Current Events > I really, really hate the "WE WUZ KINGS" meme, and all it implies.

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Man, y'all late lmao.
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ayo
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FightingGames posted...

it's a fairly new meme and considering how slow gamefaqs is compared to reddit and 4chan, it's not a surprise that hardly anyone here knows about it

the meme was gold when assassin's creed origins was revealed:
https://my.mixtape.moe/aaxrrw.webm

FYI ~ for me personally... I lurked on gamefaqs ever since N64 had it own section on IGN's website. But barring that... I was a member of Imgur for 3 years, and Reddit another 2 years after that, AND finally a regular poster on gamefaqs a year after that (going on 3 years now). With youtube intersperse inbetween all of that.

In all that time since Imgur til now... I have never heard of this We Kangs Meme.
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I Like Toast posted...

foreveraIone posted...

how have people not seen this meme?

i don't frequent boards that are overrun with racist, like apparently you, tc, and rebel.

You frequent this board, and considering this is where I first saw it...?

Not sure what the fuck your problem with me is considering we're clearly on the same side of this argument yet you're trying to group me with TC for some insane reason.
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Wariodorf posted...

SuperNamekGod posted...

WE

ARE

THE CRYSTAL GEMS
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I Like Toast posted...

foreveraIone posted...

how have people not seen this meme?

i don't frequent boards that are overrun with racist, like apparently you, tc, and rebel.

Denzien_of_Sega posted...

Yeah, I first saw this meme in the Black Panther trailer. Go figure.

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That's like LITERALLY a /pol/- and /v/- (aka vidya /pol/) only thing
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

I have never seen this meme ever.

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Omega Hunter posted...

D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

I have never seen this meme ever.

Gubbey posted...

Wariodorf posted...

SuperNamekGod posted...

WE

ARE

THE CRYSTAL GEMS

great

Even though /pol/-types basically abuse it anytime someone mentions black people there are people out there with that sort of mentality. The ironic thing is that them and /pol/ are doing the same thing in regards to their "ancestors."
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PostCrisisJ2 posted...

Even though /pol/-types basically abuse it anytime someone mentions black people there are people out there with that sort of mentality. The ironic thing is that them and /pol/ are doing the same thing in regards to their "ancestors."

WE WUZ GREEKS
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I think this was popularized when the Age of Empires II: The African Kingdoms was released (and yes, that's fairly recent despite the base game being an old game).
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JayceeTHUNDER posted...

Rhylos posted...

No, it's an actual thing. There's a following called the Black Israelites who basically believe that black people are the real jews and just about everything of significant importance or progress was because of black people; white people simply stole all the credit. Also, everyone important in history was actually black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLP8B5G3-I

The meme is just making fun of them.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.... omg, the narrator sounds like Handsome Jack XD

Heh, Mister Metokur. I think he's rather funny. I like his Tumblrisms and Deviants videos.
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we wuz vikings
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Monday posted...

Roxborough4Ever posted...

do you know its origins?

Just Googled it. From, and I hate using a site like this, knowyourmeme.

The phrase is believed to have been coined on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect) board sometime around late 2015 by users who began assuming an increasingly skeptical and critical stance towards the new wave of African American civil rights protests surrounding a series of racially charged police brutality controversies, most notably the #blacklivesmatter movement and civil unrest in Baltimore.

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no, it started after claims of superiority because some go out and claim that the kings of Africa are the original inventors of X, Y and Z and everybody else just stole their greatness
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so.......it wasn't people saying that they were "kings" first followed by people mocking them through satirical impersonation? the meme exists because people are parodying what has been said irl
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of course roxborough would argue for the noble beginnings of a /pol/ meme lol
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not arguing, just telling you what it is and how it came to be.............just trying to look out for you, dude, you are the ones reading BS from somebodies website that exists purely to make the owner ad money.....just trying to tell you the truth, no agenda
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ImAMarvel posted...

I wish I could be like the rest of this board and say that I've never seen this meme but I have and it's the dumbest shit.

Its times like this were I get teh urge to make a thread and ask a simple question.

What are teh most SUPER POPULAR memes, youtuber, etc..... that you never heard of.

I remember learning about Pewdie Pie for the first time... or this one game reviewer that was apparently super duper popular (not Angry Joe... but now the name escapes me). And i never even heard a whiff of these supposedly popular entities untilt they were mentioned here or some other forum for the first time
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I was unfortunate enough to get a black israelite as a room mate once. The fact that he could turn any subject to be about how racist something is against black people got old really fast. He thought he was pure because nothing bad in his life was his fault, it was all because of white people and their horrible racism.

Rhylos posted...

No, it's an actual thing. There's a following called the Black Israelites who basically believe that black people are the real jews and just about everything of significant importance or progress was because of black people; white people simply stole all the credit. Also, everyone important in history was actually black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLP8B5G3-I

The meme is just making fun of them.

Hmm dude sounds almost exactly like the Internet Aristocrat. Probably is him, he said he would leave the internet and then come back when he thought no one would remember him. But I also remember his voice and cadence was real distinct.
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Rhylos posted...

I was unfortunate enough to get a black israelite as a room mate once. The fact that he could turn any subject to be about how racist something is against black people got old really fast. He thought he was pure because nothing bad in his life was his fault, it was all because of white people and their horrible racism.

My friend ran into one too, dude was dating white women. I myself ran into a member of the Nation of Islam, ironically they believe white people are superior to black people.
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Dathrowed1 posted...

I myself ran into a member of the Nation of Islam, ironically they believe white people are superior to black people.

I don't believe that this is true.
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boxington posted...

Dathrowed1 posted...

I myself ran into a member of the Nation of Islam, ironically they believe white people are superior to black people.

I don't believe that this is true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)
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idk if you've read that, because it paints white people in a negative light, and only says that they were able to subjugate black people through a "knowledge of tricks and lies"

it even said some messed up stuff about how few whites wanted to become black again, and and up as monkeys and gorillas as a result, or something like that.
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boxington posted...

idk if you've read that, because it paints white people in a negative light, and only says that they were able to subjugate black people through a "knowledge of tricks and lies"

it even said some messed up stuff about how few whites wanted to become black again, and and up as monkeys and gorillas as a result, or something like that.

I never said it wasn't twisted.
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I just mean that, members of the NoI are notoriously racist, and often believe that white people are inferior to them.
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boxington posted...

I just mean that, members of the NoI are notoriously racist, and often believe that white people are inferior to them.

And I'm saying that those beliefs can logically be spun that they believe white people are superior in a major way.
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in what capacity, though? because the link didn't support that argument.
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boxington posted...

in what capacity, though? because the link didn't support that argument.

The capacity that they were created and succeeded in subjugating black people.
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Its not racist, it makes fun of those Israelite people who say crazy shit like the Native Americans were black and that Hitler did nothing wrong. You can look this shit up on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqB_wjOI5M

Dathrowed1 posted...

boxington posted...

in what capacity, though? because the link didn't support that argument.

The capacity that they were created and succeeded in subjugating black people.

idk if NoI members would have that line of thinking.

like, if someone was taught by your big bro to trick you out of $20, you wouldn't be, like, "this guy's my better."
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Dathrowed1 posted...

My friend ran into one too, dude was dating white women.

At least date your race if you're going to be a Supremacist
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Steelix500 posted...

Its not racist, it makes fun of those Israelite people who say crazy shit like the Native Americans were black and that Hitler did nothing wrong. You can look this shit up on youtube.

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. A /pol/ meme is totally not racist. Nope not at all.
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Dathrowed1 posted...

Rhylos posted...

No, it's an actual thing. There's a following called the Black Israelites who basically believe that black people are the real jews and just about everything of significant importance or progress was because of black people; white people simply stole all the credit. Also, everyone important in history was actually black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLP8B5G3-I

The meme is just making fun of them.

Hmm dude sounds almost exactly like the Internet Aristocrat. Probably is him, he said he would leave the internet and then come back when he thought no one would remember him. But I also remember his voice and cadence was real distinct.

It is him. Jim has had several usernames over the years. He uses one for a while before discarding it and coming back with another. Mister Metokur is the current one.
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I'm not sure I agree with all of the politics he seems to believe in but what I have watched of him so far is very entertaining
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I feel like thanks to this topic I'm going to see this shit on CE a lot more now :)
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Conflict posted...

It probably originated from 4chan based on that description

It did. I am surprised it isn't "WE WUZ KANGZ!"
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kuwab0 posted...

Dathrowed1 posted...

My friend ran into one too, dude was dating white women.

At least date your race if you're going to be a Supremacist

most race supremacists date interracial which is funny. shows you exactly what nationalism is fueled by, lack of pussy. racist loser white men of the alt right and such typically date and marry asian or black women. they really offer nothing to the world besides pale skin, so no surprise most white women who have even basic standards for men do not deal with them.

also, most hotep pro black losers are single, prison gay or date very very sloppy white women.
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The "we were kings" thing is mocked because it's typical black supremacy rhetoric. I remember Draje said that once, in a situation that had nothing to do with history and everything to do with thinking whites were inferior to the original Africans.

And now, like with many things, the pendulum has swung the other way and it's just another buzzphrase used by racists on 4chan.
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kuwab0 posted...

Dathrowed1 posted...

My friend ran into one too, dude was dating white women.

At least date your race if you're going to be a Supremacist

It's a known joke that these pro-black philosophers are always with white women or sometimes Asians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gP9GX2udI
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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

but using ebonic type language such as," We wuz kangs," is also racist

Why? If they want to reject, bastardize, and appropriate English, there's nothing wrong with calling it out.

You think it's racist to mock Ebonics?
I think it's racist to disrespect my language with idiotic modifications.

(Not really but I'm just building an argument against the idea that mocking people for how they ACTUALLY BEHAVE (ie people that choose to use ebonics, not all blacks, shouldnt have to spell that out but you know gamefaqs mods), something under their direct control, is somehow racist.)
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southern drawl is bastardized english too
so is basically every other american accent or dialect

in britain they have lots of "bastardized" accents and dialects

I bet scottish people would appreciate you calling scots english a language with idiotic modifications
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The meme comes from black conspiracy theorists where they literally think Egyptians were black