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Platoe
08/03/20 9:49:19 AM
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else? this is how those radical white extremist groups recruit. it starts with exposure, and since that exposure comes in the form of "jokes" and memes, it convinces that naive and/or young people that people who point this out are just tinfoil nutters
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Platoe
08/03/20 9:55:22 AM
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Guide
08/03/20 9:57:36 AM
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Well yeah, but that's a symptom, not the problem itself. Another meme can and will take its place.

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RebelElite791
08/03/20 9:58:43 AM
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Not familiar with it, which seems like a good thing

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Reiss
08/03/20 9:59:00 AM
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i have literally 0 clue about what ur talking about bruv
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Alteres
08/03/20 9:59:39 AM
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Reiss posted...
i have literally 0 clue about what ur talking about bruv


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Platoe
08/03/20 10:10:03 AM
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https://i.redd.it/1znyaobtbqe51.jpg

like this thing

note: i didnt read that cuz im at work and didnt want it blown up on my screen so i got no clue what it says
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MrMallard
08/03/20 10:10:22 AM
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RebelElite791 posted...
Not familiar with it, which seems like a good thing

You know that side-profile picture of a dude with a dark blond beard going "Yes" in what basically amounts to modern rage comics? Usually paired with the "tradwife" who's gone on to appear in other memes, like a bright and sunny character enabling the ongoing hell of an essential worker?

The side-profile picture is from a YouTuber who talks up Aryan ideals and tends to talk Jewish people down as sneaky, distrustful and bad. The "Yes" image and the tradwife character stemmed from a bunch of delusional, unfunny memes where the guy basically appropriated the rage comic format to play out some blockhead power fantasy.

His fanbase took the images and started making their own - to make fun of how shitty and cringe it was, to my understanding - and the images entered the wider meme vernacular. Tradwife stuff actually took hold in communities like Twitter and Tumblr, where it started to cosy up with cottagecore and stuff like that.

So basically, the "Yes" meme and tradwife both come from a dude expressing white supremacist viewpoints, doing his best to dance around the term itself and frame it in more palatable terms, but basically espousing the same viewpoints of blond, strong Aryan ideal = good, while being persistently skeptical of Jewish people.

Actually, hold on - I think I might be wrong on this. Give me a sec to go over this again.

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Platoe
08/03/20 10:13:56 AM
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i dont know what tradwife or cottagegore mean, but thank you for the rundown MrMallard. i didnt know the source but now that i do it just seems even more nefarious
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The Trent
08/03/20 10:14:22 AM
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i'm guessing a lot of the things that concern you don't concern me

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Choco
08/03/20 10:14:29 AM
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Platoe
08/03/20 10:16:50 AM
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The Trent posted...
i'm guessing a lot of the things that concern you don't concern me
yes yes youre very cool and apathetic, you dont need to prove it every chance you get
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The Trent
08/03/20 10:17:37 AM
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sorry
just...don't forget
promise me you won't forget

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MrPeppers
08/03/20 10:18:04 AM
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How is that racist? That guy looks more hipster than anything to me.

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Platoe
08/03/20 10:20:12 AM
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MrPeppers posted...
How is that racist? That guy looks more hipster than anything to me.
if the intent was 'hipster' then the internet wouldnt paint him as the superior in every meme
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masterpug53
08/03/20 10:21:40 AM
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Kinda glad I'm not the only person who noticed this the first time I saw that meme (to the point where I had a pretty good idea what the topic title was referring to before I entered). But IIRC the first time I saw it used was in a PC master race meme, so it had an extra-thick layer of obviousness.

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MrMallard
08/03/20 10:21:57 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
TIL
Hold up, I think I fucked up. The aryan-type dude is still a thing, but I'm pretty sure he's not tied to this meme.

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The Trent
08/03/20 10:22:36 AM
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Platoe posted...
if the intent was 'hipster' then the internet wouldnt paint him as the superior in every meme

i've seen plenty of memes where this character is the only one perceiving himself as superior, when he's clearly not

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Chadwick69
08/03/20 10:23:22 AM
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This is like saying pepe the frog is racist.
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Choco
08/03/20 10:23:32 AM
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MrPeppers posted...
How is that racist? That guy looks more hipster than anything to me.
lots of nazis look like that >_>

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AlisLandale
08/03/20 10:27:50 AM
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MrMallard
08/03/20 10:30:53 AM
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From what I can glean, the blond dude hails from a meme comparing Nordic people to Mediterranean people originating on /pol/. The original purpose of the meme seems to be to mock the sort of Aryan-aggrandising imagery that a white supremacist type would post, with Nordic people being depicted as bucktooth hillbillies compared to strong-jawed Mediterranean types with chiseled features.

This got turned around a bunch, with the Mediterranean man being modified to be the hillbilly against the Nordic type, which took the base Mediterranean face and altered it to be blond and blue-eyed. This culminated in memes where they're like working together and stuff.

The mutation into "Yes" guy happened last year, which has been paired with the tradwife character. The meme isn't tied to that white supremacist piece of shit, at least I don't think it is.

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Platoe
08/03/20 10:34:23 AM
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MrMallard posted...
The mutation into "Yes" guy happened last year, which has been paired with the tradwife character. The meme isn't tied to that white supremacist piece of shit, at least I don't think it is.
ah, got ya

I know pewdepie fans love this style. i've seen them frequently stylize pewdepie and his wife as the blond couple
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Balrog0
08/03/20 10:34:30 AM
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Luckily don't see any of this ... Well until just now

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Platoe
08/03/20 10:36:01 AM
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Balrog0 posted...
Luckily don't see any of this ... Well until just now
i really should stop browsing reddit via All
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SmidgeIsntBack
08/03/20 10:36:14 AM
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Virgin vs Chad is the only good ragecomic.

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MrMallard
08/03/20 10:37:30 AM
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Chadwick69 posted...
This is like saying pepe the frog is racist.
Pepe the frog wasn't racist to begin with, but he was co-opted by racists and used to promote white supremacist imagery. It's the same way far-right dipshits adapted the circle game. Not everyone who makes the OK sign or likes a Pepe meme is a piece of shit, but there are racists who signal their white supremacist beliefs in photos by doing the circle game and dressing it up in irony to try and get away with it, and there are people who make image macros of Pepe in a Nazi uniform accompanied with "ironic" statements that reflect neo-nazi sentiments.

The symbols themselves aren't racist, but they are co-opted by racists and used in racist contexts.

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RebelElite791
08/03/20 11:15:47 AM
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Oh yeah now that someone posted the pic, I thought it was intended to be some nazi shit from the beginning

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Platoe
08/03/20 11:19:29 AM
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Reddit is pretty much lost at this point
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Background_Guy
08/03/20 11:22:01 AM
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Eh at least it's not a wojak
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Platoe
08/03/20 11:36:04 AM
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i just browse the front page. pretty much every dedicated meme sub spams these. dankmemes, memes, pcmasterrace, a lot of specific fandoms too. jjba, halo, a buncha animes. it's really taken hold
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