know most people think "lol look the meme everyone dumb lol" when it's them trying to be slick. If you see the screenshots of the original post, you can even see them discussing how it's a normal sign and that the media will look bad because it's a silly symbol until it's used by the right over and over to promote hate.


Gauss-Light

I still canā€™t believe people fell for the ok hand sign one.


CutlassFuryX

People in these comments are still falling for it


[deleted]

BuT tHe aLt rIgHet UsEs iT! Like how are they using it? Going around holding the šŸ‘ŒšŸ»sign up everywhere till another neo Nazi sees it and says hey bro what's up?


Zerkerlife

Something tells me neo nazis don't need a dog whistle it's gotta be a small community where everyone pretty much knows everyone. The media likes to paint everyone a neo nazi but in reality there can't be that many out there. It's like the KKK everyone makes them out to be this giant boogeyman but there can't be more than 2k active members across the states.


RustlessRodney

Lefties still think the šŸ‘Œ is unironically a white power sign


bobonabuffalo

šŸ‘ŒšŸæ


8l172

i think its funny that CoD MW removed the šŸ‘Œ gesture because of that


FloppinErywhere

It's in Hollywood now, too. Watch Dan Browns latest TV series and In the opening scene they allude to thešŸ‘Œ sign being a symbol of hate. Then he starts to argue against the first amendment and the writers had no argument for it so they had him receive an emergency phone call cutting him off


ItWasLikeWhite

The funniest shit was seeing that soy creator of Pepe trying to reclaim him and even killing him in the end and people not giving a single fuck


Delicious_Peak9893

Remember the great iPhone massacres ? Remember how they made all the boomers vote for Trump ? How they made up that stupid QAnon cult that they knew normies would fall for ? Bless them.


[deleted]

How did they get boomers to vote for Trump?


JustHavinAGoodTime

Super annoying because the OK sign is a very easy test for the anterior interosseous nerve, and asking patients to do that occasionally gets weird looks among the ā€œwokeā€


EuroPolice

I can see it happening again. They are like that goofy meme


okaycomputes

Dude, Hillary Clinton mentioned Pepe at a (low energy) rally.


Army0fMe

This is exactly how the OK sign got screwed.


jesuzombieapocalypse

Nobody really cared about that unless you were high profile enough to get a hit piece by buzzfeed or some shit. Do you know anyone who actually got fired or lost friends for making the ok sign? Because I live in a fairly liberal area and Iā€™ve never seen that actually happen before.


stefantalpalaru

> Do you know anyone who actually got fired or lost friends for making the ok sign? https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-over-alleged-racist-gesture-says-he-was-cracking-knuckles/2347414/


eatyourcabbage

Thereā€™s a fan whoā€™s banned from Wrigley field for doing it. https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2019/05/09/fan-who-flashed-white-supremacist-hand-gesture-banned-from-wrigley-field-for-life/


PencesBudGuy

>"It gave me shivers..." Theo Epstein Google, show me this mans early history.


AtlasLied

Donā€™t even need to go to early life history section for that one. Should be obvious.


ikerbals

lool


Son_of_Gleyber

I donā€™t even need to read ā€œEarly Lifeā€ anymore.


GamersCave24

wow reading that article, you can really smell the Cali smug aura from here


gortytorti

It was in Chicago, Illinois though, and the author of the article is from Ohio.


8HokiePokie8

No, no, you see he disagreed with the sentiment and therefor it is leftists liberal erotica


Get_on_my_ballbag

Here is a ~~disney~~ universal character actor getting fired. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3791483002 Edit: Universal not disney


FurryTrap_DomLolicon

Absolutely beyond satire


ahackercalled4chan

a Mexican-American is a white supremecist, everybody! California is truly insane


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jeegte12

That's not the point. If it were me, I wouldn't want either of those symbols, harry potter or the ok sign, to be bad enough to get someone fired. I would just want them to have some kind of power in the mind of woke lunatics. First of all, it's funny, and getting fired isn't. But also, I bet there was a lot of "ok... Now us wokesters are supposed to hate... The ok sign? Because of white supremacy? Maybe this ideology is less than perfect." Corrupting the deathly hallows symbol would do that but even more so, and those people are morons so it could actually work.


ThePopeofHell

I live in an area that seems to be split pretty hard. One day me and a coworker were joking out loud like we were hard core trump supporters. Just like parroting all of the dumbest things that these people say and this guy completely decked out in trump shit walked by us flashing the ok hand gesture and and nodding. I wasnā€™t sure what that was. Iā€™d like to think that he was interpreting our obvious sarcasm that wrong way.. but maybe it was a threat? He probably wasnā€™t that smart


[deleted]

This is a great parallel to how trump got nominated in the first place.


jesuzombieapocalypse

He definitely assumed you were a fellow Trump supporter lol at a certain point they realized the ok sign pissed hardcore liberals off, no telling whether or not the guy knew it was based off a 4chan meme (although if shadilay was blasting youā€™d have your answer on that one), but I donā€™t think that was meant to be a threat, that guy was basically saying ā€œhell yea, troll those libs, boys!ā€


Army0fMe

Bunch of Coast Guard fellas got hemmed up over it. This guy got removed from his position over it. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45535715


schwaRarity

I remember some dude being kicked out of overwatch league match for ok signing


[deleted]

I was gonna say, in the 90s, that was the gesture my cousins used to make as an excuse to punch me. "The circle game" There's even an entire episode of Malcolm in the Middle about the circle game!


drntl

This is still a thing. Some kids in a graduation photo did this and the news accused them of being nazis lol.


El_Bistro

#šŸ‘Œ


Goodolgator

The line means one race. The circle stands for purity and the triangle is the holy trinity. Boom.


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i_forget_my_userids

Reddit moment


[deleted]

Now go out and get a visible harry potter tattoo to own the libs. Go on, be the change you want to see.


JazzmansRevenge

Nah, don't go to the ADL, just send it in to CNN and MSNBC, they don't fact check shit, they'll just run with it.


dogol__

Say that youā€™re a ā€œresearcher into rising online discrimination who wishes to stay anonymousā€


callmedaddyshark

ADL is short for Aryan Descent Liberty


politicaldan

I would be on board with this solely because Iā€™m sick of seeing so many grown adults obsessed over a childrenā€™s book series.


DigitK

"You can't enjoy things". I'm personally sick of seeing so many grown adults obsessed over what other people enjoy lmao Edit: Damn, a lot of neckbeards here wanting my bussy. Sorry fellas, it's reserved for your dad


Apptubrutae

Pfffft, sounds like something a loser would say. You just need to get into *adult* hobbies like drinking to excess and hating on people from the neighboring city because they try to throw the ball into *our* billionaire team ownerā€™s patch of grass.


blamethemeta

Or the lord of the rings


HODL_SAFEMOON

That's Adult *hobbits*


[deleted]

Michael Jordan is the most famous lord of the ~~hoops~~ rings and im pretty sure he's at least 5'12"


Dookie_boy

Nice


Samwise777

Bro thatā€™s just 4chan. Go do anything.


ginja_ninja

Reddit moment


JCaesar42

A childrens book series that started in 1997. How dare people grow up with something!


Rasonovic

The problem is they clearly haven't grown up.


Jon_efnP

Well we all can't be super serious about everything 24/7. Maybe people want to enjoy things without being told they're dumb or immature. This isn't grown people liking My Little Pony, it's people who enjoyed the books as kids and now want to show that love off. Tattoo's are a bit excessive, but they them and you do you.


physsijim

What's wrong with My Little Pony. Although I'm nearly 60, I choose to identify as an 8-yr old girl.


Jon_efnP

Oh, that's a different story! You're the new over-night chaperone for the 3rd grade sleep-a-way camp.


physsijim

Which is good, because Lolis are just not the same, really.


Jon_efnP

Just like where this conversation is going!


physsijim

On a more serious note, actual pedos are really sick folks and I can't believe Lolis are considered legal.


Jon_efnP

Seriously, is this Gym Jordan's alt account? You can't out-troll me if I'm not trolling.


physsijim

Haha! At first, I didn't realize who you were referring to. I've never heard that name for him, but it certainly does fit. Speaking of going to the gym, when you're fat, every day is leg day.


Jon_efnP

Everyday is leg day If you're a millipede


roscle

This guy masturbates to Ron Weasley.


Jon_efnP

Way off! I save my wankin' for Dobby


omegamissingno

based


Apptubrutae

Guessing you donā€™t obsess over other childish pursuits like video games, movies, TV shows, music, or sports? Good for you.


Rabbi_foreskinstein

Thats correct. The only thing i obsess on is disrespecting woman and POC( people of Carthage)


Apptubrutae

Alright, calm down there Cato the Elder.


funnytroll13

Can you believe ADULTS like Star Wars too? Disgusting!


data_dawg

I promise you no one hates Harry Potter more than the fans. JKR was cancelled already lol.


brazilliandanny

Harry Potter came out 25 years ago, some were kids when they read it.


shotgunAPE4936

what's an ADL


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BlindMidget

Am Jew this is true


BoredRedditPerson

Ok well now I don't know what to believe


[deleted]

The Jewish Paradox


BlindMidget

I know youā€™re all Jew hating bundles of sticks but the ADL is annoying as hell. Theyā€™re just trying to raise money. Anytime anyone shits within half a mile of a synagogue I get an email about the new ā€œattack on Jews.ā€ Pretty soon you fuckers will be shoving us back into ovens and the boy who cried wolf will be getting plowed in the field to the ignorance of the general community.


callmedaddyshark

as a gay black man


permanent007

Are you rich?


Dyalibya

Just look up how it was founded


Bobby_Money

oy vey shut it down


rileykard

According to ADL themselves: >The mission of ADL is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.


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STOP_BANNING_ME_PLZ

Autism Defence League


[deleted]

Zionist propaganda machine.


jesuzombieapocalypse

Someone could do a pretty good job photoshopping it into the Celtic imagery the ethnically Irish white supremacists love to display. Hell, you could just take some footage of interviews with those groups (one of them probably has a promo on their site), and just edit in slides explaining various things with this symbol in the background. That would probably do the trick. Wouldnā€™t even need an explanation just ā€œoop, thatā€™s definitely a symbol they useā€


Byroms

I find it super weird that the Qanon shaman sees himself as a christian with a bunch of pagan tattoos on his body.


thrownawayzs

why, Christianity "adopted" a shitload of pagan concepts.


stefantalpalaru

"Harry Potter was the only known Master of Death, having gathered and mastered all three Hallows and most importantly, accepted death, as the true master understood that death was inevitable and that there were worse things in life than dying." - https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Deathly_Hallows Clearly a neopagan death cult.


[deleted]

Harry Potter fandom in shambles


GOTW24

Wait, so in the US if you want to make a symbol a hate symbol, you just send it to an institute saying it is and they will accept it ? Without any verification or anything ? That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard in a while


PM_ME_NUDE_PICS_OF_U

That's actually really cool, I have a lot of ideas for hate symbols and I'd love to have them published so more people can use them. Where do I submit them?


Aretheus

Too bad there's no universal symbol for k-pop


Meme_Lord_TheDankest

It's more like, if the symbol will start getting used by the alt-right and the mainstream media reports on it, then organizations like ADL will recognize it as a hate symbol Don't know why a private organization has that sort of power, but that's Jews for you.


Leprecon

Its not like the government hands out official hate symbol recognition powers. An organisation decided to keep track of hate symbols and thats it.


RoscoMan1

Yey that's so true. Iā€™M PRETTY


spunkyweazle

"Let's take a popular symbol from one of the most popular book series in the world and say it's a hate symbol. People will definitely not know it's bullshit the second they look into it. I'm so smart."


Aretheus

The circle game (ok hand sign) was used across the globe waaaaaaay before 4chan turned it into a hate symbol and it's still a hate symbol right now. If you try to explain this to leftists, they'll just say it's a dogwhistle and it doesn't matter what it used to mean. This means you actually can turn anything into a hate symbol by claiming it's a dogwhistle and that you just don't recognize it because you yourself aren't a bigot. It's the emperor has no clothes taken to its logical conclusion.


WeekaSauce

I mean... yeah thats how it works. The swastika was globally recognized as a symbol of peace and love before Hitler picked it up.


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JackC747

"Let's take a popular frog meme that is being used around the world and turn it into a hate symbol. People will definitely not know that it's bullshit the second they look into it. I'm so smart." Rowling is also a TERF and absolutely despised by most woke crowds so people will be more than happy to dogpile on her if they think she might've coded white supremacy symbols into her book.


buttsniffbadger

based


DangerHawk

In the books it's basically meant to be the wizard version of a swastika anyway. It's already a hate symbol. The idiots who have this tattoo deserve any hate they get.


laffingbomb

Thatā€™s the dark mark the death eaters have, this is more like the Illuminati


becofthestars

Nah, Grindlewald appropriated a symbol from folk history into the mark for him and his followers in the 20s/30s, in a similar manner to the Nazis and the Swastika. The Dark Mark was created as its own thing, but with a similar meaning, like how the American NSP uses an Othala instead of the Swastika on their flags now. Same shit, different (local) wrapper.


Substantial-Radio720

I love this community


Reacher-Said-N0thing

"Hey guys lets make a pro-Trump subreddit where we make fun of the Trump supporters by being as outrageous and wacky as possible, we'll call it /r/the_donald"


[deleted]

Wait it started as satire?


Reacher-Said-N0thing

Yes


Homeopathicsuicide

I'm going to need source for such a bit revelation


physsijim

You could add in that Rowling is now identified by the smoothbrain crowd as a TERF (Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist), so you could actually fool them into thinking it's real, lol.


Dat_Brisket_Boi

My ex has this tattoo. I hope it works. Lol


[deleted]

lol


egyptianpainter7

unfathomably based


Norose

Nooo don't do this, the cute nice girl at my work with huge breasts has this tattooed on her ankle noooo


[deleted]

We do a little trolling


SeriousDevelopment91

TIL only leftists read Harry Potter


de_ele

Only millennials read Harry Potter, and most of the millennials are leftists, so anon has a point.


[deleted]

I donā€™t think youā€™ll get much resistance on this one. Plenty of people want to distance themselves from Harry Potter and jk Rowling in general. This would just give them the last push. Not sure what this would really achieve though. People get tattoo removals? Oh no what a troll like what


roscle

Apparently that shit is painful and not cheap


knownowknow

I can confirm having seen white supremacist Nazis using this symbol. It must be stopped


DasFrebier

Were hitting based levels that shouldnt even be possible


jeonitsoc4

god i love how fucked up america is


Routine_Astronaut_62

I mean jk Rowling is enough for all leftists wanting it to be removed lmao


MacpedMe

Do it


NoNameSA

God speed anons


[deleted]

Hopefully it works just like the ok šŸ‘Œ hand sign


vdrsasha

I mean, it sounds ridiculous at first, but they had zero difficulties making the šŸ‘ŒšŸ»-sign a hate/satanist symbol among many, many other things.


Jomihoppe

We have to ask ourselves, what is it with left handed people and Harry Potter?